Tutorial

This tutorial section introduces Monster Musume Tower Defense(MTD), followed by things to do at the start. Some parts of this article may overlap with other "Help" articles. For battles, **this page assumes you only use the starting units**, so some parts may be expedited if you manage to roll a good gacha unit to substitute.

## Tower Defense(TD)

If you've never played a tower defense game before, the objective is simple. Protect the base.

1) Enemies will spawn and move towards your base; if they reach, a life point is lost.

2) Place towers to defeat those enemies.

### Specific aspects of MTD

・The only condition for a 3-star clear rating is no lives lost (for most maps)

Defeated allied units do not matter, but defeated NPC units will decrease the life points and hence affect the rating.

・Movement is possible after placement by default.

By using コスト/Deployment Points(DP), units can be moved around the map so long as there is an unblocked path.

・Retrying is free

**Don't hesitate to restart the map** if things turn sour, no stamina/keys/items will be used unless the stage is cleared. This means failing will also refund back all stamina. You can also not place units and see the enemy routes first. The only cost in doing so is time.

・Auto-skill

Activates allies' skills whenever they are ready. Convenient on easy to medium stages, but you might want to consider manualling for harder content.

・Rental Units

You can borrow units from other players, meaning one more unit can be brought to battle. Some harder stages and challenges will have this option disabled. More on this at:(link)

## Rerolling

If you started playing on a DMM/FANZA account, your account is already linked and you will be unable to reroll. The only option is to use a new DMM account.

The smartphone version allows for account deletion and can be used to reroll before linking to a DMM account.

Of course, you need to complete the tutorial to reroll.

Personally, this game does not require rerolling due to lower rarities being fairly strong. However, all for your waifu if you wish.

## Tutorial

Without further ado, we can start up the game, followed by important things to do at the start.

The battle tutorials are pretty self-explanatory, even without understanding Japanese, drag-and-drop controls, life, number of enemies, deployment cost, melee/ranged deployment tiles, flying enemies should be easily grasped. The only thing that might need explanation is:

**Attribute Tiles:** Increases Atk, pDef and mDef by 15%, Range by 10% when attribute matches.

## Starting Out

Before reading this part, it may be helpful to run through the UI and Menus guide first

### (1) Collect your presents

You start off with a few useful stuff (equipment, gold, etc.), and if the time is right you could have free gacha tickets too.

Also among the presents is a handful of ~~Magical Beast Stones~~ gems. (Amount at 18 Dec 2022: 12800)

・**Protip 1:** Gems are a relatively scarce resource.

・**Protip 2:** Low rarity characters can be useful too.

As such, if there is a ticket, use it to get some starting characters. If not, you could choose to roll a few or save up gems by using characters obtained from clearing main story missions.

Without drawing, the six you start with are Podel, Suzu, Rin, Saura, Selen and Nell. Clearing 0-6 gives you Kuromi.

After this, make a trip to the regular shop and buy everything EXCEPT the purple milk costing 5000 gold and the red keys. The steps below use no milk until step 5, but you can definitely use this milk to level up units to make things way easier.

### (2) Clear Chapter 0

When forming a team, it is best to include at least one Deployment Point(DP) generator, usually  Warriors with a Spear or  Supporters with a Twig.

Finish up 0-6 and 0-7 to unlock Events, Dungeon and Substory.

**Events** are time-limited stages, and the harder stages might be a little difficult without levelling units.

**Dungeon** is the place to go for subskills, which have also just been unlocked.

**Substory** is a collection of past events that have been added permanently.

### (3) Newbie Missions

The newbie panel missions were replaced with this on the 23 Oct 2023 update.

IMPORTANT:
These missions are TIME-LIMITED.

If the first day you login to the game is the 4th, this will disappear at midnight on the 10th (Midnight of the seventh day, JST)

Make sure to complete and COLLECT the rewards before the time limit.

(You can, however, complete a previous day's missions on other days, up to the seventh.)

#### First Day

1) Complete 1 Quest (Any battle)

2) Complete 1 Material Quest (Gold, Milk or Crystals)

3) Perform a Class Change on 1 unit (Raise to Lv30 and equip equipment)

4) Raise 1 unit to Lv15

5) Raise 3 units to Lv10

6) Clear Chapter 0

The first day's reward is  Igni, a powerful unit in the beginning. Most importantly, she generates DP and you're likely to rely on her for quite a while if you don't roll the gacha. You'd also have received a lootbox containing equipment for her class change. Use it in the Items menu.

If you're following this guide through the day, you can do the rest of the days' missions when they unlock.
The page for this set of missions is here (under construction, look at jp wiki for time being)

### (4) Clear Chapter 1-7

If facing difficulty in clearing this portion, it may be a good idea to do upgrade units, or start with step 5.
The first tricky stage to appear is 1-4, with a three-way split. It is however still clearable with the starting characters all at level 5. The enemies will start from the top lane, followed by 3 wolves in the middle. The bottom lane only has enemies in the later half.

The 1-8 boss fight is clearable with starting characters at level 6 but requires knowledge of boss actions, manual positioning and some timing. It is therefore recommended to leave this for later.

### (5) Clear "Welcome to Geshpent Island" Substory E-2

A special five-stage event to commemorate the start of service. Accessible via the Substory tab.

Each stage has decent 3-star rewards, but the most notable one for now is the second stage, 300 SR milk(500EXP each), since you want to upgrade characters. Furthermore, clearing each stage for the first time gives a copy of Torus, which is a valuable asset in early game teams not relying on gacha.

### (6) Upgrade your units!

After getting your 300 milk, upgrade away! If you have some of these characters, it might be better to allocate more to them.

Now the next question comes. How do I upgrade past level 30? Under the equipment tab, you need to acquire all 4 equips (and be at the level cap) then press the pink button. This is known as a **Class Change**(CC), and will be required to progress from here on. You can also equip one subskill with CC1. (The second one unlocks with CC2)

As of now, you can CC a maximum of three times. By the end of Chapter 3, you should be aiming for all units being level 60, either CC1 or CC2.

### (7) Material Quests and Dungeon

- After the unit upgrades, the first tier of material quests should be easy. Clear any two for the daily mission giving 50 stamina.

- Collect the mission that gives a normal dungeon key (Clear 5 quests), and use it to clear the first tier of the normal dungeon. Clearing one dungeon stage will complete another mission giving 2000 player EXP and 50 stamina.

If you've had enough for one day, you can stop here and continue when you feel like it.
Just remember the 6-day time limit for the newbie missions! Rest well!

If you want to continue, by all means, keep going!

## Early Game

### (8) Clear 1-8 to 2-7

The first boss, Dekaio should be pretty easy now. For a new TD player, this stage is meant to help reinforce the mindset that the last placed unit will be targeted first. For a more detailed targeting order, see Battle Basics. Read the Dekaio article for boss details.

Next up is Chapter 2. The non-boss stages are relatively easy, although 2-5 and 2-6 could be harder because ranged spots are a little awkwardly placed. The first challenging boss fight is 2-8, the Slime King. If you didn't upgrade your units much, this will prove to be a challenging battle. Therefore, we will skip this for the time being and come back later.

### (9) Finish Welcome to Geshpent Island!

With 5 units at level 30, either CC0 or CC1, completing this event is possible.

- For E-4, the game introduces **tokens** (side units that can be placed). Make good use of Anis' goblin tokens to act as a lightning rod from ranged attacks because targeting, and deal some damage too. More on tokens in Battle Basics

### (10) Attempt the Substory Section

These past events have pretty decent characters, and they can be earned for free within a short time span for new players. Based on the number of stars earned, the units also come with **free** levels, class changes and dupe points. Furthermore, they also drop equipment to class change other units. What's not to like? Below are the substories that you should try to obtain new characters.

① Ambition of the Flat Chest Alliance (Gaumi - Weretiger Girl)② Scalding HOT Training (Frith - Frost Salamander Girl)③ Elf Witch and the Magic Lamp (Thiele - Dark Elf Girl)④ The Targeted Holsteins (Silva - Minotaur Girl)⑤ Last of Paipai (Recliff - Hippogriff Girl) **※NOT recommended**, not star collection.
Remember, these past events are Star Collection, hence it is also possible to try for **1 or 2 stars in multiple maps**. (Condition is >50% life remaining for 2 stars)

- Switch out Saura for Gaumi in ①, and try to obtain 9 stars total. If you can hit 12 stars, that is even better.

- Switch out Nell for Frith in ②, and try to obtain 9 stars total. E-4 of this event is harder than usual, but if you can hit 12 stars, that is even better.

- Switch out Kuromi for Thiele in ③, and try to obtain 6 stars total.

- Lastly, ④. Some people on the discord have PTSD from this event because of protecting the cows, especially E-4 and EX1. This event teaches the importance of movement and proper positioning, because the cows count as NPCs and a life point is lost when they are defeated. Try to obtain 9 stars total.

### (11) Clear 2-8

The slime boss that was skipped earlier.
The main objective is: do not let the slimes coming from the left and right reach the center. You can try to see what happens if you do. If still too hard, you might want to upgrade your units before retrying. Reading the King Slime article might be helpful too.

### (12) Newbie Panel Missions

#### First Panel

If you've been curious and tapping buttons on the main screen, you might have already seen this. After following this guide, you should have all but the last two completed for the first panel.

**- The eighth mission** is "Follow one person", so navigate to the friend tab → search tab → press follow.

**- The ninth mission** is "Set a rental unit", so navigate to the profile tab → click the plus buttons.

Eighth missionNinth mission
#### Second Panel

**- The fourth mission** is "Upgrade a sorcerer to level 35"

**- The fifth mission** is "Upgrade two units to level 35"

**- The seventh mission** is "Reach player rank 10"

**- The eighth mission** is "Clear Boss Challenge Dekaio Lv.1", this can be found on the Boss Challenge tab.

**- The ninth mission** is "Upgrade Vivi's active skill to level 4".
  This mission requires 210 , 30  and 15  in total.

After completing this panel, enjoy your free legend ticket! The third panel is much more difficult and should be completed by mid-game. If there are still doubts regarding this section, check out Newbie Panel Missions.

After completing this step, you're set for the basics of MTD and are free to explore. Make sure to do your dailies and exchange items in the gold shop every week.

## Early-mid game and onwards

As at this point in time, many players could have better gacha units and hence it is hard to do up a guide that fits all. However, there are main goals that you might want to roughly follow.

1. **Complete Chapter 3** so that you have access to all CC2 equipment. Tantal will be a free unit and is a fairly strong sorcerer. She will also give you access to Premium Dungeons 1 and 3. The Chapter 3 boss is flying, so you should bring more snipers and sorcerers.
2. **Raise your units to CC2 Lv60**.
3. **Do the current event** to get new units. Star Collection is the most stamina efficient, since you can start farming other stuff. If point exchange, you can still get gacha tickets and some materials from the exchange shop.
4. **Attempt the remaining substory stages**. This could be helpful in getting some early firepower. However, if you have some strong gacha units, this may be less important as the stages are already permanent.
5. **Boss Challenges**: Once a chapter is completed, the corresponding boss challenge will be unlocked. There are levels 1-5 and MAX, and you can get a bunch of gems and premium keys from them. Try it out once you unlock them.
6. **Run the material quests** to upgrade units' skills and Divine Beasts. A unit's skill level can turn the tide of a battle from the enhanced multipliers. Cubes () are rare and should be used on units with good skills.
7. **Complete Chapter 4 and 5**. This should be manageable with CC2 Lv60 units. Chapter 6 can be completed with the same, but requires certain unit types, or good strategy
8. **Raise your units to CC3 Lv90**. This will take a lot of gold, especially for legends, requiring 400k. It can be recommended to CC3 Epic/Rare/Common units because of their lower cost both EXP-wise and gold-wise. ~~A priority list can be found in Tips and Tricks. (currently under construction)~~
9. **Complete Chapter 6 and 7** and you're already near (current) end-game difficulty.