Newbie Guide

### 1. Understanding Your Stats:

In Super Snail, you've got two key stat sets - HARD stats and AFFCT. HARD stats are your basic combat stats - HP, Attack (ATK), Rush (RUSH), and Defense (DEF). Think of them as battle stats.

Your AFFCT, on the other hand, are like the snail's life achievements: Art (ART), Faith (FTH), Fame (FAME), Civilization (CIV), Technology (TECH).

AFFCT stats also contribute to battles, because players need to have high enough AFFCTs to proc Rush, which allows you to hit your opponent one extra time each round. That said, don't sweat about AFFCTs early in the game.

### 2. Beefing up Your Snail:

When you level up your snail parts - Muscle, Devouring, Brain, Neuron, Vision - you get a random bonus. This could be a common "+5 DEF" or a rare "+15" and "+20". These bonuses also unlock six additional evolutionary forms which provide extra buffs. Zombie Form is better for late than early game, Mutant Form is helpful for Minion battles, while the Demon Form deals extra damage in early-game. Don’t worry, you won’t get Dragon Form too soon.

### 3. Main Gameplay:

* **Newbie Tutorial and Hoarding**: Once you start the game, a tutorial helps you with basic gameplay. After that, pay attention to the weekly hoarding event, which runs on a cycle.
* **\*\*\*Weekly Events\*\*\***: Weekly events cycle between the Offering Event, the Lottery Event, and the Wish-making Event. Rotating on a 7-day cycle, each requires you to used certain items that you should save up when it’s not the particular event week. For Lottery week, you need lottery tickets, for Wish-making week, you need to spend wish coins and for the Offering week, you need to use Offering Speedups to sacrifice more fresh souls.
* **Exploration**: There are total of 8 maps, each with unique mechanisms. Exploring is the main way to collect resources. Exploration gives you INTEL points that you can spend on leveling your perks. When exploration ends, you can exchange the cards you collected for items. These cards do not carry over explorations, so it’s important to redeem anything you can. You can also upgrade the cards for better rewards.
* **Progressing**: Once you defeat the last Apostle of the current map, you will gain access to the next map. In each map, there are specific exploration gear. make sure to upgrade and combine them. You can obtain the gear via card redemption and special incidents. Exploration gear will  give you many buffs when fighting against Apostles.
	+ Gene Simulation: You need to repair your PC first. To be able to do that, you need to use 4 green cards to redeem for Terminal Core in Koryeo. Gene Simulation accessible through the PC. You will be able to gain many resources through beating Gene Simulation levels
	+ Vending Machine: You can fix the vending machine in Koryeo by redeeming 3 white cards for the Unidentified Motor. Buy the gears at the end of the page. Also, keep in mind that consumables refresh on a daily basis.
		- If you have W-tads, consider buying the rare Wish Coins
		- Early-game requires many Green Reagents, so buy them!
		- Don’t be stingy on buying the Souls, always keep souls on your Altar!
		- If you have W-tads, consider buying Catfood for yourself and your pet pig

#### 4. Raising Your Partners and Minions:

You can unlock the nursery to house your Minions, but first, you need Kim Chi-Yum as a partner. Then you need to buy the Military Bomb in Card Exchange in Koryeo. The Nursery also unlocks chores for Minion tasks!

You will be meet partners though various channels. One of them is by completing “key clues” when exploring the map. Here are some partners you can easily obtain:

* Koryeo Exploration: Kimchi- Yum, Chichikaka, Prince Nerd
* Yamato Exploration : Jiro Toyato, Leeku, Taoraemon
* Incense: Sewer Turtle
* Hitmen: Defeat Hitman No. 4 - Big Guy Park, defeat Hitmen No.8 - Ghost Zadako

### 5. Using Incense:

Incenses are extremely rare in Super Snail. You can laser animals with them or shoot the sky(this will take 3 incenses) to trigger special events. Spend enough W-tads and you can unlock an incense pack in the vending machine; or wait for incenses to drop via exploration, chests, or events. At the beginning when you tap on random animals appearing in your computer room for ten times, a tiny turtle will show up in your room. Laser the turtle a few times, then his family will come after you. This is a way for you to obtain gear and Sewer Turtle as your partner! You can also laser the bat once you’re done with the turtle. You might see something interesting!

See Incense for more in-depth information.

### 6. Snail Codes:

Check the bookshelf for 5 Snail Codes, which can be redeemed in Settings -> Snail Code. Keep an eye on Discord for weekly snail codes on Wednesday.

### 7. Shopping at the Vending Machine:

When you visit the vending machine, don't miss the gears at the end of the page! They refresh upon purchase. And if you've got W-tads, buy some wish coins/lottery tickets and Cat Food. Green Reagents are also handy in early-game. Side note, when a weekly event starts to kick in, you can purchase an event pack on a daily basis with just 1 W-tad. Don’t miss that deal!

### 8. Raising Your Pet Pig (official name: Unknown Creature):

To unlock your pet pig, defeat the Robot Guard to get the Alien Egg, then buy the Bowl and Collar from the vending machine. The pig gets you poops that give you 200 random cells. Sometimes, when there are no other critters around, the pet pig will show up in your PC room. Laser the pig for 10 times to get a Green Relic.