Kapola's Beginner Bread Game Guide

Welcome to my bread game guide for beginners! This is the “advanced” version of the guide. It does not cover the most technical details, but still goes fairly in-depth, and has most of the information you might want to have for your journey up to the point where the most advanced players are. For the basic version, which goes over everything without going into as much depth, see [i havent made it yet]. You don’t have to read this all at once, but come back as you progress to learn about the various mechanics.

## The Basics

The basics of the game, the most simple mechanics to be aware of. Rolling, dough, and the items and other things you can get while rolling; and the Shop, with what you can buy there.

### Rolling

The basis of the game is bread rolls. Type “$bread” in #bread-rolls to roll, an act which will provide you with a random number of bread emojis  between 1 and 10. Each of the breads you obtain will give you 1 dough, the main currency of the game. You can bread roll a maximum of 10 times per day, resetting at 3:05 PM Pacific Time, a time which is called “bread o’ clock”.

### Stats

You can now check your stats by using “$bread stats” to see some useful information. The base stats screen only displays how much dough you have, how many times you rolled today, and how many times you rolled rolls of one and ten loaves. However, as you progress more stuff will appear there, like how many items (such as bread emojis, thereafter referred to as a “loaf”) you currently have.

### Items

There are other items that you can obtain while rolling, as well. These replace a loaf in a bread roll, each with a certain probability. The most common “loaf replacements” are special bread. Each loaf has a 1/128 chance of being replaced by one of these. If one is rolled, it will be decided which of the 5 types it will be, those being flatbreads , stuffed flatbreads , sandwiches , baguettes  and croissants . Each gives 5 dough upon rolling.

The next rarest items are rare breads, also called rare specials, and these have a 1/512 chance of replacing a loaf. The three types of rare specials are bagels , waffles  and doughnuts . These give 10 dough.

Then, we have chess pieces . These have a 1/2048 chance of replacing a loaf. 75% of chess pieces are black, and the remainder white. The piece type (between the 6 in the normal chess set) are chosen in the same distribution as in a normal set (half are pawns, an eighth knights, etc.). Black pieces are worth 40 dough and white ones 80 dough.

The second-to-last tier of rollable items are gems. Unlike previous items, these each have their own chance of replacing a loaf. The red gem has a chance of 1/65536 of replacing a loaf, being 32x rarer than a chess piece. The gems, from rarest to most common, are: red , blue , purple , green , gold , and their dough values 150, 250, 500, 750, 5000. Each gem is twice as rare as the one before, except the gold gem, which is 8x as rare as the green.

Finally, the rarest and most prestigious item in the game: the Many of a Kind , more commonly called MoaK. The base chance of the MoaK is 1/32768 per loaf, half as rare as a red gem. However, the chance per loaf decreases as you obtain more daily rolls, in order to keep the daily chance the same. Therefore, at 1000 daily rolls, it is almost as rare as a gold gem. Its dough value also scales up with daily rolls, however, being equal to 2000 + 10×(your current daily rolls), meaning for example at 10 daily rolls it is worth 2100 dough and at 500, 7000 dough.

### Leaderboards

You can check the leaderboard for items and stats by typing “$bread lb <stat/item>”. Any emoji in the game that represents an item, such as a sandwich or a black pawn, can be checked to see who had how many of that item. Some stats can also be checked, such as total\_rolls, which will provide the leaderboard for total amount of rolls ever done, or total\_dough, which will provide the leaderboard for the amount of dough each player currently has. Leaving the stat/item part empty will check the leaderboard for lifetime\_dough - how much dough you have earned in total, not going down when you buy something in the shop.

### The Shop

Once you have rolled all ten of your rolls, you can check the bread shop by using “$bread shop”. You can buy items in it with “$bread buy <item>”. The first thing you will see is the Welcome Packet. Unlike other shop items, this doesn’t cost any dough, and will instead reward you with a random amount of dough between 128 and 256 for free, to get you started.

There is also the Extra Daily Roll. As the name suggests, this gives you an extra bread roll per day. The first roll will cost 32 dough, then 64, 92, and finally, every subsequent daily roll will cost 128 dough. There is a cap to daily rolls, however, that being 1000.

Next up is the Loaf Converter, commonly abbreviated to LC. This increases the chance that you will obtain a rare item mentioned above. The first LC will make these items twice as common as the base odds, then thrice, and so on. To get the odds with loaf converters, you can just replace the odds given above by 1 + your LC level. They increase constantly in price however, the first one being priced at 256 dough and increasing by 256 dough every time you buy one.

You will also see the Special Bread Pack and the Random Chess Piece. These do roughly what their name says, but they aren’t very useful for now.

### Other stuffs you can get while rolling

First up are the 11+ rolls. Each roll has a 1/512 chance of being selected to have more than the standard 10 loaves in it. If that is the case, it has a ½ chance of becoming a 12 loaf roll, and a ½ chance of staying as an 11. If it does go on to be a 12, it then has a ½ chance of becoming a 13, and ½ of staying a 12, and so on. This makes the higher rolls exponentially rarer, with the highest roll ever being a 25. They do not provide much benefit for how rare they are, however.

We also have the lottery win. How this one works exactly is a bit complicated, but you can think of it as having two components: the displayed loaves, and the dough bonus. At low rolls, the lottery win will essentially be a roll of 100 loaves, each of which has a chance of being a rarer item, plus a 900 dough bonus. However, past 100 daily rolls the number of loaves you get increases to be how many daily rolls you have, but the dough bonus decreases so that the number of loaves plus the dough bonus always equals 1000. This means if you do not roll any rare items, the lottery will always give you 1000 dough, but as you get more rolls, the chance to get rare items increases, making the lottery more rewarding.

### Basic Strategy

The main strategy of the early and middle game consists mainly of buying daily rolls. As you obtain more daily rolls, you will get more dough per day, so more daily rolls per day, and therefore more dough per day per day, and so on. Your dough production will only accelerate from the beginning. Since LCs are more powerful the more daily rolls you have, it will be at times advantageous to buy an LC instead of a daily roll, but the price will then increase, making it more advantageous to buy LCs again. Generally, you should aim to get 15-20 LCs by 1k rolls, and buy them at relatively regular intervals.

## Road to 1k rolls & advanced features

There are multiple other mechanics that come to play during the road to 1k daily rolls. This part explains, more or less in order, most of them.

### Multirollers & Compound Rollers

These are two of the first shop items that will appear in the shop during your bread game progression. They are purely quality of life items and do not affect how the game is played, but are still quite important.

The multiroller allows you to roll multiple rolls in one command. The first costs 128 dough and subsequent ones cost 256. Each one doubles the amount of rolls per command, meaning 2 at level 1, 4 at level 2 and so on. This makes it a lot less tedious to roll many rolls at once. However, every roll is still displayed in separate messages.

The compound roller merges roll messages together. MM takes quite some time to send multiple messages even with one command, and this item, costing 128 dough per level, allows you to have multiple rolls in one message, reducing spam and rolling time. Just like multirollers, each level doubles the amount of rolls per message. Note that having X compound rollers requires having X multirollers.

### Gifting

    You can gift items to other players. Any item represented by an emoji, with the exception of some select “soulbound” ones, can be gifted to another player. Dough can also be gifted. Just type “$bread gift <player> <amount> <item>” to gift. Excluding the item argument will gift dough.

### Gambling

Gambling isn’t an essential game mechanic, and in fact it will most likely just make you lose dough, but it’s still worth talking about. Type “$bread gamble <amount>” to gamble an amount of dough between 4 and 50. You will be presented with a 4x4 board of emojis that will progressively disappear until only one is left. Depending on what you have, you will be rewarded with some portion of your original bet (your net win is your displayed winnings minus your original bet). A horsey will give you nothing, a fruit (cherry, grape, lemon) 25% of your bet, a bread 50%, a special bread 200%, a chess piece 400% and an anarchychess logo/anarchy symbol/holy hell emoji 1000%. On average, you neither lose or gain dough from gambling.

If you gamble more than 10 times, the Extra Gamble item will become available in the shop. There is a 20 gamble per day limit, and this allows you to buy 5 one-time gambles for 25 dough.

### Stonks

Stonks, misspelling intentional, is a stock market mechanic within the bread game. There are 3 stonks: the low-value cookies , the mid-value pretzels  and the high-value fortune cookies . You can type “$bread invest <amount> <stonk>” to buy some amount of a stonk, or “$bread invest <amount> dough <stonk>” to invest some amount of dough into that stonk. Stonks change in 4 times per day. A stonk change is called a “stonk tick”, and they are spaced by 6 hours, with the first being 3 hours after bread o’ clock and the last, 3 hours before bread o’ clock. Type “$bread stonks” to see current values, “$bread portfolio” to see your portfolio and “$bread divest <amount> <stonk>” to divest.

### The Gambit Shop

    The gambit shop is a secondary shop in which you can buy one time upgrades boosting the dough received when rolling certain items. You can access it by typing "$bread gambit". There are essentially 4 tiers to gambit shop items, each of which needs to be unlocked. The first tier costs and boosts special and rare bread, the second costs red gems and black pieces and boosts said pieces, the third costs blue gems and white pieces also boosting said pieces, while the fourth tier costs and boosts gems.

### Chessatrons

A chessatron  is an item that you can obtain by collecting a full chess set - that is, all 32 pieces that constitute a chess set. Upon obtaining them, you will automatically receive the chessatron, which comes with a 2000 dough reward, and the pieces will be removed from your inventory. You can enable or disable automatic chessatron obtaining with "$bread chessatron <on/off>". You can also tron manually with "$bread chessatron".

### Alchemy

Alchemy is a mechanic that allows certain items to be turned into different items. You can use it by typing “$bread alchemy <amount> <item> <recipe>”, and you can omit the recipe argument to see a list of available recipes. Here is a quick rundown of the various types and recipes of alchemy:

* Black to white piece alchemy. This allows for black pieces to be turned into white pieces at a 3:1 ratio, at a 2:1 ratio plus a cost of special bread or rare bread, or 1:1 plus special bread and rare bread, hence allowing to balance the pieces for chessatron making.
* White to black piece alchemy. This allows white pieces to be turned into black ones at a 1:1 ratio.
* Special and rare bread alchemy. Any special can be alchemized from 10 regular bread, and any rare from 25 regular bread.
* Gem alchemy. Any gem can be alchemized from 1 of the tier above it or 2 of the tier below it, save for gold gems, which have their own recipes.
* Gold gem alchemy. A gold gem can be alchemized from 2 greens, 4 purples, 8 blues and 16 reds, or 10k normal bread, 1k of each special bread and 500 of each rare bread.
* Gem to piece alchemy. Any piece can be alchemized from a red gem.
* Omega chessatron and OoaK alchemy. This is detailed in the below section.

### Omega chessatrons & OoaKs

Omega chessatrons  and OoaKs (the anarchy symbol , lichess horsey  and r/place holy hell ) are the primary uses for MoaKs. Omega chessatrons can be alchemized from a MoaK, one of each gem, and 5 chessatrons. It rewards 40k dough, and most importantly boosts the dough gain of each chessatron you obtain by 250.

OoaKs, which is short for One of a Kind, are the anarchy symbol, the lichess horsey, and the r/place holy hell. They can be alchemized from 5 moaks, and reward 500k dough. They also cannot be alchemized before max rolls, to prevent multiple people allying to make an OoaK and gaining a huge advantage. Despite their name, they are not unique. This is because they used to be rollable, one of each only being rollable, before they were replaced by MoaKs. This made them truly unique, before they were re-introduced in their current form.

### Roll Summarizer & Black Hole Technology

These are two more quality of life items, both one-time purchases. The roll summarizer appears in the shop once you have a gem and two compound rollers. Costing one red gem, it provides you with a summary of your rolls at the end of each multiroll, so you can quickly see how many of what you have obtained.

The black hole simply hides your rolls away, leaving only the summary. It will still show rolls containing a gold gem or MoaK. It costs 2 purple gems, and 5 multirollers as well as the roll summarizer are required to buy it.

### Recipe Refinement

Recipe Refinement is an item unlocked by reaching max daily rolls that dramatically increases the power of your loaf converters. There are 4 levels, that cost 1, 10, 100 and 1000 gold gems respectively, and they boost the power of loaf converters by a factor of 2, 4, 8 and 16.

### The Endgame

You reach the endgame upon reaching the maximum amount of daily rolls. From here, there is not much left to do besides leveling up recipe refinement. You can buy into stonks, buy loaf converters to increase your dough gain, or invest into stonks to get more dough to buy loaf converters. You can alchemize omega chessatrons and gain more dough from chessatrons. However, you will probably not want to stay in the endgame for long; you will want to look into Ascensions.

## Ascensions

The next step of the game is ascending. This mechanic is similar to prestige mechanics in other incremental games, and it resets all your stats, sending you back to 10 daily rolls, taking away all your items, loaf converters, and others. However, it provides quite a few perks. First, the dough you gain from just about everything will be boosted by 10%. Second, it raises the daily roll cap by 100. Third, you will gain access to a new shop: the hidden bakery.

### The Hidden Bakery

The hidden bakery is another secondary shop that allows you to buy items using ascension tokens, a new currency that you gain by reaching specific daily roll milestones. You obtain an ascension token when you ascend and reach 50, 150, 450 and 1000 daily rolls, meaning you can only obtain 5 per ascension. Ascension tokens are not reset upon ascending, and neither are the hidden bakery items. These upgrades are therefore permanent. You can see the items by typing “$bread hidden”, but here’s a quick rundown:

* Daily Discount Card: Reduces the price of daily rolls
* Self Converting Yeast: Reduces the price of loaf converters
* Chess Piece Equalizer: Brings the black/white piece ratio closer to 50/50
* High Roller Table: Raises the gambling dough limit
* MoaK Booster: Increases the chance of obtaining MoaKs
* Chessatron Contraption: Makes shadow omegas boost the chessatron dough gain like normal omegas
* Ethereal Shine: Makes shadow gold gems boost the chance of obtaining gems
* First Catch of the Day: Increases the dough value of the first special item rolled each day

### How to ascend

To ascend, simply type “$bread ascend”. You will be presented with a list of the requirements: maximum daily rolls, 128 LCs, and 200 chessatrons. Then type “I would like to ascend”.

### Shadow items

There are a few items that ascending does not erase completely. First, MoaKs, omega chessatrons and gold gems will be converted to their “shadow” form upon ascending   . This makes them ungiftable and makes omegas lose their chessatron dough boosting benefits, and they also cannot be used for alchemy or other purposes. Shadow items are kept upon ascending. Second, OoaKs are kept as they are upon ascending. There are also a few stats that are not reset, such as lifetime\_gambles, and you can access the combined amount of some stats that are reset, like lifetime\_dough, by appending the prefix “lifetime” to it (such as “$bread lb lifetime lifetime\_dough” or “$bread lb lifetime total\_rolls”).

### Advancing through ascensions

Once you have done the first playthrough of Ascension 0, the ascension you start on, you will probably want to catch up to the highest players, who are, at the time of writing, on Ascension 4. However, each playthrough is relatively the same, until you reach the level of the higher players and get to trade with them and experiment with new strategies. Repeat what you have done on Ascension 0 on further ascensions, buying hidden bakery items along the way. Don’t be afraid to ask for dough donations from Ascension 1 onwards to help you catch up to the highest players.

### Reaching the highest ascension available

Once you have reached the highest ascension level available, things get more interesting. When many players are on the same level, there are different strategies and metas that come up, depending heavily on your hidden bakery items. Trade possibilities open up, alliances, and so on. However, this guide does not cover all that. You’ll discover it as you go in the high ascension game.