Beginner Tips

## **Start off**

When you start out, you have a very limited 10 energy, very weak and very slow zombies. With a max blood cap of 1k and a brain cap of 50, you have a very limited scope to start with. Here are some tips that can help increase beginning progression.

* You have the ability to spawn Zombies inside of human houses
* You should get the Unholy Construction perk found in the shop's brain tab shortly after you get the two Energy Rush levels. This will unlock building that when built give you new upgrades.
* Every fifth level (IE. 5, 10, 15, 20...) there is a VIP. They will have VIP above them in yellow text. Each VIP gives a bonus that remains after Prestige. Later on, you get access to spells to make killing them easier.
* Every fiftieth level there is a boss level. Boss levels are basically graveyard-defense based levels that can still be idled. They give regular VIP bonuses as rewards.
* When you unlock Golems, use Fire Golems. They're the best golems overall, and once you level golems enough to one-shot villagers, their fireball ability lets them clear towns extremely quickly. Only use other golems if you can't afford to over-level.
* Prestige when you can get a significant amount of prestige upgrades for your next run. We recommend around 30 - 50 or when you feel the game slowing down. When you first prestige you'll want to split points evenly between Blood Rate, Brains Rate, and Bones Rate (prioritize brains rate as they are crucial for construction and upgrades). Later, you'll want to start putting points into Parts Rate and then start splitting points between Graveyard Health and Parts Rate.
* Small investments are very useful early game. It can help you progress easier on very early levels after your first or second prestiges. It's not recommended to get later on as the resources gained from Small investments gets less noticeable (and eventually very small).
* Since bone collectors will collect all the bones remaining in a level once you complete it, if you detonate at the end of the level you can collect more bones and brains at the cost of slower progress. But it's a valid strategy if you're short on bones or brains in your first or second prestige. You only need one bone collector active.
* A good strategy is to wait until a few humans come out of their houses and then jump on the lone humans, this will give you time to spawn more and quickly get a 5 zombie strong horde before raiding a house early on.
* If able to, you can use a large amount of harpies to clear lower levels very easily. Harpies are also useful in clearing regular levels in combination with pandemic as it can spread plague easily.
* (Tip for mid game players) if you have spells unlocked activate energy charge and detonate and place a zombie in each house as fast as possible then put all your energy in bone collectors and you'll get a decent sized army. (provided you have "Your soul is mine!" at least at 5/10 rank)
* After unlocking gigazombies and zombie cage, it is possible to convert your zombies to gigazombies by releasing zombies while the spell is active.
* Grind for brains at all times, as they are crucial for construction progression.
* Target more annoying enemies, such as doctors and stronger army variants, and shift-click to spawn several zombies on top of them.
* After prestiging, max out endurance in the skeleton champion's spell mastery, as it increases spell duration by 10 seconds (this is especially useful with legendary gear which activates spells)