Progression/Strange Science

*(Version 1.6.2) by IndyZa on LBR Discord*

### **How much BLC should I have for the first crunch?**

* **16 BLC** The Upgrade is 1 BLC++, 1 Prestige++++, 1-2 Transistors, 2 Combos, 2 Leaves
* Note: If you are casual player you can crunch after you get Exotic Upgrade with BLC at around 10k+.

### **What should I do for my first 75 gems?**

+750% leaves is the best option, for late game leaf farming where no other bonuses can apply. It's Mine is the only other reasonable option as no other upgrade allows for tool retention, but it pales in significance due to new updates. After +750% leaves you should aim for 3x BLC.

### **When should I crunch?**

Its not fixed but you should crunch depending on your style. The numbers below displays how much BLC coin you should gain when crunching in steps. E.g. 16 = 16 BLC coin when crunching.

* Idle style **3x Gem upgrade** 16 -> 10k -> 300k (1-2 times) -> 3M -> 10M -> 100M -> 300M -> 500M
* Grinding Style (Most optimized) **3x Gem upgrade** 16 -> 10k -> 400k -> 5M -> 30M -> 50M -> 75M

##### **BLC First Stage**

> **16 - 100 Total BLC** Your goal here is to get and repeat BLC as fast as possible. The Upgrade is 1 BLC++, 1 Prestige++++, 1-2 Transistors, 2 Combos, 2 Leaves
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##### **BLC** **Second Stage**

> **~100k Total BLC** Your goal here is to get as much combo as possible to farm exotic leaves for more BLC. Transistor help in Strange Flask upgrade.
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Recommended Upgrades

* Max Transistor (3/3)
* As many "What the combo" Upgrades as possible
* 8 BLC++
* 8 Prestige++++
* 8 Master of Leaves
* 8 Converter output

##### **BLC** **Third Stage**

> **100k - 1M Total BLC** Your goal here is to have as much combo and enough leaf storage limit to do more combo upgrades. This is mostly for seed farming.
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Recommended Upgrades

* As many "What the combo" Upgrades as possible
* Leaf Bag with at least 1G
* 12 Master of Leaves
* 12 Converter output
* You can upgrade other BLC upgrades but they are not as important/significant

##### **BLC** **Fourth Stage**

> **1M - 20M Total BLC** Your goal here is to have as much combo as possible and leaf bag for grinding seed farming or get Celestial Plane Unlock
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Recommend Upgrades

* 1/10 Crunchy Coin
* 1 Offline Crunch
* Unlock Pets and Foxxo, Bunnyo, Raccoono, Catto, Doggo (In this order)
* At least 16 "What the combo" upgrades or as many as possible
* Leaf Bags to 1i is recommended for all necessary limited upgrades such as combo
* As many of the Celestial Shop's "Moar BLC" Upgrade as possible
* The Celestial Shop's "Celestial Combo" Upgrade
* All other Celestial Shop's upgrade as much as possible (Except "Celestial Seed Marketing")

##### **BLC** **Fifth Stage**

> **20M - 100M Total BLC** Your goal here is to get unique leaves, pets and unlock the "Mythical Garden" area
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Recommended Upgrades

* At least 23 "What the combo" Upgrades or as many as possible
* Unique Leaves Unlock
* 2 Greedy Unique
* Leaf Bags to 1i is recommended for all necessary limited upgrades such as combo
* Auto Upgrades are optional (Gold and Exotic Upgrade is recommended for fast crunching)
* Max the Mythical Shop's "Moar BLC" Upgrade

##### **BLC** **Sixth Stage**

> 100M - 500M Total BLC Your goal here is to get unique leaves and pets and unlock "The Volcano"/Lava area
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Recommended Upgrade

* At least 26 "What the combo" Upgrade or as many as possible
* Max Perma HP Regen
* Fruit Leaves Upgrade Unlock
* At least 3 Greedy Unique
* Leaf Bags to 1j is recommended for all necessary limited upgrades such as combo
* As many of the Lava Shop's "Moar BLC" Upgrade as possible
* All other Lava Shop's upgrade as much as possible

##### **BLC** **Seventh Stage**

> 500M - 1B Total BLC Your goal here is to get unique leaves and pets and unlock "The Abandon Research Station"/Ice area
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Recommend Upgrades

* At least 27 "What the combo" Upgrade or as many as possible
* At least 5 Greedy Unique
* Leaf Bags to 1n is recommended for all necessary limited upgrades such as combo
* As many of the Ice Shop's "Moar BLC" Upgrade as possible (Most important)
* All other Ice Shop's upgrade as much as possible

##### **BLC** **Eighth Stage**

> 1B+ Total BLC Your goal here is to get unique leaves and pets and unlock "The Abandon Research Station"/Ice area
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Recommend Upgrades

* At least 30 "What the combo" Upgrades or as many as possible
* Max Greedy Unique
* Max Crunchy Coin
* Artifacts and ALB Artifacts
* Leaf Bags to 1o is recommended for all necessary limited upgrades such as combo
* All auto upgrade unlocks
* Max all of the Celestial shop's upgrades

### **What persists after crunching (Big Leaf Crunch)?**

Gem Upgrade, BLC Upgrade, Area, Seeds, Skin, Celestial Upgrade, Mythical Upgrade, Lava Upgrade, Ice Upgrade, Artifacts, Lore Note: Tools can be persist with "It's mine" Gem upgrade and Prestige Coin can also be persist with "Crunchy Coin" upgrade

### **What are Seeds?**

* You get Seeds after unlocking the Farming Certificate with Exotic Leaves.
* Seeds spawn every 10 seconds to 3.5 minutes, and several tend to spawn at once.
* Seeds of a type of leaf only spawn once you unlock that type of seed. - Seeds can be spawn in any area.
* Once you unlock a type of Seed by buying its first level (1/100), they start spawning in every location.
* Seeds spawn rate are determine by the "Fertilizer", "Celestial Seed Marketing Upgrade", "More Seeds Gems Upgrade" and "Raccoono"
* **Seeds can be pick up with ALB with "ALB loves Seed", an upgrade with Celestial Leave, or else they must be manually picked up by the player**

When you pick up a seed, you are given (number of Seed upgrades for that leaf)% of your CURRENT LEAF TOTAL in leaves.

FOR EXAMPLE: If you have level 1 Seeds and 1,000 leaves, picking up a seed will give you 10 leaves. If you have level 100 Seeds and 1,000 leaves, picking up a seed will give you 1,000 leaves.

It is not recommended to start Seed grinding until you have over 100,000 BLC (Ideally at 1,000,000 BLC), and optimally you should have 1g storage for exotic seeds.

### **How do you efficiently farm seeds?**

**\*\*\*TURN OFF YOUR AUTO BUY\*\*\***

**You should get "ALB loves Seed" before you start. It can be gotten cheaply with Celestial Leave.**

Note: Having **Raccoono** and **Rainbow Leaves(Unique)** is recommended for Celestial Seeds and above and can speed up the process Celestial Seeds are farm differently see the other FAQ for more precise answer.

There are **4 stages** of seed farming Note: If you have **Rainbow Leaves** you can start on Fourth Stage

##### **Seeds First Stage**

> No seed You should upgrade immediately to get 1 seed to spawn
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Your goal is to go for Gold Seed to 100/100 first. Combo Upgrade in BLC and gold leave is your best friend for the first seed.

##### **Seeds** **Second Stage**

> 1-9 seed Buy the seed when it cost 75%-50% of what you have. It should help you get to 10 fast. What you want to do it buy as soon as possible but not all depleted. Remember to do combo its still matter
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##### **Seeds** **Third Stage**

> 10-50 seed Buy the seed when it cost 10%-50% of what you have (scaling to the amount of seed you have). You try to retain the amount you have while upgrading it constantly
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##### **Seeds** **Fourth Stage**

> 50-100 seed Buy the seed when it cost 1%-5% of what you have. You try to have your seed more than what you need to pay to buy it efficiently
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**Exception**: If you can buy it with your blowing production just do it.

### **I have "Unique Leaves" unlock. How do I get them?**

You need to use the **specific tools** in **designated area** and have the **required leaves amount**

* Bone Leaf – Tools: Ace of Spades, Area: Volcano, Leaves: 100m Lava Leaves
* Crystal Leaf – Tools: Hand, Area: Neighbor Garden, Leaves: 1c Platinum Leaves
* Fire Leaf – Tools: Lazer, Area: THE VOID, Leaves: 1C Void Leaves
* Ghost Leaf – Tools: Blowfish, Area: Space, Leaves: 1d Cosmic Leaves
* Glitter Leaf – Tools: Small/Large Rake, Area: the Mountain, Leaves: 1D Bismuth Leaves
* Heart Leaf – Tools: Leaf Blower, Area: The Garden, Leaves: 1e Gold Leaves
* Rainbow Leaf – Tools: Rocket Engine, Area: Celestial Plane, Leaves: 100k Celestial Leaves
* Robot Leaf – Tools: Graphic Card, Area: the Abyss, Leaves: 1m Exotic Leaves

### What does HP do? How can I survive in Volcano?

HP is only known to be used in **Volcano** where you get damage overtime. If you don't have this area yet it doesn't matter.

There are 2 methods to survive in Volcano:

1. Be damageless by getting "Perma HP Regeneration" in BLC Shop,
2. Use "Healthy Fruit" Upgrade in Mythical Shop with 50/50 "Fruit Fertilizer" and no "ALB Loves Fruit" in Coin Shop

10. How to properly max Mythical Leaves? You can max Mythical Leaves by getting a Mythical Seeds

You should have these kind of setup for your first Mythical Seeds

* Pet: Catto
* Unique Leaf: Fire Leaf, Glitter Leaf
* 50/50 Discount Upgrade in Coin Shop
* 100/100 Max Combo and Combo Multiplier in Gold Shop
* At least 12 Master of Leaves
* 10/10 All Leaves in All the Flask Shop

### **How can I get Celestial leaves?**

You can get celestial leaves by defeating enemy **only** in the Celestial Plane area of the game (also read part 12)

* You can damage the enemy with your leaves and ALB bumping to the enemy.
* Positioning your character furthest to the enemy will help you make more damage to the enemy
* Upgrading "ALB Hit Damage" and "Hit Damage" (leaves damage) in Bismuth and Cosmic shop is recommended
* If you struggle on killing enemy consider switching tool to "Hands" to get more ambient leaf damage from ALBS.

### **How to farm and max out Celestial Upgrade?**

There are 2 stage to farm Celestial Leaves

##### **Celestials First Stage**

Get First Celestial Seed

**Rule of Thumb:**

* You should only attempt if you can get minimum of 500M Celestial Leaves per enemy kills for the first Celestial seeds. (The lower you have the longer this stage takes)
* You should do 1 Prestige first to get as many coin as possible for Celestial Leaves Upgrade.
* You should upgrade "Celestial Marketing", "Worthy Enemy" and "More Enemy Please" until the cost is more than 5b Celestials

Recommended Upgrade before attempting

* 100/100 Gold Leaves's "Max Combo" Upgrade
* 100+ Gold Leaves's "Combo Muliplier" Upgrade
* Must have "Unique Leaves" unlock
* At least 2 "Greedy Uniques" Upgrades
* Pet: Catto
* Pet: Doggo
* Pet: Raccoono
* At least 1J Bag Size ("Leaf Bag"'s BLC Upgrade)
* At least 25 "What the combo" BLC Upgrade
* 50/50 "Upgrade Discount" (Prestige Coin Upgrade)
* Highest "More Celestial Leaves" Upgrade (Prestige Coin Upgrade)
* "Celestial Combo" Upgrade

##### **Celestials** **Second Stage**

Max Celestial Seeds Upgrading "Celestial Seed Marketing" is essential to speed up your time. You must have "Pet: Raccoono" and "Rainbow leaves" on at this stage.

* 1-2 "Celestial Seed Marketing" Upgrade Try to Upgrade it as soon as its available
* 3-10 "Celestial Seed Marketing" Upgrade Buy the upgrade when the cost is about 50% of your total celestial leaves
* 11-25 "Celestial Seed Marketing" Upgrade Buy the upgrade when the cost is about 10%-5% of your total celestial leaves Start buying "Celestial seeds" Upgrade at 1% of your total celestial leaves
* 25-50 "Celestial Seed Marketing" Upgrade Buy the upgrade when the cost is about 1% of your total celestial leaves Start buying "Celestial Seeds" Upgrade at 1% of your total celestial leaves

### **How much is it cost for <upgrade>**

* Coin Shop's "Upgrade Discount" at 50/50 cost 300A
* Coin Maxing seed cost 500C - 1.2D with "Upgrade Discount" at 50/50 depends on seeds you are buying.
* Full List of Upgrade Link: https://discord.com/channels/778221489974673410/787411059073220609/800836607892389939

### **What is, how and where can I get Artifacts?**

**Artifacts** is a consumable that spawn on a designated map in a specific interval.

**Properties**

* Artifact is a consumable so you collect them and use later in the Artifact Shop menu
* Can only spawn if you have "Artifacts" Upgrade in BLC Shop
* Can only be collect manually but the player unless you have "ALB Artifacts" Upgrade in BLC Shop so the ALB can collect Artifacts
* Can be collect multiple time
* No cooldown when used
* Spawn time are counted when you are both online or offline, if your offline time exceed the spawn time the respawn time will start counting from max time. E.g. Orb spawn at 6:00 you open game on 7:00 the orb will spawn again at (+6 hrs) 13:00.

**Places for each artifacts**

* Time Crystal: Show Spawn time of artifacts, located in Space (one time collectable, spawn within next 1.5 hour if missed)
* The Compass: Shows the location of the artifacts, located in Neighbor Garden (one time collectable, spawn within next 1.5 hour if missed)
* Blazing Skull: Spawn 5 enemy at once, located in THE VOID, spawn every 3 hours
* Enchanted Fruit: Spawn 20 fruits at once, located in Home Garden, spawn every 1 hour
* Orb of BLC: Gain 5% of your current BLC, located in Volcano, spawn every 6 hours
* Strange Seed Bag: Spawns 3 random available seeds, located in Mythical Garden, spawn every 2 hours

### **What is the best unlimited BLC upgrade in end game?**

What the combo(WTC), Bigger Bag, Master of Leaves

Note: WTC is better than Bigger Bag in combo yield in term of investment cost by 2.5x

**Leaves/Combo yield**

* WTC is +2.75% leaves per level
* Bigger Bag is +1.13% leaves per level
* Master of Leaves is +2.75% leaves per level

### **How should you progress in this game?**

There are several ways to progress this game but the most common is

1. Prestige
2. Crunch
3. Get more BLC with Exotic Leaves Shop "BLC++"/"Moar BLC" Upgrade
4. Farm BLC to work on leaves/combo gain to prepare for seeds (At least 300 - 600k BLC, Recommended at 800k - 1M)
5. "ALB Loves Seed" Upgrade in Celestial Plane
6. Max "Gold Leaf Seeds" (100/100)
7. Max "Exotic Seeds" (100/100) [Optional]
8. Obtain Crunchy Coin Upgrade
9. Obtain All Pet (Deero/Monkeyo can be ignore) [Cost 11M - 15M BLC]
10. Obtain Unique leaves [20M BLC Gate]
11. Upgrade Greedy Unique to at least 2/6 [Cost ~10-20M BLC]
12. Obtain Mythical Garden area [50M BLC Gate]
13. Max "Mythical Seeds" (100/100) and Max Mythical Upgrade
14. Obtain some Lava Upgrade and area [500M BLC Gate]
15. Obtain some Ice Upgrade and area [1B BLC Gate]\*\*
16. Max "Celestial Seeds" (100/100) and obtain all Celestial Upgrade
17. Farm BLC to 600b BLC or more and hoard "Orb of BLC" artifacts
18. Max Ice/Lava Upgrade [Current Soft Cap]
19. ~~Max printer upgrade~~

Note: These list doesn't include repetition of prestige/crunching. \*\*Note 2: If you are focus on long term BLC beyond the game content, get artifact as soon as possible for maximum orb