Strategy/Orb of BLC Farming

Farming Orb of BLC  Artifacts  lets you quickly increase your BLC amount by a huge amount. Every time you use an Orb, you'll gain +5% of your current  BLC Coins. Using 48 of them will increase your exponent by 1 (eg. 1e14 to 1e15). Repeat this as many times as needed to exponentially increase your  BLC Coins.

There are two methods: AFK and timeskip.

* **AFK:** Easier to set up early, but gives much lower gains. Uses *Fruitifacts* from the  Obsidian Shop Obsidian Leaf Shop.
* **Timeskip:** Requires 2 minute trades, but gives comparatively massive returns. Uses gem trades, offline artifacts, and  Gem Shop Gem Shop time travels.

Getting the  MLC upgrade *Crunchy BLC* is **highly** recommended first, because without it, your  BLC Coins will reset after every  Mega Leaf Crunch .

## Setup

For both methods, you'll need to reduce artifact spawn time as far as possible.

You'll also want to increase your current BLC coins as much as possible, as they'll set the base value that your Orbs affect.

Both methods also have  BLC purchases. Try not to spend too big a percentage of your current coins, else your orb gains will be smaller.

### Pets

* Flocko - Reduces spawn time by -20% (or -24% at level 10).
* Butterflyo - Buffs Flocko by +20% (or +40% at level 10).
* With both at level 10, spawn time will be reduced by -33.6%.
* The Better Pets upgrade from the  Gem Shop Gem Shop buffs pets a further +30%.
* For the offline method, use  Pet Scroll s, which buff pets by +20%.

### Shared Upgrades

Buy the gem upgrade as soon as you can, and get as many levels of the MLC upgrade as you can afford. If you're using the timeskip method, you'll gain  MLC Coins after each timeskip, so you can be fairly liberal with your spending there.

*Note: These two upgrades are also coloured gold in the upgrade sections for each method below.*

## AFK

This method relies on using *Fruitifacts* from the  Obsidian Shop Obsidian Leaf Shop:

* *Fruitifacts* reduces the spawn time of a random artifact by -1sec per collected fruit.
* Once an artifact has spawned, its spawn time can't be reduced further, so the pool of artifacts with spawn times to reduce becomes smaller.
* Eventually, it's just Orbs that get their time reduced.
* By staying in  The Volcano  (which is where Orbs spawn), you can continuously collect the Orbs.

### AFK Upgrades

Crucial upgrades are any that increase artifact expiration time, and any that increase the number of fruits spawning in.

## Timeskip

You'll need 2 minute trades, and as many related upgrades as you can afford:

* Buy Offline Artifacts upgrades.
* Buy Faster Artifacts upgrades for faster artifact spawn times.
* Collect  Gems from trading.
* Buy a 72h time travel from the  Gem Shop Gem Shop.
* Equip  Flocko &  Butterflyo, and use a  Pet Scroll .
* Activate the time travel to gain 72 hours of offline artifacts.

After each timeskip, you'll probably want to increase your trade level, so you can get more gems faster. See Timeskip Notes below for more info.

### Timeskip Notes

You can view your offline artifacts p/hour count for orbs on the Artifact page.

Upgrading your min/max  Trading level, with the Trading Education upgrades from the  BLC and  MLC shops, will help you get more gems faster. Level 10 trades give you 2 gems per trade, then +1 gems every 5 levels. See Trading § Gems for full stats.

You'll also need a lot of  Cheese, to refresh your trades until you get gem trades.

For optimal gem trading, you may want to reset with a regular  Prestige  first, and disable the autobuyer for  Gold Leaves. This will keep many leaf upgrades *(eg. ALBs <3 Seeds from the  Celestial Shop Celestial Leaf Shop shop)* since they're technically still unlocked, even if you don't have the associated leaf yet. but it will clean up the trades so that only  Leaves and special resources (gems etc.) are available. This is especially helpful as it removes  Flasks  from trading, which can be very difficult to acquire in large quantities.