Progression/Obsidian

## Obsidian Leaves

Obsidian Leaves are at your reach! Collect the  Water Seal Artifact, located in The Abyss in order to unlock The Hidden Sea, where  Obsidian Leaves are obtainable.

In order to collect  Obsidian Leaves however, you have to Merge  Lava and  Ice Leaves *(See more here)*. After merging enough without blowing them, use Doggo and blow them away at once, until you max out Obsidian Marketing.

Pile  Obsidian Leaves using this method, while using Owlo to increase the amount of  Obsidian Leaves you create, and when only  Obsidian Leaves are left on the screen, swap to Doggo and blow the leaves away. At this point, you can also collect the Water Unique Leaf, which is very helpful. Go offline until you have enough  Obsidian Leaves to buy  Silicon Leaves, and enoughBLC Coins to unlock the next area.

## Silicon Leaves

 Silicon Leaves time! Upgrade Silicon Marketing and Silicon Fertilizer until they become too expensive, then either pile or wait for  Printers to print silicon until you unlock Benitoite Leaves.

There isn't much to say for  Silicon Leaves since they are very similar to most leaves.

## Benitoite Leaves

 Benitoite Leaves!  Benitoite Leaves follow the same Merging mechanic as  Obsidian Leaves, but instead with  Ice and  Silicon Leaves. After Piling  Benitoite Leaves the same way you did for  Obsidian Leaves, collect the Nuclear Unique Leaf and unlock The Cheese Pub after getting 500  Borbs(using Borbo helps a lot for this).

After you have some cheese from The Cheese Pub, buy all the levels of Craft Forge and a few levels in Craft Hammer. Craft leaves with the BLC+ or BLC% properties on them - remember that only leaves in your inventory give props. Once you have the Zoo Necklace(method of obtaining shown below), equip Foxo and Butterflyo and try to crunch for 6-8b. That should give you a big enough boost to Offline BLC to unlock The Leaf Tower at 100b BLC.

## Trading - The Alternative Strategy

Instead of piling or using  Printers, you can use  Trading to skip unlocking the areas and easily get their respective seeds. With Mulched Trade Caps at level 8 (and trade education lvl 1), you can trade for 10t leaves at a time, which is enough to unlock the seed for that leaf. However, do note that Obsidian and Benitoite seeds are significantly rarer than other seeds due to their shops not having a fertilizer upgrade, so you can wait to max these leaves for a while.

1. ↑ This does not apply to the Offline Seeds upgrade from the Gem Shop, all seeds have an equal chance to spawn. However, I would not recommend spending your gems on this yet, as there are much better purchases.

## Cheese Pub

The Cheese Pub is a very important area. It is the best gem farm, cheese farm, and damage farm for your point in progression. There are 5 main highlights in this area.

The Bartender is likely the best source of Cheese that you have at the moment. While the Materials required for the quests are tedious, each one gives 2.5k cheese, which is likely all the cheese you're going to need up until the end of this progression section. He also trades for Beer, but that's not important right now and you don't need any.

The Leaf Counter is a very good source of damage later, but isn't too useful right now. You can invest into Leaf Counter Macro if you have some spare mulch, but don't expect many results out of it right now.

The Slot Machine is a place where you can gamble 3 Cheese per spin for a chance to win a variety of things. However, like a real slot machine, it is a scam. It is generally outclassed by the Borb Claw Machine, however has some niche uses. One of those is obtaining the Zoo Necklace, a permanent artifact that gives you an extra pet slot. It is guaranteed after 50 rolls(can be reduced with the Mulched Slots upgrade, but I wouldn't buy it), so save 150 Cheese for this.

The Curse Machine is a game that resembles mini golf, where you control a piece of cheese and try to make it to the beer without hitting the curses. Apart from some Achievements that give you gems, it's just there for fun and doesn't give any other reward.

The Borb Claw Machine is a game where you pay 3 Cheese to play a claw machine, and once you click the claw will extend down and grab the topmost object it hits. Before using this, I would strongly recommend to max out the Insert More Mulch upgrade and get a few levels in Cursed Pub. If you want, you can also invest in Mulched Claw. Your main goals for things to get in the claw are Curses, Gems, and if you need it, Cheese. Very rarely, Chests will spawn in the claw machine, and you should always go for those as they give large amounts of Silver and Gold Tokens, jumpstarting your progression in  The Leaf Tower . Given optimal circumstances, you can expect to get 200-300 gems per hour, dwarfing any other strategy for gems until now.

There is a strategy to massively improve how fast you can refresh the claw machine. Normally if you don't get anything you want, you have to wait for the claw to go down and back up, which takes 3-4 seconds. Not optimal. This strategy will be faster on PC, although still works well on Mobile.

1. Position your cursor over the claw machine and click.
2. Press Space or if on mobile, click the "Start" button.
3. Quickly scan for anything you want.
4. If there is nothing, press Esc or if on mobile, click to the left of the claw machine window. This should exit the claw machine screen.
5. Repeat.

Note that this drastically increases the rate of Cheese spending, however if you can keep up with the cost this can double or even triple your output, and is why you can reach 200-300 Gems per hour.

## The Leaf Tower

Once you've unlocked  The Leaf Tower, you have to blow leaves into the enemies in order to damage them (similar to the Celestial Plane), and every 10 enemies you defeat you will increase the floor you're on by 1. Every floor you go up, the amount of Silver Tokens that drop from enemies will increase by 1. On every 10th floor there is a Boss Enemy, which will at first drop 1 Gold Token, but every consecutive 10 floors an additional 10Gold Tokens will drop. Bosses and Enemies both have chances to drop Equipment items, and that chance increases the higher in the tower you climb.

Recommended pets to use are Crabbo, Butterflyo, and Owlo in that order as you unlock more pet slots.

Use the Silver Tokens you collect to buy Leaf Damage and Leaf Damage Multiplier, health is pretty meaningless in the tower if you can kill everything quickly. You will want to focus on Leaf Damage more than the multiplier, since Equipment items give you way more Damage Multiplier than the upgrades, and don't give you straight up damage. Once you've beaten the first (and maybe second) boss (floor 10/20), purchase the Tower ALBs upgrade from the Gold Tokens shop, as they are way better at blowing leaves into enemies than you are. You'll want to buy More Tower Rewards after buying Tower ALBs, and after that you want to put all your Gold Tokens into Leaf Damage. Crafted Leaves are also very helpful for getting damage early on, and don't get reset upon BLC/MLC unlike both tokens.

Once you reach floor 42, you can use the Carpenters Cup tool to spawn in the very helpful Holy Unique Leaf, which also unlocks the ability to buy the Holy Grail tool. If you've collected the  Wind and  Gravity Ball Artifacts, you can use them to kill bosses very quickly if you don't have enough damage to kill them normally. You need around 500m (5e8) damage to defeat the Floor 100 Boss using this strategy.

Once you've defeated the Floor 100 boss, start preparing for MLC by crafting the best leaves you can get that have BLC+ on them, and once you've bought every BLC increasing upgrade possible, do a BLC. The reason for this is that your all-time highest BLC does not get reset ever, so after MLC you will be able to unlock Offline BLC, and get enough BLC to quickly unlock every area. A good amount of MLC to finally MLC with is 36 (make sure you buy MLCx3 in the Gem Shop), which require 100b (1e11) BLC. If you do have any DLC, you should MLC for 42 coins or higher. Attaining that amount while F2P is simply not worth the time because the Supporter Perks give a lot of extra MLC.

Enjoy MLC!