Research Guide

(WARNING THIS IS OUTDATED)

Synergism Research Guide

''This file is editable by anyone. Constructive edits are appreciated :)''

Consider using the optimal rune spread throughout the game.

''For v1.000911. Valid codes not in most recent patch notes:''

General 2020 promo code:  synergism2020

I see you shiver with... V1.010 codes: anticipation    750,000

V1.0101 Codes: RIPKongregate    thisCodeCanBeLiterallyAnything  

Note: Some of the researches have changed since this guide as made originally  (specifically 2x6-2x7). New versions of the game may cause the information to become outdated, so feel free to update the information.

Latest version: v1.0101 (or v1.010.1) - RIP Kong

** ATTENTION: v1.0101 has come out, which has affected many types of research, and thus most of this stuff is now outdated. However, the obtainium situation is a lot better, I swear. Please modify the guide as needed. **

Notation

We refer to researches by their position using the following format: the leftmost top upgrade is 1x1, the one below it 2x1, the one to its right 1x2… etc. It’s an x, y coordinate system, but with the order (Y, X).

Obt is short for Obtainium. Off(s) is short for offerings. Cnxm means the mth completion of challenge n (e.g., C6x25 is the 25th and final completion of challenge 6). Achievements are generally referred to by their requirements, or where they are in that set (e.g., 2nd Accelerator achievement/25 Accelerator achievement).

You’ve just reincarnated for the first time. It’s a scary place. There’s this big research panel and a whole lot of numbers.
Make sure to spend your particles in the reincarnation tab and then look at the research tab, Be aware that not only do a bunch of upgrades go away with reincarnation, so will challenges. Achievement rewards stay.

''The research panel. It is terrifying.''

First of all, you should grab 1x1-5 as they will let you reincarnate much, much faster, which will allow you to get Obtainium more quickly (we will refer to this as ob). It starts at 10m to 30m a run,  then quickly gets to a few minutes per reincarnation.

Then, grab 3x11, (row 3, column 11) for automatic ob generation (as of v1.0101: 5% ob/sec). This can be bought without buying the previous 5 first, but this probably will be much slower as you’ll be playing through the entire game up to this point with only your runes, a coin production modifier from your proton and your achievements kept.

Green!

You probably want QoL at some point, and thus should get 5x6 whenever you feel like it and set it up so you instantly reincarnate after 1 ob. Setting it to reincarnate after 31s (hence, whenever you get your first ob) would be fine. Later on, you’ll play with that a bit more, and deactivate it whenever you feel like pushing. 4x6 and 4x7 give more QoL for one obt each.

2x1 and 3x1 will help with making runs faster. If you cannot reach e300 mythos shards in 30 seconds, they should be bought.

You should also acquire 5x13, or challenge 3 automation, in order to get to e300 mythos shards with no input, allowing for you to automatically reincarnate every 31s.

Then, the low hanging fruits, again. You’ll want to get to 100 particles sometimes and start buying elements, etc… particles are nice. So pick 5x7, as it unlocks the next tier of particle upgrades. 4x6, 4x7, 4x8, and 5x11 are some cheap automation.

At this point, Tax+ completion 1 should be easily doable.

''We have exhausted all the <10-cost researches. GASP!''

reincarnate in 31s right now. ob gain doesn’t start increasing until e15-e22. Focus on your passive ob gain(3X11-3x13). These upgrades are repeatable, make sure to complete the previous one before continuing. The 100k particle achievement gives +4 obtainium. this will help.You can find your best obtainium/sec in settings, however, the researches won’t do much before e22 obtainium.

'' 1ob per 4 seconds. How quaint. ''

''25% of best ob/sec and 4 extra after 30 seconds. That’s nice.''

“According to the discord here, the idea is that you want to get your max passive ob gen, and then 2x2, 3x2, 3x6, 1x11, 1x8, 5x1, 4x1, 1x6, 2x3, 3x3. Or something. Don't quote me.” - earthernsence

I think this is what they told me to do?

'''Vp1.0101: Thanks to the rebalancing, it takes way less time to build up obtainium! Now you can buy 3x11-3x15 faster and buy more of the less expensive stuff.'''

(Tax+ completion 2 or 3 is possible at this point, although I did completion 3 without getting this much obtainium to get these upgrades to green - usavictor, v1.008) Tax completion 6 is also possible and this is the updated tree and around e10 particles - Crink    ly (v1.0091)

e15 particles
Next step will be to get to e15 particles! You have no way to increase your ob generation rate before that, so it’s pointless to care about our particles or just about anything else. Do your 30s runs if you feel like adding your 5ob/30s to your generation rate, or just go and take a nap, and let the passive generation do its job. If you don't care about reincarnating

every 30s, you can start doing runs to maximise offerings. Set auto-reincarnate to the time from runes as “Optimal Reset time for Offerings: [This number] Seconds.” (not more, not less, you get more offerings per second the longer the run). This should be at least 600 seconds, but if you’ve been spending your quarks in the shop should be a bit more. Do not use them before you get 5x2, though. You want to maximize rune exp per offering as much as possible.

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In any case, your research should look like that by the time you reach e15 to e22 particles.

The important ones are 5x2 (x4 offering XP!), and 1x11-12 (each research from 1x11 to 1x15 basically turns tax into SQRT(tax), which is pretty juicy).

Time for some ob gains! You can focus on 3x14, but you will need (5000*4=20000s) which is roughly 14 hours for it to repay its value of one upgrade, so plan accordingly. Thankfully, because of some rebalancing changes, getting 3x14 and 3x15 is better now, and should no longer take ~5 hours to max out. Idle game, yo!

This is the new updated table for new version:

e22 particles
After you get these, you want to set your reincarnation timer to what is written at the bottom of the research tab, which will be at least 3600s. The quark bonus helps extend this though and helps give more obtainium). It may also be a good idea to start saving offerings around this point - set transcensions the Optimal Reset time for Offerings from the top of runes.

''It runs itself. Basically.''

ore low-hanging fruit kinda upgrades! They’re fairly good. Relatively cheap, too.

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Time for some m

Note that is still incomplete, due to this being before 2x6-7 got changed to offline rewards

                  In the current update however, you’d probably ignore 2x8.

'''2x6-2x7 are now used to extend offline time. However, 2x7 is pretty expensive. (v1.0101)'''

By that point, you should start slowly upgrading 4x13-15 as needed when your challenges cap. You are now at about e40 particles. From now on, it’s all about reaching e60. Max out 5x5 right now (you’ll need to max it before you begin the next grind anyway, so you might as well start early). Here are some of the things you can go for in the meantime.

''The cheap, useful stuff is gone. All that’s left is either expensive, or not very useful, or both.''

Once you get the e52 particle upgrade, obtainium gain starts to get even larger than before based on your offerings. e60 particles create a synergy with obtainium and offerings.

The inflation era (and more obtainium grind)
The reason why this is the inflation era, is because you’re going to get a lot more particles from here on out.

As soon as (or even before) you reach e60, you should start saving your offerings. Do 1h runs, an./d don’t spend your offerings until they get to 100k for the first time. This is to help towards capping the multipliers for the e52 and e60 upgrades.

Some tech for maximum offering gain -- set up your timers to transcend after 601s (plus your offering time bonus in the shop). This lets you transcend 5 times during your run and is optimal for offering gain in an 1h reincarnation (about 35% more offs than without any transcend).

If you’re going for longer runs though, you will need the shop obtainium upgrades at level 5 first.

From there, get your offerings above 100k and obtainium above 3e7. You can, while you do your runs, max out the rest of the research, starting with 3x15 asap to get even more obtainium, then continuing with:

The actually useful, non-overpriced stuff.

''The best research -- for a small 30M ob. Or was it less? I don’t remember.''

''The rest. Well, maybe except for 2x7 in the current version and definitely not 5x10.''

And that’s it! You’ve finished the beginnings of research… but there is a lot more to go. You’ll need to grind a lot more obtainium, because this is where the big research upgrades come into play.

THIS IS A REALLY WIP AREA, STUFF WILL CHANGE AROUND AND BELOW THIS POINT.

Note: 2x9-10 is still not worth it, but can be easily bought once you have a good best obtainium/sec. 5x10 now costs 2.5B obtainium (this is for upgrades affecting later content, you cannot even utilize the upgrades yet as it involves a later mechanic you don’t have access to yet).

Beating `Multiplier/Accelerator--` ten times unlocks 5 more researches. Getting 1x16 to max level is the right idea. You should ignore the runes for now until you have maxed out

1x16, then save until you have beaten c8x1.

Note: 1x16 says it’s multiplicative; it’s other-multiplicative but self-additive.

In the v1.009 update, 20 more menacing researches have appeared. This also means other stuff has happened in the process. With that in mind, you’re going to need a bit more particles...

+e300 particles
THIS SECTION WAS CREATED PRIOR TO v1.0101 AND MANY OTHER CHANGES, SO THIS IS OUTDATED INFORMATION.

In order to get to the rest of the big researches, you have to beat Cost++ once. It’s pretty simple once you have unlocked almost all of the base researches, but it’s really painful to get to. You’ll see when you try it.

By the way: You should have a lot of quarks to spend on in the shop that just opened up some time ago at this point. This is mostly because of your achievements.

These will help you in your quest to research the big ones.

(Buy as much of these as you possibly can, your obtainium should be more prioritized compared to offerings, however you should still invest in offerings)

Wait… see how painful Cost++ was? Your atoms don’t even do anything, and you can’t even reach the requirement yet! That’s concerning. Now maybe we need to wait a while...

Your next goal is to beat Cost++, which will require some grinding.

This wall is even bigger than the obtainium grind. Way bigger (we might be exaggerating this, but it took like a week for me - usavictor) You cannot reach the first completion’s goal until you grind a ton of particles and rune levels, so you will need to grind runes, 412/330/165/230 is believed to be the cheapest option to get the challenge.

If you max 1x16, save obtainium for later. There’ll be some new researches. Grind a ton of offerings right now. First important rune to level is the Thrift Rune; getting it to 200 will 1x1give you recycling %, making you get more EXP per offering. Higher levels than 200 will give you tax reduction, but this rune is also pretty expensive so it’s worth going into Duplication Rune due to it also giving tax reduction. You will need to grind quite heavily to get researches that are a must have, and you don’t need to increase the rune max levels since you don’t have very high level runes yet, and spending the obt later will get you more offerings than the small discounts here will.

At e500 particles and runes 285/220/120/200 I was able to finish C6x17 and C7x12. Note that C6 and C7 completions retroactively increase your rune levels, so keep chipping away at them as you grind out the offerings for C8.

e600 particles should get you c7x13 (multiplier/accelerator--) with rune levels 350/260/175/235.

Get to e750 particles, level 350/300 dupe/thrift, and see how close you get. There’s not much to say here; it’s just a long grind.

Cost++: needs a little below e800, with cheapest route is believed to be around

412/330/165/230 to 435/350/175/250.

e785 particles (however i had around e788 worth), with rune levels 402/306/188/284 - usavictor

Do challenge 8 for the massively important new research as soon as you think you can. Congrats, you finally made it over the wall, but there’s somewhat more to go.

Expanded research (pre-anthill patch)

(OUTDATED) Pre anthill route (Written 2020-06-07)
This was written pre-anthill. You may wish to deviate from this guide to gain particles early, particularly to begin using anthill. With the new V1.0101 update however, you are probably going to have to deviate from this guide anyway. With these new researches however, you’re going to need some help.

. This is based off a modified version of a pin in the #rune-5-to-new-frontiers-and-students discord channel.
===1x16 -> 2x17 -> 50SI + 3x20 -> 1x17 (start buying 420-440 dupe) -> 400-420 thrift and 420-440 dupe -> c8x3 (around c6x22) -> 2x18 -> 100SI + 2x16 -> 5x19 -> 2x20 -> 4x20 -> 4x16 -> 4x17 -> 250SI + 2x19 -> 1x18 -> 3x18 -> 3x16 -> 1x19 -> 1x20 -> 3x17 -> 4x18 -> 4x19 -> 3x19 -> 5x16 -> 5x17 -> 5x18 -> 5x20=== 1x16 will get you extra obt, and is (relative to everything else here) cheap and quick. It’s not worth going for anything else in the last 5 columns till after you’ve maxed it. Get yourself a clear of c8x1 (see previous section, e300 particles) as a priority to unlock 2x17. Anthill also will unlock from this.

2x17 will unlock a new rune (Superior Intellect or SI) which will help with obt generation, extend the offering timer (so you can do longer transcensions for more offerings/second), and give an ant speed multiplier. It’s recommended you save for this straight after 1x16.

Now upgrade this, to around level 50. Any surplus offerings can be started putting ingood as buying 1% more levels costs more to duplication (“dupe”) rune. Buying 3x20 is  thabn 1% of the total you’ve already paid, and most methods of extra EXP per offering aren’t retroactive on spent offerings. It will also apply to the SI rune you have, buffing both the offering timer and obt gain as well as all your other runes. Be sure to regularly update your transcend timer to optimal (see runes).

Buying 1x17 Allows you to save a lot of offerings when pumping up thrift. You should already have 200 thrift to max recycle percentage, but you’re gonna want a lot more. Use your offerings to get to 420-440 duplication rune whilst buying 1x17, and then buy to 400-420 thrift. Keep doing challenges, typically after between c6x22-4 you can do c8x3. c8x3 gives 7.5% recycle chance. This is a massive offering buff, as you go from just over x3 offerings to x4 offerings from recycling, it’s nearly equivalent to +33% offerings. About the same time you can finish challenge  6, for +11% obt.

(originally this guide said c6x25->c8x3 to instantly complete c8x3, but there are consistent reports of c8x3 being easier and earlier)

Your SI rune is a great multiplier to obt gain and helps offering gain, so buy up 2x18. Once you have, keep on upping your SI rune to level 100 whilst doing the next step(s). Be sure to update your transcend timer to optimal (see runes). You can start saving offerings now to dump into your SI rune once you’ve done around a week’s worth of research, or you can spend them. However, a week is also the estimated time till the release of patch 1.010 as of the time of writing (2020-06-07), so preparing for this patch may also  be a good idea.

2x16 is slow and painful to start, but it scales up to +100% so picks up toward the end, and you should now be able to start buying it.

5x19 gets you more quarks. They can either be used for long term upgrades or one off potions, but either way are a nice boost. (Quark meta is 7x7xxx at time of writing)

2x20 extends your offering timer. You make offerings faster the longer the run until you hit the cap. Increasing the cap means you make more offerings. Just be sure to update transcend timer to optimal (see runes)

4x20  increases the base offerings, which then get modified by other things. It’s a nice buff to offering prod

4x16 and then 4x17 buff rune XP. If you have the time before the next patch, you can buy them out then dump a ton of offerings into SI. You’ll probably manage around 250 if you saved since getting S to 100 and if you’re been leaving the game open for maximal offering gains.

2x19 will be the last real buff to obt or offerings until anthill or 5x20 (which I would not expect to be legitimately got pre-antihill). It will take as much as 4x16 and 4x17 did, but you should have faster obt gain now, so it should be quicker.

1x18-20 are dirt cheap for you now, 5x16-18 will do stuff in the next patch.5x20 is prohibitively expensive. If you’re here you probably don’t need this guide any more.

1x18 It’s cheap, and sinking a few points into it will let you gain some %ob with offerings (0.05% per rune level)

3x18 then 3x16 (3x18 is better, apparently)

1x19  1x20 It’s cheap, and sinking a few points into it will let you gain some %ob with offerings (0.05% per rune level)

3x17 is cheap

4x18 accelerators are still better

4x19 You’re scraping the barrel

3x19 You really don’t need this guide now

-> 5x16 -> 5x17 -> 5x18 -> 5x20 You’re probably not legit or on the patch this guide was written for if you’ve finished 5x20. Hopefully someone will start on the anthill version of this guide if 1.010 has dropped. Maybe you?

'''V1.0101: Hey, the runes are easier to upgrade now. Might as well focus on Thrift and Speed, then Prism and Duplication, although Thrift and Duplication are still the most important. 1x16 is definitely a must have to max out now and no longer takes an eternity. 2x16 is actually ok too.'''

Recommendation for C8x3:

Should do C6x22/23 first then C8x2 then focus on C6x25 which takes around 10-20 mins with this rune setup:

500/475/200/425

After that C8x3 should be a breeze.If you are still having difficulty you can try the no autobuyer trick.

NOTE: With 500/450/200/425 you can beat c8x3 but not c6x25 (though once you beat c8x3 c6x25 is also beatable). There’s no reason to do c6x25 first.

Anthill

...and the restaurant at the end of the universe

Hey, wait, this isn’t research! However, you are researching stuff about these sacred ants, so it’s probably about time we’d talk about this now.

First, you need e800 particles, as in the first ant literally costing e800 particles. You should probably already have it, if not, it will probably take you a couple days (you should have enough when you beat Cost++).

So you have them? Now you can start generating crumbs. It’s still an idle game though, just another one you have to manage. Your very first ant produces quite a small amount of crumbs, but don’t worry, they last through reincarnations. These crumbs give a coin multiplier and can buy some other types of formicidae (ants). You’re going to have to check them often in order to make those ants efficient.

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Research progression, for the x16-x20 block

1x16 -> 2x17 -> (50 SI) + 3x20 -> 26ko/250 (526 Speed)1x18 ->  + 1x17 -> (410-420 thrift & 450-460 dupe, c6x23/c8x3) + 2x18 -> (100 SI) + 2x16 -> 5x19 -> 2x20 -> 4x20 -> 4x16 -> (150 SI) + 4x17 -> (250 SI and 526 thrift) + 2x19 -> 1x18 -> (631 Speed) + 3x18 -> 3x16 -> 1x20 -> (526 dupe) + 1x19 -> (526 Prism) + 3x17 -> 5x17 -> 4x18 -> 5x16 -> 5x18 -> 4x19 -> 3x19

(This order doesn’t change post-1.0101. It just gets faster)

5x10 can be purchased whenever you exceed e1900 particles, and you shouldn’t buy it before then, as it will be useless. The first upgrade of the bunch costs e1900 particles, which boosts all ant tier production by 5x.

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Ant purchase priorities

1st ant of the highest tier > Inceptus (left) upgrade > other upgrades > additional ants of the highest tier > lower tier ants**23*5* - lower tier ants are only worth purchasing after the e2500 particle upgrade and 5x16 research

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Eventually, once you hit e40 galactic crumbs, you can sacrifice your ants to make them stronger. This requires time and some upgrades to make it more effective. You should at least try to double your multiplier every sacrifice, or even more. As ant sacrifice becomes more powerful, so does your Ant ELO.

You get 1.5 - 2 Multiplier before sacrificing for the first time

Achievements are at 2x/6x/20x/100x/500x/6,666x/77,777x multiplier. They grant the ability to autobuy specific ants and increase Ant ELO. Ant ELO will scale at some point to be “effective” based on the amount of ELO you have after 3,500 ELO.:

““Effective ELO” will now display if ELO > 3500 and is calculated as such:

100% of first 3,500 ELO +

50% of next 500 ELO +

40% of next 2,000 ELO +

30% of next 4,000 ELO +

20% of additional ELO” - v1.0101 doc

The next goal is to beat the No-Runes challenge once. This unlocks a new feature: Talismans and you get another global diamond upgrade. No-Runes completion is possible at around e72 to e80 galactic crumbs, or about a 500x ant multiplier. Since that is a lot, you might be here for some time, but not for too long. You can get 3x19 if you want to boost yourself in the challenge. It only costs 20 billion obtainium.

Post No-Runes (Talismans)

(WIP)

So you’ve completed No-Runes once. You thought the researches were over.

No. They weren’t over. It only gets deeper from here.

In fact, they’re way more expensive. 5x20 is way too expensive for now. Ignore it and start completing whatever is left of the last 20 new, and then fill out the 10 new ones.

1x21->1x22->1x23->2x23->1x25->1x24->2x21->2x24->2x22->2x25->5x20 is what's pinned on Discord25*

You also unlock a new feature called Talismans! They give you added rune levels for three runes of your choice, at the expense of losing rune levels for two other runes. Ant Sacrifice will now give resources used to level up/enhance these talismans based on your Ant ELO.

How they work:

Fortify - Levels up the talisman. You need the resources in order to perform a Fortify.

Enhance - Increases the level cap of the talisman by 30, up to level 180. Enhancing requires more resources than Fortifying.

Respec - Changes what the talisman buffs or nerfs at the expense of 100,000 Offerings.

Talisman Types:

Exemption: -10% Tax + [Runes]

Chronos: +10% Multiplier Boosts + [Runes]

Mortuus: +2 ant levels + [Runes]

Plastic: Gain 1x normal production + [Runes]

When you start out on Talismans, you should respec them to 2/4/5, or Dupe/Thrift/SI. Doing so will nerf the speed and prism runes, but the buffs to Dupe, Thrift, and SI outweighs the penalties you’re receiving.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Runes+Talismans:

There are 4 currently achievable talismans and 3 unachievable ones

Enhance +30 Fortify lvl

30: +9 / -6

60: +36 / -24

90: +94.5 / -54

120: +156 / -96

150: +232.5 / -150

180: +324 / -216 (+342 / -180)

Exemption mythic: +125 Dupe rune lvl

Chronos mythic: +125 Speed rune lvl

Mortuus mythic: Gain ant speed based on your total rune level

Plastic mythic: +2 Quarks per hour on Export

Unachievable ones:

Metaphysic mythic: +125 Thrift rune lvl

Midas mythic: +125 Prism rune lvl

Polymath mythic: +125 SI rune lvl

Blessings [WIP]

(WIP)

Blessings are additional Rune effects that unlock when Rune’s level reaches a certain milestone.

Divine Blessings

Speed: 1250+ (In-Game timers speed x (Level - 750) a)  (need verification) (verified)

Dupe: 1500+ (Multiplier Boost Effect x #)

Prism: 1000+ (Ant Sacrifice Multiplier x #)

Thrift: 1500+  (Accelerator Boost Cost Delay x #)

SI: 1000+ (Ant Speed Mult. x #, Based on Obtainium) (held obtainium, also extra levels in rune contribute a large portion of bonus)

Potential rebalance after reaching Blessings?

Dupe/Thrift/SI to Speed/Prism/SI?

'''V1.0101: The rebalancing affected a lot of research costs here to compensate for the early reincarnation balancing. Keep this in mind. You will have to rely more on your SI rune.'''

C9-C10 - S A D I S T I C (placeholder)

I don’t know what it is yet. But feel free to put stuff in. - usavictor

Well, it’s bad easy sad.

Beating No-Runes unlocks Sadistic Challenge I. This sounds simple when you look at it, but you are probably not prepared for what else is about to come.

Getting tired of research yet? Maybe this obtainium thing is getting a bit overboard… There’s still more, as usual.

Research (what’s pinned in discord):

 * 3x21 -> ~850-900 Speed
 * 4x21
 * 50/100 3x25 -> 750 SI
 * 3x23 (Can be skipped and done after getting 5x24) -> ~800-850 Prism
 * 5x24
 * 4x22
 * 100/100 3x25 (Can go less than that if you prefer, though you do lose the +% exp) -> As much SI as you can (~780-800)
 * 5x21
 * 3x22 -> ~800-850 Dupe (can be done after 5x22 if you prefer)
 * 3x24 -> ~800-850 Thrift (can be done after 5x22 if you prefer)
 * 5x22
 * save ~2e20 obt
 * 4x23
 * 5x23
 * 4x24
 * 4x25
 * 5x25

Talisman respecs that can be useful:

2/4/5 - early stage of build up before c10

1/3/5 and 1/2/4 for later stages and quick boost

Ascension
This is to go even further beyond

Disclaimer: Beyond this point, many things not related to research will be here. This is important, obviously because it is the path you should take with your cube upgrades.

Ascension is not for the faint of heart, it has the nearly the same depth as everything else in the game combined, and the first few will take multiple days.

Don’t worry about corruptions until you did at least c11x2, they are gonna slow down your cube/s gain for a minor increase on tesseracts/s.

C10 - C11
“CUBE SPENDING GUIDE

1x1 -> 1k cube tributes (refers to total not each) -> 1x3 -> 10k cube tributes -> 2x2 -> 20k cube tributes -> c11

It's alright to buy automation depending on your playstyle but keep in mind it will slow you down on your journey to c11 (except for 1x7 buy that shit A2).

Do not buy a second dot, save up to buy a vector instead.

C11 should take 3-5 hours and you will need to reach red talismans” -Xander374

C11 - C12
“I did c11, what now?

You want more cubes, keep ascending and spend some more in tributes, i'd recommend around 30-50k.

After that you want to get more upgrades.

Finish row #1 except w1x10.

In row #2 you want to get w2x1-3, w2x7-10.

Now open more cubes until you have 80k+ cube tributes and go for c11x2. The more cube tributes you have, the faster you do it.

When do I get auto ascensions?

After c11x2 you can easily set up a long run and get the obtanium to buy r6x25 which allows you to do Challenges on autopilot.

You also want to buy the w1x10 update now that does auto ascend whenever you hit the goal you set in the corruptions tab.

If you have both, let the numbers in auto challenge 1/1/1 and set Auto Reincarnation to 5sec ingame time. Aim to get w3x8 now, to speed up the progress, so you don’t need to set auto Reincarnation. You also should be able to set auto challenge to 0/0.55/0 with it. Have fun

'''What about Corruptions? What do they do?'''

Corruptions basically buffs your cube and tesseract gain, but make the ascension harder. If you activate some they’re gonna increase your Ascension score and at like 100k score you get 3 instead of 1 tesseract.

But don’t worry about corruptions until you did at least c11x2, they are gonna slow down your cube/s gain for a minor increase on tesseracts/s.

After c11x2 and w3x8 you can slowly think about it.

Do I open Tesseracts ?

Hell no, you want to get at least a Bent Time if not a Hilbert Space before opening Tesseracts.” -Akoriya

"Challenge 12 Requirements:

C11x5

3.5M Rune blessings (Each)

10M Cube tributes (Total)

2K Tesseract Gifts (Total)

1 Hilbert Space" -Popington (Work towards before the Tesseract gifts)

"BASE CORRUPTION PROGRESS

tesseracts and every once in a while push

It's 6 and 8 for starters (1 or 2 levels each)

Which is 0/0/0/0/0/1-2/0/1-2/0.

5,7,9 are next

( 0/0/0/0/0-2/3-4/0-2/3-4/0-2.)

Don't even try 1 or 2 until you understand what you are doing.

WHEN SHOULD I INCREASE THEM

Try and raise them every so often. If things go bad, revert them to previous levels.

Everytime you upgrade your corruptions, try changing your auto challenge timers a bit, either down or up. Sometimes a couple tenths of a second up will make your cubes/sec higher.

I'll upgrade this pin as I go along" -Chronos Phaenon

C12 - C13
"Strategy for this channel: Run c12 until it takes a while, then push c11s, then try c12s again, rinse and repeat. Do a long run occasionally to push tributes and nab red researches." -tree

Get cube upgrade 5x8 before trying c13.(don't do this, way too expensive and you don't need it at all - lethal)

Corruption Guide

"Go inside clean. Every challenge you do here raise taxes, so be careful. You only need to do enough c6 at first to get some initial particle buildup. Once you can start producing ants, stop doing c6 too, do a single c9. after that, do only c10. c12 to c13 takes a few hours if approached correctly." - lethal.

(C13 trick: TURN OFF AUTO CHALLENGE. Do some c6, ONE c9, then do c10. Also - escalate the tax in c13 once... secret achievement)

C13 - C14
“HYPERCUBE farming basic guide

(I'm going to tell you what to do! If you don't like that, don't read. It's a lot of fun to figure this out on your own)

requirement: w5x8

overview: All our money will come from ants, we sac everything that doesn't help with c10.

hard corruptions: money, ants and challenge req - these all very directly influence your c10 strength, only put 1 point in them for start.

breakpoint corruptions: time and offering - these help your ants and have really harsh penalties after level 4, but level 4 should be safe and you can try going higher as you get stronger, likely you will not be able to raise these until well after platonic cubes.

easy corruptions: diamonds, accelerators, multipliers, obtainium (the least useless of the 4, put a bit less) - these don't really help, push them to 10.

general notes: Every corruption gives ant penalty, so you can't just recklessly max even the useless ones. You probably can't just do all these corruptions, so do the raises somewhat equally. Like set everything to 70% of what's here and gradually increase. The higher a corruption already is, the less score multi one more point gives so don't just go 10 dia and 4 multi, do 7-7 instead.

challenge sweep: 0/0.25/0 - wanna go fast but faster is unreliable I find” -Dankaati

To get max of daily (100 not 25):

openCube(1e9)

openTesseract(0)

openHypercube(1e5)

(this also gets you full quarks from tesseracts assuming you have r8x8)

“What do I need for C14?

this is just what I had, no hard requirements. I don't recommend anything less than this tho since I already had to grind for some stuff lol

10b each blessing, 10k each spirit, c11x10, c12x10, c13x11, all the perm researches that matter (looking at c10 tomes and blessing boost), 2b cube tributes, 1m tess gifts, 10k hypercube benedictions, cube upgrades everything row 1-4 + w5x1, w5x5, w5x8, e27 constant” -mago

POST C14
After completing C14x1, periodically try to get the next reward for C15 exponent, turning on auto reincarnate at 0 seconds and leaving it for a short while will greatly increase your achievable score as you are guaranteed at least 1 obtainium for each reincarnation. After this do some manuel reincarnations and trancensions for particles and mythos shards, as the max corruptions in C15 effect means that there is a huge time divider from corruption 3, and the 1% gain per second particle/mythos shard gain is so slow that you will be waiting for years to get what you could get if you manually reincarnate/transcend. Once you aren't getting many gains/run out of patience, then set auto prestige on 0 seconds to do effectively the same thing you did with the obtainium..

Continue to increase corruptions, following the guide below

Original Guide Compiled by Sandy#1635:(Edited/updated by DestroyerTBug)

So you completed C14 now what?
Please note a lot has changed since this was written once new strats arise please let me know.


 * No Auto Ascend! It is not useful now!
 * After your first c14 completion do as many challenges of c11 through c14 as you can following these likely stopping points


 * 17/17/17/17
 * 30/30/17/17
 * 30/30/17/30


 * Remember to no longer open tesseracts, these are reserved for buildings


 * When buying tesseract buildings, only buy the cheapest first to benefit from 2nd tesseract upgrade


 * Respec your Quark shop


 * No ants speed it is no longer effective, same with c10 reduction
 * Auto Challenge, Research & Offering at least 1 level always ***
 * Reincarnation Challenge Cap Increase MAX ***
 * Wow! Cubes Season Pass ~5**
 * Auto Obtainium and Offering
 * EX Offering 10
 * EX Obtainium 10
 * EX Offering Max
 * EX Obtainium Max
 * 1 Level Cash Grab *
 * Get Quark boosts when you can afford the needed Upgrades after getting the upgrade
 * Finally after maxing all other upgrades --  Cash Grab 2-9 > C10 Reduce > Ant Speed
 * Please note after respeccing your shop you will need to toggle auto research and runes back on


 * Check the other pins for various scripts that help with optimization and QoL
 * Continue to optimize corruptions as outlined later in the guide

Corruption
For cube runs, corruptions have changed a lot due to the linear achievement bonus from 100 ascensions you now want to do longer runs with more challenge completions

The major goals are getting c10x60, followed by researches 8x14 and 8x19, 8x22

Finding your optimal corruptions will take some trial-and-error, eventually, you will get  a feel for it


 * Starting corruption run 0/0/4/1/0/4/11/5/11 (before corruption 12 was added it was 0/0/4/1/0/4/11/5/11, and that may still be more efficent, testing is needed)
 * (I have found that 0/0/4/2/0/4/11/5/12 is more efficient for me personally but more testing is needed to determine if that is the case for everyone)
 * After completing 30/30 c11, start doing your corruption runs in c11 to increase cube/s, the increase is due to the effect of research 7x15
 * After changing to C11 runs you may need to adjust corruptions to be able to complete c10x60 but it is worth it

What if I can’t make it to c10x60 with the base corruptions?

Get as many c10 completions as you can, keep in mind your run might take a long time give it ~1hr. Continue opening cubes until you can make it through c10x60.

How do I increase my corruption settings?
Divisiveness & Maladaption

Always increase these together and by 1 each, this should be done after being able to clear c10x60 with Hyperchallenged at 9-12. Please note: when raising these you will need to lower Hyperchallenged to around 3 or 4 to make getting c10x60 possible, this will still be worth it for more cube/s.

Spacial Dilation

Raising this can be hard, try raising and check if it will be possible to get r8x22 if not lower it back down until you can.

Hyperchallenged

Any time it becomes very easy for you to complete c10x60 with your current setup.

Scientific Illiteracy

Try raising this when it is very easy for you to reach r8x22, if after raising by 1 you can not get r8x22 in a reasonable time change back. Your 1st level in this should likely come before adding 1 to Divisiveness & Maladaption

Market Deflation

Do not raise this past 4, unless you have Platonic Upgrade C6 Unlocked (If you don't know what Platonic Upgrades are, just ignore this for now, and never raise market deflation past 4. Come back once you unlock it).

If you have Platonic Upgrade C6, you should raise Market Deflation to the max (currently 13, may change with future updates). It takes a little more work but you can greatly increase your score and thereby cube earnings.


 * 1) Sacrifice your anthill a few times to get some researches.
 * 2) After letting Auto Challenge Sweep run through every challenge once, turn it off. It is normal that C10 still has 0 completions.
 * 3) Manually reincarnate a few times. You don't need to wait at all between them, just spam click the [R] button in the top right.
 * 4) After you have earned a bunch of gems from reincarnating, start a challenge. The challenge should get a bunch of completions in the first second, and then completely stop progress. This should work on every challenge except C2, not sure why it doesn't work for that one.
 * 5) Repeat steps 3-4 while running through every challenge repeatedly until you no longer make any progress.

Drought

There are varying directions on this, but a decent rule of thumb is to check your SI rune level and if you can get to 2500 you should be fine with that drought level, increase if you get a ton more than that, should very early be able to do 8 and stay there

Do this to increase your Constant & Blessings/Spirits

 * Loadout - 12/12/0/12/0/12/0/0/12 (was 11/11/0/11/0/11/0/0/11 before corruption 12 was added, untested as to which is more efficient. )
 * Everything is generally more efficient at 12 EXCEPT extinction as level 12 ends all ant production, making it extremely difficult to progress

The Run:

Do some initial ant sacrifices in order to get research, rune levels, and talisman levels

 * Note: you will need to purchase fragments as you can not complete challenge 9 until you have higher amounts of cube tributes and blessings/spirits
 * Do initial challenges
 * Turn off auto Ant Sacrifice and Auto Runes
 * Wait for about an hour
 * Cleanse Corruptions
 * Do challenges
 * Manual Ant Sacrifice
 * Buy Spirits and Blessings with all your offerings

Obtanium Run:


 * Do this to help push for r8x25 levels, start around 30T total Tributes/Boons/ Cube Blessings opened
 * (0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/12)

Depending on your situation, the obtanium run can actually be more efficient at increasing constant, blessings and spirits than the offering run. Its worth trying both, to see which one works best for you.

FAQ, Helpful Hints & Links
How do I know my total cubes opened?

format(Object.values(player.cubeBlessings).reduce((x, y) => x + y, 0))  in browser console

Plutus * 10, this is also listed on the cube screen

When do I buy w5x10?

If you are using the optimizer, run the command in your browser console, or around e14 or e15 total opened you can start buying not really set in stone though

Talismans

Default to 1,2&5 - 1, 2&4 can still help if you're pushing c10 with difficult corruptions. It will push further than 1,2&5, this is because Thrift caps at -99% tax, if you are not reaching this with 125 you should still use 245

Pushing C13?

Up to c13x17 you really don’t have to do anything other than open c13, buy fragments to level talismans, level runes and then run c10. After c13x17 the strategy remains mostly the same but adding corruptions and then cleansing will make it faster, however, you need a lot of stats to complete. 13x18 - ~20k w5x10, 13x19 ~45k w5x10, with a good balance of cubes opened, spirits, and blessings.

How do I open a specific amount of cubes?

Right click in the game window, then press inspect, navigate to the console tab, and input openCube(#of cubes to open), openHypercube(x), or etc.

Platonic Cubes
Originally written by DestroyerTBug

I was able to get first plantonic cubes at 1.25e14 total cube tributes, 1.4M total hypercube benedictions, 2k 5x10, 100,000/100,000 8x25, 2T spirit each, 4e19 blessing each, with 2/2/4/6/2/4/11/9/11 corruptions, took around 6 minutes, so probably possible with less. When platonic cubes are unlocked, they can mostly be ignored for a while, as they dont give enough of a benefit to try to optimize runs towards them. Continue optimizing runs to get maximal cubes per second, and open all platonic cubes. After getting platonic cubes, you should eventually fall into a sort of pattern, 1 long run(for most of a day, say 20 hours), a short(5min) no challenge/corruption run to get full research 8x23 for opening half the cubes using method listed above(other half goes into cube upgrade 5x10), then a 1-1.5 hour offering run as described above, then a few half hour test runs to see if it is profitable to raise corruptions, and repeat. Every couple cycles you should try to see if you can get more rewards from C15(seen in plantonic cube upgrade subtab). Note that because of researches 6x4, 6x19 7x9, 7x24, and 8x14, you can get a minor boost by buying extra fragments of everything even after maxing all talisman levels.

Once you reach around 2e16 cube tributes total, with the equivalent amount you should be able to get in other cube types/spirit/blessings, turn off auto buy for tesseract buildings and start to save them, as well a platonic cubes. After a long run, then buy as many platonic 1x2 upgrades as is possible as possible(likely just 1-2 for a while), then buy as many platonic 1x1 upgrades as possible, you will only get minor gains at this point for buying tesseract buildings because they are now so expensive, and opening tesseracts is much less efficient for getting gifts than opening hypercubes, so just save them for p1x2. After you have bought the upgrades, then do a short no corruption run to open half of the cubes and use other half for cube upgrade 5x10. Remember to only open hypercubes and normal cubes, and to do so after buying the platonic upgrades.

Appreciate what Destroyer wrote here, but the last paragraph is completely wrong. Don't waste platonic cubes and basic cubes at all before maxing w5x10. you waste valuable time by buying those. The w5x10 achievement, which gives you 2x obtainium and offerings, along with 10% bonus to ALL cubes, is also a great boost to delay. Worry about getting it first when you are at 3e16 cubes, focus on platonic upgrades later on. - lethal