YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ THIS PART OF THE GUIDE, IT DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY GAMEPLAY INFORMATION

this is an incredibly in depth guide on a game about blowing leaves. if you teach a caveman english and put him infront of the computer with my guide, he will probably bash it anyways but you get the point. no, i don't have anything better to do. no, i am not being held at gunpoint by the leaf overlords. enjoy if you really want to read this several thousand word long magnum opus of leaves.

before you continue any further, just know that this game, and i do not say this with any crumb of jokingness, WILL take you years. if the steam achievements updated to go all the way to endgame, then over half of them would read 0.0% achieved because the dev updates the game faster than players can get there with some dark magic beyond human comprehension. if you don't believe me, then here is my understanding of the progression, understanding each of these steps can take anywhere from an hour to a WEEK. basic leaves - golden leaves - prestige - platinum leaves - void leaves - flasks - strange flasks - exotic leaves - BLC - celestial leaves - mythical leaves - printer printer - trading - lava leaves - ice leaves - artifacts - obsidian leaves (took 6k words of the guide to get here) - silicon leaves - benitote leaves - cheese pub - leaf tower - coins - equipment - floor 100 - MLC - moonstone leaves - crafting again - sand leaves - pyramid - ancient leaves - floor -100 - alchemy - shards - leaf hole - next galaxy - biotite and hematite leaves - centaur - sacred leaves - relics - leafscension - air elemental... i forget what happens next, this is where i got up to, there are like 15 bosses last time i checked the wiki like 4 updates ago and i could only beat like 4 bosses before i got so stuck i restarted to make this guide. this also means that i will be making this guide literally forever, which is cool i guess. oh yeah, i am going to be the only person to ever make a guide that goes past ancient leaves when i get there, and yes i checked all the guides.

Ok. you just bought the game. you can move your mouse around to 'blow' the leaves away. every leaf you blow away gives you a leaf. you can spend these leaves.

so what you want to spend these leaves on is trees. you want to get them until it is taking a while to get more upgrades. then you want to either: save up for leaf marketing, or buy a rake. if you buy a rake, then get leaf marketing, and vice versa. leaf marketing gives you 2 leaves per leaf, and the rake helps you blow from further away.

now you should get some fertilizer, and maybe an Automatic Leaf Blower (ALB for short). fertilizer means faster leaves, and ALB's mean that you no longer have to play to blow leaves. at this stage, ALBs are nowhere near as effective as playing actively though. don't forget to get more tree upgrades.

you should probably be getting enough leaves to get your second leaf marketing, and also a better rake, or even a leaf blower.

around now you should be saving up for golden leaves. it might not seem worth it, but these leaves are really good.

Now that you have golden leaves, what you want to do immediately is buy golden fertiliser. this really helps get more golden leaves, because they spawn really slowly to start. just keep getting fertiliser until you are getting dozens of gold leaves fairly quickly. don't forget to buy more normal leaf upgrades.

this might sound obvious, but if you didn't know you can scroll down on the golden leaf section. if you do so you will see golden fruit and leaf combos. don't forget to buy golden fruit as soon as you can, as they are a great way to get lots of golden leaves, which will help you with the next step.

Now, you save up for leaf combos. 500 gold leaves is a lot, but it is worth it. once you have unlocked leaf combos, you will notice a combo counter at the top of the screen. blow leaves off the screen to increase the combo, and the higher the combo, the more leaves you get. you can upgrade combos later. now you should buy the leaf portal.

don't prestige instantly, even if the game says 20+ coins recommended. because you can get a lot more than 20 with your leaf combos. just blow a lot of leaves, buy upgrades, repeat, until you get around the hundreds of coins. the amount of coins you get doesn't go down if you buy something, so don't be afraid to buy more upgrades. remember to buy the better leaf blower for 500 gold leaves.

Now you should have a lot more coins than you should have, if you followed the last section. the first thing you want to buy with your coins is 'unlock areas'. this will mean that you can travel to the neighbours garden, which has enemies and can spawn platinum leaves.

After the initial spending, you should still have a majority of your coins. scroll down until you see 'more leaves' and 'more gold leaves'. try to buy an even amount of these upgrades, while still keeping at least 10 coins leftover. be careful, as their cost quadruples each upgrade.

Now just speed through basic leaves as you get either triple or quadruple the normal amount. when you buy leaf marketing, you will find that you get 6 or 8 basic leaves, instead of 4 or 5. yep, the coin upgrades from earlier were multipliers.

when you buy golden leaves again, do the same as last time, and buy fertiliser, combos, and fruit. your combos will multiply with the other multipliers, meaning that you can get around 10 golden leaves every single one.

Now you start upgrading combos. get the max combo and combo multiplier first, then get combo duration. then get a second max combo upgrade. you should be getting 4x combo a lot of the time. now buy one of the leaf blowers with golden leaves, and buy some ALBs. they shouldn't be too expensive, and now combos are possible to get while afk.

You can probably afford platinum leaves now. they are a huge boost to ALBs. but you need to go to the neighbours garden in the areas tab. enemies will start spawning, blow leaves at them to get rewards. in the coins tab, buy the more platinum leaves upgrade a few times. do a similar process to golden leaves, where you buy the fertiliser, then the fruit, but this time there isn't any combo upgrades, there is ALB upgrades.


buy some of those, while also spending your other leaves. if you look at the leaf portal now, it would be around the thousands. but you should have at least 10 coins left, which you can use to buy the mountain in the areas shop, which has, you guessed it, another leaf type.

Now that you have unlocked the mountain, buy 'more bismuth leaves', get fertiliser, you get the point. these also give bonuses to ALBs, including an attacking function. now it is probably time for your next prestige, after blowing some leaves around to maximize coins of course, go for around 1,500.

spend your coins similarly to before, while getting some fruit upgrades all the way at the bottom, but remember to keep around 1000. with these you will buy printers, and unlock space. you will still have some left over, which you can spend on printers, in the newly acquired printers tab. buy 1 or 2 for golden-bismuth. now you should be back to where you were, so you can buy the 'large paint roller' for 500 bismuth leaves.

after buying some bismuth marketing, you could buy cosmic leaves after a while. do so. same deal as all the other leaves, buy fertiliser, buy fruit, buy marketing. after blowing leaves for a while, and after buying combo upgrades on the golden leaves, you unfortunately (unless you have 4k coins spare) have to prestige again. if you havenent'tnt' (i give up) already, in the supporter shop, there is a 'fan gift' at the bottom which is free and gives you 100 gems. this combined with achievements giving 1 each should be enough to buy the 3x prestige gem upgrade, which can really help with this step. AFKing also helps a great deal as your ALBs should be fairly effective by now. don't spend any of your coins just yet. you should be going by pretty quick at this point, and now unlock 'the void'. then unlock converters, and then upgrade converters.

this should be getting pretty repetitive, but there is something new very soon. unlock void leaves, go to the void, and this time you will find that in place of a new leaf, there is flasks. when you can unlock flasks, unlock them, and go into the converters tab.

all you need to do in here is click on the start button next to the red flask converter. now you will start losing void leaves, and start gaining red flasks. it is important to note that you should be getting void leaves faster than you are losing them, so buy void marketing and/or combos until you are getting more void leaves than you are losing.

Flasks are kind of annoying, but you can make it through. go to the red flask tab, and buy all of the upgrades, but focus on the increase converter output one. after a while, you can buy green flasks.

now start the green flask converter, and buy the top upgrade as much as you can. (not the unlock blue flask one) this is because you will almost certainly be losing red flasks. if you aren't, that is great, but still buy the upgrade. now repeat the same process as red flasks, but you will notice that the increase converter output upgrade is much more expensive than red flasks. i don't really know why, but each flask has the converter output upgrade dramatically more expensive than before. Shovels are insanely useful to get thousands of flasks in seconds.

repeat the process for each flask until the strange flask. you will unlock the big leaf crunch (BLC), but don't do it just yet. You don't need to make more flasks than you are using, as that is really hard until later. now that you are at the strange flasks, you will notice that they take a LOT of black flasks. this is the time to get all of the reduce converter resources to max if you haven't already. even though the strange flasks take tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands to make, you still should start the converter.

buy the 'C++' upgrade with your first strange flasks, as it really helps with getting the other flasks to go higher than however many it takes to make the next one. it will also give you more strange flasks. feel free to afk for a while, because it will take a while for much to happen.

after you afk, you should have tens of thousands of strange flasks. unlock exotic leaves, and unlock the abyss. also spend the flasks on all the upgrades you see after you have unlocked the other things. now, after all this time, you have officially finished flasks.

Go to the abyss, and start blowing away exotic leaves. if you haven't already, you should probably buy the compressor because these leaves take a lot of blow power. these leaves are actually quite different to the others, but still start by getting fertiliser and the fruits. you will want to get marketing, as always, but start getting the BLC upgrades. ignore 'unlock celestial leaves' for now, those will come much later. as for the farming certificate, that can be useful, but for now it is a waste of exotic leaves. keep farming and buying upgrades until the big leaf crunch gives you a couple thousand BLC coins. but don't crunch (BLC prestige) yet, because there are BLC upgrades in the strange flask shop. no, not the 500m upgrade fortunately, just scroll down and buy BLC++. NOW you can crunch.

You are back at the start, but this time you don't have your prestige upgrades anymore. go into the BLC coins tab, and buy the following upgrades:

• Moar Gems
  
• More converter transistors (3)
  
• Master of leaves (8)
  
• What the combo (7)
  
• ALB tools
  
• Bigger bag (3)
  
• Fruit magnet
  
• Prestige+++++ (5)
  
• Increase Converter Output (4)

with your leftover BLC coins, spend them on more what the combos or master of leaves, it doesn't really matter. now you should be flying through the early game, but you do need to get back your prestige coins. buy all the usual upgrades, except now you should have way more coins and you won't need a second prestige. now you can make it back to flasks, and you will find that they are going much quicker. you can speedrun back to exotic leaves, but now you are kind of stuck.

unlocking celestial leaves will not help you, as you need the 1000000BLC area to collect them. Now is the time to afk for a long time. before you afk, you will want to get a lot of C++ from the strange flask shop, and the reduce converter resources and the increase converter count maxed out on all flasks. try to make more flasks than they are taking on all of your flasks except for black flasks. it also helps if you buy the farming certificate from exotic leaves, and buying as much seeds as you can.

After you afk, you will want to buy the BLC science upgrades on all the flasks you can, and the BLC exotic leaf upgrades. you should be getting enough BLC coins to the point that you think it would be possible to get 1.6 million BLC coins.

but you might be wondering, why would you need 1.6 million BLC coins if the celestial area only takes 1 million? well, i have discovered an insanely good way to get BLC coins. you need the Offline Crunches upgrade, which is really slow at first (0.1% of your highest BLC per minute) but you can upgrade it for 100k with the Offline BLC upgrade, which makes it 1.1%. that means that every 1hr 40min you get your best BLC, without resetting. go to sleep for 8-10 hours, and that is ~5-6 times your best BLC. the bad thing? you have to get the BLC coins first.

back to reality, you might want to spend more BLC before saving up for 1.6 million. i like to think of it as 2 ways to get BLC.

1: the active way
this way involves crunching, going all the way back to the point where you can crunch, making some optimisations to BLC coins, and repeat. this strategy is probably more effective than the other one, but it takes a lot more effort.

2: the afk way
this way involves getting all the upgrades to BLC production that you can, after afking, and then crunching. then you get to the point where you can crunch, get as much flask production as you can, and afk for several hours. this goes well with the strategy described in the 2nd paragraph of this section, as your best BLC will be very big. this is less effective than the other one, but it takes a lot less effort. if you afk for long enough and combine it with seeds, you can even get the whole 1.6m BLC at once. i prefer this one.

Okay, so you have the offline BLC upgrades. remember the farming certificate? this is where that comes in. seeds can let you get infinite leaves. great, right? yes, but there is a limit to leaves, which we heightened earlier with the 3 bigger bag upgrades.

seeds give you a 1% increase to the leaves that you already have. don't worry, you can upgrade it up to 100%. seeds act a bit like fruits. they randomly spawn with leaves, just like fruits, except seeds are a lot rarer. seeds are really expensive to buy and upgrade. for example, the basic leaf seed is 1b basic leaves, which isn't too bad, but the golden leaf seed is 8b golden leaves.

once you have unlocked some of the seeds (not necessarily all of them) you can afk for a while. while you are afk, you will get absurd amounts of leaves of the seeds you have gotten, and the seeds you haven't gotten you will have enough to unlock, except for the exotic leaves (probably).

these really help with all of the upgrades that don't have a limit, or a really high limit, like the combo multiplier or max combo from gold leaves. the exotic leaves upgrade moar BLC is much easier to get max with seeds, if you can afford the 1t seed unlock price.

if you are struggling with the 50m BLC for the mythical leaf area, then exotic leaf seeds can definitely carry you there with no problem because if you look in the converters again, there is an option to convert a comically large amount of exotic leaves to tens of thousands of celestial leaves every fraction of a second. this will make it very easy to get celestial leaf upgrades in general, including moar BLC if you can manage to get all of the exotic leaves, as well as the BLC upgrade in the exotic leaf shop itself.

you should now have the 2 upgrades mentioned in '1.6 million BLC' that help you get BLC coins offline. now you can close the game, sleep, and you probably have enough BLC for the celestial plane if you used the 2nd BLC method. otherwise it might be 24 hours. it is important to note that you cannot get offline BLC with the game open!!

now that you are in the celestial plane, you will realise that no celestial leaves are spawning. this is because the enemies dropping them are one of the only ways to get them. isn't it g r e a t ? as far as i know, celestial leaves are one of, if not the biggest road blocks in the game. but the guide isn't over yet.

first, buy 'more enemies, please' twice, then buy the celestial blower. buy worthy enemies a few times, and buy more enemies, please some more. buy celestial marketing twice, buy ALBs love seeds, and celestial fruit. now save up for celestial combos. celestial combos are kind of false advertising, they don't give the full combo to celestial leaves, but they do give some bonus.

now you afk until you can get mythical leaves. they cost 1m celestial leaves, which is a problem, and the area they come from takes 50m BLC coins, which is an even bigger problem. buy moar BLC from the celestial leaves shop as much as you can, and do the biggest BLC you can. if you will get under 10m then save up for the BLC science upgrades from the flasks and BLC++ from the strange flask until you do get 10m, then crunch. then close the game, wait around 8 hours, and you will have enough. tada! the greatness of the offline BLC strategy. you now have 50m+ BLC.

you might be thinking "wait, why does it say part 1 out of 4???", and to that i say, don't worry about it.

so you have gotten all the BLC, bought the area, and unlocked mythical leaves. Compared to celestial leaves, mythical leaves are way easier to get. in fact, they are the same as the normal leaves but better upgrades. buy some fertiliser, buy marketing, buy fruits. one of the best upgrades in the mythical shop is the printer printer. this is because printers can be insanely useful.

now do unlock trading in the BLC shop for a few hundred thousand BLC which you should hopefully have left over. now buy 1 or 2 max trade increase upgrades. whenever you can, do a trade, even if it is completely useless, because every trade completed gives you a currency called "cheese", which sounds stupid and is stupid, but will be necessary later. also unlock materials for 250k BLC, but you don't have to get any upgrades on these. the earlier you unlock materials, the more you have when they are useful later.

printers can be useful because you can have a max of 1000 without any upgrades. normally that would be impossible to reach, but the printer printer can do that in under 20 minutes. normally printers only print 1 per second, but with upgrades it can be in the hundreds of thousands. yes, it is true that celestial printers give 0.001x as much, but that is still hundreds of celestial leaves every printer. when taking into account the fact that you can get a thousand, that is a lot of celestial leaves. you can also upgrade the cap as mentioned before, so it could be 10000, or even 100000 printers. that is when you can get some serious leaves. with all the realistic upgrades at this stage taken into account, you will be getting 50m celestial leaves and mythical leaves per second. although, one of the most important factors in this printer situation is pets and unique leaves. pets you can unlock for 1m BLC and unlock each pet 2m BLC each, unique leaves are more complicated.

don't worry, this isn't the next type of leaf. these are secret things with a riddle attached. spend 20m BLC to unlock them, and as mentioned in the mythical leaf part 1 section, they are useful.

to unlock the ghost leaf, have 1d cosmic leaves and the blowfish 'tool' in space. a big leaf will spawn, which you can blow away to collect it. it gives 500% more BLC coins.

to get the glitter leaf, have 1D bismuth leaves in the mountain with a rake. this gives 300% more combo rewards.

to get the rainbow leaf, have 100k celestial leaves and the rocket engine in the celestial plane. this gives 50% more seed rewards. (if a seed is at level 1, this will make it give 51% leaves)

and the really important to printers one, the robot leaf, you can have by getting 1m exotic leaves, having the graphics card equipped, in the abyss. it gives 5000% to printer rewards, which is really good.

these aren't all the unique leaves, not even close, but it is the useful ones available at this stage.

so the printer printer upgrade is great and all, but how do we actually get there? it takes around 200 million mythical leaves, and it is hard to surpass even 1 million. well, you could close the game and wait for several weeks and get it from offline rewards, but that is obviously not ideal. this is going to be a challenge.

you should have all the unique leaves that were mentioned in the last section for this step, or just ghost leaf if you can't be bothered. first, get all the flask BLC upgrades you can, making sure the exotic one is maxed out thanks to seeds, and then you want to equip the ghost leaf and the foxo pet. these both give bonuses to BLC, so when you equip them, the BLC will go up around double.

if you haven't already bought the 3x BLC upgrade in the gem shop, then you should do that now with (hopefully enough) all the gems from achievements. if you do not have enough gems, then you have 2 options. 1. unlock 'trading' in the BLC shop, and then very slowly trade for gems. trading is a feature where you can trade leaves and flasks for other leaves and flasks but also other currencies, including rarely, gems. option 2, pay to win. this is obviously the worse option and only choose this if you spent all your gems and are really passionate about this game for some reason. anyways, if you just got the upgrade, now crunch for ~25m. if you already had the upgrade, you might have gotten ~20m in the 10m step which will suffice.

now we are going to need a lot of cheese. it technically isn't necessary now, but it will be in due time. if you traded for gems for the BLC upgrade or followed the step in mythical leaves part 1 about unlocking trading, you should have a reasonable amount of cheese because every trade gives you 1 cheese. if you havent unlocked trading, then get to it. cheese is used for many miscellaneous things unlocked between this stage and... im not going to spoil it but it gets way, wayyy more insane later in the game.

next you want to unlock crafting in the BLC shop, and use your cheese to craft some leaves for the miraculous chance that you get a leaf that either gives bonuses to mythical leaves. this probably won't pay off, but it is a nice way to pass the time. you might find a leaf that is good and doesn't boost mythical leaves, and that is great, but if you find a leaf that is bad, then you can salvage it for 2 cheese back. it is worth noting that certain types of leaves can have different properties, for example, a crafted gold leaf can give a boost to combo multiplier, while a basic leaf cannot. you should also buy some upgrades in the BLC shop, 2 of the craft forge one and 6 of the craft hammer one.

crafting is cool and all, but it isn't going to get us much at the moment. for that, we are going to need to focus on trading. and for that to get us lots of mythical leaves, it needs a boost. and to get that boost... (man i swear this used to be easier)

you are probably very confused looking at the title of this, and i agree there is probably a better way to do this, but this is probably the fastest way. make sure you have the cheesetor pet equipped, go into the "challenge" menu at the top, represented by a blue medal thingy, and select bingo (not bingo++). challenges bring you in to an alternate universe with none of your gear and upgrades, and you need to complete a task to complete the challenge and get a reward. in the bingo challenge, you have a bingo board by clicking on the guy in the center or the bingo menu at the top. you need to complete a row, column, or diagonal of these tasks like in bingo to escape. the problem with this is that the game doesn't care what stage you are at, and will throw tasks at you like "reach floor 13 of the leaf tower" while you still dont even know what that means. you just need to find a 5 in a row that is actually possible for you, and if there isn't one or the only 5 in a row would need mythical leaves or something, just leave the challenge and go back in. if i find a seed that always has a easy 5 in a row, i will put it here:

challenges also have some other weird behaviour that doesn't make much sense, and in this challenge that means you get 5 cheese every minute and every area takes 25 cheese for some reason. this also means that if you have a quest like "spend 4 minutes in leafsink harbor" you can just wait for an hour or so and have enough cheese to unlock 12 areas so you can hopefully just guess which one it is. unfortunately, some areas deal damage, which is another feature that you unlock after mythical leaves, and it means that you can't stay in there or you will explode and lose a bunch of leaves.

once you have completed the challenge, it should pop up with a menu something like "you have completed the challenge" and give you 10 medal thingies that aren't that useful. now you can click on the challenge menu again and exit. back in the real game, you now have a 4x multiplier to trades, and hopefully if you equipped cheesetor before entering the challenge, you should have hundreds of cheese and millions of BLC thanks to offline rewards. now you want to buy 1 trade education in the BLC shop as well as maxing out the max trades for a total of 92m BLC, which should be no problem for all your offline rewards.

now, with a boost to trading and more upgrades, you should be able to start trading for mythical leaves in hundreds of millions. equip penguino to make your trades go faster, and since you should have so much cheese, you can only accept the ones that give lots of mythical leaves and refresh until you see them as it is only 2 cheese. if you forgot to equip cheesetor, then... i guess you have to make do with what cheese you have or just wait the 2 minutes for it to naturally refresh. it is important to be careful that you aren't spending mythical leaves on a trade for mythical leaves, because that can happen for some reason. if you do this correctly, you should have 5 trades slowly going along that each give you around 100m mythical leaves. you might think that since the first printer printer upgrade costs 200m, maybe we wil have enough for a second upgrade with 500m, but for some reason it multiplies in cost by 8 every upgrade.

now that you have all these trades going, you can get more printer upgrades while waiting to prepare for the fabled p r i n t e r p r i n t e r upgrade we have been trying to get for so long, such as unlocking the robot leaf and rainbow leaf (unique leaves) if you haven't already. you should also get unlimited printer ink in the BLC shop, and prestiging for the first time in a long while because getting seeds VASTLY increases the coin gain for some reason, so you can get a lot more prestige upgrades including the printer ones. there isn't really any specific amount of prestige coins you should be aiming for, because it depends on how many bigger bag upgrades you have in the BLC shop, but try going for at least 100a. now that you have prestiged, make sure to buy the "crunchy coins" upgrade in the BLC shop to preserve the exorbitant amount of coins you have for the future. make sure to only spend around 0.2% of your coins on an upgrade as to not waste too many, which is your coins doubled, then 1 letter before. the letters go like this: nothing, k, m, b, t, a, A, c, C, d, D, and so on, skipping letters that had already been used such as k and m.

if you bought enough printer upgrades, then without robot leaf or deero pet, 1 mythical leaf printer should give you 5 or more leaves, with 8 being pretty good. also buy 1, or even 2 printer storage upgrades which aren't useful now, but it is something to do while waiting. it is important to note, while you are going back through the game after prestiging, that fertilizer affects the spawnrate of seeds as well as leaves, so if you have golden leaves with 50 fertilizer upgrades and platinum leaves with only 10, there will be a lot more gold seeds than platinum ones. this doesn't mean it is impossible to get certain seeds when they have level 0 fertilizer, just that it is a lot harder. this also means that you can funnel certain types of seeds to be much more common by only buying their fertilizer.

you should also buy 1 more upgrade of offline crunches and 1 more of offline BLC, using basically all of your BLC. if you can't afford this, then only buy the offline crunches one because it doubles the offline gains.

another random feature this game has is community leaves. you might have encountered them by this point or even blown them off screen without noticing. each one gives you +5% leaf gain, and you can only get so many. you can see them with the menu in the top that shows a yellow leaf with a smiley face on it. just mentioning this to help pass the time until the trades are done.

assuming all your trades are ready, don't collect them until you disable all the autobuyers you might have in the prestige shop like i didn't and waste a bajillion mythical leaves on a useless marketing upgrade instead of the amazing printer printer. once you have the printer printer, you can kick back and relax until around an hour or 2 later when you can buy another one and then kick back and relax again, until, finally, the end of mythical leaves!!!

you might be wondering why all of these leaves are grouped together in one section after mythical leaves needed 4 sections, and the answer is that they are really really easy now. we don't even need to buy the areas. normally you would have to go on an entire journey through lava leaves and ice leaves and go on a fetch quest and blah blah blah. but for some reason, as soon as you unlock a leaf, you can get that leaf through trading, and then it lets you get printers, meaning the printer printers can go wild. so what you need to do is unlock lava leaves in the mythical leaf shop, and then just get a trade for any amount of lava leaves, and boom. you can unequip penguino while waiting for the trade to go through and re equip cheesetor, because you might notice your cheese numbers going down (this sounds so stupid).

you will also be able to unlock seeds for the leaves as you are going along (with the help of the discount upgrade in the prestige shop), but beware that because celestial leaves have no fertilizer, the seeds are very rare, and you have to buy 'celestial seed marketing', so rainbow leaf is basically necessary to get large amounts. once reaching obsidian leaves, you will find, for some reason, you can't print obsidian leaves. only all the ones before and silicon leaf, the one after. this is really really annoying, but it isn't too bad because you can try to unlock silicon leaves with trading while you get seeds on the other leaves and eventually max out their BLC upgrades, and crafting leaves looking for 'BLC coins +' on them. you can also get up to crafted celestial leaves if you got the 2 craft forge upgrades from before, and that can give you hoards of extra BLC. i got an exotic leaf that took my BLC rewards from 260m all the way to 350m (+18.11k BLC coins, +7.25% BLC coins). pro tip: if you use the auto salvage thingy in the crafting menu, make sure you have 'locked' all the leaves you want, because it salvages all leaves that are below the target rarity. it has been a while since we last crunched, and that is a good way to get past obsidian leaves being annoying via actually unlocking the areas. the last thing you need to do before crunching for a huge amount of BLC and gazpupoling your offline rewards is trading for flasks, because trading is a really easy way to get hundreds of billions of those. now, after getting the seeds from celestial - ice leaves, crunch for hundreds of millions of BLC.

since the last crunch you did was only around 25m, several hundred million is going to be a huge increase. buy more offline crunch upgrades if you can, then just close the game for an hour or two, and when you come back, you will have several billion BLC. with this BLC, the first thing you will need to do is unlock the 500m and 1b BLC areas, and then unlock artifacts in the BLC shop. then you want to buy the artifact alb collect upgrade, and then max the offline artifact thing. these are not necessary, but they help a lot and are cheap compared to how much you can get really easily now. if you still don't think that 100m is really cheap now, with a best crunch of 500m, you can unlock artifacts and get all the upgrades with 5 minutes of offline earnings. now that you have unloced artifacts, you will need to go to the neighbours garden to collect your first one. they act like seeds, but there isn't a chance of them spawning, they spawn after a certain amount of time in a certain place. the game gives you little to no hints on where the artifacts spawn and when, until you get the first ones. these first ones are in the neighbours garden, and in space. these tell you when and where artifacts spawn. if it doesn't spawn after 10 seconds max, then go to another area and come back, it should spawn. to get to the obsidian leaf place, all you need to do is get an artifact that spawns in the abyss. no BLC cost or anything.

obsidian leaves do not spawn like other leaves, although they aren't like celestial leaves thankfully. to get an obsidian leaf, a lava leaf and an ice leaf needs to touch. this is a new mechanic called 'merging'. it isn't used that much thankfully, as it is quite annoying. although, you probably notice that you are not getting anywhere near the 9 billion price for silicon leaves, getting maybe 1k obsidian leaves every minute. now in the BLC shop you can upgrade craft forge to max, and craft hammer to level 8 or level 9 depending on how much you want to spend. now you can try to find crafted leaves that give additional obsidian leaves, but the main goal is to find much better leaves than the ones you have. if you already have all exotic leaves or better, you can skip this part. although, when crafting, you might run out of cheese before you get a good leaf. you unlock a really good way of getting cheese in benitote leaves, which is right after silicon, and since silicon leaves can be printed, obsidian leaves are the only thing that stop us from getting it.

you now unlock 'mulch' in the BLC shop, then unlock the leaf sword tool, and instead of blowing leaves away, you will turn them into mulch, which is another currency. you can use mulch on lots of random stuff, but we will use the 'mulched trade cap' upgrade to DRASTICALLY increase the amounts of leaves you can get from trading (multiplies by 10x every upgrade). you will be able to buy lots of these, but be careful, as it also increases the amount of input resources. this is so helpful because it also affects obsidian leaves, meaning instead of 100k, you can get 1m after 1 upgrade. buy more bigger bag upgrades until it costs a few million each, you don't need that much, and then buy up to 5 of the mulch upgrades. this means that you can get 10 billion obsidian leaves in one go with a level 3 trade, which is enough to buy silicon leaves. don't go crazy with these upgrades for reasons mentioned before. you can also get the 'water leaf' unique leaf with 1m obsidian leaves and the fan in the obsidian leaf area, which gives some boosts to trading like reduced delivery duration and more trading multiplier.

in hindsight, i probably shouldn't have made this all one section, but too late now. so you have unlocked silicon leaves, now equip penguino and use cheese to quick refresh because by now you should have around 100 or more if you didn't craft that much. then you choose a trade for any amount of silicon leaves, because the silicon leaf area is 15b BLC which is just not worth it when you can trade the leaves into existence instead. once you do get silicon leaves, they are thankfully printable and act like normal leaves so you can just get their seeds with printer printer, but maybe after buying bigger printer room level 3 for 450m BLC, because the seed price for silicon leaf is around 6 trillion leaves without any discounts, which is a lot more than the former 2 trillion for the mythical leaf seed all those days ago when we first got the printer printer upgrade. silicon leaves have some interesting new upgrades, but they aren't all that interesting, except for the trade refresh cooldown one which is slightly helpful i guess?

you should have enough silicon leaves to unlock benitote leaves by now, which are also in the 15b BLC area, so just trade for them. the upgrade we want only costs 1 benitote leaf, so it doesn't matter that you can't print them. this upgrade is called 'unlock borbs'. borbs are a weird oval thingy that are practically impossible to blow off screen, but you can eventually. we will need 500 of these little guys to enter The Cheese Pub, but don't be daunted as we can practically skip this grind by buying the borbo pet that means you get 50 borbs every borb you blow away, so you only actually need to blow away 10 of the incredibly weighty guys. once you have all the borbs, the cheese pub is near the bottom of the area menu. when you enter the cheese pub, it will be quite overwhelming with all the things you can do. what we want to do is go straight to the slot machine, because after 30 rolls we are guaranteed to get an amazing artifact called the 'zoo necklace', which allows us to equip 2 pets at once. this changes a lot more than you might think, like instead of cheesetor, do you equip penguino and bearo to trade for cheese instead? or do you equip bearo and cheesetor? or... you get the point. and we will be able to equip 3 pets in a while. a cool thing about the cheese pub is that you get offline rewards in here, because fruits, seeds, and leaves can't spawn here, making it a better spot to just be in than any other, because things that you don't get with the game closed, like the printer printer printing printers, you do get, and you can also get offline BLC. if you ever need more cheese, talk to the bartender and look at the quests. if you unlocked materials as mentioned in the mythical leaves part, then you should have a lot. if not, (unlock it in the BLC shop now,) then it isn't too bad because you need around 6-15 of 2 different materials for 250 cheese, which is definitely worth the effort. once you get that, you should probably equip bearo and cheesetor for cheese, and then get mulch again because there is a lot more mulch upgrades that boost the cheese pub. we will want to get 1 'insert more mulch' upgrade and 4 'mulched claw' upgrades. then we want to go back to the cheese pub, and spend some time in the claw machine trying to make a net profit on cheese with practice as well as getting scrolls. once you have a few of those, you can actually unlock them in the BLC shop, and also either play the 'booster' game which is the rocket on the window if you are active, or auto play on the slot machine if you are afk. after afking and going to sleep, you should have around 15b BLC. buy another offline crunches upgrade in the BLC shop, then afk for ~6 hours, and buy another offline BLC upgrade. you should now have 3 levels of the first one, and 4 levels of the second one. this means you are ready to get the 100b area, because the 15b area is not that useful anymore. this will require lots of afking though.

here we are, the leaf tower, unlike anything else in the game before this point. it will be kind of grindy, but nothing that we haven't done before. something big is coming after this. before entering the leaf tower, you will need 'THE HIGHTECH TROUT' in the tools shop for 5D mythical leaves if you haven't bought it already, and the crabbo and trouto pets. wow these pet names are so creative. the leaf tower works differently from other areas, and it is not the only one of its kind. you fight through waves of enemies, climbing floors, and every 10 floors there is a boss. for the first few floors, the enemies should be disintegrating instantly thanks to your crafted leaves, and the ones that live get instakilled by your trout. once you reach floor 10, the first boss will appear. a giant frog for some reason. i don't know why, but bosses are resistant to trout damage, so you need to blow leaves into it, which should do the job. but then, you should start slowing down at floor 13 or so. now it is time to buy upgrades with the coin thingies the enemies have been dropping. buy 2 upgrades of the 'item drop chance' upgrade, which will be very important, and either 1 'leaf damage' upgrade if you can afford it or just go all into the 'leaf damage multiplier' upgrade if you can't. on your second run through, go to another area and then go back, and you will be at the start again. you can start on floor 11 if you want, but then you will miss the golden coin that the frog boss drops. it is also important to note that any enemy can drop equipment, which we unlocked with our silver coins. equipment mostly gives increased damage based on something else in the game, for example, 'traders suitcase' equipment gives and extra 0.5% damage for every trade you have gotten. and if you get multiple, it will be 1% at 2, 1.5% at 3, and so on. there are some exceptions, though. one equipment is the 'zoo ring', which, as you can probably guess, gives us another pet equip! we still need to get it though. on your second run through, make sure to get leaf damage multiplier upgrades along the way as well as 1 leaf damage upgrade if you didn't before. this will really increase your damage, and you should maybe even be able to conquer the floor 20 boss. if you can't, then you either need better crafted leaves, or more leaf damage multiplier, and it is basically required for us to beat this boss because instead of the 2 gold coins you might be expecting, it gives a whopping 10. the upgrade we will want to aim for` in the gold coin shop is 'enemy rewards'. this means that any upgrade you have that gives boosts to enemy rewards, such as the ones in the celestial leaves shop, will also affect coin drops. this, like any upgrade like this, doesn't fully boost it, but it does do a fair amount. this will cost 50 gold coins though, which is 5 floor 20 bosses. this isn't that much of a grind, as you can first buy 'tower albs' for 20 gold coins, meaning you can basically sit back and let them do it, only clicking a few buttons every few minutes when they beat floor 20 to bring them back to floor 11. the albs bumping into enemies doesn't do much damage, their job is to blow all the leaves around which are the things that do damage. you might want to equip something that isn't good at blowing leaves on yourself, and equip the bellows on the albs, not the drill, because you have a lot more range so enemies can just sit ontop of you and avoid all the leaves. and if you were worried about the bosses, don't be. they are really good for some reason. if they can't kill the boss, chances are you can't either. every time leaves spawn, the albs juggle the heavier leaves between them instead of blowing them off screen, and eventually an enemy spawns in the middle of their juggling and explodes.

you can also aim for beating 25 floors, as there is a green flag at the top that gives you rewards when you beat certain amounts of floors, and the 25 floor reward is 25 gold coins and 25k silver coins, which is very helpful. this should help get you the enemy rewards upgrade, which gives around 4.5x the silver coins, and 1.5x the gold coins. spend your newfound influx of silver coins on 3 more item drop chance upgrades, and then a few leaf damage multiplier upgrades and some health upgrades which aren't that important, but they are really cheap. now you want to buy the alb equipment items upgrade for 10 gold coins, meaning you can basically completely afk except for resetting them to floor 1 every now and then. if you are active, you can also try and go as far as you can, buying leaf damage multiplier in both the silver coin shop and the gold coin shop when you can. there are some unique leaves that will help us to get further, those being the bone leaf and nuclear leaf. remember that you can just buy the 'greedy uniques' upgrade in the BLC shop if you can't equip all your unique leaves, it is really cheap. you get the nuclear leaf with the nuclear leaf blower and 100k benitote leaves in the 15b BLC area. this gives 500% blowing power, but more importantly 50% blowing damage. the bone leaf needs 100m lava leaves and the ace of spades tool in the volcano. this leaf gives +400% enemy rewards, which will boost our coin rewards. buying 'borb taxi' in the silver coin shop also helps with afking as you can go back to the tower after you lose instead of being sent to the home garden for some reason. once you do get the zoo ring, it is best to equip butterflyo, which is now the best pet in the game as we can have others on too. butterflyo boosts not only pets, but unique leaves, by 20%, which is just kind of insane. it also might be worth buying some shovel upgrades in the BLC shop, maxing the first 2 and 4 upgrades of the third one, because there is a piece of equipment that gives you more damage for every dig, but also because you can get scrolls and equipment from digging, which is useful as well.

after a while of upgrading leaf damage, you should be able to barely beat the floor 40 boss, an important milestone. if you can't, then remember the scrolls because you can get one that gives +25% damage which should do it. now you want to unlock the 'carpenters cup' tool, which is honestly really bad, but we need it for a unique leaf. on floor 42, you need to equip the carpenters cup, and have 1k silver coins and 42 gold coins. this will grant you the holy leaf, which gives a giant boost to coin rewards, and unlocks another tool. this other tool is why the leaf gives a 3.5x boost to coins. it needs a whopping 15 thousand gold coins, and 50k silver coins, but by the time we have the gold coins we would have like 5 million silver coins anyways. this is obviously not ideal, but at 500 gold coins we unlock a very interesting upgrade. +200,000 leaf hit damage. compared to the silver coin one that gives +5,000, 200,000 is a lot. every 1 gold leaf hit damage upgrade is 40 silver ones, so this will give us a lot more damage. it would already be a good increase, but it also gets multiplied by the leaf damage multipliers so it becomes a huge increase. this upgrade should propel you to beating the floor 50 boss with time to spare, meaning you can get the floor 50 milestone which gives you 1k gold coins and 1m silver coins. you should not start saving up for the 15k gold coins yet, you should buy more of the giant gold coin damage upgrade, you should be able to buy nearly 2 upgrades. if you can't, then save up until you can. then buy more leaf damage multiplier. with the silver coins, buy the leaf damage multiplier until you have 500k left, then buy more item drop chance until you cant. it doesn't really matter what happens with the rest of them. now, spend gold coins on leaf damage multiplier until they cost 1k.

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anyways, between floor 66 and 75, there are 3 milestones. 2 of them give a lot of gems, but the other 1 gives 66 curses. despite the name, curses are actually good. the cursed cheese equipment gives a boost to damage for each curse, and 66 of them is a lot, each curse gives +1% damage. after afking for longer and longer, buying more leaf damage upgrades, you might eventually be able to beat floor 100. this marks the end of the leaf tower for now, and now we have to do something big. in the gem shop, buy 'its mine' and 'MLC coins x3'. now... we have to mega leaf crunch. this resets a lot, but the things it doesn't reset make it really easy to get back. with your MLC coins, buy:

• 1 level of all leaves+
  
• 1 level of moar BLC
  
• 1 level of ofline seeds, and
  
• buy leaf powered ALBs.

in the very early game, since you got 'its mine' in the gem shop, you should still have access to the hightech shovel. this is very useful for getting gold leaves, as once you get your first gold leaf, you can get around 400 from every golden leaf dig up. prestige as soon as you can, because i think the prestige gains are affected by MLC coins, because you should have 8 left over which means you can prestige for 3.2 billion coins. with this, buy upgrades of everything until their cost is in the millions, and then buy one more. now just go through the game again, and this time you should be able to get 1.6m BLC on the first go, and then buy the offline crunches upgrades again. your highest crunch is saved throughout mega crunches, and you still have your borbs even though you haven't even unlocked them, so you can unlock the cheese pub and just stay in there to get giant amounts of BLC. remember to buy more offline BLC upgrades as you go as well.

while you are in the cheese pub, buy 3 more levels of the 'mulched trade cap' upgrade and trade for 10t obsidian and benitote leaves, as well as other leaves you don't have the seeds for. we will be crunching soon, so having these leaves BLC upgrades maxed out will help alot. also trade for trillions of flasks, because they have very powerful BLC upgrades. also focus on the booster game, this is required, and buy a few max health and max fuel upgrades, with the strategy being not afraid to sacrifice health and get fuel whenever you can. you should try to get the auto play upgrade in the shop, because then you can leave it and go to sleep and wake up to lots of rewards in the stats section. i don't know exactly when you get it, but by 10 thousand km total you will get +1 max pets. around this time you should buy max BLC upgrade on obsidian and benitote, getting at least 30 of each, and crunch for at least 13b BLC. if you don't get at least this, either wait for more booster boosts or craft better leaves. this is another huge increase from the ~500m BLC we got last time, and it means we can get the 100b for the leaf tower much quicker in future resets. now just head back to the cheese pub again and wait for the 100b. you can speed through the leaf tower way easier if you craft better leaves. you don't need this good leaves, but with full lava leaves i have 137 million damage before any coin upgrades. maybe go for 2 or 3 lava leaves to speed through. at the end of the leaf tower, if you did the booster game enough, you should get at least 80 MLC coins from restarting. if you don't, you can either wait for more booster rewards or offline for more BLC. basically just afk. with these MLC coins, buy 1 level of 'more tower floors', 1 level of 'master of MLC', and 1 level of offline seeds. go through everything again, but this time you can get to floor 120. yes, this is a big deal. every 10 max floors after 100, it increases by a lot. and the first few are the biggest increases, with floor 110 being 16x more than floor 100, and floor 120 being 5x more than floor 110. that combined with the mlc coin buffs we got from the booster game, and we should have at least 18k MLC if we restart. so yeah, do that, that is a lot. with this amount, buy:

• unlock all the gem leaves (at the bottom)
  
• 1 level of crunchy coins
  
• 1 level of crunchy BLC
  
• 2 levels of more tower floors
  
• unlock cards

with your remaining coins, just spend them wherever, there shouldn't be that much. go through everything AGAIN, for the last time in a while, because now we have gem leaves. after floor 100, every boss will start to drop gem leaves. these look bigger than normal, and also are all grouped into one shop. they all have nearly identical shops, with 1 unique upgrade. these can either be pretty bad, or very good. the strategy for the gem leaves is to buy 2 marketing upgrades, and then maybe 1 of their unique upgrade, then save up for the combo upgrade for 500. this will not give the full giant boost of whatever your combo is now, but it will still give a lot of it, like around 15x. after getting all the combo upgrades and a few upgrades on them in general, make sure you have level 51 bigger bags and get max leaves on all of them until obsidian and benitote. when you get benitote, you will need ~500m benitote leaves to unlock the next leaf. this leaf needs you to get to at least floor 120, which we have done, so now you only have to pay the 50b BLC cost to get to the next area. this area is the moon.

this area is actually less deranged than some of the others, like the abyss, but it still doesn't make any sense like normal. the strategy for moon leaves is to get lots of the fertiliser first, then get marketing, then trade for 10 trillion of them with level 4 trades you can upgrade in the BLC shop if you forgot. then you get seeds, and it is easy unlike obsidian leaves or something because moonstone leaves have a fertiliser. once you unlock sand leaves, the area they are in take 1k MLC coins, which you might not have, and even if you do, the desert does 20k damage per second, an obnoxious amount. no worries though, because you can just trade for them again, and you can also go for 10t to get the seeds as well. this was kind of anticlimactic for travelling to the moon and back honestly. man...

but once you have sand leaves and moonstone leaves at max or nearly max, it is nearly time to mega crunch again. this time will be different again, because we have crunchy BLC and crunchy coins so we keep even more, and we should also be getting over a million MLC, preferably at least 1.5m but first get the holy grail tool if you haven't already because it really speeds up the leaf tower. with your MLC coins, buy 1 level of the first offline MLC upgrade and 2 levels of the next one. then buy literally every upgrade with 'crunchy' in the name except for the ones we already have. now unlock the gold and silver 'token' converter (im still calling them coins), and then some critical converter upgrades i guess. because we have the offline MLC upgrade, you can basically spend whatever with your MLC coins now because we can get it all back in an hour if we need to. when you get back to the tower, make sure to turn on the coin converters, because they are really really powerful, especially when they get a 'crit' which we unlocked which multiplies the output by 100x. you can easily get billions of coins, numbers which you could only dream of without the converters.

you might also want to buy more craft level in the MLC shop and craft hammer in the gem leaves shop and MLC shop, because you can get obsidian leaves with like an 80% chance if you get enough. there are also some craft hammer upgrades in the BLC shop but they get expensive quick. when you get back to moonstone and sand leaves, their upgrades are kept, so there is basically no reason to get them. future leaves will also not reset on MLC which is really helpful. you should get full obsidian leaves easily, then save up for another offline MLC upgrade and then save for another craft level, then craft until you have all silicon. buy another 'more tower floors' upgrade and then get to floor 220, because yes we will mega crunch for nearly 20x MLC coins because we WILL need lots of stuff in to crafting in the next step. upgrade the MLC coin upgrade on gem leaves and the MLC shop, you should get at least 25m, if you don't, then craft and look for silicon leaves that give +MLC coins because those are a great way to get more. now just buy more offline MLC upgrades if you can and afk for ~6 hours. you should have ~300m MLC. spend nearly all of it on more offline MLC, then buy 1 craft level and a few more craft hammer upgrades. get to full benitote leaves, then afk for a while, buy offline MLC, buy craft level, and just repeat this until you get 4/5 craft level. the next one takes a lot of MLC, and mega crunching won't give us that much more, so for now we can go on a bit of a side quest and try and get some upgrades on the 'mulched seeds' upgrade which will really help us later in 'leafscensions', but don't worry about that right now. it also helps us when we do mega crunch because it is much faster to get back to where we were. this upgrade is a bit special, though. that's right, even the upgrades aren't safe from all the mechanics we have found. to get the mulched seeds upgrade, you need to max all the seeds from basic all the way to sand. we can do that, but the bad thing is that it resets them every time you buy it. you can kind of get around this by buying max on the mulch upgrade, and you keep the leaves, but it is still really annoying. also set up some trades for moonstone and sand leaves (enough to get the seeds) because we do need them again and we also get a unique leaf at 1b sand leaves. if you already have these, use the large trout in the desert and it should appear. be careful, though, because the desert does a LOT of damage. this unique leaf boosts other unique leaves, so it will boost things that you didn't even know were being boosted. the problem with getting the seeds is obviously the obsidian and benitote leaves, which both don't have fertiliser so they have basically no seed spawns. but if you have level 3 or 4 of the 'SEEDS!' upgrade in the tekitite gem leaf shop, and have racoono equipped there should be so many spawning you are bound to get one eventually. afk in space specifically, because the vulture enemy can give you a vulture card which gives a tiny boost to seed rewards, but it is better than nothing. also equip the leaf sword to start working on the mulch you need for the actual upgrade itself. after you have the max seed upgrades on all the leaves that have a fertiliser, it is better to go to the cheese pub and make use of those offline seeds we get. you should have level 8 or 9 of the MLC shop offline seed upgrade, and at least level 4 of the emerald gem leaf seed upgrade. offline seeds aren't affected by fertiliser upgrades, so everything will have an equal chance at getting a seed. you should only need ~100D to get max seeds on benitote. once you have that done probably after a while, just press buy max on the mulched seed upgrade since you should have a lot of mulch (tens of millions) from the 1st half of this process. you should get somewhere around level 10, hopefully more, meaning that you now get basically an extra 100 seed levels for every seed forever. now we need to prepare for the next step in actual progression, and get the next craft level upgrade which you should be able to afford if you afked long enough, otherwise just afk more. this upgrade unlocks 2 craftable leaves instead of 1, the second one we haven't seen before, but it is really rare so you probably won't get any anyways. craft some sand leaves, and replace your moonstone leaves with them, but this time craft more sand leaves in the hopes that they have the 'trade global multiplier' boost. if they don't have it, just salvage them or replace one of your leaves with them. you can easily get rare leaves by setting the auto salvage to only backpack, and 1 rarity below the one you want, then turning on auto craft and autoclicking or spamming the craft button, because you should have a lot of cheese from trades and stuff. if you don't, then you can dig on the moon to get some cheese and you can also trade for cheese, remembering that afking with bearo isn't very good because he will choose a bunch of useless trades along the way. you don't need full trade global multiplier, but try to aim for at least 6 or 7 of them. all of them is obviously the best outcome.

so, now what? we can't really go to the cursed pyramid, because it takes a comically large 10,000 beer to enter. the cursed pyramid is basically another tower, except you need to pay to get to the next floor. and you need to pay a LOT. tens of thousands of cheese for even the first few floors. and now, we begin another journey. we will need lots of the trade education upgrade, and for that we will need lots of orb of BLC, and to do that we need fast artifact spawns, which we can get with lots of leaf essence, which we can get with a weird town and a spooky forest. here we are. don't give up now, remember what you have done and submit to the sunk cost fallacy. pretty please?

now we are going to need to do some alchemy, which you unlock in the BLC shop if you haven't already. also just choose some cheese trades for several hundred cheese while you are at it. alchemy, or brewing, is turning materials in to much more useful essences or other stuff. you might have seen 'unlock' next to your pets or tools and wondered what that means, and the answer is alchemy. upgrading your tools or pets give a boost to damage while you have them equipped for some reason, but also boosts their stats up to a 2x boost at level 10. for tools, they just need normal materials, also give a small boost to the spawnrate of the material that it took every upgrade. this is great, but we need to get the essences first. and the essence that boosts pets, which is the one we will be going for, needs scarabs and dark matter. dark matter is used for all the 4 essences, but scarabs are just for leaf essence. and unfortunately, you get scarabs in the desert where we take lots of damage. we can't really get scarabs like that. so the solution? a weird town called Kokkaupunki (i am never spelling that right ever again). you can trade with various materials in order to get the specific materials that you need for essences. we do need to brew some water essence and earth essence, which will already be pretty annoying. equip ducko and toucano, which both boost materials. now try and buy the material magnet upgrade in the gem shop, if you can't, then there is a great way to get them in the cheese pub that only works once. go to the bartender, and then choose riddles. each riddle you complete gives you 10 gems, and you can either figure them out for yourself or use these answers:

• 10395
  
• sponge
  
• incorrectly
  
• space
  
• seven
  
• candle
  
• stamp
  
• obsidian
  
• egg
  
• age
  
• bank
  
• echo
  
• library
  
• wet
  
• clock
  
• light

if you still don't have enough gems, then just use the claw machine i guess. you also technically don't need this upgrade, but it will be much, MUCH easier to afk with it because the materials stop spawning when there is 20 or so on screen, so you will only get 10 dark matter every time you afk at most. not ideal. you should only need to afk for like 1 over night if you do have it.

if you somehow already have 270 dark matter material (the weird purple ball with pink lines coming out of it) then you can skip this step. otherwise, afk in space until you do.

now you need to unlock the essence that needs bones, and the one that need seashells. then craft one of both of them. they should be called water essence and earth essence. once you get those in 30 seconds, you can now unlock koakuapppppoijknginki. now unlock leaf essence if you can, it should need scarabs. now unlock the material leaf by having the nuclear shovel on in... the town with the ducko pet active. now we just need to unlock a spooky forest called the dark glade. you can get basically every material in there, but they are less common. to get there, we will need to press the craft button not once, but TWICE!! frightening. but yeah, just unlock leaf essence and cosmic essence, and then craft both of them twice. also get the unique unique leaf from last section if you haven't already, and make sure you have the material magnet upgrade. the spawnrate of any one material is a quarter of what it would be in the area you normally get it in, but since we can trade useless materials for the ones that we want in the town, any materials are good materials. and since you got the unique unique leaf and the material leaf, combined with ducko, you now have a 3.65% chance every 2 or so seconds for materials to spawn instead of a 1% chance. you also get around 1 random material every 20 seconds thanks to toucano and material leaf. now just craft leaf essence whenever you can. we are going to need a devastatingly big 316 leaf essence, which will need 3160 scarabs and dark matter. this means you will have to check back on it 4 times (due to the max materials being 1 thousand) before we have enough, and you will need to press the craft button 64 times. that is actually annoying this time, considering you need to press it once every 30 seconds until you have more storage again. you can increase the storage with gem leaf upgrades, though, so you can get somewhere between 4 and 6 on each of those if you haven't already. this means your material storage should be around 2750 now, so you only have to check back on it twice. remember to trade with 'torvald' every now and then, and refresh whenever it costs dark matter or scarabs. it won't be too much of a loss if you just put an autoclicker on the trade button or just mindlessly click while watching youtube or something. you can press alt+enter to make the game not full screen so you can have it and youtube open at the same time, which i really hope you already knew after some of the more mundane things we have been doing. it will take 32 minutes assuming you instantly press the craft button, and we don't have access to automatic brewing yet. but once you reach the halfway mark at 160 leaf essence, you can get up to level 10 on butterflyo, since it is one of the 2 pets we need to get to level 10, and it will also boost ducko and the other things we have that boost material spawnrate. you also need cheese, 100 each, but we craft 5 at once so we only need around 6k cheese. if you don't already have this from random bearo afking, just trade for it, remembering to equip penguino. you should be able to trade for multiple hundred cheese at once, 300+ every trade. with 6 trades and 70 minutes per trade, that is around 1600 cheese per hour, assuming you check back every 70 minutes. that is definitely going to take less time than the materials themselves. when you are actually brewing the leaf essence, you might want to equip hippo. not even any extra 'o' on the end this time, just the animal name i guess. hippo boosts something called brew crit chance, which isn't really useful now, but it doubles the output of a brew. the main good thing is the -15% brew time, which is now -18% or -21% because of butterflyo, depending if you have it at level 10 yet or not. you will see an area next to the town that takes 200 cosmic and leaf essence. we will not be unlocking this area any time soon, but if you are curious, its just the town but cursed, so there is a boss there that drops 5 of each essence. and this boss has 1 nonillion, or 1d (1e30) health, so no we can't fight it.

with the other half of the leaf essence, you need to upgrade flocko. this means that, along with everything else, we reduce artifact spawn time by 33.6%. this is definitely not enough, but there are... gem upgrades. we don't have much gems. we need 500 for the upgrade 'faster artifacts', which is way more than we have. but there is a way we can get a LOT of gems. normally, your trades take 2 hours. we should have this at just 56 minutes if we have penguino and butterflyo on. the minimum trade time is a measly 2 minutes, meaning we could get 180 gems per hour if we always get gem trades, but realistically it is probably ~130 per hour if we are also using one slot to get the cheese back that we use refreshing. penguino, when maxed, can give a whopping 70% trade time reduction with butterflyo. and we also have the water leaf unique leaf which gives a 15% trade time reduction, or a 42% reduction if we upgrade it and have butterflyo. this gets us to 20 minute trades, so where do we get the rest of the reduction? from challenges. that's right, after all this time, we are back in challenges. the trader's crunch challenge gives you 10 second trades, and you unlock trading from the beginning. the refresh time is also halved, i guess. the downside is that you don't have converters. the goal is to get 1m BLC, which will take a while, but i guess that is a lot of time for us to get offline artifacts? equip flocko, and go into the challenge. we will upgrade the other pets later.

while you are in the challenge, just play the game like normal, you keep your gem upgrades in this challenge so it won't be too hard. once you get to bismuth leaves, you can start to make use of having trading unlocked from the start by basically going for any trade that isn't for beer or cheese. you obviously should not do a trade that gives you less of the same leaf you put in, like 1m basic leaves -> 400k basic leaves, but if a trade is like 1m basic leaves -> 400k void leaves then it might be worth it. once you reach flasks, it is a bit different because, well, we don't have any converters. trading takes a lot longer, but all you need to do with each flask is unlock the next one, and maybe some leaves upgrade. other than that, flasks are used for trading for more flasks. now you just want to take basically any trade, unless they need most of your leaves for a beer or something, because every trade gives you 1 cheese no matter what, and we can use that to refresh. (if you are wondering what beer does, we need it for the pyramid thing, but like several thousand. 1 is not helping.) only manually refresh when there is 1 or 0 trades processing, because cheese is valuable here, and come on it takes 10 seconds for the trade to go through. strange flasks take a while, because we need 100k of them instead of just 1k flasks to unlock exotic leaves. and after that, you need another 25k to get the abyss. then you just get strange flasks whenever you see them, and you don't have to look for them specifically. you don't really have to open the trade menu that much now, because we can get exotic leaves normally and there is no way we are getting any of the 500m flask BLC upgrades.

crunch for how ever many you get with around level 6 or 7 of both exotic leaf upgrades, and level 2 or 3 of the strange flask one (the cheap one), and get the upgrades that i listed way earlier in the guide with the exception of the converter ones. get back to where you were, and try to go for ~150k BLC with the help of master of leaves and what the combo boosting exotic leaves, as the strange flask upgrade does not really help. if you can, aim for 200k. we are going to need to do a lot of crunches to get the 1m we need, but it isn't too far out of reach. there isn't much i can say here, but there is something you can do before crunching where you start a bunch of trades for flasks, and only collect them when you just unlock that particular flask, because for some reason trades persist through crunches. after you do the 1 prestige needed to unlock areas and upgrade leaf rewards, you can collect your trades, because you can get resources before you can even see the counter for them. also use your shovel while waiting for trades or refreshes, because digging up 1 flask gives like a million at this stage for some reason, including strange flasks, and you don't need any of a flask to dig it up, as long as you have unlocked it.

now that we are finally done with the challenge, it is time to upgrade penguino and the water leaf. we could upgrade the unique unique leaf, but that is not needed and no, we couldn't have skipped the challenge and done that instead, because it is quite a small boost. unique leaves take 260 cosmic essence to get to level 10, but only take 20 of each material for 5 instead of leaf essence's 50. we will be needing 158 leaf essence and 260 cosmic essence in total. just go back to the dark glade with the 2 pets and basically repeat what we did last section. we will need 2640 dark matter, 1040 cloud, and 1600 scarab, as well as 8.4k cheese, which you probably need to trade for. you technically only need to get to level 8 of the water leaf for 2 minute trades if you are having trouble. and now, equip penguino, and you should have a 2 minute trade duration. try it out by choosing a random trade.

now that you have 2 minute trades, it is time to actually use them for what we were going to use them for. choose only gem trades and sometimes cheese trades to get back the cheese from refreshing, and maybe use the claw machine while waiting the 2 minutes if you want. with a more realistic amount than earlier, say it takes us 1 minute to get 5 gem trades, with the 6th slot being for cheese. every 3 minutes we get 5 gems, or 100 per hour. say we get 1 gem every minute with the claw machine, that is 60 per hour, making for 160 per hour, which is pretty good. if you have thousands of cheese already, then you can skip the cheese trade and bring it up to 180 gems per hour. we will need 500 gems for the 'faster artifacts' gem upgrade, which as you can imagine is not skippable for getting lots of artifacts. we already upgraded butterflyo and flocko 2 sections ago, and the only other thing we can do is buying some levels of 'faster artifacts' in the MLC shop, up to level 9 or 10.

after buying the faster artifacts gem upgrade, now you can either: buy the offline artifacts upgrades in the MLC shop (upgrade to max) and make sure the 'fruitifacts' upgrade in the obsidian leaf shop is maxed, prestige for some amount of e coins and put most into the fruit upgrades, then afk in the volcano (where the orb of BLC spawns). equip butterflyo, bearo, penguino, and flocko, because you might as well get some extra cheese while you wait. despite the name of the little arc we are on, we will not actually be getting infinite BLC. 1e308 (a lot) is the max, but we will not be getting that because it takes 48 orbs of BLC to multiply our BLC by 10, and assuming we start at 10t BLC (1e13), it would take 14,160 orbs to get to max, and that is not achievable, to say the least. we will want level 17 trades, and we can get to level 6 trades just from buying the MLC shop trade upgrades, so we will need level 11 of the blc shop ones, which will cost us 30c BLC coins. if we start at 10t BLC, which we should, then (i needed to use log for this) we will need 448 orbs of BLC. that is also not very achievable assuming we get ~3/hour, because it would take us 150 hours. there is one last thing we can do to get more artifacts, though. yes, it is another gem upgrade. do the same thing as before, but longer. you might see gem trades for 2 gems if you have level 10 or more trades, but they usually are too expensive because they are high level trades. buy more bigger bag upgrades because you should have around 1a BLC if you have been orb farming for a while. buy until the next upgrade costs more than 1% of your BLC, then get the next multiple of 3. you will be able to tell because the max it says under the upgrade is not 10 of something or 100 of something, but just 1. while in the claw machine, you might find a box thingy. get it if you can, but gems take priority. chests are something we would normally get in the pyramid, which we aren't allowed into yet for some reason, and they give some materials, e.g. leaves, cheese, equipment, but they can also give gems sometimes. if you find a chest with a yellow outline, that is the best one we can get from the claw machine so try and get it if you can. a silver outline is the 2nd best, and just entirely wood is the worst we can get, but still better than 20 cheese in case we get a gem from it.

we need 500 gems for the 'better pets' upgrade, which will boost butterflyo and flocko by 30%, meaning that instead of a 33.6% artifact spawn time reduction from flocko, it is a 47.4% spawn time reduction, which is much better than it sounds because with the other 40% spawn reduction from the gem upgrade we got before and the MLC upgrade, it takes our artifact spawn time from 26.4% of the original down to just 12.6%, doubling the speed of it. (im hoping this is how it works.) there is a minimum, just like for trades, so we can't get infinite orbs, but the minimum is really low because later in the game you can get thousands of offline artifacts. you might be thinking that double the speed isn't that much, because that is still 75 hours. but we do have the fruitifacts upgrade, reducing the time of a random artifact by 10 seconds every time we get a fruit. this means every 15 fruits or so, we reduce the time of an orb by 10 seconds. say we get on average 2 fruits per second, that is 1.33 seconds reduced off an artifact every second, which is part of the 3 per hour estimate from before, but not completely. it reduces the time of every artifact that is still spawning. if an artifact has spawned, then fruit will not be able to reduce its spawn. this means that 7 different artifacts who all have the same or less spawn time compared to the orb will have 6 minutes every cycle where fruits will focus more on orbs. there are also some artifacts that have a max, being the first 4 at the top, the one that spawns on the moon and the one in the pyramid, wobbly wings and vital violin. we can't get vital violin yet, and wobbly wings have a max of 100 which is way too much for a small boost. the one that spawns on the moon has around a 1 day spawn time which we might be able to get if we aren't asleep or something, but the one in the pyramid has a 30 day cooldown which is just... no.