Quote Originally Posted by brothersome02 View Post
So about the higher level gargoyles (like marbles)... should I sell them? Getting rubies in this game is so slow and scarce, that I'm not planning to use them anytime soon.
Unless there comes along a different method of opening gargoyles, propably best to trash them. If they really only can be opended with rubies, they are rather expensive.

do you still get alot of dimensional chests?
Yes and no. Unless someone convinces me otherwise, there is a chance per merge and possibly a modifier with item lvl to lure ppl into spending more rubies. So with a chained merge you simply do a lot of merges and not "one" big merge.

also clouds are helpful, but they are a limited resource
Um. Clouds dissappear after they rained down and the machinery you unlocked dissappears after harvesting. But the airships produce clouds (and strangly enough, the ressource to build more airships).

Quote Originally Posted by hornyg4mer View Post

If a tree gives you item a lvl 5 item, But your master of that series is lvl 10, your reallly kind of wasting your time creating a bunch of 5s just to make another lvl 10.
Even with generous calculation we are talkin 2,5 to the power of n.

Lvl Increase Merge 3 Merge 5
„+1“ 3 3
„+2“ 9 7
„+3" 27 16
„+4“ 81 40
„+5“ 243 98
„+6“ 729 245
„+7“ 2187 611
You need a little more with 5 mergers, bc this approximation assumes you continue to upgrade. Values are rounded up. Does not include the needed time to arrange the mergers.

If you have a row of trees or warehouses and their output forms a neat line of 5 (or 8 or 10 or 13) this makes it easier.

For the pools to create seedlings I found it easier to spam my nymphs on the pools to completely fill all my area with red shoe seedlings and then massmerge them. At least the game does a lot of 5er along the way, what I found out with my other table. Is worse than pure 5er but better than a lot of 3s. But you see the difference in effectivness from 3 to 5 merger, if you want to upgrade from starting item, like free wax, to a lvl 8 candle... you need thrice the amount of wax. If you only want to go 4 lvl up, the diff is "only" twice.

For things like that it is probably better to bring higher lvl items from the puzzles. If you are lucky you get it in your free bubble.

And of course, it is dangerous to line your buildings up, even if you shuffle them together. One missclick and lifting up and setting down and you merge. What I did, is this:

CMCMC
OOOOO
MCMCM

O Free space, C rystalwarehouse, M oneywarehouse. Above and below you can put other items if you want. Manually harvesting them usually puts the output in the free line then for easy merge.