If you are lucky you get the mining beast, which delivers 2 times more iron but consumes 4 times of wood.
That's the point where i am atm. I start to replace the hades through Noclops and mining beasts.
Here is my tactic for breaking the soft wall between Tier 1 and 2:
step 1) concentrate on getting wood as hell. At first build a chess board pattern with hatchets and Lil'Lumberjack.
step2) build 8x meat above 8x imps. They do the trick aslong you stay above 60k wood. Use the wood to level all Tier 1 things especially the non productive items to level 2 or 3.
Step 2) switch to iron only production. 1 imp with 1 meat should upkeep 4 or 5 Hades. surround them with gauntlets in a chess pattern and you will end up with about 540 iron per sec.
Step 3) buy only the Metal XL packs until you find the iron mine and some hoods, which will replace the gauntlets. build 6 Hades with 1 hood around the iron mine. Now you need no upkeep anymore. 2 pancakes above and 2 potions left so that they buff 3 Hades each.Fill the rest with gauntlets or hoods.
not enough space for souls for necromancer or Warlock ?! I have 22 space with Graveyard and Reliquary. All is researched except Chronomancy and spellcraft. There are no furniture anymore for increasing.
As of right now the price only shows before final confirmation of purchase or sale,. Still working on getting it to show the price on the shop screen. It will be added today if all goes according to plan.
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