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1. Ranking Boards

Every 3 days, the rankings refresh and you get 15K B-tads. Found on floor by Robot Guard.
Not cross server.

2. Book Sharing

Unlock by buying Top Books from the museum shop

3. Art of Trade

When you reach the required Power amount you can invest W-tads and instantly get them back plus more.

4. Home Manual

Was bugged, and then moved to the Mailbox.
Explore Home to unlock hidden features.
Complete tasks to get rewards.

5. Game Tips

Guides, tips, and tricks to help you in the game. There are Snail Codes exclusive to you on every page.

Game Tips

For those of you who won't read the tips in game, here they are! *Snail Codes not included

Getting Stronger

After the tutorial, collect these Relics at Home:

  1. Mutant Fungus in the Fungus Farm
  2. Gold Toilet Paper on the Fridge
  3. Golden Finger at the entrance to the Garage
  4. Talk to the Robot Guard to get the Nuclear Fusion Battery

Recommended evolution order:
Organs>ATK>DEF>RUSH>HP>Others
You can unlock Gene Form Evolution after reaching max level!
(Upgrade Combat Stats first to make the game easier)

Snail Form Choice:

  1. Demon Form has high ATK and DEF and can collect souls
  2. Always use Dragon Form after you obtain it as it has the highest stats
  3. Use Mutant Form for auto-play to collect Time Chests

Tips for embedding Relics:

  1. Recommended order: Compass>Home Facility>Biozilla>Museum
  2. Make 2 Compass presets: one for battle and the other for exploring
  3. Pay attention to Embed Perks

(T3+ Relics have them)

Techniques for Exploration:

  1. Generally, the first page of the INTEL Tree boosts resource gain while the second page boosts stats
  2. Prioritize perks related to areas. The further you explore, the more you get
  3. Redeem perks related to combat stats before fighting Apostles
  4. You don't have to dominate the Apostles. Exploration is more important.

(If you can't dominate an Apostle, consider exploring the next Realm for buffs)

Tips for Stats Increase:

  1. Exploration Speed>Offering Speed>Research Speed>Refinement Speed
  2. HARD stats (HP, ATK, RUSH, DEF)>minion stats>AFFCT stats (ART, FTH, FAME, CIV, TECH)
  3. Before entering Murika, equally boost HARD stats and minion stats
  4. Partners: upgrade Taoraemon and Prince Nerd's Soul first (Nick Note: Chichikaka and Leeku have Gene Sims at lvl. 10)
  5. For minions, also increase minion number cap

Avatar can also make you stronger:

  1. Apostle Avatar: increases exploration stats
  2. Civil Mirage Avatar: increases earnings at Home
  3. Special Event Avatar: increases Research SPD
  4. All Avatar stats work permanently once you obtain them

Join a club and participate in wars:

  1. Join a club and build a portal ASAP
  2. Get a large number of Research Manuals from Club Shop
  3. Get tons of resources from Card Shop and Traitor Shop
  4. Complete multi-snail incidents to get more cards
  5. Use Silver Tokens to defeat high-level legions and get currencies
  6. Buy Random Species Sequence first in Traitor Shop
  7. Complete Biozilla to buy Gene Essence from Biozilla Shop

How to increase Leadership:

  1. Prioritize Gene Research, such as Zombie Form T4
  2. Collect Relics that increase Leadership, such as the Trojan Horse
  3. Consume a certain number of Orange Fungi
  4. Right-side Relic Talents can boost Leadership
  5. Upgrade Minion Gear after clearing the Murikan Domain

Enhance your troop:

  1. Upgrade form tier to unlock stronger minions
  2. Increase Leadership to deploy minions in battle
  3. Repair the Rocket and build rocket devices to increase minion stats
  4. Organize minions into 10-minion groups to gain stats bonuses
  5. Collect and Upgrade Relics that buff your minions

More Resources

Here are some regular weekly events:

  1. The new server event is a good time to try your luck in the Lottery, but remember to keep some Offering Speedups
  2. Hoard specific resources for specific weekly events
  3. Weekly event rotation: Lottery-Wish-Offering

(Newer servers that have not entered the weekly event rotation will have hoarding events instead, which could last as long as 6 days)

Hoard the items for weekly events

  1. Lottery Week: Lottery Tickets, various Scrolls, W-tads (Nick Note: 15 Novice, 10 Expert, 5 Master or Grandmaster)
  2. Wishmaking Week: Wish Coins, Relic Frags, Taichi Fishes
  3. Offering Week: Offering Speedups, Divine Chests, and Dragon Chests (Nick Note: 5 of each Divine Chests, 1 Dragon Chest)

Lottery Tickets you can get without paying:

  1. Get 1 by defeating a daily Hitman
  2. Get 1 every 3 days in Arena Shop
  3. Get 1-6 every Sunday by signing in
  4. Get a few to dozens in weekly events. Depends on your ability
  5. Get 3 every day from Daily Pack during Lottery Weeks
  6. From chat; the number depends on your luck
  7. From Fissure Merchant, refreshed every 3 days

W-tads you can get without paying

  1. Get at least 100 W-tads by defeating a daily Hitman
  2. Get at least 160 per day from Daily Tasks
  3. Get 30-180 every Friday by signing in
  4. Get 19 every day from Weekly Event Packs
  5. Get at least 120 every 3 days after completing certain Fissure Incidents
  6. Get lucky in the Tadpole Pond
  7. Get lucky in the Orange lottery slot
  8. Get lucky in chat
  9. Get interest from the Fortune Cat (Nick Note: Only if you invest W-tads)
  10. Get from Official mail; maintenance makes you rich!

Items you should buy from the shops:

  1. Vending Machine: Lottery Ticket, Wish Coin, Offering Speedup
  2. Club: Research Manual, Organ
  3. Snail Arena: Pickaxe, Glue, Lottery Ticket
  4. Museum: Travel Speedup, Wish Coin
  5. Fissure Merchant: Pack, Pickaxe, B-tads
  6. Biozilla Shop: Gene Essence
  7. Traitor Shop: Map, Random Sequence

Remember when the events are refreshed:
Most events and tasks are refreshed at 06:30 PST
Vending items are also refreshed at that time
(Monthly Pass and Unispark are refreshed at the same time)

Be casual with the treasure resources:

  1. Open Treasure Maps whenever you can
  2. Open Collector Scrolls whenever you can
  3. Open Memetic Catalysts whenever you can
  4. Open Treasures whenever you can, but save the Divine Chests for Offering Week

The longer you explore, the more you get!

  1. To maximize rewards, explore a cleared map
  2. You can get extra Gear Chests from Murika and cells from Bharata
  3. Always choose the Time Rift if available
  4. Increase Movement Speed to shorten exploration time

(Rewards from different Forms are affected by actual exploration time)

Purchase Guide

Know your limits of your credit card!
Super Snail is an idle game after all. You can also have fun without recharging. Time matters the most when you grind.

Recommended packs (in descending order):

  1. VIP Gold Card, VIP Silver Card (both permanent)
  2. Limited packs of every system
  3. Daily Packs
  4. Festival and crossover event packs
  5. Monthly pack
  6. Weekly event packs (complete rounds of weekly event tasks)

Spend your W-tads on these first:

  1. Fortune Cat a safe bet
  2. Art of Trading, buy it as soon as your Power is enough
  3. Power Offer Pack, increases Fungus cap
  4. Offer packs of other systems
  5. Lottery Ticket and Wish Coin in Vending Machine and Fissure Merchant
  6. Purple or better Chores
  7. Museum promotion, increases the earnings of museums with S rating

Combat Strategies

Basic Knowledge about Gear

  1. Craft more advanced Realm Gear to defeat Apostles easily
  2. Get Iron Track first for auto-play
  3. Recommended Form Gear in the early period: The Buried
  4. awaiting patch

Weapon Gear Leaderboard(according to final forms):

  1. Norris-chuck, Oldman Wand, The Big Bounce, Power Spinach
  2. District 9, Cretaceous Weapon, Hydra Gloves, Million Volts
  3. W-tad Sword, Know-It-All Device, Strength Master's Sword

Armor Gear Leaderboard (according to the final forms):

  1. Ring of Paralysis, Traveler Outfit, Grandpire's Robe
  2. Fortress, Dracula Cape, Eye of Agamatto
  3. Agamemnon Outfit, The Great Magician, Super Warrior

Once enemy weakness is identified, proc RUSH:

  1. Tap on bubble above target to check weakness
  2. Once RUSH procs, deal RUSH DMG each round
  3. RUSH also procs CRIT and ELMT DMG

About DEF:

  1. Generally, DMG=ATK-DEF
  2. DEF also reduces RUSH DMG
  3. ELMT DMG ignores DEF but not ELMT RES

About CRIT:

  1. CRIT deals 150% DMG of normal attacks
  2. CRIT DMG increases DMG done by CRITs
  3. CRIT DMG REDUC lowers CRIT DMG takes

Other Effects:

  1. Lifesteal restores HP when dealing ATK DMG and CRIT DMG, but not ELMT DMG
  2. Dodge prevents you from taking any DMG
  3. ELMT DMG adds DMG to normal ATK and RUSH
  4. Paralyzed enemies cannot move for a round

About Minions:

  1. Troop Battle applies the same rules as that of a Snail Battle
  2. Leadership decides the number of minions you can deploy
  3. The minions you deploy decide the stats of your troop
  4. Minions may get wounded after battles
  5. Wounded minions cannot be sent to anything
  6. You can treat wounded minions to dispel the injury status
  7. The number of wounded minions is decided by their lost HP and the casualty rate
  8. Minions with low Power will take the HP loss first

(Puppet minions can take damage for minions of the same tier)

About Casualty Rate:

  1. In Troop battles, (DMG taken) x (casualty rate)=(Lost HP)
  2. When your troop takes damage, minions with low Power will lose HP first
  3. When HP - lost HP =0, the minions will become wounded
  4. The casualty rates in different Domains can be reduced by increasing the ratings of their corresponding Museums
  5. The casualty rate in Species War can be reduced through Card Exchange
  6. The casualty rates in different Domains, Species Wars, and Species Histories are different; always check when you edit your troops

About Upgrading Minions:

  1. Zombie minions have relatively high HP and ATK
  2. Demon minions have relatively high ATK and RUSH
  3. Angel minions have relatively high HP and RUSH
  4. Mutant minions have relatively high ATK and RUSH
  5. Mecha minions have extremely high RUSH
  6. Dragon minions have comprehensively high stats
  7. All minions except Dragon ones can be converted into each other by spending W-Tadpoles in Minion Conversion Event

Outstanding Minions:

  1. Early Period: Ironball Thrower, Chika, Imp
  2. Later Period: Frost Drake, Nanosaur
  3. Support: Wood Golem

Special Strategies

The mini games in the computer grant a lot of rewards:

  1. Free Cell: B-tads
  2. Byecube: W-tads
  3. It Takes 5: W-tads
  4. Tetromino Special: Travel Speedup
  5. 2048: Travel Speedup
  6. Civilization Boom: W-tads
  7. Explosive Cube: Gene Speedup

Wanna get lucky? Use both science and superstition!

  1. Worship the Buddha in the Shrine before drawing
  2. Offer Soul of Developer at the Altar before drawing
  3. Take a good single draw before going for 10 draws
  4. Threaten your phone before drawing
  5. These methods have been proven useless

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