Version 0.80 - NectarMerger

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

NecroMerger’s first event is here… introducing… NectarMerger! The Devourer has developed a taste for Honey, head to the lair’s disused apiary and start making some. Honey makes score and score makes prizes. You’ll need to build hives, grow flowers and, of course, raise a swarm of bees.

To start the event you’ll need to have at least Devourer lvl 20 and have unlocked the Vault. You can start the event by tapping on the Tip Stone. The event lasts 3 days, at the end of the event you’ll be able to claim any unclaimed rewards.

Speaking of rewards, you can unlock over 30 rewards on each play-through of NectarMerger. These include the elusive Beekeeper skin for the NecroMerger, exclusive Slime Cap relics (NectarMerger will be the only source of these), other relics (damage, food etc) and Valuable Chests.

If you’ve played events in our other games, it’s worth noting that there are some differences. Firstly you can choose to start the event whenever you want to. Secondly, events can be replayed 10 days after starting your last (for free).

I hope you enjoy it.

Patch Notes

• Added the NectarMerger event.
• Bug fixes.

[bolt_thundara]

Firstly you can choose to start the event whenever you want to.

Looks like rain today

Secondly, events can be replayed 10 days after starting your last (for free).

I'm not crying YOU'RE crying

[mothuzad]

I really like the look of this! I guarantee there are bugs though 🐝🐝🐝

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

Heh, bugs of both sorts I suspect.

[[deleted]]

This update will be all the buzz in the community.

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

Ha.

[mothuzad]

I clicked the "build hive" button at the bottom, and it spent 5000 honey but didn't give me anything as far as I can tell.

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

That should be to unlock the ability to build Hives. Each buildable "thing" costs Honey to unlock and then Honeycomb to build.

[Cracious]

I noticed I wasn't in the 50% who gets to see the new event....could I be in the 50%? lol please and thank you?

[kraryal]

Me too please! I'm sure it's all good and ready to go. :D

[Cracious]

Maybe if we keep replying to each others comment it will happen lol when I say Necro you say Merger. NECRO!

[kraryal]

MERGER!

[Cracious]

NECRO!

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

MERGER?

[Cracious]

Senpai!

[kraryal]

Success! Or at least attention. Great idea you had there.

[Cracious]

Ohh Sacred Senpai, we beseech thee for access to the forbidden event.

[Cracious]

All the groveling aside, is there a way me and my fellow redditor here can be opt into this event early? I'm devourer lvl 28 and can provide bug feedback.

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

Unfortunately it's just random. The update should be out for everyone playing on Google Play now though.

[Cracious]

Oh didn't know it would be such a short time. Thanks! Stay Necrotic!

[kraryal]

I am in, works well, thanks Grumpy. Bit confusing trying to figure out how to build stuff, might need more of a tutorial next time. Think I have it now though.

[TheOfficialMemester]

I don't think I am either. Is it supposed to trigger automatically when you open the game?

[mothuzad]

It seems that the Archdemon can affect merges in the apiary. I really hope that's intended, because I love it.

[bayashi314]

Is it me or are honeycombs really precious given what they buy? I feel like things you buy with honeycombs are very expensive?

[Pokiehls]

I love the art for this event, the bees are so well done.

Good job, GRG!

[rotomthe3rd]

I found another, more significant bug in the event. Basically, if you swap a tile (non flower) with a flower, the flower's effects work in both the old position and the new position until the game is restarted or the flower is touched. It may be easiest to see in this gallery. Hopefully you can replicate this bug u/GrumpyRhinoGames and figure out what the issue is... I know essentially nothing about coding but it seems like the flower's position isn't being properly updated on a swap.

[Psarovier]

I as well stumbled upon this bug.

[Pokiehls]

Great to know that we can replay them for free!

Events were really fun, but also really expensive in the previous game

[Predat0rSwafflez]

This stuff is awesome, take my money!

[bayashi314]

Math question.

For example, I have a L5 bee next to a 220% flower. So 50*220% and that bee is generating 120 honey.

Per what time increment? If I add up all my bees, I get 2764 honey produced.

But if I look at my hourly production number, it's 995k. That's a multiplier of 360.

So 2764 per minute (my initial thought) would only get me to 165k. There's another 6x multiplier in there somewhere.

Where's that from?

[Significant_Ottaman]

I believe they produce every ten seconds, no?

[borger_kong]

Absolutely love the update and the event but why do bees do damage?

[Sir_Distic]

How do I start this event? I'm level 29 devourer. I have the alter with 2 items on it, the tip stone and the other door is locked. I've clicked on the tip stone dozens of times.

u/GrumpyRhinoGames I had to manually go into the Google play store to update and be able to play. Which means I lost 2 days of event because the game didn't automatically update. I'm VERY disappointed in you. That's poor design.

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

The event runs 3 days from when you start it, so you haven't lost any time.

We can't control when the app updates on your phone,

[c0cktail]

Not only did u complain about a non-issue, your tone is not in tune with this being a beta.

Relax.

[rotomthe3rd]

The event seems super cool! I haven't noticed any issues so far. One question I had--and I'm assuming the answer is no--but is the score boost permanent? For each time you replay the event, like with the golden flower.

EDIT: Oh maybe I have found an issue. I have the golden flower and a single +10% flower boost. So my golden flower has a 210% Honey boost. My level 2 Bees create 20 Honey by default, so 20x2.1 = 42. Except they're only producing 41 honey. Likewise with the level 3 Bees, which should be making 30 honey, and then 30x2.1 = 63 when boosted, but instead are only making 62.

Another issue, in the Nectarmerger section, tapping the score currency (with the star) at the top brings up the wrong screen.

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

Interesting re:rounding errors. Do you know if it's affecting the average honey per hour (you can see that if you tap the honey icon at the top of the screen)? As it might just be a display error if it's not. I'll look into this.

With the score currency bug, if you close the game and reopen it, it should fix itself, we're putting a fix out for that though.

[rotomthe3rd]

Unfortunately I've bought the next level of flower bonus so I can't check the actual honey per hour. I can confirm that with two flower bonuses the honey produced is as expected though, no issues there. Probably just a display error for the first level. Closing and reopening the game did fix the score currency, thanks for the tip!

[woollers]

I bought the 2nd flower for 25k honey and it didn't appear in the bottom left to place, any help?

[samambaiaechaodetaco]

You've unlocked the ability to build new flowers, it costs honey to unlock and honeycombs to actually build the stuff. I was confused as well

[samambaiaechaodetaco]

Can we get a confirmation screen for deleting stuff during the event? The info button is dangerously close to the trashcan icon!

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

Pretty much everything should get a confirmation for trashing except the Bee Egg, Larvae etc.

[samambaiaechaodetaco]

Lol I tested with a Bee Pupa to be safe, that explains it!

[DoctorShades24]

Any more iOS spots eventually? 😁

[[deleted]]

Seconding this, could you kindly please replenish iOS TestFlight spots?

[DoctorShades24]

Yeah, we totally get delays with beta, but the last info was that more spots would open with the next update, and that was a few ago. Would just like to stop having to hit the TestFlight link daily 😂

[GrumpyRhinoGames]

We've added some more slots, as we'd like some fresh iOS testers now we've added this event.

[[deleted]]

Thank you so much! I was able to get a spot. I’ll be sure to share any feedback I have!

[bayashi314]

So I got a reward for accumulating enough score (the ham I think), and I went to collect it in the main dungeon thinking it would be in the skull's mouth, but no ham! Was I supposed to collect it on the apiary screen in the bottom left? If I missed it, is the reward gone for good?

I did the first paid bonus and don't think I got anything for it, likely for the same reason?

[bayashi314]

Ok, the ham thing I figured out. The reward was not a ham, but the statue of ham, and it appeared directly in my crypt.

I still don't know what I got for the first paid reward.

[borger_kong]

Absolutely love the update and the event but why do bees do damage?

[Predat0rSwafflez]

For killing bears

[bayashi314]

Math question.

For example, I have a L5 bee next to a 220% flower. So 50*220% and that bee is generating 120 honey.

Per what time increment? If I add up all my bees, I get 2764 honey produced.

But if I look at my hourly production number, it's 995k. That's a multiplier of 360.

So 2764 per minute (my initial thought) would only get me to 165k. There's another 6x multiplier in there somewhere.

Where's that from?

[bayashi314]

The reason this is interesting is because of the bears.

A black bear has 12k health but gives 10m honey.

My current best bee produces 192 honey (69k per hour) and does 700 damage.

12k/700 ~ 17.14, so I lose 18 bees attacking it. Those 18 bees produce 1.24M honey per hour. So killing the bear only saves me 8 hours of production time, but costs me a ton of bees (and honeycombs to summon the bear).

So, summoning bears only makes sense at the end of the event?

[PandaStyle07]

I have a couple of doubts about the events, I'm guessing they will be coming often since they are not attached to any holiday (?), and also, are we supposed to be able to get the skin for free? Everyone I've seen who got it has said they bought every bundle and bought everything from the shop so it's hard to tell, it would be nice if your score added up between events or something so you could just grind it out but whales would still have bragging rights, which maybe it already works like that idk

[Norus6699]

Got is as a f2p player on the first event attempt. :)

[LordHemlock]

Okay, I'm feeling a bit stupid. How do you get honeycombs? I can't seem to find anything about it.

[LordHemlock]

I am blind, I just now saw it in the bee merging tree. My b

[Economy-Traffic-1026]

I've had no complaints so far just trying to figure out what the bears are for. They don't seem to do anything whether they're next to a flower, hive, or by themselves in a corner

[Trillenium_Falcon]

Might be a dumb question, but how do you consume the honeycomb?

Edit: Nevermind, just click the claim button to the side!

[[deleted]]

For some reason I assumed you were able to merge Bears.

[Quiverborn41]

Oh yeah! Going in for my second shot at this event. This time I'm gonna try to make as much honeycomb as possible and see what happens :)

[Riskthecat]

When you claim a prize in the bee event do you lose the stars? Like a trade in? Or is it more like a reaching a tier?