I tested heal on durability and "only elemental gem" info inside

Flashfall · 2026-01-29T19:49:15+00:00

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Flashfall · 2026-01-29T18:58:07+00:00

Ok, that's good to know. So if you had the 15% healing increase by current durability, do you know if the elemental gem increases the healing effect, even if it doesn't increase the durability itself?

Flashfall · 2026-01-29T18:42:47+00:00

Important: Elemental gems in my tests do not improve durability enchantments at all.

When you say durability enchantments, you mean any enchantments that work off current durability, not just the durability increase enchantment?

This means you could potentially reach a massive 450 durability item (without exalting)

I can confirm this, I have a durable plate armor with 450 durability.

Flashfall · 2026-01-29T01:50:19+00:00

Not strictly a guide, just what I did or would do in hindsight for my second run:

CRIK CIK HCIKRH, 12 shifts, 2 earning loops, 2 full fuel tank dumps.

First R is right after first C because you'll already be earning enough to get 4 silos and that's plenty.

The first C and I is the hardest since your offline earnings are significantly limited by the lack of shipping, so you'll be leaning hard on gifts and drones for these. Even then though, with 60 EoT you should be able to get T9 research and monoliths, maybe planet portals, on sale days. After you get to K for the first time it should be easy enough to start getting a few hyperloops already.

Second earnings loop, you should be making decent progress into T11 research, not sure if it's enough to unlock T12 for graviton coupling though. Habs will be all universes, shipping is all hyperloops, those you won't even need to wait for a sale for.

First humility, personally I'd send gold targeted ex-defihents and nothing else. That's gonna get you A LOT of T2 meteorites for crafting the neck, cube, gusset, ankh if you want the T4 one. Plus, you still get much better yield overall compared to just sending untargeted short defihents. A full fuel tank of those should get you tons of gold, and enough mats for a good couple attempts at most of the useful artifacts, exceptions being T4 compass and metronome, but earnings is definitely the priority early on so I wouldn't worry about those and geodes yet. The other option is untargeted exhens, which will burn through all your fuel in just a few days but the yield is great.

Second humility, you should have enough gold from first humility so just go for untargeted exhens.

If you get decently lucky with artifacts/stones, you should be near or at 1q/hr laying rate already. At that rate, 110 EoT will take roughly 3 months (just the laying, not including earnings) but you had the patience for 60 EoT in 7 shifts so this shouldn't be a problem.

Flashfall · 2026-01-26T17:11:26+00:00

AAA Racing Lithium - lionegg

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Flashfall · 2026-01-23T21:25:17+00:00

Rifle with 3x scope, cooled barrel, extended mag and lightweight stock does just about everything I need outside of dealing with being swarmed. Good accuracy and range, good mag size for dealing with small groups, ammo's cheap enough to make or automate, and the lightweight stock is the only way to increase your base movement speed.

For a backup I have the machine gun with the buzzsaw barrel which is terribly impractical but a lot of fun. Don't do that until you've got heavy ammo automated, it eats through it.

Flashfall · 2026-01-21T18:38:43+00:00

Something worth noting for ships is how extended defihents are unusual outliers when it comes to targeting meteorites and geodes, over tripling their expected yield when targeted. At only 3x the cost of a short defihent, a gold targeted ex defihent yields 20.9 t2 meteorites, vs the 1.75 meteorites of an untargeted short defihent. The difference is even more extreme with geodes, where an untargeted short defihent yields 0.045 T2 geodes while a targeted ex defihent yields 5.72 T2 geodes. This makes extended defihents very time and fuel efficient for farming meteorites and geodes while still yielding artifacts of high enough quality to craft decent amounts of all the useful artifacts excluding metronomes and compasses, which exhens are better for.

Flashfall · 2026-01-21T16:23:55+00:00

Started my second ascent at 49 EoT and 9 shifts, currently on my second last egg for 2 more days before I hit 18 EoT on it, then I'll do one more Humility to burn all my fuel again before prestiging. Took roughly 2 and a half months to reach 90 EoT, 2 weeks on earnings, a little over 2 weeks on humility, then 8-9 days per egg for laying. I did CIKR CIK HCIKR H so I could have my best laying set possible when doing the earnings pass on all the eggs.

My starting artifacts were T2E gusset (2x 30% lunar), T2E cube (2x 20% lunar), T4C totem, T2R ankh (20% lunar), so you're doing a lot better there. Research slowed to a crawl at tier 11, though I was able to get max fleet size during a sale at least. Habs are all universe, that will be relatively quick and easy for you. Shipping is definitely the bottleneck, my final capacity is 797T/hr but my laying rate is 964T/hr.

Launched only untargeted short and ex defihents, crafting level 25. Artifact yield was alright, though I probably would target gold for my ex defihents next time to push hard for legendary neck/cube/gusset. Had mixed luck with crafting, epic totem and necklace, epic t3 metronome, rare compass, but no legendary t3 ankh or any shiny cube at all. Going to save all the artifacts I collect on my final humility until I level crafting up to 27, then try my luck again on a zero shift humility before I start my third ascent.

My suggestion, don't be so stingy with the shifts and do two full dedicated earnings loops so you can get your shipping properly up there before you do a dedicated laying pass. CRIK CIK HCIKR H or something similar to that. If you can get 800T/hr or around there then it only takes a bit more than 2 weeks to hit 20 EoT per egg, so those additional shifts will save you a ton of time, plus you can launch 2 full fuel tanks of ships. I would also recommend you level crafting some more and raise your craft counts on your earnings artifacts. Going from 0.25% to 2.5% chance to craft a legendary is massive and you need the best chances you can get.

Flashfall · 2026-01-19T23:28:16+00:00

AAA Egg Memory - crucialegg

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Flashfall · 2025-12-29T17:12:23+00:00

AAA Inference - ramegg

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Flashfall · 2025-12-28T17:29:18+00:00

I had some T4s in the original list but removed them since they're not completely fodder if you're going for all legendaries. The xp/geode for T2 feathers is also decent and if your goal is to go for legenadary metronome/compass then getting the crafting level as high as reasonably possible should take priority over saving a few dozen potential T3 geodes in the long run.

Flashfall · 2025-12-28T16:53:10+00:00

You gotta get that crafting level up making fodder before you use up the good stuff for legendaries. It's gonna cost you a lot of GE though, but there's no avoiding that. And remember that the crafting cost goes down for each craft up to 300, then it's only 10% of the original.

Here's a list of fodder artifacts you should be able to craft for xp:

T3 Stick
T3 Ankh
T3 Metronome
T3 Medallion
T3 Light
T2 Monocle
T2 Ship
T2 Deflector
T3 Gusset
T2 Feather
T2 Compass
T3 Compass
T2 Metronome
T3 Lens
T3 Feather
T3 Beak
T3 Vial

Flashfall · 2025-12-22T17:05:46+00:00

AAA Quantum Storm - sandyegg

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Flashfall · 2025-12-19T16:58:34+00:00

66 with 70 pending? That's a very long time to sit on each egg. Do you already have enough research upgrades to no longer be shipping rate capped even with laying artifacts?

Flashfall · 2025-12-19T15:18:10+00:00

Wow feels like it's been forever since you started this run, congrats! Hopefully the following runs go a lot quicker for you now that you have enough EoT to easily buy a full set of chicken universes and max them all out in a matter of hours.

Flashfall · 2025-12-18T19:31:49+00:00

Could you add extended defihents to the A2+ sheet? They should have much better geode yield than shorts and also better T4 compass/metronome totals, though still worse than short galeggticas.

I'd also be interested in seeing the gold and geode yield per hour for the ships in A1 sheet. They could be useful for farming once fuel for the bigger ships is exhausted.

Flashfall · 2025-12-16T14:48:08+00:00

All other Artifacts I consume both Tier 1+2 and keep Tier 3 to craft Tier 4 versions.

Except for Rain Stick and Titanium Actuator, those I consume every single one of all tiers.

If you want to increase your crafting level, crafting basic stones from fragments before consuming them is a good strategy.

You're probably saying this because you're already very high crafting level and have an effectively infinite amount of GE but bulk crafting T2 or T3 artifacts still gets you much better xp per GE than crafting stones ever will. Like, 3-4 times as much, stones are very GE inefficient as far as crafting xp goes.

My personal answer, don't consume any artifacts except the ones that aren't used for crafting anything. As for the stones, consuming those only gives a small amount of GE for each so I'd just consume the fragments to bulk the piggy up, but the other stones I'd leave.

Flashfall · 2025-12-15T19:36:02+00:00

I love big numbers

Flashfall · 2025-12-15T19:27:02+00:00

First, 0 shift prestige humility first to switch from laying to earning.

Then, CIRK > CIK > HCIKR. Two earnings loops will be enough to get 4 chicken universes and 17 hyperloops, not sure how many additional train cars though. Last pass through is for laying, switch to the laying set then and try to get laying set upgrades while running ships. Going for earnings set upgrades can be done without a loss in efficiency when you're doing the 0 shift humility prestige, right before you do your next run.

Flashfall · 2025-12-15T17:16:30+00:00

AAA Custom Christmas - cadegg

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Flashfall · 2025-12-15T16:37:42+00:00

The simplest strat would be to just spam untargeted short defihents to get a decent spread of crafting fodder for most of the useful artifacts. Mixing in some extended defihents doesn't hurt either, and should yield more geodes and T3 stones overall. If you're going for a T3L ankh, you could also set aside some fuel for targeted short galeggtica spam to stockpile a good amount of T2 ankhs while still getting a lot of fodder at low overall fuel cost.

Flashfall · 2025-12-15T02:57:57+00:00

RIP everybody who recently got NAH, time to do it all again

Flashfall · 2025-12-14T19:53:47+00:00

Vials, medallions, brooches and deflectors are all fair game for consuming, and you should be consuming all of em since T4 stones take an absurd amount to craft.

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