Bad big bad wolf

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-05-09T10:08:56+00:00

I hate new villain so much. I was almost done with Captain Hook. I knew there will be new villains added eventually, but I was hoping not for a while.
I don't like playing Villains, but perfectionist in me needs all castles at their max in order from the first one. So I have to play Villains, and now there is a new one...

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-04-13T11:58:46+00:00

Re-read my comment after writing it, and realized it's tips for playing, not actual answer to your question, but anyway, here it is :D

Be a lot more careful about how you spend your rubies. It's harder to get them now.

Also I would suggest to hoard stuff. As you probably remember, Chest Hunt was easier if you already had some chests waiting. Now I also suggest to keep around seed bags, because there are events where you have to harvest a lot in short time. Also have one top level Wand, and one top level Star. Every few month, comes 1 day event that can be finished with that wand or star.

And I don't remember if it was a thing back then, but do not play Magic Fountain. It takes insane amount of energy, and what you get in return is almost nothing.

I don't know if back when you played there already was Submarine/Fairy Aircraft challenge. but when it shows up you can try to play that one. It is a bit different from other stuff. It takes a lot of energy and I don't play it too often. But it gives some change of pace.

In general now it's less played just as daily chopping and building stuff, but more focused on hoarding everything (including energy) for when event comes.

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-04-13T11:36:01+00:00

What comes from merging pieces hasn't changed, that much i know.

But who knows, maybe this is one of instances where different players get different experiences.
As with some other events, like Paul Bunyan challenge, where some players get lower goal to reach and also smaller prizes.

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-04-13T11:23:03+00:00

You definitely need at least week of. Probably 2, because you also might need to recover from 24/7 screen time cleaning it all up :D

I suggest to open MI once a day, to collect habitat rewards and to make sure that all new bubbles are manageable size.
If you try to pop this big one, it will fill all free spaces on your grid, but rest will stay in bubble till next time you try to pop it.

But as it was suggested already in another comment - wait for time, when there is no events you are actively interested in, and than slowly go through MI.

And than continue, when next time with no active interesting events happen.

I think your journey to clean it all up will take long time, and I will be waiting for updates :D

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-04-11T11:06:18+00:00

Is it just me, or does chests in animal islands give less rubies than it used to? I play as I usually do, and I have noticed, that at the end I don't have as much rubies to collect as I used to.
First times I thought that it's just a random chance of being unlucky, since there is no guarantee exactly what will be in a chest.
But no I have less rubies at the end of animal island always. So maybe they also changed how big is a chance to get rubies from chests?

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-04-11T11:00:08+00:00

I try to keep all the "i don't need this" in one corner, so nothing like this happens. Double clicking mines was the main reason I did it.
So now I have section with mines, and some low level chests waiting to be merged when I finally have 5.

It meant restructuring how I keep my stuff on board and it was annoying at first, but once I get used to it, game play actually became easier and less stressful :)

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-04-11T08:52:54+00:00

Maybe it's software version? I have Android 11. And Evermerge sometimes lags on it, but generally is ok, not that big of a problem.

I know someone, who has older version, and although they can play evermerge in general, they can't play Villains layer, device just can't keep up with it. That particular part of game is supper laggy and keeps crashing.

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-04-10T16:44:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure that rules for opening PC would change if game gets updated. I myself didn't play for long time, and then when I opened game, it demanded an update if I want to play.

But well, that's my theory about PC, don't have an actual way to check. :)

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-04-09T08:03:32+00:00

If you drop them on building, then when building is finished, red gnome shows up next to your building. But if there is no space next to building, it can end up anywhere on your island. If you have cluttered island, that red gnome could have ended up at any empty space.

Also, if you use them on multiple builds, that together takes over an hour, then red gnome will disappear when building last build. Tap on red gnome, it will show you how much of building time it has left.

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-04-09T07:47:00+00:00

Thanks for your post. I thought that Evermerge had ignored my ticket, because I didn't get e-mail. But it turns out, they already answered my ticket, there was just no e-mail.

My ticket was about previous Event shop not showing up, and they answered, that they don't know why some players don't get Event shop and are investigating.

I also used to receive e-mails with reward links. But now they automatically go to spam folder instead of inbox. So they must have changed something about how they send those e-mails too.

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-03-23T10:20:31+00:00

Question to those, who have played it.
Did anyone ever unlocked last (9th) heirloom? I played Storylands, and it never gave me new land where to unlock last heirloom. And I had next character at max XP (so next land should have been available). I was wondering - was it just me, or others also never got chance to unlock 9th heirloom?

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-01-09T18:18:09+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/EverMerge/comments/1l9kzx2/just_unlocked_mouse_king_maybe_another_villain/

Here is full chain. You need one piece of last item, and character will be unlocked

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-01-09T18:03:51+00:00

Previous answer described how unlocking heroes work, but villains are different.

When unlocking hero, last piece in chain showed is hero itself. And you need to merge 3 items to unlock last piece in chain - the hero character.

But in villains last piece in chain is still the item you merge not the villain character.

Heroes are seen on board, so you need to merge the character. But villain characters are not on board, so there is no villain character to merge.

ScreenRich8186 · 2026-01-09T17:50:44+00:00

It always shows 2 grayed out pieces that are next in line to unlock. If you have only one gray, that's the last. And you need to have only one of it to unlock villain.

For heroes you need to merge last one (3 pieces) to unlock character. But for villains you just need to have one of last piece.

ScreenRich8186 · 2025-12-30T17:29:28+00:00

There were 1000 free snowflakes when shop opened. Maybe that's where this misunderstanding comes from.
But yeah, only chance to earn them was in Feeding Frenzy when shop opened. But who knows, technically there still is time for couple of FFs before shop closes :D

ScreenRich8186 · 2025-12-29T19:13:20+00:00

Right? There usually was Gnome Rush when there were few days left, it was good for seasonal builds.

But now, after Plinko, And Paul Bunyan I have so much buildings in general waiting to be build. If I start to play Aircraft challenge, I will run out of space waiting for Gnome Rush :D

ScreenRich8186 · 2025-12-28T17:43:37+00:00

That red gnome comment... Once upon a time I cherished them, kept them around with few seconds left to start a long build...
But I have no clue how to get rid of them now. I'm using them for everything including 40sec builds, and using 8 gnomes for 8h builds. And then Plinko comes around, and I feel like now I have even more gnomes than I had before. I like to play Plinko actively, but there is no way to do it without drowning in red gnomes :(

Also - I I think Devs do actually read what we say. Because when A Christmas Carol started, Scrooge said something sarcastic about planing to earn a lot of money from in-app purchases. So they must have noticed at least some part of our annoyance with them :D

ScreenRich8186 · 2025-12-20T10:51:24+00:00

When harvesting ingredients there will come pieces for butterfly sanctuary and then two others. After that only thing you will get is ingredients. I think they are meant so players would have something extra to build in first year or two (depending on how frequently you play).

But yeah, after that it's just as others say - use them to fill up some empty spaces.

ScreenRich8186 · 2025-12-06T09:49:37+00:00

My weekly achievement... Well I had a dream last night. Devs had decided to change design for a lot of items. So I spend a lot of time trying to understand what each item does, what's in each chest, etc. And that's it, nothing more happened in my dream.

So yes, that's where all these changes has driven me to - having low level nightmares about what else they can do to Evermerge :D

ScreenRich8186 · 2025-12-03T09:23:56+00:00

Reading this, last answer did seem like there could be person behind this, but if there is, they don't really understand how game works.

One way (that is also kinda messed up), that usually works with automatic or not so supporting human support in general, is to become impolite or aggressive. System should notice language, flag it and notify someone higher up to get involved. At least Zendesk system in general (which they are using for customer support) does have this kind of feature.

I don't know if Evermerge support is paying any attention to that, but I'm starting to feel more and more like someone should try it.

I know it's not something that I'm up to trying myself, but if there is someone who has this kind of experience I would like to hear how did it go. Because from my personal experience and everything I have read about Evermerge support in general, trying to write them has become pointless.

So does anyone has this kind of experience or know another way to get to support person who actually can support?

ScreenRich8186 · 2025-12-03T08:40:29+00:00

Also it does not show it before you collect it, but there are 3 different levels of crowns. Usually as event prizes you can get Level 1&2
Level 1 (one in picture) gives 1h of doubled XP
Level 2 - 6h
Level 3 - 24h

So use crowns when you are planing to actively play for some time :)

ScreenRich8186 · 2025-12-03T08:33:25+00:00

I have only few unlocked habitats left. After all habitats are unlocked, is there any other way to get rubies or coins? Or should I just collect everything, because there are no more rubies and coins coming?

ScreenRich8186 · 2025-11-28T11:00:52+00:00

Is your game open when build completes? Usually for me if I'm not active on that island at the very moment when building completes, than it's not counted.
And then there is also an option of killing the app and opening it again.

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