New Save to First Faction Guide

This is a minimum ship & item guide for getting from the very start of the game to the first faction, Temple of Hyperion.

This guide is designed to be the minimum viable ships and items required, however it is far from optimal, and might require some slight money grinding at points to buy some of the ships and items at the missions listed. Feel free to make changes to the builds as you see fit!

I will post alternate ships at a later date in case you're coming into this with a ship not in the guide, but for now try to get a ship already in the guide and make it work from there.

Mission 7 unlocked

Ship buy 1: Rider $50

Item buy:

• Add Dmg $60

Mission 8 finish free +1 Projectile

GOOD TO MISSION 9 (single column, don’t stray for extra blocks)

Mission 10 unlocked

Ship buy 2: Rocket 500

Item buy:

• 2x $200
• 10x $400

Mission 13 finish free Circle AOE

Mission 14 aim down the deepest pit of missing blocks at the start, it might take multiple attempts but should go straight through on that column

GOOD TO MISSION 16

Mission 17 unlocked

Ship buy 3: Fighter $7000

Item buy:

• Turn Left $10 $100
• Turn Right $10 $100

Hire Captain: Earth $10K

Promote Earth 1 Rank 5 Ys

Item buy:

• Pierce $30K
• 2x $800

GOOD TO MISSION 29

Mission 30 unlocked

Ship buy 4: Backsword

Item buy:

• Trident $8000
• 2 Redirect $200
• 2x $3200 $13k

Clear missions 0-12, 14-17, 19-22, 27, 28, 32

Use Rider for mission 33

GOOD TO MISSION 34

Mission 35 unlocked

Ship buy 5: Prototype $500K

OPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: buy every ship up to and including Family Cruiser (Own 10 ships, +2 agility)

Item buy:

• Turn Left $1000
• Turn Right $1000
• 3 Split $80K
• +1 Projectile $18K
• Rectangle AOE $10K

Clear missions 18, 23-26, 29-31, 42

GOOD TO MISSION 45

Mission 46 unlocked

Ship buy 6: Scout $4000K

Promote Earth 2 Ranks 10 Ys, 15 Ys (Rank 4)

Buy Earth Talent Diligent Collector 5 Ys

Item buy:

• Turn Left $10K $100K
• 2 Split $4000
• Risky 4x $600 $6600
• 10x $1600

Clear missions 34-36, 38, 40-44, 46-49

GOOD TO MISSION 57

Mission 58 unlocked

Ship buy 7: Spaceshuttle $9000K

Item buy:

• Turn Right $10K $1000K
• 3 Split $1040K
• Damage Cross $9200K
• 2x $51K $205K $819K
• Charger $40K

Clear missions 33, 37, 39, 45, 50-77, 79, 84-86, 91

Skip World Tiers (Should be around 250)

GOOD TO MISSION 92

Mission 93 unlocked

Ship buy 8: Rocket Carrier $1600M

Skill tree: Go straight up to the Arc Left/Right skills

Item buy:

• Pierce $150K
• Circle AOE $104K
• 2x $3277K $13M
• Risky 4x $73K $799K
• Arc Left $600 $2400 $9600 $38K $154K
• Arc Right $600 $2400 $9600 $38K $154K

Clear remaining missions

Skip to World Tier 300

GOOD TO WORLD TIER 330 or so, then upgrade

World Tier 320+ unlocked (once $50G available)

Ship buy 9: Cargo Ship $50G (use same Rocket Carrier build above once unlocking ship, can fill with 2 more Arc items, use until tier 350)

World Tier 350+ unlocked

Hire Captain: Neptune $100K, use him to clear levels with his Ys talents as you unlock them (T1 Fancy Pioneer, T2 Proper Clearance, T3 Fancy Explorer)

Item buy:

• 14 Add Dmg items, 12 are needed now and 2 more will be needed later.

Skill tree: Go straight up to the 2nd Add Dmg skill as shown in the skill tree to the right

Fill up to 4 slots at the beginning of the path with Add Dmg items, then fill all empty slots off of the path with Add Dmg items also, as shown in the ship build to the right

Note: the 2nd Add Dmg skill gives +20 damage for each Add Dmg item in the ship, so your 4 Add Dmg items on the path will each have +240 damage from the 12 total Add Dmg items in the ship!

World Tier 450+ unlocked (or $500G available)

Ship buy 10: Transmitter $500G

Item buy:

• Damage Cross $175M
• Money Cross $1100K
• Turn Right $1000K $10M
• 3 Split $14M $176M $2285M
• 2x $52M $210M $839M

Work towards the 2x skills in the bottom-left while going up tiers (should be reached at tier 650)

After reaching tier 710 and finding a Hyperion outpost, join your first faction!