5-minute guide for novice players

Machine gun

Fires very quickly, often doesn’t require homing, great to spray and pray “preemptively heck everything in that direction” playstyle. Can be of a “trigger/timer + package” type, or just a simple wrapping wand. The less chaotic the wand the better: if your wand has huge spread, or its package has a lot of projectiles, you may hit an explosive by accident and go boom.

Common structure:

Chainsaw or luminous drill ➔ double cast ➔ spark bolt (or spark bolt timer/trigger ➔ “multicast” ➔ damage modifiers ➔ the same number of projectiles for package as “multicast”).

Homing mist

This is your “shoot once per screen/biome”, lazy wand: timer releases package – a mist with some form of homing and damage increase modifier attached to it, which flies around killing everything. Very convenient (my usual go-to), but might kill you if you get polymorphed – those wands attack everything which is not player character.

Common structure:

Spark bolt timer/trigger ➔ homing spell ➔ damage modifier (damage field is the best) ➔ mist.

Homing plasma

Dangerous to the player (with one special exception, I encourage you to look up “safe plasma” build), extremely deadly – these wands kill everything almost instantly. Require a lot of attention where do you land your shots, if plasma follows an enemy which is about to hug you, you’ll get hit. If you hit a swapper mage, there’s a high chance you’ll die.

Common structure:

Spark bolt timer/trigger ➔ homing spell ➔ plasma spell. Green plasma beams dig through everything, including metals, and can be used as dedicated digging wands with no homing. Blue-ish plasma spells don’t dig well.

Accelerated homing rock

If you have unlimited spells – this is a no-brainer – you have a rock flying around dealing damage measured in thousands, instantly killing almost everything (does not work on certain ghost creatures and some other creatures, I’ll leave it to you to figure out). 98% safe to the player (polymorphine is your worst enemy as always). Slain enemies will drop double gold, if you have trick blood money perk gold will be red and heal you upon pickup. Even if you don’t have unlimited spells, you still can kick “charged” rock around the level, as soon it senses an enemy, it’ll launch again and continue slaying.

Double Explosive Projectile (EP)

This build utilizes hidden game mechanic of explosion radius increase. One explosive projectile modifier adds ~5 damage to a spark bolt, two EPs suddenly add 325 damage! Safe with most projectiles (might set you on fire, otherwise safe), if you don’t have explosion immunity perk, do not use with materials (water, blood, acid, concrete spells), luminous drills, wooden arrows (green magic arrows are safe),– you’ll kill yourself.

Mines

Try collecting 400 gold, ideally 800, grab a tablet. The best naturally spawning wand you can find is a 10-7 shuffle wand, which is a wand with 0.10 seconds of cast delay and 0.07 seconds of reload time (sort of a natural machine gun wand which looks like this )."

Coal Pits

collect ~1000 gold. Look for wands, you can try going straight to Fungal Caverns located to the left of Coal Pits – this mini biome is very dangerous, but often have great spells and guaranteed to have no-shuffle wands.

Snowy Depths

Try collecting 2500 gold. This biome usually has spell shops and add mana spells on wands granting you much needed power spike. Move slowly, don’t jump straight down if you hear electricity chances are you are hearing an ukko – one of the deadliest enemies, avoid or shoot ukko from a distance, be very careful. How to traverse: generally, try to move from right to left – less chances to get overwhelmed/get ambushed (don’t go inside the dark area). If in danger – go right all the way till you see dark brown rock, then go straight down – that is one of the safest ways to skip this biome entirely.

Hiisi Base

Collect ~2500-3000 gold. Beware of propane tanks and electrical lights. A lot of explosives are hidden inside snow, shoot and dig carefully. If you have broken wands, bottom right corner of the biome might interest you. Need healing? Dudes with green guns shoot healing bolts, charm them with your personality or get in their way while medics are trying to heal someone else.

Underground Jungle

Try collecting at least 3500 gold. Jungle is always on fire and has dangerous mages: watch for small white projectiles hitting you from off-screen.

The Vault

Very dangerous and annoying: acid baths, electric traps, lots of rusted metal (bombs cannot dig through it, but TNT can). You probably want to spend the least time in this biome.

Temple of the Art

Try collecting 6000-10000 gold. Very dangerous: swapper mages, “glowing fishtank head” socks (don’t shoot them, they’re harmless if you don’t hit them), traps, poly mages, pools of polymorphine, lots of lava, colorful crystals (don’t shoot crystals, especially green ones: they are the most dangerous). Move slowly, watch corners and walls closely, if you can, dig through the biome and get to the portal.

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