Dead Cells – Cell Farming Guide

Farming Cells will be needed at some point if you want to quickly unlock blueprints, level your Legendary Forge (which takes you 13500 cells to max out), or maybe your goal is to wear some really expensive outfits to show off a little!

Guide to Cell Farming

Keep in mind that farming cells isn’t mandatory. You can still gather a lot of cells by playing normally, this is just a more time efficient way of getting cells. I only recommend farming cells if you have too many blueprints or if you struggle with dealing little damage (which might be caused by your Legendary Forge). But beware, the game can become boring if you have unlocked everything.

Blueprints – 5.3k/h

Run

• Play on either 0/2/4BC for 1/2/3x cells.
  • Don’t farm on 1/3/5BC, there is no good reason for doing that. The cell rewards only increase on 2BC & 4BC.
• Get both doors (2 minutes & 30 killstreak door). You will speedrun towards the PotC exit and kill all the enemies on the way.
  • Try to use your skills before picking up a scroll for a cooldown reset (advanced trick).
• Restart after investing your cells into the first Collector (in the passage to PotC).

Custom Mode

Do it in Custom Mode, there are no downsides to farming cells this way!

• Seed: N/A
  • Seeds are always subject to change. There are many things that mess with level generation so you will need to find your own seed! Play with random seeds until you find a seed with “Liposuction”, a cell-doubler item, in the first biome and write it down!
    • To see the seed of your run, enable the “Display Seed ID” setting.
• Starting Gear (S-quality):
  • Any high DPS weapon (e.g. Electric Whip)
  • Assault Shield (use the Assault Boost trick)
  • Any high DPS skills (e.g. 2x Great Owl of War)
• Custom Mode settings:
  • “All weapons and skills are legendary”
    • You should pick up the items from one of the tubes before exiting the Recycling Tubes area because your starting gear won’t be legendary. For that, disable every other item that you won’t need so you get the correct items.
  • “Authorise the use of two weapons or skills of the same type”
  • “HITCHCOCK: Birds, birds everywhere!”
    • More birds will make you get more cells and help you with the Killstreak Doors.
  • “JUMPS: You can jump multiple times in the air.”

The 5.3k per hour was done on 2BC with a seed that had Liposuction in PQ. It can definitely be increased if you get Liposuction on 4BC!

Legendary Forge – 2.5k/h

Run

• Play on either 0/2/4BC for 1/2/3x cells.
  • Don’t farm on 1/3/5BC, there is no good reason for doing that. The cell rewards only increase on 2BC & 4BC.
• Aspect: “Gotta Go Fast”
• Mutations:
  • Use mutations that help go faster (e.g. Velocity) or waste less time (e.g. No Mercy, Barbed Tips, Combo, etc.)
• Route: N/A
  • Test different routes and see what works best for you! Some biomes are longer but contain more cells, others might be a little easier or harder for you.
• Get all Time & Killstreak Doors, and try to fully clear every biome (the doors are worth 20 cells each, so you could ignore a handful of enemies to get the doors).
  • Try to use your skills before picking up a scroll for a cooldown reset (advanced trick).
• Don’t spend any cells on the Collector! Destroy the door at the end of the room and move on, that way you will keep your cells until you can invest them in the Legendary Forge.
  • Talk to the Collector every time you visit him so you hand in blueprints! If you don’t do that you will lose the blueprints if you die or reset your run!
• Restart after investing your cells into the Legendary Forge.

Custom Mode

Do it in Custom Mode, there are no downsides to farming cells this way!

• Seed: N/A
  • Seeds are always subject to change. There are many things that mess with level generation so you will need to find your own seed! Play with random seeds until you find a seed with “Liposuction”, a cell-doubler item, and write it down!
    • To see the seed of your run, enable the “Display Seed ID” setting.
• Starting Gear (S-quality):
  • Any high DPS weapon (e.g. Electric Whip)
  • Assault Shield (use the Assault Boost trick, see)
  • Any high DPS skills (e.g. 2x Great Owl of War) 
• Custom Mode settings:
  • “Curse level on cursed chests:   000”
  • “All weapons and skills are legendary”
    • You should pick up the items from one of the tubes before exiting the Recycling Tubes area because your starting gear won’t be legendary. For that, disable every other item that you won’t need so you get the correct items.
  • “Authorise the use of two weapons or skills of the same type”
  • “Health Fountain never breaks”
  • “Curses leave you at 1HP instead of killing you”
    • You will still die after getting hit a second time! The first hit will take away your One-Hit-Protection and the second hit will one-shot you, except if your OHP is ready again.
  • “HITCHCOCK: Birds, birds everywhere!”
    • More birds will make you get more cells and help you with the Killstreak Doors.
  • “JUMPS: You can jump multiple times in the air.”

This was initially done with 2x Throwing Knife & 2x Great Owl of War and on a slow route. The current stated amount of cells per hour can be improved drastically!