Farmer Against Potatoes Idle – Useful Tips & Tricks

Helpful Tips for New Players

Early on, class level is very important, so doing 2-3 runs with the same class is very helpful due to their innate class xp bonus based on highest level. So after rushing 1-8-50 and doing your first reincarnation, start easy labor begone (Might not be possible without some infinities), so you both get a couple of free zones, and you get the xp bonus from a 2nd farmer run.

A run should never last longer than 12 hours, and for pushes rarely shorter than 2 hours. Exceptions are if you can reach a good breakpoint like RL 750 or 2k after maybe an hour, then it’s absolutely worth cutting a run short.

Don’t waste talent points, after the initial start of an ascension, after getting 200+ talent points, you should ONLY focus reinc% nodes and residue, after getting as much of those as possible you can throw the leftover points in class xp, potatoes, skulls or combat stats after what’s needed. Order of importance is residue>reinc%.

For RL pushing, only 3 things (really) matter in this game, your gear (item rating), your residue, and your reinc%. Don’t go for a worm run to get a couple more cows, don’t go for a milk run or a brew run, all those things will come naturally.

Every run that’s not a challenge, should be a freeloader run (after your first couple of quick runs as farmer). Freeloader is so much better than every other class, simply due to high drop rate so you get more materials, so you can enhance your gear further.

Get your material conversion to 1:1,5 It’s a massive boost and allows you to purely focus the highest tier gear currently avaiable to you. Focus on highest reinc%.

Milk ascendancy (faster milking) is by far the best ascension upgrade atm, and should always be gotten on A2 and forward.

Don’t forget other classes, every time you can push their levels by 1k+ in 10 minutes or less, you should run through the other 5 classes and get those juice extra 50 talent points. But never spend more than 15 minutes on a class lvl push.

League Tips

• Tips are to always farm skulls in the highest area where your spawn rate is at least lower than 0.3s
• While farming skull disable everything except reinc + the first 3 from p3.
• For pot, disable everything except milk, ir, reinc.
• Don’t focus on highest tier but spread the pieces of gear to use most of your mats to get higher enchants.
• At the end of a reinc, look at your talent points. Check what you would get with some class runs (fl passive, reinc nodes, residue nodes by looking at the pin and do them or not). If you’re not sure how your fl reinc will end in terms of talent point, don’t spend everything. Use these flex points near the end for FL passive nodes or one more reinc node or skulls to farm p3 a bit more.
• In this league path are the most op thing, so idle for p3 to push more zones, focus on milk then brewing. Don’t forget 3-1 for whack and cow reduction.
• As everything is disabled in skull, if you notice a big increase like the confection on the screen just click from time to time. But usually I just upgrade skull or class p2.
• I don’t know what else I do that other people don’t do, but shorter reincs and being active is a plus
• At the beginning of a reinc if you don’t have the improved residue auto it can lag a bit and it will take forever to get some levels
• So maually buy 1 thing after each zone to help the auto buyer
• Early on there are super important zones to reach : 2-5, 2-8, 2-9, 3-1, 3-4
• So don’t hesitate to extend a run, or on the contrary stop one earlier to reach these zones. It’s better to do 4h +6h to reach 2-9 for example than 12h.
• If you run is 6h and you’re only at 2-7-20 then in 2h you should unlock 2-8-50 it’s worth extending the run. But if in 6h you’re at 2-6 then do another 6h run to get rl stats and get 2-8 in 6h. Otherwise you could get 2-8 in 14h if you kept your 2-6 run going on. (I gave random numbers, it’s to illustrate)

Optimized Milk Ratio for Enhanced Reincarnation

For improved experience from milk, and as a result better reincarnation level, it’s probably better to have an uneven ratio for the different categories. This gives us better returns on all the categories that can improve Reincarnation % as well as xp. In terms of raw experience it’s around a 30-40% improvement.

• Suggested formula: 1:1:2:5:2:2:1:2
• Atk/HP/Potatoes/Class XP/Skulls/Confection/A3/A3

Talents

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C9 and C10 Recommendations

• C9 A2-A4 minimum 3500 RL for fast completion, recommended 4000 RL
• C9 A5+ minimum 3000 RL for fast completion, recommended 4000 RL
• C10 minimum 7000 RL for fast completion, recommended 8000 RL

Best classes for C9-C10 are Harvester and Rancher, try to pick as many str/con/fighting efficiency talents as you can. Whack buffs, potion, some residue upgrades in atk/hp greatly helps in pushing.

Ratio Between Pet Catch Chance and Pity Cap

Since the ratio between pet catch chance and pity cap is the same, this crude chart I threw together in 10 mins is always valid (for now at least).

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Formula for Time Bonus

Formula for Time bonus to Fries for Farming (after 24 hours):

1.0 + (Time in seconds - 86400.0) / (172800.0 + (Time in seconds - 86400.0) * 0.5)