If you’ve hit a point where progress feels slow or you’re not sure what you should be focusing on, there are a few key things that make a huge difference. These tips come from practical experience while pushing deeper into the dungeon and figuring out what actually speeds up progression.

Helmet Upgrades

Your helmet upgrades are one of the biggest factors that affect your progress.

When upgrading the helmet, you’ll eventually reach milestone levels where the upgrade glows blue. At that point, resetting it gives you a massive base damage multiplier — usually ten times more.

However, there’s a major downside.

When you reset, your attack speed drops dramatically. If your attack speed becomes too slow, your total damage per second will actually go down, even though your base damage increased.

Because of that, you should only reset your helmet when you have enough resources to quickly upgrade it back to a reasonable attack speed.

A good rule is to make sure you can restore it to around one attack per second right after resetting. Otherwise, your damage output will feel terrible and progression will slow down.

Upgrade Priority

Not all equipment upgrades are equally important.

Your main priorities should be:

Helmet for attack speed and damage scaling
Sword for raw damage
Pants for regeneration so you can survive fights

Other gear is secondary. If you can’t stay alive, your damage doesn’t matter, so regeneration always plays a key role.

Story Progress Requires Dungeon Depth

If you want to advance the story, simply keep pushing deeper into the dungeon.

Certain items and progression unlocks appear only after reaching specific floors. Some of them require going extremely deep, sometimes around floor 500 or beyond.

So if you feel stuck in puzzles or story content, it usually means you just need to push further.

Materials

Materials become increasingly important as you progress.

Early on they’re easy to gather, but later they become a bottleneck. Manual clicking or automation alone won’t be enough.

You’ll need to rely heavily on:

Workers
Material level upgrades
Prestige bonuses

Without these, your resource gains will be extremely slow.

Key Upgrade Tree Priorities

In the rebirth upgrade tree, some upgrades are far more valuable than others.

Multipliers to material gain should be a top priority. These stack with automatic production bonuses, giving you significantly better results.

Corner bonuses that improve production scaling are also extremely helpful.

Some upgrades related to familiars or stockpiling are less impactful early on, especially if they require manual interaction or don’t significantly boost production.

Workers

Workers are critical for long-term progress.

Once resource requirements become very large, manual collection becomes too slow to matter. Hiring workers as early as possible allows your economy to grow automatically.

Meat generation is especially important because it unlocks materials and upgrades that allow everything else to scale.

Preparation After Rebirth

After rebirth, your immediate goal is to rebuild your economy.

Focus first on increasing wood production and upgrading storage. Then enter the dungeon to collect meat quickly.

A common strategy is to run until you can no longer defeat enemies quickly, then exit, upgrade, and repeat.

Material Storage Strategy

Increasing storage capacity is extremely important, especially for higher-tier materials like stone and iron.

Higher-tier materials are more expensive and harder to accumulate, so upgrading their storage gives you more long-term benefits than focusing only on basic resources.

Helmet Upgrade Timing Matters

Never reset your helmet unless you can immediately bring it back to a strong attack speed.

If you reset without preparation, your damage output drops significantly and progression slows down.

Instead, invest resources into sword damage and regeneration while building up enough materials for a safe helmet reset.

Automatic Boons and Maxed Equipment

Once equipment upgrades are fully maxed, they stop appearing as boon options during dungeon runs.

This is actually beneficial because it reduces randomness and increases your chances of getting useful damage bonuses.

Farming Strategy

There are two main approaches to dungeon farming.

Long runs allow you to leave the game running and accumulate resources passively.

Short runs can be more efficient if you clear enemies quickly, since you gain rewards faster per unit time.

The best approach depends on your balance between active play and idle progression.

Economic Growth

Improving your resource income is just as critical as increasing your combat strength.

More income means more equipment upgrades, which leads to faster progression and deeper dungeon runs.

Ignoring your economy will slow you down even if your gear seems strong.

Puzzle Progression Tips

Many puzzles require items obtained from deeper dungeon floors.

If you can’t solve something yet, it usually means you need to progress further rather than keep experimenting.

Some puzzles also involve using tools like lanterns, crowbars, and dynamite in specific locations around the camp.

Starting from Floor One Can Be Stronger

When pushing deeper, starting from floor one can actually be more effective.

This allows you to collect more boons along the way, building stronger bonuses before reaching high floors.

It often results in faster overall progression than starting from your highest unlocked floor.