If you’re playing Season 3 of Tiles Survive: Noctis Descent, you probably noticed one thing very quickly — lighthouse levels decide how fast you progress. The sooner you push it up, the faster everything else snowballs.
Many players grind endlessly without realizing there’s actually a very specific order that lets you level the lighthouse much faster with the same stamina and resources. Once you follow the right sequence, the difference is huge.
Let’s walk through the smartest method step-by-step in a practical way so you can level efficiently without wasting time.
Every Pass and Daily Task
Before touching any lighthouse upgrades, the first priority is finishing all available progression systems.
That means completing the weekly season pass, progressing both sides of the main season pass, and clearing daily missions as soon as possible. Intel missions are especially important because they generate massive rewards over time.
Reaching higher tiers in the season pass gives large quartz bonuses that directly accelerate lighthouse upgrades. Without doing these first, you’ll always feel behind.
Lighthouse Skills
Once your lighthouse reaches level two, it becomes critical to upgrade certain skills before activating them.
Some abilities give flat resource rewards, which means their value increases dramatically when upgraded first. Activating them too early without leveling wastes potential gains.
The efficient approach is simple: invest points into flat reward skills immediately, then activate them to start cooldowns while you continue farming.
Bonus Skill
One particular lighthouse upgrade that increases combat efficiency is extremely important early on.
This skill allows you to farm infected faster, which directly improves resource generation. Unlocking and maxing it early ensures every farming run becomes more productive.
Other upgrades, like gathering boosts, matter later but should not be prioritized over combat efficiency early.
Level 15
Infected enemies provide valuable first-kill rewards for each level tier. These rewards stack and significantly boost progression when collected early.
The best strategy is to farm infected aggressively until you reach level 15 unlock rewards before focusing on anything else.
Once these rewards are claimed, they provide enough resources to upgrade lighthouse systems more effectively.
Power Plant Collection
The power plant feature offers a large resource collection but comes with a long cooldown.
To maximize its value, always upgrade your lighthouse to the highest possible level before activating the collection. This ensures the collected resources scale with your current upgrades.
Triggering it too early results in wasted potential gains.
Farming Efficiency
Not all infected levels provide equal efficiency. The key factor is balancing quartz rewards against stamina cost.
Lower levels may provide less quartz but can be completed faster and more efficiently. Higher levels offer better rewards but require more stamina and time.
Choosing the highest level you can clear consistently is always the optimal farming strategy.
Breakpoint Reward Levels
Certain infected levels provide significant jumps in quartz rewards compared to surrounding levels.
These breakpoints make farming dramatically more efficient. Reaching these levels should be a priority because they provide better returns per stamina spent.
Farming slightly below these thresholds often yields better efficiency than struggling at higher levels.
Alliance Progress
Helping alliance members complete levels they haven’t cleared contributes to shared mission progress.
This cooperation provides additional quartz rewards and speeds up overall progression for everyone involved.
Choosing farming levels strategically can benefit both you and your team.
Once all major lighthouse upgrades and first-kill rewards are secured, progression becomes a matter of consistent farming.
At this stage, the best approach is repeatedly clearing efficient infected levels while managing stamina wisely.
There is no single perfect farming route afterward — consistency becomes the main factor.
