Atomicrops: High Score Guide (Version 1.4.0)

• The basic information is not described in this guide.
• Assume all Permanent Upgrades unlocked, not including cats and shrines.
• I don’t discuss special situation, like a good Time Capsule or special combo.
• Play Thyme, other characters are bad.
• Follow these strategies, you could win at lease 150,000 score (base on year 1.). Normally, I do over 200,000 each round.

Core strategies are simple:

• Clean all biomes ASAP.
• After clearing all biomes, start farming for more score.

This guide is based on 1.4.0f1 public test version.
My mother language isn’t English, wish reader understand what I wrote.
Please feel free to ask more help.

These guns always same after full upgrade.

Flying Squirrels
Master this gun for more special seeds (Sunflower, rose, heart beet)
Low hit rate and poor efficiency.

Shallotgun
Better performance at great year due to kill a enemy quickly.
High damage and Toxic spores are useful in great year.
The range is short so the risk is high

Jackrabbit 12
Better performance at great year due to kill a enemy quickly.
Not bad, but
Ricochet sometime hit extra enemies.
Knocks back enemies too much when damage is low.

Sriracha Soaker
Water Crops is useful in late game, after clean all biomes.
Very efficient in plains and jungles
Can’t knock back enemy.

Spud Rifle
Homing&Zap sometimes make trouble at biomes.
Homing is good when focus on farm.
More benefit at lower year due to low HP of enemies and no clip size .

Blunderbloom
Low damage and wild attack range make player easy to face many enemies at once.
More benefit at lower year due to low HP of enemies and wild range attack, but really bad at greater year.

Butcher’s Knife
Tell me why you use this weapon plz.

Various performance when full upgrade.

Rusty SMG
Not really good until full upgrade.
More benefit at lower year due to low HP of enemies and no clip size .

Parsniper
Only work in desert and tundra.
Sometimes shot the enemies you don’t see.

Biodegrader
Core upgrades are Fire and Triple Shot. Therefore, It performance is unstable.
Wild range attack sometimes make trouble.
Efficient in plains and jungles

Cattling Gun
It looks good, but it’s not.
Don’t go with this gun in day 3 Spring, you will be crazy when the boss is Unfriendly Worm.

Motivator >= Sprinkler Tractor > Megaton Tractor >> Wood Chipper Tractor > Tunneler Tractor = Wacker Tractor

Motivator

• Help exploration, especially for fight to elites.
• Drop extra sunflower, tree seeds and fertilize.
• Energized friends.

Sprinkler Tractor

• drop extra sunflower and tree seeds.
• Watering isn’t really important.
• After all biomes cleaned, Sprinkler Tractor better than Motivator.

Megaton Tractor

• Help exploration, especially for fight to elites.
• Expands farmland
• Instantly grows crops

Wood Chipper Tractor

• Help exploration, especially for fight to elites.
• Drop extra fertilize.

Tunneler Tractor

• Creates a tunnel back to the farm isn’t really helpful.
• Breaks a single tile of crust is useless at beginning and too slow.

Wacker Tractor

• Provide some special seeds in early game.
• The rate of weed growth is no match for the rate of cutting.
• Useless in late game.

Scrolls

Tremor＞Rain Cloud＞Anemochory Breeze >= Blood Rain

• Tremor (Fast cutting weed & tile soil) and Rain Cloud (for mega rose) help start up.
• Blood Rain do too less.
• Anemochory Breeze is a trap.

Anemochory > Blood Monsoon > Earthquake = Storm Cloud
Anemochory Aurora > Blood Spell > Flower Shower > Cataclysm

• Only Crops give more cashew, that’s why golden (Dove) and blue (Hawk) seed scrolls so high priority. Take other 3 kinds or not is depending on your farming abilities.
• Possible to get a scroll at town in non-festival day. Extra two scrolls in average in festival day. So have free slot(s) before back to town.

Animals

Usually 28 animals in a round without upgrade create extra animals.
First few animal priority: Pig > cow > Chicken > bee
Hog > Grass-Fed Cow = Turkey > Hummingbird

• Upgrades from pupa isn’t discuss here.
• Just examples, not all of upgrades.
• How many defense related upgrade you take is depending on your skill and year.

Extra time
Early to Rose
Chill Beets
Chrono Seeds
Chrono Weeds
Daylight Savings

Tractor
Backup Generator
Fertilizer Fuel Converter
Fume Additive

Give special seeds
Chicken Caliochory
Fat Grub

Save time
Track Pants
Sweatband Horse
Roach Killer
Thorn
Rake
Golden Hoe
Squirt Gun

Energize friends
Disco Ball
Zealot

Create more fertilize
Avian Placenta
Laxative

Help farming

Garden Cry
Blood Bouquet
Heart Beet Monitor
Adrenal Bulb

Do not enter Deervil’s Den until all biomes are cleared.
Note the location on paper by yourself when you find it.

Don’t take it until you have no seed scroll or valuable seed.
Take it before enter to nuclear winter.

Only take farming altar.

In first few days, have cashew for gun in next day.

• Harvest sunflower and rose is the fastest way. If no sunflower, harvest crops for shopping at town.
• Balance farming and exploration time until you are really rich. Rich means you don’t worry about no cashew to have a full upgrade gun.

Find the first tractor at desert 1 or plains 1.
Try to put more time into exploration.

• Don’t plant any tree until you have 4 seeds of the same tree, Sprinkler Tractor or Megaton Tractor.
• Have no crop in farmland when exploring at night until have defense stuff. A turret near by crops can protect from slug in first 2 days.

Day 1 targets:

• Have over 45 cashew for gun, more cashew more better.
• Exploring biome(s) as more as possible.
• Have 5 roses. (Not necessary)

Day 1 morning:

• Don’t plant any crops, directly go to desert 1.
• Clean all camps at desert 1, except for rusty car.
• Find golden pupa and kill tree monster.
• Find the bridge location..
• Harvest berries.
• Try to have over 50 fertilizer for a sunflower.

Day 1 night:
At plains

• Plant scarecrow or turret (If you have) before moving to plains,
• Exploring plains 1 until wave 2 enemies.

At farm:

• Plant meag rose(s) If have seeds. If you have Rain Cloud scroll with over 60 sec (before go to town), use the scroll to get the first day’s rose.
• If you have sunflower seeds and 50 fertilizer, plant a sunflower or a mega sunflower to Max. height.
• Do something base on what tractor you have.

Day 1 Town:
Here are some situations depending on How many cashew you have.
Lower than 30 or 45 cashew

• A bad start, restart isn’t a bad idea.
• May not be able to afford a gun.

Lower than 145 cashew

• Buy a gun without Bridge Repair Kit, it’s mean you can’t explore the jungle next day.

More than 300 cashew

• Buy Bridge Repair Kit first
• Have a good gun with upgrade(s).

More than 1600 cashew

• Same as above, better gun.
• Buy stuffs at Garden Shop.

Day 2 morning:
At farm:

• Plant mega rose If you have seeds
• Plant Bean or Prickly Pear, these crops don’t need many times watering.

At plains

• Clean all camps at plains 1, except for rusty car.
• Find golden pupa and kill tree monster.
• Find the bridge location..
• Harvest berries.
• Try to have over 50 fertilizer for a sunflower.

Day 2 night:
At Jungle

• Plant scarecrow or turret (If you have) before moving to plains,
• Exploring plains 1 until wave 2 enemies.

At farm:

• Plant meag rose(s) If have seeds. If you have Rain Cloud scroll with over 60 sec (before go to town), use the scroll to get second day’s rose.
• If you have sunflower seeds and 50 fertilizer, plant a sunflower or a mega sunflower to Max. height.
• Do something base on what tractor you have.

Day 2 Town:
Here are some situations depending on How many cashew you have.
Lower than 145 cashew

• Buy a gun without Bridge Repair Kit, it’s mean you can’t explore the tundra next day.

More than 300 cashew

• Buy a Bridge Repair Kit first
• Have a good gun with upgrade(s).

More than 1600 cashew

• Same as above, better gun.
• Buy stuffs at Garden Shop.

Motivator
Lucky! drive it when face many enemies or fight to elite.

Sprinkler Tractor
Great! Start to plant trees for extra special seeds.

Megaton Tractor
Today is yours day, but not in a high score round.
Start to plant trees on edge of farmland, Nuke trees for cashew and more farmlands.

Wood Chipper Tractor
Not really bad, at least provide fast killing and fertilize.

If you get one these two tractors below in first, replace it(s) when meet second tractor (at Spring festival or Jungle 1/Tundra 1 ).
Wacker Tractor
At least you are good at cutting weeds in early game, maybe extra special seeds, too.
Tunneler Tractor
Sad.

The enemies have no one can eat crops when fight to Spring and Summer boss, so player have extra time to explore after defeat the boss.

It can be done before Fall at year 1, before winter at year 10.
For now, assume you have

• A big farm.
• Many scrolls.

Plant Mega Sunflowers until seeds less than 4 or no 50 fertilize.
Use seed scroll. If time and fertilize is enough, you don’t need to use other 3 kinds scroll.
Plant Highest value crop in first.

Use all seed scrolls if possible
Harvest all sunflowers, roses, heart beets(If necessary) after kill winter boss.

Full of farmland by high value crops.
Prepare to use scrolls If you have seed scroll(s).

Use all seed scrolls, can combo with other scroll.
Harvest mega sunflowers.
Harvest (mega) trees.
Don’t forget to drive tractor.