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[Mictlantecuhtli]

Alright. We all know Cookie Clicker and its majesty.

Sandcastle Builder (working title) is an OTTification of the heretical game Cookie Clicker (created by Orteil, link not provided for your protection) by the OTTer Eternal Density. The game involves clicking on a newpix (i.e. a single frame of Time) to dig sand. Sand is made into castles, which can be spent on various tools which help the player produce sand and castles more quickly. Boosts can also be purchased to provide a variety of benefits, and performing certain actions will earn the player Badges.

http://castle.chirpingmustard.com/ <- So does this guy. But I think the 'end game' of sandcastle builder doesn't exist. I've been trying and trying for about a month now.

Someone decided to take the notion of 'Idle game' to another level.

Sandcastle Builder is a game of paradigm shifts. All Idle games have them, the Lollipop farm in candy box or the silliness of CC getting out of hand and resulting in trillions of cookies a second.

Well, SB is chock full of this. I'm serious. It's difficult to describe the progression of SB. It's chock full of mechanics and things and stuff.


I will not talk about the mechanics themselves, because the game starts off very slowly and the reveal is one of the best parts to me.

Bonus spoiler:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I will tell you to 'molpy' down once you reach Newpix 3. This will save some hassle later on.

The kinds of links for people who wish to learn more/guides/hints/etc [I highly recommend trying it on your own first and using them for reference]
http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Sandcastle_Builder

http://www.reddit.com/r/SandcastleBuilder

This game has been getting plenty of love from reddit and the developer is actively making the game more transparent/!!FUN!!.


Go ahead.

Try it. Good luck escaping.

And for sanity sake, put things in spoilers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'm currently trying to get my panther Salve to 200. Not sure exactly what will happen once I do.

[RedKing]

I....but....wha?

Things are happening and I don't know why! I'm scared!

[Glloyd]

I remember when this started, it was nowhere near as... INSANE as it is now.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

The game becomes quite further engrossing once you get to the

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Swedish, JA

upgrades.


Oh, and don't play this without an autoclicker handy.

[DoomOnion]

The progress is so painfully slow!

[Xantalos]

...PTW.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

The progress is so painfully slow!

I agree. I'm currently on Newpix 565, after about.. a month and a half..

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And there's 2,000 Newpix slides.

But trust me. After the initial periods of waiting and waiting, it gets incredibly unique.

Spoiler: Slightly-Early-Helpful-Strategy (click to show/hide)

By the way, to anyone reading, get FRACTAL SANDCASTLES as soon as you can. Then get it to 60+ [I think! I was safe and did it at 61] and Molpy down. This will retain the Fractal Upgrade, allowing you to get millions of castles in your next playthrough before you ONG. This will make your game much easier and quicker to progress, especially if you get Flux capacitor before you reset.

Oh, and if your Fractal Sandcastles isn't activated as soon as you Molpy down, race to buy a Newpixbot and it should appear.

Once you get Fractal Sandcastles clicking starts to become incredibly important. Then down the rabbit hole you go.

Spoiler: Mid-game thoughts (click to show/hide)

I wish there were people as far as I am. There's very few guides on the parts of the game I'm encountering now, such as the Glass Ceilings and the Beanie Tech group. And in the case of the Glass Ceilings, it's goddamn impossible to understand the guides. I think I'll do my own user-friendly version for the people who invariably will have issues with it.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Save doesn't actually save anything for me :/

Just wasted time.

EDIT: And I'm out. That was stupid. Just shows how something can go slightly wrong and screw you. Sure I could try again and export regularly - but what if the import code screws up too? No way. Not going to bother wasting another second on this.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Save doesn't actually save anything for me :/

Just wasted time.

EDIT: And I'm out. That was stupid. Just shows how something can go slightly wrong and screw you. Sure I could try again and export regularly - but what if the import code screws up too? No way. Not going to bother wasting another second on this.

I've never had an import/export code not work right. Not quite understanding how that'd happen to you if you didn't already turn off cookies, which wouldn't surprise me. Or if you clear your cache all the time then yeah, the saving in-browser won't work.

[Lectorog]

I opened this and wow so many items. It's beginning to make sense but I'm still very scared.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Save doesn't actually save anything for me :/

Just wasted time.

EDIT: And I'm out. That was stupid. Just shows how something can go slightly wrong and screw you. Sure I could try again and export regularly - but what if the import code screws up too? No way. Not going to bother wasting another second on this.

I've never had an import/export code not work right. Not quite understanding how that'd happen to you if you didn't already turn off cookies, which wouldn't surprise me. Or if you clear your cache all the time then yeah, the saving in-browser won't work.

Nope, cookies on. Save worked, and I loaded too just to make sure, and that worked also. But then I closed my browser and reopened it and there I am clicking Load with nothing happening.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Might be your browser. I can save, close my browser, turn off my PC, and if I don't clear my cache my save will still work. [I just lose my Ninja Streak] Using Chrome.

Exports always work, though.

[Hugehead]

Wow, I'm 706 NP in and I'm still on

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

making glass blocks and chips, should I be putting all of the sand I can into that like I have been or should I save up for the upgrades I have available to buy?

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Wow, I'm 706 NP in and I'm still on

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

making glass blocks and chips, should I be putting all of the sand I can into that like I have been or should I save up for the upgrades I have available to buy?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Thing is, I'm working on that infrastructure now. I get something like 70 glass blocks/NP and 1500 chips. I focused on castle and sand production mainly, getting the Swedish/Redundakitty upgrades helps supercharge your production.

I accidentally found that the Logicat upgrade will do more wonders than farming those blocks/NP. One of the first unlocks from it is a 'locked box' that will give you 1250 glass blocks.

Of course, with Redundakitty upgrades being as ridiculous as they are at this point where I am, I can get hundreds of glass blocks and 1.0e+31 castles per Redundakitty.


General rule: If you see the upgrade, buy it when you can. Especially the colored ones.

Spoiler: How this game breaks my spirit (click to show/hide)

[Boost]
Fractal fractals
Price: 3.6e+62 Sand + 6e+61 Castles + 600 blocks

Total sand dug: 9.66e+35
Total castles built: 6.73e+32

;_;...

[Hugehead]

Wow, I'm 706 NP in and I'm still on

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

making glass blocks and chips, should I be putting all of the sand I can into that like I have been or should I save up for the upgrades I have available to buy?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Thing is, I'm working on that infrastructure now. I get something like 70 glass blocks/NP and 1500 chips. I focused on castle and sand production mainly, getting the Swedish/Redundakitty upgrades helps supercharge your production.

I accidentally found that the Logicat upgrade will do more wonders than farming those blocks/NP. One of the first unlocks from it is a 'locked box' that will give you 1250 glass blocks.

Of course, with Redundakitty upgrades being as ridiculous as they are at this point where I am, I can get hundreds of glass blocks and 1.0+31E castles per Redundakitty.


General rule: If you see the upgrade, buy it when you can. Especially the colored ones.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Do you have to do the molpy down at 3 NP for those upgrades? I didn't do it because I was way too far in when I learned about it but if it gimped me that much I think I might just have to do it anyways.