Useful links. Facebook page(. Challenge final boss levels sheet((note: solos have since been changed). Wikia page(guys, Bob here.

You can visit the wiki. @ Social → Wiki.

If you’re finding yourself in this strange new world, you’re not alone. In this game you can team up with other players to complete challenges or just grind out the experience you need for that next level.But perhaps you want to know more about this world. That is why you are here, are you not? Fortunately for you, I have documented my own travels and shared my experiences in this handy littlewell, I can’t really call this a book now, can I. But I digress — let’s get to what we’re here for.### Feature Explanation.Hunting Monsters.The first thing you’ll notice is the combat. It shares some parallels to Clicker Heroes in that you must defeat the enemy within a certain amount of time (starts at 10 seconds for normal mobs and 2.4x the time for bosses). Failing to defeat the enemy in time will reset the enemy health or even kick you back a stage, with no rewards for the partial effort.However, the second thing you’ll notice is that you have a limited attack rate.

You make an auto attack every 2 seconds (before upgrades) and can manually attack on a similar 2 second cooldown. Both of these attacking styles start with your base damage stat, but have separate upgrades to increase their damage further. The limited attack rate serves as a bit of a discouragement to auto-clickers, and helps keep the server from getting fried as every single attack sends data to the server (this is also why upgrading attack speed becomes extremely costly with gold from such an early point).At this point, you can progress through the worlds by killing the designated number of monsters on each stage. Once you have finished all the worlds available to you, you’ll have met one of the conditions for ascension (which lets you take on the same set of stages again, but at a higher difficulty, once you’ve reached a certain level). I’ll discuss ascension a bit more later.Challenges.Challenges are one of the features listed in the “Game” menu. In challenges, you may take on special instances filled with bosses. There’s five instances normally available at any time, and five possible difficulty levels.

These instances also come in three party sizes: Solo, Duo, and 6-Man Group. Solo challenges of any given stage must be completed to unlock the respective Duo and Group modes, which are considerably tougher.Each combination of instance, difficulty, and party size is separately tracked.

Completing an instance entirely awards you with a small increase to your base damage, and each boss defeated earns you a few Diamonds, some Activity Points, a bit of Gold, and Challenge Points. All prizes are one-off rewards, only given upon first completion of each boss/instance.Challenge Points are added together, and as you reach certain milestones you will get a rather decent boost to your base damage stat. Generally, do these challenges when given the opportunity to earn new rewards. Refer to the link posted at the top of this post for a quick summary of boss levels you’ll be expected to beat to fully clear these instances.Woodcutting.Woodcutting is also found in the “Game” menu.

Here you will find a forest of trees waiting to be chopped for wood.Protip: Holding the Enter key unlocks the secret “chainsaw” mode. Use it well.;)Doing this activity requires woodcutting energy, which regenerates 1 every 20 minutes. Each energy spent on a tree reduces its HP, and once the tree’s HP is 0 you harvest its wood. If you run out of energy while in the middle of a tree, you can click the X button in the top right to save your progress until you return with renewed energy.Woodcutting upgrades require either the wood resource or some Activity Points.Mining.Mining is in the “Game” menu too. In this place you’ll find precious rocks that you can use in other places.Protip: Holding the Enter key unlocks the secret “drill” mode. Use it well.;)Doing this activity generally requires mining energy, which also regenerates 1 every 20 minutes. Each energy spent on mining reduces the durability of the selected tile by 1.

Every tile always starts with 10 durability, and once that durability is reduced to 0 you’ll receive some amount of stones based on your current depth. Clearing the last tile of a floor also gives you 10 Crystals and 10 Diamonds.

On rare occasions however you may find 25 Diamonds (1% chance), 100 Diamonds (0.1% chance), or even 400 Diamonds (1 in 10,000 chance).You may also use Dynamite to reduce the durability of all remaining tiles a random amount from 2-6. Dynamite does not use mining energy, but it is a resource you’ll have to buy with Activity Points.When a floor is cleared, you have the option to upgrade the mining depth or to reset the floor and start it over again at the current depth. Depth upgrades can be paid for with either the wood resource or Activity Points.Space Expeditions.The universe is vast, and many resources are out there waiting to be claimed.

Gold, Activity Points, and even Diamonds are up for grabs for those willing to take on the space expeditions. Expeditions are yet another feature on the “Game” menu.In short, you set an expedition to run for a specified resource and a certain amount of time, and you’ll get the chosen reward when it arrives. You don’t pay anything to start these expeditions, and always get something out of it, so it’s always worth doingthe tricky part is finding expedition times that can fit into your schedule.You can also upgrade your ship.

These upgrades require Expedition Points, which are earned by finishing Expeditions. Among the upgrades are chances for expeditions to bring back more rewards, reduced chances of “failed” missions that bring back fewer resources, shorter expedition time, and additional slots to send more expeditions simultaneously.

The additional slots are the most important upgrade, though also by far the most expensive.Soul Orbs.On one otherwise uneventful adventure, ten orbs of immense power were discovered. One of them was severely damaged on the way back to town, but the other nine made the journey fully intact. Upon studying these orbs, a way to recreate these magical relics was discovered.

Word began to spread, and soon everybody was setting out to collect the spirit crystals from their Mining pitsIn short, with the Soul Orbs feature you can empower yourself with these ancient artifacts. Crystals (normally obtained from the Mining feature) will be the primary resource used to construct the orbs of your choice. Once constructed, you will gain a percentage multiplier bonus towards the stat listed on the orb.Being objects of magical power, of course, there is also a way to enhance the soul orbs. To improve the stat gains from an orb, you will need Sacrificial Offerings. By clicking the “Sacrifice” button in the upper right of the main interface, you will be able to spend gold and/or crystals to obtain these sacrifices. The gold amount starts at 100k gold and rises by a power of 10 with each daily purchase, resetting the price to 100k at midnight.

The crystal amount, meanwhile, is always 10 crystals for 1 offering.Once you have the Sacrificial Offerings, you may choose any unlocked orb to use them on. Each sacrifice grants soul exp to the orb, and each level increases the bonus by a small amount. Once the orb reaches level 100, it advances 1 star tier and boosts the stat bonus quite substantially to boot. Higher star tiers, in addition to providing a bigger bonus, also start requiring more exp per level.1-star: 1x starting bonus (which is 2% or 5%, depending on stat type), and 100 exp per level2-star: 4x starting bonus (8% or 20%), 500 exp per level3-star: 9x starting bonus, 2500 exp per level. ### Progressing in the Game.Ascending.In this game there are Ascension Tiers.

These tiers grant you access to powerful ascension perks, with more points available to spend at the higher tiers. There are also more features that can unlock with ascension as well, such as the Pet Arena after reaching Ascension Tier 1 (AT1). (At the time of writing, the Pet Arena is the only standalone feature unlockable through ascending.)Ascending does not remove.anything. from your character; it simply changes the level of the monsters you fight in all of the zones (and for the first two ascensions will require you to fight through all the stages again). Because these are different level monsters for different Ascension Tiers, players cannot group up with anybody outside of their tier for hunting experience (players can always group up for Challenges though, regardless of Ascension Tier).Below are the requirements that need to be met in order to ascend.

Currently, finishing the last stage available to you on your current tier grants you a 30% boost to exp rates if you have not yet reached the level threshold to ascend.- AT1: Level 40, complete world 5.- AT2: Level 75, complete world 7.- AT3: Level 130, complete world 10.When advancing to a new Ascension Tier, your Ascension upgrades are reset for free and you are given more points to work with. Here are the total amount of points you have at each ascension level (not counting those points earned from your guild Fortress):- AT1: 10 Ascension Points- AT2: 25 Ascension Points- AT3: 40 Ascension PointsYour card drop rate also improves. Here is the drop rate for each level, as shown in the character page:- AT0: 1/2500- AT1: 1/1500- AT2: 1/750- AT3: 1/500 (note: multiple cards can drop at once, depending on Inferno Difficulty chosen, but the rate at which cards will appear always stays the same)After reaching level 200, a special extra something happens: You begin a new set of levels — the Inferno Levels — with drastically reduced experience rates (it’s almost like you’re starting over again, it’s that much of a drop). However, achieving a level on this new level curve is.much. more rewarding! Every Inferno Level you push for will earn you:- 1 additional Ascension Point- +2.5% multiplier to overall damage on your main character- +5% to pet damage- +3% additional gold gains- Cap increase on the Auto and Click Damage upgrades by 10 levels (these levels are considerably more potent than levels previous to the softcap of upgrade level 200).Pet Arena.After ascending the first time, you will unlock the second pet slot purchase (which costs 25 AP) and the Pet Arena. Inside the Pet Arena, your pets will face off against challenging monsters using only their own stats — your main character’s progress has no influence here.

Each stage is increasingly more difficult to defeat, but if you want to power through a tough monster there are AP purchases available to help with that one battle.The battles themselves are turn-based. When you click the “Attack” button, your pets will both strike at the enemy once, and then the enemy monster will deal damage to both of your pets in roughly equal proportion. The health stat of your pets comes into play here, for if both of your pets are reduced to 0 health, you lose the battle. If one of your pets reaches 0 health, the other pet can keep on fighting but the enemy’s entire damage will be focused on that one remaining pet. You win if the enemy monster is reduced to 0 health.If you have invested AP into a battle that you will end up losing, it is advised to not finish the battle.

AP spent on the pet arena buffs and heals will be refunded if a battle is in progress at the time of the daily rollover at midnight Eastern time.When you win, you gain a number of Pet Points (equal to stage number x10) and some pet food. A first-time clear awards 10 times the normal amount of Pet Points, and a lot more food. Pet Points may be spent to modify each pet’s stats as follows:- Damage: +20% base damage per level- Double Attack: +0.25% chance per level to do x2 damage- Critical Rate: +0.5% chance per level to increase damage by the critical damage modifier- Critical Damage Modifer: +2% per level, starts at a base value of 20%Each pet must be upgraded separately. Damage is by far the best of the upgrades to get early; it’s far more cost effective. To put it in perspective, the math says that Double Attack’s first level becomes cost effective after the sixth upgrade to Damage, Critical Rate’s first level after the seventh Damage upgrade, and Critical Damage is so abysmal due to the almost nonexistent Critical Rate I probably wouldn’t touch it for a long, long time (at least until level 15 damage).Stamina/Mana.After reaching level 101 you may notice two new numbers in the top left corner of your hunting screen. Stamina and Mana are an extra limitation on manual grinding, which limits you to a burst of speed every so often and prevents people from just auto-clicking their way up the levels at this point. Both of these start at a cap of 500 points, and can be upgraded to higher caps with gold.

Each type of energy will regenerate 2 points per tick of a 60-second timer; the timer can be reduced through gold upgrades and the energy regeneration can be increased with ascension perks.Clicking an enemy requires 1 Stamina.Using abilities requires varying amounts of Mana:- Time Freeze: 1 Mana- Splat: 5 Mana- Speed Boost: 10 Mana- Damage Boost: 10 Mana- Crit Chance Boost: 1 Mana- Crit Enhancer: 1 Mana. ### Recommendations and Advice.Codes.Initially, the game may seem to be excruciatingly slow to start. Social media codes can help by giving you a rather notable amount of resources or card packs that can help boost your damage. Codes fall into one of three categories:- Rando codes (resources): One randomly selected resource type- Rando packs (cards): One randomly selected card pack- Special occasion (usually events): One or more resources, usually fixed amounts (if included, gold scales with character level)Gold is a fairly common reward from the “rando codes”, but it is also possible to find Activity Points, Diamonds, Wood, Stone, Pet Food, and Expedition Points.

Recently, Crystals and Sacrificial Offerings for soul orbs have also started showing up.Gold scales with character level, Wood scales with your Woodcutting Forest progress, and Stone scales with your Mining progress. Everything else has fixed base values. In addition, you may get a lucky multiplier on your rewards, increasing the base amount to 2x, 3x, or even 5x the standard amount!Codes generally look something like this: 481FAC0361D157D9673ECB926AF5AEI would advise waiting to reach at least character level 10 before you start claiming codes. The gold reward has a substantial increase for those first few levels. Once you feel you’re ready, visit the Facebook page (link’s at the top of this guide, or in game under Social → Codes → Codes?) and claim all the codes posted there that haven’t expired — codes are usually good for two weeks.What to upgrade.Gold currency upgrades:.

Highly recommended to get at least level 3 Coin Count ASAP. After that, focus on other gold-increasing upgrades (Gold Rate, Triple Loot) or improve your auto damage. Follow up with the other Hunting upgrades. Ignore Stamina/Mana upgrades until they become relevant at level 101+, but even then, you probably won’t need those.Spread points around to reach level 5 in most things when it’s convenient; these levels are both the cheapest and most potent. Later on, make the jump to level 10 and eventually level 25 upgrades when those feel convenient.Auto Speed, though quite useful in end-game, can be extremely expensive to upgradeso I’d ignore going past level 5 for a while (unless you really feel like dumping AP on it early, but I’d suggest to push it up to 10-15 with gold before switching to AP).

Stamina and Mana upgrades are not used until after character level 100; depending on what your playstyle is like then, you may or may not wish to invest in these.After reaching level 25 upgrades in pretty much everything, try to work with other players you regularly party with. Split up the enemy-affecting hunting upgrades (notably HP Reduction, Treasure Hunter, Easy Loots — though Time Extend also counts, leaving it at 25 is fine) between each person; the highest upgrade level among party members is the one that gets applied to the enemy monsters.

These hunting upgrades currently cap at level 100, though, so this will be a relatively short-term deal.Diamond currency upgrades:. Highly recommended to use your diamonds towards the Account upgrades. Experience boost is preferable, but Gold boost is also a nice thing to have.

Get each to level 10 at least before even considering other uses of diamonds (whether that be AP, woodcutting/mining energy, or the double card week buff). Players in Ascension Tier 3 (aka Inferno) can make good use of the double card buff; it is not recommended before that point.Wood upgrades:. Used in woodcutting upgrades as well as the mining depth upgrade. Which one to favor depends on what you feel you need more of at the moment — generally the cheapest useful upgrade wins out for me, but you might want to favor one or the other more heavily depending on your needs. Avoid Gold Logging, you don’t want to sell your wood.Stone upgrades:.

Primarily should be used to upgrade guild buildings. Could also upgrade mining max energy with it.

Not worth selling for gold.At the time of the most recent edit (November 2015) there are five guild buildings. In the short term, the Guild Hall is probably best as it will allow your guild to recruit more members, thus improving the rate stone can be donated towards other bonuses and hopefully improving your guild’s sense of community in general. Long term, I would suggest Fortress and Warehouse above Altar and Stables — Fortress will be helpful for picking up extra ascension perks especially to players who haven’t reached AT3 yet, and Warehouse will also allow you to progress faster with the guild upgrades.Crystal:. Used primarily to unlock Soul Orbs. Could also be used much, much later on to exchange for extra sacrifices to power up your orbs. I wouldn’t sell these for gold, even if 100k looks like a tempting amount at first (the aforementioned codes usually have enough gold to get started on.).Trophy upgrades:.

Reducing the longest cooldowns is generally best for idling — consider the Expedition, Woodcutting, and Mining Timer Reductions as your best options for this. Skill timer reductions aren’t immensely useful, even in challenges.Ascension Points upgrades:. Whatever the situation calls for, if you can tolerate the micromanaging of these perks with the always free resets.

Contents Useful External Link. is the only publicly-accessible spreadsheet currently available in the IOU community for all calculation purpose. Written by Porkbob, Gameinsky, Jiecut, Momo, Koin, IndigoFerret, Edu and the original authors Brouwer and Padd1ngtonbear. is a great source of information and community.

Whether you need help with challenge, looking to join existing guild. Or just want to look around for guide and sheet. is a free desktop client to minimize CPU usage with built in features, used by over 300 players. Constructed by. were often randomly generated alphanumeric strings of 30 characters, but now they are words or phrases with no spaces which can reward players with Currency which is very helpful for players. Codes last for 1 week and are given via multiple platform such as and.Ascension Tier 0 (level 0 - 40).

Go to Social. Join the highest level random guild available (don't be afraid to quit and rejoin to find the highest one). Find in guild interface. Click check-in to claim your first daily reward. Click then type the name below to search for AT0 carry.

AT0/Easy: 'Level' (open join). AT0/Easy: 'CarryOn' (open join). AT0/Easy: 'Tzeren' (open join).

AT0/Easy: 'ascend0' (open join). AT0/Easy: 'Iampeeinguser' (open join). Farm up 500 gold and buy your 1st. Don't train your Pet yet. Use your first 250 diamonds for (VIP) Exp Boost to 3 and Gold Boost to 2. Try to upgrade both of this equally until they are both level 10​​​​​​. Check current.

All events are doable from the start. Events provide a free resource to speed up your game. For, Unlock speed boost first then damage boost. You can always reset your ability point for free. Check on how to invest point.

Focus your on Coin Count, Gold Rate and Huge loots. Let the carry do damage for you (turn off upgrade confirmation via setting) DON'T USE ANY AP TO UPGRADE. Level 5 unlocked. DON'T CLICK USE ALL. Click on the tree until you cut it. Youtube story book for preschoolers.

Then click forfeit. Unlock the new tree when you have enough gold. (you should spend 10 energy or less.

Save your energy for now). Level 10 unlocked. Use 16 energies to clear early floor for some stone. Use stone to upgrade the energy cap.

Level 15 unlocked. You won't have enough damage to do anything yet.

Skip it for now. Level 20 unlocked. Set your ship to do pet food expedition and fast track it until your run out of fuel.

Level 30 unlocked. Use your crystal (from Member's Club) to unlock Fish Value and Mining Damage orb. Go to activity - fishing. Choose your avatar (Harambe ftw) then place your character and set auto fishing to on.

Don't use any on Virtue yet. Once you use all your net. Sacrifice all fish meat for. You should have enough to upgrade fishing orb to 2. Level 40 let you ascend to Tier 1. Quit your party and do it asap. There's no reason to stay at AT0.Ascension Tier 1 (level 40 - 75).

Click find party then type the name below to search for AT1 carry. AT1/Medium: 'blueracoon' (open join). AT1/Medium: 'WonkyToaster' (open join). AT1/Medium: 'Tzoren' (open join).

AT1/Medium: 'ascend1' (open join). AT1/Medium: 'Iouhasqueef' (open join). Buy your second pet for 25 AP​​​​​​.

AT1 grant access to. You need. 15 Party Boost (+exp and +gold when you are in a party). 3 on Pet Training (+300 based exp per training). 2 on both Woodcutting nrg+ and Mining nrg+ (for 3x more nrg regen).

10 on both Woodcutting Damage and Log gain (mainly used for tree unlock). All remaining point should go to gold boost and xp boost. You can reduce your wood cutting damage and log gain if you don't have enough.

You can now train your pet. Go to pet tab and start training.

Go to woodcutting tab. Start using 1 energy each to cut tree and then forfeit when you gain enough log to upgrade your tree. Upgrade tree level grant diamond, gold log and pet food. Upgrade your.

Axe Sharpening Log Splitting = Critical Axe Weak Point. Energy should be upgrade depend on how active you are. You should have a lot of pet food just by unlocking new tree. Feed them to one pet until it reach new tier first as higher tier give more DPS. Go to mining screen.

Don't use any energy yet. Use your wood to unlock depth as deep as you can.

Then use all of your mining energy. Claim your energy usage reward then go to soul orbs. Use the crystal from reward to unlock gold rate orb. Go to social guild. Invest stone to any then upgrade Building of your choice. Upgrade both VIP Exp Boost and VIP Gold Boost to level 10 and start saving diamond for 2nd expedition ship (2500 diamonds).

You should have enough DPS to try out Challenges now. Do a few solo one and queue duo and group challenge while leveling. Challenges play a major role in your DPS gain.

Level 50 unlocked. Don't claim anything yet, Try to do your pet arena as high as you can without using AP. Level 75 will let you ascend to Ascension Tier 2.Ascension Tier 2 (level 75 - 130). Click find party then type the name below to search for AT2 carry. AT2/Hard: 'Lili3' (open join). AT2/Hard: 'Helper1' (open join).

AT2/Hard: 'ascend2' (open join). AT2/Hard: 'Unusualboner' (open join). AT2/Hard: 'Nei' (open join). You will need to reassign your Ascension Upgrades (same setup with AT1). Your next soul orb unlock should be Auto Damage. Once you save up 2500 diamonds, buy your 2nd expedition ship (4th slot).

It comes with 100 which you will use for ship arena unlock later. Level 130 will let you ascend to Ascension Tier 3 but don't do it yet. You need to upgrade all your world upgrade to max (except Time Extend) and some of before ascending as there's no permanent carry there. Ascending without this upgrade will make your life miserable.

You can even ascend at level 200 if you want.Pre-inferno Ascension Tier 3 (level 130 - 200). There is no permanent carry on AT3, so your DPS matters here.

You will need to reassign your Ascension Upgrades. Recommended going full damage with 10/10 wood ascension. You can now move monster freely. And you should start farming for each monster (except boss on every 5th stage) 100 for each monster should be your immediate goal.

You can change monster to max 15 (Rule of thumb 6-8 seconds kill time is good for exp until later stage)Early Inferno level (level 200 - 400). Congratulation on reaching stage. This is where the real game start.

You can now freely change monster and is now under the effect of, you will gain reduced exp, gold and card rate. If you don't contribute enough DPS to the party (10%, 6.66% and 5% for 2, 3 and 4 man party respectively). level 200 unlocked (via expedition tab). Largest AP source of the game and which is use for.

You need 25 ultinum and 10 i-matter (you will gain 25 i-matter from 8th ) to buy your first arena ship. Refer to IOU-Multicalc sheet for ship guide. You can also reset your Soul orbs unlocked with 10 crystal and unlock Ship Orb to help with arena challenge too. Once you are done with Ship arena. Reset your and put it into fuel generation and Expedition Increase.You need a lot of. Use the leftover Ultinum to level up (Fuel Station).

Always go for Pet Food Expedition and reset your ship orb. You don't need it for awhile. Focus your Lab Upgrades on fish stick.

Will increase your daily SO gain. Leftover point should go to Efficient Output and Ascension Points. Use to upgrade Fish jackpot. Save diamond for the (5k). Try to time it with fishing orb 3. Fishing boat also give 100 additional fishing net. Don't forget to up min rarity when auto fishing.

Each subsequent boat (up to 5) also grant additional 100 net for 1k diamonds. Abused this gain to upgrade your fishing orb to 4. if you can.

As a rule of thumb for go for Rod then Tackle until level 4 then start upgrade Tackle first while keep Bait and Tackle 2 levels below. The only goal here is to get more level while trying to farm card on all mobs except bossNewbie Inferno Hell (level 400 - 1000). There is a major increasing in needed per level after level 400. Most newbie give up at this stage of the game. This stage take months of playing to get though (even if you get carried, you still need to catch up on card and economic part). Start finding a new guild such as booster guild for newbie if you have not join one already.

There's a few player who offer to carry newbie through this stage. You can check IOU Discord for more info. Start adding ascension point to Fish value, Mining yield and card drop yield. You may consider getting Double card (250 diamonds - 7 days) buff and start putting P-Core in other lab upgrades (except click).

Your lab upgrade at this point should look like this.FishPet=AutoAscCardClick.