The Long Climb
Hey everyone! v1.3.4 rebalances ascending, the roster, crits and slices from the ground up. Some of you were reaching the Archivist in a single sitting, and Cosmic could snowball until nothing else mattered. Progress is a staircase now: every character is a real step up, and every climb is a bit longer than the last. Reaching the Archivist takes around 50 hours.
The update is free and should already be downloading.
🌙 New: Sleep Mode
Leaving the game running? Sleep mode turns the screen black and keeps the beach earning: idle income, pearls, the Auto Collector, the Screen Sweeper, the Feeders, Rindlock's Cannon, the Black Hole and storms all keep paying. It's worked out instead of drawn, so it barely touches your computer. Open it from the Menu, or have it come on by itself in Settings → Display. Click or press any key to wake.
🔪 New: The Whetstone
A new slicing upgrade: every slice pays 5% more a level, up to ×50.
⚖️ The Balance Pass
- Ascending pays on everything you've ever earned: each ascension pays what the run added to your lifetime total. Doubling your Cosmic takes eight times the bananas, so short runs repeated no longer pay best
- The roster is a staircase. Each character's prices start a clear step above the last one's, and the time between hires grows as you go
- Clicking is balanced for an autoclicker, around 20 taps a second. Click upgrades pay less per tap to match, and the Cosmic buff grows more gently
- Shops open in order: a character's structures open once you own 10 of everything the character before them sells
- Buy All buys whatever pays for itself soonest, at the rate you're tapping
- Cosmic ranks are gentler and dearer: a full track multiplies a structure by 21
- The sky holds up to 105 points. Crit chance from it stops at 15%, and a few of the biggest stars are toned down
- Slices pay a fixed number of bananas, not seconds of your income. There's one slice for each character and it opens with them, so the newest slice is the one worth catching. Ranks start gentler and climb steeper: a maxed slice pays ×129,600
- Crit chance on gear only rolls on Legendary and Mythic items. Lower-tier items and sets that had it give click power instead
- Daily login: day 3 gives 50K bananas instead of a pearl
💾 Your Save: Restart or Carry On
If you played before this update, the game asks you once: start fresh, or continue? I just reworked the entire game's balancing, so you'll likely have a better time restarting. A restart takes you back to Chad and you keep all your banana gear (levels, stars and all), your tokens, looks, achievements and Battle Pass.
Carry on instead and you keep every character you've hired, your gear, missions and achievements. Your Cosmic is set to what your newest hire needs, your ranks and sky points come back to spend again, and a fresh run starts. Either way, a backup of your old save is kept next to it.
📊 Share Play Stats
New in Settings → Online. It tells the game server which screens you use, how fast you tap, how far you've got, your language and any errors the game hits, so the balance can follow how the game is really played. It's on by default; switch it off any time.
This is a big shake-up, so if a climb feels too slow, too fast, or something breaks, tell me in the discussions or the Discord. I'm reading everything. Happy clicking! 🍌💛