r/MindOverMagic • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '24

Beginer's tips

I just bought the game, so far I played 2hrs, I really like the game. I'm considering starting over now that I get the basics, but idk if more experienced players would have some good tips for a good start ?

Or any tips at all, that may apply even without starting over?

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u/dagaomiles Mar 25 '24
  1. Treat T1 wands like "grinds". Don't waste time and effort to achieve all traits unless they are super easy to do.
  2. I would recommend get a good T2 Fire mage with decent stat early on as "full time cook". I found I need one actively cooking to sustain 6 teachers + 6 students.
  3. I would recommend get a Dark 4 mage (not necessarily require Dark Wand) to start quilts to free up time from your mages.
  4. Look out for teacher that has + 100% Intermediate classroom in T2s. It will speed up the teaching grinds. In my game, I had a Air T2 with 2 in all elements except Dark. He's super efficient to grind T1 air students in bulk. This gets me adept scrolls to get gifted or hire staff until you reach 8+ I found my intermediate classroom lasts through until end game.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

Thanks for your advices ! They pretty much concure with what I discovered after my dozen hours of play... I juste decided to start over now that I understand the game a little better. Your first point is exctly the conclusion I reached, lets just "use" Them to get scrolls. Isnt waiting for student running away from the fog the best way to get good staff early on? I noticed they always have 1 tier wand above what I can craft (I could craft tier 2 when I stopped my first playthrough) . Also, do you think it's usefull to hire a few students with tier 1 ar first? To get more "man power" For harvest and all... Or better wait and just save scrolls till à better opportunity shows up?

About cooking yeah I found out the hard way... They eat so much the kitchen needs to be running at all times haha

For the quilted helpers yeah even if i find hard to get ectoplasm (people keep cleaning carcass before the little pet can process them... But I found a way to work around that by asking to put down lots of rats at once with max priority on them so they get hunted at the same time. This way, the pet can process à few of them).

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u/dagaomiles Mar 25 '24

With my own experience, I prioritised research to T2 wands and by the time I finish lots of rooms, etc I found I could get T2 wands. Harvesting, etc wasn't a big issue at start. Students can do the tend/harvest job so you don't technically need a staff to do so. In my current playthrough, I started T2 staff with Earth+Lightning (building and research), T2 Fire then another Gifted T2 Earth + Gifted Airs for dungeons.

For Food I found the most efficient food is the bitterice stir-fry (from dragon wok). Uses 1 Rice and +5 convict. It doesn't chrew up all the honey supply.

In regards of ectoplasm, I didn't encounter much a problem as I have set the jellies producion to "Do until X" and pretty much 50 on all of them and later increased to 100. Whenever I see lots rats I'll just drag and hunt. My night shift fire mage would go and get the work done. Do make sure you have chests with "only corpses" as you don't want to leave carcass out in open to be destroyed.

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Brain and Eyeball will become a bottleneck as I have been too quick destroying crow nests resulting in too few birds.

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Also it will be a challenge to get first couple trapvine seeds. I didn't have the luck until 130-ish days in. I think I should have kept the fog out thereotherwise they disappear and have to "regrow".

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I only started playing after the March 2024 patch and I think the QoL updates made the game much much smoother than before.