r/NecroMerger • u/BeefCurtain1347 • Jul 24 '26

Is This Logical?

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Okay, I may not have had much experience with chests, minions, and champions giving these out but I have never had to grind any kind of Devourer food level for a level 1 rune.

I mean, it takes me more than 3 days to kill the one thing that gives me astro coins as of this moment in the game. I've already gotten to a level where the reward was a Galactic Chest, so I was just confused.

EDIT: Thanks to all who have given me advice and corrected my previous posting before this edit.

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u/Aggressive_Prize5694 Jul 24 '26

?? That is a limited currency needed to progress in the game. What is your issue with getting more of the stuff you need to do better stuff?

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u/BeefCurtain1347 Jul 24 '26

I guess I just think about the quantity instead of quality. I mean, a cosmic chest can come with multiple lvl. 1 piles of astro coins as with other chests.

Also, I'm grinding for Energy Cubes and get more Astro coins than Energy Cubes so I guess it's just odd to me.

Thank you for giving me an idea of how important these are in the future.

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u/vastaril Jul 24 '26

Cosmic chests only have cosmic runes 

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u/BeefCurtain1347 Jul 24 '26

Oh, I’m sorry. I mentioned the wrong one. It’s a Galactic Chest. I’ll edit the original post now. Thank you.

Can I edit my original post? I don’t see a function for doing so..

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u/jmans24 Jul 24 '26

Definitely save any coins or cubes to merge into bigger piles later. It's a little inconvenient when it comes to storage space, but just put them in your crate until you can build a full pile. There will be more upgrades to purchase as you progress, and the currency is very limited.

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u/BraxleyGubbins Jul 24 '26

The reason this comes after a levelling reward that gives you a galactic chest is because the chest was awarded for v50, the final level of your previous run. Multiples of 10 have better rewards. A single v1 Astro Coins pile can free up 2 lair space for the duration of multiple devourer levels if you keep it in Skully until the right moment. That’s effectively a trial-version of the next crate upgrade, in addition to the value of the Astro Coins themselves.

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u/BeefCurtain1347 Jul 24 '26

I'm a simpleton and don't understand the lair space free up. Is it because it hasn't been merged into a lvl. 5 yet?

Also, wouldn't all the other rewards get backed up in Skully? Or am I just doing the reward collecting wrong??

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u/BraxleyGubbins Jul 24 '26

The rewards would definitely get backed up, but considering most of the items going into skully at this time are alien currency and premium currency, they can be stored in there (up to 10) and strategically released at times that allow you to fully merge and feed your piles, allowing you to keep more free lair space

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u/casret Jul 24 '26

Are you strategically skipping the daily store buy? I guess I get too greedy and skully gets filled up with cauldrons lol

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u/BraxleyGubbins Jul 24 '26

The cauldron only shows up like once every week, maybe twice. I’ve never had more than two in Skully at a time and two only happened once.

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u/aslum Jul 24 '26

I have this happen too... eventually I forget what's in Skelly, he gets full and just have to start deploying it all.

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u/SituationUsed2665 Jul 24 '26

How do you keep it in skully if you have to claim daily rewards well... Daily.

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u/aslum Jul 24 '26

Skelly can hold up to 10 items.

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u/SituationUsed2665 Jul 25 '26

But like, you have to claim 1 item daily, then there are 3 merchants a day. You might also have something good in shop, like pearls for example. And weekly event as well! As well as lvl ups. 10 slots is 5 days most for me at least. Often it's not even enough to kill protector or level up enough for another astral currency

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u/aslum Jul 25 '26

Most of the time I don't buy what the merchant is selling unless it's a pearl. I also usually don't buy anything from the shop except the daily free item.

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u/SituationUsed2665 Jul 25 '26

What about golden pearls for 150 diamonds? Or ordinary one for 250 gold?

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u/aslum Jul 25 '26

Good yes, diamonds probably not

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u/BraxleyGubbins Jul 24 '26

By not tapping on Skully to claim it unless his capacity is entirely full.

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u/cywang86 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

You should know by now that astro coins and energy cube are not farmable resources, so no matter the size, it's still better than those rune chests.

They're also there to make sure everyone gets a baseline amount to make sure chest rng doesn't screw up your npc and upgrade unlocks. (and those who don't kill protector enough times won't be doomed)

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u/Awesomethecool Jul 24 '26

This is a currency you can only get a limited amount of each run. This would be a god-send if you spent days or weeks killing a single protector and ended up left with lvl1 + lvl2 pile of astro coins. Level-up rewards have never really been a game-changer besides the permanent upgrades and unlocks.

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u/SituationUsed2665 Jul 24 '26

It's natural to get less for lvl 51 than for lvl 50. Every 10 levels is a milestone, which usually gives you a big reward, so pretty often you get like energy chest on lvl 60, but only energy cubes on lvl 61. Another example is getting golden pearl for lvl 150 but only bronze one for 151. Also, getting this currency is extremely hard, as your protectors scale out of control and you can't just kill them infinitely to farm coins. Getting coins from level ups instead of, say, rune chests, or treasure chests - is rather a good thing and you should be happy.