I only want enough so that I can get enough artifact bulk from digging to replace the rare that I used to get from grinding to 3200bp. Napkin math suggests six dig speedup boons will suffice at my current play speed, and I'm almost there now.

Edited 2025-11-23 22:01:11

@ swchanghee I screwed up my first hex by going for the eastern sakha money cache before the central sakha army cache. Had to use a third IM on snow to save the run. Thus my second hex had 20% hospitals, but the score screen told me I saved 3.7T from hospitals while I had 1.2T armies left over so that didn't make a difference.

That qualifier out of the way you can indeed take hex on with only a legendary A$B and no tier 4 advancements. I use Ivan0's path but use a legendary SAC to start to avoid blowing a bunch of powers or relying on CRA, with about 200% camp improvements but that's overkill. I also didn't bother triple striking vyazempsky.

Something that might be an issue is you should be sure to capture Australia manually because you will need that money to buy mercs at the end.

Edited 2025-11-24 01:41:57

Thanks for giving me the confidence to try 1 IM hex geforce, just did it! Legendary SAC instead of powers.

367 SA: +2300%AP, 40 artifact slots, +19700AP, 40 dig speed
Last SA for at least a while

I have super-ascended a ninety-second time.

Boon chosen: +25% AP from levels

Total boons:
* +1200 AP at startup
* +1225% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +5 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (3): A$B, A^B, CB
Insane (3): MeD, RCB, TW
Insane (3):  IM, AV, SAC^u
Legend (3): MCB, HB, HD
Legend (3): MB, SC^u, TW^s

Epic (2): SAC^s, DB
Rare (3): OV, IV, BMB^u
Rare (3): {DB, MB, IV}^s
Unco (2): TMB, DB^f
Unco (3): {SC, HD, BMB}^s

^f:fodder, ^u:upgrade
^s:spare, ^d:downgrade

Upcoming: to be determined

I have concluded that five dig speedups is sufficient for now.
But I'll have to ditch some spares if I want to upgrade a rare.
I'm not sure I can maintain the epic-rare-repeat cycle.

Edited 2025-11-25 20:03:08

Fourth SuperAscention.
Total boons:
* +50% AP from levels
* +2 artifact carryover

SA 13 for an extra slot taking me to 11 kept artifacts 3i, 1l, 4e
goal bring my rare sac back to legendary

8th SA. Artifact again for a total of 75% AP and 5 addl artis.

300
100
45
44
37
25
38
24

Faster again and that's with extra AP to win WZIB. Did a 1 IM hex so I ought to deplete those pretty slow from now on. Will need to start hunting SL though.

I think I can acquire 2.6 epics per SA now so I should start alternating AP and artifact slots now.

Leg AV SAC A$B and epic TW ACB TS DAC

I have super-ascended a ninety-third time.

Boon chosen: +25% AP from levels

Total boons:
* +1200 AP at startup
* +1250% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +5 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (3): A$B, A^B, CB
Insane (3): MeD, RCB, TW
Insane (3):  IM, AV, SAC^u
Legend (3): MCB, HB, HD
Legend (3): MB, SC^u, TW^s

Epic (3): SAC^s, DB, BMB^u
Epic (2): {TS, SAC}^f
Rare (4): OV, IV, TMB^u, HD^su
Unco (4): {SC, BMB, TMB}^s, MB^sd

^f:fodder, ^u:upgrade
^s:spare, ^d:downgrade

Upcoming: upgrade an epic

I have six artifact upgrades going; a record.

45th

26 +.25
19 extra artifacts
IACB
IA$B
ITW
IAV
LHB
LSAC
LCB
LDB
LTB
LMD
LTS
LEC
ESAC(Upgrading)

@awaythro 6 are rookie numbers i have currently hundreds of upgrading artifacts.

Yaboi ChillhouzVanHoutn has reached his 30th super ascend! 600% AP and 9 artifacts IACB ISAC IA$B I$B ITW IAV IIM IDB and LHB!

updated

I have super-ascended a ninety-fourth time.

Boon chosen: +25% AP from levels

Total boons:
* +1200 AP at startup
* +1275% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +5 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (3): A$B, A^B, CB
Insane (3): MeD, RCB, TW
Insane (3): IM, AV, SAC
Legend (2): MCB, TW^s

 HB (2): legend, common
 SC (2): legend, uncommon
 HD (2): legend, rare
 MB (2): legend, rare^u
BMB (2): lgnd^u, uncommon 
TMB (2):   rare, rare^u

Epic (2): DB, SAC^s
Rare (3): OV, IV, RCB^f

^f:fodder, ^u:upgrade
^s:spare, ^d:downgrade

Upcoming: rebuild TMB

I reorganized my artifact list to better reflect my process.
The middle portion is made up of sane artfacts with spares.
It represents the churn of the secondary artifact life cycle.
I will need to reduce the size of this list as time goes on.

I have super-ascended a ninety-fifth time.

Boon chosen: +25% AP from levels

Total boons:
* +1200 AP at startup
* +1300% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +5 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (3): A$B, A^B, CB
Insane (3): MeD, RCB, TW
Insane (3): IM, AV, SAC
Legend (3): MCB, MB, TW^s

TMB (2): epic^u, rare
BMB (2): lgnd^u, uncommon
 HB (2): legend, uncommon
 SC (2): legend, rare^u
 HD (2): legend, rare

Epic (3): {TS, SAC, RC}^f
Epic (1): DB
Rare (1): IV
Unco (1): OV^d

^f:fodder, ^u:upgrade
^s:spare, ^d:downgrade

Upcoming: rebuild TMB some more

Look how much AP Hex gives me now

Lol. I think you played it a few too many times :)

I am using Hex as artifact farm. Still 16 Insanes worth need. Btw how’s going with artifacts @geforce?

221001_idle begin
240515_1st_LegAV,MD+25ap
241108_2nd_LegA$B
250515_3rd_LegACB
250902_4rd_legTW
(+new)251212_5rd_legSAC

Last week I finished getting the 10k battle points, my last Idle achievement. I might as well post this last image since I don't think I'm going to keep playing Idle anymore, unless Fizzer comes up with a trophy for all Insanes or something.
@ShadowHawk you're welcome. I'll keep on eye on this thread from time to time, if anyone needs advice feel free DM me or ask in global when I'm around. It was fun!

Also... I'm taking the unofficial trophy for most 'intentional' artifacts dump during a Superascension (lack of slots, what can you do?): 1 Insane, 1 Legendary, 2 Epics and 3 commons in total, check it out :D

118th Super, +25% AP
117th Super, 20% Faster Digs
116th Super, 20% Faster Digs

- 24 extra slots, +1725% AP, +600 AP , Faster Dig Time x19 (-98.56%)
Tutorial → Breaking Green (no hard levels), Hard Far Land, Fort Harbor, Netherlands, Plateau, Hex