• This guide is about how to start gold farming after you have beaten the game.
  You can beat the game in a couple of hours using my other guide:
  https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953930313
  
• I'm focusing on AFK farming.
  
• I'm focusing on the main game content only (no DLCs). If you have the Tides of the Foscari DLC, you can farm with Sammy, use Ophion, etc, or just farm eggs on the Abyss Foscari stage (see "Extra" section below).
  
• All tests was performed with all the PowerUps maxed.

Additional tests needed:

• Launching option impact on ingame FPS (Normal/SteamUI/GPUfix);
  
• Sarabande of Healing vs Blood Astronomia vs Garlic for fast light sources destruction (and FPS impact);
  
• Benefits of using more than 1-2 weapons in late runs (killing speed vs FPS impact).

There are five main ways of getting gold in the game (we're focusing on the first two):

1. destroying light sources (and picking up Gold Coins / Coin Bags / Rich Coin Bags);
   
2. killing enemies while Gold Fever is active;
   
3. picking up chests;
   
4. completing some weapon evolutions related achievements;
   
5. completing the stage by being killed by The Reaper or White Death (in this case you get rewarded with 500 gold and additional gold for each Revivals left).

Light sources spawn

• The total amount of light sources on screen cannot exceed 10, with the old ones disappear and replaced by the newly summoned.
  
• Light sources is a destructible object. The game attempts to spawn destructibles every second in all stages, except The Bone Zone (every 0.5 seconds) and Holy Forbidden (100 seconds).
  
• While the maximum amount of light sources are on the map, the game can still attempt to spawn light sources, but the spawn chance is no longer influenced by Luck, causing them to spawn less often. If a light source is spawned at the limit, it will spawn in a location closest to the player and an existing light source is despawned.
  
• In some stages (Inlaid Library, Dairy Plant, Gallo Tower), the light sources have predetermined possible spawn locations, whereas in other maps they spawn in an oval shape around the character (just out of sight).

Light sources drops
When destroyed, light source drops one of the following items:


If the stage is not mentioned in the table above, it means there are no restrictions to light source drop types there.

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Gold Fever
There are two ways of triggering gold fever:

1. picking up Gilded Clover;
   
2. pinking up Coin Bag / Rich Coin Bag while having Disco of Gold (XV) arcana.

The second one is what we're interested in.

• When an enemy is killed during the Gold Fever, there is a 75% chance it drops a Gold Coin that has a value of 0.5 (multiplied by Greed and Stage Modifiers). Coins from Il Molise enemies has a base value of 0.1 instead.
  
• Gold Fever lasts for 10-15 sec (depending on character) and can be extended by collecting Gold Coins (both from enemies and light sources), Coin Bags, and Rich Coin Bags.
  
• More gold you collect during the Gold Fever, faster the timer depletes (time drain multiplier increases).

Golden Egg is an item pickup that permanently increases a random stat on the player's current character by a small amount:

• +1 Max Health;
  
• +0.1 Recovery, Armor, Amount, Revival, Reroll;
  
• +1% Movement Speed, Might, Projectile Speed, Duration, Area, Luck, Growth, Greed, Curse;
  
• -0.5% Cooldown;
  
• +0.3 Magnet;
  
• +0.2 Skip, Banish.

There is a hard cap on certain stats (further increase will have no effect on these stats):

• Might - 1000% (+900%);
  
• Speed - 500% (+400%);
  
• Duration - 500% (+400%);
  
• Area - 1000% (+900%);
  
• Cooldown - 10% (-90%; equals to x10 attack speed);
  
• Amount - 10 (+10; amount stat is 0 by default).

It means, that only useful stats that will keep increasing are - Luck, Growth, Greed and Curse.
Magnet has no hard cap, but at some point will cover entire screen and further increase will make no difference.

You can get Golden Eggs by:

• killing Masked Guardians (1 egg) - spawns near Rings and Metaglios (stage items);
  
• killing Moon Guardians (1 egg) - spawns at 14:00 at Moongolow;
  
• killing Death (5 eggs) - spawns at the end of stages (if not in Endless mode);
  
• purchasing from the Merchant on any stage (for 10000 gold);
  
• purchasing from the Eggman - see info below.

Eggman
The Eggman appears directly north in Moongolow (if you have at least 5000 golden eggs and 1 million gold), and offers Golden Eggs for 10000 gold (similar to the regular merchant), but has an option to spend all of your gold to buy max amount of eggs you can afford at once. There is no need in waiting for the purchase animation to complete, you can close the shop window right away.

Healer
The Healer appears directly south in Moongolow (if you have at least 5000 golden eggs) and offers:

• Flames of Moonspell - removes 100 Golden Egg bonuses at random;
  
• Lantern of Foscari - removes all MoveSpeed bonuses from Golden Eggs (available only if current character has more than 25000 Golden Eggs).

Enemies spawn in two ways:

• based on the current wave;
  
• based on the map event.

Waves

• Each stage has a set number of enemy waves. Waves change every minute.
  
• Each wave specifies a target amount of enemies and a spawn interval.
  
• Enemies will attempt to spawn until the target amount met.
  
• Enemies generally spawn just outside the screen and can despawn if the player moves far enough from them.
  
• When 300 or more enemies are alive the game will not spawn more enemies periodically, and only bosses and enemies from map events can spawn.
  
• Some waves could contain bosses. Bosses spawn once per wave.

Events

• Map events spawn additional enemy/enemies based on certain conditions. E.g. swarm of bats, flower walls, etc.
  
• Chance of map events occuring depends on character's luck - more luck, less chance (some events have 100% chance regardless of player's luck).

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Curse
Curse is one of the player stats. It increases:

• enemy health;
  
• enemy movement speed;
  
• frequency of enemy spawn;
  
• quantity of enemy waves (target amount).

• The multipliers to health, movement speed and target amount stack multiplicatively with other effects of the same kind.
  
• Curse modifications from character bonuses, PowerUps and items stack additively.

Game launching option
More tests needed.

Ingame options
Be sure to enable Performance mode and disable Damage numbers / Flashing VFX in the game options menu to decrease FPS drop.
There is no Performance mode in the current game version anymore. Recommended settings:

• Damage numbers = off;
  
• Flashing VFX = off;
  
• Disable blood = on;
  
• Weapons ScreenShake = off;
  
• Show Defanged Enemies = off;
  
• Visually Invert Stages = off.

Your starting choice could depend on how many eggs you have already invested in specific characters.
Here I assume, that you have no eggs on any character.
If we are talking about the basic game without DLCs, there are 2 viable options to perform gold farming:

1. Big Trouser - this is our choice to invest money in. He gains +1% Greed every level and his Gold Fever lasts longer. In AFK endless runs he gets thousands of levels, so it's an obvious choice.
   
2. Queen Sigma - if you just beaten the game, you probably haven't got her yet. She can farm 10+kk gold per 30 min run but cannot purchase eggs for herself, so quickly falls off in terms of profit.

• Greatest Jubilee - is OK in terms of AOE damage and its attacks has 1% chance of spawning a light source (increased by Luck), which means more gold & more frequent Gold Fevers.
  
• Crimson Shroud (early runs only) - helps to survive vs tough waves & bosses while being AFK.

Greatest Jubilee stats

• Greatest Jubilee has 9 levels. At max level, Greatest Jubilee has +4 Amount, +20 Base Damage, +50% Area, -1.0 seconds of Cooldown, and a finisher effect.

Crimson Shroud stats

• Crimson Shroud creates a shield that protects from damage and briefly makes the player invulnerable upon triggering. Limits incoming damage (10 HP). Causes retaliatory damage explosions when a charge is used.

• Here I list only those items that are somehow useful (so, no Hollow Heart, Pummarola, Bracer and Tiragisú (you can still take Tiragisú if having troubles surviving early and replace it later in the run).
  
• Item impact highly depends on the eggs amount. E.g. Clover gives Big Trouser 38.5% of his starting Luck stat with 0 eggs, but only ~0.9% on 100k eggs (starting Luck should be ~5700% at this point).
  
• Some stats are hard capped, so at some point respective items becomes completely useless (see "How golden eggs work" section above).

• So, on low-eggs runs I focus on getting Empty Tome > Attractorb > Crown > Candelabrador > Torrona's Box > Stone Mask & Skull O'Maniac <> Clover <> Spinach.
  
• Rings & Metaglios are free. Metaglios needed for Crimson Shroud.

• On high-eggs runs it doesn't really matter, what items to pick (pick Attractorb if your initial magnet radius is too low).

• Only somehow useful arcanas listed below

The most useful arcanas for the farming purpose are:

• Disco of Gold - our main source of income;
  
• Wicked Season - helps to level up faster, earn more gold, kill more enemies (cuz Curse), etc.

For early runs extremely helpful arcanas are:

• Silent Old Sanctuary - helps to survive and kill enemies faster (if weapon limiter set);
  
• Divine Bloodline - paired with Crimson Shroud gives huge amount of max HP;
  
• You need to collect exp while AFK. So, either do not seal the Vacuum, or just pick Mad Groove.

How to unlock arcanas and other stuff:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2850824605

It's recommended to have all the standard PowerUps maxed out (including Curse).
Most PowerUps are available from the start of the game, but some requires to perform additional actions to unlock:


It's highly recommended to get Seal (at least the first one), cuz we need to seal all the unnecessary drop from gold sources (to maximize gold drop):

• seal the Orologion, cuz it deceases farming speed;
  
• seal Rosary, Nduja Fritta Tanto and Floor Chicken to get gold instead.
  
• seal the Gilded Clover - it starts Gold Fever, but gives no gold on pickup, so is basically worse than any of coin bags (considering using Disco of Gold arcana). Could still help to start Gold Fever more frequently in early runs;
  
• for the late runs also seal the Vacuum - it could help in early AFK runs (if not using Mad Groove arcana), but is useless after you get enough magnet radius.

Little Clover could help in early runs, but is almost useless in late runs.

All stages have four unlockable, toggleable modes:


For farming runs we're choosing all the modes except Hurry.

Each stage applies modifiers to certain player and enemy stats:

* stats include Hyper/Inverse modes' modifyers.

I did some quick test runs on Hyper/Hurry/Inverse (having exactly the same build from 0:15):


According to this results, we're most interested in Cappella Magna, Moongolow and Bat Country stages.

• Cappella Magna is great in terms of destructibles' spawn chance and max amount => more coin bags;
  
• Moongollow - in terms of exp;
  
• Bat Country has lots of low-health enemies => more gold coins (but less exp).

// more tests needed

For the first run you can choose Moongolow on Hyper/Arcanas/Limit break/Inverse/Endless.
You can AFK it since min 15, but it's recommended to get 5th and 6th arcanas as well (Blood Astronomia (XXI) helps to destroy light sources faster, Divine Bloodline (IX) gives a ton of HP to survive later on).

Tips

• Don't seal Armor, cuz it multiplies Crimson Shroud damage.
  
• Set weapon limit to 2. Pick the Greatest Jubilee as your starting weapon.
  
• Choose arcanas according to the image below.
  
• The second weapon would be Crimson Shroud (so, pick Laurel on level-up if offered).
  
• Focus on getting the Greatest Jubilee to max level ASAP.
  
• There are 16 free items on the stage, but no Torrona's Box, so do not occupy all the slots until getting it by level-up.
  
• Pick up Empty Tome, Duplicator, Atractorb, Crown and Candelabrador. After obtaining Torrona's Box pick up all other free items left on the stage.
  
• Pick up Metaglios and be ready to evolve Laurel into Crimson Shroud on min 10.

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Stats over time

Game lag
I went to sleep at 3:03 while ingame timer was "400" and returned at 9:30 ("763" ingame timer).
387 real-time minutes = 363 ingame minutes, which means I had 24 minutes of game lag over this period of time (6.2% time lost).

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Further optimisations

• It may be better to seal the Vacuum and use Mad Groove instead (more tests needed).
  
• Sealing Rosary is also questionable (more tests needed).

If you have the Tides of the Foscari DLC, you can easily farm eggs by killing Guardians, endlessly spawning on the Abyss Foscari stage.
If having troubles with unlocking Abyss Foscari, check out my other guide:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2962309583
At the Abyss Foscari travel south through the gates, then go west all the way, then follow the wall north. There would be a fake wall:


Just go inside and follow the path to the Torrona's Box. Guardians will start spawning.
This method could easily earn you ~1.5k eggs per minute.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3127212700

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953930313
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2962309583

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