If I had 20 million gems, I’d expect to abdicate once the reward hit 40 million. My personal rule of thumb was to abdicate when the reward for doing so was twice the number of gems I already owned. It largely depends on what your goals are and what faction you’re playing. Although it can be hard to sign over your land and assets the first time, each one gets easier when you realize you’re investing in the next run. You’ll retain gems even after abdicating, meaning your gold production will increase proportionate to the gems you’ve amassed. It’s a small bonus when you’ve just abdicated for the first time, but grows exponentially with each abdication, as does your gold production in each run. Every gem you own increases your overall gold production by three percent. What you earn by abdicating are gems, the second type of currency in the game. By abdicating, you give up all buildings and upgrades you’ve bought in the current run along with your gold. You can turn off the warnings in the settings menu, but take care! Abdicate often (enough)Ībdicating is the first method of soft-reset that you’ll encounter. By default, the game warns you when you’re about to spend your chosen faction’s coins for an exchange. Be sure not to shell out too many Faction Coins for exchanges before getting the three faction upgrades and, ideally, each of the heritages you’ve unlocked. Each faction’s coins can be traded in the Royal Exchange menu for increased gold production. You’ll also use Faction Coins for Royal Exchanges. The Titan faction, for instance, uses faction coins from Fairies and Goblins to unlock its upgrades and heritage. The expansion factions you unlock later require a combination of multiple vanilla factions’ coins to unlock upgrades and heritages. In each run, you’ll use faction coins for your chosen alignment to unlock each of the three tiers of upgrades specific to the faction and the Heritage bonus for each. Each of the six vanilla factions have their own coins.

The Royal Exchange screen keeps track of the times you ve traded Faction coins Mind your faction coinsįaction coins are found during your normal gold production, either by assistants in your passive production or while clicking. Check it before deciding what to go with for the run. If you forget what each faction specializes in, a brief overview sits in the tooltip for each treaty. Even later in the game, certain factions are better for clearing different hurdles. If you have 30 or more minutes to spend sitting in front of your screen, the Elf faction rewards you for spending time clicking. If you’re about to spend eight hours away from your PC, setting up an Undead faction run will return better production the longer you’re offline. Choose the right faction for the jobĪfter you’ve sampled the vanilla flavors (the six starter factions are referred to as the “vanilla” factions) start thinking about the best tool for the task at hand. The Undead faction has specific bonuses for being offline. The tooltips for each faction treaty give you an idea of what each one excels at, but it’s easiest to tell which you prefer by playing them all once. In the spirit of experimentation, try every faction once. Playing anything for the first time is usually more enjoyable if you figure things out with a couple gentle nudges in the right direction. I decided to put off that level of micro-management until doing a complete reset of my game. There are several guides explaining the optimal way to start Realm Grinder by gaining trophies and gems at the most efficient rate. R1 is after you’ve reincarnated for the first time. R0 refers to your first time playing the game. R: Reincarnation is the second soft reset available (abdicating being the first).Faction: The group you choose to align with during a run (fairies, elves, angels, goblins, undead, demons, etc).Run: Refers to each ruler you take on.However, these are some of the most common terms you’ll see used anywhere information on Realm Grinder is shared. Slang primerĪs a basic guide, we’ve tried to keep the acronyms to a minimum.

Read on for tips to orient you during your first runs as a ruler, and an overview of the systems you'll encounter as you progress deeper into Realm Grinder. This guide picks up after that tutorial, which introduces you to the game's first mechanics. With so many systems, currencies, and watermarks for progression, just getting started can be overwhelming, and the short in-game tutorial barely scratches the surface. Perhaps it started that way when it first released as a Flash game, but it's grown into something much, much deeper. Realm Grinder is so much more than a throwaway clicker or idle game.

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