Part 2

Master Loop Hero Part 2 with our guide! Learn the best building order (Gymnasium, Crypt, Intel Center, Smelter) and essential terrain combos for quick progression.

Alright, let's dive into Part 2 of your Loop Hero journey! We'll cover some crucial building priorities and then get into how to approach the adventure itself. Think of this as leveling up your base and your strategy.

Building Priorities

When you're deciding what to build next, some structures are way more impactful than others. Forget about Farms and Lumberjacks for now; they give a tiny boost to resources, and the 'Wheat' terrain card isn't super exciting. Focus on these first:

1. Gymnasium
2. Crypt
3. Intel Center
4. Smelter

The Smelter is especially great because it unlocks the Arsenal card, which gives every class an extra item slot. For the Necromancer, that means more magic abilities to buff your summons. Rogues get extra magic HP (which is like regular HP but recharges differently), and Warriors get helmets with retaliation damage. Everyone benefits from the extra magic effects!

Adventure Strategy & Bosses

Here's a big one: don't wait too long to tackle the first boss! Seriously, people tend to put it off. Each boss you defeat unlocks a new, harder difficulty mode, and trust me, you want those higher difficulties.

• Each new difficulty ramps up monster abilities and how much they grow per loop.
• You get 40% extra resources per difficulty level.
• Your maximum resource cap per run increases by 10 for each difficulty.

These last two points mean higher difficulties are way more profitable, and surprisingly manageable once you get the hang of it. The fourth difficulty is a bit of a curveball, as you'll have less space to build terrain before facing the boss.

Early on, just place whatever terrain you're given. Smaller decks work best, so think about using things like Grove, Cemetery, Battlefield, Spider Cocoon, Rock, Meadow, and Oblivion. A pro tip for Spider Cocoons: place them next to multiple roads to avoid getting swarmed!

Terrain Combinations

Transforming terrain is key to unlocking new enemies and bonuses. Here are some essential combos:

Early Game Combos

• Meadow → Blooming Meadow: Build a Meadow next to *any* other terrain type. Boom! 50% more effective. Easy peasy.
• Mountain/Rock → Mountain Peak: Create a 3x3 area of Rocks and/or Mountains. This gives you a nice HP boost, some free resources, and spawns Harpies. You can only have one Mountain Peak at a time, but you can use the Lich's Oblivion spell to remove a tile and rebuild it for more resources.
• Treasury → Empty Treasury: A Treasury gives bonus resources for adjacent tiles. Once it's completely surrounded, it becomes an Empty Treasury.
• Battlefield → Blood Terrain: When two Battlefields overlap terrain, they create Blood Terrain. This spawns Blood Clots, which are tough but great for farming Shapeless Mass resources.

Mid Game Combos

• Village/Vampire Manor → Ransacked Village: Place a Village right next to a Vampire Manor. It stops giving its normal bonuses but spawns 4 Ghouls when created and when you pass the campfire. This is perfect for farming Orbs of Expansion since the Vampire fights alongside the Ghouls.
• Ransacked Village → Count Village: After passing the campfire three times in a Ransacked Village, it upgrades into a Count Village. It stops spawning Ghouls but is an upgraded village.
• Blood Grove → Hungry Grove: A Blood Grove needs to be next to a Forest, Thicket, or Grove, and also next to a road. If a Blood Grove doesn't have its own adjacent forest/thicket/grove, it becomes a Hungry Grove. These deal damage to you in every fight, so be careful! You can force this by building two Blood Groves next to a single Grove, or by using Oblivion on the original Grove.
• Wheat Fields → Overgrown Field: If you Oblivion a Village, any adjacent Wheat Field becomes an Overgrown Field. It still spawns Scarecrows, but now damaging grass blade enemies appear in empty spaces. Note that Ransacked or Count's Villages won't trigger this; you need to remove the Village entirely.
• Goblin Camp → Advanced Goblin Camp: When a Goblin Camp is next to a Swamp, it starts spawning Archers.
• Forest/Thicket & Storm Temple → Burned Forest: On any horizontal or vertical line with a Storm Temple, Forests and Thickets become Burned Forests, granting 0.5 magical attack damage.

Late Game Combos

• Bookery → Abandoned Bookery: Once all charges of a Bookery are used up, it becomes an Abandoned Bookery. Fights in its territory will now spawn a Tome, a dangerous enemy. Be warned: if a Tome spawns in an area also affected by a Vampire or Watcher, they become upgraded, extremely dangerous versions. They drop good loot, but it's usually not worth the risk.
• Desert/Dunes & River → Oasis: A River next to Dunes or Desert creates an Oasis. This reduces enemy attack speed by 1% and yours by 0.5%. Be aware that your Necromantic summons and allies also get this speed reduction. Oases can be really good for certain builds, though!