Polish & Refine

⚔️ Weapon Enhancement Systems

Polish and Refine are two prestige layers that reset your minerals for powerful permanent upgrades. Polish unlocks at Mineral Level 30, Refine at Level 70. These systems dramatically accelerate your progression.

Polish Prestige (Level 30+)

What Gets Reset

❌ Reset on Polish:
  • • All Minerals
  • • All VP upgrades
  • • Value Points (VP)
  • • Magnets (if unlocked)
  • • Merge Level (if unlocked)
✓ Kept on Polish:
  • • Max VP (permanent bonuses)
  • • Weapon Milestones
  • • Special Minerals (if unlocked)
  • • Refine Tree upgrades

Polish Points (PP) Gain

PP gain is based on your highest Mineral level reached in the current run. The formula grows exponentially with each level.

Key Mineral Levels for PP:
Level 30:
First PP unlock
Level 40:
Decent PP gains start
Level 50:
Significant PP boost
Level 70:
Unlocks Refine
Level 90+:
Massive PP scaling begins

The Five Weapons

⚔️ Sword

TOP PRIORITY
Effect: Boosts VP Gain
Milestones:
Lv.10: Unlocks Autospawn (2.36 PP)
Lv.25: Unlocks VP Factor (13.57 PP)
Lv.50: Zodiac Enhance is better (6,107 PP)
Lv.100: Relics' effects ×1.03 (3.02e35 PP)
Strategy: Get Sword to Level 10 FIRST for massive VP boost and Autospawn QoL. Then aim for Level 20-25 before branching to other weapons. Sword directly speeds up every mineral run.

🪓 Axe

SECONDARY PRIORITY
Effect: Empowers Mineral cost fall
Milestones:
Lv.10: Start Unity with 1,000 Eternities (7.04 PP)
Lv.25: Luck Mult ×2 (101 PP)
Lv.50: VP Gain ×5 (1,298,494 PP)
Lv.100: Unlock Insane Trial #4 (3.93e54 PP)
Strategy: Level alongside Sword. Faster cost fall = spawn minerals quicker. Lv.100 is required for IT4, but that's very late game.

🔱 Spear

GOLD FOCUSED
Effect: Boosts gold gain
Milestones:
Lv.10: Relic 1 powered by max mineral level (15.48 PP)
Lv.25: Relic 9 powered by Spear level (513 PP)
Lv.50: Unlock Insane Trial #2 (135,723,805 PP)
Lv.100: Relic 17 ×1.05 stronger (8.76e71 PP)
Strategy: Essential for affording higher spawn levels. Spear 100 is a huge power spike for gold generation. Push for it around Mineral Level 141-142.

🏹 Bow

ATTACK BOOST
Effect: Boosts Attacks Ascension Power
Milestones:
Lv.10: First Mineral Upgrade scales slower (29.80 PP)
Lv.25: Relic 13 ×(1 + bow/10) (2,177 PP)
Lv.50: Don't spend EP for animals/lab (9.71e9 PP)
Lv.100: Unlock Insane Trial #5 (1.60e88 PP)
Strategy: Bow 100 requires Rune upgrades, Refine Nodes 36/40, and Node 45. Very late milestone but IT5 removes need to enter Dilation.

👊 Knuckles

SPEED MULTIPLIER
Effect: Boosts minerals' local speed exponent
Milestones:
Lv.10: Sword Polish 20% more effective (103 PP)
Lv.25: Unlocks Insane Trial #1 (62,358 PP)
Lv.50: Unlock Insane Trial #3 (4.68e14 PP)
Lv.100: Unlock Insane Trial #6 (1.57e131 PP)
Strategy: Knuckles level directly affects RfP gain through Refine Node 38. Very important for late game. All Insane Trials unlock through Knuckles milestones.

📊 Polish Priority

  1. Sword to 10 → Autospawn + massive VP boost
  2. Sword to 20-25 → VP Factor unlock
  3. Axe levels → Cost fall for faster spawns
  4. Knuckles to 25 → Insane Trial #1
  5. Spear levels → Gold for higher spawns
  6. All weapons as high as possible before major milestones

Refine Prestige (Level 70+)

⚠️ Major Reset Warning

❌ Reset on Refine:
  • • All Minerals
  • • All VP upgrades
  • • All Magnet upgrades
  • • ALL Polish weapons
  • • Value Points & Magnets
  • • Merge Level
✓ Kept on Refine:
  • • Max VP (permanent bonuses)
  • • Weapon Milestones
  • • Special Minerals
  • • Previous Refine upgrades

Refine Points (RfP)

RfP are earned based on highest Mineral level. Growth is VERY slow early - Level 70-76 still only gives 1 RfP! Massive scaling starts at Level 90 (every 10th level gives big RfP increase).

Level 70-76:1 RfP per run
Level 77-79:2 RfP per run
Level 80:4 RfP (first spike)
Level 90:20 RfP (major spike)
Level 100+:Exponential growth

Refine Tree Strategy

🎯 Golden Rule

ALWAYS prioritize Nodes 1, 4, 10 - Buy other nodes only if they cost less than half the price of these three.

Priority order: Node 1 > Node 4 > Node 10

Phase 1: Foundation (1-100 RfP)

Node 1:Increases mineral base VP (starts at 3, each level +1). CRITICAL for VP gain
Node 2:Bulk buy Attacks (×10). Makes attack grinding 10× faster
Node 3:Attacks Prestige slightly stronger
Node 4:Polish Sword ×1.1 per level (max ×2). Massive VP boost
Node 5:Unlocks Merge Level (1 exp per merge, multiplies VP)
Node 6:Unlocks Automerge (every 600 game seconds). Huge QoL!
Node 7:Gold Gain upgrade powered to ^2. Big gold boost
Node 10:PP gain ^(1 + 0.1×lvl). Max 10 levels for ^2 PP gain
Node 12:VP upgrades don't spend VP! Game changer
Node 16:SKIP early - minimal VP buff. Only buy with spare RfP

Phase 2: Magnets (100-500 RfP)

Node 18:TOP PRIORITY! Unlocks Magnets - ultra powerful new mechanic. Get ASAP!
Node 21:Gold on Unity multiplied by seconds since last Unity. Good passive gold
Node 22:Spawning minerals doesn't decrease gold. Huge QoL
Node 23:Buying Polish doesn't decrease PP. Nice QoL
Node 24:Relic 23 ×(1 + 0.1×lvl). PRIORITY - get 5 levels before continuing!

Phase 3: The Big Choice (500-20k RfP)

🏃 Active Route (Recommended):
Node 29:Relic 23 ×(1 + 0.01×Axe). INCREDIBLY POWERFUL! After buying, Node 24 becomes ultra strong

Do fast Mineral 130 runs - much faster than 140 runs. Node 29 turbocharges progression!

😴 AFK Route:
Node 27:Base mineral cost ^0.93. Allows spawning 127-128 level minerals (gold cost spike at 124+)

Better for AFK but slower overall. Still need Node 29 eventually!

Note: Regardless of route, you need BOTH Node 27 and Node 29. Active route just gets Node 29 first for faster progression.

Phase 4: Game Changers (20k-100k RfP)

Node 31:Relic 14 decreases base mineral cost. Spawn higher levels!
Node 33:Get 100% Unity gold every second. No need to Unity for gold anymore!
Node 34:MASSIVE! Magnet upgrades don't spend magnets + auto-buy unlocked. Changes 1hr magnet farm into 2 minutes!
Node 35:Unlocks Runes - new resource system. Important for late game
Node 37:Polish Knuckles 20% more effective. ~Doubles mineral speed based on Knuckles level
Node 38:HUGE! RfP ×1.01^(Knuckles lvl). At Knuckles 80 = ×2.21 RfP gain!

Priority order: 31 → 33 → 34 → 35 → 37 → 38. These dramatically accelerate progression!

Phase 5: Late Game Mastery (100k+ RfP)

Nodes 36, 40, 24:MAX these three - they're the main late game progression nodes
Node 41:(50M RfP) Unlocks Special Minerals - permanent bonus minerals
Node 45:(100M RfP) PP from Trials much bigger. Needed for Bow 100 milestone
Node 46:(200M RfP) Special Minerals Progression - increase base spawn level
Node 50:(1e9 RfP) RfP gain ×2^lvl (max ×1,024). Very expensive but powerful

❌ Node to SKIP

Node 28 (Polish Enhance): RfP sink early game! Only 1% additive bonus per RfP spent. Unlock it to access nodes behind it, but don't invest heavily until late game when you have spare RfP.
Node 16 (Merge Level Bonus): Minimal VP buff early. Only buy with spare RfP or in very late game.

🎯 Refine Strategy Summary

  1. Stuck at 1 RfP per run for a while - do fast Level 70 runs, don't push higher
  2. Max Nodes 4 and 10 before moving deep into tree
  3. At Level 80/90/100 milestones, push for the big RfP spike
  4. Active play: Get Node 29 ASAP, do fast Mineral 130 runs
  5. Get Node 34 to eliminate magnet farming grind
  6. Node 38 doubles your RfP - critical milestone
  7. Endgame: Max Nodes 24, 36, 40 → Complete IT6 → Buy entire tree