Gathering snoutlings in AB EPIC?

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  • The opening post for this thread has been updated to reflect the information contained within the thread and so that readers can more readily find information they are seeking. The thread was created ten months ago and includes posts describing many useful strategies for obtaining snoutlings, as well as strategies that are now obsolete, since the game has been changed by Rovio to make it more difficult to acquire snoutlings.

    I would like to thank the creator of this thread (@tobyv) and all of those who have contributed to this thread for providing much of the information contained within this post.

    Updated: April 14, 2015

    The original post has been retained below

    Good place to rack up snoutlings

    I’m about 3/4 done (sans dungeons and friendships), and I’m looking for a good place to rack up snoutlings? The dungeons are too hard for me using Piggy McC, and they take a while regardless. Right now I’m using Western Cobalt Plateaus, since Captain Red Bacon seems like a minor “boss” and consistently gives 10£ Snoutling. I can get through in 1-2 turns, then I just hit the replay-battle button to go again, for 10-11 snouts per run.

    So the question is, is there a better level than this that yields more than 11 snouts quickly?

    Snoutlings are one of the most important consumable items used within EPIC for advancing your team of birds. They are used for purchasing bird classes, blueprints for weapons and offhand items, recipes from Professor Pig, mastery from the Mighty Eagle’s Dojo and veggie cakes/ fruit cakes / potions from Piggy McCool’s shop. As you progress through the game, the focus of your spending changes. In the early stages of the game, snoutlings are required for purchasing new bird classes and blueprints, while at later stages snoutlings are used to purchase mastery at the Dojo and healing potions or veggie cakes.

    Gathering Snoutlings
    The primary source of snoutlings is from defeating pigs in battles. As you progress around Piggy Island and through the Chronicle Caves, you gain snoutlings from every pig that you defeat in battle (whether you finish the battle or not). There is also a pig, the Wealthy Rogue, who appears randomly in battles and carries a sack of coins. Defeating the Wealthy Rogue before he disappears off the screen gains you 50 snoutlings.

    You can also obtain snoutlings from treasure chests, arena and event battles, and from the rewards wheel at the end of a week in the arena or at the end of an event.

    General Strategies
    Replaying battles: An important source of snoutlings is replaying battles. The choice of battle to replay is very important as some battles offer a better payout in terms of snoutlings per battle or snoutlings per unit time (i.e. per hour of playtime).

    Autoplay: One very important feature of the battle screen is the autoplay button on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. With the appropriate bird classes, many battles can be completed easily using autoplay. This can drastically reduce the amount of interaction required with the game in order to “farm” for snoutlings.

    Replaying battles without claiming rewards: One method to increase the rate at which you can collect snoutlings is to replay a battle over and over again without ever claiming the prize from the rewards wheel. To do this, you knock out the pigs in a battle (or a wave of a battle) and touch the pause button and then the replay button before the rewards wheel or the next wave appears. The timing is very important: you need to touch the pause button as soon as you have attacked. You do not need to wait to see the strike and the damage done.

    Best Places to Farm Snoutlings
    Castles: Castles are the most important locations for gathering snoutlings.

    Star Reef Castle (SRC) is by far the most useful castle for gathering snoutlings. This is the easiest castle to complete using autoplay. The final wave is just Wiz Pig and you gain 100 snoutlings for defeating him. In total you gain approximately 128 snoutlings from the castle. It also should be noted that at experience levels of 20 and below, the gain from defeating Wiz Pig is 40 snoutlings.

    This castle becomes playable on autoplay when the experience level of your birds is in the range of 25-30 and you have birds with mastery ranks of 5-6. The ability to autoplay also depends upon the weapons your birds are armed with. You can play the castle manually until your birds are able to complete it on autoplay.

    The bird team for SRC should include a healer (Druid, Bard, Cleric, Rainbird, Spies), a bird that can dispel (Tricksters, Capt’n) and a Bird that can do a reasonable amount of damage (Wizard, Mage, Spies, Samurai). The most useful teams to finish SRC rapidly are
    Wizard, Spies and Capt’n?
    Wizard, Bard and Tricksters

    There are of course many other combinations that will work. Another benefit of SRC is that you can substitute in weaker birds that you want to gain mastery points for. But you still need to choose the right bird combinations that will make it through the castle.

    Desert Pig Castle (DPC) is also a good place to gain snoutlings. The last wave in this castle has Prince Porky, and you gain 100 snoutlings for defeating him. The difficulty with this castle is that Prince Porky has the dodge ability and an early wave in the castle includes a Cactus Knight, which has an ironclad value. The combination of enemies with dodge and ironclad makes it difficult to select a team of birds that can complete the castle quickly using autoplay.

    King Pig’s Castle (KPC) was one of the first locations considered for farming snoutlings. Previously, you used to get 100 snoutlings each for King Pig, Wiz Pig and Prince Porky. However, you now only get 4 snoutlings each.

    Cobalt Pig Castle (CPC) has Prince Porky on wave 5. Like KPC the reward for defeating Prince Porky has been reduced from 100 to 4 snoutlings. CPC is a good place for getting mastery in addition to snoutlings.

    Dungeons: The Dungeons offer a good opportunity for players at lower experience levels to gain snoutlings. I believe this is still the case.

    The Dungeons were the original locations provided to enable players to gain lots of snoutlings. Dungeons are played with 2 birds and Piggy McCool (or a borrowed bird). To maximize snoutlings play with Piggy McCool, who has the ability to acquire extra snoutlings when he attacks. If you fail to complete a Dungeon with Piggy McCool you will have to wait 12 hr for him to become available again. You used to be able to replay Dungeons with Piggy McCool or the same borrowed bird, but this ability has been removed. You can continue playing the Dungeon, but after a Dungeon has been completed it closes.

    Each Dungeon is open when first found and will close upon completion. Each Dungeon re-opens on a specific day of the week and can only be played within 24 h of the opening time. The day that each dungeon opens is listed below. There seems to be a universal changeover / opening time which, based on GMT, is 1 am.

    Porktuga (Monday), Ghost Ship (Tuesday), Floating Hog House (Wednesday), Volcano Island (Thursday), Trick or Treat Castle (Friday), Bottomless Cave (Saturday), Sunken Pyramid (Sunday)

    For players at level 41, the pigs in the Dungeons have been beefed up and some dungeons are now difficult to complete without the use of chili cakes and healing potions. The numbers of chili cakes and healing potions required, and their costs, should be weighed against the amount of snoutlings gained to determine whether it is worthwhile attempting to complete a Dungeon.

    Other Good Locations to Farm Snoutlings
    Old Nesting Barrow 4 (Sword Spirit): Give the golden chili to red to kill the sword spirit in one strike, restart before the rewards wheel appears and repeat. The sword spirit gains you 5 snoutlings at a time.

    Multiple Wave Battles: There are a number of multiple wave battles that can be completed quickly and are good places to rapidly collect snoutlings. These are located throughout the island and offer opportunities for relatively new as well as more experienced bird teams.

    Multiple wave battles can be played using autoplay, and if you don’t want the resources, you can restart before the rewards wheel appears. They can also be useful if you are collecting resources, since they offer the opportunity to gain extra snoutlings while you are collecting resources. A further benefit of the multiple wave battles is that the Wealthy Rogue will turn up reasonably frequently to provide a bonus 50 snoutlings.

    Western Cobalt Plateaus (WPC): This was one of the earliest locations identified as a useful source of snoutlings, but is no longer useful. In the past, defeating the boss pig here gained you 10 snoutlings. It was possible to defeat the boss pig, restart without claiming the rewards and repeat. The snoutlings gained for defeating the boss pig have been reduced so that this location is no longer useful.

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  • AMslimfordy
    @amslimfordy

    The “Golden Clouds” level — which corresponds to the Daily Golden Pig — is definitely worthwhile. You can replay as many time as you want and the treasure chest usually contains 15 Snoutlings.

    Otherwise, while they are difficult, Dungeons are hands-down the best resource.

    GrimmJow
    @grimmjow

    I don’t know if it’s a bug or not, but you can make a daily dungeon again and again.
    At the end, if you leave, you can’t play again without paid with golden coins.
    But, if you d’ont leave at the end, you can replay for free.

    Today, I make only this, with a bird of friend level 24 and the dungeon of monday it’s easy. Better : I did’nt play all time with the auto-play button.

    With this tips, I got today 20.000 silver coins and 4 levels…

    AMslimfordy
    @amslimfordy

    @GrimmJow It’s not a bug. It’s been a well-known method to earn Snoutlings and Level-Up.

    GrimmJow
    @grimmjow

    @amslimfordy :
    OK and indeed it is a very good method. But why do not to let take out the player of the dungeon, so that he can sometimes make a break.
    Because there or we stay or we pay (or we wait for the next day for the following dungeon).

    PS : all the bugs which are reported to you in the foreseen topic, you pass on them to Rovio ?

    Thanks

    Toby
    @tobyv

    @amslimfordy : The dungeons are WAY too hard for me (at least the first one). I only have Piggy McCool to use, plus I’m a little short on skilz [smile]. The clouds are a good tip, though, especially with your guidance here. Be nice to find a level I can play anytime, though.

    DH Kim
    @dh-kim

    King Pig’s castle grants 135 coins while being cleared.

    chuck321
    @skaku

    Western Cobalt Plateaus grants 10 coins and so easy.
    You can finish it only in 1 or 2 turns.
    It locates at the southeast of Prof Lab, just below the pumpkin and tomatoes.

    TomC
    @tomc

    The Golden Pig now increases health each replay. Edit: But after about 6 or so replays the HP stopped increasing hmm.

    VerasGunn
    @verasgunn

    I think they removed the ability to redo the Golden Pig with one of the more recent updates. It’s disappointing, but understandable. Not only was it a great way to get snoutlings, but lucky coins too. Ah well, it was good while it lasted.

    Perkesaata
    @perkesaata

    Some of the first levels have those masked pigs and some of them have money pouches in theyr hands, i think it contains 50 or something.

    Woods
    @chiiyuen0109

    Cobalt Plateus-2 have a high rate of spawning the Wealthy Rogue (The Rogue with a bag of snoutlings) which drops 50 snoutlings. You may try that level and hope you will get him to spawn, and this level gives you wood too.

    Dheem2
    @dheemazzz

    King pig’s Castle was a good snoutlings farming spot. However, after a while it stopped dropping snoutlings. The first 4 waves do drop snoutlings. however the last wave where there’s king pig, prince pig and wizpig no longer drop snoutlings at all. Is there anyone seeing this problem as well?

    chinolatino
    @chinolatino

    I tried Cobalt Plateaus, but I would disagree with the high spawning rate. Out of 20 battles, Wealthy Rogue appeared once. In that case it would be better to go after the 10-11 snoutling at Western.

    I’d like to find another place (not to difficult that has a good reward to time ratio.

    Dheem2
    @dheemazzz

    Easy snoutlings farming else than dungeon, Location: Western Cobalt Plateaus. Only kill the pirate pig captain, wait for dropped snoutlings added to your sum then reset the battle. Pirate pig captain drops 10 snoutlings. Earning 2400 snoutlings/hr, assuming killing-waiting-loading takes 15 secs. So in an hour there’d be 240 kills x 10 snoutlings = 2400 snoutlings/hr. Correct me if I’m wrong

    Toby
    @tobyv

    @dheemazzz : I assume nothing [grin]. In actual timing of WCP, I can get a max output of about 100 snouts in 5 minutes, or about half of your estimate. I tried today’s (Wednesday’s) dungeon with Piggy McC, since, based on other timings I ran and assuming a balanced wheel, I should have been able to improve my rate by 40-50%. I did not. I did terribly with the wheel. So poorly that I actually suspect an imbalanced wheel, despite my earlier tests. Watch the Testing Fate thread for further test results.

    Bottom line: WCP still seems like the best all around — and the seeds are nice too.

    Dheem2
    @dheemazzz

    Well I down Pirate Pig Captain in 2 hits. When the snoutlings dropped (and added to my snoutlings sum), I just hit Pause then Restart Battle. Those wheel and ending animation is just a waste time, unless you’re in need of those seeds.

    Dheem2
    @dheemazzz

    Remember only kill the pirate captain, since killing the other one takes you to the wheel. Rinse and repeat.

    Toby
    @tobyv

    @dheemazzz : Awsome. I just timed your technique, and in a 15 min run I got 460 snouts. 1800 per hour seems quite doable. I might be able to push that a little higher with more practice, but I would lose use of my poor repeditive-motion-stressed wrists for a week [smile].

    Others should keep in mind that I have rather high level birds (level 25 masters). It might take you a couple turns instead of a couple whacks, but as long as you survive, it does seem like the best alternative I’ve found so far. Thanks, Dheem!

    By the way, the best part is you don’t have to hear those infernal birds celebrate. “Baw-baka-bah!” >shudder< :p

    Dheem2
    @dheemazzz

    Here are my thoughts on the best 2 hitters for easily killing the pirate pig captain:

    Bard (base damage 160 dmg)
    Samurai (base damage 150 dmg (3×50))
    Paladin (base damage 135 dmg)

    My personal favorite team: Samurai, Princess and Trickster.

    These birds get early access on higher powered weapons.

    Dheem2
    @dheemazzz

    I finally tried a 15 mins run. I was aiming for 12 secs per cycle (it would have net me ~750 snoutlings).

    But based on my 15 mins run, I actually managed to do avg ~11 secs/cycle, for total of 830 snoutlings within that 15 mins.

    My setup was Samurai, Capt’n and Trickster. 2 hitters are Samurai (3×136 dmg) & Trickster (447 dmg).

    As Toby mentioned above, most of our equipments are end-game weapons and headgear upgrades. But knowing this method early, will let you easily obtain veteran and elite headgear upgrades in the dojo.

    Dheem2
    @dheemazzz

    By the way, do you have any $/hr for dungeon runs?

    Toby
    @tobyv

    @dheemazzz : It was a little less than 6000 snouts for about 6-1/2 hours of work. Like I said, I had lousy luck on the wheel. I got the 200 on the first spin, but then I had a run of over 20 before my next 200. After that I stopped counting, but it only seemed to improve slightly. Keep in mind, I had 3 stars all the way through.

    Dheem2
    @dheemazzz

    Which dungeon was the quickest to finish for you?

    Toby
    @tobyv

    Sorry, but I’ve only timed 2. Porktuga (Monday) at about 14 min, and Floating Hoghouse (Wednesday) at about 10.5 min. My impression from the others, though, is that Floating is the fastest.

    elektrobank
    @elektrobank

    An easy way to grind Snoutlings I’ve found is to use Piggy McCool and replay the Northern Slingshot Woods 2 or 3 level, via the (top left) friendship gate on auto pilot.

    I rack up about 25 per go, approx 900-1000 per hour (depending on the occasional 50 drops). Also good accumulation of wood and seeds for crafting.

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