Candy Box! A fantastic browser game.

UncleSporky

No I am not joking. Really!

Just click this: http://candies.aniwey.net/

You may think you are being trolled at first. However, wait until you have accumulated 150 candies. Do not eat them yet! Do not throw them on the ground!

This is a game to be experienced, a silly game of discovery. It is probably more fun if you don't spoil yourself. However, here are some good things to know:

Contrary to what you might think, it may be beneficial to touch another man's hat, and possibly his lollipop.

At one point, you are given 5 berserk potions. You only get 5 and can never obtain more. Use them carefully.

There is a forge. There are three possible choices for forging, though you may see less choices initially. You can only do this once, unless you want to start the game over again. You may want to wait until you have several options before choosing. And choose wisely!

There is a wishing well. Do not use it! You can only use it once.

cooljammer00

Last night I got kinda far in and then accidentally refreshed the page without saving.

Today I started again and have been min/maxing everything. I still can't beat the castle, even with walkthroughs and guides.

mr weenis

Just getting into this. Mount Goblin sounds like the best possible name for a metal band.

The Dude With Herpes

What the fuck am I playing?

And why can I not stop playing it?

mr weenis

Killing George Oscar Bluth hundreds of times is pretty addictive.

The Dude With Herpes

I'm not strong enough to kill GOB yet, and survive anyway.

I'm just repeating the forest hoping I get chests, then trying to get a better lollipop farm going.

And I don't even know why.

I've thrown 200 candies on the ground. I got a crying face, and that's all it seems to do. I haven't eaten any.

UncleSporky

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

I'm not strong enough to kill GOB yet, and survive anyway.

I'm just repeating the forest hoping I get chests, then trying to get a better lollipop farm going.

And I don't even know why.

I've thrown 200 candies on the ground. I got a crying face, and that's all it seems to do. I haven't eaten any.

This is a good plan, really.

Once you have the best weapon money can buy, be sure to upgrade it further -

First with 101 candies, then with 30 lollipops, and finally with a chocolate bar which you may not have obtained yet.

For the map after the GOB one, you will want the most upgraded weapon plus a good 3-4 health potions, and you should be set. (they heal 50)

Also eating candy is actually a good thing, just not right at the beginning.

cooljammer00

No one should ever throw candy on the floor.

Also, eating candy adds to health but apparently only very miniscule amounts.

Blackjack

Why am I playing this? This is like that giant sword flash game. It's ridiculous. I know it's ridiculous. It knows it's ridiculous. But I can't stop.

Mike Danger

Kinda reminds me of "the turn" in Frog Fractions.

TehSpectre

the hell

The Dude With Herpes

Are the Frog questions set?

I'm terrible at riddles, I can't even figure out question 4. It seems obvious

If you could be whatever you want, what would you be?, seems the answer should be something like 'me', or 'whatever I want', but it won't take any variation I can think of

You start getting so many lolipops a minute that you can just constantly plant them; but I went to the Witches hut, so I understand why now.

Anon the Felon

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

Are the Frog questions set?

I'm terrible at riddles, I can't even figure out question 4. It seems obvious

If you could be whatever you want, what would you be?, seems the answer should be something like 'me', or 'whatever I want', but it won't take any variation I can think of

You start getting so many lolipops a minute that you can just constantly plant them; but I went to the Witches hut, so I understand why now.

Frogs are oddly narcissistic. Those dicks.

B:L

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

Are the Frog questions set?

I'm terrible at riddles, I can't even figure out question 4. It seems obvious

If you could be whatever you want, what would you be?, seems the answer should be something like 'me', or 'whatever I want', but it won't take any variation I can think of

You start getting so many lolipops a minute that you can just constantly plant them; but I went to the Witches hut, so I understand why now.

You should probably just tell it whatever it wants to hear.

Corpekata

cooljammer00 wrote: »

No one should ever throw candy on the floor.

Also, eating candy adds to health but apparently only very miniscule amounts.

You get 1 health for every 10 you eat roughly.

UncleSporky

Corpekata wrote: »

cooljammer00 wrote: »

No one should ever throw candy on the floor.

Also, eating candy adds to health but apparently only very miniscule amounts.

You get 1 health for every 10 you eat roughly.

I think it's closer to 1 per 40, it's not a very good rate. But it's something!

It also improves recovery time because that's based on percentage of HP that needs to be regained.

Corpekata

It might be diminishing returns then. I ate 112 candies just to see what it did and now have 113 health.

TehSpectre

eating 120 gave me 5 health

The Dude With Herpes

Can you get over 100 lp/s? Debating just waiting for Witch stuff or trying to dump more Lollipops in the farm.

UncleSporky

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

Can you get over 100 lp/s? Debating just waiting for Witch stuff or trying to dump more Lollipops in the farm.

No, that's the limit, until you find an item.

B:L

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

Can you get over 100 lp/s? Debating just waiting for Witch stuff or trying to dump more Lollipops in the farm.

That's the max.

MrDelish

is there more than one chest?

edit: ha! There is!

cooljammer00

UncleSporky wrote: »

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

Can you get over 100 lp/s? Debating just waiting for Witch stuff or trying to dump more Lollipops in the farm.

No, that's the limit, until you find an item.

Even when you have the item, it'll still say 100lp/s but really it'll be 300.

UncleSporky

MrDelish wrote: »

is there more than one chest?

edit: ha! There is!

The chest in the forest can give you a different item from the chest in the mountains. But not every area has chests, those are the main two.

The Dude With Herpes

Is the sword from the witch better than the bought and fully upgraded Diamond Sword?

EDIT: also, if I have the first four item slots filled (going down) is there anything else for me to find, item wise, in the first three quests?

I get destroyed in the castle gates; but the candies I win from the Underwater area don't make up for the cost of the potions to get through.

mr weenis

I had 100k lollipops, the witch would give me the faster candies upgrade, but not the better sword upgrade. Any idea why?

Nerdtendo

Blackjack wrote: »

Why am I playing this? This is like that giant sword flash game. It's ridiculous. I know it's ridiculous. It knows it's ridiculous. But I can't stop.

You remind me how much I want another game like that.

UncleSporky

mr weenis wrote: »

I had 100k lollipops, the witch would give me the faster candies upgrade, but not the better sword upgrade. Any idea why?

You have to have the sword fully upgraded to forge it at the anvil, and you have to have forged it at the anvil for the witch to upgrade it further.

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

Is the sword from the witch better than the bought and fully upgraded Diamond Sword?

EDIT: also, if I have the first four item slots filled (going down) is there anything else for me to find, item wise, in the first three quests?

I get destroyed in the castle gates.

It's the same sword, she just keeps making it better.

I think that's all you get from the first 3 quests.

For the castle gates,

once you are strong enough, it could be a good idea to save your game and try using a berserk potion to outrun that spark.

B:L

UncleSporky wrote: »

For the castle gates,

once you are strong enough, it could be a good idea to save your game and try using a berserk potion to outrun that spark.

What I did for that was

Use teleport scrolls to draw the spark over to the left. Then outrun it and fire scroll the knights in your way.

mr weenis

UncleSporky wrote: »

mr weenis wrote: »

I had 100k lollipops, the witch would give me the faster candies upgrade, but not the better sword upgrade. Any idea why?

You have to have the sword fully upgraded to forge it at the anvil, and you have to have forged it at the anvil for the witch to upgrade it further.

Ah, I see. Thanks.

I got the

Sword of Life

Because it was the only one available. I'm assuming there are more options?

The Dude With Herpes

So just to be clear, all upgrades on the sword are progressive, and you can't 'accidentally' get a totally different, possibly weaker, one?

EDIT: Uh, I can't upgrade my sword via the sorceress at all, even the first one; but I did all three candy-type upgrades.

cooljammer00

That's the worst upgrade.

Anon the Felon

When you get the cauldron, oh my god.

Oh my god guys, the cauldron. Oh my god.

The Dude With Herpes

I'm so confused about sword.

I just have the Chocolate Sword; I can't seem to get any other sword. The witch won't let me do the upgrade (60klps) at all, and...?

I guess I could use the Forge maybe? But Sporkys warning in the OP makes me not want to do that.

cooljammer00

Anon the Felon wrote: »

When you get the cauldron, oh my god.

Oh my god guys, the cauldron. Oh my god.

I need that for the 300lp/sec item

Nerdtendo

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

I'm so confused about sword.

I just have the Chocolate Sword; I can't seem to get any other sword. The witch won't let me do the upgrade (60klps) at all, and...?

I guess I could use the Forge maybe? But Sporkys warning in the OP makes me not want to do that.

Use the forge. The first use only gives you one choice, and you want it. The second one, you choose between a fire scroll or a health potion to give a damage boost or return health on killing an enemy. I used the potion, personally.

UncleSporky

There are actually three choices at the forge, and it's not good to just do whatever shows up there first. Details:

Life Sword - requires having a health potion. You are healed as you fight enemies.

Fire Sword - requires having a fire scroll (keep buying from the merchant, they're random). Your sword does more damage.

Summoning Sword - requires having a summon imp scroll (keep buying from the merchant, they're random). You summon a monster after killing an enemy.

They can all be useful, but you can only pick one. There's some sort of internet consensus that the life sword is not as good as the others, but I did well with it my first time. Being closer to full health at the end of a quest means you get to do more quests more often. But the other two are great as well. Summon is fun but not very good against big bosses.

Nerdtendo

UncleSporky wrote: »

There are actually three choices at the forge, and it's not good to just do whatever shows up there first. Details:

Life Sword - requires having a health potion. You are healed as you fight enemies.

Fire Sword - requires having a fire scroll (keep buying from the merchant, they're random). Your sword does more damage.

Summoning Sword - requires having a summon imp scroll (keep buying from the merchant, they're random). You summon a monster after killing an enemy.

They can all be useful, but you can only pick one. There's some sort of internet consensus that the life sword is not as good as the others, but I did well with it my first time. Being closer to full health at the end of a quest means you get to do more quests more often. But the other two are great as well. Summon is fun but not very good against big bosses.

Didn't know about the summoning sword.

I did life for the same reason. I figured the fire sword would probably be better in the long run, but the life sword would allow me to get further, quicker.

UncleSporky

Yeah, I think I had an easier time with it, at least earlier on.

The Dude With Herpes wrote: »

I guess I could use the Forge maybe? But Sporkys warning in the OP makes me not want to do that.

Sorry, I edited it to be clearer.

Nerdtendo

hmm... not sure if it's a bug or what...

I got to the anvil on a second game and sharpened my sword... then went back to buy a fire scroll. I'm still only left with the option of using a health potion despite owning a fire scroll. I'm not sure if sharpening the sword before having a scroll left me without it as a choice or not.

edit:

Nevermind, acid rain scroll.

The Dude With Herpes

I'm just gonna make a save before I choose so I don't have to totally start over if I don't like my choice.