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Petals Used: State which petals the build requires. If there is a specific order, separate petals with "/" (for example, iris/dandelion/rose) If there is a specific rarity, put the first letter of the rarity before the petal (for example, rose/M web/stinger). Include both loadouts if your build uses both.
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Strengths: Most builds specialize against certain mobs, situations or other builds.
Weaknesses: No build is strong everywhere, state the weaknesses of the build.
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Petals Used: (ALL L+) Ant egg,wing,faster,leaf,bone,Ant egg, bur, leaf, web
How it Works: Ants and web slow it down, faster and web for more dps and wing for range
Strengths: beetles and spiders
Weaknesses: shooting mobs
Variations: you can change the web for another bone
Author: Antarctica
Medic[]
"I wanna be a doctor!"
Petals Used: Many teammates with yggdrasil, Yggdrasil, healing petals, Mythic+ Missile, and dps petals.
How it Works: You heal a bunch of people and they fight with you so scorpions are dead
Strengths: EVERYTHING!
Weaknesses: if all ygg people die everyone's dead
Variations: Mythic+ Shovel
Tip: Use Mythic Yggdrasil
Author: no one
The Bane of (fire) Ants[]
"Poggers build hehe"
How it works is that you use a cutter of any rarity to ram mobs, two Cacti,two Fangs make sure you don't place them together, one salt, two yuccas or starfish,one sponge, one basil(if you don't have use root).
Strengths: you have great survivability and can grind through antholes.
Weakness: easily overwhelmed by mobs piling when they chase after you(basically a ton of mobs).
Strategy: Switch to a defensive position and advance toward the nearest mob...AND RAM INTO IT! The mob will take the amount of damage your body does + the percentage of the mobs' damage that is reflected with the salt, usually guaranteeing their death
Strengths: makes you a GREAT defense unit for your team, and allows you to tank mobs repeatedly without any help
Weaknesses: Base Speed is decreased and size is increased; this makes escaping from mobs a LOT more difficult. additionally, it may not do too well against Legendary and Mythic mobs UNLESS you are working with a teammate
Alternatives:
Roses, Dahlias and Fangs can also be alternatives. However, they are not consistent and not good for a ramming build.
instead of using a Cutter, you can use a talisman to evade damage.
Otherwise, use a Basil to increase the healing power of your Leaves, but remember that the Basil isn't all that effective!
You can use Cactuses instead of Soil (that is, assuming you have a Cactus that is a higher rarity than the Soil you are using), since it retains your movement speed
Tip: this build can also be used in Garden, since the Salt can easily take out Hornets
Author: FoldingPapers
"Don't Touch Me"[]
"Untouchable baby"
Petals Used: In this specific order: (magnet/yucca/leaf), Lightning, (yucca/leaf), Jelly, (yucca/leaf), Lightning, (yucca/leaf), Jelly,(yucca/leaf),lightning
How it Works: Yucca/Leaf for healing, Jelly to keep scorpions away, Lightning to kill. After jelly bounces, step up and lightning. Repeat with other lighting/jelly. Stay in defensive form unless you want to attack mobs.
Strengths: Scorpions, Beetles, Small swarms. Works best in lower level waves, falls off hard once you hit around wave 25.
Weaknesses: Too many Mobs, surrounded from all sides with mobs, DPS isn't very high. Any wave with mythics.
Variations: Replace Jellies for Lightnings when most scorpions and beetles are killed.
Tip: Try to use at least rare+ lightnings and jellies. At least rare+ yuccas/leafs/starfishes. Yuccas work best. (
Author: wiem#2692
"The Great Rice Wall"[]
"You shall not pass..."
Petals Used: Yin Yang/E+ Pollen/Rice/Rice/Rice/E+ Pollen/(Dahlia,Leaf,Rose)/(Dahlia,Leaf,Rose). Secondary slot: In first slot, any petal of choice (ex. magnet, cutter, leaf, salt, not yin yang), rest does not matter (your choice)
How it Works: Toggle pressing 1 (or whichever slot you have the yin yang in) to switch the rotation of your petals . Use this to control you petals so that the rice wall (pushed together by the pollens) is always facing your target. It helps to do some maneuvering so that the mobs are coming at you from one side only. For the majority of the time, stay in the attack mode, except when you are caught off guard by a mob approaching your undefended side, in which case the defensive mode can help the rice wall counter-attack quicker and minimize damage. When your Rice are in contact with mobs, this loadout is capable of very HIGH damage.
Strengths: WALLS OF MOBS chasing you around the edge, legendary mobs (esp. with team)
Weaknesses: Surrounded/crushed by mobs, being blocked off by desert centipede/cactus while having mobs chase you
Variations: Can try different healing petals, swapping pollen with E+ lights, and different number of rice depending on your needs
Tip: Be careful with your sides that are unguarded by the rices. They can be exposed to attacks. Thus, it is wise to stay near the edges of the map if solo or always having an escape plan in the case of a swarm approaching from many sides. Also, keep in mind that whichever petal you are swapping with yin yang will be switching out quickly and either not spawn or spawn for a short time, so choose a petal that makes sense (can be improved by Quick Hands Skill).
Author: F1R3_H4X
Example of build
"intermediate dessert"[]
"for the people who are not new and not old"
(NOTE: ANY RARITY WORKS HIGHER RARITY HIGHER WAVER)
(NOTE 2: LOW RARITY USERS CAN REPLACE POLLEN FOR ANY PETAL)
How it Works: Pincer and Web slows down, Stingers and Claws go ouch, Leaf for healing when poisoned, Heavy and Corn yeet bad guys away. And Magnet for stealing kills as a decoration
Strengths: A few big scorpions and beetles
Weaknesses: Lots of big scorpions and beetles
Variations: Leaves can be swapped out for roses and more dps like Light
Tip: Don't yeet big scorpions and beetles at yourself, aka don't hold click all the time
The big survivor[]
"Ayo its that big kid, can't even go close to him..."
Petals Used: cactus/pincer/(jelly/shell[depends if you want health or knockback])/pincer/soil/pincer/leaf/pincer/leaf/pincer
How it Works: the cactus gives you health(you really need), pincer does damage and keeps mobs away. Jelly, the reason it was made... or shell, if you are good, to give shield. Soil, more health lol. leaves to heal.
Strengths: Avoiding every mob(except sandstorm)
Weaknesses: when you are being chased and run into sandstorm
Variations: In your bottom bar use (everything has to be legendary or higher or would not work good) light/pincer/light/faster/faster/powder/light/stinger/faster/light
How it Works: The antennae lets you see mythic fire ants so you can kill them, the fasters for dps, the stingers for high damage, the heavy for knockback (jelly can also knockback, but it's too much knockback and someone could steal you kill), the pincer to slow the mythics and ultras down, the iris to poison the mobs (you have to deal at least 5% of the damage to the mob to get it's drops, so the iris will gradually do damage over time to one mob so you can kill other ones), and a magnet to collect loot.
Strengths: Killing multiple high tier fire ant mobs at a time
Weaknesses:NONE.
Variations: In the bottom bar, do leg+ faster, yggdrasil, mythic+ rose, mythic+ sand, mythic+ sand, mythic+ sand, mythic+ web, mythic+ web, mythic+ rose, and leg+ clover. The fasters and sands is for dps, the web is for slowing mobs down, the rose is for healing, the clover is for getting better rarity mobs, and the yggdrasil is to revive greedy beggars noobs who have a skill issue.
Tips: If you don't have a yggdrasil, replace it with a powder (to outrun mobs), a web (to slow mobs), or a leaf/rose (healing).
Petals used: Bubble , bubble , powder , bubble, bubble(make sure that your bubble are all same rarity.), light, light, rose, light, light.
How it works: The light is for protect and to close in the space so you can boost faster with only one shift. Bubble to move faster and powder does not stack so use only one.
Strengths:FAST.
Weakness: Not enough offensive petal so good luck dealing with the leg and above
Variations: Use pollen to replace light.
Tip: Be carful where you ram. You will go very far if you are careful, keep a secondary build for offensive.
Author: Senic the hedgehog.(no copyright(pls don't sue me))
Petals Used: Stinger (Epic+), Pincer (Legendary+), Corn (Epic+), Pincer (Legendary+), Stinger (Epic+), Egg (Legendary+), Corn (Epic+), Pincer (Legendary+) Keep Roses(Rare+), Clams(Rare+) and a Antennae in inventory(required)
How it Works: Use the antennae to see other mobs. Then use Clam to get Shield up. Go in for the kill and switch the antennae out. The corn will push the mob away if it gets too close. You can use fasters. The stingers do so much damage and the pincers will poison them. Make sure to keep a distance. Shield can only do so much. Use roses to manually heal.
Strengths: Close range
Weaknesses: Scorpions that keep on firing missiles.Killer Machine InventoryVariations: MAKE YOUR OWN!! This is your inventory, you can make it to suit whatever zone your in.
How it Works: bones give short range damage, wings give long range damage, pincer and web slows down, leaf heals, magnet collects drops.
Strengths: beetles, shinies, fire ants(maybe), desert centipedes(maybe)
Weaknesses: scorpions, sandstorms(maybe)
Variations: replace bone with other high damage-dealing petals such as stinger or claw or others; replace wing with missile or egg(s), replace pincer/web with knockback(jelly, corn, heavy) or powder; put in plank maybe to defend against scorpions; put in antennae to see dangers
Tip: Hit beetles with pincer first to decrease their speed and run around it; if there are many beetles this still works as one slowed beetle slows the others. If you find that pincer can't quite cope, find a cactus or a desert centipede and hide behind it... just make sure that the beetles can't touch you, they're very high damage mobs. Also try to evade scorpions or sandstorms while running to keep away from danger.
Flying Missiles[]
"Every wall can break. "
Petals Used: L+bubble/L+bubble/M+light/faster(rarity based on your reload speed)/R+magnet/L+antennae/M+missile/M+missile/M+missile/M+missile
How it Works: Use bubbles often, with or without a large group of mobs. It can get you out of danger(or find mobs quickly), that's something 100% true. The reason that missiles must be M+ is that you need self-adjusting and high-damaging weapons to deal enough damage to get the drops. It's basically a combination of instant traveling and far-distance shooting.
Strengths: Able to travel quickly, good at getting drops. (Believe me, I calculated that one)
Weaknesses: There's no healing petals, so it requires a good skill set. Especially weak against scorpions, because you'll be dead when it hit you.
Variations: The chance of being trapped in a group of mobs is small, so you can consider replacing the faster petal with a web or a pincer, for emergency use.
Tip: Try to heal yourself before going into the final section of the desert.
Author: (no account)
The Beetle Busters[]
"They wanna bite you, but you won't let them."
Petals (Noob): Antennae/Faster/Powder or Web/Rose/Orange/Lotus/Faster/Jelly/Magnet/Orange (Recommended Legendary+)
Leg+ Noob beetle busters build
Petals (Pro): Antennae alts Third Eye/Faster/Pincer/Any healing petal except Yucca/Stinger/Lotus or any damage petals/Faster/Any damage petals/Magnet/Stinger (Required to be Mythic+ except magnet)
Mythic+ Pro beetle busters build
How it Works: Fasters make you be able to deal damage quicker and rotates to a safety petal (like pincer and jelly that slows down a beetle) quicker, antennae makes you see further since beetles have huge aggro ranges, powder speeds you up, pincer/web slow the beetles down, healing petals -- you need them, lotus is useful when an M scorpion is after you (absorbs damage of its poisonous pincers), stinger/oranges are the main sources of damage, magnet makes you pick up drops that are further away from you, jelly either bounces away a scorpion pincer or bounces off a beetle for a short period of time, third eyes are not required but they help you stretch your petals further out, especially helpful when you have stingers (because oranges are just a lazy noob alternative for stingers)
Strengths: kills beetles effectively, heals you, makes you be able to solo an army of M beetles sometimes, good enough to deal with any types of mobs that can potentially spawn in Desert 5.
Weaknesses: not good enough for ultra beetle tho (:Facepalm:)
Tip: Stay away from ultra beetle or don't be the person who aggros it first (:HyperFacepalm:)
How it Works: The rice petals deal tons of damage every second to the cacti, the Bur allows them to do even more damage, the lights clump the petals closer together, and the Yin Yang is for the Rice to stay in the same spot, leading to even more damage.
Strengths: Cacti, and swarms of lower rarity mobs.
Weaknesses: Swarms of very high rarity mobs and trolls.
Variations: add another rice in the place of a light! or add a lightning in the place of a rice if you get swarmed by mobs!
Secondary: Anything you want, put light and faster under magnet and leaf for more dps
How it Works: Pincers slow beetles down, lights and fasters do dps, and jelly helps keeping beetles away
Strengths: beetles following you, including ultra beetles (it could kill a ubeetle relatively fast with mlights and lpincers)
Weaknesses: stuff in front of you with a high rarity beetle behind you, and scorpions: stuff in front of you can push you into the high rarity beetle and kill you, and scorpions are just annoying.
Variations: maybe replace a light with a lightning, or use rubbers (not tested)
Tip: try not to have a L or M scorpion seeing you, if it does, you're dead unless you have something that can kill it quickly. Also, it's basically a modified deathwheel so it works against cacti as well.
Ultimate Desert Build[]
"(Enter Slogan Here)"
Primary Build: M+ Pincer, U+ Leaf, U+ Rock, M+ Iris, U+ Rock, U+ Leaf, M+ Cactus or M+ Powder, M+ Pincer, M+ Antennae, L+ Magnet
Secondary Build: 5 bubbles, 2 M+ Lights, M+ Cactuses for the other 3 petal slots
How it works: Pincers slow down Beetles, Rock does good damage, Leaf for heals and damage, Antennae and Magnet are self explanatory, Cactus for if you get hit by Ultra Beetle and Powder for outrunning Beetles if needed, and Iris for poison damage.
Strengths: Beetles Scorpions and Cactus
Weaknesses: Hordes of mobs and Mythic Sandstorms as they have good body damage
Variations: Add Third eye instead of Antennae or Magnet. Use Wings instead of Rocks and Iris for Sandstorms as they need to be dealt with from a distance. Use Lightning instead of Rocks or Iris to deal With Hordes.
Tips: If you don't have a M+ Iris use a faster to increase rotation speed.
How it Works: You can troll any Types of Mobs in Desert, except for Beetles and cactus, M powder lets u escape when You are attacked,You can Also Use Rock or Corn to replace Heavy or Jelly. Plus,You need to get your health bar be filled with shells so if you were attacked, you can survive.
Strengths: Centi,And more
Weaknesses: Beetles and Cactuses, Scorpions,(Maybe),Sandstorms(Maybe)
Variations: U can change M powder to faster to increase your petal rotation
Tip: It's best to troll when You have a friend or a player with you,U can troll anyone with you except for Beetles and Cactuses
Additional Information: You can also use the troll method in Fire ant hell and other ant hell with improved U+ Petals, becareful also when you troll because u can risk your self too.
Secondary Build: Use 4x Leaf or more healing petals (Shell will be the best) , Use 1 M+ basil, 3x M+ Bubbles, 1 L+ antennae and 1 L+ Shovel so you can escape when hordes attack you.
Author: Sparkie_Playzz A.K.A (Sparky)
Beetle X Rubber[]
"Catch me if you can Beetles!"
Petals Used: Requires: 8x L+ Rubber, 1+M Antennae and 1 L type of any healing petal ( shell too )
How it Works: Rubber lets you escape because you get knockback recieved from the beetles, antennae lets you see and Helaing petal will heal you!...
Strengths: Anything, Scorpions ( I think)?
Weaknesses: Cactus and Hordes ( Am i right? xd)
Variations: OFC nothing!
Tip: Its better to be solo when you escape a horde , also useful in any biomes. I think Scorpions cant knock u back.
Author: Sparkier_Playzz A.K.A Sparky ( AYYY ITS ME AGAIN)
How it Works: Antennae = see all, Fang = Quick heal, Stinger = good damage, Pincer = leave me alone, Leafs = consistant heal, Sand = DPS, Lightning = GET OFF ME YOU F***ING ANTS, Magnet = eating drops, Faster = spin faster so that fang heals you more because hits more and the rest also hits more so more DPS and yay.
Strengths: Hordes of Ants, Beetles, Sandstorm, Shiny (lol)
Weaknesses: Scorpions if you can't dodge
Variations: use any other 2 heal petal combination, for example yuccas
Tip 1: Have reload fully skilled
Tip 2: it might be a good idea to have a good tank build as secondary
Author: TheHaitisch
GOMMU GOMMU NO! CANNON![]
"I HAVE THE POWER OF ANIME ON MY SIDE!"
Petals Used: Full Rubbers (Rare+)
Secondary: None
How it Works: When you get hit by ANYTHING you get sent flying, This helps you get away from sandstorms, beetles, scorpions, and ant hills
Strengths: Helps you get away from high rarity mobs
Weaknesses: Rubber breaks easily,
How to get: Destroy termite mounds till you get enough rubber
Variations: Use sponge/heals to heal Damage from hits
Tip: Have the Second chance Tp To survive hits from mythic+
Author: Chaotic coops
Scorpion/Beetle meat grinder[]
"100% fresh desert insect meat from the desert butcher"
Petals Used: Lotus, Leaf, Pincer. (assembly is your choice)
How it Works: Hit the enemies with pincers to deal poison damage and slow them down. Use Lotus to evade poison damage dealt by Scorpions.
How it Works: Third eye Boosts Range Mysterious Powder Boosts Speed fangs heal Faster and wing makes it look like an actual sandstorm
Strengths: Sandstorms cause long range and quick speed
Weaknesses: high range mobs because you ain't getting the chance to reach them for the fangs to heal
Tip: Reload Talent
Author: AbsolPlayZ
The God[]
"I'm the god , pray me!"
Petals Used: Talisman, Laser(2x), Rose, Powder, Relic, Web, Wax, Pearl, Clover(all petals should be L+ or higher rarity)
How it Works: Talisman evades the attacks, laser helps you to attack enemies far away, rose heals you, relic increases your maximum health, web helps you to escape mobs, wax helps to block mobs, pearl also work as laser, clover increases your luck
Strengths: Works best on centipedes
Weaknesses: NONE!
Variations: You can replace talisman into chip, rose into yucca or other healing petals, powder into bubble, relic into cactus, web into pincer, wax into moon rock, clover into dice.
Tip: Its important to use 10th loadout talent, also use antenna or antenna talent.
