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[v0.10] Gold/Egg farm in Bone Zone with Red Death (250k+ gold per run)
By fradigit
Easy gold farm for any level of eggs on Bone Zone with Red Death. Recommended max Power Ups before attempting farm.
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Requirements and Recommended before starting
Before attempting this farm, be advised you will need to have the following unlocked:

1. Randomazzo / Arcanas
2. Red Death character
3. Bone Zone level
4. XV Disco of Gold arcana
5. XX Silent Old Sanctuary arcana
6. Mindbender relic
7. Great Gospel relic

Additionally, the following are recommended:
1. all PowerUps maxed
2. XVI Slash arcana XIII Wicked Season arcana (update v.0.10)

No golden eggs are required to begin this run, but the run will become more effective as golden eggs are bought for Red Death
Strategy
1. Choose Red Death
2. Limit max weapons to 1
3. Check Eggs
4. Choose Bone Zone
5. Select Hyper
6. Select Arcanas
7. Select Limit Break
8. Select Disco of Gold arcana at beginning of run
9. Grab the following passive items:
  • Empty Tome
  • Skull O'Maniac
  • Crown
  • Torrona's Box
  • Stone Mask
  • Armor (if under 500 eggs, or if you have trouble surviving) OR Attractorb (if over 500 eggs)
10. After 1-2 minutes, you should attempt to keep Gold Fever active as much as possible for the rest of the run - this is what will earn you the most gold and keep you alive through healing. When reactivating Gold Fever, also collect a majority of experience gems on the ground
11. Once all passive items are maxed, you may select Random Always for limit break upgrades to the Death Spiral weapon
12. At 10 minutes, depending on the amount of golden eggs you have bought, you may need to actively dodge the Stalker/green reaper until 11 minutes.
13. Around 11-14 minutes, you should get the chest for the second arcana, choose XX Silent Old Sanctuary
14. At this point, you should not be in danger of dying as long as you keep Gold Fever up. Gold Fever should last 2-3 minutes idling before needing to be reactivated.
15. Around 21 minutes, the third and final arcana can be collected. I have had the most success with XVI Slash XIII Wicked Season (update v0.10).
Results
A sample run with 0 golden eggs on Red Death - 260k [v0.9]



A sample run with ~1,000 golden eggs on Red Death - 879k [v0.9]



A sample run with ~1,000 golden eggs on Red Death - 968k [v0.10 with Wicked Season arcana in third slot]
Other factors and notes
  • I have heard Moongolow is better at low golden egg levels due to the opportunity to get 12 eggs + gold per 15 minute run (or 7.5 minute run on Hurry mode). However, I would argue this run requires less effort when playing, even at 0 eggs this run can be mostly idled after the second arcana is obtained at around 13 minutes
  • I did some experimenting with Gatti Amari/Vicious Hunger as a second item, but it took more effort to get set up in the beginning, and the total gold earned per run was less
  • For the third arcana, I have tried VII Iron Blue Will, VIII Mad Groove, X Beginning, and XVIII Boogaloo of Illusions as alternatives to XVI Slash, but have had worse results As of v0.10, it seems like XIII Wicked Season is the clear winner if you can survive (haven't tried at lower egg amounts yet)
  • I have had better results playing on my desktop computer than on my Steam Deck - I believe the frame rate may affect the total amount of gold you can collect in a run. At 1k eggs, I can earn ~850k per run on my desktop and ~650k per run on my Steam Deck.
  • I used the Armor passive for a while as I felt Red Death was a bit of a glass cannon in Bone Zone. I forget around how many eggs I stopped needing it. I was not sure what passive was best to replace Armor, so I chose Magnet as I had trouble picking up experience gems towards the end of runs, as visibility is impaired. Feel free to try something else.
  • At 1k eggs, I can somewhat reliably tank the Stalker/green reaper at 10-11 minutes without moving. It helps if the other skeleton boss at 10 minutes is killed quickly. However, you should have more than enough revives at that point where an accidental death doesn't matter.
  • I'm not sure if this is a bug, but sometimes at the end of a run the Reaper will take a while to target and kill me. I usually just pick up anything close by and manually end the run through the pause menu rather than waiting to be killed 8+ times.
  • I have played around a little with selecting specific upgrades for Death Spiral instead of selecting Random Always. I had better results with prioritizing Amount > Area > Might > Speed. However, the additional time and effort is probably not worth it.
  • I don't bother trying to get the rings/arrows, it doesn't seem worth it walking to them or sacrificing an arcana for Mad Groove.
  • UPDATE v0.10 - Exchanged XVI Slash for XIII Wicked Season, adds about 100k more gold per run at 1k eggs. Have not tried at 0 eggs, if it is too challenging due to increased curse you can wait until you have a couple hundred eggs before using this.
  • UPDATE v0.10 - I saw a run on reddit by u/th3birdofhermes with the new secret character Trouser that got 800k at 300 eggs (using Phieraggi and Gorgeous Moon). I tried this for a few minutes but the earlier game is much easier in my opinion with a fully upgraded weapon to start. If you want to maximize your gold per minute, it seems like Trouser might be a better choice!
Suggestions
I welcome any suggestions in the comments! Please let me know if you found a way to improve this run, if you have a better farm for a certain amount of eggs, if you see any mistakes, etc.

Some people have very helpfully left modifications to this guide they tried and results in the comments. Please take a look! Some of them require a more active playstyle than this guide but offer better gold results.
30 Comments
fradigit  [author] 15 Aug, 2022 @ 7:02pm 
Hi predator.christian, there are a couple good choices in terms of farming - Red Death, Pugnala, Trouser, Gains, and Gyorunton. The qualities to look for are starting weapon and character ability. Good stats is nice for starting out but becomes meaningless after a few thousand eggs. I think Trouser is probably the best for farming at this point, as he can choose any non-evolved weapon to start and his ability increases greed by 1% every level, with no cap. There is another popular guide that was made recently with a farming build for Trouser here
predator.cristian 15 Aug, 2022 @ 11:33am 
I noticed that the eggs you buy are valid only for the character and not for everyone, at the beginning on which character should you spend eggs and upgrade it? I have seen people with 50,000 eggs, the eggs increase all the parameters but any advice on how to farm a lot of gold?
fradigit  [author] 12 Aug, 2022 @ 5:15pm 
Hi predator.cristian, I don't have the tools or desire to make a video, but you are correct that Red Death moves too fast. You have to stop and let the coins catch up to you. Even in good conditions, it will be hard to maintain the gold fever after 2-3 minutes, so you can let it run out and pick up a new coin bag. I spend most of the run not moving, maybe every 1-3 minutes gold fever will run out and I will just run around in a circle to pick up everything to start a new gold fever and get experience, then stop moving until it runs out again.
Deathman.Kenshi 12 Aug, 2022 @ 3:31am 
Checked game integrity and now I can reroll arcanas I guess I had something bugged thanks :)
predator.cristian 11 Aug, 2022 @ 12:48pm 
hello listen tell me how to keep the gold bar always active? red death moves fast and then I get to a point where they kill me how do you make so many millions? could you put a video just to get an idea?
fradigit  [author] 9 Aug, 2022 @ 11:30am 
Hi Deathman.Kenshi, are you rerolling? You should have enough rerolls to get any Arcana. Do not use rerolls on items. If you are using 1 weapon, you wont need to use any on weapons, and for passives, use banish if you get a level up with no items you want.
Deathman.Kenshi 9 Aug, 2022 @ 10:30am 
99% of my runs fail short on not geting 2nd and 3rd arcanas which I want
fradigit  [author] 8 Aug, 2022 @ 1:01pm 
Hi FPDevilTech, I think you are looking at the wrong part of the screenshot. The items I picked up are right below the character name, and then under that are the PowerUps that you buy from the main menu with gold. Pick up items are grouped together with the weapon, and PowerUps are the boxed icons below that. Also, you can only pick up 6 items, not 9. Hope that helps!
大激疤叔叔 7 Aug, 2022 @ 11:25pm 
2670 eggs, 2 weapon with Pentagram
Attrackorb/ Crown/ Stone musk/ Skull/ Torrona box/ Empty Tome

start with XV Disco with Gold -> XIII Wicked Season -> XVI Slash. about 2.1M per run. end with LV 600~700

if change order to XIII Wicked Season -> XV Disco with Gold -> XVI Slash. about 2.3M per run and end with lv 13xx. but I can feel this build you hardly one shoot the creep because the curse is around 1000%.

First build need less effort, you just need move your char to get money bag for money fever every 3 mins.

Sec build need more effort after 23mins, you need find the money bag every 1.5 minutes.
FPDevilTech 7 Aug, 2022 @ 7:27pm 
sitting here kinda asking myself how u got every passive , when u can only get 9 and there are 0 items on the map.