

#Shattered pixel dungeon unlockables upgrade
Levels 6-9: You cannot survive long in these levels without starting to upgrade your weapon. Yes, it is dangerous not knowing which potion is health but you can find out by killing flies since they always drop health or if you start getting a lot of 1 potion type since health is the most common potion. Not identifying scrolls and potions is also important since you can buy them much cheaper at the shop if they are not identified.

Try not to use any potions in case you need fire, lev, or invis for a special room. Try not to use any scrolls until you have at least a tier 2 weapon to upgrade in case you use a SoU. Don't be afraid to use all your food, starving early hurts but starving later isn't a big deal. You don't want to miss a hidden area with a strength potion or upgrade scroll. Levels 1-4: Fully explore each level, kill everything, try and find all hidden doors & rooms.
#Shattered pixel dungeon unlockables how to
I won't go into how to defeat the Goo boss since I'm sure that's been covered many times before and the other bosses are easy enough. Now that you've got the basics of fighting down, and you're upgrading only your weapon, let's look at how to play each group of levels. I played over 100 games without much success before I learned these 2 tricks and then started winning around 1 in 10 games without any more knowledge listed below. You may want to spend 1-2 SoU max on a tier 2 or 3 weapon just so you can get to your end game tier 4 weapon. The latest version of Shattered requires 2 upgrade scrolls to lower strength requirements by 1 point so tier 5 weapons have become almost worthless. Tier 2 is too weak and tier 5 will typically take too long to use effectively and you will use all your health potions trying to get to that point. Tier 4 is ideal but tier 3 is still very doable. You don't need great armor or upgraded rings or artifacts if you can 1 or 2 shot every mob with surprise attacks.

The 2nd strategy here ties in with the first: spend all your SoU on your weapon, never on anything else. Trading blows at the higher levels is bad. Using surprise/ambush attacks is essential to killing mobs while taking as little damage as possible and it becomes even more important in the higher levels as mobs have very high evasion and can hit very hard. I assume this was done to prevent you from using a weapon that is way too heavy for you and one-shotting everything at the lower levels (a good change). The latest version of shattered requires that you have the correct strength to use your weapon for this to apply. If the mob cannot see you and has to spent their turn moving into position to see you, your next attack cannot miss. The key here is breaking their line of sight with you. Even better, you can use a single tile of high grass in the middle of a room to dance around and land multiple surprise attacks. Most posts will reference using doorways to land guaranteed hits and this is your bread and butter, but you can also use 180 degree walls (like making a U-turn). The most important thing to learn first is how to use line of sight when fighting. There are plenty of ways to win the game and other strategies out there. The moderator asked me to consolidate all guides to one post.
