Scrap Clicker 2/Guide

This guide will help from the beginning of Scrap Clicker 2, over the unlock of the tireyard to the x1000 stars, and even a bit further. It's written and maintained by the wiki admin Schrottii, but anyone is welcome to fix errors and making it a bit better.

For the case you already played quite a bit of the game, you can directly jump to the Midgame part or Lategame part. The earlygame part includes the first ten stars, the midgame part until the tireyard is unlocked and the lategame part everything after that.

1. The overlay
Important articles for this chapter of part 1: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Scrap, Magnets

First, download the game, if you haven't done this yet.(duh) When you start it, a loading screen appears for about a second, then the game is started. If you start it for the first time, you should see 5 rows with each 4 empty slots. Those are 20 empty spaces for barrels. On the very top, there's a green bar, going from left to right. Every time it's full, a new barrel spawns, in your case the first barrel (Circle Blue). Right under that, there are two numbers and two icons: On the left your scrap (The main resource), on the right your magnets (An other resource).

On the bottom, there are 4 "sections". They are/do the following (from left to right): The options tab is usually the least used. The game usually uses the normal number format (which goes M, B, T...), for the case you don't like this one, you should change it there now. For more info, check out the Big Numbers article. This tab also includes a cloud save system and a file-based import/export system. The upgrade tab is pretty important, just like the Prestige tab, you should check them out pretty often. Until you unlock Barrel Mastery the barrel tab is not too useful.
 * A list of all barrels (Including barrel info and later Barrel Mastery)
 * Prestige tab (Probably not unlocked for you yet, also includes Stars and later Scrapyards and Bricks)
 * Upgrade tab (Scrap Upgrades, Magnet Upgrades and later Brick Upgrades, the Tree Upgrades and Tire Upgrades)
 * Options tab (News, settings, Leaderboards and the social tab)

This is your current overlay of the game. Later, a bit more stuff pops up.

2. How to upgrade right
Important articles for this chapter of part 1: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Scrap, Scrap Upgrades (Scrap Clicker 2), Magnet Upgrades (Scrap Clicker 2)

So, first, merge barrels. They take some time to spawn, but later on they'll spawn faster than you can merge. Some minutes later you should be able to purchase the first scrap upgrade. I'll list now in which order you should upgrade Scrap and magnet upgrades.

Scrap: Here some very important note: Don't level Better Barrels 2 now or you'll regret it! For you, its max level is 75 and any level between 1 and 99 decreases the speed in which you progress by a lot. So until you can level it to 100, don't touch it.
 * 1) Better Barrels
 * 2) Faster Barrels
 * 3) Better Storms
 * 4) More Magnets
 * 5) Doubled Barrels
 * 6) Better Offline Production
 * 7) Better Barrels 2

Magnets: Note: First max out the first two upgrades, and from then on level the next upgrade in the order or Better Boost, depending which one is cheaper.
 * 1) Faster Level Up
 * 2) More Magnets
 * 3) More Golden Scrap
 * 4) Better Boost
 * 5) Offline Production
 * 6) More Storms

Maxing out the magnet upgrades shouldn't take too long, most scrap upgrades are easy too. Now, you know how to level them the most effective.

3. Ad Events
Important articles for this chapter of part 1: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Ad Events

You probably already reached the 10th barrel, if you played while reading this guide. Now, it becomes slower and slower. But once you merged 100 barrels, you unlock something great: The Ad Events! Those plop up in the upper right corner (If they don't for you, these three things could be the reason: 1. You didn't merge 100 times yet 2. You have to restart your game (close and re-open) 3. You have the bug that no ads are available, for this check out the "No Ads!" section of the Ad Events article). Those give powerful boosts. Here's how you should use them currently:
 * 1) Faster Barrels: To get a lot of progress at the cost of a lot of effort.
 * 2) Crazy Storm: To get quite many magnets. You should always use it when you get it, until you get less than 1/20 of the magnets you need for a whole star from it.
 * 3) Auto Merge: To get some merges without actually playing.
 * 4) More Magnets: To double the value of a magnet storm or a level up.
 * 5) Faster Level Ups: Not unlocked yet (x15 Stars), increases your level up speed by +200%. A less-exhausting version of Faster Barrels.
 * 6) More Scrap: Very effective at the point you're at, actually until the last barrels. Can push you some barrels farther.
 * 7) More Fragments: Not unlocked yet (10 Stars), increases your fragment gain. A less-exhausting version of Faster Barrels for farming Fragments.
 * 8) More Bricks: Not unlocked yet (x15 Stars), increases your brick production. The worst Ad Event.

As you can see, all are nice, except More Bricks. Some say Auto Merge is bad, Crazy Storm is bad, Faster Level Ups is bad or More Fragments is bad, but they're actually not THAT bad. Faster Barrels is the only Ad Event you have to "master" and one of the few parts in this game where skill is needed. While Auto Merge gives you 450 merges avg. with the needed scrap upgrades on max. level, Faster Barrels can give up to 6000 (More than 4000 is really difficult), where the average is about 1800 merges in 10 minutes. If you want to progress fast, learn how to merge fast at Faster Barrels. Else: Auto Merge or later Faster Level Ups. Following two videos could help you learning Faster barrels, but note that converting (removing a barrel) isn't unlocked until Star upgrading is unlocked (Both are by the FB master CopyCantPaste):
 * 3.8k merges
 * 63 convert method, good to begin with.

Instead of watching an ad, you can also purchase Ad Tokens, depending on where you live. Later you unlock Change Tokens to make a More Magnets turn into Faster Barrels, for example.

4. Prestige
Important articles for this chapter of part 1: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Golden Scrap

Once you got enough scrap, you can prestige for Golden Scrap at the prestige tab! When you got 1000 GS, you can get your first Star, which unlocks something nice... - There are three often used steps for the 1000 GS: You can get up to 10 stars in total (Only 10, there aren't more), which unlock different things. A full list of when and what can be found at the Stars article.
 * 200 GS, 250 GS, 250 GS, 300 GS
 * 100 GS, 200 GS, 300 GS, 400 GS
 * 175 GS, 225 GS, 275 GS, 325 GS

5. Teams
Important articles for this chapter of part 1: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Teams 2.0, Team Leagues, Team Challenges

When you got your first star, you unlock the Teams 2.0 system (Yes, there were Teams 1.0 in the past). You can join a team or create one, once you reached x20 Stars (The x before the 20 will be explained later) at a cost of 10000 magnets. For now, you should join a team. Not a totally inactive one, but not one of the best teams.

When you reached 9 Stars, you unlock Team Leagues, which reward weekly magnets depending on how many merges the team did (Last reward is at 500k merges, so you may should join a team which can do 500k in a week). At x20 Stars, Team Challenges are unlocked, which give you Change Tokens (Change the effect of the ad you've got).

6. Scrapyard (v1/v2)
Important articles for this chapter of part 1: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Scrapyard

At 4 Stars, you unlock the Scrapyard (v1). You can spend scrap here to reduce your star costs by A LOT. It's level will reset to 1 when gaining a new star and it will completely disappear when you got your tenth star. You unlock the Scrapyard (v2) at x12 Stars, which has a very similar effect.

7. GS Multis
Important articles for this chapter of part 1: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Golden Scrap, GS Multis

At 5 Stars, right after the Scrapyard v1, you unlock the so called GS Multis (Multipliers). They're simple, when you unlocked a certain barrel you get much more golden scrap. This will help A LOT to get the last few stars. It seems that it is the most effective until your tenth star to make runs which are about 5 minutes long from now on. The last one gives x1024 scrap (Barrel 97), you should start getting to there at about x15 Stars.

8. Star upgrading
Important articles for this chapter of part 1: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Fragments, Magnets, Golden Scrap

When you get your tenth star, you lose your Scrapyard and you have to get 4 million GS to unlock Star upgrading. This makes you able to get x11 Stars, x12 Stars etc. - They give bigger scrap boosts and unlock cool stuff! Those 4 million GS should take a while to get (About 3 times longer than the 3M GS for the 10. star). Once you got it, you unlocked Fragments and Star upgrading! Now stars also costs Magnets and these Fragments, which you get by converting (double tap) a barrel. This converting is also very important for being able to use shorter FB methods.

Congratulations, once you unlocked Star Upgrading you hit the Midgame part!

1. Converting
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Fragments Once you got to star upgrading and so the Midgame part, you can convert barrels! Doing this is simple, just double tap and confirm. Don't worry about that nasty confirmation dialog, you can remove it later. By converting you get Fragments and space. The space is important for being able to get high merges and together with that magnets from speed merging. You should only convert the spawning barrel for fragments, and any you want for space.

2. Magnet-gain playstyles
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Magnets, Ad Events You need 10k magnets to get to the 11. star, 12.5k for the 12. star etc. - A lot! Here's a short list of the best methods to get magnets from now on:
 * Speed merging: Gives some magnets from spawning barrels and merging barrels and A LOT from Level Ups. The by far most efficient way.
 * Crazy Storm based: Sure, why not only use Crazy Storm to get magnets and ignore everything else? More effective than auto merge. A bit crazy though...
 * Auto Merge: Similar to speed merging, but far slower.
 * Storms: The most idle way. The magnets you gain from normal storms can get you stars, but slower than the other methods. The good thing about this one is, that Prestige can greatly be combined with it.

3. Efficient GS gain
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Golden Scrap As usually, do runs with a length of about 5 minutes, prestige, repeat. You should be able to get to the last Multipliers soon. Before actually upgrading stars, you may go to 6 million Golden Scrap and don't fall under that amount.

Rule of thumb for upgrading stars: get $$GSrequirement × ( CurrentMult + 1 )$$ GS before upgrading a single star, or $$GSrequirement × ( CurrentMult + 10 )$$ GS to upgrade all 10 stars (of same mult)

4. Scrapyard v2
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Scrapyards Once you upgraded 20 stars (Hopefully you're at x12 now), you unlock the second scrapyard. Golden Scrap can be spent at the Scrapyard v2 to reduce the star costs (GS, Magnets and Fragments). Don't think that you can keep your magnet costs at ~10k or ~20k, it will raise the whole time.

5. Bricks
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Bricks At x15 Stars, Bricks are unlocked. They can be spent on several upgrades. Also, there are now two new Ad Events for you: Faster Level Up and More Bricks.


 * Tip: Never use "More Bricks". 100 times more bricks may sounds very useful, but you can easily get trillion bricks at x15 Stars already.
 * Tip: Faster Level Up is a less-exhausting version of Faster Barrels, but it also gives quite less.

There are several ways to get bricks:
 * x2/x4/x16: Resetting your level (At the bricks tab)
 * x4: Gaining a star
 * x1.25: More Bricks brick upgrade
 * Brick Multipliers (see chapter 7)

6. Brick upgrades
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Bricks There are 7 brick upgrades (There's a 8th one later, called "More Beams"). As the brick gain is easy to increase, there's not really an order in which you should level them, but there are still better and worse ones. Here a list of them from worst to best:
 * More Fragments
 * More Magnets 3
 * More Scrap
 * More Magnets
 * More Beams
 * Cheaper Scrapyard
 * More Bricks
 * More Magnets 2

7. Brick multipliers
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Bricks Together with Bricks, the brick multipliers are also unlocked, which only have shown "???" before. They're every 6 barrels after the GS ones and give some small brick production boost.

8. Team Challenges and Change Tokens
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Teams 2.0 At x30 Stars, the Team Challenges are unlocked. The whole team completes challenges to earn points and up to 30 (45 later on) Change Tokens, which can be used to change the effect you get after watching an ad. If you're (still) in an inactive team or a pretty empty team, you might should join a better one now, as Change Tokens can make the game more easier and more fun.

9. Tree Upgrades
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Tree Upgrades Once you reached x40 Stars, one of the most powerful features is unlocked: The Tree Upgrades!
 * New Upgrades are unlocked every 5 stars (Later 10, 25 or 50)
 * The Upgrades cost all kind of resources
 * All coming resources will be unlocked here
 * All Upgrades give a positive effect

The important upgrades are the following 35:
 * x2 GS at x40 Stars
 * Steel Beams at x40 Stars
 * Shorter magnet storms at x40 Stars
 * More Steel Beams at x45 Stars
 * Mega Magnet at x50 Stars
 * More Magnets from Mega Magnets at x55 Stars
 * Faster Prestige at x55 Stars
 * More Levels for Better Barrels II at x60 Stars
 * More Steel Beams at x65 Stars
 * More Magnets from Mega Magnets at x70 Stars
 * Scrapyard v3 at x75 Stars
 * Slower Steel Beams at x75 Stars
 * x2 GS at x80 Stars
 * More Steel Beams at x80 Stars
 * New Brick Upgrade at x85 Stars
 * More Magnets from Mega Magnets at x90 Stars
 * x2 Fragments at x95 Stars
 * Wrenches at x100 Stars
 * More Wrenches at x105 Stars
 * More Magnets from Mega Magnets at x110 Stars
 * More Steel Beams at x115 Stars
 * Scrapyard v4 at x115 Stars
 * Passive Golden Scrap Production at x120 Stars
 * More Fragments Ad Event at x125 Stars
 * Tires at x130 Stars
 * More Bricks from Level Resets at x175 Stars
 * More Steel Beams at x200 Stars
 * Wrench Storms increase wrench production at x225 Stars
 * Not losing Level when prestiging at x225 Stars
 * Scrapyard v5 at x250 Stars
 * More Bricks from Level Resets at x275 Stars
 * x2 Magnets from Magnet storms and Crazy storms at x300 Stars
 * More Steel Beams at x300 Stars
 * Barrel Mastery at x400 Stars
 * A massive magnet boost every 1 million merges at x450 Stars

Note that many of those will be explained in the following chapters.

10. Steel Beams
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Tree Upgrades, Steel Beams Steel Beams are one of the mighty Tree Upgrades. Once unlocked, they'll fall every 60 seconds and can be collected. There are several upgrades which increase the beam gain, including the new brick upgrade unlocked at x85 Stars. They're spent on several upgrades and from x75 Stars on also on the Scrapyard v3, which increases the magnet production. They also come with a new Team Challenge.

11. Mega Magnets
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Tree Upgrades, Mega Magnets Mega Magnets are unlocked at x50 Stars. They appear every 500 merges and explode into 50 Magnets, which can be collected. There are many upgrades increasing the amount of magnets they're worth. They also come with a new Team Challenge.

12. Wrenches
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Tree Upgrades, Wrenches Wrenches are unlocked at x100 Stars. The amount of wrenches you get per merge increases every time you merge (If you have the x105 Stars upgrade). They can be spent on several Upgrades and at the Scrapyard v4 (x115 Stars) to increase the brick production by a little bit.

13. Tires
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Tree Upgrades, Tires Tires are unlocked at x130 Stars. Just as Steel Beams, they fall every 60 seconds and can be spent on five upgrades: While a normal magnet storm has 70/35 items (magnets), a tire storm has 20, a wrench storm has 100, a GS storm has 35 and a beam storm 20. The tire storms and beam storms are the best.
 * More Tires (100 levels): +1% Chance / level to double the tire production when collecting a tire!
 * Tire Storm (200 levels): +0.1% Chance to get a tire storm instead of a magnet storm!
 * Wrench Storm (200 levels): +0.1% Chance to get a wrench storm instead of a magnet storm!
 * GS Storm (200 levels): +0.1% Chance to get a GS storm instead of a magnet storm!
 * Beam Storm (200 levels): +0.1% Chance to get a beam storm instead of a magnet storm!

At x250 Stars, the Scrapyard v5 can be unlocked, where tires are spent to increase the level up speed.

14. Barrel Mastery
Important articles for this chapter of part 2: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars, Tree Upgrades, Barrel Mastery, Mastery Upgrades At x400 Stars, the Barrel Mastery can be unlocked. You'll notice some white stars at the barrel list. By merging a barrel 250/1000/3000/6000/10000 times, you can increase it's mastery level to 1/2/3/4/5. This gives 1/2/3/4/5 mastery tokens (Up to 15 / barrel). They can be spent on several upgrades.

Lategame
Important articles for this chapter of part 3: Scrap Clicker 2, Barrels, Stars After unlocking all tree upgrades, you have succeeded to the lategame. You should set yourself a goal, like 5 stars a day, or rest. The only sense in getting more stars (Besides being prepared for the next update) is for the leaderboards.

When progressing in stars, you notice jumps in the star costs. From x1110 on, they're massive. Here's a short list of them: Don't be depressed and always have fun.
 * x1110, x1120, x1130 (They're the first big jump, if you take them together)
 * x1210, x1260, x1310, x1360, x1410, x1460, x1510, x1560 (+50% each)
 * x1610, x1660, x1710, etc. (+10% each)