# Prestige timing: the level-100 threshold and cycle intervals
Community Knowledge If you are looking for a general rule for prestiging outside pet levelling, community reports do not provide one. In the threads collected here, the prestige-timing advice is about levelling pets, especially Happy Bot[1][2][5].
Community Knowledge For Happy Bot, the fundamental mechanic is that the pet requires a run to reach past level 100 on each reset. Community experience clarifies that you only need one level past 100 (reaching level 101) for the pet to level up[2]. While getting multiple levels per reset is helpful, pushing too far yields diminishing returns: for example, if reaching level 100 takes 10 seconds and reaching 110 takes another 10 seconds, but pushing to 112 takes an additional 10 seconds, resetting at 110 yields faster pet leveling per second than waiting for the extra levels[2].
Recommendation Players suggest finding your own reset threshold by watching how long it takes your build to reach roughly level 101, or 110 to 115 if your speed allows, and resetting once levels begin to slow down[1]. Because every account has different multiplier scaling, players treat the ideal timing as a trial-and-error calculation rather than a fixed universal timer[1].
Version-sensitive The Auto-Prestige skill automates this loop on a timer between 10 seconds and 600 seconds (10 minutes)[3]. This interval runs in real time—meaning it is unaffected by in-game speed increases—and operates only while the game is actively running on your screen, not while offline[3]. Reported intervals vary widely by account strength: players report needing 60 or more seconds early on to reach meaningful levels, dropping to 10 seconds once power scales higher[1]. For overnight farming, players report setting intervals to 30 seconds or 300 seconds with phone battery saver enabled, which can cap Happy Bot by morning or gain several levels per night[1][4][5]. Several replies suggest setting experience bombs (xp bombs) as the auto bomb to ensure rapid level scaling from the start of every run[1][4].
# When to start Happy Bot: majority vs. minority approaches
Community Knowledge What most players do: wait for Pisces and Auto-Prestige. The majority of replies advise against grinding Happy Bot early in progression, particularly before unlocking the Auto-Prestige skill or reaching the Leprechaun pet stage[4][5]. When players seek Leprechaun to enable platinum strategies, the standard path is to unlock and level the Pisces (12th) star instead[3][4][5]. With Pisces invested, Happy Bot only needs to reach around level 2 to 4 to unlock Leprechaun[3][4].
Community Knowledge The reasoning centers on opportunity cost. Grinding Happy Bot manually or when an auto run takes several minutes (such as 6 minutes to hit level 113) consumes extensive real-time attention for minimal immediate return[3][4]. Players point out that this time is better spent stargazing to farm super stars for telescope and star upgrades, which also moves the rest of the account forward[4][5]. Replies also describe Happy Bot, its skin and its quest as only middling boosts, worth doing once you can level him quickly[4].
Community Knowledge The smaller group: early manual sessions and prestige spam. A smaller group of players chooses to level Happy Bot earlier[4][5]. Some run manual prestige sessions while actively farming shards for pets like Dwarf and Rabbit, or manually push Happy Bot through its first 10 to 12 levels before acquiring auto-prestige simply because they have active play time to dedicate[4]. Others argue that Happy Bot remains an accessible route to unlocking Leprechaun, particularly when super stars and gems for higher telescope stars feel out of immediate reach, or because they simply prefer clearing pet milestones early rather than leaving them undone[4].
Community Knowledge Later in the game, once experience multipliers reach into the billions and exp bombs carry strong multipliers, some players skip auto timers and manually spam the prestige button: a single bomb on floor 1 produces an instant level 100+, allowing players to advance Happy Bot from level 10 to 19 in under an hour[2].
# Tier 3 artifacts and the bomb capacity focus
Community Knowledge Players reaching Obelisk 14 sometimes worry when their initial Tier 3 artifact rolls yield bomb upgrades rather than the obelisk armor reduction they wanted[6]. Community responses reassure that Tier 3 includes a major bomb capacity upgrade, and that expanding bomb capacity as much as possible should be an active focus[6]. Another reply says the bomb artifacts are good and will be maxed soon anyway[6].
Community Knowledge In broader late-game guidance, building a large bomb capacity is highlighted as a primary objective, with players generally aiming for an initial milestone of around 100k bomb cap[7]. While some players in late-game showcase discussions suggest that gem income naturally grows as bomb capacity expands[7], community views differ on this point: whether a larger cap raises gem income by itself, or only stops recharge going to waste while you are away, is disputed. (For both sides on this debate and optimal workshop setups, see the Bomb Cap & Workshop guide.)
# Divine reroll costs and budget targets
Community Knowledge Players describe divine luck as odds of 1 in N per relic, and rerolling as the way to improve those odds. One timing note from the same thread: divines are said not to matter much until you start on the World 3 statues[8].
Community Knowledge What most replies aim for: reroll until your odds are around 1 in 10k per divine or better, a level described as economical. Similar targets come up elsewhere in the thread: keeping about 1 in 12.5k early on, or getting well below 1 in 15k once you have more relics. Another reply argues against being scared of rerolling, with odds improving from 1 in 30k to 1 in 11k for 2k gems[8].
Community Knowledge How views differ: some players reroll early and accept what they get; later in the game, the advice shifts to rerolling whenever you need a new setup, such as a star focus while working on stars or an ore focus for World 3 platinum statues. The thread also shows the cost of chasing a specific roll: about 20k gems spent trying to match a 1-in-6,544 roll someone else got[8].
Recommendation Taken together: aim for roughly 1 in 10k odds, set a gem budget before you start, and reroll again when your goals change rather than chasing one lucky number.
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u/FarStrength2699: “How many seconds do you recommend for auto prestige?” — original post
1w4daq8u/Liquidfoxx22: “Depends on your progress. Initially I had to set it to 60+ seconds to get anything meaningful, now it's 10s.” — comment
p76mq4pu/Special_Canary_7204: “I would say check how long it takes you to hit 101 levels, or if it's fast enough, 110-115 and then set it to the nearest value that isn't below that threshold. I set it for overnight at 30s and had it level capped by morning at 10/10” — comment
p76msupu/Flanhare: “You have to trial and error and set the time so you prestige when it starts getting too slow to level. At least that's how I think about it.” — comment
p76n04eu/KarmaPolice911: “I found when I did it I got diminishing returns when I went past 10 seconds. I would hit 117 every reset, so 1.7 rolls per second. You can math it out for yourself to see what is most efficient.” — comment
p76nclmu/HxC_Happy: “Don't forget to use xp bomb as your auto bomb” — comment
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