Advice: ***. F. A. Q.***

[Lara Leise]

Backyard Monsters FAQ

Below the first post, you will find a post with some
key words and explainations
And a link collection to guides and statistics and a post with
Beginners guide!

About the game
Information about Levels, Buildings and Monsters here

Wondering, if you there will be added more free shiny?

Probably not. Read: Thinking of asking for free daily shiny

Stuck? not enough bank capacity to upgrade town hall?

Build a second silo and upgrade your silos!

Attacking/defending
See protection, monsters, towers, walls, Truce, Defending and attacking tips and General Tips [attacking] aswell.

How can I attack?

You need a locker to research monsters, a hatchery to produce them, a monster housing to store them, a map room to find enemy bases and a flinger to fling monsters into battle.

1. If you have an army to attack with, view the map and find a target.


Only do this if you are ready to lose your starter protection!

My base gets destroyed every day, what can I do?
See truce aswell!

Upgrade your defence! redesign your base!

You can also buy protection for shiny.
see defending tips aswell: General Tips [defense], Defending and attacking tips, The basic defence FAQ aswell.

Bank

Can you collect quest rewards when your bank is full?

Yes, you can.

Will you receive resources if you recycle buildings, when your bank is full?

No, you won't.

Gifts

Why can't I send gifts to anyone?

You can only send gifts to someone, if he didn't receive a gift from someone else already.

Monster Acadamy

Read this Mini FAQ.

Monsters
Statistics about monsters

Can monsters defend my base?

No, but it will be added soon! There will be a monster bunker.

How can I destroy my own monsters?

If you do not want to lose your protection: leave your housings without defence and hope for wild monsters to attack them. Or recycle your monster housing. If you do not have protection or do not care about losing it: attack a player with them. You can fling them in far away from the base and click "end attack", to prevent any damage.
As soon as you have a Monster Juice Loosener, you can recycle your monsters there.

Mushrooms

Is it possible to remove them?

Yes. Click on them and click "Pick". Some mushrooms even contain 3 - 10 shiny! Mushrooms regrow slowly.

Do they work as walls?

Yes. Make sure, there are no gaps between the wooden/stone blocks and the mushrooms.

Protection
See Truce aswell

When does someone get damage protection?

If someones base is 30-60% destroyed, he gets 18 hours protection, >60% he gets 36 hours protection. If someone gets attacked 4 times within 1 hour, he gets 1 hour protection, beginning with the last attack.
If someone attacks the one person 10 times within 24 hours, the target will be removed from the attackers map room.
If someone gets attacked 10 times within 48 hours, he gets 24 hours protection, beginning with the last attack.
Read about it here.

Read Researches on health of buildings/damage protection. aswell

How long is Starter protection?

14 days. But it ends, as soon as you attack any player!

Can you get attacked while playing ?

No, but soon it will be possible. Wild monsters do only attack you while you are online.

How does protection work?

While you are under protection, you can not get attacked by any player. Wild monsters still can attack you. As soon as you attack any other player, you will lose any protection.

Quests
See reset, bank or shiny.

Reset

Can someone reset my base? is there a reset button?

No, it is not possible.

Will the game reset, when its out of beta?

No, the developers are not "planing to do so".

Can someone reset my quests?

If the quests had a bug, try reloading the page. If it does not help, send David a message about it.

Screenshots

How can i make a screenshot and upload it to this forums?

Read this guide.

Shiny
See Thinking of asking for free daily shiny aswell.

How can I get more shiny?

Do free offers or buy shiny here. You get some shiny for picking mushrooms aswell!

Why didn't I receive shiny after I completed an offer?

Either you didn't complete the offer successfully or it's a bug which should be reported. Go to the "get more shiny" page and click "missing shiny" to do so.

Are the offers safe?

Downloads may contain viruses.

I didn't get any shiny for the quests, what can I do?

Make sure you collected the quest rewards and try reloading the game. If that does not help, try to contact David Scott.

Towers
for statistics, such as range or attack, see here.

Do towers defend while being upgraded?

No.

Will there be more towers soon?

Yes, a Tesla and a Laser tower!

Why is there no range displayed for the towers?

You can see the range, as soon as you have a yard planner!

Truce

How does truce work?

If two players accept truce on each other, they can not attack each other anymore. To request truce with someone, click on the map room, search for the player you want truce with and click on "Call A Truce". Now, send a message to that player, which might move him to accept your truce. Do not write anything insulting nor start crying like a baby. Instead, write calm and polite things, which will convince the other player to accept your truce.
If someone requests a truce from you, you can decide to accept or reject the truce.
If someone rejects a truce, you can send a new truce request after 2 days. If someone accepts it, it expires after 14 days.

Walls

Can monsters go through small gaps or diagonal walls?

Yes, they can slip through the smallest gaps and aswell through diagonal walls.

Do monsters destroy walls?

Yes. If the distance, a monster will have to walk, if it does not attack the wall compared to the distance, if it attacks the wall is too long, the monster will attack the wall. Eye-ra always attacks walls, unless there is no wall in range.

Is there a way to build or move multiple blocks at the same time?

No. It might be added in future.

the original FAQ can be found here: http://wiki.casualcollective.com/Backyard_Monsters_FAQ

[Lara Leise]

Key words and Key terms:

B
BDB / Big Dumb Bunch

Called 12 tower block defense aswell. A strong defense, which has all towers next to each other. See it here.

D
David, Dave

David Scott, the developer of this game.

DP

Damage protection - see protection in the FAQ.

F
Farm / farming

Farm: A base, which has a weak defense and gets attacked very often for resources because of that.
Farming: Attacking weak bases for resources.

H
HCC

Hatchery Control Center, a single building, able to manage the que for all hatcheries. See it here.

L
Leveling a Base

Destroying (almost) all buildings of a base during an attack

N
Ninja

Someone, who attacks a base to get the resources, After someone else destroyed the towers. In other games, thats called a "kill-stealer".

T
Troll

One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument. (Link)

V
Vengeance

Vengeance means Revenge. Higher level players can not attack lower level players, unless the lower leveled player attacks the higher leveled Player first. The higher leveled player can attack the lower leveled player as many times, as the lower leveled Player attacked the higher leveled Player before. That is called vengeance. Read this aswell.

Links to guides and statistics

Statistics
Monsters

Monster statistics.

Upgraded monsters.

Buildings

Health of buildings.

Information and statistics about buildings.

Guides
Attacking

Attacking guide 1.

Attacking guide 2.

Defending

Defending guide 1.

Defending guide 2.

Defending guide 3.

Others

How to post a Screenshot.

[Lara Leise]

Beginners guide:

First hour

1. Being a beginner is different from being an advanced player
   Advanced players worry about attack and defence, beginners need to think about production
   .
2. Start with your town hall (you have no choice here)
   .
3. Production is king when you begin
   1. Spend shiny on two extra workers - you should have three workers ... no more

First week
Your priority is

1. Build as many twig snappers and pebble polishers as you can
2. Build as many silos as you can
3. Upgrade of twig snappers and pebble polishers
4. Upgrade your silos
5. Upgrade your town hall

You will be forced to follow 4 and 5 to achieve 1, 2 and 3

Second week

1. Continue, what you did in the first week
2. Build snipes and splashes about the start of week 2
3. Upgrade snipes and splashes
4. You want your snipes and splashes about level 4 when you come out of protection
5. Build wood and stone blocks, and booby when you have a quiet moments

This game is about monsters, right?
No, not for beginners, that comes later. You have two weeks of protection, used them! If you attack anyone, you will lose your protection!
At the end of week 2 you can start building putty squishers, the monster unlocker, and goo factories, and monster housing (in that order!)
You'll need putty to unlock monsters, so you need putty first; the main use of goo is to make monsters, so you need that last.
Most of my putty squishers are level 4, (one 6, and one 7), that's all I needed to unlock teh most expensive monster - D.A.V.E.

The main monsters I use are Fink, Ichi, and Crabatron. Don't waste your putty on the others except to have a complete set.

(Thanks to Painter for his help!)

[PatAtt]

The only omission that I see is that you can go over capacity if you start a building and then cancel the build. I know this for sure, b/c I tried building, banking then stopping the build as a way to bank more and level up faster but it didn't work.

[Michael Kevin Yang]

David, please sticky this...

[Terry Bader]

Suggest add to:

How long is Starter protection?
14 days.

to include " or until you attack another Barn Yard" or something along those lines

[Lara Leise]

Suggest add to:

How long is Starter protection?
14 days.

to include " or until you attack another Barn Yard" or something along those lines

Ty, added it

[Bradley Craig]

You can also just hold down the + sign when attacking to fill your bucket....no need in clicking once to add the same monster. If I have 96 pokeys, last thing I want to do is single click them to battle. Hold the + sign FTW!

[Chris Cook]

Lara, what a fantastic resource and I agree with the above comment. This thread needs to be stickied.

Under 'How can I destroy my own monsters?', you may want to mention the juicer.

I think a FAQ like this, and perhaps a wiki in the future, are excellent and well needed resources in getting new players involved in the game.

[Lara Leise]

Thanks, Bradley Craig and Chris Cook!
Will add this aswell..