/trick/ tips

Note: going on a break from /vg/ so the guide will probably be out of date when I get back if anything new gets added.

NOTICE FOR CURRENT EVENT

Dreamland again and also 200 roll event (use your friend leaves first).
Bingo and Bunny Gacha will last 27 days. Buy the free bunny token every 3 days, but to get 30 draws you'll have to drop some leaves on the other tokens.
YEARNINGS ARE OUT (but only for specific characters, make sure to check if your cheeb has any first.)
Daily Candy is now being sent by mail instead of an event.

Current Raid Mechanics

Enemy Personality: Mad (so composed apostles)
Increases Outgoing DMG to Electrocuted enemies by 50%: Elena and Amelia do this! Also Layze with her senior skill.
SP Recovery per second increased by 30%

When in doubt, just follow the funny red dots on the buttons. You'll figure it out, champ.

Q. What is this game?

Autochess battler with gacha but as a funny chibi bonsaige sidegame
You can also pinch the cheeks of every character in the game, even in the middle of dialogue
You're a cult leader to a bunch of dumb chibis

Q. Is it too late to start?

The best time to start was yesterday, the next best time is now.
None of the chibis are limited and you can exchange a resource to get them at any time!
The devs are pretty generous about resource giveaways too.

Q. How hardcore is it?

Not at all unless you're really scorechasing for raids and willing to spend a bit. It's a comfy gacha where you slowly build up your account.

Q. How do I reroll?

REQUIRES ROOT

Download your Emulator of choice (MuMu 12 is suggested https://www.mumuplayer.com/)
Download a File Explorer - MiX explorer is a suggestion (https://mixplorer.com/#intro)
Enable Root in the options of your emulator and restart.
Download the game in the Emulator.
Run through the game and complete the tutorial.
Once you have finished the tutorial, go to settings and enter the code TRICKCAL2026 for an additional 20 rolls.
Do your rolls on chosen banner of choice.
If you like your rolls then go to settings and bind your account to an email immediately.
If you don't like your rolls then open your file explorer, navigate to /data/data/com.bilibili.trickcal and delete the shared_prefs folder found there.
The above step will completely delete the account found in that emulator and give you a new guest account to reroll.

BONUS:
If your PC is strong enough to handle multiple instances of MuMu at once then you can set up multi-instances and synchronize all of them using MuMu's Synchronizer to reroll several accounts at once. Simply download the game on a "Master Instance", clone the master instance, delete the sharedprefs folder on all the clone instances you plan to reroll on and synchronize them using MuMu's Synchronizer so that MuMu repeats actions and movements taken in one instance across all others at the same time.

NOTE:
Trickcal doesn't have a problem with root but a lot of other games hate it when your device is rooted so you might want to disable root once you're done rerolling if you plan to use the emulator for other games

Q. Should I reroll?

The game is decently generous enough to eventually let you get all the units through spooks and other means, but the option to reroll is there. It can be somewhat harsh if you start out with bad rolls and no Eldyne, but it's not too bad either since you can get two guaranteed eldynes in the first week. If you must reroll, go for Yomi since she's one of the best characters.

Differences between KR and Global

Trickcal Re:VIVE is the original version of the game in KR and global is two years behind, but global also gets new changes and additions to the game. Basically no one knows what's going on in the future, especially for character passives, yearnings, and unique character cards.

Quickstart

TL;DR QUICKSTART
Q. What should I be focusing on when starting out?

Clear stage 10-10 in the crusades ASAP since that unlocks all major modes that have been released.
Upgrade your A-club and Order Relic. Then later research in the Fab Lab. A-Club lets you get upgrade materials and upgrading the A-Club lets you gather more materials every day. Relic gives you passive energy regen.
You will get an Eldyne selector early but don't use it until you get the random Eldyne ticket on day 7.
For the biggest power boosts, go for gear. Refer to the leveling and gearing section. Then level up skills with mallows.
You don't need to reroll for a specific Eldyne, a few solid chibis can do the job for the most part and it's kinda overkill given how generous the game is (+ getting 2 eldynes in the first week).
Star Candy (a special energy for the dungeons) refresh to full every day, so use them!
For faster progress, consider refreshing your candy and star candies with crystal leaves every day. 3x for candy and 1x for star candies. Be wary of the newbie leaves running out though.
Buy out the daily shop every day, check here for what to buy.
Get a full friends list asap and start sending and receiving leaves. You can also go to your friend's rooms to clean them for rewards every day.
Devotion in the gacha is carried over through banners. Don't pull on the standard banner.
To join a Guild, you need to be level 20 and also progress far enough into the crusades to unlock the Weekday Farm option in the lobby screen.
Save your Joint Certificates, starring up isn't very good and you can spend it on more useful things.

Other things:

There are no limited chibis in this game. They're in every pool. Other eldynes can't be rolled in eldyne banners though.
Level ups are nice but they aren't the biggest stat boosts in this game.
Ranking up gives a big boost to your chibi AND gives bonuses to the rest of your chibis.
Don't enhance gear until you get to the highest gear rank available and if you really need the boost.
Starring up grants Yearnings but only when you reach 5 star rarities. It grants pitiful stat boosts otherwise so don't bother. It's a way to take advantage of dupes which power up characters (that actually have yearnings in the current patch) with powerful passives and abilities. This is endgame/whale territory so no need to worry about it when starting out.
Do Dimension Clash and Elias Frontier whenever it's available. Even participating gives you rewards and enough for a 10 roll!
When you unlock Crash Course, do them every day as it grants you Equipment 101s, which are invaluable for gearing.
Get Crepe if you want to stop being a janny every day.
Crayons are also important for progress, but you don't want to farm them until you unlock Stage 9/10 of Get Your Crayon. This will be your next biggest power upgrade after gear and skills. You'll want to get the shiny rainbow ATK and HP tiles first.
If you buy the $1 selector ticket, go for whatever personality (elemental type) you have the most or want to build around since stacking one element gives massive power boosts in gameplay.
Level 7 skills are generally good enough.
Check the "What's in each section?" section below to look up keywords.

What's in each section?

This section is a quick reference for what each section is about:
Character/Account Development
Gacha: Rolls and Sparks, Certificates, Banners, Card Gacha, Friend Leaf Gacha, Chromatic Gacha
Starring Up: Is it worth it to star up apostles?, Yearnings
Leveling and Gearing: Gearing, Gear Farming, and Account/Apostle levels
Mallows: Skill upgrades and how much do I need to upgrade them?
Crayons: What are crayons? How do I farm crayons? What do I focus on?
The Order: Relic (passive energy regen), A-Club (material farming), Fab Lab (crafting), Research (account bonuses)
Cards: How do cards work? What do I blacklist? What are the unique character cards? Card presets?

Daily Tasks
Spending Energy: What do I do with Red and Star Candy? Explanations for dungeons. What are the other two difficulties?
Shops: What do I buy in the shops and event shops?
Weekday Farms and Pets: Joining a Farm (Guild), Errands, How do I borrow apostles/pets?

Game Modes
Crusades: Farming gear, renting
Dimension Clash: Raids, Raid renting, Enrage mechanic, how to survive their most damaging attacks, and other tips
PvP: Monthly reset strats and bot climbing, PvP coins
Dig Site: Mechanics and crafting the personality shards
Crash Course: Equipment 101 farming
Elias Frontier: Raids, the different phases, shop system, how it works.
Dolly Delight Busters: Yearning Upgrades, Race Hearts (wip)

Misc
Premium Shop: What's a good deal?
Friends: Cleaning rooms, friend leaf, get Crepe
FAQ: Other questions. Eldyne Selector, Joint certificates, Mansion/Crepe, Favoriting, I CAN'T BONK MY CHIBIS IN THE STORY, Dreamland, Event Screens disappearing
Specifics: Math for some mechanics mentioned in the guide
Links: Links to other useful sites

Character/Account Development

The Gacha

About "limited" units

There are no limited units in this gacha, even the Eldynes can spook you at any time.

Basics

It costs 1000 crystal leaves for a 10 pull.
Pulling on the pick up banner gives you Devotion which is carried over to the next banner.
Regular pickups cost 200 devotion to spark, Eldyne (SSR) pickups cost 300.
Instead of devotion, the standard banner gives crystal drops.
Devotion can be changed 1:1 into crystal drops, which are useful for buying certs. You can't turn crystal drops into devotion.
Eldyne banners prevent other Eldynes from being pulled.

Certificates

Certificates are the currency you need to star up apostles. They are the character shards of Trickcal.
If you don't own the apostle, you can use 20 certificates to redeem any character in the game.
Crystal drops can be used in the store to buy certs.
You can farm certs in the Clone Factory on a rotating table of characters.
Dupes also give certs for the character.

Using crystal drops

You can use crystal drops to buy certs of unowned characters.
It costs 300 crystal drops or 30 pulls to redeem a standard 3* apostle.
It costs 400 crystal drops or 40 pulls to redeem an Eldyne.
As mentioned before, you can exchange devotion into crystal drops.

The game is designed for you to have every unit eventually, so there's a lot of ways to get there, even as F2P.

Q. But who should I pull for?

just bee urself, dabee (replace this with an image)

~~Eldains~~ ~~Eldians~~ ~~Elydian~~ Eldynes and whatever characters you like since you can build around your favorites.

Pull for whatever personality (elemental) you want to build around (or have the most units of).
You'll eventually get mono-personality teams of every element but for beginners just pick a single personality since a full team of one color gets a massive HP and attack boost.
Depression and Vivacious are the most recommended since they're only weak to each other and do standard damage to the other three personalities.
You don't have to do a mono-color team at the start, feel free to mix and match your most powerful apostles to clear stages.

Friend Leaf Point Gacha

Leaf point gachas are 30 per ten roll, but you get 20 of them for free every day (friends permitting) and can also get them from house cleaning rewards.
Future events can have "roll 200 apostle" achievement rewards, so it's best to save your friend leaves for that purpose.

Personality/Chromatic Gacha

This is a special gacha that lets you roll for specific personalities by selecting the icon at the bottom left. This banner doesn't last forever.
Instead of using the regular Recruitment Tickets, you use Chromatic Tickets for this gacha.
Instead of Devotion, you get Chromatic Devotion, which is turned into crystal drops at the end of the gacha.
If you don't use the Chromatic tickets, they will turn into regular recruitment tickets at the end of the gacha. So it might be worth saving up if you just want the recruits and not the crystal drops.
You can redeem apostles with 100 Chromatic Devotion instead of 200.
Eldynes still cost 300 Chromatic Devotion.

Card Gacha
Cards are drawn from the card gacha at 10 cards per 1000 crystal leaves

Sparking a banner card costs 150 card devotion.
The card gacha features a unique card that gives special effects to the current banner character, which you can check by clicking on the card in the center and then clicking "Favorite Artifact/Rune".
Instead of devotion, you get card devotion instead. This can be converted into crystal drops.
Standard card gacha gives crystal drops as usual.
More about cards

If you have paid leaves you can do a single daily discounted pull for 30 leaves for each gacha available

Starring up and Yearnings

Apostles can be starred up by collecting or buying enough of their certificates which increases per star up. You can access it through the apostles menu.

Only star up apostles if you plan to get their yearning since it costs a lot and is inferior to gear.
As an example, taking an apostle from 3* to 4* gives about a 1.5% increase to all stats
You'll need an increasing amount of certs to fully max out their stars.
Maxing out the stars of an apostle will unlock Yearnings.

Yearnings

Availability

Yearnings are released in waves, so not every apostle will have their yearnings right away. Make sure to check if your apostle has a yearning before committing.

Yearnings (Asides in KR) are expensive and end-game accessories. They have three tiers of unlocks, and they cost more certs per tier like regular star ups. Generally it's VERY costly to max out an aside, but it grants powerful bonuses.

Yearnings are unlocked by starring up an apostle to 5 stars, and you get the first tier instantly.
You'll need about 9-10 dupes (not sure yet) of 3-star characters to fully max out Yearnings.
You need Race Hearts to increase Yearning exp. These are from the Dolly Delight Busters game mode.
Using Race Hearts will increase the effects of your Yearnings, so it's recommended to max it out.

The three tiers:
The first tier is just a stat increase for your apostle.
The second tier adds additional effects to the apostle's skills and is the most important.
The third tier adds a pretty big stat boost, and are global stats like the gold crayons panels.

If you want specifics about an apostle, look it up in soshage!

Leveling and Gearing

Leveling your account
Account EXP is gained from spending any red candy.

This increases your max energy cap.
This also increases the cap of apostle levels.
Levels also unlock rewards in the level pass and the profile chests when you check your profile.

On Combat Power (CP)

Most of your character's combat power will come from gear and skills.

Character leveling
You level your characters up by using mocharons.

You get a ton of mocharons by just playing the game or from the Secret Bakery dungeon.
Leveling is one of the lesser ways characters can improve, so mocharons aren't a high priority to farm.

Character gearing
Gear gives the biggest stat boosts in the game and is one of the most important ways to improve an apostle's power.

Check the equip menu to shows you what gear the apostle needs currently. You can instantly equip gear if you have it, or farm for it from specific crusade levels.
To farm a specific gear item, you can click the empty gear slot and then click craft. Click the icons under "materials needed" and it'll show you a list of levels you can farm the gear from. This also lets you sweep right from the character menu.
Once you fill up all the gear slots, you can rank up the tier for a big stat boost and proceed to the next tier.
You can use generic gear stones called Equipment 101 in place of gear blueprints, which get more costly the higher the rank.
Generally save E101s for lower rank gear crafts unless you're desperate as the red candy cost to farm gear will always remain the same.
You can get E101s daily from the Daily Store and Battle Supplies, alongside a mode called Crash Course.

Rank up
Ranking up gear gives roster-wide stat boosts for every apostle. The effects vary depending on apostle and rank.

On the top right of the equip screen, you can see a button called "all effects for next rank". This shows you exactly what roster-wide boosts every character will receive when you rank up the current gear rank.

Enhancing gear

Enhancing gear gives a ~7% boost to the gear per tier of upgrade. You can upgrade gear five times up to a maximum bonus of 35%.
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If you enhance gear and then later rank them up you get 60% of the materials back, but none of the gold.

Mallows

Mallows level up character skills and will mostly be farmed from the Sugar Free dungeon.

You can buy mallow selectors from the daily store and PVP shop. The groceries section lets you exchange tier 1 mallows for tier 3 mallows.
They can also be bought in the Recommendation section of the shop and can be gained as rewards, such as the Order Relic.
Generally, level 7 skills are good enough if you don't plan to heavily invest in a character.

Crayons

How the board works is that you form a path with your crayons. You only lose the crayons when you confirm the path, so try to make the shortest path between you and your destination if you don't have crayons in surplus. Generally you'll want to focus on the shiny tiles.

Crayons are one of the most important parts of the game as it buffs all your apostles. The long game of your roster power boosts will be to color all the dark grey/rainbow tiles in every apostle's board. This will be your biggest power boost after skills and gear.
Using a crayon to color an apostle's board gives them small stat boosts.
The dark grey and shiny tiles of a coloring board give roster-wide stat boosts that affects every apostle. The dark grey tiles give small flat bonuses but the shiny tiles give percentage based boosts and are more desirable.
You use brown and blue crayons to color in basic spaces, purple crayons for dark grey tiles, and gold crayons for shiny tiles.
Generally, go for Attack and HP. Defense next, and then crit and lastly crit res.
There is this guide on crayon priority that goes into more depth: https://rentry.org/wch9h5z4
Crayons can be gained from the Get Your Crayon dungeon and higher tier ones can also be bought from premium and regular shops by exchanging crystal leaves or basic crayons. Don't farm crayons until you can sweep stage 9/10 since gold crayons only drop from the highest stages and is a waste of star candy otherwise. Focus on gearing up first.
Opening the gates allow access to two more boards with more tiles but they're more expensive than the previous boards. You can check the character's board with the linked tool below or the reference chart. Don't enter the gates at the end of the board unless you're completely sure.
https://trickcal.nossite.com/board/ - board checklist
https://soshage.com/trickcal/unit - check boards here
https://xcancel.com/ubai_1124/status/2015032244029776041 (red is closest, green is medium, blue is farthest)
Gate openings also cost joint certs for the first gate and character certs for the 2nd.
You don't have to fill out the whole board to start doing board 2s.
You can reset boards by using an eraser and that will give you all your materials and gold back, but those are rare/expensive so make sure you choose your tiles properly. You can't reset gate openings.
In KR defense was a useless stat since it scaled horribly, but apparently it was buffed for global but no one is sure how much.

The Order

Relic EXP

You can get this from clearing crusades and collecting the trophies from achievements or crafting.

Prioritize leveling up your Relic and A-Club

Relic

The relic is your passive energy farm, so make sure to claim before it fills up completely! The relic fills up in 10 minute increments.
Relic at level 1-12 only gives 1 energy per 10 minutes. Level 13 gives 2 energy instead. Fab Lab research buffs this by 10% every stage.
Relic EXP can be gained through crafting figures/key rings/posters/dolls/pillows in the Fab Lab OR progressing in the Crusades which gives you trophies in the ACHIEVEMENTS MENU that give Relic EXP
Make sure to claim whatever's in the relic BEFORE you upgrade since upgrading the relic will fill it up completely.
Relic can also sometimes gives you mallows and crayons.

A-Club

A-Club gives you building upgrade materials, crafting resources for the Lab, and cooking ingredients for the Banquet Hall.
An upgraded A-Club gives you more part-time jobs in a single day, up to 5 per day.
Gather the materials you need! For researching in the lab, that's plastic, gold, and fine metal shavings.
For gold, Kommy, Leets, and Yomi are the only ones who can get them.
For plastic, Speaki, Vivi, and Sari can do it.
For metal, Haley, Leets, and Rufo are good. Meluna, Butter, Velvet, and Layze can also get metal.
For spoons, Ifrit and Yumimi.
Stress goes away slowly per server reset.
If you overstress them they run away for one day and come back with low stress. YOU EVIL FUCKING BASTARD
To filter by resource, you have to go to the inventory, click Order, click the resource, and then click source to filter it in the A-club.

You can look up the rest on another guide.

The Fab Lab
The Lab section of the Fab Lab is similar to the crayon boards where you get incremental power boosts which is roster-wide through research.

It is an important part of your account and a long grind. You don't have devote all of your A-Club apostles to it all the time. It's fine to take a break to get ingredients or a new wallpaper. If you want to make it go slightly faster, you can buy the Order Research Pack from the premium shop.
Other benefits each stage of research can give are:
Favorite apostle slots
Starting crusade gold
Relic gets an extra hour for offerings
Relic gets more offerings
Slots for manufacturing or cooking
Reducing time for crafting

The Banquet Hall

Win your chibi's affection through their stomach!
When you feed any food for the first time it gives a flat affection bonus that doesn't change, so it's worth feeding every single food to a chibi even if they dislike it.
The exp needed is on an exponential curve.
Level 5 affection unlocks headbonks.
Level 10 and 20 gives you additional lines for headpats.
Level 20 also gives you an item and letter from your apostle, which can be read in your profile/Cherished Items section.
Level 30 gives you a profile NAMEPLATE so you can show off your bond with your chibiwife to those LOSERS in your friends list and Weekday Farm. (very important)
Favorites and dislikes have unique dialogues you can read in the Guest List book.

Cards

Basics

You access the card menu from the lobby screen.
Card dupes level up the cards effects at the cost of a small amount of gold. The effects and dupes required depend on the cards themselves.
Unlike unobtained apostles, you can't use crystal drops for cards and must gain them through the gacha, through a store, or through the card gacha items.
You can exchange card devotion for regular crystal drops.
When you max out cards you get Card Crystals if you pull another dupe. These have no use right now.

If you look at the top left of the card screen, you can see a dropdown box and the numbers 1 to 5. You can set five presets and each mode in the the dropdown box have 5 presets of their own.

The "Card Management" button allows you to blacklist cards from showing up.
Generally you want to blacklist useless cards like def and crit res.
If you're playing modes like Crusades or Dig site which uses coins to buy cards, some cards you want to keep are the cheap ones. This includes Soda Capsule, Strawberry Capsule, Random Coin, and maybe Rusty Awl since they act like rerolls without the cost increase. When upgraded to 3 stars Random Coin pays for itself too.

Character Cards

Unique character cards offer a bonus like the regular cards.
If equipped to the character the card is for, they grant additional bonuses to the character.
These can be upgraded like regular cards and give an additional effect to the character at level 3.
They aren't limited either, so you can be spooked by character cards.
Generally these are kind of whalebait, but can be helpful.

Daily Tasks

Spending Energy (candies and star candies)

Red Candy

Clear out Crusade to get more gear and levels.
Sweep cleared levels for gear.
Sweep event levels and do the daily achievements for event currency to spend in the event store.

Star Candy

For star candies you'll want to go as far as you can in the dungeons since higher stages give better rewards.
Your star candies are refreshed to full every reset so spend them all.

Gold Thief Attack
GTA is good for gold farming and you'll be needing a lot later down the line.

This dungeon focuses on auto-attacks since you can't upgrade your apostles.
If you can get two stars on a stage, you can likely get three stars by getting lucky.

Sugar Free
You farm skill marshmallows here! They make up a decent bit of the apostle's combat power too. Check here for more details.

Each section of Sugar-Free blocks specific roles from participating.
There's not much advice here, play it like a usual Crusade with your strongest apostles.
If you're struggling with tank guys and their shields on the no-DPS stages, bring Espi to assist by shutting that down.

Get Your Crayon
One of the main long-term mechanics of Trickcal. Check here for more details.

Don't farm this until you can beat stage 9/10 since those are the only stages that drop the highest tier of crayons.
All the enemies are Mad, so an Innocent team won't be optimal.

Clone Factory

Clone Factory drops certificates (from a selection per stage) but only gets good drop rates in the later levels.
There's not much advice here, play it like a usual Crusade with your strongest apostles.
The Clone Factory rotates after a few months.
If you have the premium Star Candy Offering package, entries are lowered to 10 star candy used instead of the usual 20.

The Secret Bakery is pointless unless you're REALLY desperate for mocharons. (you can also buy a fuckton of mocharons in the pvp shop)
However, it might be worth it to max the levels out as the second tier gives you Puffarons that are used to level up characters past level 100.

Shops

For the Daily Store, buy out everything but the mocharons and average mallow selectors from the daily shop.
For Groceries, buying the Ultra Pastels with Basic Pastels every month is a good choice, but don't go out of your way to buy them if you don't have stage 9/10 of Get Your Crayon. You can buy the purples too since they're also important.
Joint certificates (1* star up shards) can be used to buy legendary card gachas and 2*-3* character tickets (which are weighted towards 3*s)
For Thumbs Ups consensus is split on buying the Ultra Pastels for guaranteed golds or the star candies if you feel lucky (and you'll get other crayons from it too). Depending on your need for Ultra Pastels, 60 thumbs up is better used on star candies for the long run, and buying Ultra Pastels outright is better in the short run.
Calculations here
Battle Supplies is the PvP shop. Buy the Order Certificates and Equipment 101s every day and maybe the digestive for faster affection progress. The rune cards are bait. Buy selectors and mocharons when you need them.
Recommendation is a random selection of items. Generally just buy mallows. Gear is also an ok choice if you have the cash to burn, but it's pretty expensive. Don't get any of the crystal leaf items unless you're a whale. You can reset this section of the shop for free once every day.
You might also want to pick up Eldyne certs if you plan to use their yearning. You can only buy a certain amount of them per month but they're more expensive than regular certs and certs are a precious resource.

Event Shops

Farm the event currency with the right apostles to get the max bonus! The max bonus is easy to max out.
The first two items in the shop are a figurine which adds to your relic EXP, and the second is a replacement for the "adventure" button you can use in your lobby screen through the Lobby Composition menu (accessed from the top right button in the lobby screen.) The figurine is recommended as sources of relic EXP are rare.
Epic and Ultra pastels are your main targets in the shop, alongside the Recruitment Tickets.
The apostle certificates are worth picking up for the future. Alternatively, if you don't have the apostle you can buy the certs and then exchange crystal drops to get that apostle for "cheaper".
The stones are for enhancing gear.
Gold is gold. The last gold being sold at the bottom is for when you run out of things to buy but have excess event currency.
The last two are materials for crafting furniture in your Fab Lab or for research.

Weekday Farms and Pets

The guilds of Trickcal. Make sure to join one as soon as you can at level 20.

Pets and Errands

You get a free pet when you join your first Weekday Farm, and pets have two uses.
USE 1: You can set pets to walk around in your Order menu from your HQ by clicking the "Pets" button. This lets you tap them for free resources daily.
USE 2: You can use the Weekday Farm menu to send your pets on Errands, which gives you carrots, a currency you spend in the Weekday farm shop.
Each pet has two things they are good at. Matching the pet with the right errand gives you a higher grade on the errand.
Multiple pets can be stacked on the same errand, but not duplicates of the same pet. However you can have the same pet on different errands.
You can borrow shared pets three times a day by clicking "Rent" when setting an errand. Borrowing a pet gives the owner a minor reward of two extra carrots.
You can also set your own pet as a borrowable by clicking "Set Chosen Pet".
To get more errand slots, you have to buy out the fishing rods in the store for every tier.
Generally the errands with shorter hours are more efficient, but keep in mind you can only borrow three pets per day.

For the store itself, there are a few things worth buying, in no particular order:

Gold, you'll always need it.
Extra pets for errands.
Fishing rods to upgrade your errand slots.
Everything else.

Borrowing Apostles

The Weekday Farm allows you to borrow apostles from other farm members in specific modes.
You can borrow in the Crusades and Dimension Clash. Check the renting mechanics in the specific sections.
Borrowing an apostle grants the owner some gold.
You can set one of your own apostles for borrows by clicking "Set Vicar Apostle".
If you're in a /trick/ guild you can try your luck and request specific chibis in the general.
You can't borrow apostles from friends, only from the Weekday Farm.

There are no farm wars or farm raids or even a farm chat but you can toss around other people's pets.
HOWEVER ANYONE WHO ISN'T TOP 10% IN THE RAIDS BY THE END OF THE MONTH WILL BE KICKED FROM THE FARM

Modes

Crusades

Crusades are the main way to get gear.
For the first clears you'll get freebies but the rest you'll craft yourself.
You get other free rewards from the event stages as you clear the worlds.
The two other difficulties are harder and can only be done once, but there are no star requirements since completion guarantees all rewards. You don't get gear in the harder difficulties, only crystal leaves, Order Certificates, and other minor resources along with the event stage rewards.
The sweep tool can be helpful in optimizing your energy when farming gear.
Every single stage has equal % in terms of the same mat drop (confirmed by devs) so you can choose any stage that has whatever you need if there's nothing else you want that it might overlap with.
While some yellow stages show only one material, you actually do two loot rolls per run of it.
Specific drop rates
Make sure to set your cards!
The Crusades has an Interest mechanic. Every 30 gold you save up, an icon at the bottom left of the screen under the coins counter will show up (up to 5 at 150 gold), and you get +5 income for each of those.
Clicking Line-up at the bottom left lets you swap apostle setups and card setups for this mode.

Renting

While in the team setup menu, you can click the Rent button at the top left of the selection menu to see what's available.
You can rent three apostles per day from Weekday Farm members. This costs nothing and is a great way to clear harder levels with an overleveled apostle.
You can only rent one apostle per team.

Dimension Clash

The raids of Trickcal. Don't be intimidated by it or even stressed out by its existence, even with raids it's still a chill autobattler.
Scorechasing shouldn't matter if you just started, so get in there and land a few hits.

Even if you get the worst score you still get a decent chunk of crystal leaves and other rewards.
Your ranking in this mode is based on the top score you get which is determined by stage and HP depleted, so you'll always keep the score even if you reset.
You get a checkpoint after you beat every third stage and resets send you back to the checkpoint instead of stage 1. Resets also reset all boss damage dealt, so use it when you feel like you get bad card RNG on a boss.
If you fail to kill the boss with a team or die to it with that team, you won't be able to use those specific apostles again until you reset. You can still use the same apostle if you're borrowing from someone.
Exiting in the middle of a clash counts as forfeiting and your apostles won't be usable until you reset or clear the third stage as usual.
Forfeiting still makes the boss keep whatever damage was dealt to it.
If you complete the third stage (kill the main boss), you can reuse your previous team in the next stages even if they failed or were wiped out.
You don't use Runes in this mode, just Artifacts, so make sure to set your cards!
Clicking Line-up at the bottom left lets you swap apostle setups and card setups for this mode.
Make sure to set the right Senior Skills with the button next to the apostle selection. This allows you to block undesirable senior skills to prevent apostles from dying early. Examples of bad senior skills include things like Erpin's suicide bombing and Momo's teleport.

Renting

Every clash, you can borrow one rented unit per battle for no cost. Once you rent them, you cannot rent them again until you reset or clear the third stage.
However, renting has a limit. Every clash has a ten borrow limit. If you rent, your borrow count for the clash decreases, even if you reset. This means that when you borrow you permanently lose a borrow for that clash, no matter if you win or fail. So it might be a good idea to test out a team comp before committing to a borrow.
If you successfully complete the third stage you can rent the same apostles again.
If you feel like you're done with the clash, you can spend the rest of your borrows to bodythrow apostles for minor point gains.

Other tips

Bosses have weaknesses like DoT, magic, or physical, but they aren't very important.
Bosses build up rage over time which makes them deal more damage and lets them use more damaging signature attacks, so don't be surprised when they wipe the entire team with one attack.

Q. How do I survive their most damaging attacks?

Big HP buffing artifacts like the Life Gem on your most important apostles, or the apostles below to let them keep doing their debuffs.
Poison reduces damage by 30%(?), so might be a good idea to use a poison dealer like Mayo for survivability.
Espi with SP support (Yomi, Ui, Healing Pendant) can permasilence the first and second bosses. It won't stop the third boss's enrage attacks though and some bosses like the ghost are immune to silence.
Yomi's freshman increases ally defense and reduces enemy damage.
Yomi's Moonflower is a solid card that reduces damage to an entire column.
Rudd and Festa inflict Noise which reduces enemy damage.
Use a teleporting apostle like Rufo, Shaydi, Momo, or Kidian to try and turn the boss around when they do the attack. I think Velvet works too.
Gabia shields and senior skill, which gives invincibility.
Outstat the boss.
Pray for good RNG.
Pray.

PVP

You don't control the apostles directly in this mode, it's an autobattle and they start as grade 6.

You get crystal leaves for reaching a rank for the first time in a reset.
The PvP season resets once per month.
When the season resets, the ranks are filled with easy bots that you can beat to climb.
The brackets for ranks are pretty broad so the PvP coin rewards won't change that much unless you tryhard to get into the top ranks.
The only daily quest PvP requires is collecting your resources, so there's no need to actually PvP if you're happy with your rank. You do need to fight 4 times to do the weekly quest though.
STRATEGY 1: When the PvP season resets, Instantly attempt to climb the ladder as soon as possible by using up leaves to refresh while fighting bots. You'll make a profit as you go but you'll be stuck with gigawhales who entered first for the rest of the season so you might be stuck with low gains after getting the crystals since you might be pushed out of a desired rank.
STRATEGY 2: Wait a while or even a day for the first bracket to fill up (you don't get placed in a bracket until you confirm it with the text box when entering), and then enter and climb normally (with refreshes if you so choose), this somewhat ensures you'll be matched with weaker players and not impatient whales so you can at least try to keep a higher rank which could end up giving you more PvP coins in the long run.

Whichever you choose, know that you can potentially get 30 extra rolls per month just from climbing the ranks.
When you get a strong team and decide to do Strategy 1, you'll likely spend 300 crystal leaves to get near 4000 in return.

Dig Site

This mode allows you to clear stages for scraps of recruitment tickets that you can craft together in the Fab Lab. You get a guaranteed 3 star ticket for the personality every 30 stages.
Just auto most of it, and take control if you're near a milestone.
You can dig deep to high tiers of Dig Site with 1-2 strong apostles of that personality.
Don't worry about bricking your shards, the 1-3 tickets and 3 tickets have different materials.
If you already have all the apostles of that personality, it might be a good idea to hold onto for future apostles of that personality.
Make sure to set your cards!
Dig stages can't be reset, sorry.
Clicking Line-up at the bottom left lets you swap apostle setups and card setups for this mode.

Crash Course

Crash Course is a rotating gamemode that gives you an opportunity to farm more Equipment 101s!
You get 2 daily entries per day and the first time you clear a stage you get a bonus of E101s.

Each level has 10 rounds and gives you plenty of money so go wild.
You can field nine chibis just like Dimension Clash.
The personality levelsets you can do change depending on the day, so it's a slow grind to the top.
Saturdays unlock the Mad, Innocent, and Composed levelsets and Sundays unlocks Vivacious and Depression.
Make sure to set your cards!
Clicking Line-up at the bottom left lets you swap apostle setups and card setups for this mode. Set a team for every personality levelset!

Elias Frontier

An alternate raid game mode. It's split into two phases, the prep fights and the raid boss itself. You can access it from the Theater menu or from the lobby. Just like the Clash, you get a 10 roll just for participating.
The Special currency you get (Greenie of Parallel Yggdrasil) will not expire and will instead carry over to the next Frontier raid. So don't spend it all at once!

Phase 1
This is the preparation phase. The goal is to accumulate as many Essence Coins as possible. These coins are important in Phase 2, so get as much as you can.
For phase 1, you'll send at least two teams (of six apostles) to clear any two of the five personality zones. A team used in one zone can't be used in another.

Your overall CP (Chibi Power) will determine how many Essence Coins you get at the start of the raid.
If you increase your CP (Cheek Points), the Essence Coins will change accordingly, so don't worry about bricking yourself.
Clearing stages in each zone grants more Essence Coins.
You can reset a zone to reuse the team and try another zone, but you'll lose the coins you gained.
Each stage in a zone only has one wave. The zones also have special modifiers like increasing specific types of damage and decreasing incompatibility damage like Clash (which means Depression and Vivacious won't deal extra damage to each other)
You start each stage with 300 normal coins, just like Crusade.
Press the button at the bottom of the screen to bring up the shop. From there, you can buy a Master Power, buy two copies of any artifact, and buy two copies of each rune (except the personality runes).
Once you complete a stage, you can choose to continue with the same build by selecting "continue with the same cards". You can also retry with the same setup if you fail.
You can't borrow apostles.

Recommended cards are things like:

Personality Runes
Get Her!
Column buffing cards like Vanguard or Yomi's Moonflower
Combat Master
Cards for your tank and DPS

After Phase 1 is done and you have as many Essence Coins you can get, it's time for:

Phase 2
This is the raid phase. You'll face a single boss just like Dimensional Clash, you can field 9 apostles, and your top score is still determined by stages and life depleted.

You field 9 apostles like Clash, but you can't borrow apostles.
However, unlike Clash, if you finally die to a boss you can still reuse the same team! You'll stay on the same stage you failed on.
The boss is reset to full health after every attempt of a stage, so feel free to experiment.
Also unlike Clash, there is no personality bonus. Field your strongest chibis to tackle the boss.
Even if there is no personality bonus, the personality damage bonuses from apostle passives still apply.
The mode has the same shop system as Phase 1, but you don't get 300 coins and instead you use the Essence Coins you farmed in Phase 1.
The same recommended cards apply except for personality runes since they don't matter.

Dolly Delight Busters

Dolly Delight Busters is a game mode that drops Race Hearts, which gives Yearning EXP.

Make sure to set your cards!
It has different levelsets for each Race. Those levels grants a massive damage bonus and defense boost to the specific race.
You can still bring apostles of other race but they won't get the bonus.
You don't have a personality bonus in this game mode, so just bring your best apostles of the right race.
The difficulty increases the more stages you complete, but you can just sweep the last stage you beat.
It has only one "round" but you can buy cards during the stage.
You can increase an apostle's grade past 6 in this mode, but it only grants stats.
If you have the premium Red Candy Offering package, red candy cost is lowered to 0 and you get an extra entry ticket.

Misc

Premium Shop/what to spend

Free

Grab the free daily, weekly, and monthly packages
Candy refreshes are cheap and is viable for faster progression. The first 3x refreshes for red candies cost 90, and then it increases in cost so not worth. For star candies only the first refresh costs 30, the cost increases from there.
The premium store actually gives 10 free leaves per item, but you have to click on every premium item to get them, this applies to newly added items as well

Paid

Candy monthlies are good value if you want to progress faster.
Crystal leaf monthlies also have good value and give you more roll income as well as premium leaves
The Order Research package is also a good choice to build up your resources with and helps especially in later research stages.
Cooking Package for faster bond development.
The Apostle and Card packages are a decent choice too.
The battle pass is up to you if you want those resources but do note that the animated avatar and the pass itself are two different things.
The first tier of level pass is decent for the price as well
The Step Up Gacha is good especially for the Eldyne selector at the end, so it's worth saving up premium leaves for.
Consider the HQ/Crusade chests if you think it's worth it
New player items like the dollar selector or bundle are good value.
bee urself and buy a skin for your favorite apostle to keep Butter happy and delay EoS for another day
Daily pulls are good if you have a surplus of premium leaves and are done with the Step Up or whatever HQ chest you want to open.
This Loot and Waifus page is good for checking the math on efficiency for money spent.

Friends

Friends allow you to send and receive friend leaves for the friend leaf gacha every day, and also allows you to clean their houses for rewards. Make sure to keep a full list of friends, the house cleaning rewards can build up and the leaf points are nice freebies.
House cleaning rewards include ingredients, order materials, crystal leaves, leaf points, money, cash, crayons, and so on.
After five days of sending leaves, you'll activate the leaf event and some of your friend's homes will have a special glow and a giftbox that gives more rewards.
If you're tired of cleaning up 30 rooms every day, considering spending crystal leaves on Crepe
You can't borrow apostles from friends, you can only borrow them from the Weekday Farm.

Misc tips and questions/FAQ

Tips

Your backpack has a section called "Evolution Cards". This lets you meld together the cards to upgrade them. If upgrading fails it gives you points and whatever other rewards depending on what stage it was at. There is no other use for them.
You could also just check the help section in the game too, you know. It gives free leaves.

Q. Do I use the Eldyne selector?

If you're new to the game it's recommended to wait for the random Eldyne ticket on the seventh day.

Q. What do I do with joint certificates?

Joint certificates are for starring up 1* characters, but it has another use in the regular store which is mentioned in the store section of this rentry.

Q. Is it worth buying the mansion? Is Crepe worth it?

The two floor mansion actually comes with a tiny chibi maid called Crepe who will clean all 30 of your friends' room in one click. Your mileage may vary on if you value the time saved by her. Other than that, there's no other benefit except more decoration space and another favorite slot.
However if 40 rolls is more important to you than a cute meido who greets you every day, I'm afraid you're SOULLESS.

Q. What does favoriting do? Why can't I favorite an Eldyne?

It means you're officially married to that chibi and unfavoriting means divorce and you can't favorite another chibi ever because of your reputation.
It gives minor stat boosts to the apostle and also dialogue for favoriting and unfavoriting. You can increase the limit by buying a new house or researching in the Fab Lab. However unfavoriting does have a one hour cooldown for that apostle, so watch out for that. Eldynes can't be favorited because of their impossibly high standards.

Q. I can't bonk my chibis in the story anymore UWEEEEEH HELP ME YGGDRASIL

Calm down, gyoshu-nim. Click the menu button on the top right and then click "Interactions". Now you can bonk chibis once more.

Q. How do I beat Dreamland?

Couple of ways to do it but here's mine:
Use Momo and Jubee, the event's featured character, and whatever filler.
Turn off Auto-build and Auto-skills since it will pick shit cards and use Momo's senior skill which will kill her.
Pick HP, Normal Attack cards, and the Freshman Attack card if you want.
Momo and Jubee's summons will push forward and tank. They use normal attacks and will trigger the normal attack cards frequently.
Upgrade your chosen attack cards, HP, Attack Speed, SP regen cards for survivability.
Win.
If you use the featured character and pick both of her cards during setup, you can access a special card when you max both the cards out during gameplay.

Q. Wait why are my Event Screens disappearing?!

You'll get to keep the event lobby screens when the game gets a recap event. After reading the event in the recap the lobby screen will permanently be added to your selection. No idea why they do this but it's there.

Q. SAAAARS HOW DO I REDEEM THE CODE?!

Home - Top Right menu button - Settings - Others - Register Coupon
Capitalization matters!

Specifics

Clone Factory numbers
(stolen from an anon)
Clone Factory's probabilties and Expected Sweeps needed for 20 certs:

Stages 1-5

11.33% ≈ 176.5 sweeps ≈ 23 days of 8 sweeps

Stages 6-10

13.9% ≈ 143.9 sweeps ≈ 18 days of 8 sweeps

Stages 11-15

16.67% ≈ 120 sweeps ≈ 15 days of 8 sweeps
https://soshage.com/trickcal/stage/6010010
https://soshage.com/trickcal/stage/6010060
https://soshage.com/trickcal/stage/6010110

Crusade farming numbers
(also stolen from an anon)
t1: 68.48% (gear)
t2: 83% (materials)
t3: 83%
t4: 72.63%
t5: 83%
t6: 83%
t7: 72.63%
You can verify this with https://soshage.com/trickcal/stage (the last digit has to be 1 to show the rates [signifies the bell pepper difficulty])