This guide is a complete red hive version for endgame players wanting to complete rounds of the Robo Bear Challenge covering upgrades, hive builds & more.

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General Information

• When choosing bees:
  • Digital Bee takes priority over everything else 
  • Always choose precise/spicy/bear/windy/vicious bees first
  • Keep your spicy/precise ratio close to 1:1
  • Start picking vectors after ~round 12+
  • Make sure to get at least 1-2 baby love producers early on and get enough hive bonus bees (hasty, buoyant, brave, basic)
• Prioritize red & white drives first to max amount and then slowly build up glitched drives on the digital bee.
• For red pollen field quests, depending on your field buffs, the priority order is Rose -> Strawberry -> Pepper
  • This is because Rose can have 15 duped tokens while Strawberry and Pepper are limited to 12.
• Completing RBC depends on luck and at times, if you’re stuck with white/blue pollen quests, it will be very difficult which is why the hive builds include windy and tadpole bees for boost tokens.
• Having a fuzzy alt/helper can pollinate fields so you get quests done faster.
• Buy drives as soon as you can in RBC rounds.
• Golden Cogmowers spawn in rounds:
  • 3, 4 or 6
  • 12, 14 or 16
  • 21, 22, 23

Hive Build

Disclaimer: This isn’t a “full” RBC hive, but more a slightly smaller and cheaper version since red doesn’t necessarily need major changes to do well in RBC, this is to make it easier.

Cog Upgrades

Here is a list of RBC upgrades you will need throughout the challenge. You may not be able to get all but use this list to check what upgrade to select when attempting the challenge.

Each upgrade will have a priority level next to it in brackets [ ], representing its importance concerning other upgrades. Priority levels will range from 1 – 3 where 1 is you absolutely must buy and lock upgrade if you cannot afford it, and 3 is a background upgrade you can buy if you don’t have higher priority upgrades to get at the current RBC round.

Common Upgrades

• Botnet [2]
• Credit [1]
• Defragment (if you have nullify, only get level 1-2 max) [3]
• Homepage [1]
• Iterate [1]
• Overfit Red (up to 2x red pollen) [3]
• Overfit White [1]
• Sharpen (up to 2x attack) [3]

Rare Upgrades

• Crypto (low level if you want to keep it easy, only before round 15 ish) [1]
• Equalize (only if NFT) [3]
• Expansion [1]
• GPU (only round 20+) [1]
• Multithread [1]
• Nullify (not level 2 if you have crypto) [1]
• Outsource [1]
• RAM [3]
• Router [1]
• SSD: Red [1]
• Subscribe [2]
• VPN (if you die a lot) [3]

Epic Upgrades

• Bandwidth [3]
• Base-15 [3]
• Client Side (only if stack overflow) [3]
• Demarcate [1]
• F5 (only if round 20+) [1]
• FOV [2]
• NFT [1]
• Refractor [1]
• Torrent [3]
• Virtual Pet [2]

Legendary Upgrades

• Bruteforce [1]
• Corrupt [1]
• Fluid Simulation [1]
• Optimize [2]
• Overclock [1]
• Pseudo RNG [1]
• Reboot [1]
• Stack Overflow (if before round 15 ish) [1]
• The Cloud [1]

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