How to ACTUALLY Farm in TDS

TDS Tower Defense Simulator video on the best way to farm.

0:00 Intro
0:11 Lev 4 and 5 Farms
0:47 Gamemodes
2:05 Upgrade Order
2:41 Speedrunning/Efficient Farming
2:58 Wave Cash
3:09 Outro

#tds #roblox

[KenuYTB]

EDIT : With the reworked Fallen Mode aim for Level 5 Farms, not level 3!

Kind of overkilled on hating Lev 4 and 5 farms, just make sure your defense is good before committing to them :o

[uspicious_Person]

Basic Farming:
1. Always do farming at the END of waves.
2. If you’re defending early game, you should also be farming a bit.
3. If you’re farming either defend by wave 16, or do it later but keep an eye on the situation.
4. Always get all level 3 farms, a level 3 DJ, & THEN get max farms.
5. If you end up having to pay for back up towers, keep them for now, as the next wave will be stronger.
6. Never get a level 4 farm unless you have 2500 at the end of wave & all the farms are level 3.
7. Always place all 8 farms. You’re making your life so much harder by having less.
8. Unless you’re doing normal mode, MAX YOUR FARMS.
As for the video:
1. Please don’t tell me you don’t understand investments. Level 5 farm’s aren’t less cost efficient than level 3 farms, they take LONGER to pay their DEBTS. Trust me, they’ll pay off their debts soon enough & give you triple of what level 3 farms give.
Let’s say I only have 10 waves left to make money with farms (It’s usually even more). A level 3 farm would make 5000, while a level 5 farm makes 15, 000. And don’t even bring up debts in this case, as level 5 farms are still better.
2. Alright, but who really played normal mode? Newbies? They grind molten. Casual Players with everything? They do quad fallen.
People who want a challenge? Solo triple lane maps, solo hardcore, & etc. Point is, nobody does normal mode.
3. Why don’t people use level 5 farms in hardcore strats? Probably because the multiple mini boss waves just give lots of cash in addition to the beefy enemies. But honestly, I would still get level 5 farms if I can just so I don’t run out of micro money somehow.
4. Why do people still get level 5 farms for molten & fallen? Look here, every buck counts & level 5’s just give more money than level 3’s.
5. Maybe advise the players to actually be good teammates, than say that level 3 farms are the best, when they aren’t. Because a good teammate knows that they can’t be selfish, put the level 3 dj near the most farms instead of just their own, & etc.
6. Look here, as long as they’re getting all level 3 farms before they upgrade to 4’s & 5’s. It’s good enough for us all.

[drippeddoggo]

pro tip: overfarming is good if you help def mid game at the same time
pro tip #2: if you plan to upgrade farms to lvl 5 in matchmaking i recommend bringing sub dps

[peteyerey]

People only care about the fact that farms pay themselves over time and how cost efficient certain levels are - but it's more about the sudden burst of cash that you're always given when farms take effect. It's not like you're going to actively consider the fact that, per say, a level 3 farm pays itself off in around 3-4 waves. You're going to care more about the cash given at the end of the wave. Now I completely get the thing about level 4 farm being a terrible cost-to-efficiency ratio hence why I try to avoid it as much as possible other than cases where I have the awkward imbetween where I can't upgrade any farms but are close to affording a level 5, making use of all of the cash that I can. The real question is *not* how long are those farms going to take to repay themselves, but what can you do with that sum of cash that you now have?
Some good examples can be as follows:

What do eight level 2 farms get you?
-A level 2 engineer
-A level 2 gladiator
-A level 2 golden scout
-A level 1 commander

What do eight level 3 farms get you?

-A level 3 engineer
-An accelerator, most likely because of the cash that you have just been given from a wave
-A level 3 gladiator in some cases
-A ranger

What do you get from eight level 5 farms?
-A maxed out engnineer starting from level 5 in 3-2 waves
-A maxed out accelerator starting from level 4 in 3-2 waves
and so on, so fourth

This seems to be the singular thing that people completely disreguard when talking, or rating, farms. I don't know if this is some sort of concept that people haven't thought of, but I feel like the whole cost-to-efficiency ratio thing is a bit overrated and overused in these kinds of conversations. Please explain why this is the case? I'm not up to arguing in the replies section but please state your concerns with this entire thing

[KenuYTB]

How many times have you guys died to overfarmers? o-o

[ohsongchengjaydenrvps]

I did the math:
Lvl 3 farms cost 2000 cash in total to place and upgrade but gives out 500. Assuming that you would get all your money back in 4 waves exactly.
Lvl 5 farms cost 9500 cash in total to place and upgrade but gives out 1500. Assuming that you would get all your money back in 6.3 waves.

I’ll round both to wave 3.5 and 6 waves just to include the money from killing enemies every wave.

lvl 5 farms are more useful in terms of long game modes that include 40 waves. If you were to focus on farm only for the duration, it will take about 20-22 waves(estimated from my own experience) to max all 8 farms out. With 8 farms costing a total of 74000 cash in total to max out, it will take 5.5-6 waves to get all your money back. With the remaining waves of 40-20-6, you would have 14 waves to profit which leads to a sum of *164000* extra cash in the end.

lvl 3 farms on the other hand will take around 10-11 waves(estimated from my own experience) to upgrade all farms to lvl 3. With 8 lvl 3 farms costing a total of 16000 cash, it will take around 3.8-4 waves to get all your money back. With the remaining waves of 40-10-4, you would have about 26 waves to profit which leads to a sum of *104000* extra cash in the end.

In conclusion, the ratio between 26 waves and 16 waves simplified would become 13:8. With a 5 number difference equalizing big gap of 60000 cash, getting lvl 3 farms are indeed better. HOWEVER, in cases where your teammates are the ones defending well for the first few waves to mid game, getting lvl 5 farms isn’t a big deal at all, especially if you have expensive towers to upgrade such as the pursuit, accelerator, engineer or turret, there’s a reasonable explanation for over farming.

To wrap things up, lvl 5 farms aren’t useless, it really just depends on the type of load-out for the game. Just play your part, you can easily triumph. 👍

[SeñorBlasta]

Honestly lvl 5 farms help a lot when you have to max out op towers but lvl 3 Is more to help with the mid game i would recommend to max farms IF mid game is going well

[aramdominsect]

I kind of disagree with your opnion about lvl 4 and 5 farms. (ik you said they are fine in molten and fallen but hear me out) The reason you get lvl 5 farms are not because of the cost efficiency, it's because you want to get a bunch of money in the same wave. For example, if you want to max a mini with only lvl 3 farms you need atleast 3 whole waves(depending on the wave you are doing this, 2 if taking to acount the money damage).
Now if you want to do that wih max farms, it's only 1 wave and you have 3k to spare.
If you have teammates and no expensive towers you should just go for lvl 3
If you have an expensive tower and you are solo or with teammates, lvl 5 is reccomended.

To add to my comment, go for lvl 3 for a while before lvl 5 to help teammates, but if they are doing fine you can go for max ones.

[gdfusca]

On fallen, lvl 5 farms are required for expensive towers like enginner and accel, always upgrade farms to lvl 5 instead of keeping lvl 4, cuz lvl 4 has the worst value.
hardcore, polluted 2 and maybe badlands, you won't need lvl 5 farms just lvl 3, for polluted i farm with cowboy and still can max enginner and accels until wave 40.

[johnraker]

I always got level 5 farms but now watching this I’m gonna use level 3 farms more often

[Ytho]

This made me like 20 times better bro tysm

[_LetHimCook_]

Guys once you have all lvl 3 farms, it doesn't matter if you upgrade one farm from lvl 3 to lvl 5 or three farms from lvl 3 to lvl 4

Fun fact: "The three lvl 4 farms(2250) make more money than one max farm (1500$)

As both cost same 7.5k for max one farm and also 7.5k for three lvl 4 farms

Also i would suggest to upgrade each farm one by one
from start to end (lvl 1-5)

[SpySxlar]

level 3 farms arent enough when you have towers like accelerator and engineer. (also when you are the early defender)

[rutreat]

i saw you in game and said hi (i was stickman) and i foloowed you

[mober]

So don’t use lvl 5 farms? How am I supposed to buy high costing towers?

[Snowy_Minion]

I’m level 411 and already knew all this… and you forgot something COWBOY, farm or cowboy, which is better? That’s the real question, one gives less cash but a defense, other gives cash and is gonna kill you from a lack of guns.

[creepermods]

I remember back from the day, my first days of playing TDS. I maxed farms first before i place towers lol.

But now i've changed my strategies.

[Ink-Link-kpox]

What I do:
1.Put 4 farms in order
2.Leveling them till lvl 3
3.Buy High-Cost Towers, like my Minigunners or maxing them out like my Wardens
4.Leveling them more
5.Repeat step 3
6.Max them

I always put 4 cuz DUH overfarming is very common like


LITERALLY TODAY I GOT WARDEN BUT BRO 4 GAMES BEFORE....(pizza party)



I was matched with 3 guys with +100 lvl (I just have 35 lvl)


No one did nothing.
I was trying to stop the Anormals but 2 Soldiers cant do the work, I was triggered.

(I was also farming but Minigunners are not cheap exactly)

I also got Crook Boss today lol

(yea we lost at round 4, the worst run I haver ever seen and did in my life.)

[mariusdaugela]

Thx i tried it it helped me soo sooo much ❤❤❤

[piggiltyiwggilty]

A level 2 farm costs a total of 1000 cash for 250 per wave, if you upgrade this farm to level 3 it will cost 1000 and grant 250 more cash than level 2. Therefore buying a level 3 is the exact same as buying another level 2.