Brotato Farmer Danger 5 Guide and Walkthrough

[@notyourdad]

I just completed my first Danger 5 run and it was on this Farmer with 6xPruners - this was easily one of the best runs I've ever had and the famer just tore through everything, I didn't even have to move and had so much cash I had to reroll like 10 times to get rid of it.

[@louisboulton6296]

junglers managing to find a way to farm levels even in brotato... great video man such a fun character

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Us Nocturne players can't be stopped! Thanks :D

[@TheScarletInfector]

Cyborg is my favorite screwdriver class. When all your ranged damage converts to engineering your screwdrivers do decent damage and you get soo many mines.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

oh great idea - I'll give that a try!

[@tylerm6811]

I love the flamethrower. One interesting run I had with it was on the doctor. The attack speed loss is largely negligible, it still cleared wonderfully. One particularly nice synergy with the flamethrower is the giants belt. I have had the combo on several occasions and the flamethrower ends up passing 20k damage on the final wave when it happens.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

yeah great item for the flamethrower for sure!

[@internetuser8922]

I like screwdrivers on the Explorer, The Spiffing Brit did a video that showcased that build. Only thing is, it's completely reliant on finding pocket factory ASAP.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Cool idea! Pocket Factory enables so many cool strats

[@rgractor]

Just had the craziest finish ever with the Farmer in Abyssal Terrors. I built up to 903 Harvesting after wave 17, then I locked a Gatling Laser thinking maybe I'd find even a little bit of Ranged Dmg for the last 2 waves. Then I killed an elite on wave 18...and it dropped an Axiotl, which let me swap my 903 Harvesting with my Ranged Dmg, and it was glorious!!! Took out the 2 wave 20 bosses in 3 seconds flat!

[@alecr9895]

The league reference in the title xD

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Back to my roots in this one! (get it???)

[@cqstle-]

I just noticed that at the end of the wave, when consumables come to you, you get the added Harvesting if you're at full health. Pretty cool.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Yeah! That's why it's so important to stay at full health. It's still better to pick them up, because then the harvesting (and compound interest) from them triggers on that wave as well, the ones you get at the end you have to wait until the next wave to get value. That's true for any consumable trigger though, ie. crates with bag you still get the 15, and you still get the explosion damage on glutton etc

[@bjarkov12]

Important here to note that pruners fall off in a big way as waves progress. I like transitioning out of them altogether on farmer when lategame starts

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Very true! If we hadn't found the flamethrower so early, I'd definitely have needed to look out for another way to make sure my damage was keeping up with the waves

[@AugustVonpetersborg]

What, no they don't, they upgrade incredibly well, attacking almost as fast as a knife, getting 100% melee scaling, and 2x crit modifier when you get them to legendary, that's a better overall statline than the majority of legendary level common melee weapons. A fully upgraded pruner is a solidly A tier weapon, they only suck in the early game.

[@stevenape377]

Well, lvl 4 pruners have reasonable damage scaling and critical damage, and you end up being so rich that you can boost all relevant attack stats, so it ends up being extremely powerful. I killed the final elites with just pruners very quickly, and I hadn't even built critical hit chance.

[@Hellios92]

I have to disagree, Pruner's melee damage scaling goes up to 1.0 on tier 4, crit goes up to 2x. I kept my Pruners till the end and I was close to invincible when fighting the bosses :D I first thought Farmer was a pretty weak class, but after a sometimes rocky start he cumulates so much harvesting that he can hardly be stopped.

[@jamesnonn8794]

Have you done a dedicated video on stats? What they cap at or how they affect each other, that kind of thing?

[@exthase_original]

I saw the "Blood Donation" Item and like an instant i had high blood pressure because of the flashbacks of the 2x triangle of power from the run before :D

[@Cephalopocalypse]

ME TOO. Don't even remind me >.

[@dOdAdEish]

Keeping pruners in the endgame is not needed. You can swap to something that will keep you alive/kill. The majority of your harvest gains past wave 14 will be from the 8% gain, not from the pickups

[@chuck_jotsugaming6755]

I got an excalibur, 3 paddings, and a stomach, plus a punch of pick up range. It was legendary, got to wave 49. Passed aliens eyes right at the end, they 19mil for me. Build was crazy.

[@happitiger]

This build was particularly hard for me and I had to do atleast 10 runs to actually get a good run and defeat it. If you don't find a flamethrower early like Cephal, you can go for an explosion build, like Shredders and Rocket Launchers, which worked for me really well. My weapon build was 3 Shredders, 1 Rocket Launcher and 2 Pruner IVs.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Yeah, farmer is deceptively hard! Any high tier weapon you can switch to once you have harvesting online should work. Nice win!

[@MattJDylan]

"You would think a farmer would avoid a flamethrower" Bro forgot THAT flamethrower mission in gta san andreas...

[@ignacio324]

Lucky is good for the screwdriver/wrench build. The engineering does not suffer attack speed reduction and it starts leaving materials on the ground for lucky to pick.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

True, though I find engineering builds still need to use their actual weapons a lot in the early game

[@INFINITY_99]

That flame thrower was clutch🔥🔥 I had quite a lot failed runs with the farmer when I tried to build damage ngl - I feel like this is a bait, I just finished my run and I didn't touch enemies anymore after wave 4 and went for a tank/survivability build which worked out like a charm

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Flamethrower is so often excellent, I got a lot of pushback when I rated it S tier in my weapon guide, but I think this run really demonstrates why!

[@INFINITY_99]

@@Cephalopocalypse Yes, totally :)

[@captainofthecontrarians4204]

I went with a spear run after grinding harvesting enough. Lasted me for 35 waves. Wouldn't think I would have gotten that OP

[@ShinMajin]

My best class...

[@cqstle-]

Never would've thought Farmer was the strongest character but it got me to W33 on D5 (my PB) and I was even messing around with Rocket Launchers at W19 because I didn't think the Farmer's harvesting bonus would go up after W20 by picking up Cacti, but it does. Probably goes down more than up but it slows the descent. What's your highest Wave you've gotten to and with who? Thank you for the guides as always! You're much appreciated.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks very much! I actually haven't played much endless so I think only somewhere around wave 30. The runs just start taking too long for my millenial attention span

[@kobarsos82]

What other weapons if flamethrowers do not appear?

[@stevenape377]

You can easily do the run with just pruners. The pruner sucks at low levels, but becomes powerful once upgraded to levels 3 and 4. If you survive past round 13 or so and put some points in relevant attack stats, you will have no problems with your damage output.

[@jeremyrinehart3007]

How do you get 200 harvesting in order to get the farmer?

[@chocolatecountman]

just got a run where i killed the final bosses with 60 seconds on the clock still and only using pruners. had 2 mammoths the attack speed hoodie and giant belt was melting them

[@JonnyCinquo]

How come you don’t have option to start with potato thrower?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Think I just hadn't unlocked it when I made this guide - you need to get a win with Chunky to have it

[@JandarLefey]

You know what class I’d love to see you do? Rebel. Challenge mode is to not use SMGs on it… but SMG Rebel is so much crazy fun I wouldn’t blame you if you did.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Renegade is coming soon! (I'm assuming those are the same in different translations)

[@JandarLefey]

@@Cephalopocalypse Renegade. You’re right. I misremembered the name 🤣

[@daskdask]

My version on mobile offers a Potato Thrower at the start. Do you think that would be better to start with over the Pruner?

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Oh neat! I haven't played mobile so it's interesting what little differences there are. I wouldn't recommend it though - the pruner is needed to generate harvesting, so if you want a different weapon you'd probably want just one of the most powerful weapons (sling, smg, etc) rather than the launcher which really only fits one or two classes and is overall quite a weak weapon, at least outside of endless mode.

[@daskdask]

@@Cephalopocalypse awesome, thanks for the tip! Keep putting out the awesome content! You're the best Brotato guy on KZbin by far.

[@dillishiousdetritus]

Interesting strategy for Farmer. Triangle of Power I feel like is never worth taking, since there are much better ways to build %DMG without having the penalty. I don’t entirely agree with your claim that most economy characters struggle with killing elites, since that’s only partially true. The early elites are definitely rough to complete, but by the 2nd or 3rd event, your economy should be so good that you can get enough damage to kill them. The run in the video definitely was on the lower end of Farmer runs, but it just goes to show how powerful this character is. My most recent Farmer run had about 3500 harvesting, I had 6 pruners dealing about 350 damage each, and I had 4 Spicy Sauces, so all my consumables dealt about 1500 damage each. Killed the bosses in seconds.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Sure, when you snowball ahead you can definitely burst down elites, especially in later waves! The claim is just more generally that you are more likely to have to leave an elite alive on economy-focused classes, where damage-focused ones are much more likely to have killed all of them by the end of the run.

[@Theseventhlaw]

Great content

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Thanks :D

[@1TieDye1]

Can you show us a run where you don’t lean into the character’s economy gimmick? In several videos you’ve said it would be “fairly easy” to play characters with -50% materials drop as normal characters with bad shops, ie not investing into the character’s eco. I’m just wondering how’d that actually go because it seems terrible

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Sure, I can give that a go! I have a few nonstandard challenge runs planned so that seems like a good addition to that list :)

[@Kelsey-ov6cb]

finished up my lvl 5 farmer run with 2250 harvesting. Basically played it like a pacifist and dumped all my $$ into survivability.

[@Cephalopocalypse]

Nice! Yeah the amount of harvesting you can get on this guy is insane