Tips and Guides

Tips and Guides is a page which contains general tips for Merge Mansion.

View this page for items and events with specific tips.

Tips for Beginners[]

We recommend always merging the daily free Piggy Bank (L1) to Piggy Bank (L4) every 8 days. You'll get more Coins and Gems than opening the Piggy Bank (L1) daily.
Similarly for the Brown Chest (L1) and Fancy Blue Chest (L1). They can merge to Level 2 and result in higher level drops. Similarly, when you get there, the red chests should be merged to Level 2.
Always merge Experience Points (XP) to Level 5 for a 50 XP Star and Bronze Coins to Level 6 for 120 Coins. These are their max levels. This will help you level up faster and gain more Storage Space quicker.
Never sell any Main Source Items (those with a lightning bolt). If you do this by accident then contact Metacore support and they can restore your producer.
At the start of the game start spawning items from the Broom Cabinet as soon as you can.
- This is due to the difficulty in getting items for this chain to merge the Broom Cabinet to higher Levels and the relatively low drop rate of their products.
100 Energy takes 3h 20m to fully recharge.
If you are unsure where to get an item on your task list, click on the small “i”. This will tell you which chain the item is part of and which producer it comes from.
At the start of the game, start saving up Gardening Gloves for the 2nd area. They aren't easy to obtain and the 2nd area requires a lot of them.
Check the store every 6 hours when it refreshes to see what you can buy with coins. Consider buying gloves when available, anything else you might need like level 1 Detergent, Fabrics, and strongly consider always buying Watering items when available, as it otherwise takes a lot of energy to build that chain.

Tips to make progress through the game more quickly[]

Many players get frustrated as it takes a long time from the start of the game to get inside the Mansion (it can easily take a year from the start of the game to reach the Great Hall). Here are some tips to get there quicker:

Play more often (it goes without saying!)
Save your gems for chests and/or generator parts - it is very easy to get instant gratification by buying a double bubble or item from the shop but it is much better to invest in generator parts. Purchasing generator parts for the most common generators (gardening toolbox, toolbox and broom cabinet) will repay the investment multiple times over as they are present in almost every area of the game.
Pick and choose the events that you play carefully. The decoration events are probably not worth the investment as you may have to play for more than a week to get to the blue/brown chests. Garage clean up and generic events e.g. Rufus Causes Chaos are worth playing as they offer blue and brown chests. You should always play the lower levels of these events as the chests are easy to get but it may not be worth playing the higher levels e.g. if the event ends in 8 hours and it would take you a day to make the required item.

Organization Tips[]

It's generally better to spend your Coins on buying additional Storage Spaces for the Inventory. However the cost of additional spaces increases with each purchase, so be careful with your money.
Organise your board from the top down or left to right. Top Level Sources in the very top row or on the very left. Corresponding lower level Sources under/ next to them with Drop Items below.
- Items that belong together should be grouped together. Murphy’s law reigns here, suddenly you will have a frightful mess and need to clean up your board.
- When you merge sources to a higher level source, that source will be improved for a characteristic. Thus it may generate items quicker, store more, generate higher level items, and so on. So, in general, you should use the highest level source that is available. If you sequence the sources in level order, it will be easier to pick the highest one.
  - BUT: There is a design stupidity where the percent overlap required to merge sources is very small. And it is easy to slightly move a source when tapping it. So you can find that in the middle of tapping a source it suddenly merges with an adjacent source. There is no undo for this (but you can use scissors). If you find this happening often, consider deliberately reordering sources to avoid adjacent ones of the same level. You can also interleave two rows/columns of sources to keep the sequence correct, but avoid adjacent sources at the same level.
Time Skip Booster Shards are generally not that helpful, if you're lacking space, and can be sold or used up. Time skip boosters can be merged to save space
It pays to review your inventory periodically. It is very easy to keep items “just in case” but if you won’t need it for the next 2-3 areas, consider selling or using (an exception to this rule is blue and black cards, which you should always keep). Similarly, you may put items in the inventory so they are not on the garage floor, where you may upgrade them without remembering that you need it. However, when you spend items on the floor and in the inventory, the game always uses the one on the floor first, so you may end up with an item in the inventory that you do not want there.
Energy Bubbles are common and easily obtained so there's no need to hoard more than 2 or 3 at one time. Space is more precious.
You don't have to redeem rewards (like Brown Chest or Piggy Bank) and can leave them at the bottom of the garage. They will remain there. However, you cannot choose which reward you want to open. They accumulate in the order they have been received, with the latest one on the bottom of the queue. You have to open whichever is on top of the item you want and unused items cannot be returned to the queue, you have to either keep them on a spot in the garage, use them or save them in the Inventory. Any items still in the queue can be left there.
- Some items that drop automatically from other items such as Butterfly, Water Leaf, Peony Flower Seeds, Beech Tree Seed, Moth, in fact, can be send to the back of the queue. This is done by filling the board and then selling an item adjacent to the Source Item. It will drop one of the previously mentioned items. Then undo the sale. By doing that, you get back your sold items on the board and put the newly generated item in the back of the queue. This is pretty useful when you need to get to higher levels of that Item, for example Peony Flower (L6), without wasting space.
- This trick can also be used to 'cycle' through the queue and get to the back of the queue without having to open everything. To do this you need to have a full board. Sell one item (best use a cheap lvl 1 in case of mistakes) and then click on the first item in the queue. It will take the place of the just sold item. Afterwards undo the sale and the item will be send back to the queue, while you get your sold item back. You can use the cycling capability to organise items in you 'queue', by cycling to the place in the sequence you want the item to be put before you acquire it.
- This trick cannot, however, be used to move things from your inventory to the queue. If you have a full board, sell an item, and then move an item from your inventory to the garage, it goes into the space where you just sold an item. The 'undo' button is lit, but does not work. [This is a good thing as if it did work, then you would effectively have an unlimited inventory, which would negate most of the interesting decisions in playing the game.] An exception to the above is if you pay for the golden key on a season pass. At the end of the pass, any items in the extra 5 inventory slots will be transferred to the queue.

General Gameplay Tips[]

If you're having trouble getting Broom Cabinets, buy some Bolt and Screws for 29 Gems or Handles for 49 Gems. They are not always available though.
If you have the space, you can spawn free items like the Peony Flower, Bottle or Butterfly and sell them for Coins. Seeds from the Juvenile Beech Tree are rare and should be saved until you have as many trees as you want, whereas seeds from the Clear Glass Vase With Flowers are plentiful.
If you accidentally sell an important item (like a high-level Source), contact Metacore Support immediately with the item, date/time sold and your Player ID (found in the settings menu). They will usually restore it very quickly 😅.
If you don't know whether an item can be merged or not, you can check the border color. White means can be merged while grey means otherwise.

Make sure you log into the game with either Facebook, Apple, Google, or Supercell so that if something happens to your device you can re-log on to your game from your new device!
Always take new space whenever you can. You might have little to no space in the late game.

Tips for merging generators[]

As you build your producers, you‘ll often have 2 of the same level, and need to choose when to merge them into a single one, a level higher. A producer one level higher usually makes better drops by 15-18% and creates 2 more items per charge. (Read each producer’s page for specifics.) As you upgrade generators, you’ll build 'trails' of lower level ones, continually growing longer, as the levels of your best generators increase. This unavoidable quantity lessens the need to keep those of duplicate level. It’s an ongoing balancing act of quantity versus efficiency. If you consistently run out of energy before producers are on cooldown, merge up. If you keep having to wait for long cooldowns, without Time Skip Boosters available, hold on to duplicate level producers. This balance may change as you move through the game.

Start with these suggestions:

Gardening Toolbox: 2 - The most frequently used generator recharges in an hour.

Broom Cabinet: 3 - This is a frequently used producer with a long cooldown.

Toolbox: 2 - This frequently used generator recharges in an hour and 20 minutes.

Workbench: 2 - This often used producer recharges in an hour.

Planted Bush: 1 - This generator is infrequently used and recharges quickly.

Sewing Kit: 2 - This producer, used somewhat frequently, takes 1.5 hours to recharge.

Toy Car: 1 - This generator isn’t used often (except in Pier) and has a fast recharge

Flower Pot: 2 - Seed bags & Orange Flowers aren’t often needed, but the recharge is slow.

Drawer: 2/3 - Vases are needed rarely, but Drawers recharge slowest of all! It’s worth keeping 3 until you have a level 11 vase to quickly make peony flowers.

Vase: 1 - There’s not frequent call for peonies, and the recharge is short. Love story items and mosaic pieces can be made as needed.

Tree: 2/3 - Wood’s not needed a lot, except in Rufus’ Park. While the cooldown is short, it’s worth keeping a spare tree, as components are rare.

Wood: 0 - Except in Rufus’ Park, there’s little need for benches, so it’s best to just generate wood from trees.

Peony: 0 - Only keep them on the board in the rare instances in which you need Water Bottles.

Lamps & Orange Flowers: 0 - Moths, and their silk, which makes yarn, as well as butterflies, “drawn” to Orange Flowers, are required infrequently, but some areas do call for a lot of yarn. Those that do usually call for lanterns, as well, so build them early, to start “attracting” moths.

Tips for special items[]

Ursula’s Blue Card[]

Ursula's blue card allows you to upgrade any item (except anything with a lightening symbol) to the next level. This makes it extremely valuable. The most useful applications for it are as follows:

- Upgrade l4 producer part, e.g. l4 cleaning cabinet door to l5 cabinet. It is worth saving up blue cards for the Great Hall so as to be able to get the new producers levelled ASAP. Can also be used with scissors (see below)

- Upgrade the penultimate item in a chain to the final item. This is particularly useful for chainsaws (e.g. in the cemetery that has 2 of them) and for the Love Story chain. Another option may be to use on some of the Rafflesias in the Conservatory.

Boulton’s Lightening Card[]

Boulton's Black card is even more rare and valuable as it allows you to upgrade any item, including producers. Therefore it is recommended to save it for the penultimate level of any producer chain to upgrade to the final level e.g. upgrade l10 Broom Cabinet to l11.

Scissors[]

Scissors appear fairly often in events but shouldn't be wasted. They split a higher level item into 2 of the next level down. The most common uses are:

- If you are completely caught up, it can make sense to build items in advance for future areas. You can build the highest item in the chain and then use scissors to split it, when required for the lower level items

- Scissors can be used in conjunction with blue cards to level up your generators quickly. For example, the toy car starts producing items at level 5, so you can use a blue card on the L4 toy car. Use a blue card on a L4 producer to increase to L5. Then scissor it back to 2 L4s. Then apply two blue cards to get 2 L5s and so on.

- It is far too easy to accidentally merge items, when not being careful enough when moving items on the floor, or when a tap on a generator is interpreted as a small move. The scissors can be used to sort it out.

- A more niche but very helpful use for scissors is to 'reset' a finite generator by splitting it on the final drop before it breaks and then merging the two items again. This is particularly helpful for farming the merge chains from Moths, Family Lockets, and Cargo Ships, as they take a long time and a lot of board space to get otherwise.

Time skip booster and hourglass[]

Time Skip boosters and hourglass have similar functions. Time Skip Booster applies the amount of time to all producers on your board. Hourglass only applies time skipping to one

-The hourglass is most useful if you need a few more taps to complete a chain and your producer is recharging.

- When using the Time Skip Booster try and maximise it by exhausting multiple producers first. Also make sure you merge any water leaves, Peony seeds or butterflies before using it.

The Time Skip Booster and hourglass also work on the Garage Cleanup Box

Tips for daily trades[]

Metacore introduced a new daily trade system in 2024.

Each day you can trade existing items (or build them) in return for other items useful for current area tasks. Completing all awards a chest.

- Each day gets progressively harder as you need to build more items from scratch. Also each repeating day 4 gets harder. Therefore, at a certain point (if you struggled the day before), it may be better to fail a day and start the cycle again.

- You can swap a suggested trade item for gems. Use this option sparingly! Some trades may not be worthwhile, (e.g., a bucket of brushes for a glove). The last trade in a day’s series can be at a loss, but is likely worth the effort, to win the day’s chest.

- Farm peonies (if you don't do so already) as they are a great source of cheap trade items. Also make sure you have cheap items for trade (e.g. build some low level gardening items and store in your inventory (provided that you are not currently required to do a gardening task in your area)

- If you have multiple area tasks, do the lowest/easiest ones first so that you get offered higher level items in the trade

- The following table gives an idea of the trade values for each item:

Lotus	640
Chair	200
Love story	160
Mosaic	160
Paint can	152
Locket	80
Detergent	64
Vase	64
Fabric	60
Butterfly	48
Water bottle	40
Yarn	40
Orange flower	32
Screws	32
Planted flower	26
Gloves	24
Moth	24
Peony	20
Lantern	20
Maintenance materials	16
Cleaning	10
Sewing Supplies	8
Maintenance tools	4
Tools	3
Gardening	2
Watering	2
Logs	1

- High value items are great for trading as you can get really good items for them, however, if you need one of these item for a task you will find it easier to build from scratch rather than trade.

- Low value items are less valuable for trading as you will often need multiple trades to make a higher item. On the other hand, if you need one for a task then it is easier to trade as you can get even high value items quite cheaply.

Tips for events[]

Garage Cleanup[]

The Garage Clean Up event normally has 4 boards. You pay gems to start each board after the first and get rewards for clearing cells, rows and the whole board. Each board gives you a Garage Cleanup Box, which provides a free item every 12 hours.

- Try to complete boards 1-3 as quickly as possible. Do not click on the Cleanup Box until you have one item left (should be the hardest item on the board)

- For board 4, pick one item that you would like to farm (normally something high level). Clear the board apart from that one item. Then collect the item from the Cleanup Box but DO NOT turn it in. Continue collecting the item every 12 hours and only turn it in just as the event is about to close.

- You can use gems or Time Skip Booster on the Cleanup Box, if the item being farmed is particularly high level.

Seasonal Events[]

Each seasonal event is unique so it is advised to look on the Event wiki page for tips and strategy.

Some seasonal events feature a reward chain for points where the player must collect a certain level with a green arrow on it before being able to build that same chain to the next level. For example, when reaching a level 6 item, you must collect it, then build up to a level 7, collect that, and so on. On the rare occasion that these events are repeated (there is no guarantee that this will happen), your "progress" on this chain will carry over. This means that if you collected a level 8 on this chain from the above example, you will not need to build and collect the level 6 and 7 first. Therefore, the event will be moderately easier to progress in if you have completed this chain to max level the first time around. So if you see that an event has this mechanic, don't want to complete it this time around but think you may want to in the future, it is recommended that you at the very least complete the reward chain so you will have to build fewer of the reward chain to get points when the event repeats.

Generic (repeatable) Events[]

One of these events normally runs each month. They just have a list of tasks and don’t have any graphical or decoration elements.

It is generally worth doing the early levels of these events but later levels may not be worth the effort.

For further tips, see each individual event page

Feel free to add your own tips!

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