Tips and tricks for Lucky Tower Ultimate

Storyline (as described)

• The subtitles don’t clearly describe the game’s full narrative or plot.
• They focus almost entirely on in-run survival, loot, and mechanics in Lucky Tower Ultimate.

Gameplay highlights & key tips / strategies

Core carry/score strategy

• Always carry a corpse with you.
  • Corpses help disarm spike traps.
  • They’re also a top-tier item for feeding an enemy/event (“Evus” eating) for very high score, better than feeding nothing.
• If you don’t have a corpse, bones also provide plenty of score.

Beehives / Beehat setup

• Beehives aren’t very valuable unless you handle them:
  • Use attack to shoot out the bees.
  • After clearing the hive, use equip to wear it as a bee/keeper hat.
  • The hat is described as roughly on par with a peasant cap and is easy to obtain.

Handling dangerous enemies

Slimes

• Slimes are annoying mainly because:
  • They can’t be killed normally; they turn into ooze on the floor.
  • The ooze is a sticky hazard that can cause deaths indirectly by slowing you down and making jumping harder.
• Countermeasures:
  • Eat spikes: pick up spike hazards and eat them (no negative effect noted).
  • Use a magic wand:
    • Instant death kills enemies and can drop armor undamaged.
    • The transform spell from a higher-tier wand is more likely to instantly destroy even big slimes permanently.

Weight / pushing mechanics

• There’s a hidden weight system:
  • Carrying heavy items and/or wearing heavy armor makes wind enemies harder to push you around.
  • Keeping your load light can help in some situations, but weight is especially useful against wind push effects.

Armor repair system (Hammer)

• When a hammer is mentioned, it’s important:
  • Unequip armor (using unequip/interact input).
  • Use the hammer to repair iron or chain mail armors.
  • Golden armor can survive instant-death hits and then be repaired afterward.
• Keep a hammer if you can.

Wizards / loot farming

• If you see a wizard, shake it.
  • It has a good chance to drop valuable items, especially a magic lamp.
• The magic lamp is portrayed as extremely powerful:
  • It can substitute for “anything you need” (top-tier weapon/armor/loot depending on what you grab).

Managing stages when “lights go out”

• If the lights are turning off, instant death “Darkness” enemies are coming.
• Strategy:
  • Leave the room and return later when you’re ready.
  • You don’t have to clear it in one continuous run—re-entering at the right time is easier.

Getting gold back without carrying too much

• You can throw junk off the tower during a run.
• After you win, the thrown items are found outside:
  • You can then sell or keep them (items should be “chilling wherever you threw them”).

Sleeping enemies

• They can one-shot you.
• Best approach:
  • Creep up slowly and hit them from a safer “sweet spot.”
  • Longer-range weapons (example given: Broms) make this easier.

“No gearing up” event (Evus removes your gear)

• One of Evus’s hardest events is taking your gear (“no gearing up”).
• Important timing rule:
  • You can grab plenty of gear as long as you remove it before interacting with Evus.
• Important consequence:
  • Items may look repaired, but they are still damaged when returned later.
• If this event happens twice, it may become bugged:
  • The next time you see him, he returns everything from both events.
  • This is described as an item duplication exploit, including armor and coin purses (suggested possible gold exploit).

Shuriken power and matchups

• Don’t underestimate shuriken:
  • Described as very powerful, able to one-shot a tanky strong naturally spawned enemy.
• Strong utility:
  • Works well against hazard enemies like the fan enemy (can remove them instantly from range).
  • Cuts wires of anvil hazards, making travel safer without triggering them manually.

Gate traversal “exploit” / simplification

• Gates typically require:
  • Corpses/buddies on buttons, lever puzzles, etc.
• Alternative approach described:
  • If you don’t have corpses or buddies, use a small item:
    • Approach the gate and throw the item through the bars to activate levers.
  • Even if you don’t have the specific setup, you can throw items to activate what’s needed and pass more easily.

Mentioned gamers / sources at the end

• Spartan (speaker/creator)
• “cup game player” (referenced in a shuriken demonstration)