Idle Monster TD Cheats: Best Tips for Earning Gold, Essence, Android, iOS Strategy Guide and Tricks



IdleMonsterTD by Iron Horse Games LLC for Android, iOS (iPhone/iPad) Mobile Game.


How They're Earned and Used

Gold: Earn gold by killing enemy robots. Use it to level up your monsters and increase their damage.

Essence: Earn essence by passing new waves and killing boss enemies. Use it to unlock new monsters, upgrade spells, and upgrade research boosts.

Gems: Earn gems by completing achievements and daily missions. Use them to purchase powerful boosts and resource packs in the premiums store.

Prestige Points: Earn prestige points by prestiging (available after wave 50). Use them to unlock and upgrade relics.

Tech Scrolls: Earn tech scrolls by spawning and destroying the epic Tech Ship boss (available after wave 400). Use them to upgrade boosts on the Tech Tree.

Tournament Points: Earn tournament points by participating in the weekly PvP tournament. Use them to upgrade powerful tournament bonuses.


Earning Essence
Q: Why am I not always earning essence for completing waves and killing bosses?
You only earn essence for completing a wave on your FIRST play-through. So, if you pass a few waves, then you lose and get reset to the beginning of the stage, you will not re-earn essence for the few waves you've already passed before the defeat/reset. You will have to progress past where you lost to start earning essence again.
When you prestige, you will start earning essence again starting from wave 1.


Earning Training Exp
Why am I not always earning training exp for kills?

Earning exp to increase your monsters' training bonuses works the same way as earning essence - you will only earn kill exp on your FIRST play-through of each wave. If you lose and get reset to the start of the stage, you will not earn kill exp again until you pass your previous position

Only the monster that gets the final kill-shot on the enemy will receive exp.


Passive Skills
What are those (+18%) bonus stat percentages that are sometimes displayed for monsters?

These are the bonuses applied from passive skills of nearby monsters. For example, if you look at a monster who is near another monster with a +10% DPS passive skill, it will be displayed as (+18%) next to this monster's DPS stat.


Elemental Shields
Later in the game, you may start seeing enemies with elemental shield icons above their HP bar. This means they cannot be attacked by monsters of that element.
These become more and more common as you progress to later waves.