Sword Hunter Merge Planner

This planner is the craft order for Sword Hunter, not a damage spreadsheet. Official art shows the gap clearly: a LV.1 stick on one side, a LV.999 rainbow crystal sword on the other, and a Rank 999 huge blue blade as the flex. We will not invent attack values, crit percents, or merge multipliers to fill the space between. Use this page when you have cash from hunts or from codes and you are standing at base about to click merge.

The sibling code checker makes sure the wallet is actually full before you craft. The tools hub explains why these pages are not injectors. Full prose on the mechanic sits in merge swords. If you wanted a bot to click merge for you, read auto merge and then come back here anyway.

Practical merge order

Work the ladder in this direction. Do not skip a material just because a code dumped 2M Cash.

1. Stick (LV.1). Everyone starts here. Farm early slimes and wolves with R auto-attack. Redeem WELCOME (2x Money) so the first cash pile is not slower than it has to be.
2. Metal. First real upgrade tier once loot converts. Spend MONEY (50K Cash) and the cash half of LIKES100 here if you are still on wood. Press F after the craft so you do not keep swinging the stick.
3. Gem. Official cave art shows a glowing gem sword beside a purple gem egg. Treat gem as the mid-island blade: good enough for red gorillas and for walking toward the volcano, not a reason to park forever. 1KCCU’s 2M Cash belongs on this push if you still have it.
4. Rainbow Rank 999. Showcase end of the ladder: rainbow crystal and the huge Rank 999 sword from official media. Save SWORD’s gifted blade as an extra input or a swap, not as a replacement for the ladder. Enter endgame and the purple portal areas with this rank, not with metal.

That is the whole planner. Stick → metal → gem → rainbow Rank 999. If a future patch adds a named tier, it will slot onto this list after gem or after rainbow, not in a fan-made DPS table.

What to spend, in order, before you click

• Convert monster loot to cash. LIKES100 also grants 50K Loot; convert that too. Merges eat cash, not raw orbs.
• Claim MONEY, LIKES100, and 1KCCU if the code checker still has them open.
• Equip the SWORD reward with F and take it on one camp. If it already feels like a gem-tier swing, do not eat it just to “use the planner.” If it is a stepping stone, feed it upward.
• Keep WELCOME’s 2x Money active during the farm that pays the next craft, not after you are already broke.
• Pets (Fox Egg, Rainbow Egg, caught wolves, 0.01% phoenix) are not merge ingredients. Hatch them on the side with hatch pets.

When to stop merging and go hunt

Merge until the current island’s monsters die without you babysitting every swing, then stop. Signs you should hunt instead of craft:

• You are still on the starter beaches and already staring at Rank 999 as a day-one click. You will lack the loop practice (loot → cash → base) that early-game is built on.
• The giant red gorilla boss on the tropical islands with the volcano still looks like a wall. That is a rank check. Push gem first, then try the boss with friends on a 12-player server.
• The purple portal is open on the HUD but your blade is still metal. Do the portal after gem, with mid-game pacing, not because a code made the wallet look endgame.

Offline loot continues while you are away, so a pause between crafts is not wasted. Collect, convert, merge one tier, quit if needed. Offline loot is the AFK, not an auto-merge.

What this planner refuses to guess

• Exact cash costs per tier
• Exact damage of metal versus gem
• Drop rates for swords in the world (none are published besides pet art’s 0.01% phoenix, which is not a sword)
• Whether rainbow gorilla pets change merge math (they should not; pets are a different slot)

If another wiki prints a 17-row stat block for Sword Hunter blades, ask where the number came from. Blade Evolution Tycoon has not given us that sheet. Official contrast is stick versus Rank 999, plus the gem cave screenshot. That is enough to order crafts. It is not enough to fake a calculator.

Session template

1. Tick codes.
2. Hatch eggs.
3. Farm with R on a pack your current tier can kill. E Catch wolves you want.
4. Convert loot.
5. Merge one step on the ladder.
6. F-select the new sword.
7. Repeat or log off and let the blade collect.

Share that template with co-op friends so the party meets at the boss with similar ranks. You cannot merge their stick for them. You can send them this page and the tools hub.

When patch notes add a material, add a rung; do not reshuffle stick and gem to chase a rumor. Rank 999 stays the north star until official art shows something larger. Craft toward that picture, spend code cash on the next missing rung, and leave auto-merge scripts out of the base.

A rainbow crystal sword looks loud in the thumbnail because you were meant to earn the ladder, not skip it with a paste. Use this planner as a brake and a map, then go swing the result on the islands.