Bomb Farm Energy and Teams

Energy is why Bomb Farm is a roster game instead of a one-bomber screensaver. Steam copy tells you to switch between three teams to keep the mine running nonstop. House shows recovery speed and maximum hero slots as upgrades. Launch testers said you cannot farm forever on one body. Put together, the overnight skill is rotation, not a bigger bomb.

This page is the operations manual. Printable boxes live on the squad planner. Role mixes live on roles.

How you notice energy in the client

You notice it when the dock under Battle thins out. Portraits vanish or grey before the Map pin moves. You notice it when House capsules show tired miners while Ritual still looks rich. We will not invent a numeric stamina bar if your build hides it; we will tell you to treat empty docks as empty energy.

If the dock empties in seconds on Hard, that can be deaths, not fatigue. Add a Support before you blame recovery speed.

The three-team conveyor

Name them however you like. Functionally:

• Squad A — Farm. Collectors plus one Attacker, Easy or Normal, overnight. Goal: chests and sealed drops.
• Squad B — Climb. Attackers plus Support, current Map pin, the star you can actually finish.
• Squad C — Spare. Whatever still has energy when A and B are in capsules. Ugly is a feature.

When A returns to House, B goes to Battle. When B is tired, C covers Easy so the overlay is never a still image. That is the entire trick Steam is selling with “three teams.”

Do not run three identical Attackers-only docks. You will climb in screenshots and starve in gold. The squads tier spells out mixes.

House: capsules, slots, recovery

House is a 3×3 of capsules on launch UI, several locked. Two upgrades matter more than the rarity hobby bars:

• Recovery speed — how fast a parked hero can go back on a dock.
• Max hero slots — how many bodies you are allowed to own so three squads can exist.

Spend here before you spend on vanity Mythic bars. A fourth locked pod is a real bottleneck; a prettier Uncommon is not. Heroes Hub shows where those upgrades sit on the panel.

Park tired heroes. Do not leave them on a failing Hard node hoping they “learn.” They will not.

Session templates

Fifteen minutes at lunch. Swap A to House, send B, claim mail, close the laptop. Pin stays on if you are at a desk. Controls.

Evening hour. Ritual the sealed drops A found, tick one skill tree lock if it is a lock, then put C on Easy while you cook. Check Map only if a 19/20 bar is mocking you.

Workday. A on Easy, pin on, Cloud on. If you cannot click at 3 p.m., A should still be a farm squad, not an Inferno joke.

What energy is not

Energy is not a license to buy a crystal pack. Official policy is no selling power. If a shop refill exists, treat it as convenience and read the review first. Energy is not a reason to make a second Steam account. Extra accounts for extra docks are the abuse case Stream On already warned about on the Market side.

Energy is also not the Beat the Clock achievement. That badge is a timed challenge. Normal Map play is tagged without timed input. Do not confuse them.

When rotation still fails

• Not enough bodies — buy slots, not hope. Fusion that deletes extras makes this worse. Fusion.
• All bodies are Attackers — farm squad cannot exist. Get a Collector.
• Recovery is still level 1 while you are on world three — you skipped House.
• You raised Inferno and call it an energy bug — it is a progression bug.

Fix the conveyor, then ask the early-game tier list who deserves the next capsule. The mine runs when someone is on the grid. Everything else is a pause screen.