Glacier: Garden Idle world 4 guide
World 4 of 7
A land of snow and northern lights with 8 new crops: frostberries, winter kale, snowdrops, blue pines, edelweiss, ice apples, aurora blooms and the mysterious ice heart. Penguins harvest for you there.
In the Glacier, everything grows 9 times slower than in the Garden. Penguins become essential: without a helper, a slow row can sit ripe for minutes without earning anything. It is also the world where the Barn (offline earnings) really starts to matter, because your rows mostly work while you are away.
- Position: world 4 of 7
- Unlock: 25 oasis lotuses (Desert)
- Helper:
Penguin - Growth: 27 s to 54 min
- Scale: prices and earnings ×40.0No compared with the Garden
- 25 ice hearts: ≈ 7.65ac coins
🔓 How to unlock the Glacier
The Glacier opens as soon as you own 25 oasis lotuses, the last crop of the previous world (Desert). It happens automatically: a message tells you and the world appears on the map. Be careful: a Great Compost closes every world except the Garden. You then reopen them one by one, in order, by reaching 25 copies of each world's last crop again — much faster thanks to your Golden seeds.
The helper: the penguin
In this world, the penguin harvests for you. Once hired for a row (button next to the crop), it harvests that row as soon as it is ripe, whether you are looking at this world, another one, or the game is closed (offline earnings: half the normal rate, up to 2 h, +1 h per Barn level). Its price is fixed for each row: from 4.80Dc for the frostberry to 3.20ac for the ice heart. Its harvests don't benefit from combos: while you are playing, swiping the rows yourself still pays more.
🌱 The 8 crops
Base values, without tools or Golden seeds. Earn / plant: what one plant yields per harvest (multiplied by the number of plants in the row and doubled at each milestone). 1st plant: the price to unlock the row, then the price increase per plant. Helper: the price to hire the penguin for that row.
| Crop | Growth | Earn / plant | 1st plant | Helper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Frostberryprice/plant +17% | 27 s | 40.0No | 199No | 4.80Dc |
 Winter kaleprice/plant +18% | 54 s | 480No | 4.80Dc | 100Dc |
 Snowdropprice/plant +19% | 1 min 48 s | 4.40Dc | 140Dc | 1.60aa |
 Blue pineprice/plant +20% | 3 min 36 s | 40.0Dc | 2.00aa | 24.0aa |
 Edelweissprice/plant +21% | 7 min 12 s | 360Dc | 32.0aa | 400aa |
 Ice appleprice/plant +22% | 14 min 24 s | 3.20aa | 400aa | 8.00ab |
 Aurora bloomprice/plant +23% | 27 min | 32.0aa | 4.00ab | 160ab |
 Ice heartprice/plant +23% | 54 min | 320aa | 10.0ab | 3.20ac |
💡 Strategy
- Pace. Crops grow in 27 s (Frostberry) to 54 min (Ice heart), 9 times slower than in the Garden. Each speed milestone halves that time. Ice heart: 27 min at 25 plants, 13 min 30 s at 100 and 6 min 45 s at 250. A level 30 Magic watering can divides every growth time by another 4.
- Price growth. Each plant costs 17% (Frostberry row) to 23% (Ice heart row) more than the previous one. On the Ice heart row, the 50th plant therefore costs 25.4K times the first: get 25 plants on every row first (earnings doubled at 10 and 25, growth twice as fast at 25) before pushing a row towards 50 or 100.
- Where to invest. From one row to the next, a plant earns on average 4.9 times more per second, while the first plant costs about 13 times more. Your newest row therefore almost always makes most of your income: unlock the next crop as soon as you can, then top up older rows to their next milestone, which is cheap there.
- Helpers. Hiring the penguin costs from 4.80Dc (Frostberry row) to 3.20ac (Ice heart row). The first ones are cheap: hire them once a row has about ten plants; they harvest every time the row ripens, even with the game closed. The Ice heart helper costs 320 times its first plant: buy your 25 ice hearts first, then hire it.
- Goal. To open the Volcano, you need 25 ice hearts: about 7.65ac coins in total for those plants alone, including 1.44ac for the 25th. Reaching 10 already doubles the row's earnings and helps you pay for the rest.
- On arrival. Without any bonus, the first plant of the Frostberry row earns about 233K times more per second than 25 oasis lotuses at the 25 milestone. As soon as the world opens, put your coins into it; helpers in earlier worlds keep harvesting for you.
📈 Plant prices at milestones
Price of the 10th, 25th, 50th and 100th plant of each row. At 10, 25, 50 and 100 plants the row's earnings double; at 25 and 100 it also grows twice as fast, so the 25th and 100th plants multiply the row's output by more than four.
| Crop | 10th | 25th | 50th | 100th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frostberry | 821No | 8.66Dc | 438Dc | 1.13ab |
| Winter kale | 21.3Dc | 254Dc | 16.0aa | 62.7ab |
| Snowdrop | 669Dc | 9.10aa | 704aa | 4.22ac |
| Blue pine | 10.3aa | 158aa | 15.2ab | 138ac |
| Edelweiss | 177aa | 3.10ab | 364ab | 5.02ad |
| Ice apple | 2.39ab | 47.3ab | 6.82ac | 141ad |
| Aurora bloom | 25.8ab | 575ab | 101ac | 3.18ae |
| Ice heart | 64.4ab | 1.44ac | 254ac | 7.95ae |