Ocean: Garden Idle world 2 guide
World 2 of 7
An underwater garden with 8 new crops: giant kelp, coral, anemones, starfish, sea urchins, seashells, glow jellyfish and the precious abyss pearl. Crabs harvest for you there.
The Ocean is your first real journey. Crabs scuttle along the beds instead of flying, but they harvest exactly like bees: as soon as a row is ripe. Your tools, level and Golden seeds come with you: every bonus you already own also works under the sea.
- Position: world 2 of 7
- Unlock: 25 crystal flowers (Garden)
- Helper:
Crab - Growth: 15 s to 30 min
- Scale: prices and earnings ×3.00B compared with the Garden
- 25 abyss pearls: ≈ 488Qi coins
🔓 How to unlock the Ocean
The Ocean opens as soon as you own 25 crystal flowers, the last crop of the previous world (Garden). 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 crab
In this world, the crab 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 360B for the giant kelp to 240Qi for the abyss pearl. 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 crab for that row.
| Crop | Growth | Earn / plant | 1st plant | Helper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giant kelpprice/plant +16% | 15 s | 3.00B | 15.0B | 360B |
 Coralprice/plant +17% | 30 s | 36.0B | 360B | 7.50T |
 Anemoneprice/plant +18% | 1 min | 330B | 10.5T | 120T |
 Starfishprice/plant +19% | 2 min | 3.00T | 150T | 1.80Qa |
 Sea urchinprice/plant +20% | 4 min | 27.0T | 2.40Qa | 30.0Qa |
 Seashellprice/plant +21% | 8 min | 240T | 30.0Qa | 600Qa |
 Glow jellyfishprice/plant +22% | 15 min | 2.40Qa | 300Qa | 12.0Qi |
 Abyss pearlprice/plant +22% | 30 min | 24.0Qa | 750Qa | 240Qi |
💡 Strategy
- Pace. Crops grow in 15 s (Giant kelp) to 30 min (Abyss pearl), 5 times slower than in the Garden. Each speed milestone halves that time. Abyss pearl: 15 min at 25 plants, 7 min 30 s at 100 and 3 min 45 s at 250. A level 30 Magic watering can divides every growth time by another 4.
- Price growth. Each plant costs 16% (Giant kelp row) to 22% (Abyss pearl row) more than the previous one. On the Abyss pearl row, the 50th plant therefore costs 17.0K 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 crab costs from 360B (Giant kelp row) to 240Qi (Abyss pearl 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 Abyss pearl helper costs 320 times its first plant: buy your 25 abyss pearls first, then hire it.
- Goal. To open the Desert, you need 25 abyss pearls: about 488Qi coins in total for those plants alone, including 88.7Qi 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 Giant kelp row earns about 45 times more per second than 25 crystal flowers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giant kelp | 57.0B | 528B | 21.6T | 36.1Qa |
| Coral | 1.48T | 15.6T | 789T | 2.03Qi |
| Anemone | 46.6T | 557T | 34.9Qa | 137Qi |
| Starfish | 717T | 9.75Qa | 754Qa | 4.52Sx |
| Sea urchin | 12.4Qa | 190Qa | 18.2Qi | 165Sx |
| Seashell | 166Qa | 2.91Qi | 341Qi | 4.71Sp |
| Glow jellyfish | 1.80Qi | 35.5Qi | 5.11Sx | 106Sp |
| Abyss pearl | 4.49Qi | 88.7Qi | 12.8Sx | 265Sp |