Volcano: Garden Idle world 5 guide
World 5 of 7
A land of fire and ash with 8 new crops: ember berries, sulfur roots, ash tulips, lava peppers, magma mushrooms, fire pomegranates, obsidian flowers and the legendary phoenix heart. Salamanders harvest for you there.
The Volcano is the world where your tools can finally reach their maximum level: the last levels cost around 1.39ac coins, an amount that only becomes affordable here. Check the Tools tab again every time you unlock a new crop.
- Position: world 5 of 7
- Unlock: 25 ice hearts (Glacier)
- Helper:
Salamander - Growth: 36 s to 1 h 12 min
- Scale: prices and earnings ×200ac compared with the Garden
- 25 phoenix hearts: ≈ 44.9ag coins
🔓 How to unlock the Volcano
The Volcano opens as soon as you own 25 ice hearts, the last crop of the previous world (Glacier). 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 salamander
In this world, the salamander 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 24.0ad for the ember berry to 16.0ag for the phoenix 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 salamander for that row.
| Crop | Growth | Earn / plant | 1st plant | Helper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ember berryprice/plant +18% | 36 s | 200ac | 1.00ad | 24.0ad |
 Sulfur rootprice/plant +19% | 1 min 12 s | 2.40ad | 24.0ad | 500ad |
 Ash tulipprice/plant +20% | 2 min 24 s | 22.0ad | 700ad | 8.00ae |
 Lava pepperprice/plant +21% | 4 min 48 s | 200ad | 10.0ae | 120ae |
 Magma mushroomprice/plant +22% | 9 min 36 s | 1.80ae | 160ae | 2.00af |
 Fire pomegranateprice/plant +23% | 19 min 12 s | 16.0ae | 2.00af | 40.0af |
 Obsidian flowerprice/plant +24% | 36 min | 160ae | 20.0af | 800af |
 Phoenix heartprice/plant +24% | 1 h 12 min | 1.60af | 50.0af | 16.0ag |
💡 Strategy
- Pace. Crops grow in 36 s (Ember berry) to 1 h 12 min (Phoenix heart), 12 times slower than in the Garden. Each speed milestone halves that time. Phoenix heart: 36 min at 25 plants, 18 min at 100 and 9 min at 250. A level 30 Magic watering can divides every growth time by another 4.
- Price growth. Each plant costs 18% (Ember berry row) to 24% (Phoenix heart row) more than the previous one. On the Phoenix heart row, the 50th plant therefore costs 37.8K 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 salamander costs from 24.0ad (Ember berry row) to 16.0ag (Phoenix 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 Phoenix heart helper costs 320 times its first plant: buy your 25 phoenix hearts first, then hire it.
- Goal. To open Candyland, you need 25 phoenix hearts: about 44.9ag coins in total for those plants alone, including 8.73ag 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 Ember berry row earns about 281K times more per second than 25 ice hearts 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ember berry | 4.44ad | 53.1ad | 3.33ae | 13.1af |
| Sulfur root | 114ad | 1.56ae | 120ae | 723af |
| Ash tulip | 3.61ae | 55.6ae | 5.31af | 48.3ag |
| Lava pepper | 55.6ae | 970ae | 113af | 1.57ah |
| Magma mushroom | 957ae | 18.9af | 2.73ag | 56.7ah |
| Fire pomegranate | 12.9af | 287af | 50.9ag | 1.59ai |
| Obsidian flower | 138af | 3.49ag | 756ag | 35.5ai |
| Phoenix heart | 346af | 8.73ag | 1.89ah | 88.7ai |