Bum Simulator game guide and tips

Bum Simulator is a totally WTF sandbox where you play a homeless man in ClodoVille. Before you become an urban legend, here are the 4 priorities for your first few minutes:

• 🥫 Search the garbage cans for food and drink: your hunger and thirst go downhill fast.
• 👀 Beggar in the street with your sign to collect your first dollars.
• 🚔 Open map and avoid police zones (blue dots) as long as you are weak.
• 🏠 Launch your base as soon as possible: it unlocks crafting, passive income and all progression

This complete guide to Bum Simulator includes our tips and solutions for getting started in ClodoVille. As in our other video game guides.

The objective remains simple: to bring you the help you need to survive from day to day, right from the start, and build a solid camp without wasting time.

Your first assignments

Your first assignments will be to find food and water quickly. So open the garbage cans and empty them as much as you can. Put as many things as possible in your cart too.

Then a other mission is to go out into the street with your sign, try to write the words (Help, Please) as neatly as possible, for example. And ask passers-by for money.

For one of your missions you will need 10$.

Beating you

The easiest way to fight is to go back in time. defend blows and counter-attack as soon as he's finished tapping. You can chain your blows to do more damage.

You can drive Carl

To drive it with the joystick, use the X button. You can move forward with the right trigger and brake or reverse with the left trigger. “B” is for boost.

Move with him to go faster!

Using the map

You can open your card with the start“ button”. You can see hot dog vendors, drink vendors, pizza vendors on the menu, ice cream vendors. But you'll have to pay for it all.

At the start, the player has 5 water and 5 hot dogs in his cart. If you see a target, it's to improve your pigeon-shuriken throwing skills.

The red dots are enemies and the blue dots are policemen. Try to beat the red dots to gain skills and levels. And avoid making a mess in front of the cops.

Build and improve your base

Fill in Carl cardboard boxes are handy for transporting your loot, but they're not the way to build your base. The real key is recycling.

Here is the chain to set up:

• Complete Mr. Jello's quest. It unlocks your recycling garbage can, the centerpiece of your production.
• Recycle your waste. The recycling garbage can transforms them into three basic resources: wood, scrap metal and ceramics.
• Set up your foundry: these machines are the real driving force behind your production - much more than just a cart.
  • The aluminum foundry (wood-fired) transforms scrap metal into aluminum, which you refine into plates for advanced constructions.
  • The copper smelting (copper smelter), available by default in the construction menu under «Production», also transforms iron bars into copper.

Your base progresses in stages: cardboard → wood → metal. Each level requires its own own materials, so never neglect recycling.

📌 Two reflexes to be taken early :

• 🗺️ Recover blueprints (plans) scattered around the map There are around twenty of them, including the recycling machine and the bottle cannon.
• 🏠 Install a Bum Shelter as soon as possible It automatically sends hobos to collect wood and scrap metal for you. No more collecting everything by hand.

Make money fast

Money in ClodoVille doesn't just come from begging. Two sources really change the game:

• 🚬 Cigarettes Make them (you'll need tobacco seeds, see FAQ) and then sell them.
• 🏠 Bum Shelters Each shelter generates passive income. Some players earn around 40 $ every 30 seconds with 8 shelters.

👌 Put up your shelters early, Just leave them running and you'll have enough to build the rest of your hobo empire almost effortlessly.

Defending against raids

Once your base is set up, it becomes the target of insect raids, including the Bug Knight and Bug Shaman. Prepare your defense before they arrive:

• ✨ Ask traps and mines around the base.
• 🗼 Build turrets and bottle cannons (blueprint to be found on the map).
• 🥫 Keep a stock ammunition and medical supplies.

✅ Successfully repelling a raid also unlocks a success dedicated.

If you want stronger pigeons for your throws, you'll need’improve your chicken coop.

About the game

FAQs

How to manufacture aluminum / aluminum sheets?

Recover from scrap metal via your recycling garbage can, then build an aluminum smelter (powered by wood). It transforms scrap metal into aluminum, which you then refine into aluminum plates for advanced constructions.

How to make copper?

Like aluminum, copper is produced from the scrap metal. Build a copper smelter (copper smelter). It's available by default in the «Production» category of the construction menu. Then insert your iron bars to obtain copper.

How do I find ceramics?

Ceramics can also be obtained by garbage can recycling system, which separates your waste into wood, scrap metal and ceramics. Recycle continuously so you never run out.

How to make money fast?

The most profitable combo: make and resell cigarettes, and set up several Bum Shelters for passive income. Everything is detailed in the «How to make money fast» section above.

How to defend yourself against insect raids?

Surround your base with traps, mines, turrets and bottle cannons. More important Anticipate. Prepare your defenses before the raid, not during it.

Where can I find tobacco seeds?

Tobacco seeds are used to grow the tobacco needed for cigarettes, your main source of income. Search the stores and pawnbrokers in the city, and watch over the quests that distribute them.

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