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Since seasonal scenarios in Once Human usually last for 6 weeks, the faster you level up, the longer you will be able to enjoy the late-game content. Also, you can transfer your best, fully calibrated gun from the Spacetime Backpack for 11,000 Material Points, and this way, get a top weapon in Week 1. The tips below will help you level up significantly faster.
Lunar Oracle Mob Attacks
This is the fastest way to level up at the moment, but it’s only available if you play on a Lunar Oracle server. Every day, from 09:00 PM to 03:00 AM in-game time (15 minutes of real time), all players become infected by Lunacy, and their Sanity decreases to 20%. The lower your HP during the event, the more EXP you will obtain for defeating mobs—up to +100% at 20% HP.
If you try to gather any resources in the wilderness during Lunar Oracle, you will trigger a mob attack. These attacks occur randomly, but the chance of triggering them is very high.
Mobs spawn in 3 waves, and in the 3rd wave, you will encounter the Elite deviant. The trick is that the level of the mobs is always equal to the level of your character, and this affects the amount of EXP you get by defeating them. Additionally, you will obtain +100% EXP from the Lunacy buff.
So, by playing on a Lunar Oracle server, you can easily level up by triggering such attacks. All you need to do is keep your HP as low as possible. Use the Canine Skull deviant if you have it. This deviant provokes surrounding enemies to attack him, so you will be relatively safe. Also, make sure to use the Enduring Shield mode in your armor top. It gives you a shield, which is very useful during the Lunar Oracle.
Commissions
Commissions are the simplest way to level up quickly in Once Human. Commissions are tasks that you are given from V (hold TAB → Summon V → View Commissions). Every week, you can choose 5 commissions from 8 available and get 6 rewards: 5 equal ones for the commissions themselves and 1 for completing all of them.
Always do your commissions, because besides EXP, you also obtain Energy Links and Controllers. However, if you miss a week, it’s not a problem, because you can still do the commissions from all the previous weeks.
Low-Level Smelting & Boiling Water
You can also earn quite a lot of experience by smelting ores at low levels. For example, by crafting 99 Charcoal using a Furnace, you get 89 EXP. Similarly, you get the same amount of experience for crafting 99 Boiled Water or 99 Salt. If you place several Furnaces in your territory and fill them with Logs, you will be able to earn 300-600 EXP per minute, which is quite a lot.
The higher the rarity of the metal you smelt, the more experience you will receive. This method is very effective because, besides EXP, you also obtain actual resources—and quite a lot of them. If you have The Digby Boy deviant, you will gain passive ores every day, so, in fact, you will have a passive source of experience by smelting them.
EXP Bonus Food
Starting from Week 2, you can unlock the Fruity Pancake (old name: “Orange Pie”) recipe in the “Logistics” tab of the Memetics (the “Dishes III” node). This food increases the amount of experience you obtain for killing mobs by 25%.
To gather the ingredients quickly, visit the spots marked on the screenshots below:
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Best banana spot (around Central Sunbury Teleportation Tower; accessible starting from Week 1);
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Best spot for grapes and apples (around the Teleportation Tower west of the Rotten Saddle location; accessible starting from Week 2).
The plants spawn for each world independently, so use the teleportation tower to switch worlds and gather them without delays. Watch my video below to know, how to easily craft Fruity Pancakes and even earn some Energy Links for this.
Grind at the Forsaken Monolith
This method is suitable for players level 40 and above. All you need to do is kill mobs around the teleportation tower of the Forsaken Monolith location. Your effective route is marked on the screenshot below.
You don’t have to kill all the mobs in the location — only the ones you meet along the route. It will take about 3-4 minutes to make a circle like that, and you will earn approximately 8k EXP (or 11k if you use Fruity Pancake).
Long ago, I made a video about this, so you can watch it to learn more about this leveling-up method.