TBOD^2 — How the tycoon works
About
OverviewTBOD² (Tycoon But One Dropper: SQUARED) is the official sequel to the original Tycoon But One Dropper, made by But One Games. You run a tycoon with only one dropper, but upgraders and unlockable income methods let you grow your money into the quadrillions. This guide covers how to earn, when to rebirth, what Bits and Temporal Juice do, and where to find the game's hidden secrets.
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How the tycoon works
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The game gives you a single dropper. Items that fall from the dropper gain value each time they pass through an upgrader, so building and using upgraders is the core loop. As you push further, new ways to generate money unlock on top of that base income.
- Route items through upgraders each upgrader the item passes through increases what you earn from it.
- Unlock new income sources the game opens additional revenue streams as you progress.
- Watch the leaderboard up to eight players share a server, and seeing their progress gives you a clear next target.
Cash milestones worth knowing
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Each milestone is marked by a badge, so you always know how far you have come and what comes next. The suffix jumps from billions to trillions to quadrillions, and reaching quadrillion ($1Qa) is the highest cash badge in the game.
- $100K
- $1M
- $100M
- $1B
- $1T
- $1Qa — quadrillion; the top cash badge in the game
Bits and Temporal Juice
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Collecting Bits and producing Temporal Juice gives you goals outside the main money grind. Bits have four badge milestones, and Temporal Juice has one badge for a first production run.
| Bits | a collectible tracked separately from cash, with milestones at 1, 10, 100, and 1,000 |
| Temporal Juice | a producible resource; your first batch unlocks the Juicer! badge |
| Highest Bits badge | 1,000 Bits, marked by the "1000 Bits!" badge |
| Highest Temporal Juice badge | one badge total, awarded on first production |
Hidden secrets and named characters
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The game contains a secret area and three named characters. The Secret Society badge requires reaching a top-secret Lab Society. Billy, Jimmy, and Benjamin are named characters whose discovery each unlocks a badge.
- Find the Lab Society entrance to unlock the Secret Society badge.
- Locate Billy described as someone whose sand castle got trampled.
- Track down Benjamin the badge hint says he looks familiar.
Glossary
Glossary- Dropper
- The single device in your tycoon that produces items, which then travel through upgraders to earn money.
- Upgrader
- A station that increases the value of items passing through it.
- Rebirth
- A reset of your tycoon progress that pushes you into deeper progression; badges mark every major rebirth milestone.
- Bits
- A resource collected separately from cash, with its own milestone badges up to 1,000.
- Temporal Juice
- A producible resource in the game; producing it for the first time unlocks the Juicer! badge.
- Lab Society
- A secret hidden area in the game world, reached by finding a concealed entrance somewhere on the map.
Common questions
FAQHow do I make serious money with only one dropper?
Run your items through upgraders. On top of that, keep progressing so the game unlocks additional ways to generate income.
What happens when I rebirth?
Rebirthing advances you into deeper progression in the game. There are badges at 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, and 200 rebirths.
Do Bits and Temporal Juice affect my cash income?
The game treats them as separate tracks from cash. Each has its own badges and represents a different dimension of progress.
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