Tag: mobile games

2017-08-10: Added a video for the Daily Vitality Ritual, a way to get the most out of the game in the least time per-day. It’s been long enough since the update I figure everyone has had Android quests removed; removed the relevant section, RIP best game mechanic. Demoted some headings to clean up the table of contents.

2017-07-30: Majorly updated the Videos section. Since this event is so bad make absolutely sure you’re using the best method to get cakes.

2017-07-25: Information for Anniversary Fish is pouring in already complete! That was fast.  It’s extremely expensive, 270,000 candies to complete the list!

2017-07-18: Anniversary Event announced! It will start in August. Also, I’ve updated my Patreon so that when my next couple goals are reached, I’ll be removing ads from my site (and this guide) in stages! How it works is people who like my work can voluntarily pledge to send $X a month (even a buck helps), and once I hit $100 (currently at $84) I’ll reduce the total ad count by 1, then by another 1 at $200. If goals keep being met, this website will be 100% ad free for everyone! Contributing to the Patreon is also a good way to get “adblock forgiveness”, since I don’t block anyone who blocks ads and do my best to keep ads minimal and non-invasive!

2017-07-13: Sirtaptap.com is now a Web App! That means you can use Add To Home Screen (instructions here) on your phone and get benefits like offline cached access and faster loading.

2017-06-30: New game update, Fusion Fish! Added sections for Farms and Fusion. Might have to re-arrange the table of contents/sections but for now the info is there

2017-06-27: New info on notification fish Whale Shark which appears to require the Star Horn coral, and if you don’t get the fish sometimes you need to close the app and restart if the app was already running when the notification appeared.

AbyssRium posted some info on an Upcoming Update and new Fusion fish. Added a Fusion Fish section as a placeholder.

Added a “to top” button for mobile users to quickly hop back up since the guide is long. Use the Table of Contents, Luke!

2017-06-19: Added some info to the Customization section as users have reported finding the Halloween Potion/theme items after getting Ghost Fish in the Luck Shell. We’re still not 100% sure how it works as it’s inconsistent, but usually people get a Ghost Fish (the fish named Ghost Fish, not just any fish that’s a ghost) in the Gacha and on next restart of the game they have the theme items.

2017-06-09: Added info to Vitality Sources section (each fish upgrade costs roughly 3.5 times the prior fish) and a couple new achievement levels’ cost were found. Added notes that Check Attendance and Daily Attendance fish are not consecutive days. Take all the breaks you want.

2017-06-06: Updated info on Volcanic Eruption, turns out it’s last 10 levels raise taps per second not length. It sucks less now!

2017-06-02: Android Quests (and their easy gems) will end in 2018, thanks to /u/cikayelle for the heads up.

AbyssRium now updated with “increased chance of striped marlin”!

2017-06-01: AbyssRium straight up lied on facebook to 100k fans about the Striped Marlin spreading even more false rumors about it. Nothing in that post is true and I’ve added even more info to this guide and the Striped Marlin Guide to debunk it. Please do not spread false rumors about the Marlin, a lot of people are genuinely upset at their inability to get it and spreading false rumors is extremely bad. Please do encourage AbyssRium to hire someone who speaks native English and actually knows the game (I’d volunteer, lol) to handle their social media and localization so this stops happening.

2017-05-31: Some new info on Luck Shell regarding what’s NOT in it (premium fish) and the sudden appearance of Halloween Themes for some users. Added a couple more tricks in the cheating the clock section. Added newly found Luck Shell ‘exploit’.

2017-05-27: If you’re here because of the notification, see Luck Shell. It’s not quite as nice as the notification made it sound, sorry. Added some rough guidelines for the Collection feature.

2017-05-26: Some more Luck Shell (gacha) info. Started filling in the Collection info.

2017-05-24: Collection update is coming soon, and some of us have it already! Adding info now, here’s a video rundown. Added a possible fix for iOS users missing notification fish in Bugs section.

2017-05-23: Lots of Facebook users use this guide, so I added a facebook like/share box just above. It’ll help more people find the site if you care to like.

2017-05-22: I made a separate, dedicated Striped Marlin Guide to be a one stop shop to share with people confused about the Marlin. Posted a video on Playing AbyssRium on PC via Nox App Player.

2017-05-17: Added some more info on Expand items. Corrected Normal Fish info. Added suggestions for optimizing the daily missions.

2017-05-15: Added a link to my Facebook for the game, though I don’t check that facebook often, it’s just to get gems/etc in mobile games. Follow/Like my Facebook Page as well if you wish to get in contact/follow updates on my stuff.

2017-05-12: Various edits for presentation, reduced number of high-order headings to declutter table of contents. Added info on a couple new bugs.

2017-05-10: Discovered more changes in latest update (listed in Game Updates below), including new benefits for IAPs, faster gem ad cool downs. Discovered only 1 1000 year old blue whale can be bought.

2017-05-08: Corrected errors and finally completed the Normal Fish section’s requirement list. Updated the Striped Marlin info a bit. Updated info about the 10,000 year old blue whale.

2017-05-06: Expand update is out for everyone, added a new section.

2017-05-01: Added some info about coral’s strange vitality efficiency curve. Added some info since it seems some people can’t get certain hidden fish without sharing photos even though it only says to save/take them. Posted a video about the top 5 UI failures in Abyssrium.

2017-04-24: I posted a video talking about the Expand Update.

2017-04-13: Added info on total butterflies required for spring event. Clarified the January Fish unlocks to make it even more clear that the Coral are required even though they’re hidden fish. Added some FAQ entries and finished listing the Normal Fish unlocks. Also, the Abyssrium Subreddit finally has active mods (including me) and a new style! Check it out if Reddit is your thing.

2017-3-31: Misc updates on the Spring event. The Spring/Easter update came to my phone, so most people should have it by now! I’m usually one of the last. Updated Prized Walking Fish’s info, it seems to have been re-added for new players.

2017-3-30: All Spring/Easter Event fish found!

2017-3-29: Spring Event started! Only 2 hidden fish are undiscovered. Added info on Midas Touch to Skills. Spoilers: It kinda sucks, don’t buy it. Also added a tip in Misc Tips for iOS users to get gems faster. A couple additions to Credits.

2017-3-24: Added some info on corals to the Vitality Sources section.

2017-3-16: Spring event coming soon! My phone is dead and hasn’t been repaired yet, so I might be a little slow, but as always submit any info you know that’s missing and I’ll add it as soon as I can.

2017-3-7: Added Videos section for visual learners.

2017-2-28: Added Translation option (just above) for non-english users. Note fish names may not be translated accurately, and it’s all automatic translation so errors are expected.

2017-2-27: New tip for Striped Marlin

2017-2-17: Clarified the notification fish situation

2017-2-16: Cleared up some confusion in the January Update Fish section, hopefully. Added all normal fish.

2017-2-14: Reduced number of headings in the Table of Contents, added shortcut to the comments. Added Normal Fish section because why not.

2017-2-11: Valentine’s day update is out for everyone! Added info for Giftbox Dolphin, we should have all info for Valentine’s day’s event! Corrected Best Method for earning candies now that Seahorse AI is broken.

2017-2-10: Pink Whale shark found

2017-1-09: Valentine’s day fish added. Update isn’t out for everyone. Quelle surprise.

2017-2-07: Valentine’s Day event preview is on Abyssrium’s facebook. Should come soon. Minor edits.

2017-1-31: Backfilled the Game Updates section to show which fish were added when for the most part. Added a layout bug, and come clarification under “January Update” on the new Corals’ cost since a few people were confused due to how Abyssrium lists them.

2017-1-29: Important update on Abyssrium’s facebook page. They’re responding to fan feedback, announced a Valentine’s Day event, and they’re considering changing the name back to Abyssrium. As a personal request, please comment there (or @abyssrium on twitter) and ask  them to change the game’s name back to Abyssrium. The new name sucks and I hate having to change my guide’s title to the current clunky mess just to help people searching via the new name.

2017-1-28: New condition for Manta Ray discovered

2017-1-26: Site issues out of my control, keep retrying if you have problems. Added Migaloo unlock.

2017-1-24: Major reorganization to keep things neater.

Legendary Sun Fish is apparently only back if you already unlocked it. Almost done finding the new hidden fish! Split out game and guide updates for easier reference and so I have a place to just cleanly state new features, since adding a new section for each update is no longer working. Expect a moderate rework of the guide eventually.

2017-1-23: Legendary Sun Fish AKA Survive Mola Mola is back!! I also noticed there’s a new third set of Surging Vitality  achievements and vitality boosts.

2017-1-22: AbyssRium’s app has been officially renamed “Tap Tap Fish”, and I hate that. But hey, the January update came out.

2017-1-18: Upcoming game update! Read about the new update here on Abyssrium’s facebook. 25 new fish, coming right when the Christmas Event ends. It’s late in the game, but with the “best method” you can still get quite a lot of the christmas event done in just a few days!

2017-1-10: Created a video Getting Started In Abyssrium Guide. Prized Walking fish is no longer available as of 2-017-1-1. Changed wording around the ‘palette’ menu to refer to it as “customization” since “theme” was ambiguous. Forgot which year it was.

2016-12-20: A petition was started on Change.org to encourage the publisher to include a tie-in to charities protecting real reefs and aquatic life! Added info on a get-gems-quick exploit. Added some Math™ on the Christmas Event. New tip for the Striped Marlin.

2016-12-19: Documented new iOS feature: 3D touch produces a shrimp worth 10x Tap vitality

2016-12-14: Guide is back online with a business-class server! You can contribute to my Patreon if you want to help me pay for it. Minor style changes, noted The Wall AKA O Vitality in walkthrough, some various info, I believe about all there is to know about the Christmas event is now known.

2016-12-13: Site will be moved to a better (and more expensive) host tonight around 10PM PST, may be down up to two hours. Should hopefully be smooth sailing after that.

2016-12-12: Prized Walking Fish info discovered! Sorry about loading issues. I’m a one man shop and I guess the server can’t deal. Doing what I can.

2016-12-09: Added most christmas event info and all hidden Christmas fish! Still missing Prized Walking Fish (not a Christmas fish, but new).

2016-12-05: Some info on Quests (including a helpful bug?) and max levels for Magic Items/Skills. Corrected Facebook group links.

2016-11-07: Video guide for Halloween Candy farming. Date for end of Halloween event finally revealed (November 14th).

2016-10-14: After only a day, I believe I know just about everything to know about the Halloween Update! (except when it ends…)

2016-10-05: Finishing touches, I’m considering the guide functionally complete! Missing only 2 tiers of Check Attendance achievement and some unanswered questions about the Mahi Mahi unlock

2016-09-10: Added Achievements, added FAQ info

2016-09-01: Added Walkthrough

2017-07-27-2017: Anniversary Event! From my hit counter it seems to be rolling out to many/most people as of today.

• New theme items
• 12 new Event Fish
• 4 new Hidden Event Fish
• 3 new Hidden “Baby”/Fusion Event Fish
• 1 new Premium event fish
• Incredibly expensive (over 200,000 candies required total)

Unrelated to the event, a “daily pearls/gems” package was added to the store’s Gem tab trying to get some more money from players.

2017-06-10: Farm/skill refresh exploit patched (for real this time!).  It’s possible to disable auto updates if you want to keep the bug for a bit since no major content was added. Changed Collector! achievement to count Fusion fish so level 9 is finally possible.

2017-06-30: Fusion & Farms update!

• New Farm section in the Coral menu
  • Buy farms with pearls
  • Harvest materials to fuse fish
  • 5 Materials total, only 2 available now, Seaweed and Clams
  • Bug: Farms instantly complete if you close the app or bring down the full Notification Drawer on Android
• New Fusion section in the Fish menu
  • Fuse existing Normal Fish and Farm material to slightly increase Vitality bonus from Fish
  • While fish are “consumed” in the fusion process their vitality multiplier stays, as does the current Fish price
• New Farms and Fusion Fish will release monthly, 20 available today.
• The Event icon updated to a Star (no event live yet, allegedly August). Probably an Anniversary event.
• Actions that result in watching an add are now properly labeled with a little “ad” sticker.
• Google Play Quests were removed. (Sad trombone)

2017-06-02: Increased chance of striped Marlin!  Fixed bug where sand castles/craters would not be upgraded properly. Fixed crash bugs, fixed cosmetic issue with Volcanic Eruption.

2017-05-27: Collection Update is live! (For most).

• Added Luck Shell gachapon feature for winning vitality/gems/pearls/past event fish.
• Added Collection feature where fish lists can be completed to earn Pearls.
• New UI changes, Luck Shell added as a secondary menu to Fish, Store now has three tabs for Vitality, Gems/Fish, and Pearls. Expand was moved to the main menu.
• Fixed cloud saving taking forever bug.
• New bug where people are randomly getting the Halloween theme items forcibly applied and unlocked. Go to the Palette menu when the main menu is closed to change them.

2017-05-19: AbyssRium has confirmed the awful cancer of gaming that is Gachapon will soon be infecting the game. Expect the game to get dramatically worse, more money-grubbing, and entirely based on random chance and real money over the coming weeks and months.

2017-05-18: “Collection” feature announced on Facebook, appears to reward Pearls for completing certain lists of fish. Releases first week of June.

2017-05-07: Expand update should be out for everyone, and the spring event should be over for everyone.

(This section updated 2017-05-10 with new info/bugs)

• Double Idle vitality upon revisiting the game by watching an ad (you can choose not to watch if your coral vitality isn’t worth it)
• Skills go to level 21 and artifacts go to level 20 now. The skill cooldown artifact still maxes at 10. Prices now raise 100 gems each level past the old cap of 11/10.
• Cosmetic change to the photo quest
• Expand feature is added allowing purchase and placement of cosmetic & gameplay-affecting items in special areas.
• Daily tasks to earn pearls and some vitality benefits.
• The 10 gem ad cooldown was reduced to 15 minutes from 30
• Midas tap now has a free 3 minute trial
• Midas Tap now counts for Hard Worker achievement
• Premium (“Package”) fish now come with Create Life cost reductions, meaning cheaper fish, forever.
  • The reduction is 50% per regular Premium fish, 30% per Event premium Fish.
  • This effect stacks, meaning if you buy two Premium Fish creating fish is 75% cheaper total.
  • Keep in mind Coralite/Coral levels remain the same. You can see your total savings in the Manage Fish menu.
  • This applies retroactively to people who already bought IAPs.
• The Harp Seal is back. It’s still $100 an a separate IAP from the Mermaid though. Whales Ahoy.
  • If you buy the Harp Seal. Ahem. I have a Patreon page you can contribute to if you have too much money.

New Bugs:

• Daily Mission not resetting
  • Fixed?, 100 pearls awarded to those who got the bug
• Manual save to cloud feature hangs sometimes.
  • Workaround: Close the app and try saving again. Seems to work about half the time.

2017-05-04: Expand update is up for some. For others, miniature American flags.

2017-04-24: Even more info for Expand Update was shown on Abyssrium’s facebook. The feature will have daily tasks to earn “pearls”, the new currency, and some of the items bought with pearls will increase vitality production. I’m guessing the Spring Event will end just as this update hits first week of may.

2017-04-17: Expand feature is coming first week of may, a video was posted showing some of the features. You can design your own terrain layout making your Coralite unique!

2017-04-14: Abyssrium’s Facebook has a tease of the upcoming Expand functionality. Appears to be new Coral as well as some new currency to buy tiles with.

2017-3-29: Spring Event is live (for some people)! As always, it may take a few days for the update to be available to you. I’ll keep the guide updated as well as I can (my phone is dead), if you have a scoop let me know!

2017-3-27: The Abyssrium icon changed to the Spring theme but the app update isn’t out yet. That usually means the event is right around the corner. Scuba bunnies are confirmed to be paid fish.

2017-3-23: Bug fixes including the crash on startup some were getting, Midas Tap (premium skill) added. Midas Touch basically auto taps as long as you hold your finger on the screen equivalent to the Eruption skill. Not very good. Octopus color was arbitrarily changed.

Some users report getting a random and completely game-breaking 10 AG gift in their inbox for some reason.

Frankly if they thought this would somehow fix the coral which is at DL vitality, they’re more incompetent than I thought. We’re not sure of a way to “reject” the gift yet but loading your save might work if your last autosave was from before you accepted the gift.

2017-3-13: Valentine’s Day Event is completely over. Easter might be next.

2017-3-1: The Valentine’s Day event will end on March 13th! Get them chocolates!

2017-2-22: An update was released:

• Fixed the giftbox dumbo unlock
• Returned the missing Night of Christmas theme
• Fixed broken notification fish unlocks/notification not appearing

2017-2-11: Valentine’s Day Event!

• All users should have the update by now, check for updates
• 13 New Fish: 8 Normal, 4 hidden 1 premium
• New Customization items
• Octopus no longer looks like crap

Night of Christmas theme seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Probably a bug.

2017-1-20: Big January Update!

The Attendance System bug has been patched as of latest version…allegedly

• Another slow rollout
• 25 New Fish
• 5 New Coral (this 5 more fish can be displayed per unlocked coral)
• 5 extra levels for Mysterious Stone, Surging Vitality, and Coral of Life achievements with new vitality bonuses, making late game a bit faster.
• Game now autosaves to cloud instead of requiring manual saves. No more progress loss!
• Legendary Sun Fish can be bought again if it was already unlocked, does not seem to be unlockable for newer players.
• New Manage Fish UI
  • Categories for Normal/Event/Paid fish
  • It no longer lists how many fish you have for some reason
  • “Store all fish” button in Manage Fish
• Dugong is now a hidden fish
• Christmas event is over
• Google Play menu brought out of the achievement menu, cluttering the screen for no real reason

2016-12-25: Baby Penguin updated to only require two finger taps, not four fingers. This lets older/cheaper/limited devices unlock baby penguin which was previously a big problem.

2016-12-24: Snowflake Potion dye item and Frozen Ocean theme item added for some non-christmas Winter styled items.

2016-12-08: Christmas event!

2016-12-01: New facebook features, 4 new fish: Juvenile Pinnate Spadefish, Giant Squid, Nautilus, Panther Grouper

2016-11-15: Customization menu added, allowing purchase of costumes, dyes and themes.

2016-10-28: Quests and higher achievement tiers!

2016-10-13:  Halloween Event with 12 new fish!

2016-10-06: 4 New fish: Naso Tang, Peppermint Angel, Queen Angel, Coelacanth

2016-09-25: New feature to level up x10 and x100 in one tap. Upgrade one level of a coral/Coralite and buttons slide in to allow you to level by 10 or 100.

2016-08-26: 4 New fish: Sea Slug, Giant Isopod, Oarfish, Legendary Sunfish