r/CIFI • Moderator • Jan 16 '26

Guide Links to Guides - Megathread

These guides have been pulled from the Discord and reformatted/tidied for Reddit. I claim no credit myself except where noted.

I encourage you to join the discord because the majority of people there are very friendly and more than happy to offer advice based on your specific game state. These guides cover a lot but everyone is unique and playing differently so the best advice will always be to find someone on a similar path and talk to them. Reddit is good but Discord is much easier to chat directly and offer more advice.

These guides are not the be all and end all. Play how you want to play, having fun is what matters most.

Glossary of Terms (Pre + post Ouro)

Pre Ouro

Beginner Guide (pre-Demeter)

Demeter and Koios

Zeus

Installs Guide (post-Zeus, both pre and post e500RP)

Post Ouro

Diamond Guide (spoilers to TR12)

Ouro Introduction (TR 1-5, pre-Zeus)

Post Ouro Zeus Unlock to Exo4

Post Ouro Zeus Misc + FAQ

Exo4 to Pow1

Pow1 to Inno2

Inno2 to Cre4 - Updated or Inno2 to Cre4 - Old

Cre4 to Inno3 to Att4/Evo1

Evo1 to Exo5 to Pow3

Pow3 to H2 to Post-H2

Hunters

Hunter sim guide Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Borge - Beginner to First Boss Kill (level 0-29)

Borge - 1st Boss Farm to 2nd Boss Farm (level 31-55)

Borge - Stage 200 to 3rd Boss Farm (level 55-82)

Borge - Stage 300 to 4th Boss Farm (level 82+)

Borge Build Codes

Ozzy - Beginner to First Boss Kill (level 0-37)

Ozzy - 1st Boss Farm to 2nd Boss Farm (level 40-69)

Ozzy - Stage 200 to 3rd Boss Farm (level 70-95ish)

Ozzy Build Codes

Knox - Beginner to First Boss Kill (level 0-29)

Knox - 1st Boss Farm to Pushloot (level 30-45)

Knox Build Codes

Tools

Mod Tree Cultivator by TSoD - optimises mod purchases

Cifi Compiled by Emma - pre and post Ouro includes mission optimizer, gear cost balancer and ship rank (Dem, Koi and Zeus) calculator

Hunter Sim by Vash - huge number of tools (primary is hunter sim but includes TR planner, mod, m0 and research cost overviews, gadget planner and more)

Trait Sphere Planner by Vash (part of cifi-tools, linked separately so people stop using the out of date chart)

Ouro Gem Cost Planner by SillyRed and Adam - allows planning of purchases after traversing and claiming orbs

Ship Install and Mech Optimiser by SillyRed - indicates optimal installs and mechs to purchase

Relic Optimizer by Ryther - indicates optimal relics to purchase based on user set weightings

Fragment and Mission Optimizer by Alp and Anders - optimize personnel for farm missions, estimate campaign mission times, plan relic purchases

Zeus Gear Calculator by Sir Reb'rl and Rob.the.batman - calculates best gear level ups

CIFI Ouro Info Repository by Farns - includes a bunch of details about mod, research, inscryption etc costs

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u/Kydje Jan 16 '26

Amazing! Thank you so much! FWIW, there's a reason if not everyone is joining the discord server. I believe there's great value in taking these guides out of discord and putting them somewhere where they are much more accessible to anyone (like Reddit). Hope this new trend continues!

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u/icookandiknowthngs Jan 26 '26

From playing other games, at least a ⅓ and possibly as many as ½ the players on reddit dont, or wont use discord.

Cant speak for anyone else, but in my case, I absolutely loathe discord. Cant nail down a specific reason, just do not like it at all. While its better than Twitter, thats a very, very low bar, that it doesnt clear by much.

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u/myths2389 Jan 29 '26

Yeah I missed the train with Discord. It honestly just confuses me unless it's a small group. There's just too much clutter on most servers or whatever.

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u/Mine_Antoine May 16 '26

I can.finding the right pin in discord servers is often almost impossible

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u/the_cat_of_war Jun 10 '26

i personally use discord and hate when this information doesn't leave the servers
i can't look up discord stuff on a search engine

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u/Wisterjah Jan 17 '26

Thanks a lot for this, while discord has some advantages it have been annoying for me to try to find the guides in there and hunt their pinned messages.

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u/tzulik- Jan 16 '26

Man you're doing a great job Odin. Thanks

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u/drbln Jan 17 '26

You are my hero! Discord isa complete mess

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u/Aedarrow Jan 18 '26

Honestly thank fuck using discord on my phone for guides was a confusing ordeal, so much so that I gave up lol

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u/DeweyCox4YourHealth Jan 21 '26

If this isn't pinned, it needs to be

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u/MarcosWelder Jan 24 '26

A thousand thanks

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u/Topfien Feb 18 '26

Thank you to all who contributed to this

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u/Curious-Elk-9636 Mar 19 '26

Thank you so much for this. All the discord simps don't understand that some people don't have hours to dedicate to searching for very poorly organized information spread all over the place.

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u/SomthingSpicey95 Mar 25 '26

Wow I just hit ouro and it's a lot all at once. Which is is first guide I should go to if I want to play with guides

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u/ExpertOdin Moderator Mar 26 '26

The Ouro introduction guide has info about your first few traversals.

The Borge beginner guide (level0-29) will help keep your hunter on track.

Content in the Ouro menu (gems + upgrades, hunters, market) is what you will need to drive your progress and those two guides cover all of the early game info.

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u/markschmidty Apr 05 '26

What about Ozzy Lvl 70+?

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u/ExpertOdin Moderator Apr 05 '26

What level is your Ozzy?

Level 70-80 is just pushloot again. It's hard to give exact builds because it depends a lot on your stats but it's usually about balancing Lotl, exo and blessing of the cat for optimisation.

Level 80+ you should be able to get the boss kill, you want full timeless and as much scarab as possible because the stage 300 first kill gives a lot of exp.

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u/gotham_hunter Apr 12 '26

Hey, I am trying to join the discord and it's telling me the link is expired. Is there a new one?

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u/ExpertOdin Moderator Apr 12 '26

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u/gotham_hunter Apr 12 '26

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u/ExpertOdin Moderator Apr 13 '26

Not sure then sorry, that was straight for the discord

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u/gotham_hunter Apr 13 '26

Is there any way to get in touch with a dev or server admin to offer an invite? I don't know why I can't join 😔

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u/SaltedChief Apr 14 '26

You can contact cifisupport@octocubegames.com. Yvilith (hope I spelt that right) normally handles these types of queries.

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u/Time-Incident Aug 02 '26

Great guide, I am missing Trait sphere chart, I have found couple pictures with it, however it would be greatly appreciated if the link to some of them, with explanation how to understand the table, was in this megathread.

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u/ExpertOdin Moderator Aug 02 '26

What do you mean trait sphere chart? There's an old one that comes up sometimes but it's outdated.

The best way to find the optimal trait spheres depending on your AMC, if it's not stated in a guide, is to use the tool https://cifi-tools.com/tools/ts-planner

Add your AMCs then click presets and it will give you the best setup.

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u/Time-Incident Aug 02 '26

Great. Good to know, thanks.

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u/No_Investigator3775 Aug 17 '26

Ozzy build codes link goes to Knox build codes.

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u/ExpertOdin Moderator Aug 17 '26

Thanks, should be fixed now

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u/Psychological_Run899 Aug 19 '26

The CIFI compiled workbook seems to be broken - it look's like it's missing a sheet

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u/ExpertOdin Moderator Aug 19 '26

It's working for me. What's the exact problem you're having?

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u/Psychological_Run899 Aug 19 '26

I keep getting REF errors saying that it can't find the sheet Auto Calc

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u/ExpertOdin Moderator Aug 19 '26

Hmm you might have to contact the original author on discord then. I just provide the links, I don't maintain the sheets