Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
Dwarwinium is a critical premium currency in Cell to Singularity that can significantly impact your progression speed if spent wisely. In this guide I recommend the best use of Darwinium for free to play and paying players to boost gains across categories and specific purchases.
To maximise your initial available Darwinium claim all current codes on the wiki as this is the largest initial source available. Combining this with other early game achievements and community sources can give new players between 200-250 Darwinium. For how to best spend your golden cubes visit our Logits spending guide instead.
Best Darwinium Purchases Overview
The best purchases will always be permanent game bonuses to core mechanics particularly for free to play players that have limited access to Darwinium through the daily free allocation, Mezoic Valley Geodes and completing achievements.
These are the different categories of purchases that should be prioritised in order for players wanting to complete the game:
- Boosts (Mesozoic Valley): Geodes can be purchased to gain Mutagen currency and trait cards for dinosaurs. These are extremely powerful for the rare/epic cards that remain after prestige and you should buy one or two Diamond Geodes (100 Darwinium) at Rank 50 as the rewards increase based on rank up to 50.
- Boosts (Beyond): Young and Advanced stars can be purchased for Dark Matter currency and trait cards which scale up to Rank 30 in this region with Advanced being the most important.
- Module (Primary Simulation): These are unlocked slowly and named after the Greek alphabet to give various production boosts to primary simulation currencies for a one time purchase.
- Augment (All Simulations): These unlock at different research ranks for multipliers to entropy and idea production. The cost efficiency of these varies so start with the best boosts for Darwinium cost like the Anteater.
- Upgrade (Primary Simulation): These upgrades unlock as you progress and provide small multiplier boosts with caps to different currency types such as Entropy, Ideas and Megabit with some having tapping options. Upgrades also give boosts to specific efficiency in different regions like Primordial. Only purchase the tapping options if you click or tap regularly, the first few cheap upgrade levels are cost effective although quickly become expensive compared to Darwinium Module and Augment upgrades.
- Boosts (Primary Simulation): Once off power ups like Time Flux to skip time, an Entropy Burst or production speed boost over several hours with some of these available for free to mobile players for watching an ad. These are low priority given they are once off improvements so should be avoided by free to play players unless you can watch a mobile ad.
Best Darwinium Purchases In Order
This is my recommended purchase order if you don’t currently have an upgrade available you can skip to a lower priority item but make sure you save Darwinium for when the higher priority item is unlocked. After these priority purchases the remaining purchases are broadly equal in value so can be purchased based on your preferences where you feel you need faster progress.
| Purchase | Darwinium Cost |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Diamond Geode |
100 | These geodes give mutagens, trait cards, rare cards and epic cards based on your current rank (up to rank 50). As rare and epic cards remain after prestige they are a significant boost to completing the prestige mechanic.
Save enough currency to purchase at least 1 or 2 of these when you are rank 50 in Mesozoic Valley as this is enough cards. |
 Black Hole |
100 | At least one Black Hole is useful for the access to rare and epic trait cards. As this purchase scales up to rank 30 it is most effective at this stage so free to play players should wait while paying players can purchase earlier if preferred. |
 Astronomy Mission/Research Slot |
75 | Another slot for these Beyond missions is a notable boost given it doubles the number of missions you can complete initially that are important for constellations. It also takes time to unlock the other slots and even when all slots are unlocked at Beyond rank 12 this purchase remains highly effective. |
| Gamma Module |
25 | Land life is a large end game contributor through Glires with the Capybara artifact. Land is also an important early game factor to progress the primary simulation. |
| Lambda Module |
100 | Boosts the three early game types of life (Primordial, Ocean and Land) and the important end game Land so this remains useful as you progress. |
| Theta Module |
50 | Has the same cost effectiveness multiplier for Land life as Lambda while also boosting Idea and Metabit slightly that are useful for early to early-mid game. |
| Beta Module |
10 | A cost effective boost to Ocean Life and overall Entropy which is a significant portion of the early game through Jellyfish. |
 Anteater Augment |
75 | The best Darwinium to Entropy production boost in terms of cost at this stage. |
 Amobea Augment |
10 | The next best cost efficient boost to Entropy. |
 Sea Pen Augment |
30 | The next best cost efficient boost to Entropy. |
 Angler Fish Augment |
50 | The next best cost efficient boost to Entropy. |
 Manta Ray Augment |
60 | The next best cost efficient boost to Entropy. |
 Magellan’s Expedition Augment |
95 | The most cost effective augment for Knowledge available. |
