How many taps — and how much mana — for any minion
1 What do you want?
2 From which station?
Saucers change colour roughly every 100 taps — the cost and the bonus drop follow the colour.
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taps expected
The maths
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Bonuses
The sliders are approximations: they average out a random process, and skip and duplicate are assumed not to fire on component → Level 1 merges. Leave them at 0 if you are unsure. The wiki only documents 40% skip, 5% duplicate, 5% two-egg and a 16m floor on the lay timer, but players report reaching the ceilings above in current versions.