Having too many options can be as difficult as having too few. This is especially true for Little Alchemy 2 players. The game gives players four base elements and tasks them with finding thousands of possible crafting combinations.
While wildly experimenting with every combination can be fun, aiming for a specific item can be frustrating, especially if it's something abstract. Yes, Little Alchemy 2 lets players make bricks from clay, but how do they make love or family?
One of the most elusive abstract items is Time. Without it, players are out of luck for creating dinosaurs, ruins, or other time-displaced concepts. Time's unlock condition is easy to understand, but somewhat difficult to pull off.
How to Unlock Time in Little Alchemy 2
The good news is, just as the passage of time in real life, the appearance of time in Little Alchemy 2 is inevitable. It's not an item that has specific recipes. Rather, it's a base item that appears after the player has passed a certain threshold.
In order to make time, players need to craft 100 other items. There's no set order, so the player is free to experiment. That being said, the game is counting discoveries, not recipes, so multiple combinations that lead to the same result don't count.
Tips for Reaching 100 Items
Because Little Alchemy 2 is such a wide-open game, a list of exact combinations to follow would not only be unwieldy but would take away some of the fun. But if the player is stuck, there are a few consistently good strategies they can fall back on.
Players should try combining doubles of items. While, for some objects, this is a dead-end, others will cause a chain of discoveries. For example, two bricks create a wall, two walls create a house, two houses create a village, and two villages create a city.
If the player gets an item that seems like a broad category, like animals or plants, then that's a key to finding more specific items. Combining animal with air will create a bird, while combining plant with the ocean will create seaweed.
Little Alchemy 2's human is an especially versatile item. Combining it with a relevant object or tends to create professions. Combining a human with a fire will create a firefighter, while combining a human with sickness will create a doctor.
Unlocking time will open a lot of doors for the player, but their journey is far from over. They'll still have 620 more items to discover after that.
Little Alchemy 2 is available now for Android, iOS, and PC.