Since the trowel is piercing, make sure you're lining up shots so they travel the entire distance of the snake, hitting each segment for maximum damage. Try to stack as much damage as you can with other perks, and don't be afraid to use other passive damage like watering can or garlic. Invest in high yielding snakes when appropriate and just try to farm as many teeth as you're able to by tackling as many snakes as you can at once. Eventually you'll earn enough as long as you keep at it and don't spend the teeth on things you don't need.

Are teeth proportional to oil, or is it better to just get to 20 snakes ASAP?

Originally posted by Terrigood:

Are teeth proportional to oil, or is it better to just get to 20 snakes ASAP?

As far as I can tell, teeth are random, and obviously rarer than oil. I feel like you're almost always guaranteed to get oil. So sometimes you can just have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ run and not get many teeth, which then just comes down to trying to manage the best you can with what upgrades you roll. Sometimes RNG just ♥♥♥♥♥ you though, so.

I don't think there is a particular rush to get as many snakes as possible right off the bat, you aren't going to have enough DPS to kill that many snakes in the time that is given per day, so you're just going to be making your life harder by trying to kill what there is while trying not to get hurt by excess snakes. That being said, I do purchase Loot Snake when I see it, even if I know I can't beat it yet, because they are slow and relatively harmless, and I know when I get my damage up they will pay off. Also buying a bunch of lower quality snakes like Cloud Snake or whatever isn't really the best move especially later in the game since they're worth close to nothing at that point.

I ended up finishing this one by spamming corral snakes. Thanks!

Odd, I found it by far the best weapon. By spamming the coiling electric snakes you can kill like 6 snakes in 6 hits early on if your lucky. The piercing and range of the weapon make it so having huge numbers of snakes is actually a bonus because you can kill them at the same time.

I start with coral snakes and coiling snakes at the start, as many as I can afford. then after a boot upgrade go to tiger and shadow snakes and kite them around the borders. With 10 shadow snakes all on top of each other you can kill them all at the same time and get a stupid amount of oil and fangs.