{"id":161,"date":"2026-08-16T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:54:48","slug":"perks-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"The Perks Shop (Build &#038; Perks)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>What it is<\/h2><p>The <strong>Build &#038; Perks<\/strong> shop upgrades your whole run between waves (and mid-wave \u2014 it pauses the game). Every perk level costs 35% more than the last, so early levels are cheap and later ones get expensive.<\/p><h2>The 13 perks<\/h2><ul><li><strong>Eggonomics<\/strong> \u2014 wave bonuses +25% per level.<\/li><li><strong>Sharper Traps<\/strong> \u2014 trap damage +30% per level.<\/li><li><strong>Bigger Bells<\/strong> \u2014 bell damage +25% and range +10% per level.<\/li><li><strong>Colonel&#8217;s Confidence Course<\/strong> \u2014 the Colonel gains damage, fire rate and aim per level.<\/li><li><strong>Reinforced Fences<\/strong> \u2014 new walls get +60% HP per level.<\/li><li><strong>Tower Armour<\/strong> \u2014 non-wall defences absorb +30% more damage per level.<\/li><li><strong>Gilded Beaks<\/strong> \u2014 every chicken drops +2.5% more eggs per level.<\/li><li><strong>Chaos Marketing<\/strong> \u2014 distraction defences push and stun 20% harder per level.<\/li><li><strong>Armour Piercing Rounds<\/strong> \u2014 damaging defences deal +7.5% damage per level (3.75% past level 30).<\/li><li><strong>Beast Mode<\/strong> \u2014 creatures attack and move 10% faster per level.<\/li><li><strong>Bigger Bangs<\/strong> \u2014 all explosions deal +10% damage per level.<\/li><li><strong>Rapid Fire<\/strong> \u2014 every defence attacks 15% faster per level.<\/li><li><strong>Bank Interest<\/strong> \u2014 banked eggs earn 1% interest per wave per level.<\/li><\/ul><h2>Pro tips<\/h2><p>Armour Piercing Rounds and Rapid Fire scale your whole board \u2014 rarely bad buys. Economy perks need time to pay off, so buy them early or not at all. See the full guide with when-to-buy notes on the <strong>Tips &#038; Strategy<\/strong> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it is The Build &#038; Perks shop upgrades your whole run between waves (and mid-wave \u2014 it pauses the game). Every perk level costs 35% more than the last, so early levels are cheap and later ones get expensive. The 13 perks Eggonomics \u2014 wave bonuses +25% per level. Sharper Traps \u2014 trap damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}