Little Loaf guide
How to play Little Loaf
Little Loaf is a merge game on a little bakery counter. You put two of the same together to bake the next stage, fill your recipe book with everything from a bag of flour to a wedding cake, and serve customers’ orders when it suits you.
The basics
- Get flour and pick berries. The two big buttons put a bag of flour or a berry in the first empty space. The first costs 10 pennies, and each one you buy costs a little more.
- Merge. Two of the same thing, at the same stage, bake into one of the next stage. Tap one, then the other, or drag one onto the other.
- Earn. Everything brings in pennies every second, and each stage brings in two and a half times as much as the stage before.
- Discover. There are 12 stages of bake and 12 of fruit. Each new one goes into your recipe book, which you keep for good.
Customer orders
Every 45 seconds, a customer may come in and leave an order for one or two particular things, such as “a loaf (stage 5)” or “a bread roll and a jar of jam”. Up to two orders wait at first, and more with More tables. Orders keep arriving while you are away.
To serve an order, you need those exact things on your counter. Serving gives them up and pays at once: 400 seconds of what those things would have made, with every bonus. Good reviews doubles that, three times over.
Orders never run out of time, and nothing bad happens if you leave them. So the choice is yours: serve when the counter is getting full or a reward would buy your next upgrade, and keep your best bakes for merging higher.
Bakes or fruit?
Both. Bakes bring in the most pennies. Fruit brings in a quarter as much, but each piece draws the customers and adds a boost to everything on the counter, and the boosts add up. A counter with about a third fruit tends to do best.
Your first few minutes
- Merge the two bags of flour you start with into dough, then keep going.
- Buy the Morning delivery (60 pennies). It brings a free bag of flour every 10 seconds when there is room.
- A warm oven doubles everything. Each level costs more, and each is worth it.
- Serve your first order, then pick up Good reviews to double what orders pay.
When to start a new week
Once something reaches stage 10 and you have taken at least 50,000 pennies this week, you can start a new one. Your pennies, bakes and upgrades reset, but you keep your rosettes and your recipe book. Rosettes are the square root of this week’s pennies divided by 50,000, rounded down: 50,000 brings 1, 200,000 brings 2, and 5 million brings 10. Each rosette makes everything bring in 25% more, for good. For more, see what is prestige?
Keep your bakery safe
Little Loaf saves automatically in your browser every 30 seconds and when you leave. Use the Save page to copy a backup now and then, or to move it to another device.
The numbers
These tables come straight from the game's own data, so they always match what you see in the game.
Every stage
What one of each gives off every second, before upgrades and compost. Each fruit also adds the soil boost shown to everything on the plot; boosts add up.
| Stage | Bake | Pennies / sec | Fruit | Pennies / sec | Soil boost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bag of flour | 1 | Berry | 0.25 | +3% |
| 2 | Dough | 2.5 | Cherries | 0.62 | +6% |
| 3 | Bread roll | 6.25 | Strawberry | 1.56 | +12% |
| 4 | Iced bun | 15.62 | Bowl of berries | 3.9 | +24% |
| 5 | Loaf | 39.06 | Jar of jam | 9.76 | +48% |
| 6 | Plaited loaf | 97.65 | Jam tart | 24.41 | +96% |
| 7 | Pie | 244.14 | Crumble | 61.03 | +192% |
| 8 | Sponge cake | 610.35 | Pavlova | 152.58 | +384% |
| 9 | Layer cake | 1.52K | Trifle | 381.46 | +768% |
| 10 | Celebration cake | 3.81K | Fruit cake | 953.67 | +1.53K% |
| 11 | Tiered cake | 9.53K | Summer pudding | 2.38K | +3.07K% |
| 12 | Wedding cake | 23.84K | Grand fruit tower | 5.96K | +6.14K% |
Prices
Each new bake you buy costs a little more than the last, wherever you buy it. Free ones (from a basket or the tide) don't count, and prices start again with everyweek.
| Bought so far | The next costs |
|---|---|
| 0 | 10 pennies |
| 10 | 80 pennies |
| 50 | 2.16K pennies |
| 100 | 13.31K pennies |
| 250 | 175K pennies |
| 500 | 1.32M pennies |
| 1,000 | 10.30M pennies |
Orders
A new order arrives every 45 seconds while there is a free slot (2 at first), even while you're away. Serving one gives up the things it asks for and pays 400 seconds of their output at once, with every bonus. Orders never run out of time, and there is no penalty for leaving them.
Upgrades
| Upgrade | What it does | Appears at | Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| A warm oven 1 | Everything brings in twice as many pennies. | From the start | 150 pennies |
| A warm oven 2 | Twice as many again. | After level 1 | 3,000 pennies |
| A warm oven 3 | Twice as many again. | After level 2 | 60,000 pennies |
| A warm oven 4 | Twice as many again. | After level 3 | 1,200,000 pennies |
| A warm oven 5 | Twice as many again. | After level 4 | 25,000,000 pennies |
| A warm oven 6 | Twice as many again. | After level 5 | 500,000,000 pennies |
| A warm oven 7 | Twice as many again. | After level 6 | 10,000,000,000 pennies |
| A warm oven 8 | Twice as many again. | After level 7 | 200,000,000,000 pennies |
| Morning delivery 1 | A free bag of flour every 10 seconds when there is room. | From the start | 60 pennies |
| Morning delivery 2 | A free bag of flour every 7 seconds. | After level 1 | 1,500 pennies |
| Morning delivery 3 | A free bag of flour every 5 seconds. | After level 2 | 40,000 pennies |
| Morning delivery 4 | A free bag of flour every 3.5 seconds. | After level 3 | 1,000,000 pennies |
| Morning delivery 5 | A free bag of flour every 2.5 seconds. | After level 4 | 30,000,000 pennies |
| A tidy counter | Adds a "Merge all" button. | 25 merges | 800 pennies |
| Ready-mixed 1 | New bakes start as dough (stage 2). | Anything at stage 6 | 200,000 pennies |
| Ready-mixed 2 | New bakes start at stage 3. | After level 1 | 200,000,000 pennies |
| A bigger counter | Four more spaces on the counter. | Anything at stage 7 | 5,000,000 pennies |
| More tables 1 | Up to 3 orders wait at once. | 3 orders served | 2,000 pennies |
| More tables 2 | Up to 4 orders wait at once. | After level 1 | 200,000 pennies |
| Good reviews 1 | Orders pay twice as much. | 1 orders served | 1,000 pennies |
| Good reviews 2 | Orders pay twice as much again. | After level 1 | 100,000 pennies |
| Good reviews 3 | Orders pay twice as much again. | After level 2 | 10,000,000 pennies |
Start a new week
A new plot unlocks at: anything at stage 10, with at least 50,000pennies made on this plot. You get the square root of this plot's pennies divided by 50,000, rounded down, in rosettes. Each one adds 25% to everything, for good.
Achievements
- Rising: Merge for the first time.
- First customer: Serve an order.
- Fresh loaf: Bake something to stage 5.
- Something sweet: Pick some fruit.
- Regulars: Serve 25 orders.
- Busy hands: Merge 100 times.
- Showstopper: Bake something to stage 8.
- Recipe book: Fill 12 pages of the recipe book.
- A new week: Start a new week.
- The talk of the town: Serve 250 orders.
- The big day: Bake a wedding cake.
- Fruit tower: Make a grand fruit tower.
- Every recipe: Bake every stage of both.
- Rolling in it: Take a billion pennies in total.