Idle Ages / Ages / Minoan Crete
Minoan Crete is age 5 on the Idle Ages ladder, set in 1900 BCE. You unlock it with coins the ages below it earned. From there it produces on its own cycle, with its own upgrade costs and its own four heroes.
| Position | Age 5 of 40 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1900 BCE |
| Legendary | Minos |
| Automation | Needs Europa at level 5, after which the age produces with the app closed for up to 8 hours |
| Heroes | Minos, Ariadne, Daedalus, Europa |
Minos raises every age you own at once. The other three raise this one. All four carry a piece of written history that unlocks as you level them.
Legendary
Minos, king of Knossos, gave his name to Europe’s first civilization - the Minoans. Legend made him the son of Zeus, keeper of the Labyrinth, and after death a judge of souls in the underworld. Beneath the myth: a real palace with running water, four-story architecture, and writing, a thousand years before classical Greece.
Raises output in every age you own, and most of all in their own. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Ariadne, princess of Crete, solved the unsolvable: she gave Theseus a simple ball of thread to unwind through the Labyrinth, defeating her father’s maze with cleverness instead of a sword. "Ariadne’s thread" still means the trick that leads you out of any tangle.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Daedalus built the Labyrinth so cunning even he barely escaped it - so when King Minos imprisoned him, he built wings of feathers and wax and flew out. His son Icarus soared too close to the sun and fell; Daedalus, the first engineer of myth, landed safely, mourning the cost of invention.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Rare Manager, level 5
Europa, a princess carried across the sea to Crete by Zeus in the form of a white bull, became the mother of King Minos - and the namesake of an entire continent. Every map of Europe remembers her.
Raises the production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add. Levelling Europa to 5 is what automates Minoan Crete.
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