Merge Academy

I had this same thing happen last year (my screenshots with names like "These orders all suck" are from September and November of 2025). It felt like it took FOREVER, but I did eventually get past it - WITHOUT spending any real world money. Not only does it take a TON of merges, but you can only generate limited amounts, which is huge hurdle when all of your orders rely on the same generator(s).

FYI:

Level 13 - Big Elixir costs 1029 coins in the shop (when available), or requires 4,096 Level 1 items to be merged!

Level 14 - Big Bottle costs 2057 coins - or 8,192 Level 1 items

Level 15 - Mega Potion - (not sure if you can even get it in the shop) - 16,384 Level 1 items

My recommendations:

 - Save up Bells/Joker Hats! A Level 5 Joker Hat takes quite awhile to get, but it can instantly take you up 1 level, which is HUGE when you are talking about the effort involved to get to these levels!

 - Going forward, do not always jump to complete the easiest orders. Once you have a high level order in a difficult chain (potion goes to Level 15, while Seeds/Plants, Wands and Books each go to Level 12) focus on working on that one as much as possible. Use energy there 1st until the generator maxes out before generating other items. For me, this has helped keep me from having more than 2 or 3 super difficult items at a time. (Still frustrating, but better than 6!)

And beware that while the number of merges to get to a Level 11, for example, is the same for each chain, the coin costs are NOT.  Potion Level 11 Flask = 257 coins. Book Level 11 Phone of Magic = 513 coins. Wand Level 11 Fairy Wand = 4,097 coins!!! Seed Level 11 Transforming Plant is also 4,097 coins!

Good luck!

I'm in the same boat. I need 4 big bottles to complete my orders. every once in a while a small order will pop up like a hat or a plant, but I'll never get all 4 of these and I refuse to pay for them