Super Snail Museum Medals: Why You Should Save 450k for Athena

You should save your Museum Medals in Super Snail because recruiting the partner Athena requires a total reserve of 450,000 Medals. Buying common consumables from the rotating Museum Shop delays this unlock by months. Your immediate next action is to stop purchasing short-term shop items and focus on maximizing passive medal production across all unlocked realm museums.

Why Athena Costs 450k Museum Medals

Athena is one of the most resource-intensive partner unlocks in the game. The 450,000 Medal threshold represents the total cost required to clear the designated prerequisite items and recruitment materials sold in the Museum Shop. You cannot bypass this milestone using standard B-Tadpoles or real-money shortcuts.

Recruiting Athena directly expands your partner roster, which supports several core account systems:

Minion Power: Enhances minion squad combat strength during domain explorations and species war events.
Cabin Management: Unlocks partner letters, chore assignments, and child snail generation.
Account Scaling: Adds permanent stat bonuses and relic synergies that increase long-term resource generation.

Accumulation Stage	Primary Focus	Account Impact
0–100,000 Medals	Upgrade early realm displays and stop casual spending	Establishes baseline hourly medal production
100,000–300,000 Medals	Acquire realm postcards while banking medal surplus	Sustains exploration progress without draining reserves
300,000–450,000 Medals	Push late-game realms and buy Athena unlock items	Finalizes partner recruitment and leadership bonuses

How to Maximize Hourly Museum Medal Yield

Museum Medals accumulate passively in your realm museums, beginning with Koryo and continuing through Yamato, Cathay, Murika, Hellas, and Bharata. Each museum features exhibition slots categorized by the five core snail stats: FAME, ART, FTH, TECH, and CIV.

To raise your hourly medal income and shorten the time needed to reach 450,000 Medals, apply these daily habits:

Match Relic Specialties: Place relics into slots that match their highest stat category or offer direct percentage bonuses to medal output.
Awaken Displayed Relics: Star up and awaken relics placed in your exhibits. Higher relic tiers push overall museum ratings from A to S, SS, or SSS, directly increasing medal yield per hour.
Collect Regional Postcards: Complete specific realm objectives to unlock museum postcards and stamps, which grant permanent percentage multipliers to that realm's output.
Update Displays Frequently: Whenever you awaken a stronger purple or orange relic, swap out lower-tier exhibits to immediately bump your museum rating to the next bracket.

Museum Shop Items to Avoid

The most common reason players stall on Athena is spending medals on low-priority items in the Museum Shop. To protect your 450k reserve, avoid purchasing these items:

Gene Speedups and Basic Organ Chests: These consumables can be gathered regularly through exploration runs, weekly events, and the fissure.
Non-Essential Orange Relic Fragments: Do not buy individual fragments unless they complete a critical SSS relic that directly increases museum medal generation.
Low-Impact Gear Blueprints: Situational gear pieces offer minor combat boosts against specific realm enemies and do not justify setting back partner recruitment.

The only supported exceptions: Spend medals only on mandatory regional progression items or specific postcards that permanently multiply your account's passive medal production rate. Otherwise, bank all medals until Athena is fully recruited.