I just opened the map settings with a button, and changed a few things, but now I can't access it again and I don't know what I did wrong or how to bring up the settings again.

my auto-storage could not have arrived at a better time.  Finals are in about a week, and I managed to get my hands on it yesterday, so now I can idle on a map for hours and hours and still progress at a decent rate.

These are my stats at the moment.
Zone Number: 86
World Cell: 8
Current Map: Bewitched Gardens
Current Map Cell: 3 of 25
Trimps: 39.9M Fighting, 110M owned, 100% full
Attack: 125Sp ATK, 1672% of Enemy Health
Health: 5.50Oc HP, -0.12% lost per Enemy Attack
Block: 13.5Sp
Food: 246Sx, 52.1% full
Wood: 432Sx, 45.8% full
Metal: 99.6Sx, 5.27% full
Science: 175Qa
Gems: 299Sx
Fragments: 534B
The farthest I've ever gotten before this point was zone 60, but with infinite patience, or rather, lots of other stuff to do, progressing through zones is a piece of cake.  I'm wondering if I could hit 100 before the end of finals week.  Also, the helium rewards are completely insane!

wow aaron, how do you get so many attack? the farthest I've got is around 250 percent of their hp, with map bonus. will zone progression will be so much easier in the later stage?

I am currently doing a metal challenge now, and at zone 16, pushing my trimps with traps through zone 17 before I farm metal on mountain map again, haha

I believe most of my damage at the moment comes from traps and achievements.  I think I was also being affected by an import that multiplied attack when I grabbed that.  I was also running a map two or three levels below my current zone iirc, which is why my damage was so high.
Traps are great.  If you increase the bate perk, you'll be able to grab more than 1 trimp every time you check a trap and it can be a viable alternative to breeding.  A challenge later on basically disables the ability for trimps to breed and you're required to get by with traps alone.  Fun stuff!

Darren, I believe the miner and all of the speedminers will be unlock right after you complete the dimention of anger, so you don't have to portal again before your next challenge.

can i leave the dimention of anger map, go get some metal from another map to upgrade some weapons then return to the point in doa where i left off? or would it start me there all over again?

Okay, can anyone give me any tips on getting resources faster. I've done several balance challenges at this point, and made it to zone 60 all of once, out of sheer tenacity, because even with thirteen levels in Carpentry I was crawling uphill to get there. I immediately miss the boost to gathering from the balance stacks once it goes away. I end up with three or four tiers of prestiges I can't take advantage of because I don't have enough metal, even when I pile all my workers into mining. I know that after z60, Trimps breed and gather slower, but as I said, I've not gotten beyond z60 yet. I would like to this time, but not if it means waiting hours at a time for enough metal to build up that I can use to prestige my eq.

Also, is it worth spending enough metal to get each piece of eq to lv 9 every time? I know most prestiges are ten/eleven times better than the lowest level of the current tier, so I usually pack enough wood/metal into the eq to get it to level 9, unless I can aford the next tier already.

A couple of days, longer if I'm pushing past z40. I did the Meditate challenge before this last Balance run and portaled at z 38 because I didn't see the point in continuing, but in all the Balance challenges before this one I pushed myself as far as I could, until I was making no headway through zones and could neither gather enough resources to prestige eq in a reasonable amount of time, or had no gems left to build enough collectors or other buildings to bolster my numbers of Trimps.

The only reason I would pile workers into one resource was because if I didn't, I'd be waiting for twelve hours for everything to fill up again, or one hour or more for just one upgrade, and that gets really dull after a while. Running maps doesn't seem to get me as much of a resource as I would like, even if I get a garden map and leave it running for a couple of hours at a highish level with loot maxed! I really feel like I'm missing something awesome that'll boost my production rate. And yes, I've got bounty. I only forgot it once after learning it existed.

@Aaron77, I could never get perky to right work for me for some reason since I didn't really get those boxes, so I just tended to go with ideas.

@The Imaginatrix,  several suggestions. Firstly, as Aaron77 said, I always tend to be relatively even with my workers, since generally you need all resourcess for various things, since even at higher levels, lots of tributes are the way to get gems, and to assign many important workers like trainers, whilst wood is handy for gim upgrades and those all important gymistics. Usually I tend to have my workers evenly spread, and then run metal maps, plus I have heirlooms that give metal boosts.
As to how to up production, Carpentry  indeed your best bet. The wiki suggests putting half of all your helium into it, which I've found the best option myself, though there are a lot of useful perks.

Looting, motivation,  and when you have it meditation are all great production boosters and shouldn't be ignored. Also don't forget that shieldblock is only good for under zone 60.

Lastly, remember wormholes. If I'm intending to go past zone 60, I always buy the 25 wormholes,  helps me stay ahead of the increasing coordination costs for longer and uptodate with weapon prestieges, though if I'm just doing a pure farming run up to 60 and back, I'll generally not bother.

In general it seems the game is designed for you to need to farm up to zone 60 for a while completing many challenges before you can go on, and even going on will prove difficult, heck I admit myself often whether I portal or not is more dependent upon whether I can spend the couple of hours micromanaging a run up to zone 60, rather than whether my progress has slowed down  enough, which is why I tend to like to pick an arbitrary, number. Then again, one awesome thing about trimps is that its setup to be as idle or not as you want it to be, and you can be as active as you feel like, since if you are going to be busy for the next few hours, well you might as well just wait for that prestiege anyway.

Ok I just finished zone 20 now, IT's time for DOA. I still have to wait to upgrading the eq though, and indeed metal challenge is not as bad as I thought, farming in maps is even quicker than setting up a bunch of miners, lol. And with not have miners to worried about, I manage to assign workers to trainer, farmer and lumberjack more than before, indeed I got about 100 trainers now, which I feel proud of since I got this much only when I reached around zone 26 before the reset

So I finished metal challenge around 5 hours ago and it was fun!

Now I am preparing my eq to the 6th tier, and god I hate this part, waiting so long for my forge to fill up and only get around 6 upgrades or so!

But anyway, I am sure I will progress through zones easier this time around