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• Spawns an additional Emerald crab every 7 taps, that does 1x crab damage at Level 1.
• Only spawns an extra crab if you are physically tapping.
• Tapper Crab (in the shop) used to trigger these tapping buffs but since it was changed it no longer counts as actual tapping.

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Gene Tree Ascension

• Version 3.80 brought Gene Tree Ascension Tiers which allow levelling up genes to make them more powerful.
• While this is a new gene for the update, for Emerald Cloning this means the base value increases by 1x every level.

Level	Value
1	1x
2	2x
3	3x
4	4x
5	5x
6	6x
7	7x
8	8x
9	9x
10	10x

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Should I Get It?

The new clone genes really only help if you actively tap. Tapper crab does not trigger these. Before this gene existed, only Amethyst had this mechanic (on Amethyst Strand gene). If you do tap, then this does help increase your overall dps by a decent amount even at higher levels, and especially if you have all three Cloning genes and Tertiary Fission.