Rayman Legends is a great game, but I think many players (myself included) would have gladly done without the “Sooo rich!” achievement, which requires you to collect 1 million lums. Even though lums are scattered throughout the game and you'll probably get a good amount of them just by playing regularly, not even a complete playthrough (all levels, all teensies, all lucky tickets, level 10 "Awesomeness", etc) is usually enough to reach such a remarkable goal. For this reason, I decided to create this guide and provide two methods to speed up the collection of lums, hoping to save you a few hours of tedious farming.

For the purpose of the guide, in the next sections I'll refer to the first method as "the Rayman way", and to the second method as "the Raymesis way", but please note that you can use whatever character you prefer for both methods. The former is slower, but only requires the level Mariachi Madness to be unlocked (in the Fiesta de los Muertos world), while the latter is way faster, but requires a well-populated creatures gallery (the more, the better) and also involves a little trick outside of the game (with minimum risks). I measured the efficiency of each method in "lums/s" (contraction of "lums per second") so that you can easily compare them, but keep in mind that some time and patience are still mandatory whichever method you choose.

The first method is quite easy and straightforward: it consists in repeatedly playing Mariachi Madness, the third music level of the game.

Mariachi Madness includes 708 lums and takes about 1:40 minutes, resulting in a good ratio of about 7 lums/s. The level is quick, enemies/obstacles are not very dangerous, and lums are generally easy to collect. Many players suggest this level as the best one for farming lums, and I tend to agree.

In addition, don't forget to visit the creatures gallery once a day and get all the lums/coins, for a welcome daily bonus of lums.

The second method allows to speed up the spawning of lums in the creatures gallery, using a "time-travel" trick. In fact, shifting the system/computer date by 1 day (back or forward) makes the creatures generate all the lums again, without even having to exit the gallery first: the game pauses as soon as the related window loses focus, and lums spawn again as soon as the game resumes.

Since a full gallery grants 972 lums and collecting them is a matter of seconds, the result is an impressive lums/s ratio. The actual ratio depends on how many creatures are in the gallery and how fast you go through the 3 steps: collecting all the lums, changing the system date, and getting back to the gallery for a new harvest.

Here are some tips, based on my experience:

• Playing in "windowed" mode (and at low/medium resolution) can reduce the time for switching between the game window and the date/time settings window. Keeping the two windows close to each other might be good too.
  
• After a few tries, I decided to focus on the skull coins since they represent the largest contribution to each crop. This way I was also able to produce new crops sooner.
  
• Being consistent is the key. Some crops will be slower than others, because of inaccurate moves or missed lums/coins (or accumulated boredom). Getting 1 million lums takes time, it's better to take a break in case of bad performance.

For reference, I was able to settle on an average of 100 thousand lums every 30 minutes, which is about 55 lums/s.

Finally, here are some "safety" tips:

• I made sure of setting the date so that it was always prior to the actual current day. Although not mandatory, I just preferred to avoid travel into the future. 🔮
  
• If shifting the date doesn't work and no lums spawn, try to shift the time too (a few hours should be enough). This expedient also solved some random issues I encountered during my tests: in such cases, give it a try.
  
• In general, be aware of what you are doing and do it with caution. Although no issues occur usually, weird things can happen when changing the system date/time (ex. websites not working, apps crashing, data desynchronizing). Do some trial runs and check that everything else still works properly, before proceeding with the actual method.

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