LEGO The Lord of the Rings

Get all the Stud Multipliers and go to Bree, you can collect 5 purple Studs very fast.
1. Behind the Savepoint
2. Use the Oven next from the Blacksmith
3. Open the Door from the Prancing Pony
4. Over the Prancing Pony (on the right side is a small hatch)
5. Shoot the 5 targets near the Prancing Pony (you need a bow or an elf)

Change from Day to Night and collect all again and so on...

I found the Battle of Pelennor Fields (Free Play) to be the easiest way to get studs.

1) Turn on all the multipliers (of course) and the Attract Studs brick.
2) Start Battle of Pelennor Fields.
3) Set down controller - your character will ride through the first part automatically.
4) Pick up controller when Fell Beast attacks and pick up the three purple studs and their neighbors.
5) Save and quit, 235,000,000 studs richer in under two minutes.

Note: You can make 275,000,000 studs if you manually control the rider in the first part and grab a purple stud that is hidden in a bush just before the ramp - probably 2/3 to 3/4 of the way through the ride.

To help get to 10 billion faster, you need to look to buy Stud Multipliers. There are 5 (2x, 4x, 6x, 8x & 10x) like all LEGO games. Applying them all together will create an even greater multiplier: 3840x.

•2x - Use the code 1F5YH2
•4x - in Amon Hen (first quest to the left of map statue); Craft Item needed is the Mithril Fishing Rod. The Red Brick costs 1,000,000.
•6x - located in Edoras (below the statue from map view); Craft Item needed is the Mithril Top Hat (located in The Battle of Pelennor Fields; after fight with The Witch King, blow up one of the Mithril LEGO Pieces); Red Brick costs 4,000,000.
•8x - located in Helm's Deep (to the left of the map stone from map view); Craft item needed is the Mithril Shield (located in The Path of the Dead; to left of final area before fight); Red Brick costs 8,000,000.
•10x - located in Cirith Ungol (to the left near two Mithril pieces); Craft Item needed is the Mithril Squeak Sword. The Red Brick costs 10,000,000.

Something else that could probably help is the Attract Studs extra - C7FJ7B.

TIP: A way to get to 10 billion faster is to try to avoid buying characters and other red bricks beside the multipliers until you reach 10 billion. Also, try to work your way to getting the 10x first so that after you spend the 10,000,000, you can regain the studs quicker since you'll have the biggest individual multiplier.

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Thanks to SiebeTolsma for pointing out:

There seems to be a bug with this achievement that WB has even addressed: "Sometimes, the Achievement for collecting 10 billion studs (Delved too Greedily...) doesn't unlock once 10 billion studs are collected. If this occurs, you may need to collect 100 million more studs (10,100,000,000)."

In a way that makes sense since technically the achievement says to "collect more than 10,000,000,000", but that should just mean 10,000,000,001.

He also suggested that a good place to collect studs is in Minas Tirith right when you load up the game. Smash the tree in the center that will give you a whole mess of studs. Once you've collect all its studs, fast travel to the night version of the area and repeat this process.

EDIT: This method freezes for a majority of players. Even though the solution freezes the game for most I will leave it up to see if anyone tests in different ways and CAN get it to work for them. It would really simplify the achievement if we can get this to work for everyone!

By far the easiest solution to this achievement is on the level Helms Deep. This method will give you about 100 Million studs every minute. You will need the level Helms Deep, All Multiplier Bricks (x2 x4 x6 x8 x10) as well as the Mithril Fireworks (Berserker works as well) and the Attract Studs Brick.

Once the level starts blow open the mithril grate under the wall, then simply walk through the hole without letting go of the thumbstick. This will result in you continuously walking back into the hole and collecting the blue and two gold studs that spawn next to the hole. They will continue to respawn so long as you keep reentering the hole in the wall. Put a rubber band on your controller, sit back, and watch the studs collect.

NOTE: Some people have reported that this method causes the game to freeze if you save and exit the level. Not sure how this applies to actually finishing the level instead of save and exiting. I will edit again if someone can confirm finishing the level causes it not to freeze. Also, installing the disc may prevent the freezing. Otherwise still seems to be the fastest way to get the achievement, if you aren't one of those who has the game freeze up on you.

Hi guys, just thought i'd share how I did it, Took literally 15 minutes.

Try to leave the 1st available minikit chest of 4 levels available, then after you have obtained all the multiplier bricks simply start the level, collect the kit and exit, roughly 3billion for completing the minikit.

The levels I used were The Black Rider, Prologue, Taming Gollum & Weathertop as you can get a minikit chest straight away.

:)

Before going for this achievement I suggest you complete the game to 100%. Activate the multipliers as soon as you get them in middle earth.

If you don't have this achievement before completing the game then travel to Hobbiton and use this video that shows you how to collect 6 purple studs and a few blue studs very quickly. You must get 10.1 Billion studs.

The best way i have found is right next to the map stone: The Pass of Carhadras.
To the west of this, between two mithril blocks on the map is two rudders you can use to play a minigame where you control a small ship and blow up wawes of other ships. They each drop a few studs while you destroy them and when all three waves are destroyed the minigame ends and you get a ton of gold studs and a few blue studs every time.

Combined with alle the multipliers and the attract studs this should collect you a ton of studs in about thirthy seconds!

And you can play the minigame as manytimes as you want.

The first time you play it you will also get a Mithril Block.

It is also a good going methode in Hobbiton.
First you turn on all Stud multipliers and the attract bricks extra.

At Day:
When you start at the Statue go north to Frodos House. You can earn a Blue Stud at his door. Go to the left Hill and you can dig with Sam for a purble Stud.
Further north, collects 3 blue and one purble Stud.

Go now to the festival. There are some blue studs in the tents. Go to the Hill in the East and you will see a little cave that can be opened with gimli. By attracting the Studs you can simply pass close to get the purble Stud.

On the creek are still some Studs for you, cross it and go straight to the shooting range. Shoot the targets with Legolas and you get another purble stud. Next to the left can with Sam a flower grow and you grab 2 blue and 2 purple stud.

Leaves the village to the north and you can see right a way. Shoot with Legolas on the 2 objectives so that you approach comes the floating Studs. Then you see also a Treasure Chest that can be opened with Aragon(as King). Do this and you get another purble Stud.

You can also make a race with the pig and win many blue and a purple stud. The race you can reach over the rope on the big hill at the beginning of the village.

Hobbiton at Night:
Here you can get a 2 additional purple Studs

Goes back to the festival and ignite on with Sam the fireworks and when you go towards the treasure chest outside the Village you can also with Sam ignite the bonfire.

And collects the other purple studs, as described earlier.

I hope i could help. Have Fun with the Game.

My solution: 10 purple studs a minute

1. Activate all stud multipliers and the attract studs
2. Set a second controller on.
3. Put the first controller character on the purple stud behind the fence right behind the teleport statue in Bree and let it there. You don't have to touch this controller anymore.
4. With the second controller just break the stone pillar in front of the teleport statue of Minas Tirith for the purple stud. Then teleport again in Minas Tirith changing from day to night, to reset the purple stud.

You get 2 purple studs everytime, just by moving the second controller character and destroying the stone pillar. It take around 10 second everytime, because of the loading everytime you change from day to night. Maybe if you install the game, it will load a little faster, my game was not installed.
If you can find a place for the 1st controller to stand where there is more then 1 purple stud, go for it! I couldn't think of any, but I am pretty sure there is.

The easiest way would be like this:

You only finish the levels in free play that have Mithril items that unlock the multipliers. DON'T go for the collectables yet! The reason for this is that clearing an objective (collectables) or chests gets you a ton of purple studs. I missed some items on Mount Doom. I got about 3 billion studs in one play!

I found a combination of most peoples tricks in a ROTATION worked out faster.

Having finished the game and unlocking the multipliers, my rotation was:

1: Go to Bree; gather 7 purple studs (one on the rooftops if you have the mithril brick) and gather the obvious and easy blue studs along the way. Suggest being Legolas as his jump means you don't actually have to attach to the wall mounts to pick up the blues.

2: Go to mission The Battle of Pelennor Fields; do the opening horse fight (be sure to get the minikit blue stud from 3 smashed crates and the purple stud near the end.) then skip cutscene and run around the boss area gathering at least the 3 purples and 2 blues however, the studs form a obvious circle so I run the whole circle. (Having got this you should have gathered about 300Million from that mission so save and quit.)

3: Having completed the game you spawn in Minas Tirith. Change to Legolas and grab the 4 obvious blues on the face of the building and then travel to Bree again.

This whole rotation takes about 5-7minutes with the load times and is really very short. Each time you get between 450mill and 600mill studs so it's great and fast.

Why I do the rotation:
Just farming Bree is great, however if you just swap from day to night only 6 of the purple studs spawn back. One stays de-spawned. Also the blue studs don't come back any although they seem small, since there are about 7 that you can grab easily that's another loss of 26.88mill.

Just farming The Battle of Pelennor Fields works very well and if you're fine with wanting to do the same mission section over and over that's fine. But the reason I travel to Bree is that, you have to save and exit anyway, why not add like 2 minutes and grab 200mill before you hop back into the mission again. I just found farming the mission to be boring and having to move around Bree just added a tiny bit of variation for me.

Finally, there is pretty much a set step of movements at the beginning of the mission to follow to come out with the most amount of studs. It's not hard to find this, I knew the process after my 3rd attempt however I really enjoyed finding the fastest way to harvest Bree. Because it's open world you can go any way first (do I do the archery first? or the crawl space above the prancing pony?). I enjoyed that variety that Bree gave. But again that's not for everyone. However this rotation method is faster than just farming Bree because it resets Bree fully with all it's purples and blues. It may not be faster than just farming the mission, however if you are have not got the knack of maximising the amount of studs you get during the horse ride, Bree could be a good option for you to pick up the slack between runs.

Thanks for everyone's tactics, I enjoyed putting them together to get a fun experience out of something mundane. If you wonder why I didn't just do some missions; I would've had to do about7 or 8 missions to finish the achievement for me. Each mission being 15-20mins (because I haven't played them enough to know how to speed run), whereas this way with the rotation I went form about 4.5bill to 10.1bill in 35minutes.

Finally; you do get quicker at the rotation, I got one done in 4 minutes at peak speed.
Not sure if anyone has done this before me as I haven't read all of the comments, but if anyone is still playing this game in 2017 and wants to know more about this rotation and what the fastest way to do it is, please message me and I can break it down further.

Happy Hunting!

I found that none of the guides were specific enough on how to be most efficient when collecting studs. Here's my tips and tricks..

1) Get the multipliers ASAP. I got them all after working through the story, then around half the free play levels.

2) Finish all the free play levels, collecting all the mini kits, treasure and designs. The final level, when you collect all the mini kits, will give you purple studs. I had around 3.5 billion studs when I did this and the final level boosted me to 8.5 million (approx)

3) Have the attract studs brick turned on whilst you collect the middle earth collectables. There are lots of studs in middle earth, so chances are you'll collect enough whilst collecting the mithril bricks.

Comment any questions/tips and hope it helps!