Thornbloom Golem

Your goal is to generate as much Empower as possible. It Scales your damage and you'll get max health because of Thornbloom. 1 Empower = 11 Max Health.

There are plenty variants of this build.
If you want to play with Gooberts It's Slime Time! as a skill works the best with it!
King Goobert can be very strong is this build.
If you can't find enough Carrots you can consider playing Cheese Goobert or Chili Goobert aswell if you got Amulet of Feasting.

Stone Golem is really important for the midgame on. You'll need 4 Stones to make him. Play 2 Bag of Stones in the early game if possible.

Fortuna's Hope helps a lot as a secondary weapon to gain Luck from the beginning on.
You need 4 Luck to generate Empower with Carrot. You can play Claws of Attack aswell because it's generated Empower and costs only 0.5 Stamina per attack.

To generate Regeneration for your Stone Golem effect you want to play atleast 2 Healing Herbs and convert them into Rat Chef later.
With Rat Chef you can generate more Regeneration and it helps with Stamina aswell.

A Lucky Piggy on Big Bowl of Treats AND Carrot can be very useful. Use all stars of Big Bowl of Treats and make the food happy.

If you can get Amulet of Feasting, you could use Cheese > Chili Pepper aswell. Pineapple on sale is fine aswell.

With all the Empower you can get Squirrel Archer can do quite some damage aswell.

Squirrels are the Best Subclass Pets you can get. Rats are only good if you can convert them into Rat Chefs and Hedgehogs synergizes more with Spikes rather then Empower. They are not worth it full price.

You get 150 Shield with Stone Golem so Amulet of Steel is huge to gain even more Empower.

Amulet of Feasting is very good for Cheese, Chili Pepper and you play a lot of food in general.

It's very important to play atleast 1 Acorn Collar to crit!

Convert Bananas into Strong Heroic Potions that you don't run out of Stamina. Depending on your numbers of Rat Chefs one Heroic Potion in combination with another potion should be enough.

Stone Helm, Stone Shoes and Cap of Discomfort are all good defensive choices!