DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS

Missable!

There are 5 Challenges within the Chapter, only 1 is missable. Except for the missable, other Challenges can be completed at anytime or even after completing a Chapter by reloading an earlier save. Challenges will be permanently saved to your profile once completed, however, you must complete a Chapter in order for a Challenge to register as completed. It's advisable to collect all these at the end game or load a save to acquire them, apart for the Time Limit Challenge of course.


1. COMPLETE THE CHAPTER IN 20 DAYS

There is plenty of time to do this Chapter once you know it, however, I wouldn't advise trying first time without a guide as it will be tricky and frustrating. There are a few tips to apply to make this easier.

Items/Materials

When looting plants for their materials, do not break every single one just in case you may need some more later, possibly acquired by a SHOVEL. And wherever you go, if you ever spot a new item, always try to grab/farm a few just in case you need it for something later.

The COLOSSAL COFFER is always the priority initially, you always want to craft this at the earliest possible opportunity. Another small tip about the COLOSSAL COFFER, when you do acquire it, you will likely have a lot of items already in chests. Rather than take the contents out and transfer them to your COFFER individually, just destroy the chest so all the items drop, then pick them up and they will go straight into your COFFER. Then just place the chest back.

Don't unnecessarily waste any items/materials, if you must use anything while not Quest related, always try to leave a few of that material or even more if you had a large number initially just to be safe.

When exploring buildings, you may find a lot of useful furniture, if you have the COLOSSAL COFFER collect as much furniture as possible as these can easily be used to increase your points in your base. Especially SCONCES as these are all over castles, they take up only 1 block of space and give 100pts.

Food/Hunger meter

A lot of the items you collect are often used later so it's difficult to know exactly what to use for food. I'd advise to always create a CRUDE KITCHEN as early as possible. This is because your Town residents will use it to craft food for you so you won't even have to craft much food because your residents will do it for you.

When you do have to craft food to fill your hunger meter, craft something that uses a material that is easy to come by, a material that you have a high number of. And only craft what you need at the time, don't craft a whole bunch of food just in case you need the materials for something else, and you may be acquiring some food soon anyway.

Equipment

Your weapons won't degrade fast, but your axes/hammers will, so always have a few of your current type on you just in case.

Saving

Always save regularly, if you make a big mistake, you can then reload your previous save and try again. Make sure you save before you head to the beacon at the end of a Chapter, that way if you need to come back, you can do so right at the end of the Chapter with all that same gear.

Warping

Whenever you are away from base, the quickest way back is to warp using CHIMAERA WINGS so don't use these sparingly.

If you have a NPC with you, make sure they are with you and not stuck behind a rock or unable to reach you (you can jump gaps but they won't) before warping. If they are not with you, they will stay behind and you will have to make your way back to collect them.

Time Penalties

If you die or warp using the option in the menu, the game will advance a day, so try not to die. This may sound like a problem, but you can always spare a few deaths, just if you die to many times, a save reload may be the best option.

Sleeping also advances the day obviously, so never sleep unless you have to.


2. RAISE YOUR BASE TO LEVEL 5

Pretty straight forward, you will likely acquire this without even planning to.

Always loot furniture on your travels once you have the Colossal Coffer, this furniture is free and can all be placed in your rooms for additional points. Sconces that you will find on walls in castle areas are very useful, they take up little space, give 100pts and sometimes you can acquire 50 of these from one castle.

Not all enemies can destroy your base, but during battles, just plan to keep all enemies away to be safe.

The most important instruction I can give is when your base advances a level, stop for a moment whatever your doing if possible. Now remove all your doors and once all are removed, place them all back. This may sound daft, but the game has a strange base leveling system, and this will cause you to acquire a lot of free points, you will see for yourself. You must apply this always in all Chapters whenever you advance a level, honestly, this is really important, will save a lot of time.

Everything must be placed in your base, otherwise you won't receive points for it.


3. DEFEAT THE THREE DRAGONS

Take the Evil Idols with you to defeat these, you can then just place these beside, then move away from the Dragon's attacks and wait for the Evil Idol to kill them.

Head through the red teleportal and head northwest and you will eventually find a large Dragon asleep in the centre of a large flat area, look at your overhead view from time to time to make sure you haven't gone past it. Once at the Dragon, place the EVIL IDOL next to it and facing it, not too close though but close enough so the flames reach, the Dragon doesn't actually move, just rotates. Now you can either attack it yourself, or move to a safe distance and let the Evil Idol kill it. Either way, once it's dead, grab the Evil Idol, loot the DRAGON SCALE from its body, equip it, then warp back to base.

Now enter the blue teleportal and keep heading southwest, past where you fought the large Scorpion, up the mountains and all the way to the far southwest coast. Once you reach the coast cliff edge, follow the coast west and then north as it begins to head that way. You will pass behind the Castle and shortly after following the cliff edge north, you should come to a Large Dragon so keep an eye out for it. Kill this Dragon the same as before, then loot it for a Fireplace, grab your Evil idol back and warp back to base.

Back at base, head southwest until you reach the last of the three Dragons. Once at the Dragon, kill it, then loot it for a Comfy Sofa, then grab the Evil Idol if you used it, this Challenge is now completed.


4. BUILD THE CANTLIN GARDEN

From base, grab a Shovel, then dig up 10 Flowers and 5 Plants.

• An example of a Flower would be a Milkblossom (the flower that you acquire White Petals from)
• An example of a Plant would be a Stalwort (the Plant that you acquire Grassy Leaves from)

At base, craft a BENCH and then head to the northeast corner of the base, from here, head out of the base northeast very slightly down the hill just ahead and to the small patch of water that you will see amongst the trees.

Now look at the nearby trees, you will see that there are 3 sizes, a small, medium and large. Place a 2 block high wall from ground level around the medium tree closest to the water (just destroy any other sized trees if they are in the way), so that the wall has at least 8 blocks of water inside and about 25 free blocks of land inside. This is just an approximate, it can be slightly larger if you wish. Creating this wall will use up perhaps a full stack of earth, so make sure you have some handy which you should, dig some up if not and bring it back here.

The 8+ blocks of water are obviously 1 block below ground level, make sure the water has a wall all the way around, not just the 2 block high wall, make sure the bottom part of the wall is filled in as well. Essentially, the top of the wall is level all the way around, but because you have water, you must make sure the ground level blocks are all filled in as well around the wall otherwise the room won't register.

Once the wall is created, you should have a medium size tree inside, at least 8 blocks of water and at least 25 free blocks of flooring to play with at ground level (the water is 1 block below ground level). Now place Flowers x10 and Plants x5 on the floor. Next place a Brazier and a Bench, and lastly, knock a few blocks out of the wall at ground level (not next to the water), and place the DOOR. If done correctly, you should now receive a notification that you have just created a CANTLIN GARDEN.

If not, you have made a mistake somewhere, as long as you have a medium sized tree, all the items I mentioned to place inside and the 8 blocks of water, then the problem will be your wall. Look at it again and make sure there isn't a hidden block missing at ground level or in the corner or something. Once you have created the CANTLIN GARDEN, the Challenge will be complete.

Here are 2 picture examples of a Cantlin Garden

This is how it should look (the floor space inside can be no bigger than 100 blocks):

This is how it shouldn't look (if you look in the bottom corners, there are 2 blocks missing from the wall, all walls need to be filled, including the corners and the base block):

5. COMPLETE THE HAMMERHOOD'S GRAVE

Head through the red teleportal and head north to the northeast corner of the island. From here, you should see a small island in the distance to the north. Follow the shallow water to the island and talk to the Brownie NPC in the centre to learn how to make Gravestones. Now warp back to base.

Back at base, craft Gravestones x2 then head through the blue teleportal. Head southwest, and shortly after passing Clobberina's hideout, you will come to a small pit with a square graveyard at the bottom. Head down here and talk to the Hammerhood NPC, then remove the 2 misplaced stones, and place the 2 Gravestones in their place. Once done, talk to the NPC, then grab the SEED OF LIFE from the Chest, the Challenge is now complete.