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 30 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. FIX THE ROOF OF THE RUINS

Enter the blue teleportal and head west, keep checking your birds eye view and not longer after climbing the mountain in the distance, you will see a large roofed house, make your way down to this and inside. Gradually make your way up the stairs and out through the East doorway up top.

Climb the ladder outside here and grab the Roof Tiles from the red chest. Now head onto the roof and place the Roof Tiles in their correct places, it's pretty obvious what piece fits where. Once done, open the chest that has just opened to learn how to make Roof Tiles, and to complete the Challenge.


4. OBTAIN CROWN GOOWELS

This can be real easy, or a real pain!

Head through the red teleportal then head north and once your out of the canyon, head east, you should soon come to a small patch of water inland that looks like a slime from the birds eye view. Set-up a fishing area next to this so enemies can't attack, and then begin fishing in this slime shaped pond.

Your goal is to keep fishing until you catch a King-Slime, there is a 2% chance to catch it so make sure you are alert with no distractions so that you don't fail any fishing attempts. Sometimes you need to be fast to reel the catch in before it escapes, and if you keep failing, you could potentially keep letting the King-Slime catch escape. According to the Official Guide, the King Slime has a 2% chance catch rate, although for me it has seemed worse than this.

Once you have caught the King-Slime, kill it, and grab the Crown Goowels it drops and that will be the Challenge complete.


5. ANSWER ALL OF THALAMUS'S QUIZZES CORRECTLY

From the base, head south across the poison water then head up the mountain in front, then up top, head to the west cliff edge. Now follow the west cliff edge southwards until you reach a square brick structure with furniture inside. Enter this and fill in the right side so that it is exactly the same as the left side. Use the CARPENTER'S WORKSTATION to craft what you need. Once completed, grab the WHITE BLOCK (don't lose this) from the chest, then warp back to base.

Head through the Blue Teleportal and head west keeping close to the north coastline while grabbing a PALM SEEDLING from a tree stump on the way if you don't have one. Eventually you will reach another square structure with a puzzle inside (not the large roofed building that you may pass on the way). Once you reach the puzzle, there will be 2 trees in the centre of different sizes, place the PALM SEEDLING in the free spot on the left, then grab the Blue Block (don't lose this) from the chest and then warp back to base.

Now enter the red teleportal and then head north until you reach the castle. From the castle, head to the mountain east of the castle and keep heading east and you will come to a ground level area with purple blocks and a structure in the centre. Make your way down and to this structure, you will find 2 chests with a monument and some brown blocks in the centre forming a square in the northeast corner of the room. Destroy the 4 blocks (Golemite Blocks) that go from the centre to the left (north), and place them back down on the right so the blocks are now going from the centre to the south and they will now be forming a square in the southeast corner of the room. You will know when the blocks are placed in the right place as you will get the blue glow like in blueprints. Once done, grab the Red Block (don't lose this) from the chests, then warp back to base.

Back at base, make sure you have the single WHITE, RED and BLUE BLOCKS on you and then travel through the GREEN TELEPORTAL. Now head to the south, and keep heading south until you find the last puzzle that you will eventually reach. Enter the puzzle area and place the WHITE BLOCK in the left hole beneath the monument, the BLUE BLOCK in the centre and the RED BLOCK in the right. Now open the chest up the ladder to learn how to make a CATHOLICON RING and then warp back to base, that's the Challenge completed.