Second floors and basements are completely viable. You can even go up to third floors if you are ambitious.
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Dragon Quest: Builders |OT| - "If you build it, they will come."
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The challenges are a little annoying, but you don't have to beat them as you go. I plan on completing the story at my own pace then loading the saves and beating the challenges. Once that's done I'll do the speed runs. I'm pretty sure the speed runs can be done in a very short amount of time if you aren't doing any fun building.
Haha, luckier than I was, that's how I died for the first time. Went exploring right away to see what materials were around and didn't expect to be poisoned.
You're the worst.
I actually love the idea of having to unlock stuff for free build mode, but I think the complaint is fair.
I found that boss stressful, but not difficult. His minions couldn't break much because of the materials I used on the structures and I had a feeling the boss would be in the air since they talked about it a lot. So I had walls with ballistas already, what annoyed me is that they didn't auto aim at all in terms of heights. So I just carried around blocks and a single ballista. It was fairly straight forward from there.
His minions couldn't break through anything and the balls of wind locked on to you, so as long as you weren't next to a structure the base was 100% safe.
Definitely stressful for the first few minutes, but the boss' pattern was super straight forward so i beat him on my first try.
Haha, luckier than I was, that's how I died for the first time. Went exploring right away to see what materials were around and didn't expect to be poisoned.
You're the worst.
I actually love the idea of having to unlock stuff for free build mode, but I think the complaint is fair.
I found that boss stressful, but not difficult. His minions couldn't break much because of the materials I used on the structures and I had a feeling the boss would be in the air since they talked about it a lot. So I had walls with ballistas already, what annoyed me is that they didn't auto aim at all in terms of heights. So I just carried around blocks and a single ballista. It was fairly straight forward from there.
His minions couldn't break through anything and the balls of wind locked on to you, so as long as you weren't next to a structure the base was 100% safe.
Definitely stressful for the first few minutes, but the boss' pattern was super straight forward so i beat him on my first try.
Benzychenz
Member
Taking this one chapter at a time, just finished the speed run of chapter 1 so have all of its challenges now.
Gonna do the Dark Souls 3 DLC before starting chapter 2.
Gonna do the Dark Souls 3 DLC before starting chapter 2.
Freezasaurus
Member
I played it for half an hour before getting annoyed with it and going back to DQB.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
And... platinum get:
The speed runs aren't bad. You can beat them in half the amount of time required. You can your time a bit though and it's still no problem.
The speed runs aren't bad. You can beat them in half the amount of time required. You can your time a bit though and it's still no problem.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
And... platinum get:
The speed runs aren't bad. You can beat them in half the amount of time required. You can your time a bit though and it's still no problem.
Nice congrats on that. Since I remember how you were so hell bent on getting that platinum good to see you achieved it lol
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
Tell me about it. I feel like I have the urge to platinum any SE game that I've and will purchase.
Except for SO4, SO5, KH1.5, KH2.5, NieR, and FFX HD Collection.
Benzychenz
Member
NieR was an easy plat.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Yeah SO5 was kinda insane due to some of the trophies.
Reminds me of like the stuff with Blue Dragon. My friend killed his 360 doing those lol.
So how do I actually access the Day 1 edition content? I'm on PS4 and I entered the codes I received but didn't get the prompt to download them. Now when I go to my library I can see that I have 5 pieces of DLC but there's no link to view or download them. Is there a way to access the content from within the game?
I asked this on the previous page and people said to access them from the color wheel crafting station in the free build mode, but I looked there and I don't have them listed.
Do you have to complete additional chapter challenges to unlock them or something? I'm playing a digital copy and I don't even have the DLC listed in in my PSN library (got a code from the publisher though so maybe the bonus stuff wasn't included with that).
Brad, I just wanted to let you know it is solely your fault I am addicted to this game after watching your Quick Look. I don't like Minecraft (it's a fine game, but I'm not into playing something where you make your own fun) and so I figured I could safely ignore this and then watched you play and gave the demo a try. Luckily the Vita battery puts a hard limit on how long I can play.
I know on Vita I had to download something extra from the game (was actually 3 individual downloads besides the game), but I'm not into free build mode, so no idea if they are there are no. Will give a look and report back.
Edit: Checked and I have the recipes for the those Day One items on my wheel. I'm in the third chapter right now, so no idea if it would have been there in Chapter 2. I'm guessing maybe your code didn't come with it.
Night Hunter
Banned
After I almost gave up post chapter 1 because I didn't really anticipate
CH2 is now sufficiently different for me to continue. Great game with a few minor annoyances. Why can't I build a specific amount of things. It's either 1 or as much as possible ... drives me mad.
that I would have to start from scratch
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
So when I load a save for a previous chapter to go do challenges, how do I turn them all in?
I'm going to try the speed challenge for chapter 1 sometime soon, although it sounds like a huge pain. I already killed the dragons and did a few other challenges. Just need to do the garden and then speed run.
I'm going to try the speed challenge for chapter 1 sometime soon, although it sounds like a huge pain. I already killed the dragons and did a few other challenges. Just need to do the garden and then speed run.
When you walk into the light beam to end a chapter it will register the challenges you completed after your load.
AuthenticM
Member
You cannot complete challenges in a chapter savefile that was already completed. I tried. You have to start a new game in that chapter. It sucks.
I don't quite understand what you mean. I loaded my save file from after I beat the boss of Chapter 1, then killed the three dragons, then stepped into the portal, and I completed the challenge. Once I finish the game I'm going to load all of my post-boss save files and do all the challenges, obviously saving the day challenges for last.
FriendlyGoat
Member
This isn't true, except for the day related ones. You can load it up, complete the challenges, then finish the chapter as usual via the portal and it will count the challenges you completed.
AuthenticM
Member
The hell? I loaded up my chapter 1 savefile to get the garden challenge. I build the garden from the blueprint, went to the portal, and the end-of-chapter stats screen did not give me the challenge.
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
Okay excellent!
I already knew I had to make a new game to go back and do the speed run challenge but I at least wanted to get credit for the others.
You probably did the wrong garden, its not the one the hammerguys gives you.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
Does anyone have any tips for positioning
as a defense in chapter 3? No matter where I put them,
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the cannons
the splash damage ends up taking out the pressure plates and a lot of my defensive wall
SynthFetish
Member
I never figured out the best placement. Had same issues.
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
If you just grind a bit you can make tons of bombs and shields for the first boss. Just kill lots of rock dudes to get their shards and make a ton of bombs, then blow up lots of mountains for diamonds and golems for golemite.
I'm almost to the second boss so I don't know about that one yet.
AuthenticM
Member
wow, what the fuck!? How do you get this garden!? And how do you get water blocks!?
Dig an irrigation canal from a water source. It's just spaces filled with water, you don't actually craft water blocks.
Ah, I see. I just used the one shield. Didn't even consider using multiple.
Don't bother with the canal. The recipe works with the body of water that is near your town anyways. I believe its the body of water with trees and its very close to where you start the game when you step outside.
AuthenticM
Member
Oh so I don't need to build it inside the confine of my base?
Also, how do you get the blueprint?
AuthenticM
Member
Thank you
How can I dig a channel of water to my town? The town is above water level. Is there a way to make water go up in altitude?
Also, is there anything in the chapter that tells you how to build that garden? It would be weird for the game to have the garden as a challenge without leading the player to build it.
If you really want to, I believe water appears if you go down deep enough but I can't confirm. I personally built my garden outside my town borders near some already existing water.
I didn't find anything in the chapter to build the garden so I'd be curious where it is. I wound up just looking it up and once you build something you get the reciple.
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Would also like to note that I wish I could take newer recipes to older places. Like stuff from chapter 2 to chapter 1
Just finished chapter 4. I really enjoyed the story of this game, which was something I wasn't expecting at all. Go gonna play around a bit in Terra and finish the challenges before giving my final thoughts.
Edit: Oh, and building second floors are awesome. Finally gave it a crack in chapter 4 and it looked great!
Edit: Oh, and building second floors are awesome. Finally gave it a crack in chapter 4 and it looked great!
Katana_Strikes
Member
Hmm not sure I can complete the game. Last boss seems a pain. Wouldn't be too bad but if you die you gotta do the bit before all over again. Which is easy but it's just time consuming. Would have been better if they let you restart before the last boss. Don't have the patience to keep redoing a bit I've already done. Adding in to the unskipable dialogue. Very tedious. Really puts a downer on the whole game.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
In regards to water, dont think you can raise the level unless you have that specific item which appears in the third chapter. Otherwise you need to build a canal from an existing source of water.
Digging a hole will only get you to solid unbreakable bedrock. Unless there was an actual hollow space under that was filled with water.
Oyashrio-Sama
Member
Do Minecarts not work in Terra?
SynthFetish
Member
They work, I have them all over that place!
Oyashrio-Sama
Member
Yeah got it working now... musta glitched out. Started working when I saved and reloaded.
Oh okay. So it's just bedrock down there. Good to know.
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I got the trophy for taking down 8 enemies at once with a bomb. Lol. Was pretty great
I had the same issue during my speedrun, I think it was because of having a furnace already instead of the forge, had to downgrade it for the quest to validate.
I ran into this yesterday. Destroy your forge and he'll be happy. Take a guess what he immediately asks you to put in the workshop...
Interface23
Member
Can't find the guy to give me the brick BBQ thing in chapter 1...