Tips&Tricks

**Darin Kaplan's Rune Farming Strategy**

**1 December 2016**

Go to city in lower left corner.

Go to farm

Set up as follows: Fruit -> Lemon and Bird -> Chameleon

Clear board using tools (don’t use moves as you’ll want them for more runes) until all you have on the board are trees and grass (lemons are fine as well, but you probably won’t have any this early on in the season).

Use Sapling to convert all grass into trees, so you should have a board full of trees.

Use Golden Apple (magic tool) to convert all trees into Lemons. Collect and save these Golden Apples (from buying tools in the Magic Portal with influence, or trading in the Royal Port). You will need one of these each season to start the Rune Farming Loop.

Use one long draw to collect all 36 lemons and they become many (in my case all, but it depends on your workers) coins.

Collect a string of coins, enough to create runes. Draw to collect all runes. They are free to collect. (i.e. they don’t use up turns) NOW COMES THE FUN PART!

======= START RUNE FARMING LOOP! ========

If you have any animals/fruit/vegetables on the board, use tools to remove them. DO NOT draw to remove them, as that will reset the Chameleon away from producing runes. Then

Trimmer (only if you have trees)->Fertilizer->Rake->Bird Feed

to turn remaining board into Chameleons. When you run out of tools, don’t fret. You can continue with this method, but will just get fewer chameleons to convert.

Draw to collect all the chameleons and they should leave you runes! My setup converts 5 chameleons -> 1 rune, so I get 7 runes each loop here. Also note that since there are 36 tiles on this board, you can leave one animal/fruit/vegetable if you’d like (and save a tool) and still get the maximum runes.

Now just repeat this loop until you run out of tools. Each loop takes only 1 turn (all the rest are tools or rune collection, which is free), so you should be able to collect over 100 RUNES PER SEASON! (as long as you have enough tools)

Enjoy, and save those Golden Apples, as they are the key to starting to Rune Farm!

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**Darin Kaplan's Royal Dock Strategy**

**6 September 2016**

*Overall apologies to everyone for the formatting of this strategy.  New to wiki's and just cut and pasting.  Anyone please feel free to update to make this look nicer.*

As background, I have bought 2x tools and have maxed out all relevant workers. Runes and $ not an issue as I have strategies to replenish them as needed. (Happy to share these in another post)

Salt (6000 needed) and Water (6000 needed): Use last village (to maximize moves per turn at 5). Use only minimal navigation moves, but maximize ship moves. Clear initial board and just run around outside of board collecting water and salt. Usually get around 40 of each per round.  Another method: Use magic wand to collect water. This speeds up collection immensely. Uses runes, but if you know how to stockpile runes (chameleon technique), it's not a big deal.

Hay (7500 needed) and Wood (6000 needed): Not sure which town I like best for this, but I think that winter harvesting is the best method to maximize the Hay and Wood. I've been leaning towards using the last village and NOT using the 2x (unless I want to build up other resources). Use Meadow Grass, Corn, Strawberry and Water Lilly (or whichever vegetable, fruit and flower you prefer), Willow, Hen, Peccary, Alpaca, and Mammoth (or any other mount). Leading up to winter, clear the board of rats, vegetables, fruits and mounts, then use the following, in order: Trimmer (trees to grass), Fertilizer (next to become corn), Rake (grass to corn), Bird Feed (corn to hens), trace out all hens to get Peccary (1 for 1 with full workers), trace all Peccary to get Alpaca (also 1 for 1), trace all Alpaca for mounts (1 for 2, so I end up with 18 mounts), use one Plough (usually) to bring the mounts together and trace them (only use Saddle if necessary) so as to get coins! Using this method generates some $ and many horseshoes and other resources to sell later to easily cover any replenishment of tools. Once you get to winter (3 or 4 days left), alternate axe (26 count) then rake (32 count). Clear the board of any extra clutter when it gets more than 1/3 full with it. You will have used up some rakes during first phase, but this method will yield a decent stockpile of hay and wood (~75 each).

Dirt (7500 needed): Use second (third?) town (the one just to the left of the castle). Alternate using drill (18 count) and shovel (32 count) until drill runs out, then use stone hammer and iron pick to use up the remaining shovels. Then use remaining hammer and pick and collect dirt manually until done. Use Very Rare keys to collect chests as they appear. I usually get 8-10 rare chests with this method and use the proceeds to help replenish tools. I average around 150-175 dirt per round.

The benefit of this method is NO GAS to clutter up the board. It's a straight dirt/rock or iron back and forth. The downside is NO GAS to make rubble, so we get exactly ZERO rubble with this method.

Rubble (6000 needed): In my opinion, this is the most difficult resource to collect. I have yet to find a consistent method to get a large amount of rubble in any mine. One method I’m considering is to stockpile runes, and visit the last town (with NO mine) and use the merchant port to trade for rubble. If no rubble appears, use 2 runes to get new trades, and keep going to collect rubble.

I hope this helps, and I’m always curious as to any other ideas. I'm still a ways away from finishing so all help is appreciated.

**ARUBADUBA's TIP SHEET #001**

**6 April 2016**

Looking in the right place for Museum Pieces? Choose the right location and right type of chest for the treasure you seek! See graphic below.

**ARUBADUBA's TIP SHEET #002**

**7 April 2016**

1. You can always go back to previous villages, where you can play quests and gather resources. Just tap the "curly arrow/go back" button in your top left hand corner.  (See graphic below.) It returns you to your "kingdom view."  Then just tap on the village you want to return to.

2.  Though you cannot move your resources to another village, you can go back to a previous village, trade it's resources for tools, and then use those tools in any village you choose.

3.  So you've finished the three quests on the left hand page of your manual (first tab).  You can get new quests by tapping the "curly arrow/go back" button to get to your kingdom view.  Then you should see a RED QUESTION MARK over the village you just finished the quests in.  That is telling you that when you go back to that village, your quests have been "refreshed" and you will find three new ones listed in your manual.

Voodoo Chic adds, "Return often to old villages and use the x2 double time fields to get tools to take forward to other villages, this helps to complete tasks and collections. It is only possible to hold one key and one x2 farm time, so use them before collecting new ones!" ++voodoo++

**ARUBADUBA's TIP SHEET #003**

**8 April 2016**

This first graphic shows a map of the kingdom, with each village's location, descriptive feature and order of completion. Which village is 3rd or 4th depends on what each player chooses. Also, players can customize the names of their kingdom and villages! These options, however, can make it more difficult to ask for or provide help when a question like "Where do I find...?" comes up. This graphic provides a reference and common terms to help communicate locations in the game.

**This second graphic depicts how to get to your Embassy (commonly referred to as your Friends List) and to your opportunities to participate in Royal Quests.**

**For players using Apple iOS Game Center, here is how you can add friends:**

return often to old