Forgotten Islands

## Overview

Forgotten Islands are a key part of Wonder Merge's main gameplay. They appear in the center of the gameplay screen, just south of the meadow's southern edge and contain a mixture of normal land, Barren Land, and Desolate Land. Barren land shows up as gray grids and need to be restored either by merging the item on the grid or by using life essence energy. Desolate land is darker gray with a border "locking" the grid, and can only be restored by merging the item on it.

Once all land on a Forgotten Island is healed, the Island is awakened and all the objects on the island will be gathered up into mystic bubbles. Tip: Players can use this to "bubble" their items to save space on their meadow. See Tips & Tricks for more details.

After the island wakes, there's usually a wait period before the next island spawns, typically around 3 hours. This can be skipped either by paying a number of pearls proportional to remaining time (around ~3000 pearls for the full timer) or by watching an ad. After a set number of skips, the skip option will disappear until the next day. Players can tap on the center of the vortex image to see the remaining time as well as their total number of awakened islands.

During the waiting period, the empty space where the island spawns will show three floating icons. These represent the current set of islands. Each island awoken will light up one of these "beacons". When all three are lit, players can tap the space to spawn the special reward island. There is no wait timer in between waking the 3rd island and being able to tap for the reward island. See island types below for more details on the reward island.

## Island Types

The basic Forgotten Island is a random shape with gray Barren Land and darker gray Desolate Land. The Barren and Desolate land usually contain level 1-3 objects including pearls, coins, life essences, trees of life, and many more. Most level 1-3 objects can show up, except snowsculptures and amber. Creature eggs can show up as well though they seem limited to the first few shop eggs that can be purchased by gold. Ancient ruins, forgotten statues, diamond-locked chests, and lv 1-2 diamonds can also appear.

Every 3 Forgotten Islands awoken will spawn a bonus reward island, which has parts of it obscured by cloud graphics. These clouds will disappear after the visible portions of the island have been fully restored, and usually hide the Desolate Land containing keys that must be merged to awaken the island. Reward islands usually contain bushes that can be tapped for either essence, lucky boxes, or curious stones. It can also hold large statues that spawn a mixture of items including curious stones and mystery eggs. Reward islands can also contain Forgotten Statues and creature eggs that normally cost gems, such as Caelicorn and Spring Fae eggs.

For reward islands, the last merge (keys) will always result in a chest containing a silver coin and 2-4 Spring Fae eggs.

## Island Tips

There are an infinite number of islands to awaken. The shape of the islands can repeat but usually the items on the islands are somewhat random.

Always try to merge to restore land when possible. The more islands you awaken, the more expensive land becomes to heal. Things like Forbidden Statues and Ancient Ruins can't be merged so save your essence to heal those.

Forgotten Islands are the only way to "bubble" items to store them as mystic bubbles instead of taking up space on your meadow. See Tips & Tricks for a detailed explanation of bubbling. A good idea, when possible, is to leave one piece of Desolate Land untouched so that you can fully control when you awaken the island, instead of accidentally healing too much land with a Life Essence orb. Some islands can spawn with only Barren Land, in which case you'll have to be more careful with healing.

Awakening islands will also awaken some of your creatures with full energy. You can take advantage of this by using up all your creatures' energy before finishing the island.

Crimson chests seem to only spawn on islands.