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Islands & buildings

Your home island, its buildings and decor, the harbor and research. Gold builds and upgrades, time finishes the work, and gems can speed it up.

In this chapter:

• Island and building
• Habitats and gold
• Farm and food
• Hatchery and eggs
• Vault
• Temple
• All buildings
• Regions
• Decor
• Harbor
• Research

Island and building

Your home. Build habitats, a farm and more, and open wild regions (9 in all) to get room for new buildings.

How it works. Tap Build, pick a building and place it. 2 builders work at the same time; gems finish a build at once.

Where to get it and where you need it. Gold pays for buildings. New buildings and regions unlock as your player level rises.

• Drag the island to move it and pinch or use the wheel to zoom.
• Tap a building to upgrade it. Upgrades take time, so start one before you leave.

Habitats and gold

A habitat is the home of monsters of one element. Monsters living there earn gold, from 12 gold a minute for a common one up to 90 for the rarest.

How it works. Build a habitat of the right element, then give a monster a home in it. Tap the coin above the habitat to collect the gold.

Where to get it and where you need it. A habitat holds 2 monsters, up to 6 when fully upgraded. The gold waits in the habitat until you collect it.

• Upgrade a habitat to hold more monsters and more stored gold, so a long night pays off.
• Decor next to a habitat makes its monsters earn more.

Farm and food

The farm grows food. Food raises the level of your monsters.

How it works. Tap the farm, pick a crop and plant it. Sunberries give 12 food after 20 s, Crunchroot 45 food after 3 min. Then feed a monster: 4 bites make a level.

Where to get it and where you need it. Slower crops give much more food. Some food also comes from adventures, tasks and events.

• Plant a slow crop before you go to bed and a quick one when you are about to play.
• A monster stops growing at its level cap. A temple of its element raises the cap.

Hatchery and eggs

Eggs hatch in the hatchery. A common egg takes 20 s, the rarest take up to 8 h.

How it works. Buy or find an egg, put it into the hatchery and tap it when it is ready to hatch.

Where to get it and where you need it. The shop sells common eggs for 120 gold. Rarer eggs come from breeding, adventures and events.

• Build a habitat of the egg element first, so the new monster has a home right away.
• A monster that has no habitat waits in the vault.

Vault

The vault stores monsters that have no habitat. It holds 10 monsters at first and up to 80 when fully upgraded.

How it works. Tap the vault to see who is inside, then give a monster a home.

Where to get it and where you need it. Build it from the build menu. You can have one.

Unlocks at player level 2.

• Monsters in the vault do not earn gold. Give them a habitat to put them to work.
• Hatch many eggs? Upgrade the vault before the room runs out.

Temple

A temple raises the level cap of one element. The first temple lifts the cap to level 20, every further temple level adds 10.

How it works. Build a temple of the element whose monsters have stopped growing, then feed them again.

Where to get it and where you need it. You can have one temple per element, each with 9 levels.

Unlocks at player level 5.

• Build the temple of the element of your best team first.
• When a monster stops growing, the message names the temple it needs.

All buildings

Buildings are placed from the build menu. Gold pays for them, time finishes them, and gems can finish a build at once. Costs are for the first and the last level.

	Building	What it does	From player level	How many	Levels	Cost (gold), first level	Cost (gold), last level	Build time, first level	Build time, last level
	Habitat	Home for monsters of one element. They earn gold here.	1	Several	5	150	400,000	5 s	8 h
	Farm	Grows food for your monsters.	1	6	5	100	600,000	5 s	10 h
	Hatchery	Eggs hatch here.	1	1	4	Free	400,000	–	8 h
	Breeding Grove	Two monsters from level 4 make a new egg.	3	2	2	1,500	80,000	1 min	3 h
	Temple	Raises the level cap of one element by 10 per temple level.	5	1 per element	9	4,000	8,353,083	4 min	2 d
	Vault	Stores monsters that have no habitat.	2	1	4	500	500,000	30 s	8 h
	Rune Forge	Makes runes that give your monsters bonuses.	8	1	5	6,000	8,000,000	10 min	24 h
	Lab	Collects essence, raises stars and makes monsters.	7	1	5	8,000	12,000,000	2 min	16 h
	Forge	Crafts weapons, armor and talismans and mines ore.	4	1	5	2,500	5,000,000	1 min	16 h
	Watch Tower	Raises the gold storage of nearby habitats, so a long night pays off.	10	3	1	25,000	25,000	10 min	10 min

Temples raise the level cap of one element

Habitat levels

Regions

The island has 9 regions. Opening a region gives room for new buildings.

Decor

Decorate your island. Decor within 3 tiles of a habitat makes its monsters earn more gold, up to 10 percent.

How it works. Open Decor, pick a piece and place it next to a habitat.

Where to get it and where you need it. Decor costs gold or decoration tokens. More pieces of different kinds give a bigger bonus.

Unlocks at player level 11.

• Place decor near your busiest habitats first.
• You can move or remove decor any time.

The Decor menu opens at player level 11. A piece with a higher number in the table also needs that player level.

All 20 decor pieces

	Decor	Decor points	Piece needs player level	Cost (gold)	Tokens instead	Place up to
	Flower Pots	1	1	40	–	12
	Flower Bed	2	1	90	–	10
	Hedge Bed	2	2	160	–	10
	Bench	3	2	250	–	8
	Lantern	3	3	400	–	10
	Banner	4	4	700	–	6
	Crates	4	4	1,100	–	6
	Camp Tent	6	5	1,800	–	4
	Fountain	8	6	3,000	–	4
	Statue	10	8	5,000	–	4
	Market Stall	12	10	8,000	–	3
	Campfire	14	12	12,000	–	3
	Beach Parasol	16	15	20,000	–	3
	Sandcastle	20	18	35,000	–	3
	Wooden Bridge	26	22	60,000	–	2
	Windmill	40	28	150,000	–	2
	Treasure Chest	16	5	0	30	2
	Palm Tree	20	5	0	45	3
	Mossy Rock	22	8	0	60	3
	Lighthouse	50	12	0	160	1

Harbor

A trader ship, visitors with wishes and a bottle with a story arrive at the harbor. The harbor grows through 10 levels.

How it works. Open the Harbor, tap a visitor to see the wish and hand over what they ask for.

Where to get it and where you need it. Fulfilled wishes make friends. You can meet 12 harbor friends, and each one has outfits and gifts.

Unlocks at player level 7.

• The ship trades materials, so it is a way to fill gaps.
• A badge shows when a wish can be fulfilled.

The 12 harbor friends

Harbor levels

Research

Study new things with time and notes: more builders, a bigger vault, faster breeding and more. 4 branches with 48 topics in all.

How it works. Open Research, pick a topic and start it. It finishes while you are away.

Where to get it and where you need it. Research notes come from wins and tasks, up to 24 a day. Studies also cost some gold.

Unlocks at player level 13.

• Start a long study before you close the game.
• A second desk lets you study two topics at once.

All 48 research topics in 4 branches