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[center][font=book antiqua][size=4] Hello and welcome to Flight Rising! If you've just registered or are planning to register next Welcome Week and are looking for a beginner's guide to the website, here it is! [left][font=book antiqua][size=5][b]Index[/b][/size] [size=4]-Starting Out- Choosing a flight, your first dragons and breeding![/size] [size=4]-Getting Some Items- Gathering Items, Your Hoard, Vault and Lair[/size] [size=4]-Dragons, Dragons, Dragons- What you can do with dragons[/size] [size=4]-Activities and Currency- Things to do and ways to spend[/size] [size=4]-Forums, Friends and Events!- Socializing on FR and site events[/size] [size=4]-Useful Links and a Last Note- Some good in-depth guides to FR activities[/size] [size=5][b]-Starting Out-[/b][/size] [size=4][b]Signing up[/b] Every second Sunday of a month, Welcome Week launches! In this time you can sign up for an account and begin your Flight Rising journey. The admins will post on the front page so if you're planning to join, do watch out for that. You will require an email address to register as the admins will send an email with a confirmation code. When creating your account, note that you have only 1 free username change. Further changes will cost 1500 gems. [b]Elemental Flights[/b] So you've created your account, great! Now it's time to choose a flight. There are 11 flights in total, depicted below. [img]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/flightrising/images/1/1d/Choose_element.png[/img] (image credit to FR wikia) There are different qualities to each flight, so do take some time to read through the blurbs of every flight. Each week there is also an event known as Dominance, where users from every flight compete to exalt dragons. (will be explained further in Activities and Currency) Pick your flight wisely as it will affect what eye colour your first two dragons and dragons that hatch from your nests will have. Here's a handy chart of what eye colour each flight will have: [img]http://media.tumblr.com/af752811bbd72eb8a7d2a6d535ccd21e/tumblr_inline_msixy9NumJ1qz4rgp.png[/img] (image credit to [url=meandering-miasma.tumblr.com]meandering-miasma[/url]) After you decide on your flight, the flight's deity will gift you 50 points of each food type and 50 treasure. Note that like username changes, you have one free flight change, further changes also cost 1500 gems. For every flight change, there will be a six-month cooldown before you can move to another flight. [b]Your First Dragons[/b] Immediately after picking your flight, you will be taken to a page where you create your first dragon, where you can pick its name, breed, gender, and colours. This is the only time you are allowed to customize your dragon's colours, so pick wisely! You are allowed to pick two colours, the primary and secondary of your dragon. Your dragon will also be given a randomized third colour known as a tertiary which will not show up on your dragon unless you give it a tertiary gene scroll. There are four breeds to choose from for your starter dragon (known commonly as your progenitor or progen) Fae [img]http://flightrising.com/images/wiki/breed_fae.png[/img] Mirror [img]http://flightrising.com/images/wiki/breed_mirror.png[/img] Guardian [img]http://flightrising.com/images/wiki/breed_guardian.png[/img] Tundra [img]http://flightrising.com/images/wiki/breed_tundra.png[/img] Each breed has its own lore [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=wiki]here[/url] but you can just pick whatever breed looks nice to you. The breed of your dragon is not permanent, you can change it whenever to another breed with a breed change scroll. Note that Imperial scrolls are nearly nonexistent and to get your hands on one will be extremely expensive. After creation of your first dragon, you will be redirected to your lair. A dragon of the opposite gender will show up. Their colours and breed will be completely randomised by the site. So if you created a Fae progenitor, you may get a dragon with any one of the four starter breeds. If you dislike any of the dragons' appearances, you can easily change them with gene and breed change scrolls, scatterscrolls and skins or accents. Examples are: [item=primary gene: cherub][item=breed change: skydancer][item=tri-color scatterscroll][skin=9444][skin=19719] If none of these work, consider exalting the dragon as a last resort. Keep in mind that you will likely not be able to get the dragon back after exaltation. Exaltation of progenitors will also not result in the usual small amount of money and will not count towards dominance. This is the current colour wheel in FR, after the expansion. The inner wheel is the original 67 colours. [img]http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/flightrising/images/7/78/Rauxel's_color_wheel.jpg[/img] (image credit to user Rauxel) [b]Breeding[/b] After the creation of your progenitors, you will be prompted to breed them together. Hold on for a moment. Take your two dragons to the Scrying Workshop's Forsee Progeny section. You can take the ID number of your progenitors (found under their names) and decide if you want to breed them together. Here is an example with my own progenitors. [img]https://68.media.tumblr.com/5e3d8d8ab2d5ba0fb60dd1f42418005d/tumblr_inline_ois664m3Cm1tr9ia4_540.png[/img] If you decide you want hatchlings of other colours, look in the auction house or the Dragon Sales forum. You can try out other dragons with your dragons using Forsee Progeny and if you find a dragon that makes nice hatchlings, you can buy it! Watch out if there is a small [img]http://flightrising.com/images/icons/breeding_cooldown.png[/img] icon on the dragon's info and stats box though, this means that they are not ready to breed yet. You can hover over this icon to see how many more days to go before they are able to breed. Note: Only male and Female dragons can breed, so do check that the genders are different before breeding! The dragons must also be at least 5 generations apart, you can check if they are too closely related in the Assay Bloodlines section of the Scrying Workshop. So, you have your two ready to breed dragons. Go to the Nesting Grounds tab, under Clan. You will see that you have two nests, though you can purchase up to three more with treasure. Click the Breed button on an empty nest, this will lead you to a page with two dropdown menus. One will list available males and the other will list available females. Pick out the two dragons from the menus and you can also preview what their hatchlings may look like with the Preview Offspring button. For non ready to breed dragons, you can use the Forsee Progeny tool, in the Scrying Workshop. Once you are satisfied with the outcomes, just click the Confirm Breeding Pair button for a confirmation window and click Yes if you want to put both dragons on a nest! A nest may have a clutch of 1-5 eggs when the parents are of different breeds and 1-4 if the parents are of the same breed. All dragon breeds have a rarity that affects their cooldown time and the hatchlings in a nest. The rarer a dragon's breed is, the longer their cooldown and the less likely chance of a hatchling being the same breed when paired with a dragon from a more common tier. Plentiful - 15 day cooldown - Tundra, Guardian, Fae, Mirror Common - 20 day cooldown - Snapper, Pearlcatcher, Spiral, Ridgeback Uncommon - 25 days - Skydancer, Bogsneak Limited - 30 days - Imperials, Nocturnes Rare - 35 days - Wildclaw, Coatl [img]https://68.media.tumblr.com/6a351994f2beede21ed90224e1f64f0a/tumblr_inline_ois66oUkX81tr9ia4_540.png[/img] As you can see, there are four eggs in this nest. The bar with the egg icon is a representation of the Incubation Stage. A nest will hatch in 5 days if you click on the Incubate button. You can incubate a nest immediately after you put both dragons on a nest. You can click on the Incubate button on all of your nests once per day. You do not have to do this every day, and you do not have to hatch a nest immediately either. You can always put off a nest until you are ready to hatch it. The square button with an egg icon is for the Boon of Fertility. This is an item purchasable with 350 gems in the gem marketplace and looks like this. [item=boon of fertility] This item allows you to hatch a nest immediately without incubation. So the day to hatch the nest has come. You need to have enough space in your lair for the hatchlings, but once you hatch them, you will be shown a grey box with the images of your hatchlings. You can look at them later in your lair. Congratulations, your lair is just beginning to take shape! Continue on to the next section, where you can learn about items. [/size]

-Getting Some Items-

Food

Now you've started out on your lair. But you need some items too. Head on over to the Gather Items tab, under Clan. You'll have 10 turns to start out with, but you can gain 5 more as your clan energy bonus kicks in after 3 days.

To start out your clan, I recommend gathering in different food types for at least a week. 50 points of food is not a lot and you will run out of food very soon without gathering. Be sure to have at least a few hundred points in each category before you try out digging or scavenging. Remember to gather food when any of your food stores start depleting.

You can also obtain food as loot in the Coliseum, from Pinkerton, from brewing the Soylent items in Baldwin, or buying it from other users in the Auction House.

To convert food, go to your hoard. You can select whatever number of food you want to convert, then click on the Convert button to add them to your food stores. You can see how many of each food type you have at your hoard or lair.

(NOTE: Some dragons will only eat certain types of food, so be sure that when you are gathering food, you are catering to your dragons' diets! You can mouse over a dragon in your lair to find out what types of food they eat.)

Gathering

There are six gathering options: Hunting gives you meat-type food, Fishing gives you seafood-type food, Bug Catching gives you insect-type food, Foraging gives you plant-type food, Digging gives you materials/chests/other items, and Scavenging gives you eggs/trinkets/other items.

You can decide how many turns you want to dedicate to an option.

Your Hoard

Your hoard is basically your inventory, it has all of your items.
Hovering over an item gives its information, sell price, food points it will give if it is a food item.

Your Hoard has eight tabs. You can click on a tab to access it.

-Food: your food items
-Materials: Baldwin materials and material items
-Apparel: your clothes/apparel items to dress up dragons.
-Familiars: your familiars
-Battle Items: all Battle Stones, Tinctures of Dissolution, Health Potions, and anti-effect potions. These are only used in the Coliseum.
-Skins: Your skins and accents. These may be applied to a dragon via the dragon's profile page.
-Specialty: Gene and Breed Scrolls, Renaming Scrolls, Vistas
-Other: Trinket items, Unhatched Eggs, chests, festival currency and chests, and apparel bundles.

To access your Vault, click on the chained chest in the top right. This is where you store items that you do not want to lose. If you've played Neopets, this is like the Safety Deposit Box. The vault also acts like a bank as you can keep currency in it, using the green plus button to add currency and the red minus button to withdraw.

Lair

In your lair, you can look at all of your dragons. The arrange button is used for moving your dragons around by dragging and dropping, while the feed button is used to feed your dragons.

The yellow bar under each dragon is their energy level. This will deplete by 1 every eight hours and you can replenish it by feeding.

If you manage to keep your clan’s energy (the rainbow bar at the top right) above 80% for three consecutive days, the blue bar under the clan energy bar will fill up. When that happens, there are bonuses: five extra gathering turns per day, 250 treasure per day, 1 gem per day, and +15% battle experience. Additionally, you can unlock an achievement if you keep your clan well-fed for 15 consecutive days. If you let your dragons’ energy fall, they will be unable to breed or fight in the Coliseum until they are fed.

-Dragons, Dragons, Dragons-

So now you've got some items. Time to add some dragons to your lair!

Check the Dragon Sales and your flight's Sales forums, there will usually be users offering free dragons. You can always ask them for one of the dragons!
Your lair starts out with 10 spaces and you can expand it with treasure if you want more space.

Interaction with dragons

Give your dragons skins and apparel by clicking on the respective buttons. Drag and drop the apparel pieces to adjust layering. Skins and accents are always on a lower layer than apparel. You can buy more apparel slots to put more apparel on your dragon with gems.

To apply a familiar, click Change on the familiar box and select from your available familiars. The heart icon allows you to bond with the familiar every day. You cannot bond with familiars that are not equipped to dragons but you can swap an unequipped one with an equipped one to bond with the unequipped familiar.

If you've got three dragons, head on over to the Coliseum! You can try it out and play with different stat builds!

If you like art or writing, maybe try writing out lore or draw a picture of your favourite dragon!

-Activities and Currency-

Flight Rising uses two types of currency, Gems and Treasure. Treasure is represented by the gold coin icon and can be earned from games, daily bonuses, Crim, and more.

Gems can be bought from Purchase gems, but can also be earned from chests, exalting a dragon, selling items for gems on the auction house, or from users that already have gems. Gems can be used to buy items exclusive to the gem-only portion of the Marketplace, accessible by clicking on the Gems tab under Select Shop Type in the marketplace.

Activities

There are many things to do on Flight Rising, like Baldwin's Brew or the Fairground games.

I suggest you try out all of the fairground games as it's possible to earn 75k max a day from them.

Under the Shop tab, there is the trading post. There are five booths: Swipp’s Swap Stand, Tomo's Trivia Tablet, Crim’s Collection Cart, Pinkerton’s Plundered Pile and Baldwin's Bubbling Brew (hover over them to see the names).

Swipp and his daughters will often give you one rarer item for a large quantity of a more common item. Swipp changes his randomly-generated requests every two hours - there’s a clock counting down on his page. Trades by Swipp (the top trade) are free; the middle swap requires an extra 1000t and the bottom swap requires an extra 2000t. Don't want to pay the extra treasure? Wait until your desired swap is the top one, and it'll be free. A full list of Swipp’s swaps can be found in the encylopedia.

Tomo offers ten trivia questions about FR per day. Each correct answer will net you 300 treasure. A guide can be found here

Crim, every hour, will make five requests for different items. If you have the item, you can click “Trade” on the right and receive the amount she offers and give her the item. Crim offers double the sell value of that item or 500t, whichever is higher. This is great for getting rid of the item you have five hundred of.
NOTE: Do not trade Crim these items:
Familiars that cost more in the Auction House than what she is offering.
Deity plushies, runestones and apparel
Battlestones other than the might and acuity fragments
Unhatched Eggs

These items can easily be sold for more than the measly amount she offers. (I'm looking at you, Crim, for trying to get my unhatched eggs for 500t.)

You can click New Offer for another item that she is looking for.

Baldwin is the only way to create some apparel, familiars, and genes. First, transmute an object. Click Transmute Objects, click the plus-sign button, and select the item you want to transmute. You can transmute all types of items except Battle Items and Skins. You cannot transmute items that are unsellable. Different types of items will yield different results:

-Food: Goo (green, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue)
-Materials: Ooze (green, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue)
-Other: Sludge (green, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue)
-Familiars: Muck (copper, silver, gold)
-Apparel: Slime (grey, black, white)

The colour (and rarity) of the resulting item is random. You may only transmute one item at a time. A timer will begin counting down in the top right corner when you have begun to transmute. When it is Ready, you can take the resulting gooey item. Do not bother sacrificing expensive items, all items in one type will have the same odds regardless.

You may recombine the transmutation materials into new items in the "Create New Items" tab. More recipes will be revealed as you level up through gaining experience by transmuting and creating. Certain items are only available through Baldwin so definitely give it a shot!

Familiars

Familiars are companions for your dragons. If you have a familiar, you may equip it to one of your dragons via the dragon’s individual page (accessible through your lair). If you have more than one familiar, you may switch them there, too. If you have more than one of the SAME familiar, only one will show up on this screen (i.e. you can’t give more than one dragon the same familiar). You may see information pertaining to familiars in your Bestiary, which you can access via the book icon near your money, or under Clan.

You can interact with your familiars every day by clicking the heart icon on the dragon’s page. Interacting with familiars will give you rewards that increase in value, starting at 15 treasure per day. When gaining levels of companionship, a familiar will also give you either a Rusted Treasure Chest, an Iron Treasure Chest, or a Gilded Treasure Chest, all of which you can open from your Hoard’s Other tab to get items.

Coliseum
The Coliseum is a turn-based battle system available for your dragons. Defeating monsters gives you loot (items) and experience. Dragon levels currently cap at level 25.

Dominance
Every Saturday, the site tallies the number of dragons exalted that week by each flight. The flight with the highest rate of exaltation gets dominance for that week. You can check out the rewards under the Dominance tab.


Spending Money

There are three main ways to spend money on Flight Rising. The Marketplace, Auction House and the forums.

The marketplace has six tabs:

Apparel: Clothing items for dragons
Familiars: Companions for dragons
Battle: Coliseum-use items
Specialty: Breed change and gene scrolls, scrolls of renaming, scrolls of aturity and eternal youth, Boons of Fertility and Scatterscrolls.
Skins: overlays for dragons. Usually only stocked every festival for the treasure marketplace and sometimes gem marketplace skins will cycle in.
Bundles: packs of items. usually only for gem marketplace, however during Night of the Nocturne apparel bundles will cycle in.

All tabs have items restricted to either one of the currency types. Gem marketplace items are unlimited while treasure marketplace has a chance to stock an item in a limited amount every 5 minutes.

Items purchased from either marketplace go directly to the hoard.

Auction House (AH)

The auction house is where users sell items. The sales are not actually auctions, but direct sales. There are tabs for all the types of items from food to others.
All tabs have a search bar for the names of items and a price range. You can sort by highest to lowest price by clicking the Price button and Ascending.

Purchasing items will send the item to your message box, which is the envelope icon under your money. You can click on the Collect All button to take all money and items from the message.
Purchasing a dragon will send the dragon to the back of your lair.

When selling items, compare prices on the AH for the same item. You want to sell it at near-lowest price.
If you want to sell an item for gems, remember to check the box next to the gem icon. You do not want to end up selling it for the wrong currency. You cannot sell items for mixed currency either.

The duration is how long you want your item to be on the AH. You can choose between 1, 3, or 7 days. When selling for treasure, a longer number of days will deduct a greater service fee upon sale. This is done automatically. For a single day, the service fee is 1% of what you have made, for three days it's 2%, and for seven days it's 3%. There is no service fee for a gem sale.

When selling dragons, you must make sure that they have no apparel, skins, or familiars, are not nesting or already for sale and are not one of your progenitors, or else they will not show up to be selected. The same methods of time span and price apply, but not quantity.

Forums

In Dragon Sales and Items For Sale, you can buy items from other users and also sell on the forums. The trade itself is usually done over Crossroads. Do not trade with players using private messages, it is very easy to be scammed that way.

-Forums, Friends and Events!-

Forums

Do introduce yourself in the forums, there will be many users willing to help out a newbie or make friends! You can introduce yourself in either the introduction forum or your own flight forum.

When posting on forums, you get a star to represent the amount of posts you've made. This eventually leads to the shiny star at 1000 posts, so go and participate in the discussion forums!

You can change your forum avatar to an image of one of your dragons by clicking the drop-down menu next to your username. In that same drop-down menu, you will find the option to change your forum signature, under Account Settings.
The background around avatars is called a vista. You can get vistas from Swipp, the Coliseum, Marketplaces, Auction House, festivals or from site contests and the Kickstarter, though KS rewards are no longer obtainable.

When you want to reply to someone, ping them with an @ sign with their username! For example, to ping me you would write @Seijuurou. This sends an alert to them.

Messages

If you would like to send a message to someone, click New Message. Type their username into the To: bar. You need to write in subject and message box before sending a message.

You can also attach currency and items through messaging. Just type the amount in the bar next to the treasure or gem icon to send currency and click on one of the small square boxes to send items!

Clan Profile

Your clan profile is accessible to all FR users. You can see your own profile by clicking on your dragon avatar at the top right of the page, next to the clan energy bar, or by clicking Clan Profile under Clan on the sidebar. Here you can find information about your clan such as a customizable clan description, your customizable broadcast message, achievements you have unlocked, recent nests you have hatched, recent forum activity, comments people have left on this page, and your friends.

Friend Requests

You can send a friend request by going to another user’s clan profile and clicking Add Friend. This sends them a notification on the blue dragon icon between the message icon and the alerts icon. Clicking it will open a drop-down menu where you can accept or deny the request. The icon will stay lit until you accept or reject the request. Please note that some users may not want random friend requests, so always check with them!


Site Events
Every month except December, a flight's festival occurs near the end. This opens up the Festive Favors shop, where you can trade festival currency for items exclusive to the festival. These items will retire when the festival ends, so do remember to get a little of everything. The only items which do not retire are the emblems. Festival currency can be acquired by gathering items in the flight of the element currently being celebrated. Any gathering type will give holiday currency in addition to items you would have received in one gathering attempt.

January: Crystalline Gala (Ice)

February: Trickmurk Circus (Shadow)

March: Mistral Jamboree (Wind)

April: Wavecrest Saturnalia (Water)

May: Greenskeeper Gathering (Nature)

June: Brightshine Jubilee (Light)

July: Thundercrack Carnivale (Lightning)

August: Flameforger's Festival (Fire)

September: Starfall Celebration (Arcane)

October: Riot of Rot (Plague)

November: Rockbreaker's Ceremony (Earth)

December: None.

Now, instead of a flight's festival in December, it is a two-week event known as Night of the Nocturne. This is an event to celebrate the Nocturne dragon and you can get Nocturne eggs and scrolls from this event, along with exclusive apparel and familiars that only cycle in during Night of the Nocturne.

On the first day, all users are given 15 extra gathering turns for Strange Chests, which have a small chance to drop nocturne eggs or scrolls. Swipp also offers trades for Strange chests and mimic familiars appear in the coliseum, which also have a chance to drop Strange Chests.

Last Note

Thank you for reading through this guide. The older newbie guide was outdated and I decided to remake it. If I've gotten anything wrong please ping me and I hope you have a nice day! You can usually find me in Bug Reports or Help Center.

Useful Links:

Useful masterpost by Mod Barbie
Coliseum Safemode

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Wow, thanks! I stlll don't know how to buy items for my dragons though.