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Hi! Welcome to FR! The game can be a bit confusing to a first timer, so here's a quick guide. Basics Let's start small. Almost everything in the game is optional. There are only a few things you should make sure you do every day. Log in. Gather items. You can reach this from the sidebar. At first, you are going to want to gather food. Different dragons eat different types of food. You can find out what type of food your dragon eats by going to your lair (on the sidebar) and hovering your mouse over a dragon or clicking on the dragon to go to its profile. You can then convert the food into "food points" in your Hoard. Feed your dragons. You can do that by going to your lair and clicking the "Feed" button on the top of the page. If you keep your dragons at least 80% fed for three days, you will get in-game currency and more gathering turns every time you log in. It's okay if you miss a day. Get a free item from Pinkerton. You can also reach him through the Trading Post (on the side bar). Check your nests by clicking on "Nesting Grounds" on the sidebar. Your eggs will not hatch unless you incubate them for five days. Don't worry if you forget a day - or, as I've done, a month. Your eggs will not disappear. Note: Some people do not like to breed their first two dragons (progenitors) because they like their progenitors' offspring list to be clean. However, many people also like buying dragons from progenitors. It's your choice whether to breed your progenitors or not.

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Okay! You've figured out the basics. Now what?


You've found newbie packages and probably some Wind Flight giveaways. People give free items (and more items) and dragons to newbies. Check it out!


So, you've figured out gathering. Let's talk about Digging and Scavenging. They do not give you food - but they give you other items.

Scavenging gives you chance to find unhatched eggs and coin bottles. You can open the coin bottles to get coins or you can open the eggs to get a first-generation dragon, which is a lot like a random progenitor dragon. Eggs sell for hundreds of thousands of coins on the Auction House, though, so you might want to sell it on the auction house instead. More on that later.

Digging is really useful at festivals because you can get festival chests, but only in the last week of the month or during Night of the Nocturne in December. Chests hold random items. Sometimes they sell well on the AH, but usually the items in chests sell for more after holiday is over.

Oh, and if you're bored of gathering in Wind? Click the scroll bar under the gathering activity you want to do. You can gather in any flight.


There are two types of currency: treasure and gems.

• Treasure is the main currency, and you can get it through various activities. You will mostly use this currency.
• Gems are a premium currency. You can purchase them with real-world money, but you also can get them through on-site activities once in a while, by selling an item on the Auction House for gems, or by trading with someone who sells gems. Only a few activities use gems, and most allow for treasure too.

One way to get treasure is through the Fairgrounds. You can play games to make up to 75,000 treasure per day. You'll probably make treasure fastest through Glimmer and Gloom or Mahjong. Glimmer and Gloom has a learning curve, and you might want to find a guide on the forums for it.


Familiars are pets for your dragon. You attach them through your dragon's page - there is a box for your dragon's familiar. You can bond with the familiar once a day by clicking the heart icon. You will get a small amount of treasure and, eventually, chests. You can open the chest to get items or you can sell them. I recommend opening iron chests for nice items and selling the others. You can open the rusty chests too, but the items are usually not useful. Gold chests have useful items, but they also sell well on the AH.


These two places are the economic centers of Flight Rising.

The Auction House is where you buy and sell items. They are divided into the same categories as your Hoard. So, eggs and chests are in "Other." "Materials" are similar to the "Other" category, so if you can't find something in one category, look in the other. Do not click on "sell" in your hoard until you learn more about the game. Often, this gives you a much lower price for your item than you can get on the Auction House.

The Crossroads is where you can trade dragons or items with one user. You can trade up to three dragons and multiple items at a time. You can trade currency too.

The Marketplace is not well-used. Most items are cheaper on the AH. The exception is some "specialty" items.


You know about Pinkerton. Let's look at everything else.

• Tomo's Trivia Tablet: Every day, Tomo will ask you ten questions about the site. If you get it right, you get treasure. At first, the questions might seem tricky sometimes, but over time you'll learn more about the game by answering them.
• Crim's Collection Cart: Crim will trade items from your hoard for treasure. Sometimes she will pay more than you can get for trading an item. Be careful. She sometimes she will give you much less money than an item deserves. Check the Auction House first before selling an item.
• Swipp's Swap Stand: I still find this confusing. You can collect items to trade with Swipp for unique items on the site. There is a list of recipes here.
• Roundsey's Raffle: Every Wednesday, Roundsey raffles off items and/or dragons. You pay 500 treasure per ticket. The chances of winning are low, but it's still fun.
• Baldwin's Bubbling Brew: Here, you can melt down items into components that you can turn into other items. This is especially useful during festivals. This guide will explain more.
• Galore's Glorious Gifts: Once in a while, Galore will give free gifts to everyone on the site. The gifts will only be available for a week. You'll see an announcement if Galore is giving something away.
• Fiona's Fabulous Familiars: Fiona has two tabs: Feats and Flattery. The Flattery tab will be most useful to you starting out - you can bond with familiars you do not have in exchange for treasure. The Feats tab will allow you to get more familiars if you bond enough times with other familiars.

Want to make a fancy dragon? Usually, fancy dragons are cheaper to buy than to make, but making them can be fun.

• Breeds: There are several breeds of dragon on the site. Most dragons can breed with each other. The exception is "Ancient Breeds," which can only breed with dragons of the same species. There is only one ancient breed right now. A dragon's breed can be passed down, but some breeds are rarer than others
  You can change a dragon's breed with a scroll. You can buy them in the marketplace or on the AH. Some are more expensive than others.
• Genes: Your progenitors all have "basic" genes. We can change that with "Gene scrolls." Some gene scrolls are more expensive than others because some are harder to breed than others. For example, if one parent has "Iridescent" and another has "Cherub," the offspring will probably have "Cherub."
• Eyes: These are hard to change. A dragon can usually gets fancy eyes at random. However, a few fancy eyes, like Glowing Eyes, are only available with scrolls in the Auction House or Marketplace.
• Apparel: You can put apparel on a dragon to make it fancy. You can buy it regularly, find it in a chest, or you can buy it from Festive Favors during a holiday. Apparel does not pass to offspring.
• Skins: These are designs you can put on your dragon, almost all made by other site users. You can make designs too by clicking "Custom Skins," but making a skin is expensive. During the holidays, you can get inexpensive skins in the Marketplace. You can also sometimes find them in the Coliseum. They do not pass on to offspring.

Want to see how your dragon will look before you buy scrolls? The Scrying Workshop lets you previous how your dragon will look. The Dressing Room lets you do the same for apparel.


You will either love or hate the Coliseum. The Coliseum is a place where your dragons fight monsters to get items. This is a great way to get food, and many items sell very well on the Auction House. Others help you unlock Hibernal Den Slots so you can own more dragons (without having to feed them!). It's also very helpful for Dominance (below).

I am not good at this part of the game, so I will recommend a beginner's guide.


Exalting is a way of getting rid of dragons you don't want. The higher their "level" in the Coliseum, the more coins you will get. I recommend using the Coliseum guides to make a good coliseum dragon or buying a high-leveled dragon before worrying about training dragons to exalt. Until you have a good coliseum dragon, you can make more money selling adult dragons on the Auction House.

Dominance is a weekly competition between flights to see who can exalt the most dragons, ending on Saturday on the site's midnight. If a flight has dominance, you'll get three more gathering turns, the marketplace will become cheaper, and expanding your den will cost less. Flights often organize when they will try to get dominance. Keep an eye on Wind Dominance to see when our flight is organized for dominance.

Sometimes, two flights will compete for dominance. When that happens, you can sell dragons on the Auction House for more than twice their normal price! Check Flight Rising Discussion on Saturday/Sunday, especially in June through August.


Lore is my favorite part of the game, but it can be confusing. Most of the lore is in the Encyclopedia, but there are a few urban myths too. The Flight Rising Discussion Forum is the best place to find urban myths. You can make your own lore by editing your dragon's profile. You can follow site lore or make up your own, whichever you want.


The Forums are where you can chat with other users. Some topics are Flight Rising specific and some are not. Check them out and figure out which forum you enjoy.


Be sure to check out the Wind Flight Info Hub for more information about the site and about Wind flight's activities.

Please feel free to message me if you have any questions. Welcome to Flight Rising!

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