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Hello! I looked up some beginner guides but thought there would be no harm in one more.

Sorry about the lack of images - I'll try to fix that.

I am always happy to update this - let me know if you want me to add or clarify something or if you have other questions.

If this newbie guide isn't your cup of tea, check out Beetlefix's Ultimate Guide for Newbies.

Sections:

• Basics - Daily Chores, Gathering
• Information Centers: Forums, Game Database, and Encyclopedia
• Your Dragons and Their Familiars - Customizing and Breeding
• Your Hoard and Vault
• Currency and Making Money
• The Coliseum, Exalting, and Dominance
• Auction House, Crossroads, and the Marketplace
• Trading Post
• Your Flight and Your Aesthetic
• Expanding Your Lair and Hibernal Den
• Obscure Lore and Tips

Let's start small. Almost everything in the game is optional. There are only a few things you should make sure you do every time you log in.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Get a free item from Pinkerton. You can also reach him through the Trading Post (on the side bar).
4. 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 still be there.

Note: Some people do not like to breed their first two dragons (progenitors) because they like their progenitors' offspring list to be e,pty. However, many people also like buying dragons from progenitors. It's your choice whether to breed your progenitors or not.

There are six types of gathering: hunting, fishing, insect catching, foraging, digging, and scavenging.

The first four are straight-forward. Hunting gives you meat, fishing gives you fish, insect catching gives you insects, and foraging gives you plants. Sometimes you can get familiars too.

Digging and Scavenging 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.

Digging is 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 your flight? Click the scroll bar under the gathering activity you want to do. You can gather in any flight.

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

Let's start with the forums. Forums are a good way to learn more about the site, ask for help, or post for fun. When starting out, the Help Center is a good way to ask someone if something on the site confuses you. Also check out Dragon Trading, Dragons For Sale, Items For Sale, and Raffles & Giveaways. They often have free dragons and items for newbies. Check out your flight's threads too. Just be careful not to collect too many dragons right away!

The Game Database is a helpful way to look up items if you have questions about them. It's also useful for the Coliseum, which is explained later in the guide

The Encyclopedia also has information about the site, including mechanics and lore. It describes the dragon breeds in the game, ways to customize your dragons, the activities you can do on the site, and the main story of the site.

The dragon interface is new (updated June 24, 2020), so us older players are figuring it out too. Please bear with me as I update this section over time.

You can reach your dragons through your lair page. Click on one to see their profile.

The profile divided into three rows:

• Layer 1: This is where you can add apparel to your dragon, feed an individual dragon, breed a dragon, like a dragon, or add a familiar. You can also name a dragon or a familiar. More about familiars later in this post.
• Layer 2: This shows you information about your dragon, including what apparel a dragon is wearing, their genes and species, their coliseum build, and their parents and offspring. This section can be collapsed.
• Layer 3: This is where you can make a biography for your dragon. You can put anything here, from lore to art to anything that meets FR standards. Your lore can be anything too. Some people follow the game site's lore, some make fandragons, and some make up their own original lore. It's up to you!

There are two types of dragon: modern and ancient. Most dragons are modern dragons. All modern dragons can breed with each other and wear apparel.

The modern dragons can be put into smaller groups based on rarity. Rarity describes how often the dragons can breed. You can breed any modern dragon with another modern dragon, add apparel, and add any genes that are not specific to an ancient dragon breed.

Ancient dragons are different. They cannot wear apparel, they can only breed with a dragon of the same species, and they can only wear genes meant for their specific breed. They can breed once every 20 days. The ancient dragons are: gaolers and banescales.

Want to make a fancy dragon?

You can customize any dragon with apparel and scenes. Scenes are "specialty" items on the marketplace and AH. You can also add skins and accents (also specialty items), which cover a dragon with a user-made design. You can add all of these items through the "customize" button on your dragon's page. You can also design an outfit in the dressing room.

You can buy slots for more apparel when you customize a dragon. If you buy a slot, you unlock that slot for every dragon, not just one. (I didn't learn that for three years.)

This guide organizes every piece of apparel into categories to make it easier to figure out what apparel you want.

If you want to make an even fancier dragon, you can also change a dragon's breed or genes with breed scrolls, gene scrolls, and eye scrolls. You have to apply these from your hoard (see next post). It's usually cheaper to buy a dragon with the genes and breed you want. Eyes are more difficult to change because most fancy eyes are random. However, a few are only available with scrolls in the AH, Marketplace, or Coliseum.

*Caution: If you buy a gene scroll, make sure you can use it on your dragon. Ancient breeds can only use breed scrolls made specifically for them, and modern breeds can only use generic scrolls.

If you want to try designing a dragon, check out the scrying workshop. You can also use it to see what you will get if you breed any two dragons on the site.

Breeding is easier to learn by doing. You have to pair a male with a female for a nest, but they don't have to be male and/or female in your lore. It's usually not a problem, but check "Assay Bloodlines" in the scrying workshop to make sure your dragons aren't too closely related to breed.

Your nest will have between 1 and 5 eggs. You can only get 5 eggs if you have two dragons of different species. (I think this excludes ancient dragons.)

Not all genes have the same chance of being inherited, and hatchlings will take any color in a range between their parents' colors. Use "Foresee Progeny" in the scrying workshop to see how two dragons' hatchlings will look before you breed them.
Familiars are pets for your dragon. You can bond with the familiar once a day from your dragon's page. 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.

You can go from one dragon page to another with the arrow keys. It's especially helpful if you're bonding with familiars - you can click "bond" and then press an arrow key to go to the next dragon.

This just updated in October!

Your hoard is where you keep your items. You can sell items directly from your hoard ("hoardsell") - but be careful! They will sell for the price in their tooltip. Many items will sell for more if you sell them through the Auction House (AH) instead.

If you want more information about an item, click on it. The options will let you sell multiple stacks, sell the item straight from your hoard, put it on the Auction House, store it in a vault, lock it so you can't accidentally sell it from your hoard, or look it up in the Game database. (I'll put this in an image.)

Which items should you hoardsell or convert into food points? Look under the image. If there is a thin colored bar under it, the item is used somehow. Click on it to find out the uses or look it up on the AH before you use it up! If there is no bar, you can use it however you want.

Your hoard divided into eight sections:

• Food: Food is what you feed your dragons. You convert food into food points to feed your dragons. Check in the "Game Database" before you convert it, though - some food items are useful for other activities. Don't hoardsell these - you will get more for these items on the AH.
• Materials: These items are sometimes useful for sitewide activities. Check the Game Database first, but if they don't have a use in the game, they are worth selling either on the AH or directly from your hoard.
• Apparel: These are items you can put on your dragons. You use them on your dragon's page. Don't hoardsell these. Always sell them on the AH if you want to sell them.
• Familiars: These are pets for your dragon. You only need one of any type because you can only attach one to a dragon. Check their prices on the AH before hoardselling.
• Battle Items: These are useful for the Coliseum. You equip them on your dragon on the Coliseum. Check their prices of the AH before hoardselling.
• Skins: You can preview skins you own on your dragons here or in the Dressing Room.
• Specialty: These items include gene scrolls, eye scrolls, vistas, and scenes. You can apply any of these - except scrolls - on your dragons from the specialty section. Never hoardsell these.
• Other: These items are a lot like materials. However, you should check this section regularly. This section includes eggs, festival currency, and things you can open.

Your vault is divided the same way as your hoard. There are two differences. First, you cannot use items in your vault until you put them back in your hoard. Second, you can store currency as well as items. It's very helpful if you are trying to save up for something.

[center][b]Currency and Making Money[/b][/center] Most of the site's activities depend on in-game currency. There are two types of currency: treasure and gems. [emoji=treasure size=1]Treasure is the main currency, and you can get it through various activities. You will mostly use this currency. [emoji=gem size=1]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. You can see how much currency you have under your username at the top of the page. Now how do you make treasure? There are many ways to make money, but these are some of the easy methods: [LIST] [*]Keep your dragons fed: When your dragons have been well-fed for three days straight, you earn 250 treasure and 1 gem every day. Just don't let your dragons' energy slip below 80%. [*]Bond with your familiars: Every day you will receive between ?? and 50 treasure for bonding with a familiar. Sometimes you will receive a treasure chest too. [*][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/play/fairgrounds]Fairgrounds:[/url] You can play arcade 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. [*]Selling dragons: You can make more off of dragons in the coliseum once you know how, but until then, you can sell dragons through the forums and the auction house (see next post). [*]Exalting dragons: You will earn more treasure selling dragons until you know more about the coliseum. See the next post. [*]Sell art, adoptables, or skins: This is mostly through the forums. Skins are a little more difficult because you have to purchase [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/wiki/skins/1]blueprints[/url]. [/LIST] And last but not least... [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/coliseum]Coliseum![/url] See the next post.

You will either love or hate the Coliseum (Coli). The Coliseum is a place where your dragons fight monsters to get items. The coliseum is divided into "stage," or levels. This is a great way to get food, and many items sell very well on the Auction House. Once you have high-level dragons, you can also train other dragons to exalt for treasure. You can find helpful information about each venue in the game database under "stages." The user comments under the Training Fields stage are especially helpful.

I'm not very good at coliseum, so I'll recommend a few newbie guides:

• This basic newbie guide explains the coliseum basics well.
• This guide lists several coliseum builds and links you to different training guides for different coliseum builds.
• This guide lists several coliseum builds too.
• Culex's Training Guide was very helpful for me as a newbie, but the battlestone setups are expensive.
• The Sedona build is a less expensive training setup.

Exalting is a way to get dragon out of your lair. In dragon lore, exalting a dragon is an honor because it allows them to serve their deity, but you can interpret it any way you want. You can exalt a dragon for around 3k treasure, but you can sell a dragon for at least 6k treasure and sometimes more. Once you have a high-level coliseum team, you can swiftly train dragons up to level 6-8 and exalt them for around 10-12k treasure each.
Dominance is a site-wide friendly competition. Every week, the site tallies how many dragons each flight exalts. It factors in the dragons' levels and the proportional sizes of the flight. Sometimes flights will choose a week to exalt as much as possible, especially the week before a flight holiday. Check your flight's forums to see when your flight is doing a dominance push. Check the Flight Rising Discussion for "dom watch" threads to see when other flights are doing dominance pushes.

These are the economic centers of Flight Rising.

The Auction House (AH) 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 (CR) 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 another place to buy items for treasure or gems. Many items are cheaper on the AH, so check the AH before buying apparel or familiars. Specialty items are often cheaper on the Marketplace than the AH.

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.

Outside the Trading Post, there's also Festive Favors. It is only open for flight holidays. Flight holidays happen for one week at the end of every month (except December). For one week, you can trade a flight-specific currency for special items. Check the news page at the beginning of the week for more information.

[center][b]Your Flight and Aesthetic[/b][/center] Your flight is mostly about appearance and lore. Your flight affects the background on your lair's page, your nests, the flag under your avatar in the right-hand corner, and your hatchlings' eye color. For appearance, look at the deities pages (https://www1.flightrising.com/lair/1 through https://www1.flightrising.com/lair/12, just change the last number) or at another player's page. You'll see everything about their aesthetic except your flight flags. Your flight flags look like this: [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/earth_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/fire_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/wind_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/water_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/ice_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/lightning_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/shadow_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/light_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/nature_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/plague_small.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/layout/revamp/banners/arcane_small.png[/img] For lore, look in the Encyclopedia, check the [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/wiki/world-map]map[/url], or peek around [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/frd]Flight Rising Discussion[/url]. For dragon eye colors, try changing dragons' eye types in the [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/scrying/predict]scrying workshop[/url]. For more about appearance and lore, see [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/1649564#post_1649564]this guide[/url]. It's an old guide, but it's still useful. You have one free flight change and one free username change. After that you need to pay in gems to change again. Your aesthetic can be changed easily, though, even if you don't change flights. Click on the [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/static/icons/down_arrow.png[/img] next to your username. You can change your avatar to any dragon. Click [url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?p=settings]account settings[/url] to change your vista and forum signature. Otherwise, pick dragons that fit the aesthetic you want or showcase aesthetics with tabs in your lair.