Hm now I have the option to make a bunch of stuff or go on to the next island.
It doesn't tell me where to build these things though. I assume that means anywhere at all on the island I can build will work, which is too much pressure for me. I already don't like the patchwork look of the meadow/forest areas, just a bunch of green squares surrounded by brown, and now i'll make a kitchen and dining room out in the middle of nowhere that will look like crap too.
On to the next island it is then.
So you can go to resource islands that respawn stuff each time you visit to get loads and loads more of the stuff you need to make everywhere a forest and such.
I found an easier way to make grass that doesn't involve farming... poo. You need the trowel though, which you get after completing I think 5 tablet tasks, and access to Blossom Bay. Take any junk building block that you probably have 999 of, like rock. Stand on the grass, aim down, and swap with the trowel, and you'll actually get grassy earth instead of dirt. And just do that, swapping your 999 rock with grass block. Now if you ever need grass, just trowel it on over fiddling with worm food. If you run out, just go cleave your way through a mountain and get more rock, and don't forget about the giant bash move you got which I think does a 5x5x5 smash in front of you.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
Cooking seems to have taken a massive step backward in this game. At least so far. Having to manually place 1 ingredient at a time at the campfire and then manually start it each time, and then sit around and wait for it for 30 seconds is just... why would they do this when DQB1 let you just throw all your cooking ingredients in at once and then tell it to make you all the food that it could?
I'm hoping that this singular item at a time system goes away when I get the ability to craft an actual stove, but so far I'm still in Furrowfield, and cooking is awful.
Cooking seems to have taken a massive step backward in this game. At least so far. Having to manually place 1 ingredient at a time at the campfire and then manually start it each time, and then sit around and wait for it for 30 seconds is just... why would they do this when DQB1 let you just throw all your cooking ingredients in at once and then tell it to make you all the food that it could?
I'm hoping that this singular item at a time system goes away when I get the ability to craft an actual stove, but so far I'm still in Furrowfield, and cooking is awful.
Just make a kitchen, put the ingredients in the chest, and the people will make everything for you.
Cooking seems to have taken a massive step backward in this game. At least so far. Having to manually place 1 ingredient at a time at the campfire and then manually start it each time, and then sit around and wait for it for 30 seconds is just... why would they do this when DQB1 let you just throw all your cooking ingredients in at once and then tell it to make you all the food that it could?
I'm hoping that this singular item at a time system goes away when I get the ability to craft an actual stove, but so far I'm still in Furrowfield, and cooking is awful.
Seems to be there to give you incentive to make a kitchen and let your slaves villagers cook for you
Can I give Britney and other soldiers new outfits? Do they wear the fancy armors I make but no longer need, or the old hero outfits and such? Or are they stuck forever wearing their color coded coats? I never see them sleep either...
Man I look at top plays in other games and think, yeah that's neat, whatever. I look at all the awesome bullshit people make in builders and now I feel like I'm awful and need to step up my game. A lot.
Some of it is just neat one off stuff people make, like this:
Like how this guy makes a two story building that looks neat but is also still practical from a gameplay sense, I'm not sure if it is actually regarded as a room for gameplay purposes, but if it isn't it wouldn't be that hard to modify and it lets you see inside.
Others include cool buildings, or that people dress up their warp points on the island.
For some transforming the island itself is a pain so they'd rather make terrariums.
Those are pretty cool, but they leave me asking the same question that a lot of Minecraft builds always leave me asking:
Did someone actually build that brick by brick, or did they use some sort of mod to take a concept and digitize it into blocks? (As if the game were a digital 3D Printer of sorts).
As far as I know DQB2 doesn't have that kind of external tool.
What it does have though is the pencil that lets you duplicate portions (or entire buildings. you can strait up copy the best builder entries on the explorer islands) of a larger work in isolation and then copy paste them into place (and have the islanders build it for you) so you can more easily (and incrementally) work on something larger that way. Like parts of the game that area already made? Let's copy those bad boys and bring them back to the island.
One thing that's worth pointing out is that first-person view lets you focus on individual blocks, and interact with them from a bit further away than you could normally, including areas above you that would be a pain to reach in third-person view.
I don't have them yet, but I'd imagine that the Builder's Binoculars probably vastly increase the range on that?
The gameplay styles of both the PlayStation 4 and 3DS versions in one.
Spell of Restoration scenario selection.
Newly added party member dialogue.
Added [???].
Fully-voiced events.
Voice support for all party member dialogue.
Switch between voice languages (Gorgeous Edition-only).
Option to turn on / off sounds from the protagonist (exhaling, etc.)
Improved [???].
Voice Drama.
The timing at which you can visit Yocchi Village has changed.
The placement of Yocchi that possess passwords.
New “Appearance-Changing Equipment” added.
Madame Cherie.
Added [???].
Implemented horse racing remedial actions.
Furigana display.
Ability to skip cutscenes the first time around.
Camera improvements.
Photo Mode added.
Increased variation of ridable monsters.
Ability to attack ridable monsters on the field to earn experience points.
Switches to dedicated background music when riding a great sabrecat.
Party members follow you on the field.
Dash movement.
Ability to call horse at all times.
Obtain experience from blowing away monsters on the horse.
Shiny spots stand out more.
Immediately obtain materials upon examining gathering points.
Bowgun gameplay revised.
Added church Yocchi before the Lord of Shadows Mordegon.
Adjusted the placement of guest NPCs when camping.
Increased the tempo of party dialogue.
Added [???].
Added [???].
Added party member speech bubbles in battle.
In battle, party members move on their own according to the situation.
Adjusted battle speed.
Added ability to switch between free movement and auto camera mid-battle.
“Skill Reset” available from the beginning of the game.
“Learn Multiple Skills” available from the beginning of the game.
Forging can now be done anytime, anywhere.
Reverse lookup and purchase materials required for forging.
Made it easier to understand which items can be created with forging.
Display 2D-only monsters in the 3D bestiary.
Navigate the UI with the joystick.
Added shortcut menu.
Added guide for opening the map.
Added effective weapon type icons to the skill panel.
Display defeated monsters list in the map menu.
Display rarefied monsters on the defeated monsters list.
Display status ailments when switching out party members.
Improved the display of walking recovery effects.
Appearance-changing equipment is properly labeled.
Purchased materials automatically go into the item bag.
Revised soldier events in the Heliodor Sewers.
Partial improvements to 2D graphics.
Partial improvements to 2D event scenes.
Adjusted the 2D map at the start of the game.
Added “Smell” to replace Noah’s Archive.
Added ability to click through the message window as the level up melody is playing.
Partial quest adjustments.
Pickup Elements
Increased party member reactions in battle, emphasized a sense of unity.
Improved forging.
Added Photo Mode.
Implemented horse racing remedial actions.
Madame Cherie.
Voice Drama Downloadable Content (1,500 yen)
About four to five hours in length. A collection of short stories that dive deeper into the characters, including their pasts, as well as depicts their everyday lives.
There is a story of Jade when she was a child, a young Rab, as well as a story about a Medamoiselles play.
There are various stories, from good stories that make you laugh to matters of life.
There is also a read-aloud story in which Mitsuki Saiga plays about nine roles by himself.
Rab serves as the guide for the Voice Drama.
Text can also be displayed. There are log, fast-forward, and rewind features.
Increased Party Member Reactions in Battle, Emphasized a Sense of Unity
In order to create a sense of unity with your party members, characters left alone will move on their own, or move to evade when approached, as well as produce speech bubbles related to the battle situation.
In event battles, there are even some special lines that are voiced.
Improved Forging
Forge anywhere.
While this does not apply to everything, it is also possible to purchase the materials you are missing.
Additional Ridable Monsters
The great sabrecat runs at high-speed. By roaring, you can summon nearby monsters.
Appearance-Changing Equipment
“Appearance-Changing Equipment” can now only change appearance without affecting attack power and defense power.
The “Kingdom of Trodain Set” changes the protagonist’s appearance to that of the Dragon Quest VIII protagonist. Dragon Quest VIII music also plays on the field.
Adventure the Worlds of Previous Dragon Quest Titles
All the worlds of previous Dragon Quest titles use 8-bit graphics. Even the maps that were 3D in the 3DS version were recreated in 8-bit. The music is also 8-bit sound source.
Spell of Restoration Evolution
Go back to an adventure that you have already passed. Return and replay a previous adventure while carrying over your strength. You can also choose between 2D and 3D modes.
Photo Mode
Photo Mode includes features such as rearranging characters, changing the way the camera is facing, posing, turning on or off the character display (individual settings also possible), blurring the background, and more.
Madame Cherie
Madame Cherie is a professor at L’Academie de Notre Maitre les Medailles.
Nintendo Console Codes
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The gameplay styles of both the PlayStation 4 and 3DS versions in one.
Spell of Restoration scenario selection.
Newly added party member dialogue.
Added [???].
Fully-voiced events.
Voice support for all party member dialogue.
Switch between voice languages (Gorgeous Edition-only).
Option to turn on / off sounds from the protagonist (exhaling, etc.)
Improved [???].
Voice Drama.
The timing at which you can visit Yocchi Village has changed.
The placement of Yocchi that possess passwords.
New “Appearance-Changing Equipment” added.
Madame Cherie.
Added [???].
Implemented horse racing remedial actions.
Furigana display.
Ability to skip cutscenes the first time around.
Camera improvements.
Photo Mode added.
Increased variation of ridable monsters.
Ability to attack ridable monsters on the field to earn experience points.
Switches to dedicated background music when riding a great sabrecat.
Party members follow you on the field.
Dash movement.
Ability to call horse at all times.
Obtain experience from blowing away monsters on the horse.
Shiny spots stand out more.
Immediately obtain materials upon examining gathering points.
Bowgun gameplay revised.
Added church Yocchi before the Lord of Shadows Mordegon.
Adjusted the placement of guest NPCs when camping.
Increased the tempo of party dialogue.
Added [???].
Added [???].
Added party member speech bubbles in battle.
In battle, party members move on their own according to the situation.
Adjusted battle speed.
Added ability to switch between free movement and auto camera mid-battle.
“Skill Reset” available from the beginning of the game.
“Learn Multiple Skills” available from the beginning of the game.
Forging can now be done anytime, anywhere.
Reverse lookup and purchase materials required for forging.
Made it easier to understand which items can be created with forging.
Display 2D-only monsters in the 3D bestiary.
Navigate the UI with the joystick.
Added shortcut menu.
Added guide for opening the map.
Added effective weapon type icons to the skill panel.
Display defeated monsters list in the map menu.
Display rarefied monsters on the defeated monsters list.
Display status ailments when switching out party members.
Improved the display of walking recovery effects.
Appearance-changing equipment is properly labeled.
Purchased materials automatically go into the item bag.
Revised soldier events in the Heliodor Sewers.
Partial improvements to 2D graphics.
Partial improvements to 2D event scenes.
Adjusted the 2D map at the start of the game.
Added “Smell” to replace Noah’s Archive.
Added ability to click through the message window as the level up melody is playing.
Partial quest adjustments.
Pickup Elements
Increased party member reactions in battle, emphasized a sense of unity.
Improved forging.
Added Photo Mode.
Implemented horse racing remedial actions.
Madame Cherie.
Voice Drama Downloadable Content (1,500 yen)
About four to five hours in length. A collection of short stories that dive deeper into the characters, including their pasts, as well as depicts their everyday lives.
There is a story of Jade when she was a child, a young Rab, as well as a story about a Medamoiselles play.
There are various stories, from good stories that make you laugh to matters of life.
There is also a read-aloud story in which Mitsuki Saiga plays about nine roles by himself.
Rab serves as the guide for the Voice Drama.
Text can also be displayed. There are log, fast-forward, and rewind features.
Increased Party Member Reactions in Battle, Emphasized a Sense of Unity
In order to create a sense of unity with your party members, characters left alone will move on their own, or move to evade when approached, as well as produce speech bubbles related to the battle situation.
In event battles, there are even some special lines that are voiced.
Improved Forging
Forge anywhere.
While this does not apply to everything, it is also possible to purchase the materials you are missing.
Additional Ridable Monsters
The great sabrecat runs at high-speed. By roaring, you can summon nearby monsters.
Appearance-Changing Equipment
“Appearance-Changing Equipment” can now only change appearance without affecting attack power and defense power.
The “Kingdom of Trodain Set” changes the protagonist’s appearance to that of the Dragon Quest VIII protagonist. Dragon Quest VIII music also plays on the field.
Adventure the Worlds of Previous Dragon Quest Titles
All the worlds of previous Dragon Quest titles use 8-bit graphics. Even the maps that were 3D in the 3DS version were recreated in 8-bit. The music is also 8-bit sound source.
Spell of Restoration Evolution
Go back to an adventure that you have already passed. Return and replay a previous adventure while carrying over your strength. You can also choose between 2D and 3D modes.
Photo Mode
Photo Mode includes features such as rearranging characters, changing the way the camera is facing, posing, turning on or off the character display (individual settings also possible), blurring the background, and more.
Madame Cherie
Madame Cherie is a professor at L’Academie de Notre Maitre les Medailles.
Yeah I’m probably about 30 hours into the steam version and just seeing the quality of life changes made me stop and wait for the switch version. Super excited to get into this again.
So mob grinding works like you would expect from minecraft or terraria.
Mobs spawn depending on the floor tile. Need grass seeds? Spoiled soil for the hands. Need meat? Sand for rabbits.
You can place traps on tiles.
Monsters continue to spawn and die on their own.
AFK.
Profit.
Build it underground and out of sight on IoA or build a temporary one on an explorer island until you are satisfied.
Man I meant to turn this off after an hour last night and two hours went by before I knew what happened. That's dangerous.
A couple quick questions from someone not super far into Furrowfield:
1. How can I tell what the boundaries of my town are? DQB1 did a good job highlighting it on the map, but I can't really tell in this one.
2. What happens if my villagers don't have food to eat?
Man I meant to turn this off after an hour last night and two hours went by before I knew what happened. That's dangerous.
A couple quick questions from someone not super far into Furrowfield:
1. How can I tell what the boundaries of my town are? DQB1 did a good job highlighting it on the map, but I can't really tell in this one.
2. What happens if my villagers don't have food to eat?
1: Your UI should change once you leave the bounds of the town. In town you should have the Town Level shown by your heart counter
2: Nothing other than making you feel bad for not feeding them. Feeding them and giving them a place to sleep is a good way to get the hearts
There will come a point where one of the villagers asks you to create a village restroom. And your villagers love to poop. They generate hearts and everything. I'm pretty sure that keeping your villagers well fed helps with their toilet usage, which you need to generate night soil. It's a win-win.
Cooking seems to have taken a massive step backward in this game. At least so far. Having to manually place 1 ingredient at a time at the campfire and then manually start it each time, and then sit around and wait for it for 30 seconds is just... why would they do this when DQB1 let you just throw all your cooking ingredients in at once and then tell it to make you all the food that it could?
I'm hoping that this singular item at a time system goes away when I get the ability to craft an actual stove, but so far I'm still in Furrowfield, and cooking is awful.
I'm not sure if this works or not, it just occurred to me. you press "X" to put an item in the fire, then you press the cook button. Press x more than once. I think this might actually work cause i discovered by accident in the last act that you can do this with a different kind of workbench. I just didnt think to try it with a fire.
Man I meant to turn this off after an hour last night and two hours went by before I knew what happened. That's dangerous.
A couple quick questions from someone not super far into Furrowfield:
1. How can I tell what the boundaries of my town are? DQB1 did a good job highlighting it on the map, but I can't really tell in this one.
2. What happens if my villagers don't have food to eat?
The music changes.
I agree that Furrowfield is kinda hard to tell its borders. the following areas are a little better then that, but furrowfield is kind of tight for space.
Cooking seems to have taken a massive step backward in this game. At least so far. Having to manually place 1 ingredient at a time at the campfire and then manually start it each time, and then sit around and wait for it for 30 seconds is just... why would they do this when DQB1 let you just throw all your cooking ingredients in at once and then tell it to make you all the food that it could?
I'm hoping that this singular item at a time system goes away when I get the ability to craft an actual stove, but so far I'm still in Furrowfield, and cooking is awful.
I'm not sure if this works or not, it just occurred to me. you press "X" to put an item in the fire, then you press the cook button. Press x more than once. I think this might actually work cause i discovered by accident in the last act that you can do this with a different kind of workbench. I just didnt think to try it with a fire.
I'll try it out after work tonight.
But I'm actually content to let my peasants do it for me (now that I know about that). They generate hearts when they cook, so there's an extra bonus to letting them do it.
Cooking seems to have taken a massive step backward in this game. At least so far. Having to manually place 1 ingredient at a time at the campfire and then manually start it each time, and then sit around and wait for it for 30 seconds is just... why would they do this when DQB1 let you just throw all your cooking ingredients in at once and then tell it to make you all the food that it could?
I'm hoping that this singular item at a time system goes away when I get the ability to craft an actual stove, but so far I'm still in Furrowfield, and cooking is awful.
I'm not sure if this works or not, it just occurred to me. you press "X" to put an item in the fire, then you press the cook button. Press x more than once. I think this might actually work cause i discovered by accident in the last act that you can do this with a different kind of workbench. I just didnt think to try it with a fire.
I'll try it out after work tonight.
But I'm actually content to let my peasants do it for me (now that I know about that). They generate hearts when they cook, so there's an extra bonus to letting them do it.
I have not gotten more than one item per cook station and I've tried to double up. I just keep the kitchen stocked for the village and spend a day cooking high-value items for myself before I head out on an expedition.
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I don't know why they call Malroth the lord of destruction when I am the one who demolishes every new dwelling I see for their sick new blocks
Bombs are great, I wonder if they get upgraded to the point where it can destroy everything
I've actually screwed myself twice already by demolishing new areas as soon as I discover them. First, I got to the Pastor's house and I bashed it all to pieces and stole his sluice gates and other new blocks and pieces. That messed up the quest to fill the two pools with water. I had to go back and rebuild some of that just to get the quest to register correctly.
The second time was when I got to the broken cathedral. I went around smashing everything and hoarding all the new temple pieces. Then that ghost guy asked me to rebuild his altar and I was like "uhh, no. This shit is mine. I looted it fair and square."
I don't know why they call Malroth the lord of destruction when I am the one who demolishes every new dwelling I see for their sick new blocks
Bombs are great, I wonder if they get upgraded to the point where it can destroy everything
They do and they are.
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I've actually screwed myself twice already by demolishing new areas as soon as I discover them. First, I got to the Pastor's house and I bashed it all to pieces and stole his sluice gates and other new blocks and pieces. That messed up the quest to fill the two pools with water. I had to go back and rebuild some of that just to get the quest to register correctly.
The second time was when I got to the broken cathedral. I went around smashing everything and hoarding all the new temple pieces. Then that ghost guy asked me to rebuild his altar and I was like "uhh, no. This shit is mine. I looted it fair and square."
Complete the quest, then steal his shit. As god intended.
I didn't like first person view much since the camera R-stick movement is janky, but I started using it more for mining ore. You don't tear up the mine as much since you can target the ore blocks better, and it seems you automatically collect the ore in first person. Even if you mine an ore block that's at maximum distance from you. No worrying about chasing down ore that falls away after breaking.
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Blocks also break about 50% faster in first person mode.
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So you can go to resource islands that respawn stuff each time you visit to get loads and loads more of the stuff you need to make everywhere a forest and such.
It's mainly how laborious it is to get the green patch to cover the full area, what with it not going up levels only down.
Is it best to just jump in with the second game?
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I'm hoping that this singular item at a time system goes away when I get the ability to craft an actual stove, but so far I'm still in Furrowfield, and cooking is awful.
Just make a kitchen, put the ingredients in the chest, and the people will make everything for you.
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Seems to be there to give you incentive to make a kitchen and let your slaves villagers cook for you
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Some of it is just neat one off stuff people make, like this:
Like how this guy makes a two story building that looks neat but is also still practical from a gameplay sense, I'm not sure if it is actually regarded as a room for gameplay purposes, but if it isn't it wouldn't be that hard to modify and it lets you see inside.
Others include cool buildings, or that people dress up their warp points on the island.
For some transforming the island itself is a pain so they'd rather make terrariums.
And then you get these assholes
Did someone actually build that brick by brick, or did they use some sort of mod to take a concept and digitize it into blocks? (As if the game were a digital 3D Printer of sorts).
What it does have though is the pencil that lets you duplicate portions (or entire buildings. you can strait up copy the best builder entries on the explorer islands) of a larger work in isolation and then copy paste them into place (and have the islanders build it for you) so you can more easily (and incrementally) work on something larger that way. Like parts of the game that area already made? Let's copy those bad boys and bring them back to the island.
I don't have them yet, but I'd imagine that the Builder's Binoculars probably vastly increase the range on that?
From a few pages ago:
Switch (JeffConser): SW-3353-5433-5137 Wii U: Skeldare - 3DS: 1848-1663-9345
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Yeah I’m probably about 30 hours into the steam version and just seeing the quality of life changes made me stop and wait for the switch version. Super excited to get into this again.
Mobs spawn depending on the floor tile. Need grass seeds? Spoiled soil for the hands. Need meat? Sand for rabbits.
You can place traps on tiles.
Monsters continue to spawn and die on their own.
AFK.
Profit.
Build it underground and out of sight on IoA or build a temporary one on an explorer island until you are satisfied.
A couple quick questions from someone not super far into Furrowfield:
1. How can I tell what the boundaries of my town are? DQB1 did a good job highlighting it on the map, but I can't really tell in this one.
2. What happens if my villagers don't have food to eat?
1: Your UI should change once you leave the bounds of the town. In town you should have the Town Level shown by your heart counter
2: Nothing other than making you feel bad for not feeding them. Feeding them and giving them a place to sleep is a good way to get the hearts
Feeding them generates hearts too.
I'm not sure if this works or not, it just occurred to me. you press "X" to put an item in the fire, then you press the cook button. Press x more than once. I think this might actually work cause i discovered by accident in the last act that you can do this with a different kind of workbench. I just didnt think to try it with a fire.
The music changes.
I agree that Furrowfield is kinda hard to tell its borders. the following areas are a little better then that, but furrowfield is kind of tight for space.
I'll try it out after work tonight.
But I'm actually content to let my peasants do it for me (now that I know about that). They generate hearts when they cook, so there's an extra bonus to letting them do it.
I have not gotten more than one item per cook station and I've tried to double up. I just keep the kitchen stocked for the village and spend a day cooking high-value items for myself before I head out on an expedition.
PSN Hypacia
Xbox HypaciaMinnow
Discord Hypacia#0391
Bombs are great, I wonder if they get upgraded to the point where it can destroy everything
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
The second time was when I got to the broken cathedral. I went around smashing everything and hoarding all the new temple pieces. Then that ghost guy asked me to rebuild his altar and I was like "uhh, no. This shit is mine. I looted it fair and square."
They do and they are.
Complete the quest, then steal his shit. As god intended.
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The game does not want to cooperate and it doesn't even look that great, but I think I managed to get it to work at least