Summary:
- Crafting requires recipes and materials, made at workbenches with a quick-action mini-game.
- Mounts are purely cosmetic speed boosts. Unlock them via quests, enemy drops, or special items.
- Remake gear by using Redux Stones, adding bonus skills and higher quality to top-tier items.
- Strangelings are allies trapped as objects. Free them to gain helpful buddies of various lives.
- Equip and train freed Strangelings so they gather or craft resources for you.
Fantasy Life i is a new RPG with deep systems. This Fantasy Life i Guide will help you start strong. We cover crafting basics, using mounts, remaking gear, and strangelings. Each section has clear tips so you can explore without frustration. Let’s begin and enjoy the adventure ahead!
Crafting Basics and Tips
Crafting is a major part of Fantasy Life i. You must unlock crafting lives (like Blacksmith, Cook, etc.) at the guild office. Each life learns recipes for different items.
To craft, gather a recipe and materials first. You find recipes in quests or hidden Leafe shrines. You gather materials from the wild by using gathering lives, or buy them at shops.
Next, go to any workbench near a Life Master and choose your recipe. You play a mini-game: follow a short sequence of tap, hold, spin or mash icons. Fill the progress bar quickly to craft. The faster you finish, the higher the quality of the item.
Higher quality means better stats and sometimes extra rewards. If you run out of moves, crafting fails and materials are lost, so aim to complete with moves remaining.
Crafting tips: Focus on speed and high quality. Manual crafting yields far more materials than auto-crafting – about 2.5× more on a perfect craft. Also, invest in your crafting skill tree.
Get the Time Limit Boosts first to shorten sequences and earn higher grades easily. Remember any workbench can craft any recipe – you don’t need a special bench for each item. Finally, you can add a custom signature to crafted items to mark them as your own.
How Mounts Work
Mounts increase your movement speed in Fantasy Life i. Riding a mount lets you cover ground much faster without slowing down for materials.
Each mount is purely cosmetic – none give extra stats beyond travel speed. So pick rides you like (a cute animal or a powerful machine) just for style and speed.
You start with a camel as your first mount. Other mounts come from different sources. Some mounts must be bought or crafted.
For example, horses are sold at base camp shops for Dosh. The Napdragon mount requires a special recipe and crafting.
Rare mounts drop from enemies: bosses like the Cashmeer or King Woolie will yield their mount form when defeated. There are 17 mounts total, earned by quests, shops, enemy drops, or crafting.
To use a mount, equip it in the mount menu and press the Mount button (default L1 or Z). The mount then appears under you. You can swap mounts anytime in the menu without extra cost.
Mounts all have the same function of increasing speed, so they are best seen as travel tools. Use them to explore the world quickly and gather resources on the go.
Remaking Your Gear
Remaking gear lets you reroll and boost your equipment without new materials. First, unlock it by finding a goddess statue shrine deep underground.
Answer the statue’s question and you may earn a Redux Stone. Then, in a crafting life, reach the final skill panel that grants the “Remake” action.
Once unlocked, talk to a workbench and choose Remake on an item. You will use a Redux Stone to transform it.
Remaking lets you keep any existing bonus skills on the item and choose which to keep after reroll. You can also add new skills. You can convert extra weapons into more Redux Stones to use.
Use remakes on your highest-rank weapons or armor to maximize benefit. Quality and rank multiply the effect – top gear can get about a 50% stat boost with the right skills.
Remember, this only works on weapons, armor, and tools (not food). Redux Stones can be bought from a merchant at Base Camp once you unlock higher crafting ranks. Save them for your best gear to make it stronger.
Strangelings: Allies in Disguise
Strangelings are unique characters in Fantasy Life i. They are villagers or potential allies who have been turned into everyday objects. In all, there are 49 Strangelings hiding around the world. Each one corresponds to a life (for example, tailor or hunter) and will become a helpful Buddy once freed.
To find Strangelings, explore thoroughly. Check shrines, dungeons, and even random drops in Ginormosia. Keep an eye out for odd items like hats, flags, furniture, and statues.
Sometimes tough enemies with silver or gold crowns will drop a Strangeling object. When you encounter one, interact with it and meet the life challenge to revert it.
Once freed, the new ally will settle on your island and help you with tasks. They act based on their life: for example, a miner Strangeling will mine ores, and a cook Strangeling can prepare meals.
Make sure to equip your new buddy with the right tools and give them gifts. Raising their friendship level unlocks extra perks and improves their effectiveness. Trained Strangelings greatly speed up gathering and crafting tasks, making many jobs faster.
Conclusion
Fantasy Life i has many systems to learn, but each can boost your adventure. Master crafting by gathering materials and practicing the mini-game. Use mounts to travel faster once you find them. Unlock remaking to power up your best gear later on. Hunt down Strangelings to add handy companions. This Fantasy Life i Guide covered the essentials for crafting, mounts, remakes, and Strangelings. Keep these tips in mind as you play, and you’ll progress smoothly.
