Valyr

Welcome to Flight Rising! This guide is meant for players who might not have someone they can poke with questions about every little thing, and because some stuff I've found is considered too “minimal” to be explained in the forums in any useful detail. With so much to do in Flight Rising, it’s easy for things to get missed until it’s too late, and I know I missed out on a lot when I first joined!

There’s a lot to Flight Rising, and most of it is made even more fun by the users and what our collective brains all came up with. Whether you’re here to collect those pretty babies, to make an absolutely astonishing amount of dragon money, or to create the most beautiful art or lore the world has ever seen, we’re happy to have you and I’m happy to create this guide to help those goals along!

At the top of the page is links to things that often require more depth in information, and below I’ll go over what I consider the best place to start: the options you have on the left side of your screen and what they mean.


Dragon Lair – Here is where your dragons that you own go. Clicking this will take you to the first page, first tab of your LAIR. From there, you can swap to your HIBERNAL DEN via the top right button that looks like a moon. Beside that will be the settings button, wherein you can customize tab names and descriptions, move your dragons, and acquire more lair space.

Nesting Grounds – This will take you to your own nests. You will start off with 1, but can acquire more via treasure for a total of five. Dragons will stay in the nest until the eggs have been incubated five times for a total of five days minimum, hatching on the sixth day. There is no repercussion to forgetting to incubate, other than that your dragons cannot be sold or traded while nesting. (More information on how nesting works can be found here.)

Gather Items – This will take you to the gathering page, where you have six options to spend your gathering points for the day: four food choices, one for each food type, and two non-food choices for miscellaneous items and some other goodies. Hunting, Fishing, Catching, and Foraging will ONLY drop food. Digging and Scavenging will NEVER drop food, but can drop other useful goodies such as chests and unhatched dragon eggs respectively. You will always have at least 10 turns a day, with an additional 5 for keeping your dragons well fed. (Above 80%) You can also have an additional 3 turns if your active flight is dominating in the coliseum, explained further down.

Clan Profile – Here is your own user profile. The clan info can be edited to contain whatever you would like, and can be made quite lovely via BBCode. (More info on coding here.) Users can comment on your page (they can be deleted if you so choose). NOTE: A common misconception is that you can respond to someone via your own comment section, but this is not the case. If someone leaves a comment on your page, you can visit their own page to respond back! Otherwise they will not be notified and likely will not see it.

The right side of the clan profile is broken up into five sections: the LAIR LOCATION, which is defaulted to your flight’s starter home, but can be changed to any map location in your flight via the settings cog; the USER INFO, which has your player ID, date of joining, and the customizable avatar dragon and active vista. (As well as some other buttons which show your dragon, familiar, and forum post count respectively. On other users pages, there is a second row of buttons where you can send a friend request, send a private message, start a crossroads trade, or block the user.) The STAR beneath your avatar and name is in correlation to how many forum posts you have. (More info on forum posts here.); the RECENT FORUM POSTS will show the five most recent forum posts you have made, linking to the forum threads title, and with a ‘view all’ button to see all of your forum posts; the FRIENDS section, which displays your 10 oldest friends, with a ‘view all’ button to see all of them (the view all page will instead sort friends by their account age, from oldest to newest); and the RECENT ACTIVITY section, which will show a few little updates to what you’ve been doing such as hatching nests, adding new friends, and earning achievements!

Hoard – This will link to your own hoard. Only you can see your hoard, and it contains all of your items that are not active on a dragon or bound to the account. There is a toggle on the top right of the page that shows a treasure chest, and clicking this will take you to your vault. Functionaly it is the same as your hoard, but items from the hoard CAN be sold for a small amount of treasure and otherwise interacted with, whereas items in the FAULT cannot be sold or interacted with except when removed. This is to save you from accidentally hoard selling important items. (More info on valuable items here.)

Bestiary – This will link to your bestiary, which can be organized in three sections: familiars you own, familiars you have not yet discovered, and all familiars. Numbers beside each tab name show your count for each, which is helpful as there is over a thousand familiars! Familiars you own are displayed in colour, and there are buttons to differentiate where you currently have them (in your hoard/vault or on a dragon), what their status is (which is to say how much you have bonded with them), and a link to their page in the game database (the game database is explained further down). Familiars that have been bonded to their max level will have stars as a background! You can visit other users bestiaries from their clan page/forum post via clicking the little bestiary book icon.

Messages – Here you can see all received and sent messages. They will stay there until deleted, so you can choose to save every message for future needs or keep a clean message page and delete them all if you so choose! On the top right is a button to send out a message, which will require the desired users current username. You can also send someone a private message from their clan page or their forum post via the little blue chat bubble button.


Purchase Gems – Here gems, Flight Rising’s premium currency, can be bought for real money. This is the fastest way to earn gems, but not the only way. NOTE: Sometimes buying gems takes a hot second. Don't submit a ticket about unreceived gems until 24 hours have passed since the point of purchase. (More info on money here.)

Merch – This is an off-site link to HIVEMILL, Flight Rising’s partner that sells physical merch based off Flight Rising. Only one item from the merch site will benefit you in-game, which is the sticker bundle for $20 that will give you a star stick vista for the forums.

Marketplace – The marketplace is where you can buy items for treasure or gems. The treasure marketplace will often have a rotating set of items for a limited quantity. The gem marketplace can be accessed by clicking the toggle on the top right of the screen, and gem items will have an unlimited amount. Certain items cycle in and out of the gem marketplace but for a much longer cycle period than the treasure marketplace. (More info on when to expect cycled items here.)

Auction House – The auction house is sectioned into flight-based auctions, site-side auctions, and private auctions. You will likely primarily use the middle option the most. Auctions are user-created and don’t necessarily function like an actual auction would. Instead, users list items for a set price in either treasure or gems for a duration of up to 1 week, and the item can be bought in that time or expire and be returned to the users vault. Entering the auction house defaults to the buying section, but on the top right is a button to sell or see your activity: profits from sold auctions, expired auctions to be canceled or relisted, your current listings, and recent history of bought and sold auctions. NOTE: Once an item is sold, you cannot see who it goes to. (The only slight exception being dragons, as all dragons have a specific ID that you can access at any time.) PLEASE remember that gems have more value than treasure, and when making a new auction, double check that you aren’t selling an item worth 500 gems for 500 treasure instead. It is rare to get that item back.

Trading Post – The trading post links to a site NPCs that offer a variety of services, most of which are usable as dailies. (See more info on daily tasks here.) Tomo’s Trivia Tablet is a trivia game that will reward you with treasure, Crim’s Collection Cart will ask for an item which can be traded in for treasure (although the offered treasure is sometimes worse than the value of the item), Pinkerton’s Plundered Pile gives one random item a day, Swipp’s Swap Stand offers up three items in a few hour intervals that can be acquired via trading in other various items, Roundsey’s Raffle Roulette offers four valuable items/dragons a week via a raffle with tickets costing 500 treasure per 1 ticket, Baldwin’s Bubble Brew is an activity where you melt your miscellaneous items for colourful goop that can be later made into an assortment of unique items, Galore’s Glorious Gifts is not always open but is how staff can give us specialty items during events and such, Fiona’s Fantastic Familiars is where you can get rewarded for bonding with familiars, and Arlo’s Ancient Artifacts is an activity where you can do archeology to dig up unique items.

Crossroads – Here is where users can start direct trades with one another. One-Way delivery will send an item to a user immediately, whereas a Two-Way trade requires an item from each user to be offered (either a hoard item, a dragon, or currency) and requires both parties to CONFIRM what they are receiving and sending out before the trade can be completed. Both require the other user’s username to begin.

Custom Skins – If you have an interest in creating skins, which is an optional layer that can go over dragons and are almost entirely user designed, this is where you can learn how to do it and buy the blueprints to do so via gems! Rules of how to do such are explained on the opening page, with other tabs for the PSDs needed, a Tutorial on how it works, a section to Buy Blueprints, and where you can upload your designs for approval by staff.

Grand Exchange – The Grand Exchange is another NPC-centered area, with a rotating cast of characters that offer different items. These NPCs are attached to events that crop up throughout the year. Most of what can be bought in the Grand Exchange is done via unique currency earned during the events. The most common NPC is Joxar, a mirror dragon who appears 11 months out of the year for flight holidays.


Fairgrounds – Here are a bunch of fun games that users can play to earn treasure. You can play the games for as long as you want, but you can only earn 75,000 treasure a day. Once that cap is reached, you will not receive anything when you play. The fastest way to earn treasure in the fairgrounds is via Glimmer & Gloom, and there are a few guides on how to do such. (Although there are plenty of users who simply find it too complicated and would rather earn their money, reasonably, elsewhere!)

Coliseum – The coliseum is where you can send 1-3 adult dragons out into level-based venues to fight off non-draconic creatures for unique drops. The coliseum is arguably the most used aspect of the site by the majority of the active playerbase, and once familiar with it, can be the source of a lot of fun and income! (More info on the coliseum here.)

Dominance – Dominance is a fun way for flights to be competitive and receive bonuses for such. Dominance is decided by how many dragons each flight exalts, with dragons of a higher level having more value. Each week the top three victors are chosen and displayed on the left, with the current weeks standings on the right. The rewards for being dominant are displayed on the bottom left, with the top dominant flight receiving 15% off treasure marketplace items (you will often see shops crop up in the forums from the current dominating flight offering discounts on marketplace items), 5% off lair expansions (saving up for when your flight gets dominance is wise!), an additional 1,500 treasure earned passively each day, and an additional 3 gathering turns a day. These rewards will last the duration of the week starting Saturday. There is a LARGE amount of the playerbase that focuses almost exclusively on dominance, and you will see evidence of it all over. It is important to understand the gist even if you will not participate as it can still impact the way you decide to play Flight Rising. (More info on dominance here.)


Forums – You have likely already ventured forth into the forums. Here you can interact with your fellow users, and a decent portion of the game is moved along because of the forums. Trading, sales, art, dominance, guides, and more-all are found here! New players can often find lovely gifts from kind players in the Raffles & Giveaways forum, and here is where you can often get started with some free dragons! I won’t go too into detail on each forum topic, as they are often pretty straightforward. However, three distinct forum types will be in the ‘Flight Rising’ section on the bottom left hand side: these three are unique to your flight and as such other flights cannot see or interact with them. They are your flight Forums, Sales, and Dominance section. If you are in Plague for example, linking to a thread in the Plague Forums to a Water flight member will result in them getting an error page.

Dev Tracker – This is a neat little section where you can see recent and all updates staff have made, ranging from posts they’ve made in the forums to updates they’ve made on the site tracker that’s on the home page of Flight Rising. Handy!

Which Waystone – The Which Waystone is, by default, on for new users. Here it can be toggled off, but it is also where you get linked to when the little guy pops up. It’s highly helpful for new users (or so I’ve heard, it was in fact released after I’d already started playing), but can be useful even after you’ve found your way around as it reminds you which dailies you might have missed out on! It’s a handy tool for keeping track of what you can get up to each day.

World Map – Pretty straightforward, this will link to the interactive map of Sornieth, Flight Rising’s world of dragons. Here you can see where all the flights are located-say hi to your neighbors!

Search – You can search up users, dragons, and through the forums. Useful if you’re on the hunt for a specific dragon to buy, or looking through the forums for a guide or topic of choice.

Dressing Room – Here you can dress up active or fabricated dragons, or even just faceless dolls! You can play around with the entirety of Flight Rising’s apparel catalogue, but if you’re a new user I do advise you don’t get too attached to items you might never be able to receive if it’s no longer available. (I absolutely did this and I can still feel my pain when I realized Bone Fiends were not common items and there was a 99.9% chance I was never going to get one. DESPAIR!)

Scrying Workshop – Similar to the dressing room, but of a different flavour! Instead of apparel, here you can see what might be possible in terms of genes. As inbreeding is frowned upon in civil society, Assay Bloodlines will show you if two dragons are too closely related to be thrown into the nesting grounds together, useful to use before buying a dragon because buying relatives and then finding out you can’t breed them is remarkably common. Foresee Progeny will show you what you can expect from two dragons in terms of colour/gene combinations based off of what the parents look like. (More info on breeding here.) Lastly and in my opinion most importantly, is Predict Morphology. Lovingly referred to as the crying workshop, here you can throw together all sorts of colours and genes to see what sort of crazy combinations you can get up to! You can scry existing dragons to see what genes might look best before you buy them, or you can just make up dream dragons altogether. This is where the crying comes from, because some combinations can be VERY hard to get depending on colours and gene prices. Morph responsibly and spare your wallet.

Game Database – A useful tool! The items section will show you every item available in game, broken down into how it is acquired, where it is acquired, and some player-written comments that can give you other useful information. The monster section will show all mobs found in the coliseum as well as their drops, and similarly the stages section will show you each venue you can fight in the coliseum, what mobs are in each venue, and what the expected drops are.

Encyclopedia – Here is a section of staff-written pages of useful information, ranging from on-site lore to rules and regulations. You might save yourself some later trouble just taking a peek and what is there to read!

Support – Here you can help yourself, find help from other players, or reach out to staff which will create a help ticket. Scams, bugs (please check the bug forum before submitting a bug ticket), reporting harassment and inappropriate content, and issues with IRL payment can all be reported here, as well as many other things!