Dragon Quest Builders 2 Cheats and Tips
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Dragon Quest Builders 2 Cheats, Tips, Strategy
Dragon Quest Builders 2 is a block-building role-playing game where you must join forces with a mysterious boy named Malroth and stop the worshippers of an ancient evil. We have several cheats and tips that will help to make your life as a builder easier. The game is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC.
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Dragon Quest Builders 2 is an RPG adventure, you will explore islands, gather and craft with materials, design towns, level them up, and defend them from monsters and bosses alongside townspeople.
Cheats, Tips and Strategy
Below is a collection of hints and tips that will help you to progress in the game. These include the recipes for building a house and fast travel. As well as these hints and tips we also have a mini-guide here that goes into more details on some of the tips we have below:
- Collect Materials
Collect materials at every opportunity so when you get a new recipe and go to a crafting table there is a good chance you have everything you need. The bag the game gives you is spacious so make sure you fill it up with useful things such as dirt blocks which are always useful for stacking in order to reach a mountaintop.
Check out our Explorers Shores Events guide to find out how you can get more recipes and materials by going on excursions to other islands.
- Bag Essentials
Whenever you go exploring the islands make sure you always have the following essential items in your bag to enable you to explore longer or survive multiple enemy encounters. Your inventory should include food, healing item, a bed, and crafting equipment.
- Complete Quests
Always be on the lookout for quests. Any villager you see that ha a red exclamation marker above their head has a quest to offer. Completing a quest for the townsfolk, and they will reward you with hearts.
Check out our How to Collect Hearts Quickly guide to find out the fastest way to pile up Gratitude points.
- Make Townsfolk Happy
It is important that you keep earning hearts as the Gratidude points they provide allow you to level up your base in the major islands and unlock recipes, materials, and extra islands when you are in the Island of Awakening. To ensure that you are constantly racking up hearts you need to keep your villagers happy by completing the various quests they give you.
- Plant Vegetables and Crops
Make all the land available for planting. Using the hoe is essential for tilling the land, which allows you to free up any unused spaces for planting vegetables and other crops.
- Build a House
When you visit a new island focus on building a house and adorn it with furnishings, like a bed, a light source, and decorations. Doing so will earn the approval of the townsfolk which will result in a mass offering of hearts for your efforts.
Check out our Room and Set Recipe Guide to find out what ingredients you will need to construct the different rooms for your house.
- Cook Dishes
One way in which you can increase your villager's happiness is by cooking. If you stand in front of a bonfire or cooking station a special pot icon will appear which will show up on ingredients you can cook.
If you combine those ingredients in a pan and cook them together you will create new recipes. Cooking is also necessary for recruiting monsters.
- Gathering Oak and Leaves
The main quest on Furrowfield is to gather Oak and Leaves. You can get both of these items by destroying the dark wood trees and their foliage in the rain forest/Bodkin Archer area. Destroying several trees in these areas will net you enough of both materials.
- Better Weapons
You need new recipes to be able to craft better weapons. Recipes serve as blueprints to stronger swords and more. To obtain new recipes for better weapons you need to defeat monsters and level up alongside your companion, Malroth.
- Sprinting
You can make your character sprint by holding R1 (PS4) or R (Switch). Remember that sprinting can only be done for a limited amount of time as it is directly tied to your stamina level so make sure you keep an eye on that meter when you sprint.
- Fast Travel
To be able to fast travel you need to open up the area map by either pressing the touchpad on PS4, or the Minus button on Nintendo Switch and then pressing X or B to open up the grid version.
This will allow you to move the cursor over any footprint icons that appear on the map, which indicate points that you can fast travel to due to Naviglobes being located there. If you press X or B again you will be taken to your chosen destination in a fraction of the time.
Tips and Tricks for Newcomers and Pros
The video below is a compilation of 'how to' videos and tips and tricks that will help you in Dragon Quest Builders 2 regardless if you are a newcomer or pro.
Dragon Quest Builders 2 Tips and Tricks for Newcomers and Pros
00:00 - Introduction
00:52 - Magical Water Storage
01:50 - Item Storage Solution
02:14 - Perfect your Crops
02:51 - Max Gratitude Farm
04:09 - Metal Slime Farm
04:58 - Monster Trap
05:39 - Food Buffs
06:23 - Strongest Weapon
07:42 - Complex Windows
08:59 - Dupe Glitches
09:56 - Throne Room Fix
11:39 - Working Huge Room
12:55 - 101 Rooms Blueprint
13:09 - Hyrule Island
14:16 - Limits
15:02 - Magnetic Blocks Guide
15:14 - Secrets on IoA
15:47 - Elevator
15:57 - Growing all Plants
16:17 - Tree Stump
17:38 - Stickler's Sifter
17:55 - Ultimallet
19:26 - Removing Blocks
20:11 - Terraforming
20:32 - Perfect Spheres
21:14 - Ocarina
21:50 - Farming Orichalcum fast
22:10 - Seeds of Life
22:50 - Hidden Items
23:08 - Post-Story Content
24:26 - Thunderbolt Blade
25:09 - Buildnoculars Usage
26:42 - Bottomless Pot Usage
27:27 - Ultimate Fishing Guide
28:16 - Display any Picture
We hope these tips help you out in the game, but for further help, try our beginners guide, we also have some FAQs for Dragon Quest Builders 2, you can also submit your own questions there for other players to answer.
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Dragon Quest Builders 2 FAQ's
Our Latest Questions
| What is the best early weapon? |
| The Poison Needle is a special sword recipe you can gain by defeating the giant caterpillar optional boss in Furrowfield. |
| Where do you find pumpkin seeds in Furrowfield? |
| Pumpkin seeds can be found in the Old Church area. You can follow the way-marker to get there. Enter the church and go to the alter. You will see some purple earth behind the alter, break through it. Below it, you will find four chests containing 20 Pumpkin seeds. After collecting these, you can get the remaining 10 by following the dog. |
| How do you build a scarecrow? |
| To build a Scarecrow at a workbench you will need to gather Wood and some Cord. They can be obtained from trees and vines. |
| Where do you find Grass Seeds? |
| Grass Seeds are found in the Furrowfield Bog when you defeat the monster Muddy Hands. |
| How do you farm? |
| To be able to farm you will need a good fertile and green land which is achieved by using Worm Food. |
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