hints – Mindflight

Horse Isle Hints

These tips assume that you have been playing a while and know your way around. They are are simple things I have discovered that can be surprisingly helpful. Mixed in are a couple tips for beginners as well.

Finding Essence Stars

If you have a map, and are going to an Essence Star finding contest, when you arrive at the club town, set your map heading to the town. That way, you always know exactly how far from the village you are, and can stay the right distance away.

Spacing Ranches

Similarly, you can use the same trick if you are trying to build a ranch near a club town, so you know when you are far enough away from it to begin homesteading. If you are tapping maple, rubber, or dragon trees, save their location in your Travel destinations – including the time of day that you tapped the tree in the location name. That way it reminds you to go back to the tree, tells you where, and reminds you when it’s been 24 hours. You’ll be much less likely to lose your taps or forget to collect!

Ranch Size

If you want to be reminded about exactly where the borders of your ranch are located, start to build something (like a fence post) but don’t proceed with the construction. Don’t cancel out yet either. Then you can walk around and see your borders. When you are done looking, just cancel out and don’t build the object. While building, there are grid lines to help you with spacing and alignment!

Easy Stone Gathering

The easiest way to collect stone and driftwood is to mount a horse, zoom out slightly, and ride slowly over a rocky beach while hitting E repeatedly. Fall Forest beaches are excellent for this.

Ornery Horses

When you need to make a horse breedable but they are too grumpy, feed it a bunch of coconuts then pet it. Grooming isn’t necessary for breeding, and coconuts are free but help both hunger and thirst.

Which Horses to Train

Only train horses you will be using to ride or compete with. Breeding stock just uses inborn stats.

Rescuing Yourself

If you get stuck in a deep hole, you can usually jump out by pressing up arrow plus right arrow, and hitting the space bar as fast as you can. Point your view up a bit so you can see when you are making progress.

Rescuing Yourself Part 2

When you are exploring and get near a rainforest biome, where holes are frequent and sometimes hard to avoid, set a Travel location. That way you can warp out and not lose much progress.

Random Items

A cheap place to get rare though random items is in swamps, by searching pitcher plants. However, it won’t work for gathering Quests. It’s great if you are trying to find rare flowers or crystals!

Wishing Coins

If you get Wishing Coins, save them up for when you need energy or money – it’s no fun to have nearly full energy and have the Wishing Coin refill your bars.

Selling Horses

Blood Ruby Knights Club has a list of all the trader puns so you know where to find all the different breed traders, and the Newspaper has an updated list of where you can sell the horses for the best prices. Auction rare ones like horses with rare colors or affinities.

Essence Anomalies

If you are going to try for an Essence Anomaly, make sure and join the party that is going. You’ll get bonus Essence along the way if you stick with them and also you can Quick Travel to various members if you fall behind.

Essence Anomalies Part 2

When trying to get to one, start by finding the closest club that’s there. It’s worth looking at their Wagon Routes, sometimes you can get closer to the Anomaly that way. Also, they may have a tower to glide from. If you have a glider and a balloon and no launch point, because the club is on an Atoll or something, you can use the Balloon to get to the top of the Clubhouse and glider launch from there.

Conserving Travel

If you have traveled way the heck out to the back of beyond and you want to get back to civilization without using a bunch of Travel, wait till a Party Invite pops up. Then use the free travel to get back to that club. It’ll be a lot easier to teleport to wherever you’re going from there.

Remembering to collect from tapped trees

If you don’t usually tap trees, set a travel location with the time you tapped the trees. Then you know where they are, and also when to go back.

Dangerous Dig Locations

This last item is not a tip but a warning. If you are writing a Club Quest and a step involves digging, make sure you do any final editing of that spot at your dig location because the game might reset that dig spot otherwise. This is true even if you are only fixing a typo.

Horse Isle 3 – Making Dyes

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Say you’ve made some tack for your horse, but that light brown and white really clashes with her pretty coat. Or maybe you just don’t like the way it looks. Luckily, Infinite Wilds lets you dye both clothes and tack items pretty much whatever color you want. There is a near infinite number of possible recipes and more colors than you can shake a riding crop at.

However, before you start mixing random berries or flowers into dyes, you need to make glass bottles to keep them in!

In order to make a glass bottle, we’ll need two very important tools. We’ll need a shovel, which is unlockable for 100 Essence, and we’ll need a Furnace. You need to own a ranch before building a furnace, and a fair amount of stone and wood. Unfortunately you can’t use someone else’s.

First, let’s gather the raw ingredients for our glass bottles.

We need to go to a beach where there are seashells and gather a bunch, it only takes two or so for one batch of calcium carbonate but it’s nice to have extra.

While we’re there, we need to dig up a bunch of shovels of sand. Just activate the shovel and hold your left mouse button down till you see “100%” then let up, and a shovel of sand will be put in your inventory.

After that, we need to find a place in the ocean where kelp is growing. It kind of looks like big trees growing in the water, and there is enough growing in shallow areas for it to be convenient. Pick a bunch of that, too, and on the way back home grab ten or so pieces of wood for the furnace.

Now that we’ve gotten back to our ranch with out squishy kelp and gritty sand that gets everywhere and salty seashells, we can fire up the furnace.

Use the furnace to:

Convert all the kelp to potash

Convert all the seashells to calcium carbonate

And then we’ll have all the stuff to make glass bottles! They are made 2 at a time, so let’s make a bunch while the Furnace is nice and hot. The Furnace will burn out, on its own, after a few minutes.

With bottles in hand, along with various berries, flowers, fruits, and other random items, its’ time to get ourselves to a Dye Shop. You can find one in most Clubs. This one is in TigerTon. They look like this:

After unlocking a couple dye slots, it’s time to experiment. Once you have something you like, you can save the recipe for later instead of deleting it.

Here’s some starter recipes:

Red

4 buckets of Dragon Blood (Dragon Tree Sap from Black Sands Biome)

or, 12 raspberries, found in Fall Forest Biome

Black

12 blackberries, found in Mediterranean Biome.

Lime Green

5 Hellebore Flowers and 5 limes

Deep Green

Kelp is great for this! You can find Kelp in the ocean, it looks like an underwater forest.

Various shades of Blue

Bluebonnet flowers (Plains Biome) in various numbers, use at least 9. Blueberries are good when added to this, and are found in Fjord Biome. You can make a really nice pure blue with 8 blueberries.

Yellow:

Dandelions are great for this. 9 dandelions makes a pleasant shad, and are found in Fall Forest.

Purple:

Spiderwort makes lovely purple hues! You can find that in Dark Forest, usually near Mulberry Bushes.

One last important tip:

If you dye anything enough, using whatever color, it eventually turns black. It’s a good way to use up bad dyes you made while experimenting. If you need to bleach things back to white, you can do that with kelp derived potash, also at the Dye Store.

If you ever need to know where an item can be found, the Library has a full list of all the Biomes and what grows where. It has been updated to also tell what items are good for what colors!

Interested in joining?

Make sure and use this link or place my ID, 1023, in the box when you join!

That way, if you ever decide to buy a subscription, even for only one month, you’ll get a bonus 1000 essence (helps with chatting and unlocking equipment), plus 10 Esroh Essence (gives you energy for traveling, making things, and gathering) to help you get started.

A subscription costs 500 Mobia per month and you can buy Mobia from other players in-game if you don’t have cash to spend.

We’re Live! And I’m starting over.

Horse Isle 3

We’ve finally passed that long anticipated point. While there will still be a lot of additions to the game and many cool enhancements, the horse genetics system is finally settled completely and so Horse Isle 3 is now Live. That means no more resets, we no longer lose our progress, and the huge world has been completely refreshed so it’s completely new to all of us.

That also means we all have to start from scratch, with the main advantage anyone can have being whether they are a subscriber or not. The fee for that is nominal, only $5 a month, and if you don’t have real world money you can trade in-game currency for it provided other players want to sell. Right now, that seems a pretty common occurrence.

So, barefoot and wearing the game’s starter white shorts and shirt, I stood at the base of the giant horse head, and considered my options. Other players, all similarly clad, all stood around, or ran back and forth. I had previously decided to just pick a direction and go until I found something interesting, such as a good place to put a temporary ranch. Nobody in the whole world had tack to sell as we all still needed to find ranches, build buildings on them, and gather raw materials to make said tack. So we were all barefoot and horseless. Luckily you can run at about 8 miles an hour so travel isn’t two tedious.

I picked Southwest and started running in that direction. I ran through forests, through rivers, over plains and savannah, through a huge swamp, and swam through more ocean than I care to remember – at the swimming rate of three miles per hour. Occasionally I’d stop to gather wood or stone, and once leather when I found a big patch of Wondershrooms. (In Horse Isle 3, leather is harvested off the tough sides of giant mushrooms, to avoid the issue of having to raise cattle, and so it can grow back. Vegetable leather isn’t entirely unrealistic, in ancient Rome sometimes pomegranate skin was used as a leather substitute for sandals.)

I ran and swam pretty much all day, while doing other things on my computer of course. Through the oceans I weighted down a key to take breaks. I finally found a fairly nice spot for a temporary ranch in a patch of Fall Forest. My dream ranch is on one of those lovely islands you find in the middle of rivers, but this will do for now. Priority is to build the crafting buildings so I can make tack – and therefore ride horses much faster and more safely, so I can find better gathering regions, and find a better spot for a ranch. Oh, and more horses so I can sell them to get money.

This isn’t a bad little spot for a ranch, and it already has the main house (the cheapest version) and a crafting shed. I still need to build the textiles shed and the ever important furnace and then I’ll have what I need. I’ll save barns, hay shed, water tower, gardens, etc for later – this is a temporary while I find my perfect ranch. I may put in some hay fields so I can start growing bales though, they are cheap and easy to put in. It takes four real days to grow a hay bale and I may be able to build my permanent ranch within that time.

Next priority was to find a nice spot in a Jungle area to build my club. You can’t move those, like you can move Ranches, so I had to be extra picky. At the same time, when I found a decent sized forest, near a nice stand of Jungle mountains (love those rock formations), without too many big holes in the landscape and with a nice wide flat spot, I snapped it up quickly. I put up the first story of my club tower and left it like that. This way I can teleport to the spot if I need to, but with building my ranch being priority at the moment I will put off building other things for later. Rest assured I have a plan!

Tips for conserving energy when you’re new

When you’re first starting the game, it can be hard to do everything you want in a day because energy is a finite resource. This is especially true if you’re not subscribed. So here are some ideas for getting the most for your energy.

Have a plan. Just like the real world, you’ll go farther if you have a plan. For example, my plan today was to finish my crafting shed. I already had low energy from all the stuff I did yesterday so I decided I’d focus on collecting building materials, but ignore other things like horse feed or dye materials I could also collect.

Pick up logs before you cut down trees. If you pick up a log, you get 1-2 wood for 10 energy. By contrast, if you cut down a birch tree, you will spend 66 energy, or even 100 energy, and usually only get 2-3 wood. Different trees have different energy costs, but in the beginning you’re better off mostly picking up logs and driftwood because it doesn’t take much energy.

Do minigames/riddle posts to earn money. One of the nice things about minigames is they don’t take energy. You also get bonus money/essence every so often for earning achievements related to minigames and such. Here’s an example of a minigame that can be found in Fall Forest. They are big logs with a word jumble on them. The long one here really made me laugh.

As you can see, they range from really easy… to SHENANIGANS.

Get thee to a library. In most clubs, if not all, you will find a library. In them you will find “tomes worthy of study,” which will allow you to pick a specialty in game. It can be anything from getting a higher chance of gathering double items when you pick things, to being able to have double the normal amount of horses, and a whole bunch of other really useful things. Subscribers get to pick two specialties. The thing is, they take time, (around 2 real days) to learn and become fully active, so you are better off picking them early so you can get the benefit as soon as possible.

I’ll be adding some of these tips to my previously existing “Getting Started” guide.