Losing All Your HP
A handful of items you can build
are thrown when selected in your
inventory and used. You can 't aim these When you lose all of your HP, half of the items in your inventory are left at the spot
where the final bit of damage took place (you can recollect everything that was lost).
You reappear at the chapter's Banner of Hope . Selecting the Return to Base option
from the Main menu (If you become stuck somewhere and lack a chimaera wing)
projectiles. When used, they're thrown results in the same penalty.
directly ahead. Throwing projectiles
accurately takes some practice, so don't
become discouraged when you first start
using them.
Building is the
primary activity
in Dragon Quest
Builders . You
spend the majority
of the game either
gathering materials
or building with
the materials you
gather. There
The most common way of taking damage
is from enemy attacks. You also must be
careful when moving close to enemies to
perform an attack of your own. Touching
an enemy, even from behind, will often
result in damage.
You also suffer damage from falling
from heights of at least five blocks. The
amount of damage sustained increases
with distance fallen .
are two types of
building. The first type requires raw materials and a crafting station. The second type,
placing blocks to create rooms, is covered later in this chapter under the section
Building Your Base.
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GATHERING RAW MATERIALS
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The enemies you defeat in battle sometimes drop raw material. Most enemies have
two possible items they drop, so you may need to hunt down a few of a certain enemy
before you get the desired item. Fishing is the final source of raw materials.
contact with it. Every few seconds, being
in poisoned water does a single point of To gather blocks, attack them to knock them loose from surrounding blocks. Trees
and veins turn into harvestable items when destroyed. Plants are the same, but can
also be pulled up intact with a shovel. Not all items are created equal. More powerful
weapons are required to break down increasingly stronger material. In the case of
damage, while lava inflicts five points of
damage. If you fall in, get out quickly! blocks, some weapons will destroy a block, but more powerful weapons are required
to keep the same block intact.
Finally, touching hazardous material does
damage for as long as you remain in
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