If you’re deep into Fantasy Life i and want to unlock every system without wasting time, this guide covers the best tricks, from crafting upgrades to rare mount drops.
Best Crafting Area and Buddy Perks
After turning eight strangelings back into humans, your guild on the island will expand. A free crafting table appears right next to a strong merchant, making it the best area to complete crafting missions. Crafting buddies have their own perks—some can hammer nails 50% faster, while others offer boosts to stats or success rates. Play as them to activate these effects.
To unlock their full skill sets, switch buddies out often and give them gifts on the island. Affinity can rise through combat, but gifting is more reliable. Maxing affinity without gifts is too slow to be practical. Kunugi, for example, took over 50 levels of play to reach max affinity without a single gift, which isn’t viable when you have dozens of characters.
How to Get Mounts and Why Random Drops Matter (Fantasy Life i Guide)
Mounts are expensive goals for the late game. Some, like the blacksmith-crafted motorcycle, require a recipe worth 80,000 do’ache just to unlock. But certain enemies can drop themselves as mounts. Early-game enemies like Cashmere may randomly drop as a mount. You only need to obtain one to unlock it forever, so don’t give up after a few failed attempts.
These random drops are a great early way to get mounts before committing to the costly ones. They can come from any silver or gold crown boss, not just living monsters. For example, Goldme dropped a strangeling after a second fight, even though it didn’t happen the first time.
Remaking Items: Unlocking and Optimizing Gear
Remaking is one of the most useful new features. It lets you add bonus skills and boost quality without using new materials. First, unlock a goddess statue in a deep dungeon. Answer its question and hope to receive a redux stone. Then unlock the final skill tree branch for the life you want to use.
Once you’ve remade an item, you can keep previous bonuses and choose which to retain. Redux stones are reusable—you can trade extra weapons for more. The process doesn’t apply to food, which is strange, but all other gear is fair game. This system can boost item stats by up to 50% if you combine top rank and quality.
Hidden Tricks, Resources, and Multiplayer Farming
Need to escape a dungeon? Instead of using fast travel, go to the Lives menu, select a crafting life like Carpenter, and hit select. This warps you to a crafting table instantly. You can also teleport straight to a lifemaster to hand in quests.
For progressing the story, Celestia’s gifts are needed. Your island has nearly 200 hidden in debris, and the bulletin board levels reward another 100 per level. The best method, though, is visiting other people’s islands. Each visit spawns more gifts in your own game, allowing you to farm up to 1,000 per day.
Mount up to gather items without slowing down. When farming materials like Elder Logs—the worst item to collect—aim for excellent chops. Do small hits until the tree is weak, then land a strong finishing move to boost item drop chances.
The in-game recipe menu doubles as a wiki. Press L2 while viewing a recipe to see hints on where to find each ingredient. This speeds up farming and helps you plan ahead. Also, Ginormosia is the best place to farm levels, materials, and strangelings, especially near campfires where you can restore HP and SP instantly.
Finally, check the activities menu. It hides a full model viewer for all characters and objects you’ve discovered, from fish to trees to strange items. And don’t forget—deep dungeons are much easier with friends.
