Defeat cond. | The pup is captured |
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Travel to 2 lands[N 1] |
Travel to 5 lands |
Travel to 10 lands[N 2] |
Only feral rulers will find this crown! |
Travel to 2 lands and each pay for at least 10 ship pieces |
Travel to 5 lands with a full ship and each pay for at least 20 ship pieces |
Travel to 10 lands with a full ship and each pay for 30 ship pieces |
Only for feral and logistical rulers! |
Dire Island is a challenge island where the Monarch rides a wolf and has to protect its pup, while escaping with them through as many islands as possible.
Raw Fury description[]
“ With the new Dire Wolf mount as your aid, protect its pup at all costs. No crown, no monarch. No pup, no monarch! Now build the boat and try to escape as you run to as many islands as possible before the inevitable.—Raw Fury [1] „
Island layout[]
Mines | Stone [N 3] Iron [N 3] |
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Statues | |
Mount | Dire wolf |
Dog | Wolf pup |
Hermit | |
Vag. camps | 2 |
Merchant | |
Chests | Coin chests 3 Gem chests |
Boat | Has to be fully paid |
Technologies[]
The stone and iron technologies are available on every Dire Island. Once paid for each type, their respective tech will be activated for all next islands.[N 3]
Wolf[]
Wolf pup[]
The wolf pup follows its mother from the beginning.
It behaves exactly like the dog, barking in the direction of any incoming Greed and being especially useful before Blood Moons.
Co-op – Both Monarchs have to keep their pups. If one Monarch loses their little wolf, the challenge is over.
Note that the Monarch can still lose the challenge if a greedling takes the Crown, however, losing the pup is a lot more likely to happen, given the pup's position that's not fully controllable and the fact that it can be taken even if the Monarch has coins in the pouch.
Portals[]
Unlike the campaign, the number of portals is the same on every island.
There are two small portals on both sides of town.
Cliff side | Town center | Sea side | ||
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Cliff portal | 2 small portals | 2 small portals | Dock portal |
Waves[]
Blood Moons take place with the double frequency that's typical for the challenges, followed by the usual truce.
There is an overall day count, as in the Two Crowns campaign, making regular waves and Blood Moons harder as the days pass. However, waves tend to be easier during the first two days on each island, giving the Monarch enough time to build stone walls when it becomes necessary. Even on Blood Moons, only greedlings and masked greedlings spawn, without breeder, floater or crown stealer.
Spanning the islands[]
The Dire Island is for speedrunners. Each coin spent on anything not absolutely necessary, means one coin not invested (or delayed to be invested) on the boat, which probably means the Monarch will not travel to as much islands as he/she could. The major distractors are:
- the Banker
- the stone technology on the very first island.
- the iron technology for the first islands.
- the town center for the first island.
- farms
- destroying portals
- towers and pikemen
Cursed crown[]
Single player – Only feral rulers will find this crown!
- To get the cursed crown in Dire Island in single player mode, the Monarch has to travel to the tenth island, i.e. use the boat nine times (gold crown requirement) and to kill a certain amount of greedlings with the wolf's charge. If the required amount of greed is killed before traveling to the tenth island, the Monarch will receive the cursed crown instead of the gold one when traveling there.[2]
Cooperative – Only for feral and logistical rulers!
- To get the cursed crown in Dire Island in co-op, the gold crown requirements must've been fulfilled. Then, each player must pay for everything when sailing away at least once. This means they must pay for lifting the shipwreck off the ground, for every single piece of the boat, for ringing the wharf bell, for putting the boat in the water, and for launching it. Just as in the silver and gold milestones, the boat in these trips should be "full", with four archers, three builders, and three knights with their retinues. Throughout the entire challenge, each player must also kill a considerable amount of greedlings with their own wolf.
Video guide[]
The first video below was created before cursed crowns are introduced in the game, so it guides players up to the gold crown. The second one supplements with the tips for the cursed crown.
Speedrun[]
These are the current speedrun world records for the gold crown held on Dire Island: [3]
Rank | Player | Time | Date | VID |
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1st | xSpitez | 1h 25m | 7 Sep 2020 | |
2nd | Ameneko Games |
1h 34m | 31 Jul 2020 | |
3rd | Captain Stanhope | 1h 38m | 25 Apr 2020 |
Currently all records were held on PC on the European setting.
History[]
Date | Platform | Version | Change |
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2022-05-09 | All | 1.1.16 | Players will now have an extra moment to recover the crown or the pup before the game is lost. |
Change | |||
Players will now have an extra moment to recover the crown or the pup before the game is lost. | |||
2022-03-01 | All | 1.1.15 | Players will now have different colored wolf cubs when playing co-op in the Shogun setting. |
Players will now have different colored wolf cubs when playing co-op in the Shogun setting. |
See also
Notes[]
- ↑ Entering the challenge already counts as the first travel. Therefore, travelling to the second island already grants the bronze crown.
- ↑ Once the Monarch has travelled to nine lands, acquiring the gold crown, it is still possible to visit new islands.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bug – Once paid for the stone and iron mines, if they are activated for all next islands, the expected behavior is that these mines do not reappear on next islands or, if they do, they should have at least the aspect of activated mines and not accept coins at all. But since the release of Challenge Islands up to the current state of the game, the mines on next islands still have their natural appearance and accept coins. This can confuse inexperienced monarchs, and make them spoil their resources unnecessarily.
References[]
- ↑ Challenge Islands are here! 29 August 2019.
- ↑ As shared by the speedrunner One-Dragon and confirmed by the developer Gordon on Reddit, on November 2020.
- ↑ Details at speedrun.com.