Dire Island

This is about Kingdom Two Crowns.

The Legend of Fenrir lives on and you must protect the only pup!
Mines	Stone Iron
Statues
Mount	Dire wolf
Dog	Wolf pup
Hermit
Vag. camps	3
Merchant
Chests	Coin chests 3 Gem chests
Boat	Has to be fully paid
Defeat cond.	The pup is captured

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

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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

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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

Island layout

Technologies

The stone and iron technologies are available on every Dire Island. Once payed for each type, their respective tech will be activated for all next islands. The mines on next islands will still have their natural appearance—also accepting coins—which can confuse inexperienced monarchs, and make them spoil some coins unnecessarily.

Portals

Unlike the campaign, the number of portals is the same on every island.

There are two small portals on both sides of town.

• 1
• 2

Cliff side		Town center	Sea side
Cliff portal	2 small portals		2 small portals	Dock portal

Wolf

Dire wolf
Stamina	Good
Speed	Normal
Ability	Charge attack
Unlocked on	It's the starter mount on Dire Island

The wolf (or dire wolf) is the starter and the only mount available on this type of island.

Charge attack

The wolf is a powerful hunter that can kill all rabbits and deer within its range with only one charge.

In this aspect it is similar to the bear, but much more efficient, with a longer range and much more stamina.

It can kill greedlings and masked greedlings as well, all with one hit. It is very useful for defending waves at night. On late-game waves though, it's dangerous to jump out side the walls because it may not kill all greedlings, seriously exposing the pup.

It can damage portals. Caution is though advised when hunting deer around small portals, as the damage can trigger inactive and exhausted portals.

During the rest buff, it can charge several times in a row without getting tired.

Howling

The wolf howls when it sees the moon. Howling it can rest, recharging its stamina and receiving the rest buff; i.e.:

• it only howls at night (never during the day)
• it only howls on plains (never inside forests)
• it can howl under a Blood Moon

Usually it only howls once per nighttime, but if it has done any charge attack after howling, and the moon is still there, it may howl a second time to fully recharge before the dawn.

Hunting a rabbit and a deer.

Killing a greedling with a coin.

Howling to a Blood Moon.

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.

The main difference is that the pup cannot be rescued, as the defeat screen is triggered instantly the moment a greedling touches it. So the wolf charge is only useful before this moment.

If the Monarch crosses an active portal, a greedling may spawn just when the pup reaches the portal and take him. To prevent that, one should avoid exploring behind portals after midday or follow one of these strategies (listed from the slow-costly-safe on top, towards the fast-cheap-risky on bottom):

• stop before the portal, drop a coin, wait for a greedling to pick it up, then run past the portal.
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  This is slower and may trigger more than one greedling if the dog takes too long to come.

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• drop one or two coins at the portal without stopping.
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  This is faster, but inexperienced Monarchs may feel uncomfortable with. Dropping two coins, one just before, and the other just after the portal hole, makes it ultra safe. If ever a greedling comes out, it would be forced to take one of the two coins and go back to the portal, before trying to take the dog.

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• with a very fast mount (for example, the stag) just run, run, and drop no coins.
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  This will work if the mount is fast enough to not trigger a portal reaction. If the dog is so far behind, that it cannot be seen on the screen (and even takes sometime to reach the Monarch after they have stopped), it's a good sign that the mount is fast enough for this method to be successfully used.

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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.

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:

1. the Banker Template:Det
2. the stone technology on the very first island. Template:Det
3. the iron technology for the first islands. Template:Det
4. the town center for the first island. Template:Det
5. farms Template:Det
6. destroying portals Template:Det
7. towers and pikemen Template:Det

Blood Moons take place with the same frequency of those in Classic and New Lands—i.e. every five to six days—followed by the usual truce.

There is an overall day count, as in the Two Crowns campaign, making 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.