Elemental Ark
Potential progression paths
Main
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Kill jerboas for their skulls.
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Kill light pets for their light.
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Create light pets.
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Create incarnate summoners and defeat them for elemental jerboas.
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Place elemental jerboas near light pets to gain luminescent essence.
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Use luminescent essence to create elemental shoulder light pets.
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Use luminescent essence to create avenger summoners and defeat them for elemental hatchling eggs.
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Kill hybrid golems for their cores so you can create hybrid golems.
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Use the shoulder mounted light pets while riding hybrid elementals in the dark.
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Kill the hybrid hunters to gather their essence.
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Use this essence to create unstable dust.
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Use unstable dust on hybrid creatures to increase the difficulty of night hunters.
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Kill reapers to gain the ability to craft hybrid reapers or reaper steak.
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Create light pillars to lure the night rulers*
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These will be pillars of light that lure the most dangerous creatures of the night. You must defend them for a set amount of time. Doing so will cause the rulers of the night to challenge all nearby players (multi-player / role based bosses).
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Defeating them in combat will yield high quality gear and potentially a fury egg.
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Dragons
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Summon and defeat avengers to get dragon eggs.
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Have the hatchlings train with rock drakes or wyverns until they are ready to grow (radial menu option).
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Grow the hatchlings into juveniles.
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Train the juveniles in pairs to increase their counter element efficiency until they are ready to grow (radial menu option).
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Grow the juveniles into adolescents.
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Defeat reaper hunters for their flesh.
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Create reaper steak.
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Feed the reaper steak to an adolescent and bathe them in glow light until they are ready to grow (radial menu option).
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Grow the adolescents into xeno-adults.
Golems
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Tame a regular golem.
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Remove its core.
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Use its core to craft a fire or stone elemental golem.
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Kill a vapor, storm, glacial, or fen golem to get its core.
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Use this core to craft a vapor, storm, glacial, or fen golem.
Mantis
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Use golems to kill mantises.
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Gather enough of their pheromone to create lures and cologne.
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Place a mantis lure near wild creatures.
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Spray yourself and allies with mantis cologne.
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Feed the omni-mantises spoiled/raw meat or omnielemental kibble to tame them.
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Place a sword of any element in their weapon slot to change their element to match.
Tusos
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Kill hunters for their essence.
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Kill tuso hunters for their tentacles.
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Create a tuso hunter from the infuser.
Spiders
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Kill omni-elemental spiders for legs (or any spiders with a golem)
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Build spider summoner for each of the unstable combinations
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Defeat the resulting unstable spiders
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After acquiring all 7 trophies, combine them into an omni-elemental trophy
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Extract pure nature essence from a friendly creature
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Create Omni-elemental spider queen
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Build desired elemental crystals on smithy
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Equip selected crystal on spider queen to change its elemental affinity
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Add elemental remover to spider queen inventory
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Approach nearby creatures and press alt-fire (default Ctrl) to absorb elemental essence from them
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Warning: this will also sap friendly creatures
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Kill omni-elemental spiders to collect their legs
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Create spider torches from their legs
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Tame omni-elemental spider (base taming mechanic)
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Craft desired elemental crystals on smithy
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Equip selected crystal on spider to change its elemental affinity