Guides & Other Resources

Links of varying usefulness. Not comprehensive; the guide forum is an endless source of helpful knowledge!

Last reviewed October 10, 2021.

Guides & Reference

• 75000 treasure in 30 minutes and less

  The ultimate guide to maxing out your Fairgrounds Lucky Streak, thanks to Glimmer & Gloom pattern-matching. There are several variations on the technique, if this particular guide doesn’t suit your needs, but I definitely recommend getting the hang of this.

• Baldwin’s Bubbling Brew Visual Guide 3.0

  Created before you could view locked Baldwin recipes, but still a very useful reference; includes an FAQ, material drop chances, item search reference, and a breakdown of multi-step recipes (ex. to get such-and-such familiar, you need a Glass Beaker, and to get that you need…)

  Also, for even faster reference: Food = Goo, Material=Ooze, Apparel=Slime (black/grey/white), Familiar = Muck (bronze/silver/gold), and Other = Sludge.

• Chronological update reference

  The entirety of FR’s newspost history, summarizing the big developments. Great for quickly seeing when that one thing was released, and/or catching up after a hiatus.

• Coli Builds 2.0

  Once you get the hang of the Coliseum (see below), here’s a comprehensive linkhub of different ways to stat your dragons. Also see the updated best element per venue listing.

• Familiar Tracker for collectors

  The Bestiary used to not let you search or filter your familiars & listed them all by name, hoard order and bonding status be darned. Those were dark times.

  Spreadsheets like these filled that gap. It also condenses some information that would be a pain to track down individually in the Database otherwise, like which familiars have been retired/cycled out and where/how they can be obtained.

• Gathering Reference

  Maintained by a moderator, it’s everything you can get everywhere. Like the Database at a glance. (Somewhat outdated.)

• How to Train Your Dragon, By Duke

  Widely-considered required reading for anyone looking to use the Coliseum, for lack of official guidance. Although it hasn’t been updated since 2017, a good chunk of information is still up-to-date, and it contains the simplest builds for farming and fodder grinding.

  Thanks to the guide’s infamy, the thread is still fairly active. Check out the newest pages for answers and links to more up-to-date info!

• Image Assets

  Most if not all official high-quality assets used throughout the site, including Coliseum backgrounds, jigsaw puzzles, and other hard-to-find images. (Somewhat outdated; people are still posting new assets in the thread.)

Useful threads

• Adopt-a-Dragon & Free Dragon Hub

  There are countless dragon giveaway threads, but I’m listing these two specifically because anyone can list their dragon(s) for non-exalt homes and thus they’re less likely to go inactive in the near future. The first is more active than the second; listers often (but don’t always!) crosspost.

• Site Status/News Alerts

  A publically-maintained thread that takes advantage of forum subscriptions to deliver news updates directly to your inbox. Anyone is free to contribute; just make sure no one beat you to it!

Single-user-run services

Services that, despite activity being entirely up to one user, have been 1) active for years and 2) extremely useful in my personal experience.

• Flipp’s Supplementary Swap Stand

  Any/all Swipp trades, any time.

• raptorix’s free dragons

  Another dragon giveaway, but with a twist: if you breed the dragon(s) from this thread, raptorix will buy a bab back!

• +an assormtent of dom discount shops; see the gene page for details

Offsite

• Flight Rising Wiki

  The original (and only?) publically-sourced FR guide, while it may be outdated on some pages it’s still an invaluable resource. Includes but far from limited to the ever-timely apparel slot costs, color wheel + hexadecimal (Basic) accent codes, and exaltation payout chart.

• Straif’s breeding stat card generator

  Generates a basic breeding card displaying two dragons’ images, color ranges, and gene/breed odds. (If you’ve looked around hatcheries at all, you’ve probably seen one or two of these!)

• Peixes’ color range generator

  TL;DR of the color wheel: hatchling colors are randomized based on the parents’ range. This lets you see them at a glance.

• Sylvandyr’s coliseum skills + enemy stats

  Displays some basic Coliseum enemy stats, most importantly including the minimum amount of STR needed for a knockout. For technical explanations, see the forum guide.

• Akrona’s size comparison tool

  A fun tool that generates an infinitely-resizable page comparing your dragons’ sizes. (Missing obelisks.)