Single island challenge.

[The Darkness]

So i played about 3 hours and built a flower press and........... we cannot make landfill???
that makes this challenge a little.... alot... more boring, right??
does anyone have tips on this challenge?

[Destro]

I have also played for 3 hours, I knew we couldn't build bridge but I still didn't know landfill were also out. I have to agree that this is a bit boring but we still don't really have a final goal for the single island challenge. I'm hoping that more work will be put on that eventually, like a list of achivement specially made for the challenge or different option that you choose at the start. We will see what happen in the future.

p.s. to dev: the timer in the one island challenge block the restock timer in the market.

[MobiusPizza]

Offtopic question. How do you play this challenge? do you just start a new game and never buy another land?

[The Darkness]

they take the buy land option away

[Destro]

You have to start a new game in the beta branch and the game will let you choose between classic, single island challenge and time attack

[MobiusPizza]

Originally posted by Destro:

You have to start a new game in the beta branch and the game will let you choose between classic, single island challenge and time attack

oh, so I can't play it because I am not in the beta
thanks.

[Ventrue]

I did the same played 4 hours, build a flower press and boom no landfill, now the only way to get items from other biomes is buying.
and you have limited space so you can't build too many markets and banks.

[HopFrog]

Here are the details:

Single Island Challenge:

• The objective is to reach max level (65) and to have ALL gear items and upgrades
  
  
• A speedrun time counter will be shown on the bottom right part of the screen
  
  
• Once the challenge is completed, the game ends and the time to completion is displayed along with the global leaderboards
  
  
• Removed Buy Land button from the menu. Bridges and Landfill will be disabled
  
  
• Initial land is slightly bigger (14x14 instead of 12x12)
  
  
• Removed spawning restrictions (All Artifacts will drop on the starting biome, enemies will start spawning as normal, animals will also spawn as normal)
  
  
• Artifacts will spawn on Markets and Slot Machines (I think they technically already do for Slot Machines, but I am not 100% sure)
  
  
• At night, Skeletons and Demons may spawn (to add difficulty and reduce the grind for Bones and Demon Horns. On this update there is also a new craftable item called "Bed" that lets you sleep to skip nights in case you wish for an easier version of the challenge)
  
  
• Removed Colonist buff from Shrines

[HylianLZ]

You want a tip? Lighthouses. Lots of lighthouses.

[Destro]

Just in case: yes I am in the beta branch and started a new game with single island challenge.

I don't know how to finish the challenge, I already have all the tool and accessory, max level, max health, max energy, a bunch of attack but that supposed to have no limit, I don't really know what i'm missing.

Are we suppossed to be able to craft scepter, because I only have 4 "????" ?

I seen the fishing and digging artifacts in the market, do we need 1 of each?

Do I have to at least craft 1 droid? I bought a lot of them already but never crafted one and now it very expensive.

do I have to do anything with the carpentry bench?

Is it that the game mode is not finished yet? I'm refering to the game ending and global leaderboard showing up like HopFrog mentioned.

p.s. By the way in 8-9 hours of gameplay I never seen any skeleton or demon at night, I only used a bed once, do the lighthouse affect monster spawning?

[HopFrog]

Uhmm, interesting sounds like some things may be bugged then. I will take a look!

[Destro]

I don't know if its related but I looked at my feats and the progress bar for
"collect every tool and weapon" is empty even if I have all tool and accessory beside the septers which I can't craft. Maybe my tool creation were not acknowledged by the game.

By the way, is there anyway to see the leaderboard without finishing a challenge?

[!?!]

Originally posted by HopFrog:

Bridges [...] will be disabled

That's so annoying, please enable them.
You can't "lighthouse" smelters.

[Omegatherion]

Originally posted by Destro:

Just in case: yes I am in the beta branch and started a new game with single island challenge.

I don't know how to finish the challenge, I already have all the tool and accessory, max level, max health, max energy, a bunch of attack but that supposed to have no limit, I don't really know what i'm missing.

Are we suppossed to be able to craft scepter, because I only have 4 "????" ?

I seen the fishing and digging artifacts in the market, do we need 1 of each?

Do I have to at least craft 1 droid? I bought a lot of them already but never crafted one and now it very expensive.

do I have to do anything with the carpentry bench?

Is it that the game mode is not finished yet? I'm refering to the game ending and global leaderboard showing up like HopFrog mentioned.

p.s. By the way in 8-9 hours of gameplay I never seen any skeleton or demon at night, I only used a bed once, do the lighthouse affect monster spawning?

Same here. After 7 and a half hours i am finally done with all upgrades. The last 3 hours were basically waiting and spamming markets to get the different flowers and monster horns. I had no monsters spawning, except slimes. Also only fairies spawning. So i had to get the red bugs from the market as well.
As interesting as this mode is, it needs some more work to make it less tedious.

[Recca1982]

There's a youtube video of someone just fluffing around,.... and reached max level in around 5 hours. I think for the Single island challenge, the end result should be the creation of every item (short of the wands), max level, and maybe an item that takes like 9m of every resource. The current end is far too easily obtained just by using the Marketplace and the selling skill. He went from level 29 to 65 in just selling sand from lighthouses / shovel working lol. And resources just fell into his lap.

[Omegatherion]

Originally posted by Recca01982:

There's a youtube video of someone just fluffing around,.... and reached max level in around 5 hours. [...] He went from level 29 to 65 in just selling sand from lighthouses / shovel working lol. And resources just fell into his lap.

To be honest. If you try to reach max level in this mode without abusing the heck out of the lighthouses, you're doing it wrong. Trying to reach max level any other way would take AGES.

Originally posted by Recca01982:

I think for the Single island challenge, the end result should be the creation of every item (short of the wands), max level, and maybe an item that takes like 9m of every resource.

That's already the goal. Upgrade all your gear to max and get the Obliterator. This mode is more about the challenge of getting things done with limited space. It's not supposed to take 20 hours like the main game.