Gold dragon is a joke

[BernieS]

So I am trying to get the gold dragon in six minutes. What a freaking joke. Why does the screen constantly change from up close to far away and half the time you can't even see where your going because where you need to go is not even on the screen? Then the dash doesn't work when you need it. The developers did a crappy job with this one and at the end of the game which is so frustrating. I don't need something super stressful at the end of a relaxing game.

[regansbox]

I'm having the same trouble. I'm not really a platform gamer, so this isn't my forte. Can you take Elena without finishing the dragon in under 6 minutes?

[BernieS]

No you can't take Elena! But apparently you can finish the game without completing her tasks. But that's no fun.

[BernieS]

Well I figured out the solution. My sixteen year old gamer son was able to complete the tasks for me.

[regansbox]

Haha! I feel you. I finally got it myself, after like a week in-game.

[Wilderi]

I can't do the gold dragon too, I keep failing at it, 6 mins and I'm not even pass the halfway mark

[lancelot]

The trick is not to try to hop from one coil to another. Just land in the water near the coil with the ore, do a double jump out of the water and a dash while in the air. You'll be able to land on the coil with the ore.

[Sara_lenasmom]

I think I'm going to finally give up on the gold dragon. The fact is that I am too slow to get under 6 minutes. I am 70 years old and I am just too slow. So Elena will not be going to the Ever Door on my watch.

[Livyenne]

I struggled with it, too, I'm not sure if I made it below 6 minutes, but I managed it before the timer runs out and that was enough for the quest. Don't know if the dialogue changes if you manage to do it in 5 or so. After the challenge she doesn't say "wow you're awesome" but more something like "ok, that was better", but she is also not really the person who gives compliments.

Some things I noticed that might help y'all:

1) Things get at least a little bit easier when you turn down the pressing background music. At least it helped me focus and also gave me the patience to wait and watch how the body moves. Sounds silly, but it *does* have an effect.

2) Apparently the game screen changes once the tail of the dragon comes out of the water and waves around, so it is in the picture and you can take it into account. Which sounds nice in theory, but if this happens at the very opposite of where you are atm this means the screen zooms out A LOT and interrupts the game significantly for something that doesn't affect you due to the big distance. Dear developers, if you read this: Please change that!

3) About the dash: Keep in mind, that the dash has a cooldown. To check if it is available again, look at Stellas belt, the light is dimmed/gone right after the dash. When it's shining bright again, the ability is available.

You can also try lancelot's suggestion, maybe that works for you. Aiming was a bit tricky for me with that though and sometimes getting the jump right took me more than going back and jumping over the body loops again as intended. So maybe do on run where you only practice that or try to learn the movement patterns (or both).

[Cemeiya]

I did struggle with that as well, but somehow managed to do it yesterday.
This quest was first time I did not really liked this game (okay, that is pretty midly put...), as otherwise I have loved it. I get some sort of slight anxiety with timers anyway.

[Miral]

So far, the gold dragon is the only one of her tasks that I actually have been able to complete -- and I finished it with literally zero seconds left on the clock. She said she was really disappointed but the quest updated anyway.

Mind you, I didn't have Buck until just now so I think I was missing a necessary ability. (The thing that clued me in was that Elena said that I should be using an ability I didn't have yet.)

[Darkandza]

Figured it out by going in options and switching control to cat character. If you hold jump button near a edge the cat will hold on to ledge and climb it. Made it very easy to complete.

[badfluffy]

Stuck there too. I don't know who the hell had the brilliant idea of turning a chill fetch and crafting game into precision platformer hell for no reason at all but he should go back to working for SEGA or something

[badfluffy]

Originally posted by lancelot:

The trick is not to try to hop from one coil to another. Just land in the water near the coil with the ore, do a double jump out of the water and a dash while in the air. You'll be able to land on the coil with the ore.

Oh man, oh man! You saved me! I literally had spent 90 mn on this one damn mini game and I was about to rage quit without even finishing the game, which would have been a tragedy, imo.

Thank you for this perfect and easy solution.

[T_Schumacher]

you can build 2 or 3 lifters at front of the ship, so when the ore is out of the screen you just get back to the ship, go up with the lifters, then glide to top of the ore, when the icon is right under Stella, land and mine. 3 lifters high can surely get you on any ore of the golden dragon, if you want to be higher just build more lifters.

[Livia]

Am I like the only one who, after one failed attempt, she extended my clock to 8 minutes for my next try (which I waited to do after I had dash).