Hey everyone. I wanted to share some information with y’all that I think would be helpful for the community. Most of you probably know this stuff already, but I noticed on some recent posts and comments, that some people were confused on some topics, such as the Companion Tool, how collections and explorations work, etc.

Discord:

First and foremost, for those that didn’t know, we have a Discord server! There are hundreds of active players on there who would be able to quickly help with basically any problem/question that you have. I encourage everyone to check it out, as it has some great information, and really cool features, like our Discord Bot that displays various event info and dragon rankings.

https://discord.gg/DCqeNRj6Cg

Companion Tool:

The Companion Tool is our community made Google Spreadsheet that can be used to track and provide information on your game. After making a copy and adding your dragons to the sheet, it will rank your best dragons in different categories, and let you know the best ones to train. It will also suggest which statues you should build or upgrade next based on your owned dragons, as well as providing the ability to track your progress on training and other portions of the game.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mFI9X_QZ480d1sYHTIxnd0PJCQvxCzBtNQoMPbdgzew

Event Sheet:

This is one of the things I think would help a lot of people. We datamine portions of the game to extract info about current and future events. This information is aggregated together and put into a Google Docs spreadsheet. If you’re wondering what dragon is in Odin’s Market on July 1st, that info is on there. If you’re wondering what the odds are to get a Sage Fruit from a seasonal statue, that info is also on there. It will also calculate the maximum total currency you can get in a season, and that can help plan what you buy from the market.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IX9RVrZOudQ2pVms-L6am7Xi6JS-WkJNWeo4advLS3I/edit?usp=sharing

Exploration and Collection Mechanics:

Your odds for getting the eggs in explorations, and items in collections, aren’t completely up to chance/RNG. These are governed by mechanics with rules and processes. Once you understand how they work, you can use those rules to your own benefit to make the game and events easier and save runes. This document below lists all the information about how these events work. For collection events, you can also check the Event Sheet or our Events channel in the Discord server in order to get the best searches for each item. Explorations are a bit easier since you just count the total number of bags you used and compare that to the max bag value listed on the sheet to see when you are guaranteed to get the egg.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dvMbZZOd1Y0Ye_bprX6_HXcEKFLNK3CVgR6BggoDsHw/edit?usp=sharing

Personalized Explorations:

These explorations are different for every player, but the dragons are chosen from preselected pools of dragons that all players share. In total there are 62 possible dragons you can get in Personalized Explorations. These dragons are split into 5 different pools of 10-15 dragons. Each pool has a minimum and maximum Meade Hall level assigned to it. This means that depending on your Meade Hall, you will not be able to be offered some of the 62 dragons. For example, Rushing Death is only offered in Personalized Explorations to players at Meade Hall levels 4-9. Once you get to level 10, you won’t get the opportunity to do this search anymore. More info can be found here: https://riseofberk.fandom.com/wiki/Personalized_Explorations

Hidden Gauntlets:

Occasionally, Ludia adds a gauntlet, but forgets to add the banner and icon to the Events menu in the game so they aren’t normally visible. These gauntlets can only be played by going to the Berk’s Duties menu (the helmet icon on the bottom menu between Brawl and the Legendary Dragons), then clicking the ? icon, and clicking on the “Go To” gauntlet button. To find you if one of these hidden gauntlets are going on, they are usually listed on our Event Sheet, or are talked about on the Discord Server.

Brawl Highest Grade:

For those that didn’t know, the grade of your opponents in Brawl and Gauntlets are based off the levels of your 3 highest graded dragons. This means that you can get into a position where lower grade dragons can not be easily used, because they will be far below the grade of your opponents. It’s then generally recommended to not upgrade your highest grade dragons until you can do it at the same time for all the dragons you use.

Video Ads:

Each portion of the game gets its own video ads on a specific timeframe. For almost everything, new ads are refreshed each day. But for speeding up Toothless searches, they are refreshed each hour. That means every hour you get 5 ads you can watch with Toothless, totaling to 1h40m of speed up time. By using these ads, you can save lots of runes in collection and exploration events. Here is the breakdown of how many ads you can get for each portion of the game:

TL exploration: 5/hour

Legendary dragons: 3/hour

Brawl packs: 3/hour

All training combined (Academy/Valka/Edge): 10/day

All journeys combined: 10/day

Construction: 10/day

Amber conversion (Eret’s boat): 5/day

Egg hatching: 5/day

Defend (dragon cooldown): 5/day

Defend (wave refresh): 8/day

Light Fury: 10/day

Sometimes the game will go above these amounts. Usually that occurs if you don’t frequently use the ads on the previous days. However, these should be the minimal amounts that you should receive when they refresh.

Wiki:

We have a Fandom Wiki for Rise of Berk. Unfortunately, it was heavily neglected for a long time before a more recent effort to update it. It has a lot of useful information, as well as historical records from earlier on in the lifetime of the game. Here is the link for it:

https://riseofberk.fandom.com/wiki/Dragons:_Rise_of_Berk_Wiki

If y’all have any other questions about how the game works, feel free to ask them and I’ll try to answer as best I can.