Gerontius
09.08.13, 18:02
The epic adventures, items and buildings are end game content for players of at least level 42.
Contents of this guide:
Resources
Adventures
Buildings
Items
Quests
The basics:
1. Complete fairytale inspired adventures
2. Rewards for fairytale adventures include Magic Beans.
3. Spend Beans in merchant to buy epic items and buildings, including a fairytale castle.
4. Use level 5 fairytale castle to turn the beans into Magic Beanstalks.
5. Spend Beanstalks in merchant to buy even more epic items and buildings.
I intend this guide to contain everything you need to know about the epic content including links to adventure guides and anything else that might prove useful. It will probably be a work in progress for quite some time though. If you have links or useful things that you think should be included, post them here and I'll work them into the guide.
RESOURCES
Magic Beans::beans::
Are dropped as loot from the Fairytale adventures. Can be traded.
Magic Beanstalks::beanst::
Made in a Level 5 Fairytale Castle from Magic Beans. Sometimes dropped in loot from top level Fairytale adventures. Can be traded.
ADVENTURES
There is a chain of five fairytale adventures available, each telling a different story about the Little Tailor. They can all be played by three players, are very hard, and the main reason to do them it to get Magic Beans. For level 50 players, they drop Magic Beans (instead of star coins) at a ratio of 1:400 to the experience gathered.
The first adventure is The Valiant Little Tailor. It can be obtained from the merchant for 650 map fragments, bought in trade or found on long adventure search. The other fairytale adventures are follow-on adventures which can only be found randomly as lootdrops or can be traded. The follow-on adventures are found in a chain as illustrated by this graphic. Each adventure in the chain drops progressively better loot.
http://static.cdn.ubi.com/0034/archive/Forum_int/Pictures/2013_06_10_chain_adventures.png
GUIDES FOR ALL ADVENTURES:
Various German guides (see specific adventures below for translations of titles) (http://dso-karten.de/).
Corona88's guides with cannons and vet (http://forum.tsotesting.com/threads/19017-Fairy-Tale-guide-corona88)
Asiastrings guides for all general and troop types (http://forum.tsotesting.com/threads/19123-Attention-everyone-using-my-guides-please-read-this-now)
Some specific recommended guides are linked to below. Please review and comment on any of these guides in this thread to make sure I link to the best ones available, thanks!
My personal view is that you don't really need a guide at all to complete the adventures and you're probably worse of if you do follow a guide exactly: so many of the attacks are multiple waves and the first wave(s) can have very varied results. The guides can only give a best "average" result and will often play it safe, therefore you could be losing 10-20 more troops than you need to on the 2nd and subsequent waves. Guides are really only useful for planning blocks or pathing strategies, and these new adventures are so linear there are very few chances for that.
I think the best idea for doing the adventures is to use the Hall of Fame on the simulator at http://settlersonlinesimulator.com/dso_kampfsimulator/en/ combined with finding best attackers using http://www.settlersonlinetools.com/en/combat_simulator/ to find the best combinations for 2nd and 3rd waves.
The Valiant Little Tailor (Das tapfere Schneiderlein)
How to get it: 650 map fragments from merchant or Long adventure search with explorer
Loot slots:
1. 100 Beans
2. 700 Granite or Exotic Wood Logs
3. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket
4. "The Clever Little Tailor" or "The Sons of the Little Tailor" or 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
5. Up to 76,790 experience or 192 Beans
Guides:
dso-karten.de, Veteran General and Crossbows/Elites (http://dso-karten.de/images/articles-pics/4139_1376003911.jpg) - high recruit losses, fewer bowmen
cllara from german forums, Veteran General and Cannons (http://imageshack.com/a/img16/9846/lf9x.jpg)
The Clever Little Tailor (Das kluge Schneiderlein)
How to get it: Sometimes dropped as loot from The Valiant Little Tailor
Loot slots:
1. 670 Beans (seems excessive: may be a bug?)
2. 500 or 2000 Granite or Exotic Wood Logs
3 and 4. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket
5. "The Heroic Little Tailor" or 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
6. Up to 80,402 experience or 201 Beans
The Heroic Little Tailor (Das heldenhafte Schneiderlein)
How to get it: Sometimes dropped as loot from The Clever Little Tailor
Loot slots:
1. 670 Beans (or 100 Beanstalks?)
2 and 3. 500 or 2300 Expert resources (Granite/Exotic wood logs/Titanium ore/Saltpeter)
4 to 7. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
8. Up to 91,090 experience or 227 beans
The Sons of the Little Tailor (Die Söhne des Schneiderleins)
How to get it: Sometimes dropped as loot from The Valiant Little Tailor
Loot slots:
1. 280 Beans
2. 500 or 2000 Granite or Exotic Wood Logs
3 and 4. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket
5. "The Betrayed Little Tailor" or 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
6. Up to 82,958 experience or 208 Beans
Guides:
Fhearghus, Veteran General and Crossbows/Elites (http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/25153-The-Sons-Of-The-Little-Tailor-%28-no-cannons-no-blocks-%29-by-Fhearghus)
The Betrayed Little Tailor (Das betrogene Schneiderlein)
How to get it: Sometimes dropped as loot from The Sons of the Little Tailor
Loot slots:
1. 670 Beans or 100 Beanstalks
2 and 3. 500 or 2300 Expert resources (Granite/Exotic wood logs/Titanium ore/Saltpeter)
4 to 7. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
8. Up to 82,556 experience or 207 beans
Hint: without cannons you will lose around 300S, without a vet general you will lose around 300E!
Thanks to Prvi, bazpearman, lulu10093
Please provide links to additional guides and review any guides listed above so we know whether they work or not.
BUILDINGS
Fairytale Castle (max: 1)
Unlocked at level 45.
Price: 9950 Beans. Cannot be traded.
Size: 2 x 2 normal buildings.
Action: At level 5, converts 25 Beans to 5 Beanstalks every 10 minutes. Can be buffed
Does nothing at levels 1 to 4.
Upgrade costs
Level 2: 40,000 stone, 40,000 pinewood planks or 50,400 gems. 30 minutes upgrade time.
Level 3: 40,000 marble, 40,000 hardwood planks or 81,000 gems. 2 hours upgrade time.
Level 4: 40,000 coal, 15,000 steel or 41,850 gems. 2 days upgrade time.
Level 5: 3,000 map piece, 5,000 gold coins or 20,205 gems. 10 days upgrade time.
http://static.cdn.ubi.com/0034/archive/Forum_int/Pictures/2013_06_10_fairy_castle.png
If anyone has the updated graphic, please give me a link.
Gold Tower (max: 3)
Price: 6300 Beanstalks. Cannot be traded.
Unlocked at level 48.
Size: 1.5 x 1.5 normal buildings.
Action: Converts 1 wheat to 1 gold coin every 12 minutes. Cannot be upgraded. Can be buffed.
https://sphotos-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/995412_598148390207439_1752712912_n.png
Thanks to Iolanthe for the new image
Magnificent Residence (unlimited)
Price: 15,000 Beans. May be traded.
Unlocked at level 46.
Size: Irregular. Takes up the space of 4 normal buildings in a T shape.
Action: Houses 500 population. Cannot be upgraded.
http://www.thesettlersonlinewiki.com/images/buildings/b_epic_nobleresidence.png
ITEMS
5 Building Licences - level 43
Sandman's Powder
QuarterMaster General - level 44
Major General - level 47
QUEST CHAIN
A new quest chain, "The New Challenge", introduces the epic content. It is made of 7 subquests and is available at level 42 (?).
Reward for completing full chain: 500 gems, The Valiant Little Tailor adventure
1. Epic Preparations
Have an army of 3000 or more units
Own 1500 Recruits
Own 200 Crossbowmen
Own 200 Elite Soldier
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 exotic wood logs
2. The Valiant Little Tailor
Complete the adventure "The Valiant Little Tailor".
The adventure is put into your star menu for you so you don't have to buy this first one.
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 granite
3. Fairytale Adventures
Complete two fairytale adventures.
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 granite
4. Gathering Magic Beans
Find 1000 Magic Beans by completing Fairy Tale Adventures (Cannot be completed by trading. Beans already in storehouse do not count)
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 titanium ore
5. More Beans
Acquire 2k beans (Can be completed by trading)
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 granite
6. The Fairytale Castle
Own the Fairytale Castle
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 exotic wood logs
7. Magic Beanstalk
Upgrade Fairytale castle to level 5
Produce 50 Magic Beanstalks
Have at least production value of at least 360 every 12 hours for Magic Beanstalks
Reward: 1000 exp, 1000 granite
Thanks to lulu10093, supermind, jollyfog2012, Fearless_Frack, corona88.
Contents of this guide:
Resources
Adventures
Buildings
Items
Quests
The basics:
1. Complete fairytale inspired adventures
2. Rewards for fairytale adventures include Magic Beans.
3. Spend Beans in merchant to buy epic items and buildings, including a fairytale castle.
4. Use level 5 fairytale castle to turn the beans into Magic Beanstalks.
5. Spend Beanstalks in merchant to buy even more epic items and buildings.
I intend this guide to contain everything you need to know about the epic content including links to adventure guides and anything else that might prove useful. It will probably be a work in progress for quite some time though. If you have links or useful things that you think should be included, post them here and I'll work them into the guide.
RESOURCES
Magic Beans::beans::
Are dropped as loot from the Fairytale adventures. Can be traded.
Magic Beanstalks::beanst::
Made in a Level 5 Fairytale Castle from Magic Beans. Sometimes dropped in loot from top level Fairytale adventures. Can be traded.
ADVENTURES
There is a chain of five fairytale adventures available, each telling a different story about the Little Tailor. They can all be played by three players, are very hard, and the main reason to do them it to get Magic Beans. For level 50 players, they drop Magic Beans (instead of star coins) at a ratio of 1:400 to the experience gathered.
The first adventure is The Valiant Little Tailor. It can be obtained from the merchant for 650 map fragments, bought in trade or found on long adventure search. The other fairytale adventures are follow-on adventures which can only be found randomly as lootdrops or can be traded. The follow-on adventures are found in a chain as illustrated by this graphic. Each adventure in the chain drops progressively better loot.
http://static.cdn.ubi.com/0034/archive/Forum_int/Pictures/2013_06_10_chain_adventures.png
GUIDES FOR ALL ADVENTURES:
Various German guides (see specific adventures below for translations of titles) (http://dso-karten.de/).
Corona88's guides with cannons and vet (http://forum.tsotesting.com/threads/19017-Fairy-Tale-guide-corona88)
Asiastrings guides for all general and troop types (http://forum.tsotesting.com/threads/19123-Attention-everyone-using-my-guides-please-read-this-now)
Some specific recommended guides are linked to below. Please review and comment on any of these guides in this thread to make sure I link to the best ones available, thanks!
My personal view is that you don't really need a guide at all to complete the adventures and you're probably worse of if you do follow a guide exactly: so many of the attacks are multiple waves and the first wave(s) can have very varied results. The guides can only give a best "average" result and will often play it safe, therefore you could be losing 10-20 more troops than you need to on the 2nd and subsequent waves. Guides are really only useful for planning blocks or pathing strategies, and these new adventures are so linear there are very few chances for that.
I think the best idea for doing the adventures is to use the Hall of Fame on the simulator at http://settlersonlinesimulator.com/dso_kampfsimulator/en/ combined with finding best attackers using http://www.settlersonlinetools.com/en/combat_simulator/ to find the best combinations for 2nd and 3rd waves.
The Valiant Little Tailor (Das tapfere Schneiderlein)
How to get it: 650 map fragments from merchant or Long adventure search with explorer
Loot slots:
1. 100 Beans
2. 700 Granite or Exotic Wood Logs
3. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket
4. "The Clever Little Tailor" or "The Sons of the Little Tailor" or 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
5. Up to 76,790 experience or 192 Beans
Guides:
dso-karten.de, Veteran General and Crossbows/Elites (http://dso-karten.de/images/articles-pics/4139_1376003911.jpg) - high recruit losses, fewer bowmen
cllara from german forums, Veteran General and Cannons (http://imageshack.com/a/img16/9846/lf9x.jpg)
The Clever Little Tailor (Das kluge Schneiderlein)
How to get it: Sometimes dropped as loot from The Valiant Little Tailor
Loot slots:
1. 670 Beans (seems excessive: may be a bug?)
2. 500 or 2000 Granite or Exotic Wood Logs
3 and 4. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket
5. "The Heroic Little Tailor" or 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
6. Up to 80,402 experience or 201 Beans
The Heroic Little Tailor (Das heldenhafte Schneiderlein)
How to get it: Sometimes dropped as loot from The Clever Little Tailor
Loot slots:
1. 670 Beans (or 100 Beanstalks?)
2 and 3. 500 or 2300 Expert resources (Granite/Exotic wood logs/Titanium ore/Saltpeter)
4 to 7. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
8. Up to 91,090 experience or 227 beans
The Sons of the Little Tailor (Die Söhne des Schneiderleins)
How to get it: Sometimes dropped as loot from The Valiant Little Tailor
Loot slots:
1. 280 Beans
2. 500 or 2000 Granite or Exotic Wood Logs
3 and 4. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket
5. "The Betrayed Little Tailor" or 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
6. Up to 82,958 experience or 208 Beans
Guides:
Fhearghus, Veteran General and Crossbows/Elites (http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/25153-The-Sons-Of-The-Little-Tailor-%28-no-cannons-no-blocks-%29-by-Fhearghus)
The Betrayed Little Tailor (Das betrogene Schneiderlein)
How to get it: Sometimes dropped as loot from The Sons of the Little Tailor
Loot slots:
1. 670 Beans or 100 Beanstalks
2 and 3. 500 or 2300 Expert resources (Granite/Exotic wood logs/Titanium ore/Saltpeter)
4 to 7. 1 Chocolate bunny or 1 Exotic Fruit Basket or 250 Universal refill
8. Up to 82,556 experience or 207 beans
Hint: without cannons you will lose around 300S, without a vet general you will lose around 300E!
Thanks to Prvi, bazpearman, lulu10093
Please provide links to additional guides and review any guides listed above so we know whether they work or not.
BUILDINGS
Fairytale Castle (max: 1)
Unlocked at level 45.
Price: 9950 Beans. Cannot be traded.
Size: 2 x 2 normal buildings.
Action: At level 5, converts 25 Beans to 5 Beanstalks every 10 minutes. Can be buffed
Does nothing at levels 1 to 4.
Upgrade costs
Level 2: 40,000 stone, 40,000 pinewood planks or 50,400 gems. 30 minutes upgrade time.
Level 3: 40,000 marble, 40,000 hardwood planks or 81,000 gems. 2 hours upgrade time.
Level 4: 40,000 coal, 15,000 steel or 41,850 gems. 2 days upgrade time.
Level 5: 3,000 map piece, 5,000 gold coins or 20,205 gems. 10 days upgrade time.
http://static.cdn.ubi.com/0034/archive/Forum_int/Pictures/2013_06_10_fairy_castle.png
If anyone has the updated graphic, please give me a link.
Gold Tower (max: 3)
Price: 6300 Beanstalks. Cannot be traded.
Unlocked at level 48.
Size: 1.5 x 1.5 normal buildings.
Action: Converts 1 wheat to 1 gold coin every 12 minutes. Cannot be upgraded. Can be buffed.
https://sphotos-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/995412_598148390207439_1752712912_n.png
Thanks to Iolanthe for the new image
Magnificent Residence (unlimited)
Price: 15,000 Beans. May be traded.
Unlocked at level 46.
Size: Irregular. Takes up the space of 4 normal buildings in a T shape.
Action: Houses 500 population. Cannot be upgraded.
http://www.thesettlersonlinewiki.com/images/buildings/b_epic_nobleresidence.png
ITEMS
5 Building Licences - level 43
Sandman's Powder
QuarterMaster General - level 44
Major General - level 47
QUEST CHAIN
A new quest chain, "The New Challenge", introduces the epic content. It is made of 7 subquests and is available at level 42 (?).
Reward for completing full chain: 500 gems, The Valiant Little Tailor adventure
1. Epic Preparations
Have an army of 3000 or more units
Own 1500 Recruits
Own 200 Crossbowmen
Own 200 Elite Soldier
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 exotic wood logs
2. The Valiant Little Tailor
Complete the adventure "The Valiant Little Tailor".
The adventure is put into your star menu for you so you don't have to buy this first one.
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 granite
3. Fairytale Adventures
Complete two fairytale adventures.
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 granite
4. Gathering Magic Beans
Find 1000 Magic Beans by completing Fairy Tale Adventures (Cannot be completed by trading. Beans already in storehouse do not count)
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 titanium ore
5. More Beans
Acquire 2k beans (Can be completed by trading)
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 granite
6. The Fairytale Castle
Own the Fairytale Castle
Reward: 1000 exp, 500 exotic wood logs
7. Magic Beanstalk
Upgrade Fairytale castle to level 5
Produce 50 Magic Beanstalks
Have at least production value of at least 360 every 12 hours for Magic Beanstalks
Reward: 1000 exp, 1000 granite
Thanks to lulu10093, supermind, jollyfog2012, Fearless_Frack, corona88.