Antiquity Garulea Continent (Another Dungeon)/Mechanics
Mechanics[edit]
Antiquity Garulea Continent costs 2 Green Keys to enter, and operates differently from most other Another Dungeons. The player starts in Gadaro, an enemy-free map where they can trade in various materials gathered throughout the rest of the Another Dungeon.
In each map, the player gets to choose between two possible destinations, randomly selected from the pool of eight maps. The destination will always be different from your current map, and it is possible to visit the same destination twice in a single run. If the player does revisit a map, its rewards (chests and sparkle points) are refreshed and rerolled. After traversing three maps, the next pair of portals brings them to two of three possible bosses - Sacred Beast, King Tsuchino-Bunmei, or Big Gonjuro.
Unlike other Another Dungeons, there is no limit to the number of random encounters each map with enemies can give. However, all mobs here will only drop Grasta Fragments. The chest in the boss room has slight variations depending on which boss you're against. The chest will give Fragments, Crystals, or rarely a Jadeite of the specific type. Sacred Beast's chest will give Support pieces, Big Gonjuro's gives Attack pieces, and King Tsuchino-Bunmei's give Life pieces.
Monster Femur Areas[edit]
The Hokishi Forest, Talgana Mountain Trail, Kuruchi Cove don't contain chests, but instead have four sparkle points. Interacting with these sparkle points yields Monster Femurs which can be traded in Zami for Grastas. One of these sparkle points will also always contain a colored fragment, 20 of which are needed to make a paint in Gadaro. Once you have 20 of these fragments, you cannot obtain any more from the corresponding map.
The Hokishi Forest gives Ancient Forest's Fragments; Talgana Mountain Trail gives Mountaintop's Fragments; Kuruchi Cove gives Whirling Tides' Fragments.
Zami[edit]
This is an enemy-free zone where the player can trade Monster Femurs for Grastas. There are two merchants in this area:
The merchant in the center (Recycling Shop) gives low-tier debuff resistance/continuous regen Grastas for 5 Monster Femurs and medium-tier Pain/Poison damage buff or debuff resistance Grastas for 20 Monster Femurs.
The merchant in the inn (Straw Dummy Fan) gives high-tier Grastas or Jadeites for 10 Monster Femurs apiece, but has limited stock. He has a total of 50 items, and his trade selection includes three random choices from this pool. These include HP Recovery/MP Recovery Grastas for the remaining weapon types not obtained in the story (13 total), Grastas that teach an elemental AOE attack skill for each weapon type (32 total), or Jadeite (3 Support, 1 Life, 1 Attack).
If the player visits Zami twice in a single run, the merchants' Grasta selection will be different. If the player is forced to abandon their run, any Bones they expended in trade will not be refunded.
There is also a rest point in the Inn where the party can replenish their HP and MP. However, the inn does not provide any food after resting.
Dogu's Domain[edit]
This zone is also enemy-free but also has a low appearance rate. The only thing to do here is to collect a Superior Dogu for 100 Git (the first one is free). This Superior Dogu can be traded in Gadaro for rare Grastas.
Gadaro Trading[edit]
Dye Fragments[edit]
The path to the far right is where three carved out hollows. You must collect 20 of any one dye fragment to trade to the Craftsman betwen the portals for the wall painting to fill the given hollow. Doing so will award the player with a unique armor. Ancient Forest's Fragments make the Forest Wall-painting which unlocks the Jungle Bracelet. Mountaintop's Fragments make the Mountain Wall-painting for the Apex Necklace. Whirling Tides' Fragments make Sea Wall-painting which unlocks the Helix Ring.
Superior Dogu[edit]
Your Superior Dogu can be exchanged with the Young Man near the portals and the Girl in the house for high-tier Grastas that teach a new skill to the character equipping them. These skills will appear as part of the character's skill list and you will need to dedicate a skill slot for it to be usable in combat. Like with most other high-tier Grastas, they are weapon-restricted; the Staff variant will be offered first, followed by Sword, and so on until the stock is exhausted with the Hammer variant. The Young Man's Grastas use Support pieces and bestow a buff skill that affects everyone in the party using the matching weapon. The Girl's Grastas use Life pieces and give a healing skill that restores 50% of the user's max HP.
After you acquire all 16 unique Grastas from the above two NPCs, the Elderly Woman will trade Jadeites for any subsequent Superior Dogu you acquire. She will offer Jadeites in a cycle of Attack, Life, Support.
