Introduction to Bridgeworld (Part 2) - A Brief Overview of Questing, Summoning & Crafting
Continued from Introduction to Bridgeworld (Part 1) - How to Stake $MAGIC
Staking your $MAGIC is a passive way to earn with Bridgeworld; but for many of us we want to maximize our earnings by playing the game.
To start, you need a Legion from the Treasure Marketplace. If the legions on the marketplace are too costly (prices are freely set by other players on the market), you can opt for a Recruit from the Barracks (more on that later).
On the bottom left screen, you see this pillar wrapped in red flame — clicking the image will open up the Treasure Marketplace on a new tab.
Buying your first legion from the marketplace
The marketplace is as shown below:
There are Auxiliary (Aux) Legions and Genesis (Gen) Legions. Aux Legions are much cheaper and are what most people start with; Gen Legions are much more expensive as they have unlimited summons and can be staked for very high boosts in the Atlas Mine.
That being said, both Auxes and Gens can do all 3 game paths: questing, crafting and summoning. Aux Legions will suit the needs of most people.
After buying your Legion from the marketplace, you will see it in your Bridgeworld inventory under the Legion tab (the blue box at the top right corner).
(Note: Please ignore the text on "heading to pilgrimage" in your empty inventory. The pilgrimage is a process that old Legion owners from long ago had to do to 'activate' their legions. If you're reading this/bought legions from the marketplace the way this guide described, pilgrimage does not apply to you.)
If the legions on the marketplace are too costly, you can try out Bridgeworld with a recruit. As of the time of writing (20 March 2022), recruits can only quest for consumables (eg. Essence of Starlight, Prism Shards and rarely Universal Locks) at the Ivory Tower. Unlike Aux and Gen Legions, they cannot earn Treasures from questing and cannot level up. They also cannot craft or summon.
For a fee of 10 MAGIC, you can obtain 1 recruit legion per wallet from the Barracks (next to the Atlas Mine). Do note that recruits cannot be sold or transferred to another wallet. The team is also planning to add more functionality to certain recruits in the future.
Now that you have your legion, you can quest, summon and craft to earn $MAGIC and Bridgeworld game items. We’ll give a brief overview of each activity here and will be posting a more detailed write-up on game paths soon.
The easiest thing to start doing with your Legion is questing.
Click the image of the Ivory Tower in the top right corner to quest. If the inventory tab is blocking your view, toggle the ‘eye’ icon.
All legions can go questing to earn different kinds of consumables and Treasures. To quest, check out the following resources:
Helpful Links for Questing:
Ivory Tower — Treasure Docs
Bridgeworld Questing V2: Adventuring Checklist for Dummies
You can use an Aux Legion or a Gen Legion to summon at the summoning circle.
Aux Legions can only ever summon once in their lives, so make sure to buy Auxes with a 0/1 summon count on the marketplace if you wish to summon. Each time you summon using an Aux, you must pay 500 MAGIC.
Gen Legions can summon infinite times, but if you want to summon more than 5 times with your Gen you need to own Balancer Crystals (essentially wrapped MAGIC-ETH liquidity pair tokens). Each time you summon using a Gen, you must pay 300 MAGIC.
Whether you use a Gen or an Aux to summon, only Aux Legions can be generated via the Summoning Circle. As such, Aux Legions are inflationary (supply can keep going up) while the supply of Gen Legions is capped.
Helpful Links for Summoning:
Summoning Circle — Treasure Docs and Patch 1.0 Notes — Treasure Docs (for latest figures; anything in Patch Notes supersedes old docs)
After acquiring enough $MAGIC and Treasures, you may want to start crafting to join other Bridgeworld players in the Harvester Wars. Think of the harvesters as the “Atlas Mine but on steroids” — as a player you’ll be able to modify harvesters to multiply your $MAGIC staking yields, far beyond what’s possible with the Atlas Mine. We call them the Harvester Wars because players will have to work as teams and even form guilds to accumulate resources as a collective and build their harvesters. As of the time of writing (20 March 2022), harvesters are still under development by the Bridgeworld team but many of us players have started making preparations by crafting.
In order to stake in a Harvester, you’ll need to own a Harvester Part. And the only way to get one is via crafting with your legions (unless you have enough $MAGIC to buy one on the marketplace).
Click on “The Forge” to craft with your legions.
As shown in the table above (Patch Update 1.0), you need to own several treasures to craft. After every craft, you are guaranteed a prism. Once you reach Level 3 crafting, you can craft harvester parts; at Level 5, you can make Extractors which add even further boosts to Harvesters.
The risk with crafting is that there is a chance some of your Treasures break. All treasures that did not break during your craft will be returned to you. Even if your treasures break, you will still be rewarded with the end product (eg. prism).
Helpful links for crafting:
The Forge — Treasure Docs and Patch 1.0 Notes — Treasure Docs
Bridgeworld is a game with many moving parts and we hope that this guide has given you a preliminary foundation to start trying it out for yourself. While we mostly glossed over the questing/summoning/crafting game paths, we hope that you come away from this guide even more curious than before about the wonderful Treasure ecosystem. Going forward, you can expect from us at Magus more detailed write-ups on Bridgeworld game paths as well as a quick reference compilation of essential figures (eg. summoning times and questing drop-rates), to save you the trouble of having to keep up with the latest patch updates. If you have any questions, please don’t be afraid to ask our welcoming community over at the TreasureDAO or Magus Discords.
