I restored the Race Course early in the game and found it to be a waste of time, at least for me. I have no desire to spend coins to race my Creatures, hoping I will beat the others that are entered randomly. You do receive prizes if your creature wins, places or shows but it really was not useful early in the game. After that, I basically ignored the other mini-quest and side building restorations to concentrate on Habitats and new Creatures.
What I did not realise was why one should unlock the Chat Room and Mystic Pyramid. The Chat Room offers global access to players with good information sometimes. Often the chats are rubbish but there are some gems as well. More to the point, if you create or join an existing club, access is solely through the Chat Room and you will be able to solicit speed ups for your breeding, nursery (kindergarten, according to the game, although they are infants in cradles!), shipments, building projects and food harvests. This is a very useful addition to regular gameplay.
Rare Creatures
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The Sand Creatures appear randomly and there is no guide within the scoreboard as to how to create them. Thus interesting to find out from other players that:
Sand Lizard: Hawk and Serpent. Breeding time 2 days, 12 hours. You can use Wadjet and Horucobra or any combination of Hawk/Serpent creatures as well.
Sand Bug: Jackal and Crocodile. Breeding time: 2 days.
Sand Scorpion: Cat and Human; Breeding time: 2 days, 8 hours
Sand Wraith: Cat and Serpent: Breeding time is two days.
Other Rare Creatures:
War Horse: Cat and Jackal; 24 hours
Nut Skygood: Although she is a Sand Creature, she cannot be obtained through breeding, unless you use an existing Nut Skygood to do it.
Chat Room
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If you join a Group, you can ask for speed up help in the Nursery or in the Kindergarten, in speeding the transport of your ships, your building projects and food harvests. There is no limit as to the number of DIFFERENT speed ups you can request at any given time, but once requested, you have to wait until the option becomes active again. This certainly is better than using premium cash!
Mystic Pyramid
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This is a mini-game that gives rare Creatures if you land on the right tile. It is progressive and you buy a tile by using Scarabs. Scarabs are obtianed randomly in gifts as well as when you harvest Food. I now grow Corn (quick harvest) to try to obtain Scarabs. Unfortunately, my luck always has been poor and I still have not won the creature Sekhmet. I am going to assume that she can be bred randomly in your kingdom because the cost of purchasing her using Diamonds (premium cash) is utterly prohibitive!
Unfortunately, many of the creatures like Sekhmet that appear in the Mystic Pyramid ONLY can be obtained there. When you access your Pyramid, you will find one chamber open probably. Go to your Scoreboard to see whether or not the Creature is listed there as one that can be bred. I have listed below the special Creatures that cannot be obtained through breeding.
You can obtain Scarabs randomly through many different actions, whether inside a gift, harvesting food or even collecting coins from your habitats. It is random, always, and if you are not particularly lucky, you will not have enough to win the Creature currently on display! If, however, you are lucky, you can win the Creature for less than 100 Scarabs in the first couple of attempts. After that...
Lighthouse Building or Sanctuary
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This option is unlocked at Level 35 and costs 75000 Stone. Like many of the other optional buildings, it takes a day to complete. It is here that you sacrifice your extra Creatures to obtian coloured Tokens that can be used in the Revive Pyramid to revive rare Creatures that cannot be obtained in any other fashion. Each Sacrifice takes about half a day to complete. It is a grisly affair wherein the chosen Creature will be seen standing in a gilded boat going literally down the river to be executed. You will not see the destination nor the actual act of Sacrifice, however.
Without the Revive Pyramid, unlocked at the same level, your Tokens will be unusable. Buy and build the Revive Pyramid, then collect the Tokens required for each of the Creatures. The time it takes to revive any Creature depends on the identity of that Creature. Some can take 4 days to revive. Others can be revived in a single day.
Creatures that cannot be obtained through Breeding
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Mystic Pyramid Creatures
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Sekhmet
Horunaje
Meretseger
Tefnut
Ginger Bread Pharoah
Star Mask Pine
Reindeer God
Creatures obtained through the Revive Option
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This option is unlocked when you reach Level 35.
Ammit
Renenutet
Behemoth
Manticore
Shazmu
Creatues obtained through special Promotions
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Nut Skygod
Seasonal Creatures
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Chinese Dragon
Monkey King
Horinama
Hathor
Love Goddess
Love Cat
St. Patrick Man
St. Patrick Lady
Bunny God
Bunny Goddess
Sarcophagus
Pumpkin Mask
King Corn Fu
Turkesh
The Cursed Turkey
Snow Mummy
Camelight
Ryramideer
Creatures of the 2nd, Underground Kingdom
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The following are creatures that do not appear on the Underground scoreboard
Underground
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Egyptian Bat: Ha and Bennu
Spiderqueen Scarab and Ha
Building Your Second Kingdom
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At this point in time, you can have two separate Kingdoms in this game. They each have their own Habitats and Creatures but the second is unlocked only by acquiring a specific number of different Creatures in the 1st Kingdom. When you go to the Entrance to the Underground Kingdom and tap on it, you will see a list of Creatues similar to the Scoreboard. It will show you how many you have obtained and how many more you need if you wish to unlock the 2nd Kingdom... if you do not have enough Creatures, you will be given the option to purchase entry. The price in diamonds will depend on the number of Creatures you still lack.
The first thing you should know is that EVERYTHING in the 2nd Kingdom is far more expensive than the first. It therefore makes no sense to unlock it early in the game. In fact, I would recommend that players build all possible habitats in the first Kingdom before building any Habitats in the second Kingdom. The most expensive Habitats in Egypt are the Sand and Vizier Habitats. Sand requires 650,000 Stone and Vizier requires 700,000 Stone.
In the Underground, the first Habitat is the Scarab Habitat. It costs 135,000 Stone anda Scarab will cost 750,000 Coins. Remember that you need two different Creatures to breed, so you need the second Habitat in the form of the Serpopard Habitat costing 270,000 Stone. A Serpopard will cost 2,500,000 Coins.
Then, although you are given a Nursery, the only building to exist in the Underworld when you enter it, you must purchase and build a Breeding Nest if you wish to breed these two Creatures. That will cost you 300,000 Coins. Fortunately, it only takes a minute to complete, allowing you to get right to business once you have the two initial Creatures.
As you can see, even an early breeding project is costly. What I do recommend is that, once you unlock this 2nd Kingdom, you buy and build a Farm and a Stone Quarry as soon as possible. The Stone Quarries are more efficient than the Ships. A Stone Quarry will cost 300,000 Coins but will allow you to quarry 10,000 Stone for 200,000 Coins in 6 hours or 20,000 Stone for 400,000 Coins in 12 hours. (A Stone Quarry can be upgraded as well.)
The Underground Food Farms are efficient as well. Buy a Stone Quarry and Farm even if you are not ready to embark on Underground Breeding. It will make your life easier in the end.
