Criatura Academy

The Start

Starting Area

Wounded Swordsman

Captain Carroc

Your new character starts in a room on a ship, following the navigation will lead you out of the portal.

Once outside, you will see a Wounded Swordsman with a quest icon over his head.

He tells you to find the captain without him.

Leave through the bottom portal to leave the ship, where you will find Captain Carocc, also with a quest icon above his head.

Talk to him and he will tell you about a ship that will take you to Izlude, but first he gives you a quest to kill Porings to get lumber for the ship repairs. The lumber ends up in your inventory automatically after you kill a Poring.

Talk to Lumin to the left of him to get more information; he also tells you to walk into the portal in the south west to get off the island.

Find the sailor in the south west and talk to him, he gives you exp and 5 Magnifier. After that, you can leave through the portal to get to Izlude.

Once in Izlude, talk to Captain Carocc. He tells you about the Criatura Academy, and gives you a quest to visit Hun. Go talk to Criatura Academy Staff (izlude 122, 207), who happens to be Hun. He teaches you about how to use Items, and gives you an Apple Juice to drink. Double-click the Apple Juice to drink it. For finishing his quest, he will give you 30 Novice Potion.

Next, talk to the Information Staff NPC next to Hun. He will ask you to play a game. He will mark three locations on your mini-map. Go and visit all of them! Click on the Bulletin Board at the location to activate quest dialog. Even though Lumin took all the treasures you were supposed to find, the Information Staff NPC will still give you some EXP, 20 Novice Potion, 20 Novice Fly Wing, and 10 Novice Butterfly Wing.

Academy Quests

Learning Play Dead

Instructor Argos

Talk to Instructor Argos (140, 260) to learn Play Dead . Just don’t talk to him for 20 seconds to learn the skill.

Registering for the Academy

Academy Receptionist

Speak to Academy Receptionist (100, 39) and select “Register for the Academy”. She gives you some EXP and the following starter items: Criatura Hat, 300 Novice Potion, and Criatura Hair Coupon.

Selecting “Location for Trainers” then selecting “Game Mechanic Tutorial Instructors” or “1st job trainers” will bring up a list of hyperlinks for each NPC. Clicking a link will bring up the Navigation Tab to guide you to the NPC you selected.

Selecting “Location for Trainers” then trying to select “Return to the previous menu” or “End Conversation” refreshes the same page, you cannot return to previous menu or end the conversation using these options at this time.

You can talk to the different job NPC's on the second floor of the academy, you can take a skill book which gives you some of the class skills, as long as you are not past base level 12.

Monster Combat Quests

These quests have a level requirement of base 15, so it's good to get them before you do the other quests. Go speak with Subino (xx, xx) in the Armory, choose "Check requests" and take all the quests. To finish the quests, you must do the following:

Quest	Kill	Collect	Monster Location
1	10 Poring	5 Jellopy	prt_fild08
2	10 Lunatic	1 Carrot	prt_fild08
3	10 Fabre	3 Fluff	prt_fild00
4	5 Pupa	2 Shell	prt_fild00, prt_fild08
5	10 Hornet	3 Bee Sting	prt_fild00

He will warp you to prt_fild08 for free (the map 1 West of Izlude). Once you've killed all the monsters and gathered all the items, return to Subino and receive EXP and 4 Ticket for Kafra Storage.

First Aid and Red Herb Quest

Therapist

Talk to the Therapist (59, 43) and choose the second option to get First Aid .

Talk to the Therapist again and select ‘Red Herb Quest’. Go outside and speak to the Academy Student next to the Red Herb (or walk up to the herb to trigger the dialogue). He gives you a Red Herb.

Go back to the Therapist and select ‘Red Herb Quest’ and she will give you Base EXP, Novice Potion, Novice Combination Book, 10 Combination Kit and 1 Apple. [Combination Kit does nothing at this time]. You can ignore the General Store Owner, since Combination Kits don’t work.

Hairstyle Change

Otter Samssoon

If you want to change your hairstyle and color, talk to Otter Samssoon.

Read style book - shows you the styles you can choose from

Change hairstyle - lets you change hairstyle and color

Cafeteria - Status Effects Tutorial and Cooking Tutorial

Trainer Mainz

Explains about different status effects. Talk to him twice to get Base and Job EXP and Apple.

Dacquoise

Talk to this NPC to learn about cooking (how to cook, how to get cook books, etc).

4 different foods we can make:

Savory Herb Salad

Str +1 for 3 minutes, Recovers 25 HP. Requires 1 Green Herb, 1 Clover, 1 Red Herb

Apple Carrot Salad

Agi +1 for 3 minutes, Recovers 25 HP. Requires 1 Apple, 2 Carrot

Casual Stew

Vit +1 for 3 minutes, Recovers 25 HP. Requires 1 Fluff, 1 Feather, 1 Jellopy

Golden Roasted Apple

Dex +1 for 3 minutes, Recovers 25 HP. Requires 1 Apple, 1 Clover

Armory - Attributes Tutorial and Pet System Tutorial

Attribute Expert

Choose “Experience of attribute” and get quest. Hit one of the Lvl 10 Fire Eggs, talk to NPC again and tell him how much damage you did, then talk to him again and get additional Base and Job EXP.

Adept Adventurer

Talk to him and he explains what pets are. Ask him that you want a pet and he warps you to the gardens.

In the gardens, talk to the Friendly Poring and choose “Can I help you?”. He gives you 5 Little Unripe Apple and teaches you how to tame a Little Poring. Walk around the map and tame a Little Poring.

Then talk to the Friendly Poring and the Adept Adventurer again and then the Friendly Poring will eventually give you a Pet Incubator and an Apple Juice.

Izlude Town Quests

Shop Helper Quest

Shop Helper

Talk to Shop Helper (115, 181) in Izlude. Choose “Ok I’ll listen!”. Then talk to her again and choose “Experience training.” She’ll tell you to go buy 1 Red Potion.

Go into the Izlude Tool Shop and buy a Red Potion from the Tool Dealer. Talk to the Shop Helper Leonie again she gives you EXP and 50 Novice Fly Wing.

Talk to her again to get another quest. Sell the can she gives you to one of the NPCs in the Tool Shop. As a reward she will give you EXP and 10 Novice Butterfly Wing.

Enchanting Tutorial

Enchanter Mounds

Enchanter Almond J

Listen to him to talk about Enchanting and the island of Malangdo. Talk to him again and tell him that you want to “experience” Enchanting. Now when you bring him an unslotted Cotton Shirt, he will enchant it with a slot, giving you a slotted Cotton Shirt.

Equip that Cotton Shirt[1] and take it to Almond J and tell him that you want to enchant it. He will enchant it with +100 HP and +50 SP.

Go back to Mounds and tell him about your enchanted Cotton Shirt. When he asks for your advice, you can just say anything. As a reward you will get EXP (1200, 500 [at 1x rates]) and a Free Ticket for Kafra Storage.

From now on you can now go back to Almond J to get an Enchantment for one of your Novice weapons (not the Novice Main-Gauche you get from the Receptionist!). You should get these weapons after your first job change. He will give you a random Enchantment for free.

Enchantable weapons: Novice Battle Axe, Novice Mace, Novice Rod, Novice Composite Bow, Novice Cutter, Novice Falchion

Enhancement Tutorial

Refinery Owner Han

Talk to Refinery Owner Han (153, 126) and choose “refining? Is it edible?”. Talk with Refining Machine Wagjak and choose your Knife and it will refine it to +1.

Talk to Han again, and he tells you to talk to Tadde (145, 122). Speak with Tadde, and choose “Finish the question”. Speak with Han again.

Speak with Locas who talks to you more about refining (price and effect). Choose “Finish the question”. Then speak with Han one last time and get EXP and 1 Free Ticket for Kafra Storage.

Once you have the minimum of Base level 10 and Job level 10 you can proceed to the second floor of the academy to talk to the your respective class NPC and be sent to the respective area to proceed with job change.