Fortress Saga: AFK RPG - Quick Guide to Other World

Understanding Other World

By Kaiton.

Other World is new weekly cross-server content where players can compete and earn crystals used to upgrade weapons in the Mastery Lab.
Each tile has its own rules buffing/debuffing different races.
Once you reach 3% exploration rate, you can explore adjacent tiles.
To explore fast, stay on lower phases for higher KPM.
Different colored areas correspond to different types of crystals for upgrading different weapon types.
Once you reach 100%, you will start seeing points per kill for each phase. The points/kill for the tile grows with exploration% up to 2000%.
Going above 100% = more points/kill = can beat someone stronger than you who conquered the tile at a lower exploration%.
Once you reach 100%, you can try to conquer that tile. You have only one chance per day, so don’t attempt it until you find your optimal phase first.
Aim for a far-away tile that’s less contested.
Area color doesn’t really matter right now since you need to get crystals from all areas to upgrade beyond level 5 in Mastery Lab, so just pick a tile far away that you can potentially conquer.
When you attempt to conquer a tile, you get the elixirs to make 15,000 cakes whether you succeed or fail. This is free 15a cakes per day!
Each week will reset rules and exploration rates down to 100%.
F2P and weaker players should focus on exploring all tiles to 100% for the crystals and attempt one conquest per day.
Pro tips: farm super low phase with burst+cogwheel (one-shot each mob with only burst cannon) to gain exploration rate fast.

Optimal Phase for Conquest Battle:

Equip the best ATK gears. I recommend Jib, Ungula, Mael, Valentine, Gildong, Louis.
Use knockback+wrench to avoid dying by flying mobs during conquest battle.
Once you get to your max phase that you can clear, try going down about 30 phases from that max and start searching for the optimal phase.
Pick a phase and farm for 2 minutes. Multiply points/kill by KPM.
Try a different phase and repeat until you get max result.

Conquest Battle:

Once you reach 100% on a tile, you can challenge it (only 1 attempt/day).
Pick your most optimal phase.
Load your preset.
Fight mobs for 30s. Score is based on chosen phase’s points/mob × mobs killed.
If your score is higher than the previous conqueror’s, you get to become the new conqueror.
If no one can beat your score in 5 mins, you will have successfully conquered the tile and you are protected for 1 hour.
You also get partial rewards of crystals from previous conqueror.
Regardless of whether you succeed or fail, you get the materials to make 15,000 cakes.
Anyone can challenge you after this 1-hour timer expires.
If you fail to conquer or lose your conquered tile, just go explore other tiles and get 600 crystals per tile cleared 100%.
Once you’ve conquered a tile, you can go back to farm at the old world. You don’t need to be in Other World to earn the conquest crystals/min.

You should try conquest on a phase with no flying mobs. Here’s how many points you can expect per kill at 2000% on non-flying phases:

Phase 41-50: 24.1-25.0
Phase 61-70: 26.1-27.0
Phase 81-90: 28.1-29.0
Phase 101-110: 30.1-31.0
Phase 121-130: 32.1-33.0
Phase 141-150: 34.1-35.0

If you use Jib, Ungula, Mael, Iris, Valentine, Louis with knockback+wrench, you can get 900-950 kills max. Another team that gets a similar number of kills is to replace Mael with Gildong instead, which could be useful for people who don’t have a strong Mael. This means the max score you can get can be estimated simply by multiplying 950 by the points per kill. Multiplying instead with 800 would give you a conservative estimate.

Pick the highest phase where you can do 630+ KPM after 2 mins of farming with that recommended team.

Try a conquest battle and spam the heroes’ skills. Divide your score by points per kill to find how many kills you did. Going forward, you can use this number of kills to estimate your own score.

Mastery Lab:

This is for growing a new multiplier on weapons
For each type, give it a leg weapon or multiple leg trinkets to bring it to level 4
For level 5, you will need crystals from Other World
Potions can be used to reduce the failure rate and protection scrolls prevent loss of materials (i.e., crystals) if your research fails. Both of these are paid items available from weekly packs

Weekly Reset:

Exploration rates above 100% are reset down to 100%. Exploration rates below 100% are maintained as they are
At reset, tiles that exceed 100% are given 1 crystal per 0.4% exploration rate
Conquest can run past weekly reset (e.g., conquest that begins just before the weekly reset is basically going to be virtually impossible to defeat due to exploration rates resetting)