Tamed 🏝️
Your personal island. Place a free Domain; constructions don't lose durability; expands with your level. No wild dinos.
Crash course · applies to every revival
Game systems, in one page
The original design is what every fan server reimplements: twelve skills, four island types, material chains, tameable dinosaurs, clans — and a food system that is your stamina bar. Here's the condensed version.
Server variations
Revivals mostly follow the original systems, but details vary — Primoria replaced Personal Islands with shared Village Islands, XD Lands adds a market city hub, and rates/content differ per server. When in doubt, check your server's Discord.
The 12 skills
Everything is level-by-use. Jump to a cheat sheet:
Backstories & jobs (character presets)
- 8 jobs × M/F = 16 presets, each with its own 2-gender intro story and a head start of skill Lv. 20 in its specialty:
| Job | Specialty (Lv 20 head start) |
|---|---|
| Soldier | Melee |
| Unemployed | Defense |
| Office worker | Construction |
| Technician | Weapon/Tool crafting |
| Flight attendant | Tailoring |
| Student | Gathering |
| Homemaker | Cooking |
| Farmer | Farming |
Islands
Civilized 🏙️
Stable islands with cities and markets — the social hub (like Kota Raya).
Unstable 🌋
Appear and disappear at random; the richest resources; warp holes; unstable savanna & volcano seas archipelagos.
Savage ⚔️
PvP islands with outposts only and high-level resources. Historically closed in 2019-07; in revivals, PvP is confined to a couple of islands.
Warps move you 2–4 islands per trip; carry loot back through cargo warp holes to keep it.
Crafting
- Material-processing chains → tools, weapons, clothing, buildings.
- Same recipe + different material = different item — bone/metal/leather pass hidden attributes (e.g. 720 recipes / 2,407 items in Primoria).
- Cooking includes specialized food recipes and brewing; medicine also lives in the Cooking tree.
- Skill XP only comes from items in your skill's level band — when a recipe stops paying, move up a tier.
Dinosaurs & pets
- 70+ animal kinds. Tame with special herbs & taming pens — Lv 30+ dinos need a Lv 13 clan building for better odds.
- Raise, ride mounts, use pack animals (e.g. ~300-slot carriers); pets have stats and growth stages (Young → adult; alphas exist).
- Tip from the 2019 guide: one fast mount (raptor-types) + two high-carry pack dinosaurs; no feeding needed — summon, transfer, re-summon.
Clans, co-op & PvP
- Clans: levels, perks, ranks, clan battles, shared banks; clan buildings gate some taming tech.
- Co-op: rescue downed players for rewards; temporary parties vs big creatures; smiley-emote chat gives a small buff to nearby players.
- PvP: limited rulesets on Savage islands only (in revivals).
Meta systems
- Titles from “University of Durango” radio courses — switchable bonuses that boost specific activities (see the attribute table).
- Status effects, Comfort, the Encyclopedia, and Personal Communication Center missions.
- Item attributes & status effects ride on materials — the crafting depth is the point.
Music
8 instruments, an in-game composer, songs shared via codes, and campfire concerts for up to 6 players. 🎶
Food & energy (eating well)
Food is the energy resource — every action drains it and eating is the only way back. Raw berries/coconut/palm carry you early; later you need real cooking. The tier list, easiest first:
| Food | Gate | Why it's good |
|---|---|---|
| Skewer (꼬치구이) | — | any edible + a branch + a fire; shortest cook time — cook twice for “well-done”. The everyday solo food until ~Lv 20 (stops training cooking at Lv 19). |
| Stone Plate Grill (돌판구이) | Cooking 20 | the standard energy food — never burn it, “burnt” massively cuts recovery |
| Steam ×2 “찜찜” | Cooking 25 | the mid-game energy jump |
| 회찜찜 (sashimi → steam ×2) | Cooking 40 | 1 meat = 3 foods, ~80% of an energy bar per piece — the staple |
| Meatball (완자) | — | with steady meat, the best pre-40 food: mortar only, no workbench, instant; gives a Str buff |
| Boil (삶기) | — | removes food toxicity and upgrades ingredient level to the water's level (Lv 30 meat + Lv 60 water → Lv 45 meat) |
| Simmer (끓이기) | — | warmth + thirst removal for cold zones |
- Mass-produce: Cooking Fire (아궁이, 2 jobs) / Hearth (부뚜막, 3 jobs, Construction 40) — four hearths pump out 12 회찜찜 at once.
- Skill grind: skewers → salt from seawater (Lv 25+) → spice production.
Food by buff
| Buff | Food |
|---|---|
| STR | Meat Stuffed Bread, Hamburger, Meat Lover Pizza, Seasoned Grillade |
| DEX | Pizza, Cream Cake, Hamburger, Stuffed Bread, Sausage |
| AGI | Veggie Pizza, Veggie Stuffed Bread, Veggie Juice |
| PER | Cream Cake, Aged Cheese, Tteokbokki, Spicy Chicken, Cheese |
| CHA | Fruit Pizza, Fruit Stuffed Bread, Aged Pizza, Fruit Juice |
| WILL | Grape Wine, Caterpillar Pizza, Caterpillar Stuffed Bread |
| Max energy | Raw Fish, Sushi |
Baking & seasoning (advanced)
| Dish | Process chain | Last-step seasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Pizza | grains → steam ×2 → grind → Grain Flour → seasoned stone plate → Bread Dough → Pizza (slice → steam) | herb → STR/AGI/WILL; sugar → DEX/PER/CHA; salt → STR/PER |
| Stuffed Bread | same chain as pizza, shaped as a loaf | same seasonings |
| Cream Cake | same chain with Cake Dough | sugar → DEX/PER/CHA (salt → STR/PER) |
- Only the last process's extra boost sticks — it overwrites earlier ones, and identical boosts don't stack. Bugs add a WIL buff.
- Hamburgers don't carry ingredient boosts; always brew grape wine for the WIL Lv 20 buff; how you process coffee beans doesn't extend coffee's effect.
- Buff duration: Lv 20 bread/pizza/cake ≈ 1 h 20 min (Lv 19 pizza 1 h 17 min; Lv 17 bread 1 h 2 min; Lv 4 hamburger ≈ 40 min; Lv 5 aged cheese ≈ 32 min). Steaming adds Status Effect Duration Lv 5; a seasoned stone plate adds Lv 2.
Filler food: raw fish
- Process meat/fish/crab → 3× raw fish, then steam them — cheap bulk energy.
- Big Lv1 / Marbling Lv4 meats make more energizing fish (Big > Marbling at the same item level).
- Steam, BBQ, stir-fry and deep-fry remove the max-energy bonus; boiling or smoking keeps it.
- Boosts sitting on raw fish don't extend your real buff food.
Two rules that save you
Eat while standing still — the eat animation must finish, otherwise you only get the “full” marker without the recovery. And don't burn stone-plate grills — “타버림” is a huge energy loss, not a small penalty.
Sourcing: About. Cooking skill route: Cooking cheat sheet. Material & tool buffs: Crafting details.