Guides

New to Dreamgrove? This is everything for your first days, in plain words - no private-server experience needed.

Downloading the game

Dreamgrove is played through Waystone, our launcher for Windows. Download Waystone, run the installer, then pick Dreamgrove in the launcher. Java comes built in, so there's nothing else to install. Waystone keeps the game up to date by itself; once Dreamgrove launches, just press Play.

Your first ten minutes

1. Make your account and pick a game mode and an XP mode (see Game and XP modes). Not sure? Normal mode and Crescent.
2. Read your Gatherer's Scroll from your starter kit: from then on monster drops go straight into your bag, and coins into your money pouch.
3. Put on your Seedling gear - helm, body, legs and a weapon. The Seedling bow and wand need no arrows or runes.
4. Claim your daily reward with ::daily - one every day.
5. Fight your first boss. Go to the shrine in the Dreamgrove Glade (::home) and open Boss Instances. Tier 0 is free: the Thornling Brute (melee), Mothwing Archer (ranged) or Wisp Weaver (magic).
6. Craft your first set piece with ::craft once you have some Dreamshards.

Your quest tab is a menu here: Bosses, Slayer, Daily, Events, Perks and Teleports, each with a live line showing where you're at. The bottom-right tab is your Player Panel, with your points and donor rank.

Your starter kit

• Seedling gear: helm, body and legs (ironmen get their mode's armour instead), plus a spear, a bow and a wand - all three combat styles.
• 150,000 coins.
• Skilling tools - an axe, a pickaxe, a tinderbox and a fishing net - and some food.
• The Gatherer's Scroll: read it once and auto-loot is on for good. What doesn't fit your bag goes to your bank. Inside a boss instance every drop is picked up for you, scroll or not.

Getting around

Home is the Dreamgrove Glade: the bank to the north, skilling to the east, the boss shrine to the south and the market to the west.

• ::home - back to the glade
• ::teleport - the teleport menu (Boss Instances and Raids at the top, tabs for the rest)
• ::skilling - the skilling glade · ::shops - the market lane
• ::bank - your bank from anywhere (not in combat, the Wilderness or the Duel Arena, and not for ironmen)
• ::pouch - your money pouch: coins kept outside your bag. Crafting and stores take coins from your bag and pouch together.

Dying and staying safe

• You never lose items or your pet when you die, anywhere - try the hard fights!
• Staff will never ask for your password. Use ::changepassword if you think someone knows it.
• Trade only through the in-game trade window - staff can't undo a trade. Real-money trading gets you banned.

Getting help

Ask in #help on our Discord - players and staff are happy to answer. Something broken, a store problem or a player to report? Open a ticket there. Looking for people to boss or raid with? Try #looking-for-group.

You pick both when you make your account. Your game mode sets the rules you play by; your XP mode sets how fast you level - and the slower you go, the better your drops.

Game modes

• Normal - no restrictions.
• Ironman - no trading, and no loot from monsters other players damaged.
• Hardcore Ironman - an ironman with one life; die and you become a normal ironman.
• Ultimate Ironman - an ironman who can't use a bank.
• Group Ironman - ironman rules, but you can trade and share loot within your group.

XP modes

Levels go up to 120.

Dreamgrove's heart: nine tiers (0 to 8), each with a melee, a ranged and a magic boss - 27 custom bosses, and every fight is your own private instance.

How it works

• Open them at the shrine in the Dreamgrove Glade, or at the top of the teleport menu.
• Tier 0 is free. Tiers 1 to 8 cost 16 tickets of that tier an instance (a few less for donators).
• An instance lasts 420 kills, then you enter again.
• Every kill drops Dreamshards for your gear, and every boss has a pet to unlock.

Unlocking the next tier

Each style climbs on its own. 25 kills of a style's boss opens that style's Tier 1 boss, then twice as many each tier (50, 100, ...).

The bosses

Getting tickets

• Boss clue scrolls drop from bosses - their caskets hold coins, next-tier tickets and a chance at a set piece.
• The Boss Rewards store (::bossstore): every kill gives boss points equal to its tier + 1, and a ticket costs 12 points times its tier + 1 - one full instance earns about two more.
• The Slayer store, the world boss, the Fairy Ring Chase and the donator zones' chests.

Every boss has its own armour set, and you craft it yourself. Every boss kill drops Dreamshards - spend them with ::craft on any piece of a boss's set.

Crafting

• Each tier's piece is made from the same piece one tier lower - carry the old piece in your bag (not worn).
• Crafting also costs some coins, taken from your bag and money pouch together.
• Set pieces hit harder against their own tier's bosses.
• Gear raises your drop rate and double drop chance on top of your XP mode's bonus.

Raid chests hold their own sets - see Raids.

Every boss in Boss Instances has its own pet - a little copy of the boss, called Lil' (boss name). Kill a boss enough times and its pet unlocks: you'll get a message, and everyone sees it in the achievements feed on Discord.

Summoning

• Open your quest tab and press Pets. Pick a pet to see its kill count and bonuses, then press Summon.
• One pet follows you at a time - summoning another swaps them.
• It stays with you through teleports, logging out and dying.
• Right-click it and choose Dismiss to send it home.

Bonuses

Pets never fight - they just make you stronger and luckier while they follow you.

Parties of 1 to 5 fight four bosses, one room after another. Clear the last room and everyone still inside gets 10 to 20 keys for that raid's chest at home.

The raids

• 🌌 The Celestial Spire - opens after Tier 5.
• 💔 The Shattered Dream - opens after Tier 8.

Playing

• ::raid opens the raids window: pick a raid, invite your party, then Start.
• Bosses get more hitpoints for each extra party member.
• Each raid's chest holds its own gear set - use Open-all for a stack of keys.

A repeatable run for 1 to 3 players, open once you've unlocked a Tier 4 boss. You go through the Thorn Gauntlet, the Grove of Echoes, the Thorn Halls and the Ancient Forge, beat the Briar Warden, then open the Dreamheart Vault.

The vault

• It always holds coins, Dreamshards and Perk Tokens - the only place to get them.
• It can also give a permanent perk (like double Slayer points or double raid keys) and a piece of the Eclipse cosmetic set.
• Every run without a rare builds Favor until the next rare is certain.

Starting a run

::reverie opens the menu: start, invite <name>, accept, leave, perks. You'll also find it under Minigames in the teleport menu.

Perks are a tree. Talk to the Perk Master at home and choose Browse perks: tabs for Melee, Ranged, Magic, Fortune and Skilling.

How it works

• Spend Perk Tokens on the ranks you want: rank 1 costs 1 token, rank 2 costs 2 more, and so on. Everything you buy is on at once.
• Click a perk's card to see what the next rank gives, then Upgrade (carry the tokens).
• Reset gives every token back for 1M coins a token.
• Perk Tokens come only from the Reverie Trials.

What's in it

Each combat style has accuracy (Keen Edge / Sure Shot / Arcane Focus), max hit, boss damage (Thornheart / Starpiercer / Dreamflare, up to +40%) and double hits (Twin Bloom / Moonlit Echo / Wisp Echo). Fortune and Skilling perks help with drops, XP, Dreamshards, caskets, raid keys and gathering.

Good first picks: your style's accuracy perk and its boss damage perk.

Four Slayer masters at home give tasks to kill tier bosses you've unlocked.

• A finished task gives Slayer points - extra on every 10th and 50th task in a row.
• Spend them in the Slayer Rewards store on tickets, Dreamshards and caskets.
• The Slayer window shows your task, the masters and the rewards in one place.

Something is always happening in Dreamgrove. Every event is announced in game and on Discord - pick the Events role there to get pinged.

🌍 World boss

Every 2 hours, after a 5-minute warning; ::wb takes you there. Everyone who lands a hit gets rewards - there's no damage minimum - and the top 3 get a bonus. Its hitpoints scale with how many people are online.

🧚 Fairy Ring Chase

Every 3 hours a fairy hides by a fairy ring near home - catch her first! ::fairy repeats the clue.

🌿 Grove Restoration

Chop, mine, light and weed in the Withered Grove to fill a shared bar. At 100%, everyone online gets bonus XP. Grove points buy rewards from the Grove keeper.

💰 Well of Goodwill

Fill it together for 30 minutes of a bonus for everyone.

Some items are cosmetics, worn over your real gear. Wear one and it goes in the Cosmetics tab (::cosmetics).

• Your real gear still fights, and the cosmetic's bonuses add on top.
• There are aura and wings slots, and Dreamgrove titles to show off.
• Collect the Prismatic Dream set and the Eclipse set from the Reverie Trials.

Donating supports Dreamgrove and unlocks a rank. Ranks add comfort and small boosts - money never skips a tier: everyone climbs the bosses the same way.

The ranks

What every rank gets

• More XP: +5% (Sprout) up to +25% (Dreamweaver).
• Better drops: +2% up to +20%.
• Cheaper Boss Instances: 16 tickets becomes 15 (Bloom), 14 (Moonlit), 13 (Celestial) or 12 (Dreamweaver).
• Dreamer's Isle (::dz) and your rank's own donator zone: that tier's bosses with +25% drop rate and every kill's loot rolled twice, a daily chest and better skilling. You can use your own rank's zone and every one below it.
• Unlimited prayer from Celestial up.

Bonds and Party Pete

Every bond you buy counts towards your rank and gives donor points (10 per $1). Spend them at Party Pete at home (::store) on boxes, caskets, instance tickets and boosts. After buying, log in and type ::claim. Your Player Panel shows your rank, total donated and points.

The store opens soon.

Daily rewards

Type ::daily once a day for the day's reward from the Dreamgrove calendar - coins, keys, tickets, XP lamps and resources. Every account can claim, even from the same computer.

Voting

• Type ::vote, pick a site and vote - Dreamgrove is on RULOCUS.
• Press Claim in the vote window for vote tickets. A vote made while you were logged out still counts - you're told at login when votes are waiting.
• Each site takes one vote every 12 hours.
• Exchange tickets for vote points with the Vote NPC at home, and spend them in the vote store.