Rune Factory 5: Farm Dragon Guide

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As a farming simulator, Rune Factory 5 does pretty well at teaching you the basics early on. The first few days are slow-going, likely following a steady pattern of slowly filling up the farm next to the Seed Headquarters - but what happens when you run out of room? It's quite a poky little patch of soil.

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Where other games would give you a gigantic farm to work or multiple patches to discover in the wilderness, Rune Factory 5 gives you Farm Dragons. Yes, you read that correctly. Flying reptiles that don't mind you growing crops and keeping monsters on their backs.

Farm Dragons are this game's answer to the space problem - instead of increasing the size of your farm, you get extra farms on the backs of these dragons. Just like the regular farm, Farm Dragons will spawn scattered branches and rocks that you can break down into Wood and Material Stone, and the soil can be worked in exactly the same manner.

To travel to a Farm Dragon, simply select it from the fast travel menu after opening the map. You could head there manually, but this is strictly unnecessary and wastes valuable time that could be better spent elsewhere.

Farm Dragons are also the only places you can build Monster Barns, and they come with the benefit of allowing your monsters to do all the farming work for you! Check out our guide to monster taming here.

Interacting with the Farm Dragon itself (by walking over to its head) will allow you to feed it elemental crystals - each crystal has a certain effect:

Note that there are Crystal Fragments and normal Crystals in the game. You can trade five Crystal Fragments to Heinz at the crystal shop for a full one, which you can then feed to a Farm Dragon.

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