
Elemental Ark
Potential progression paths
Main
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Kill jerboas for their skulls. 
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Kill light pets for their light. 
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Create light pets. 
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Create incarnate summoners and defeat them for elemental jerboas. 
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Place elemental jerboas near light pets to gain luminescent essence. 
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Use luminescent essence to create elemental shoulder light pets. 
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Use luminescent essence to create avenger summoners and defeat them for elemental hatchling eggs. 
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Kill hybrid golems for their cores so you can create hybrid golems. 
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Use the shoulder mounted light pets while riding hybrid elementals in the dark. 
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Kill the hybrid hunters to gather their essence. 
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Use this essence to create unstable dust. 
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Use unstable dust on hybrid creatures to increase the difficulty of night hunters. 
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Kill reapers to gain the ability to craft hybrid reapers or reaper steak. 
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Create light pillars to lure the night rulers* - 
These will be pillars of light that lure the most dangerous creatures of the night. You must defend them for a set amount of time. Doing so will cause the rulers of the night to challenge all nearby players (multi-player / role based bosses). 
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Defeating them in combat will yield high quality gear and potentially a fury egg. 
 
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Dragons
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Summon and defeat avengers to get dragon eggs. 
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Have the hatchlings train with rock drakes or wyverns until they are ready to grow (radial menu option). 
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Grow the hatchlings into juveniles. 
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Train the juveniles in pairs to increase their counter element efficiency until they are ready to grow (radial menu option). 
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Grow the juveniles into adolescents. 
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Defeat reaper hunters for their flesh. 
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Create reaper steak. 
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Feed the reaper steak to an adolescent and bathe them in glow light until they are ready to grow (radial menu option). 
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Grow the adolescents into xeno-adults. 
Golems
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Tame a regular golem. 
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Remove its core. 
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Use its core to craft a fire or stone elemental golem. 
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Kill a vapor, storm, glacial, or fen golem to get its core. 
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Use this core to craft a vapor, storm, glacial, or fen golem. 
Mantis
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Use golems to kill mantises. 
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Gather enough of their pheromone to create lures and cologne. 
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Place a mantis lure near wild creatures. 
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Spray yourself and allies with mantis cologne. 
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Feed the omni-mantises spoiled/raw meat or omnielemental kibble to tame them. 
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Place a sword of any element in their weapon slot to change their element to match. 
Tusos
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Kill hunters for their essence. 
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Kill tuso hunters for their tentacles. 
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Create a tuso hunter from the infuser. 
Spiders
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Kill omni-elemental spiders for legs (or any spiders with a golem) 
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Build spider summoner for each of the unstable combinations 
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Defeat the resulting unstable spiders 
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After acquiring all 7 trophies, combine them into an omni-elemental trophy 
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Extract pure nature essence from a friendly creature 
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Create Omni-elemental spider queen - 
Build desired elemental crystals on smithy 
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Equip selected crystal on spider queen to change its elemental affinity 
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Add elemental remover to spider queen inventory 
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Approach nearby creatures and press alt-fire (default Ctrl) to absorb elemental essence from them - 
Warning: this will also sap friendly creatures 
 
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Kill omni-elemental spiders to collect their legs 
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Create spider torches from their legs 
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Tame omni-elemental spider (base taming mechanic) 
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Craft desired elemental crystals on smithy 
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Equip selected crystal on spider to change its elemental affinity