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Upgrades are a central mechanic inCoral Island. From your very first days on Coral Island, you’ll need to gather resources to craft and upgrade machinery for your farm. However, not every crafting and upgrade recipe will be waiting for you in your player journal.
Building and upgrading farm buildings can be done at Dinda and Joko’s Carpentry Shop, but traveling back and forth can get a little tedious. Luckily, you won’t have to commit building requirements to memory any longer. Here is every carpentry upgrade and building resource list that you’ll need to get your farm in ship shape.
What Is The Carpentry Shop?
Dinda is Coral Island’s resident carpenter, and she will quickly become one of your most visited NPCs as you start planning your farm layout and improving your house.
The Carpentry Shop offers five key services for your convenience:Shop, Carpenter, Edit Farm Buildings, House Upgrade,andHouse Style.
Shop Menu
As the name suggests, the Carpentry shop is a place where you can buy materials to use in carpentry recipes. In the same way that you can buy ore from the blacksmiths, Pablo and Rafael, you canbuy wood, stone, and hardwoodfrom Dinda’s shop. Buying these materials can get pricey, though, so it’s best to only buy from her when you’re in a pinch or have no other way to get those resources.
5g
10g
Hardwood *unlocks at rank B
150g
300g
800g
Calendar
400g
Hardwood is themost valuable resourcethat Dinda sells, asalmost all late game upgrades will require hardwood. If you don’t have Coral Coins to spare, you can always findhardwoodbybreaking large logsorcutting down mahoganyandpoplar treesin the Deep Forest.
Carpenter Menu
In the Carpenter tab of Dinda’s shop, you’re able to buy and build several different farm buildings. Dinda offers nine different buildings in her shop. Some of these offered buildings also haveadditional upgradesthat you can acquire later on. Upgrades give you the ability tohouse new animalsandincrease the number of livestockyou can keep.
2,000 g
4,500g
3,000g
6,500g
15,000g
2,000g
2,500g
7,000g
5,000g
Both the Barn and Coop can holdfour animals, while the Upgraded Barn and Upgraded Coop can eachhold eight animals. Youmust upgrade your Barn and Coopto have access tolevel two animals. The Upgraded Barn allows you to purchasegoats, llamas, pigs,andluwaks. The Upgraded Coop adds Peafowl and Quail.
How To Edit Farm Buildings
If you ever find yourself cramped for space on your farm or need to increase efficiency with a new layout, the Edit Farm Buildings tab is the place to go.
In the Edit Farm Buildings tab, you will be able tomove, upgrade, destroy,andredesignyour farm buildings.
How To Move Buildings
Moving a building around your farm will require some careful planning on your part. A building can’t be moved to an occupied space.
You will have to clear the space you want your building to be moved to before asking Dinda to move it. Otherwise, you will be unable to place the building in the new location until you have returned to the spot you want to place it in and cleared that space. Moving a building costs300 Coral Coins.
To avoid using up precious in-game time by running back and forth between Dinda and your farm,make sure you have pre-cleared a spacefor the building you want to move before heading to the Carpenter.
How To Upgrade Farm Buildings
When you’re ready to start expanding your farm family and add some more livestock, you can head to Dinda and pay for aBarn or Coop upgrade. Both the Barn and Coop havetwo levels to be upgradedto, with athird level planned in Stairway Games' development roadmap.
Don’t be confused by the Coop and Barn being listed in Dinda’s Carpentry menu, youwill have to head to the Edit Farm Buildings tabto find the upgrade option.
How To Redesign Buildings
If you don’t like the way your building looks, you can also ask Dinda tochange its designin the Redesign tabof theEdit Farm Building bar. For farm buildings, there are only two designs to choose from. Each time you redesign the style of a building, you must pay Dinda1,000 Coral Coins.
How To Destroy Buildings
The final service that Dinda provides for you in the Edit Farm Buildings menu, is the ability to delete a building altogether. If you find that you no longer need a building, you can pay Dinda1,000 Coral Coins, andshe will have the building demolished for you.
Youcannot delete buildings that currently have animals housed in them. You must sell or move any farm animals occupying the building you want to delete before you are able to have it destroyed.
What Are The House Upgrades?
House upgrades are how you’ll expand your house andadd room for more items (and people!). There arefour total houseupgrades to acquire.
40,000g
120,000g
If you plan on starting a family with one of the many eligible characters on Coral Island, keep in mind that you willneed to upgrade your house to level two before you are able to get married. Once you have completed your level two house upgrade and completed all the heart events with your chosen spouse, you may propose and proceed with the marriage process.
Similarly, after reaching full hearts with your spouse andcompleting your fourth house upgrade, you’re able to start having children. Though your spouse may bring up the topic of children with you a few times before then, you won’t be able to start having babies until your house is fully upgraded.
How To Change House Style
The final service that Dinda offers is an aesthetic one. If you feel like your house is lacking in personality, or you just want to spice things up a bit,paying Dinda 1,000 Coral Coinswill let you change the style of your house. There arefive styles to choose from.
