Treasure Trooper has closed its doors after 18 years, which feels like a shame. It was certainly one of the most colourful, and characterful money making sites out there.
Treasure Trooper has closed down
Tag: Treasure Trooper Hints and Tips
Treasure Trooper Tip #13 : Interacting with your dragons
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
Once your dragon reaches maturity you’ll need to keep interacting with it to boost it’s trust levels in you. This is achieved by “interacting” with them. There are 9 ways to interact with your dragon. These are:
- Flying
- Wrestling
- Tickling
- Swimming
- Scratching
- Tell stories
- Groom
- Hunt
- Play fetch
Each dragon has different likes and dislikes which have to be discovered by trial and error. For example, my dragon Manuel loves tickling but really hates swimming.
It’s worth mentioning that if you find one of their dislikes their trust will decrease, and if their trust decreases below 0% they’ll become depressed and be sent to the medical centre. It’ll then cost you 5 dragon scales to heal your dragon.
Treasure Trooper Tip #12 : Feeding your baby and adolescent dragons
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
After a dragon hatches you’ll need to feed it every day for two weeks. It’ll take 7 days to grow from a baby to an adolescent and then another 7 days to become an adult.
Dragon food costs 1 dragon scale each.
If you miss a feeding one day your dragon will become sick and will cost you 5 dragon scales to bring back to health so it’s important to remember to feed on time.
I made the mistake of initially hatching my dragon very early one morning. The first day I slept in a bit longer I missed a feed and it cost me 5 x the scales that day. Now I try to keep my feeding to about 7 PM as that’s around the time I’m on my home from work and tend to remember.
Treasure Trooper Tip #11 : Reward your referrals for free!
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
When you refer someone to Treasure Trooper you will receive a referral reward when they complete certain tasks. This is worth 20% of the task value.
If you want to reward your referrals for their hard work, you can do so for free each month!
You can send each of the following to a chosen referral each month without it costing you anything:
- 3 dragon scales
- 2 gold coins
- 10 arrowheads
Each are sent individually and must be sent to different referrals.
You can reach the gifting page by going to My Treasure, clicking the Referral Stats image, Contact your referrals and then choose Gift.
Treasure Trooper Tip #10 : Shop around the dig sites
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
If you’ve found an arrowhead task you’d like to complete it’s often worth checking all of the different dig sites before committing to one as they can offer radically different rewards. For example, the Final Fantasy XV 100K task is offered on at least two dig sites with greatly different rewards.
There might be other criteria to consider before just picking the largest payout. In this example, the highest paying offer requires it to be completed in 30 days so it’s a bit of a balancing act.
If you’re on other reward sites like Swagbucks it’s probably worth checking those also.
Treasure Trooper Tip #9 : Dragon Portal
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
The Dragon Portal can be purchased for 25 dragon scales at Cogg’s Coop.
Although this is a significant outlay, it allows your dragons to go on daily “quests” where you can find prizes such as gold coins and boosts for fights (tranquilizer darts etc). If you intend to invest in your dragons and enter fights this can be useful.
However, it is possible to get unlucky and end up with your dragon in the sick bay (requiring medicine costing 5 scales) so I tend to be quite cautious about sending my dragon in nowadays. I got the below quest twice in a row once – that was frustrating.
You sometimes find monsters to fight when you enter the portal which rewards you in cash if you win.
Note that you can only send one dragon on a quest each day.
Treasure Trooper Tip #8 : treasuretracker.net
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
If you’re a Treasure Trooper user in the USA, TreasureTracker.net offers a fun way to potentially gain additional referrals to the site.
You simply write the URL of the site (treasuretracker.net) on a bill and register its serial number with the site. Whenever someone visits the URL and enters the serial number they have the opportunity to tell you the story of how they got the the bill, and if they sign up you’ll be registered as their referrer.
The original announcement post is here if you’re interested.
It’s no good for me unfortunately as I’m in the UK but it might be worth trying if you’re US based and so inclined.
Treasure Trooper Tip #7 : Fighting Dragons for prizes
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
Once you’ve bought the training grounds at Cogg’s Coop for 25 dragon scales you can start fighting the dragons of other users. Winning will gain you prizes. As you win you’ll gradually move up into higher tiers which reward with better prizes. The levels are as follows:
Level 1 : 1-10 Wins – 3 Gold Coins — 10th win moves you to Level 2.
Level 2 : 11-25 Wins – 5 Scales — 25th win moves you to Level 3.
Level 3 : 26-50 Wins – $0.25 — 50th win moves you to Level 4.
Level 4 : 51-100 Wins – 1 Platinum Coin — 100th win moves you to Level 5.
Level 5 : 101+ Wins – $1.00 and 1 Pearl
Every Friday night Treasure Trooper hold a fight night which allows you to fight as many times as you want without any penalties for losing.
Additional information about dragon rearing can be found here.
Treasure Trooper Tip #6 : Cryptic Treasure
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
The Treasure Trooper site offers “cryptic treasure” which can only be claimed for 30 minutes each day and is available via the links which scroll beneath the team goal list.
It’s worth keeping an eye out for – personally I’ve only ever seen it once.
Treasure Trooper Tip #5 : Partial rewards with Dig Site #4
If you’re unfamiliar with Treasure Trooper, I discuss it in much more detail in my blog article.
Most of the surveys offered by Treasure Trooper only pay out anything if you manage to complete them in full without being screened out which I personally find quite discouraging. The exception is Dig Site #4 which supports partial payouts. As a result, most of my survey time is dedicated to this dig site.
Interestingly, the partial payouts tend to be better on desktop than on mobile. This may be because the timer which determines how long you’ve been doing the survey doesn’t work correctly on mobile – I’m not sure.
Also, it’s worth checking the daily goals list as Dig Site #4 tends to be included about once a week, making this a fairly easy way to fulfil the dig site bonus requirements.
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