Guides

Player guides for one and all!

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Game Mechanics

Guides that explain how the game works.

Basic Gameplay

Guide	Description
Beginner's Guide	An introduction to Fallen London gameplay.
Early-Game Tips	Non-Spoiler things I wish I learned sooner.
Stories and Storylets	Explanations of these basic gameplay units.
Cards	All about the Opportunity Deck.
Fate	The currency to buy premium content and storylines.
Unlocking Places	Unlocking various locations in the London and elsewhere.
Second Chances	Using and getting Advantage.
Game-mechanics FAQ	Some frequently asked questions.
Profile	All about your player profile.
Living Stories	Information about Living Stories.
Endgame	Content for players with high stats.
Abbreviations and Terms	Glossary of community terms and jargon.
Access Code	Description of access codes and how they work.

Attributes and Leveling

Guides which focus on main attributes, menaces and advanced stats.

Guide	Description
Leveling	How to raise your Attributes.
Raising Attribute Caps	Overcapping stats (beyond 200 for Main Attributes, 7 for other skills).
Bizarre, Dreaded, Respectable	Acquisition and uses of these secondary Attributes.
Advanced Skills	A Player of Chess, Artisan of the Red Science, Chthonosophy, Glasswork, Kataleptic Toxicology, Mithridacy, Monstrous Anatomy, Shapeling Arts, Steward of the Discordance, Zeefaring.
Equipment	Recommended equipment for varying levels of progress in the game.
Menaces	Nightmares, Scandal, Suspicion, Wounds, and other temporary burdens.
Quirks	Austere, Daring, Forceful, Heartless, Hedonist, Magnanimous, Melancholy, Ruthless, Steadfast, Subtle.

Factions

Guides related to the Factions and Favours systems.

Guide	Description
Factions	Overview of Factions.
Raising Favours	How to gain Favours from London's Factions.
Calling in Favours	What to use your Favours for.
Raising Connections	How to raise Connections from London's Factions.
Calling in Connections	What to use your Connections for.

Opportunity Deck

Guide	Description
Card Frequency	A description of card frequency in the opportunity deck.
Location-specific cards in London	Cards found in specific areas of London.
Location-specific cards in the Hinterlands	Cards found in specific areas in the Hinterlands.
Lodgings Cards	Cards generated by various lodgings.
Opportunity Items	Cards generated by various items.
Optimize Opportunity Deck	Card added and avoided.

Technical Details

Some information about the inner workings of the game.

Guide	Description
Settings	How various locations are defined in the game.
Airs	Information about Airs randomizers.
Broad difficulty	How broad difficulty challenges are calculated.
Narrow difficulty	How narrow difficulty challenges are calculated.
Luck	How the luck attribute works.
Rounding	How the game handles rounding of computed values.
Logistic Scaling	How diminishing return payouts are calculated.
Overflow payouts	Explanation of carousels that pay out in primary and secondary rewards.
Scrapbook Value	How to find the value of various qualities.

Progress

How to raise qualities used by various carousels, and what they can be cashed in for.

Guide	Uses
Casing	Theft-related ventures including A Big Score, Heists, Thefts of a Particular Character, Highway Robbery, and Grand Larcenies.
Deciphering	Code breaking ventures, available only in the Cabinet Noir.
Disappearing	Used for eliminating suspicion in the Cabinet Noir and for escaping the Clay Highwayman.
Dramatic Tension	Doing Business in Wilmot's End, Fighting a War of Assassins, and Searching Out a Missing Woman.
Fascinating	Social entanglements at the Empress's Court, Helicon House, and seducing the Clay Highwayman
The Hunt is On!	Hunting Dangerous Prey and Acquiring Exhibits for the Labyrinth of Tigers.
Inspired	Commissions in Veilgarden, Carving Out a Reputation at Court, and Helicon House.
Investigating...	The Melancholy Curate and his sister, A Name Whispered in Darkness, investigating the Correspondence Stones, Featuring in the Tales of the University, learning about the Clay Highwayman, Following Up Rumours of Cornelius, and unlocking areas of Helicon House.
Running Battle	A Sorrow-Spider infestation, Jack of Smiles, Duelling the Black Ribbon, and the Big Rat.
Seeking...	A Name Whispered in Darkness.
Someone Is Coming	Various storylets throughout the game.
Term Passing...	The University.

Location-Specific

Guides for content that takes place primarily or entirely in a particular location.

The Great Hellbound Railway

Guides for late-game Railway content.

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Guide	Description
Railway	Overall Railway guide.
Railway Beginning	How to prepare for, and begin construction of, the Railway.
Railway Board	Conducting board meetings.
Bessemer Steel Ingot	Acquiring materials for tracklaying.
Hinterland Scrip-Making	How to generate Scrip, the currency of the Hinterlands.
Location-specific cards in the Hinterlands	Analysis of cards that can only be drawn in specific stations.
Following up Rumours of Cornelius	Unravelling the mystery surrounding a Tomb-Colonist connected to the Tracklayers.
The Tale of the Clay Highwayman	Investigating, and eventually encountering, a band of thieves in the Upper River.
Statues at the GHR Stations	Building statues along the Railway.
Railway Station Developments	Options for developments along the Railway.
The City of the Tracklayers	What you can do in the City of the Tracklayers, after you've finished building the Railway to Marigold Station
Hellworm	Why you might want a hellworm and how to make the most of it.

The Firmament

Guides for late-game Upper Airs content.

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Guide	Description
Firmament	Overall Firmament guide.
Roof Economy	Various bazaars on the roof.
Stuiver Grinding	How to generate Stuiver, the currency of the Upper Airs
The Kinetoculus	Making movies of the roof.
The Stacks	Search for histories too dangerous to have occured.
Ecdysis	Reshape yourself for the week.
The Midnight Trade	A shift at the Midnight Moon of mostly honest work.
Moon-Miser Herding	Join the Starved shepherds in their duties.
The High Sancta	Steal apocryphal knowledge from its prison.
Risen Burgundy	An overview to the activities in Risen Burgundy.
To Make a Moth	A costly venture for your very own Tapestry-Moth.
The Sous Catacombs	A guide to trading bones, and possibly finding a strange relic, in the Sous.
Upon a Red Stage	Participate in a play upon a crimson dappled stage.
Scaling the Quartz	Climb the Stonegift and clear the remnants of abandoned guilt, or temporarily deposit your own.

Stories

Guides related to storylines not linked to specific areas.

Guide	Description
Exceptional Stories	Exceptional Story overviews and rewards.
Other Fate-locked content	Fate-locked story overviews and rewards.
Season Conclusions	Season Conclusion rewards for various fate locked arcs.
Advancing the Liberation of Night	A guide on brightening and darkening.
Associating with Radical Academics	Including the Dilmun Club and Court of the Wakeful Eye.
The Candlefinder Society	Investigations with the Neath's greatest detectives.
The Cheesemonger	Entanglements with an agent of the Great Game.
Dreams	Acquisition and uses of the Having Recurring Dreams qualities.
Embroiled in the Wars of Illusion	Bats and Cats, the Glass and the Shroud.
Evolution	Covers Cline and Associating with a Youthful Naturalist.
Family and Law	A Guide to Disputes between family members.
Fidgeting Writer	A story involving risk, starting with a Tale of Terror!!
Handsome Townhouse: Schemes	A guide to the various schemes you can pursue with your Handsome Townhouse.
An Intimate of Devils and Selling Your Soul	Interactions with agents of Hell who are interested in your soul.
Jack-Of-Smiles	All about Jack of Smiles and the case associated with them.
Making Your Name	Early-game story and attribute-leveling storylines.
Mr. Wines' Revels	An invitation to Mr Wines' party.
A Panther's Progress	A guide on growing your Parabolan Kitten.
Playing with Soul	Regarding the Blind Pianist and the Sallow Spirifer
The Protégé of a Mysterious Benefactor	An early-game story.
Seeking Mr Eaten's Name	Pursuing the answer to a question that should not be asked.
Obscurity	Some of the consequences to pursuing a question that should not be asked.
Seeking the Meaning of the Plaster Face	Investigating a threat to your rat companions.
Spending Secrets and Counting the Days	A carousel of opportunity cards.
Tournament of Lilies	A competition of cryptobotanical gardening.
Weekly Activity Checklist	An overview of the different activities that are time dependent.
Ambition: Enigma	A guide to one of the more cryptic storylines in Fallen London.

Statue Qualities

Guides surrounding the 4 statue qualities.

Guide	Description
A Scholar of the Correspondence	Researching a mysterious language.
Defender of Public Safety	Hunting beast to keep London safe.
Poet-Laureate	Becoming the artist of the court.
Twilit Smuggler	Become the best smuggler in the Neath.

Seasonal Content

Recurring events. See also: Category:Historical events.

Guide	Description
Preparing for Seasonal Events	Year-Round
Living World Events	Angler Crab Hunts, the Urchin Wars, the Ravenous Lifeberg, Crate Commotion, Midnight Whale
Destinies	Available at Fruits of the Zee, Hallowmas, and Christmas.
Feast of the Rose	February
Whitsun	May
Estival	July - August
Fruits of the Zee Festival	September
Hallowmas	October
Christmas	December - January
Mr Treats FATE	December
12 Days of Mr Sacks	December
Noman Tattoo	December - May

Ambitions

Guides related to the extensive Ambition storylines.

Note: the main Ambitions guide is spoiler-free; the individual Ambition guides are extensive walkthroughs that contain spoilers.

Guide	Description
Ambitions	A review of all the Ambitions.
Ambition: Bag a Legend	Hunting a Mysterious Monster
Ambition: Heart's Desire	Playing a Marvellous Card Game
Ambition: Light Fingers	Stealing a Massive Diamond
Ambition: Nemesis	Seeking Murderous Vengeance for a Loved One

A Person of Some Importance

Story guides for mid- and late-game content connected to PoSI status.

Guide	Description
A Person of Some Importance	A quality that opens up most mid-game content.
PoSI Item Crafting	Affiliations, Transport, Home Comforts, Ships, Spouses, Clubs, and upper-tier Lodgings.
Clubs	Associations that raise BDR.
Making Waves	Used to raise Notability as a Person of Some Importance.
Bizarre, Dreaded, Respectable (BDR)	Various qualities of your person. Useful for raising Notability
Paramount Presence	The ultimate achievement of importance in London.

Items and Equipment

Guides primarily focused on acquiring and converting items.

Items

Guide	Description
Items (Guide)	Overall guide.
Item Grinding	Notable repeatable sources for items.
The Rat Market	A weekend market at which items and Rat-Shillings are traded.
Active Access Codes	List of active access codes to gain items.
Agents	Employing your Agents
Assembling a Skeleton	An overall guide to skeletons and the Bone Market. Also includes: Table of Buyers, Skeleton Types, Table of Bones, List of Recipes
Bazaar Companions	Which companions in the Bazaar may prove most helpful.
Bessemer Steel Ingots	Primarily useful in the Railway. Includes efficiency calculations.
Bundle of Oddities	Maximising your chances of getting particular rewards from this randomiser.
Certifiable Scraps	Obtaining Scraps and trading them to the Relickers.
Impossible Theorem	Detailed mini-guide on obtaining Impossible Theorem(s)
Inventory Catalogue	A dynamically generated list of all items in the game, by category.
Item Uses	Documents repeatable or large item uses.
Large Single Item Expenditures	A list of uses of a single item all at once.
Outfits	How to get more outfit slots.
Treasures of the Neath	Endgame items that are particularly difficult or time-consuming to acquire.
Uncovering an Unpredictable Treasure	Reward randomiser for Forgotten Quarter expeditions.

ES and Seasonal Items

Guide	Description
Exceptional Stories Equipment	Review of items available from Exceptional Stories
Other Fate Content Equipment	Review of items available from Fate-locked stories
Mr Chimes' Lost & Found	Review of items available from Mr Chimes' Lost & Found
Whitsun Equipment	Review of items available during WHITSUN
Estival Equipment	Review of items purchasable with Estival Token during SUMMER festivals
Fruits of the Zee Equipment	Review of items obtainable during during FRUITS OF THE ZEE.
Hallowmas Equipment	Review of items obtainable during during HALLOWMAS.
Christmas Equipment	Review of items obtainable during during CHRISTMAS.

Equipment

Guides related to equippable items.

Guide	Description
Equipment	Suggestions on what equipment to shoot for at various stages of the game.
Max Equipment Bonuses	A calculator for the max equipment bonus you can get, with various options.
Professions	A guide to the various professions one might be employed within.
Lodgings	A listing of the various lodgings that can be acquired.
PoSI Item Crafting	Details about items that can be crafted once you are a PoSI
Renown Item Quirk Changes	Renown changes that can be accomplished with various faction items.
Unsanctioned Relicker	Guide for obtaining equipment and other items with similar stats.

Currencies

Guides to obtaining Echoes, Scrip, and other currencies.

Guide	Description
Currency Conversions	Converting among the various currencies
Money-Making	Acquiring Echoes.
Hinterland Scrip-Making	The currency of the Upper River.
Stuiver Grinding	The currency of the Roof.
The Rat Market	Includes information on Rat-Shillings.

Wiki Guides

Guides related to the wiki and editing

Guide	Description
General wiki editing	Description of the process of editing the wiki.
Editing Guidelines	The philosophy and rules of editing the wiki.
Trimming Guidelines	Trimming descriptions to be less than 250 characters.
Abbreviations and Terms	Abbreviations and Terms that may be seen on the wiki.
Templates	Various templates that can be used on the wiki.
Lock and Unlock distinctions	Defining locking and unlocking conditions.
Calculators	How to make calculators.
IDs and Hidden Qualities	How to find storylet IDs and hidden qualities.
Sematic Mediawiki	How properties are stored and pages are linked dynamically.
Semantic Properties	A description of properties on the wiki.
Semantic Data Model	Properties which are used on the wiki
Semantic Example Queries	How to generate Semantic Queries
Categories	How to create categories.
Structural Disparities	How the structure of the wiki may differ from the game's internal structure.

Needed Contributions

Desired Guides

If you're looking for a guide to some aspect of the game and it doesn't exist yet, feel free to list it here. If you see a missing guide listed here and you think you can create one, please do! Any contribution is appreciated!

Guide	Details	WIP?
Embroiled in a Mass Nightmare	New living world event needs detailing.	Living_World_Events
Cashing out items	The best ways to liquidate your assorted junk for hard currencies: which should just go to the bazaar, which profitably convert into Rat Marketable goods, which should be turned into bones for the Bone Market, and so on. Perhaps an inverse set of the grinding guides?	Item Uses (Guide)
Worst-in-Slot	Calculator for worst-in-slot for all the stats that have items which decrease them
Card probabilities	Perhaps an update to an existing page (like Card Frequency) can suffice, but something that thoroughly explains the likelihood and time required of drawing a single card, to which one could direct the daily inquirers on the matter, would be appreciated. Somewhat relatedly, but much more complex, it would be good to have an explainer on the tradeoffs between actions and different card probabilities, i.e. how to decide when it's worth it to "waste" an action (such as by moving to another Upper River station) to temporarily improve your odds of drawing better cards (until you need to go somewhere else because you need to spend actions, or to spend favours, etc.).
A Trade In Souls Guide	https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Trade_in_Souls#cs-comment-113565 Some users find it confusing since its done via opportunity cards.
Onboarding	Walkthrough the official onboarding content (tutorial + blue frames + onboarding messaging) with links to relevant wiki guides. More targetted/narrow than Beginner's Guide	https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/User:DarthVeyda/Sandbox/Onboarding
Item Uses (Guide)	See Template:ItemUsesGuide; Academic Uses (Guide) needs restoring. Discussion about making it dynamic with the guides has been happening in the discord.
The Summer Nursery	Information on actions, difficulty/reward scaling. Alas, a lot of scaling data is currently hidden in the inaccessible #whitsun channel on the FBG Discord	User:OuroborusInc/Sandbox/nursery
Balmoral (Guide)	Tutorial on electing Balmoral's Castellan and an overview of anything available in the location, with links to other relevant guides.	User:HawkpathJackson/Sandbox/Balmoral (Guide)
Carousels	There are some scattered paragraphs in separate pages, such as a section in the making waves guide, and of course “Carousels released with The Great Sink”, wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect a full list. (I know this is small compared to some other subjects, but this still would be useful.)
Boons	In particular, what are good things to spend a Mood card on? Depends on current progress (early/mid/lategame). I have repeatedly found myself with A little omen, A dusty bookshop, and An Invitation to Linger all in my hand at once, not wanting to waste them.

Existing Guides Needing Work

If you find that one of the existing guides could use some editing attention, feel free to add {{GuideNeedsWork}} to it. Please also list a reason here.

See also: Category:Guides needing work

Guide	Reason
Bessemer Steel Ingot (Guide)/Calculations	Needs finishing and tidying up
Hinterland Scrip-Making	Extending; "Partially outdated grinds" needs substantial revision
Parabolan War	Needs section on Parabolan trains
Large Single Item Expenditures	Missing many sections
Treasures of the Neath (Guide)	Details about actions/Echo Costs
University Laboratory (Guide)	Integrating Experimental Object and University Laboratory (Guide)/Cards
Philosofruits	Optimization strategies.
Iron Republic Street Map	Writeup to go with chart
Assembling a Skeleton (Guide)/Recipes#Special skeletons	Sections about generator skeletons and Khaganian coinage grind need restoring
A Church in the Wild (Guide)	New storyline and secular option.
Upon a Red Stage (Guide)	Recently unlocked and brand new guide

Existing Guides where storylets are missing data

A subset of guides that are largely finished, but some underlying storylets are missing data, that once found, needs to be replicated on the guide.

Guide	Reason
Social Actions (Guide)	(Carefully) read a flame-proof missive, A Crack of Gunfire!
Calling in Favours (Guide)	Sneak the old gentleman out needs bundle range confirmation
Inspired (Guide)	Lead them like sacrifices to the Priests of the Red Bird
Parabolan War (Guide)/Tables	Infiltrate disordered dreams
Helicon House (Guide)/Tables	Lead them like sacrifices to the Priests of the Red Bird
Statues at the GHR Stations (Guide)	Call in favours with the Tracklayer's Union
A Scholar of the Correspondence (Guide)	(Carefully) read a flame-proof missive
Noman Tattoo (Guide)	New loss formula

Existing Guides Needing Fate Documentation

A subset of guides that need fate documentation due to the change in fate policy allowing mechanical documentation.

Guide	Reason
Master-Classes in Etiquette (Guide)	Unknown challenge information and failures for fate locked actions.
University Laboratory (Guide)/Tables	Missing Parabolan Research for Fate Locked Assistants
University Laboratory (Guide)/Cards	Fate locked cards need documenting
Hurling (Guide)	Needs Heptagoat info
Department of Menace Eradication (Guide)	Missing some failure/challenge info, especially on fate locked content
The Maze-Garden (Guide)	Missing info on fate locked Ostentatious Paisley Suit
Opportunity Items (Guide)	Missing Opportunity cards generated by fate items.
Sinning Jenny's Finishing School (Guide)	Missing some failure/challenge info, especially on fate locked content
Railway Board (Guide)	Missing info on July
Engaged in a Case (Guide)	Need info on fate locked cases
Flash Lays (Guide)	Need info on fate locked flashes
Jack-Of-Smiles (Guide)	Need info on fate locked sections of the case.
Iron Republic Street Map	Missing fate choices
Barristering at Evenlode (Guide)	Draw on the insight of a professional colleague ( Trial and Error exclusive option)

Continually Monitored Guides

The following Guides need permanent watching to keep them up to date. If a Guide is about a subject which constantly changes, list it here.

See also Category: Guides needing monitoring

Guide	Reason
Money-Making	To keep up to date with current grinds.
Hinterland Scrip-Making	To keep up to date with current grinds.
Exceptional Stories	Continually released.
Other Fate-locked content	Continually released.
Item Grinding sections	To keep up to date with current grinds.
Item Uses sections	To keep up to date with new expenditures, especially new activities.
Active Access Codes	To keep up to date with new codes and retired codes.

External guides

External guides not currently located on the wiki.
These guides are not hosted by the wiki, and the wiki isn't responsible for their contents.
More guides may be suggested on Guides/External guides.

• Vainfire's Guide to London Optimization

This guide describes how to optimize your opportunity deck

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lA5Jevejwamm5-5J2iwuHKL52YMI-5BTFTrk9tMu8l4/edit

• The Nice and Profitable Grindings of mp, georg

This guide describes a complicated money-making scheme

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zjgbbNw_mvDiK_dAY_Ld7lTSDD3QGU1POFAaJ6NXh-8/edit

• The Great Vanity Guide to the Neath Or: How to Waste Your Echoes and Enjoy it!

This guide describes the most action efficient ways to reach Level 777 for the relevant discrete qualities with special QLDs at that level.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nHK53SIz6DwVBUXTw295JZ8BJhLytSuVhqIv05hdbHg/edit

• Fate-Locked Story Survey (2024 edition)

This page shows how the community rates different Fate-locked stories and material rewards.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1hvpiba/survey_your_favorite_fatelocked_stories_2025/

• Masterzora's Fate-Locked story sorting tool

This website allows you to sort Exceptional stories and other fate-locked stories based on categories and community rating

https://fl.masterzora.net/

• Lydie Aielle's item collection sorted by Stat, EPA etc. (Spreadsheet)

This sort-able spreadsheet is a collection of items and their sources in London. Somewhat old, misses some newer options.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fAO026qXS1VNQcRQ4zV7cdFAG1qhBKbaL84-aLgnZok/edit?usp=sharing

Retired Guides

Guides that no longer are relevant or are permanently out-of date.

• Iron Republic's Agricultural Growth Manual for Austere and Hedonist Caps
• Knife-and-Candle (Guide)
• Location-specific cards in London (Guide)
• Money-Making/Extras
• Money-Making/Historical
• Paramount Presence (historical)
• Screenshot Tutorial for Editing
• Searing Enigma/Sources
• Seeking Mr Eaten's Name (old)
• Stat Loss Actions
• University Laboratory (Guide) (Retired)
• Zailing (Guide) (Retired)
• Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide) (Old)
• The Rat Market (historical)

Historical Events

Guides relating to historical events that have since passed

• Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out (Guide)
• F.F. Gebrandt's Prelapsarian Exhibition (Guide)
• The London Horticultural Show (Guide)
• The Sixth Coil (Guide)
• Hell is Missing (Guide)

Historical Pages

Pages describing how the game has changed over time, or the timelines of one-off events

• A Quiet Summer in London (historical)
• Christmas (historical)
• Election (historical)
• F.F. Gebrandt's Prelapsarian Exhibition (historical)
• Fallen London Timeline
• Feast of the Exceptional Rose (historical)
• Fruits of the Zee Festival (historical)
• Hallowmas (historical)
• Hell is Missing (historical)
• Knife-and-Candle (historical)
• Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out (historical)
• Revisit Fallen London's Exceptional Stories
• The London Horticultural Show (historical)
• The Sixth Coil (historical)
• Whitsun (historical)
• Summer festivals