Guides
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Game Mechanics[edit]
Guides that explain how the game works.
Basic Gameplay[edit]
| Guide | Description |
|---|---|
| Beginner's Guide | An introduction to Fallen London gameplay. |
| Stories and Storylets | Explanations of these basic gameplay units. |
| Cards | All about the Opportunity Deck. |
| Fate | The currency to buy premium content and storylines. |
| Social Actions | Playing the game with your Contacts. |
| 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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
| 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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Guides for content that takes place primarily or entirely in a particular location.
The Great Hellbound Railway[edit]
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. |
Stories[edit]
Guides related to storylines not linked to specific areas.
| Guide | Description |
|---|---|
| Exceptional Stories and other Fate-locked content | Exceptional Story overviews and rewards. |
| Season Conclusions | Season Conclusion rewards for various fate locked arcs. |
| Associating with Radical Academics | Including the Dilmun Club and Court of the Wakeful Eye. |
| The Cheesemonger | Entanglements with an agent of the Great Game. |
| Dreams | Acquisition and uses of the Having Recurring Dreams qualities. |
| Evolution | Covers Cline and Associating with a Youthful Naturalist. |
| Family and Law | A Guide to Disputes between family members. |
| 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. |
| Embroiled in the Wars of Illusion | Bats and Cats, the Glass and the Shroud. |
| The Protégé of a Mysterious Benefactor | An early-game story. |
| Mr. Wines' Revels | An invitation to Mr Wines' party. |
| Seeking the Meaning of the Plaster Face | Investigating a threat to your rat companions. |
| 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. |
| Spending Secrets and Counting the Days | A carousel of opportunity cards. |
| Tournament of Lilies | A competition of cryptobotanical gardening. |
| 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. |
| Weekly Activity Checklist | An overview of the different activities that are time dependent. |
| Ambition: Enigma (Guide) | A guide to one of the more cryptic storylines in Fallen London. |
| A Panther's Progress (Guide) | A guide on growing your Parabolan Kitten. |
Statue Qualities[edit]
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 Smugger | Become the best smuggler in the Neath. |
Seasonal Content[edit]
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 |
| 12 Days of Mr Sacks | December |
| Noman Tattoo | December to May |
Ambitions[edit]
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 Vengeance for a Loved One |
A Person of Some Importance[edit]
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.
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| Bizarre, Dreaded, Respectable (BDR) | Various qualities of your person. Useful for raising Notability
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| Paramount Presence | The ultimate achievement of importance in London. |
Items and Equipment[edit]
Guides primarily focused on acquiring and converting items.
Items[edit]
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Treasures of the Neath | Endgame items that are particularly difficult or time-consuming to acquire. |
| Impossible Theorem | Detailed mini-guide on obtaining  Impossible Theorem(s)
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| Bessemer Steel Ingots | Primarily useful in the Railway. Includes efficiency calculations. |
| Bundle of Oddities | Maximising your chances of getting particular rewards from this randomiser. |
| Uncovering an Unpredictable Treasure | Reward randomiser for Forgotten Quarter expeditions. |
| Certifiable Scraps | Obtaining Scraps and trading them to the Relickers. |
| Cover Identities | Creating identities in the Cabinet Noir at Balmoral. |
| Inventory Catalogue | A dynamically generated list of all items in the game, by category. |
| Large Single Item Expenditures | A list of uses of a single item all at once. |
| Active Access Codes | List of active access codes to gain items. |
| Mr Chimes' Lost & Found (Guide) | Review of items available from  Mr Chimes' Lost & Found
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| Exceptional Stories and other Fate-locked content (Guide)/Rewards Comparison | Review of items and opportunities available from misc fate locked content. |
| Whitsun (Guide)/Item Comparison | Review of items available during WHITSUN |
| Estival (Guide)/Item Comparison | Review of items purchasable with  Estival Token during SUMMER festivals
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| Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide)/Item Comparison | Review of items obtainable during during FRUITS OF THE ZEE. |
| Hallowmas (Guide)/Item Comparison | Review of items obtainable during during HALLOWMAS. |
| Christmas (Guide)/Item Comparison | Review of items obtainable during during CHRISTMAS. |
Equipment[edit]
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. |
Currencies[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Desired Guides[edit]
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? |
|---|---|---|
| Firmament (Story) | Evolution and the Railway both have guides covering the overarching storyline. Firmament currently does not. | User:DarthVeyda/Sandbox/Firmament |
| 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.). |
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| 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 |
| Guide for Unsanctioned Relicker Items | Item comparison; calculations and analysis about grinding needed economic items (especially for Pre~Mid PoSI players) | User:Crazychicken88/Sandbox |
| 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 |
Existing Guides Needing Work[edit]
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 |
| Leveling | Has hardly any information about locations/actions above level ~130 |
| Parabolan War | Needs section on Parabolan trains |
| Large Single Item Expenditures | Missing many sections |
| Second Chances (Guide) | Analysis on gaining through weddings. |
| Treasures of the Neath (Guide) | Details about actions/Echo Costs |
| University Laboratory (Guide) | Integrating Experimental Object and University Laboratory (Guide)/Cards |
| Hearts' Game (Guide) | Various tables, and future expansion of the content. |
| 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. |
| The Rat Market (Guide) | Needs overhaul once new frequencies/values are determined (recent update, see announcement post) |
| Lategame (Guide) | Missing newer lategame content |
Existing Guides where storylets are missing data[edit]
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.
Existing Guides Needing Fate Documentation[edit]
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. |
| Shroom-Hopping (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 Opporutnity 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 |
| Riding the Savage Cobbles (Guide) | Need info on The Spinning of the Wheels |
| 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)
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Continually Monitored Guides[edit]
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 and other Fate-locked content | Continually released. |
| Item Grinding sections | To keep up to date with current grinds. |
| Active Access Codes | To keep up to date with new codes and retired codes. |
External guides[edit]
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/1akb5ap/results_of_the_yearly_fatelocked_story_survey/
- 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[edit]
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
- 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)
Historical Events[edit]
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)
Historical Pages[edit]
Pages describing how the game has changed over time, or the timelines of one-off events
- 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)
- Knife-and-Candle (Historical)
- Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out (historical)
- The London Horticultural Show (historical)
- The Sixth Coil (historical)
- Whitsun (historical)
