This is a complete guide for Airborne Kingdom that covers:

• 🎮 Gameplay Mechanics
  
• 🏆 Achievements
  
• ⚒️ Building

Set Sail for New Horizons!

This section covers the various interactions & mechanics found in Airborne Kingdom.

• Click with the Left Mouse Button to select objects in the game and interact with them.
  
  
• Right Click anywhere on the land below to start moving in that direction.
  
  • Right-clicking will place a floating Buoy that your kingdom will navigate towards. Movement is based on your Town Centre. Specifically, the Buoy location is where your Town Centre will stop at. As such, it is recommended to build your kingdom with your Town Centre at the front for better visibility.
  
  
• Hold the Right Mouse Button while moving your mouse to rotate the camera. You can also use the keys Q and E.
  
  
• Use the keys W, A, S, D to move your camera forward, back, left, and right. You can also hold the Middle Mouse Button while moving your mouse.
  
  
• Use the C key to re-centre the camera on your Town Centre. You can also click the Centre button in the bottom bar.
  
  
• Hovering your mouse over the various indicators in the top bar of the in-game UI will show additional information panels. Some of these panels contain bulleted lists, which you can hover and click as a shortcut.
  
  • Your inhabitants dropdown, for example, contains a list of all your workers' current tasks. Highlighting a bullet will highlight their workplaces and clicking a bullet selects that workplace.

In order to keep your kingdom afloat and your inhabitants happy, you will have to manage 13 different resources.

You gain resources by:

• Collecting them from the lands below using your Hangar's planes.
  
  • The closer your kingdom is to a collected resource, the faster your workers can gather it!
• Refining them from raw resources using production buildings.
  
• Receiving them passively from allied kingdoms.
  
• Trading with kingdom merchants.
  
• Rescuing stranded explorers in the Lost Tundra.

The lands below are ever changing. As such, there's no guide that can show you the exact locations of regions and landmarks.

However, there are certain factors that remain consistent:

• 4 regions will always exist.
  
• You will always start in the Barrens (Desert) region.
  
• The Lost Tundra will always be the Northernmost region.
  
• The Barrens, Highlands, and Shallows will each have 4 kingdoms to ally with.
  
• The Barrens, Highlands, and Shallows will each have parts of each of the 3 great wonders.
  
  • I.e. the Barrens will have 1 Golden Sphere, 1 Ancient Library, and 1 Tranquil Tree.
• The Lost Tundra has the 4 Ancient Statue wonders.
  
• Landmarks & Points of Interest (POIs) will spawn in the same location relative to their associated island chunks.
  
  • Map generation will place the Lost Tundra in the North and then randomly place the other 3 regions. Afterwards, each region will randomise its internal island chunks within the region boundaries. For example, the Highlands region (see below) will always include a circular island ringed by crags with a hole in the centre containing the Ancient Ruin housing the Rune of Daylight. This same island will also contain the Tree of Unity, a Small Settlement, and an Eternal Forge*. Each island chunk operates similarly with the kingdoms & POIs always located in the same spot on the island. Only the island location is randomised within the region itself.
    
    

*The location of Eternal Forges & Fluorescent Ponds can differ depending if you're playing on New Game+ (NG+) or not as NG+ has an increased amount of the two POIs.

I have included below the region maps[imgur.com] from my NG+ Hard run. While, you may not have the exact same layout as I did. The following references will still be helpful with navigating individual island chunks.

Note: If you need to zoom in on the below images, either right-click & open the images in a new tab/window or navigate directly to the Imgur album[imgur.com] as the in-guide image zoom conflicts with Imgur embeds.









After successfully allying, which means their icon is added to the Tapestry, with a kingdom, you will receive resources every in-game hour. This amount increases for each regional kingdom alliance.

On the top bar of your in-game UI, you can see the amount of people that have joined you. On the left is the number of people, and on the right is the number of housing blocks built. Each person requires one housing block.

Inhabitants with no specifically assigned task will build any available construction. If there is no available construction and they are not assigned to work, they'll show in the idle worker count next to the housing numbers.

You can recruit potential migrants from Small Settlements and allied kingdoms. However, they will look at the happiness of your current inhabitants to judge whether they'd like to join. For instance, a settlement will offer three potential migrants, each requiring a successive level of happiness (from Mediocre, Satisfied, and Jubilant) to join.

One of the goals required to complete a run is reaching a population of 150 people in order to reform the Great Council.

The inhabitants of your kingdom are clear about their needs and wants. They will display their current average happiness in the top left of your UI.

• Lack of housing.
  
• Lack of Food or Water.
  
• Kingdom is off-balanced.
  
• Housing is located near production buildings.
  
• Inhabitant desires are not met.

Note: If your citizens are unhappy for too long they will leave your city for greener pastures.

As your community grows, doubts and fears begin to form among the migrants from other kingdoms. How can we survive in the skies forever?

The answer is to fulfill their Desires! At each population milestone, your inhabitants will ask for new Desires to be fulfilled. Failing to do so will reduce your happiness level and prevent you from reaching a "Jubilant" state.

As such, it may not be a good idea to grow your population too quickly if you lack the ability to immediately fulfill their desire requirements.


Each desire has different requirements to fulfill.

• Faith is based on a 1:1 ratio with your population and is gained when an inhabitant's housing is within a Faith building's buff radius.
  
  • 1 housing block within Faith range = 1 inhabitant's Faith desire met
• Light is based on the % of Paths lit (within a Light building's radius).
  
• Health is based on a 1:1 ratio with your population and is gained directly when a Health building is constructed.
  
  • A Spirit Healer provides Health fulfillment for up to 30 inhabitants.
• Comfort is based on a flat target value.
  
  • If your citizens desire a Comfort value of 38. Then you could fulfill that requirement by building 38 Greeneries as they generate 1 Comfort each.

Your kingdom stays afloat as long as you maintain a balance of Lift, Weight, and Propulsion. Not enough lift (and in turn too much weight) will cause your kingdom to descend. Not enough propulsion and you may not be able to travel quick enough to find enough resources to sustain yourself.

Your Town Centre alone can only lift so much weight. In order to expand your kingdom, you must place buildings that generate Lift.

Below is a table comparing the various Lift options* you have access to.

*For construction costs, refer to ⚒️ Lift under the Building section of the guide.
**Lift buildings do not have a visible Weight value or rather its Weight is already taken into account in relation to its generated Lift. The Town Centre is an exception.

Generally speaking, at max upgrades, the following comparisons can be made:

• Fans are superior to Vertical Rotors in Lift, Coal consumption, and space efficiency at the cost of a single worker, which is negligible.
  
• Balloons & Wings are fundamentally equal in Lift generation & Worker operation at a 2:1 ratio. However, the space efficiency and lack of obstruction requirements makes Balloons a more flexible choice.

When considering what Lift buildings to build, the goal is usually a self-sustaining configuration. In other words, enough Lift to support your necessary buildings and ≤4 Coal per hour fuel consumption. After allying with all of the Barrens kingdoms, you will gain +4 Wood every hour, which can be converted into +4 Coal every hour with 4 Charcoal Huts. This means that you have a stable amount of fuel as long as you don't exceed the 4 Coal per hour consumption.

Every building (except for Lift buildings) has a Weight value associated with it. Weight is both an overall value that you must match Lift against as well as a localised physical effect (i.e. tilt) on your kingdom.

Weight functions at a 1:1 ratio against Lift. I.e. for every single value of building Weight, you need to have at least a comparable value of Lift.

Each building's Weight will cause an inclination (or tilt) towards its placed location. I.e. placing a heavy building on your aft will cause the front of your kingdom to tilt up and the back to tilt down. This effect is increased as you place more buildings, up to an acceptable tilt inclination of 5° in any direction. A tilt beyond 5° will result in displeasure from your inhabitants.

As such, in order to counter building Weight, you should carefully place your Lift buildings to maintain balance. As noted before, Lift buildings technically have no weight (or rather their weight is factored into their Lift) and will push the kingdom up in the area that they are built.

Additionally, since the game has no structural integrity modifiers caused by Weight, it makes the most sense to extend your kingdom length-wise and then centralise your Lift buildings around the front and back to achieve balance. There's limited value in placing Lift buildings in the middle as they would have a low impact on correcting tilt, which is only weighted towards four directions (i.e. front, back, left, and right). Furthermore, this helps with effective Furnace placement (since the buildings in question are already grouped together) for when you want to ensure maximum Lift & Propulsion efficiency when navigating the Lost Tundra.

Propulsion is effectively the speed at which your kingdom is able to move. However, Propulsion as a value is dynamically calculated in relation to your maximum speed and your overall Weight. This means that the Propulsion generated by associated buildings is not static, unlike Lift, so it's not as convenient to compare.

Your max speed is capped at 100%. In order to maintain it, you must construct Propulsion buildings and upgrade your Town Centre. Remember that until your kingdom is self-sustaining, you are continually consuming resources so the longer you take to travel places, the more resources you will end up consuming.

With each building you construct, your kingdom's weight increases and drag is created, which slows down your movement speed.

Below is a table with a relative comparison of the various Propulsion options*** you have access to.

***For construction costs, refer to ⚒️ Propulsion under the Building section of the guide.

You can customise the colours of your buildings' walls, lights, and paths using various palette motifs found from Fluorescent Pools and Eternal Forges across the lands. Also, all buildings have festive themes (i.e. Default, Summer, Halloween, and Christmas) that you can apply as well.

The discovered dyes and metals can be accessed when you:

1. Select a building.
   
2. Click the palette icon.
   
3. Choose a desired motif from the menu.
   
   • You can use the Apply to Type (applies the same motif to all buildings of that type) or Apply to All (applies the motif to all buildings) for more convenient colour adjustments.

Additionally, some buildings will have specific customisation options:

• Town Centre allows you to customise Buoys.
  
• Hangar allows you to customise Planes.
  
• Housing Blocks allow you to customise their base and their roofs.
  
• Greenery has multiple plant options to rotate between.

A list of all colour palette motifs can be found below:

• Metals
  
  • Iron
    
  • Gold
    
  • Bronze
    
  • Chrome
    
  • Copper
    
  • Osmium
    
  • Martina Blue
    
  • Patina Green
    
  • Rose
    
  • Aegean
    
  • Crimson
    
  • Earth
    
  • Noble
    
  • Pine
    
  • Sol
    
  • Terracotta
    
  • Velvet
    
  • Winds
    
  • Emerald
    
  • Ruby
    
  • Sapphire
    
  • Topaz
• Lights
  
  • White
    
  • Yellow
    
  • Orange
    
  • Red
    
  • Purple
    
  • Green
    
  • Blue
• Walls & Floor Tiles
  
  • Barrens
    
  • Daybreak
    
  • Seafarer
    
  • Wanderer
    
  • Horizon
    
  • Haze
    
  • Spring
    
  • Swamp
    
  • Slime
    
  • Glory
    
  • Marine
    
  • Tundra
    
  • Jubilance
    
  • Cleopatra
    
  • Garden
    
  • Grecian
    
  • Rose
    
  • Verdant
    
  • Burnt Orange
    
  • Highlight
    
  • Royal Rain
    
  • Sands
    
  • Slate
    
  • Crane
    
  • Hawk
    
  • Owl
    
  • Dove
    
  • Vapor
    
  • Growth
    
  • Sediment
    
  • Phase
    
  • Dream

A wide world with many curiosities to explore.

Airborne Kingdom has a total of 30 achievements for you to complete. 27 belong to the base game and the final 3 are a part of the free Lost Tundra DLC. Overall, the achievements are fairly straightforward and aligned with a typical run completion.

I have split them into six groups of similar achievements:

• Kingdom Allyships
  
• Growing Your Kingdom
  
• Wonders of the Land
  
• Collect-a-thon
  
• Kingdom Rebuilt
  
• Frozen North

If you want to obtain all achievements in as little time as possible. I recommend the following process:

1. Start a game on Hard difficulty.
   
   • Your goal for this run is to complete all of the Kingdom Allyship, Growing Your Kingdom, Wonders of the Land, Frozen North achievements, as well as the individual Prophecy Fulfilled and A True Challenge achievements. Once you've completed your first run, you will unlock the New Game+ (NG+) mode along with the new Town Centre options.
     
   • During your first run, prioritise locating the three Golden Spheres for the Nomad's Orrery as it reduces time spent looking for quest landmarks, which is especially crucial for the Lost Tundra challenge.
2. Ally with the 4 Barrens (Desert) kingdoms.
   
3. If you have purchased the Charcoal Hut technology then you can safely explore the Shallows with 4 Charcoal Huts built. Otherwise, build Farms & Water Condensers to safely explore the Highlands. I recommend stabilising your fuel consumption first as stabilising Food & Water requires a lot more investment.
   
   • In the Shallows, try to do the Elysian Cape alliance quests first as it asks you to locate three Towers of Flame around the map.
     
   • In the Highlands, prioritise the Jukar Lookout alliance quests as you will be tasked with escorting three scholars to each of the three Highlands kingdoms.
4. Before heading to the Lost Tundra, ensure that:
   
   • You have unlocked and built a Nomad's Orrery.
     
   • Your kingdom is fully upgraded.
     
   • You are fully stocked on Food, Water, Coal, and Wood.
     
   • You have multiple Charcoal Huts built to ensure that you can sustain additional coal-consuming Lift (i.e. Vertical Rotors & Fans) and Propulsion (i.e. Fins) buildings.
     
   • You have built Furnaces (purchased from the Frozen Encampment at the Lost Tundra entrance) around your Charcoal Huts, Lift, and Propulsion buildings.
     
   • You can also slim down your city and remove any unneeded buildings. The more streamlined your kingdom is the easier time you will have. Only do this if you have already Returned the Tapestry and completed the run goal.
5. Once you've entered the Lost Tundra focus only on saving the stranded explorers with as little backtracking as possible. You will not be collecting the Statue wonders nor cosmetic palettes during this run.
   
6. Start a NG+ on Normal difficulty with the Nomad's Orrery as your Town Centre (by building each Wonder in a normal run, you unlock the option to start a NG+ with a Wonder Town Centre). You can now complete all of the remaining achievements with this run, which will mainly be the Collect-a-thon and The Cycle Continues achievements.

There are 12 different kingdoms spread evenly across the 3 main regions for you to find, assist, and ally with. Kingdoms are easy to locate due to their large size and unique landmarks. Each kingdom will require you to assist them with a few tasks, such as replanting groves or fetching unique items. Upon completion of these tasks, you will be able to build a Sky Port and cement your alliance.

Note: While you can discover quest landmarks without the associated quest step, you cannot progress it in advance. I.e. You can discover the Golden Grove before the Kingdom of Rutula asks you to do so but you'll have to return with the active quest step again to progress.

In order to complete the game, you will have to expand your flying kingdom. This means increasing the population so that you can field the numerous buildings and production facilities that drive your expansion. You gain new recruits by visiting settlements and helping out kingdoms.

One of your goals as inheritors of the Airborne Kingdom's legacy is to rebuild its three great wonders, which are the Great Library, the Nomad's Orrery, and the Tranquil Gardens. In order to build them, you must first locate each of their parts scattered across the land.

I recommend that you focus on completing the Nomad's Orrery first as its ability reveals all landmarks and points of interest.

Completing all achievements will require you to:

• Purchase every technology blueprint.
  
• Research all buildings.
  
• Collect all metal, walls, and floor tiles.

Building blueprints can be purchased from kingdoms for varying amounts of gems.

Note: It is unnecessary to purchase the Furnace blueprint, which is located in the Frozen Encampment at the entrance to the Lost Tundra for this achievement. However, since the Knowledge Seeker achievement requires you to research the Furnace to complete it, you may as well pick it up.


While, the achievement description seems to suggest that every single research node must be completed. In reality, you only need to research all the building blueprints as opposed to their upgrades. Unknown building technologies are unlocked once their blueprints are purchased from kingdoms.

Note: While you can only research one node at a time, building more Academies will allow you to reduce the required research time by each additional Academy.

The different colour palettes for metals, walls, and floor tiles are found in Fluorescent Pools and Eternal Forges tucked in the nooks and crannies of the land. In order to collect them all, you must be playing on a NG+ run as the map is larger with more spawns. Additionally, since it must be a NG+ run, you can start the game using a Nomad's Orrery Town Centre, which will greatly speed up the process.

Note: The last four metals (emerald, ruby, sapphire, and topaz) were introduced with the Lost Tundra DLC and are unlocked by constructing the unique buildings (see Ancient Sculptor) found throughout the Lost Tundra.

There are four unique buildings that can be unlocked in your Wonders building tab by locating ancient ruins in the Lost Tundra. They are the Sapphire Crane, Ruby Hawk, Topaz Owl, and Emerald Dove. By building each of them, you will unlock their associated metals.

Your overarching goal in Airborne Kingdom is to reclaim its past legacy of uniting the land. Once you have successfully allied with all 12 kingdoms and reached 150 inhabitants, you will have the final task of returning the Tapestry that began your journey, proudly displaying it, so that none may forget again!

The Lost Tundra DLC introduces a Northern region with a unique task of escorting all 12 groups of 3-5 stranded explorers lost in the frozen wastes back to their homes at the Frozen Encampment.

Note: The explorers will require housing space in your kingdom.

Be aware that the Lost Tundra region will significantly reduce your kingdom's overall efficiency, including resource production, propulsion, and lift. As such, it is highly recommended that you stock up heavily on resources, as only Wood exists in large quantities, and move quickly through the region.

The music of industry echoes from port to port.

Being a city-builder game, you are required to construct various buildings that will maintain your kingdom and assist with completing the various quests throughout the land.

• Buildings must be connected to the Town Centre via Paths, which are walkable platforms that act as sturdy connections between buildings.
  
• Some buildings will have a clumping mechanic, which allows individual buildings to group together with only one part of the clump needed to be connected to a path.
  
• Tilt caused by an uneven distribution of building weight will tip your kingdom, annoy your population, and slow you down.
  
• Your production rate is influenced by travel time of your workers. So you should try to ensure buildings are grouped by their production sequences and Paths are efficiently planned.
  
  • I.e. In the case of Food production, a worker may experience the following sequence:
    
    1. A Worker travels to the Hangar.
       
    2. A Plane travels to obtain Water at an Oasis.
       
    3. A Plane travels back to the Hangar.
       
    4. A Worker travels to the Town Centre or a Water Tower to deposit the obtained Water. A resource is not counted until it enters your storage space.
       
    5. A Worker travels to a Farm to deposit Water from the Town Centre or a Water Tower.
  • The entry points to the Town Centre are on its port & starboard (left & right sides).

Thank you to @MoiQ for their guide, which depicts maximal usage of buff radii. Their build configurations are shown below translated from Japanese.

You can also refer to their original guide with the following link.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2784958150

Wonders are unique buildings, where only one of each may be placed at any time.


Diagram depicting Wonder buildings by 1x1 blocks.

Your foundational building blocks.


Diagram depicting Basic buildings by 1x1 blocks.

You can't grow a civilization in the sky without industry.


Diagram depicting Resource buildings by 1x1 blocks and their associated debuff/buff radii.

Storage buildings increase the capacity of resources that your kingdom can hold. Greater storage allows you to travel further.


Diagram depicting Storage buildings by 1x1 blocks.

A kingdom in the sky needs help to stay in the sky.


Diagram depicting Lift buildings by 1x1 blocks and their associated debuff radii.

Traversing the skies is not an easy feat but at least you can make it a speedy one.


Diagram depicting Propulsion buildings by 1x1 blocks.

Your citizens' wants are ever-growing; feed those desires.


Diagram depicting Desire buildings by 1x1 blocks and their associated buff radii.

• 2024-08-04
  
  • Added table that shows purchasable technologies and their associated Relic costs in the Collect-a-thon section.
    
  • Updated the Fields of Agrómaz alliance quest steps in the Kingdom Allyships section with resource costs.
    
  • Shortened the Regions & Landmarks section title to "Regions".
    
  • Added efficiency debuff % for Lost Tundra cold levels in Regions section.
    
  • Changed Furnace building weight from 1 to 0.5 in the Resource section.
    
  • Added the Great Library efficiency buff % in the Wonders section.
• 2024-08-05
  
  • Added a note recommending a workaround for zooming in on Imgur image embeds in the Regions section.
• 2024-11-30
  
  • Re-uploaded a few images that Steam corrupted for no reason.