

If you played the Ballad of the Three Cavaliers demo for Bravely Second, you can also receive a bonus start to your villager count. You can use the “Update Data” function once a day, and gain five villagers every day. This will automatically connect to the internet and friend five people, giving you five more villagers. By selecting “Update Data” on the save menu when speaking to the adventurer or on the world map, you can send out a net friend invite. If you’re lacking a friends list and the ability to Streetpass, you still have an efficient way of adding villagers. All you need to do is speak to the adventurer in any city or dungeon who lets you save your game, or open the menu by hitting right on the D-pad and selecting the save menu. Check out our guide on how to add friends if you’re unsure of that. For one you can send invites to anyone you might have on your friends list on your 3DS. You can also add villagers to Fort-Lune by sending out friend invites through the internet, or by updating the game’s data.

Luckily, Square Enix added another option for collecting villagers in the game that works a bit faster. For every Streetpass you get, you’ll receive one villager to help in the reconstruction. If you take your 3DS out on the go with you, it’s possible that you’ll run by some other people with Bravely Second registered on their Streetpass. The first way of collecting villagers is the same as in Bravely Default, with Streetpass.

Upgrading buildings is definitely in your interest as it can give you access to valuable items, so you’ll want as many villagers as possible. Each building can be upgraded to level 10, and takes a certain amount of real world time to construct that scales based on the buildings level. Fort-Lune functions in the same way as Norende Village, with villagers being necessary to unlock sections and construct buildings.

Bravely Second brings back the village building minigame that was featured in the original Bravely Default, this time tasking you to rebuild one Magnolia’s home on the Moon.
