Dinotopia Walkthrough

(i) Search beach thoroughly and pick up any items (important to
get conveyor belt (looks like a towel and found to left of path
through jungle). Enter ship and get crowbar and candlestick. Click
crowbar on clam shell (to open clam the mouse click must be on
exactly the right spot on the clam - very frustrating).

(ii) Head up path to first village (Hatchery) and click on door
near where 2 children are standing. Talk (click) to old woman and
get dinosaur ABC. Open it and use it to decipher all letters of
the alphabet (write them down to translate messages later). You
will now be able to click on people and dinos and understand them.
Go to first house (windmill) and use conveyor belt on gears. Show
people your sister's picture and be told to go to next town -
Pumicetown. Talk to dinosaurs attached to carriage (they will
mention a gramophone) and get transported to Pumicetown.

(iii) Pumicetown - Play cards with dino in the fairbooth (put an
object in the offer box eg. candlestick). If you win you get a
metal item. Find stairway to smithy and melt metal item. Pour
metal item into key mould, cool and get key (you will get verbal
instructions if you forget to use gloves, tongs, etc). Talk to
everyone and show picture of your sister and you will be told to
go to Waterfall City. Go back to Hatchery first via dino carriage
and then walk to beach.

(iv) Beach again - click key on trunk to open it and get
time-piece.  Then back to carriage to go to Waterfall City.

(v) Waterfall City - You can waste a lot of time here wandering
around so look for areas where blue octagonal squares are part of
the pavement (indicates a place you can enter). First find museum
after meeting dino friend. It is across the bridge (S) and then
far right. Talk to curator and enter slide room. Clean slides and
look at them in projector. Talk to curator again about the
gramophone - he will mention a gear, a trumpet and a recording
device. He gives you the base model.  Find building across bridge
(N) you can enter. Dino outside window will sing a series of
musical notes.  Repeat first note on xylophone and then each
additional note. If you succeed you get the recording device and a
nice fanfare on exiting the building. Head back across bridge (S)
and then West to find glasshouse. Enter and talk to dino then
water flower with can.  Cut large trumpet flower with shears. Head
back to carriage and go to Pumicetown.

(vi) Pumicetown again - Back to smithy and melt key. Then pour
into gear mould, cool as before. Click on all components of
gramophone - base, recording device, gear and trumpet. Give
gramophone to dinos pulling carriage and a new location appears on
the map - Old Ruins.  Go there.

(vii) Old Ruins - find big dino and talk to him. He will give you
his insignia (looks like tusks) and ask you to find his nephew in
the World Beneath. Enter ruins and find hole in wall near back and
to the East.  Follow path to stairs going down. Enter. After
walking underground you come out on mountain plateau. Talk to
woman and stand on carpet. Wait until flags stay still for just a
moment (in downward position) and then walk off cliff. Never fear,

if you have timed it right you will end up on the back of a flying
dino (your next method of transportation). Fly to Savannah.

(viii) Savannah - talk to dino at entrance to factory. Walk on
metal paths inside factory or just slog across the muck to find
entrance to machine room at rear near far left. Enter and pull
levers to get the same sequence of musical notes as previously
done at Waterfall City. You will head downwards and get a scroll.
Exit factory. Fly to Treetown

(ix) Treetown - To save time wander around and find Fireweed (near
canal - approx. center). Then find moss on tree - it has a yellow
cloud of bees on it. Go to next tree (in front) and click on sap
collecting cup - sap pours out and cloud of bees moves from moss
to cup. Now get moss. Climb ladder into tree and wander around (to
the right) to find big dino. Talk to him and show him all
pictures.  He has a cough and sore throat. In front of him is a
flask. Click on moss then on flask (now you can pick it up).  Then
click fireweed on flask - cough and sore throat medicine. Clicking
the potion on the big dino then didn't work for me but clicking it
on my dino friend did (weird!!!). The big dino will give you a
prism. (Note:  to find out about the description and use of
important items like the prism click them on your little dino
friend). Exit and fly to Alpine.

(x) Alpine - It is not necessary but you can go to the nearby hut
and trade any unimportant item for a pick. Climb the mountain but
take care to cross the mountain slides by the ice bridges. Enter
monastery and talk to monk. He will give you a red sunstone. Exit
and for fun slide down the mountain. Fly to desert.

(xi) Desert - Talk to old dino at oasis or far NW of desert where
there are buildings. He wants you to find another dino and bring
him home. Go to far NE to find him and then he will follow you
back NW.  Enter building, climb ladder, go E, descend ladder to
another beach. Examine sundial.  Put prism on central column of
stones.  Now click scroll on you to read it and arrange central
stones of sundial according to the scroll. Click also on SW and SE
outer stones to light them. Decipher wording on scroll 'give your
time to another'. Give timepiece from trunk to old dino and
suddenly a hole appears in the sundial. Descend ladder and enter
submarine.

(xii) Sub - remove old used sunstone and replace with new one from
monk.  Click on levers to right of sub - cutscene. Interface
changes to arcade sequence now. Hold mouse button down and drag to
descend in sub. Go to left of screen and follow underwater
passages continuously to the W across several screens as far as
possible. May need to move fish, sharks and jellyfish with lever
to far left (electricity) or next lever (smoke).  Then ascend in
sub (don't ever exit as you will find yourself back at sundial and
will need to repeat sub sequence again) until you reach surface
and a new temple. Move sub near open doorway and click on doorway.
Cutscene follows with sister and dino's nephew in World Beneath.
Then you click on one of two choices to return to the normal world
or stay in Dinotopia. The latter seems the obvious choice leading
to a final cutscene. That's it folks!!

All in all quite a fun game for a few hours of expensive gameplay
but the interface is a real pain until you get used to it. Many of
the objects and much of the conversation lead nowhere and must
have been added for background. Sound is poor and difficult to
distinguish - you will need to listen carefully. Good fun for
junior adventurers - nothing risque, no violence, no bad language.















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