How to Repair the Owatatsu Archipelago Wedge Tower in Craftopia
So I finally got around to repairing the Owatatsu Archipelago wedge tower, and I figured I’d share what I learned because this one tripped me up a few times. If you haven’t found it yet, it’s built right into the side of a cliff face and it’s one of those things you need to finish if you want to push into the Innovative Age of Fire.
The whole repair breaks down into three phases. Each one needs different materials, and some of them aren’t super obvious where to get. I wasted a lot of time before I figured out the shortcuts, so hopefully this saves you some headaches.
Phase One: Gold and Wool
First up, you need gold ingots and linen wool. Not too bad once you know where to look.
Getting Your Gold
One thing that got me early on — you can’t just walk up to a gold deposit with any old pickaxe. You need at least a silver pickaxe or a gold pickaxe or it’s not going to work. The gold deposits tend to be in the mountainous areas, usually not too far from the starting zones or wherever you set up your main base. Look for those shiny yellow rocks.
I’d say grab at least 30 pieces of gold ore to be safe. You’ll need gold again later for batteries, so having extra doesn’t hurt. Toss it all in your furnaces and smelt it down into ingots.
Making Linen Wool
For the linen wool you need sheep wool and straw. Now, you can absolutely just run around the map chasing sheep one at a time. But honestly? That’s painfully slow. What worked way better for me was using a breeding facility.
Here’s what I did:
- Found the big cooking pot area on the map
- There’s a breeding facility near it — and you can actually just take it if you don’t have one yet
- Captured a few sheep and dropped them on the machine
- Sheep started spawning way faster than they ever do in the wild
Once you’ve got enough sheep, grab the wool however you want — capture them or just take them out. Then head to your workbench and look for the linen wool recipe. Fair warning, it’s near the bottom of the list. I spent a minute scrolling past it the first time.
Bring everything back to the tower and phase one is done.
Phase Two: Herbs and Some Light Farming
Phase two needs 5 ultramarine herbs and 5 bright red herbs. My first instinct was to go running through the woods trying to find these, and I’m not going to lie, I burned a solid chunk of time doing that before I realized there’s a way easier method.
The Merchant Shortcut
There’s a village right below the tower. Jump down there and find the vendor who sells seeds and farming supplies. This merchant has exactly the herbs you need. But here’s the catch — he doesn’t want gold. He wants tomatoes.
So here’s the play:
- Buy tomato seeds from the merchant
- Pick up some farming plots too if you’re short on space back at base
- Plant the seeds, let them grow, harvest
- Bring the tomatoes back and trade for your herbs
It sounds like a lot of steps but it’s honestly way faster than foraging. I wish I’d figured this out before I spent all that time wandering around looking for wild plants.
Once you’ve got the herbs, fly or climb back up to the tower and finish phase two.
Phase Three: Batteries and Engine Parts
This is where it gets a little more involved. You need high-capacity batteries and engine parts. Both of these take some work, but there are a few ways to go about it.
Engine Parts
You’ve got options here. The easiest route I found was trading with another village vendor — one of them sells engine parts for cabbage. Cabbage is dead simple to grow, so this is a pretty good deal. You can also buy them with gold, but I’d save your gold. It’s harder to come by and you need it for the batteries anyway.
If you’d rather craft them yourself, you’ll need a machine factory and the following:
- Batteries
- Ceramic
- Iron ingots
Totally doable, but trading cabbage is just less hassle in my experience. Your call though.
High-Capacity Batteries
These aren’t the regular batteries you get from generators. To make high-capacity ones, you need standard batteries plus gold ingots at your workbench.
For the standard batteries, just place animals on generators at your base. If you’ve been playing for a while, you might already have a stockpile sitting around. I had a bunch I’d forgotten about. Combine those with your gold ingots and you’re set.
Finishing the Owatatsu Tower
Once you’ve got 20 high-capacity batteries and 20 engine parts, head back to the Owatatsu Archipelago wedge tower one last time. Open the construction menu, turn everything in, and watch the tower light up. It’s a pretty satisfying moment after all that work.
What You Unlock
And here’s the payoff — the tower basically becomes a beacon on your map. You’ll start seeing new icons that show you where to find stuff like bamboo doll fragments and thunderflowers. These are the materials you need for the Age Evolution screen to reach the Innovative Age of Fire.
You might need to repair more towers in other regions to reveal everything, but this one gives you a solid head start.
Quick Tips
A couple things I wish I’d done from the start:
- Keep farming plots set up at your base with cabbage and tomatoes growing at all times. The village merchants want produce, not gold, and having a stockpile ready makes trading so much easier.
- Don’t sleep on the breeding facility for sheep. It’s a game changer for wool farming.
- Check your map after finishing the tower. Those new icons show you exactly where the good stuff is.
If you’re working on other wedge towers too, each one clears more fog off your map and reveals more loot locations. They’re all worth doing.
Got questions about the tower or found a better way to farm any of these materials? Drop a comment below or come hang out with us on X and Instagram. Always happy to talk Craftopia strats.