The Progress Emporium

The Progress Emporium has a well-earned reputation throughout the Craftverse for its vast selection of products and its enthusiastic Creator Curator: Don Doubtworthy. When running short on time and unable to handcraft what they need, other Creator Curators choose to shop here.

Always dapperly dressed in his finest suit, Don Doubtworthy is never short on enthusiasm or positive things to say about his products. Of course, things have been rough as of late with Hoard drivers zipping about and disrupting inventory without paying for damages. It seems they never heard the old adage “you break it, you bought it.”

Still, Don Doubtworthy is an eternal optimist and isn’t about to let that get him down. After all, the next big sale could be the next kart to drive right through his front door. Don’t ask him about warranties, though—that topic tends to rile him up a bit.

Future Perfect

Don Doubtworthy is pleased as punch to have some new customers who aren’t there to thieve like the Hoard. He’s so excited, in fact, that he’s a bit incoherent as he eagerly pitches the fantastic wares available at the Progress Emporium. With the Hoard running amok and snatching things left and right, he’s dying for the chance to talk to some potentially paying customers.

Guided Grapples

Getting into the swing of things? While there’s much grappling fun to be had on this track, swinging carefree doesn’t mean your sack person can kick back for an in-flight beverage. Many floating prize bubbles require precise mid-air maneuvering. Take no swing for granted during this race.

Level Info

Level Type: Race

Total Prize Bubbles: 18

Clear Rewards:

• The Infallible Breakfast Machine
• Zeppelins Rule VS

Level Complete Gifts

1—Hop, Swing, and a Pop

This race’s first prize bubble appears almost immediately, following a drop off in the track and past a grapple swing on the left side. However, while it seems so temptingly within reach, it’s just high enough to make it frustrating to snag.

The key to popping it and proceeding along your merry way is adding a little figurative spring to the kart’s step. Tap the drift button to hop right as your kart reaches the lip of the track before grappling. This tiny bit of extra height is just the thing to help your sack person burst this prize bubble with ease.

2—To Swing Or Not To Swing

The launch pad here propels your sack person through the air toward a grapple sponge. However, the first time through you ought to forgo the swing to instead land on a second launch pad where a prize bubble awaits.

But having claimed the sweet rewards within, your sack person should opt to grapple skywards in each remaining lap. The obvious and most efficient route is to direct the kart to the left where there’s an upper-deck stretch of track. Not only does this shortcut save time, but also it’s where you can find another prize bubble.

The last lap, however, is slightly trickier and depends on when your sack person releases the grapple. Now letting go can be hard and some are afraid to do it too soon, but fret not. While centered on the track, release the grapple right before reaching the lowest point in the swing. Your sack person then whips forward to the prize bubble in the center near the track edge.

3—Big Finish

The last launch pad before the finish line is a doozy. Your sack person needs to maneuver precisely and in different positions with each lap to hit the three prize bubbles before the finish line. Hold the grapple all the way through the swing the first time to pop the prize bubble while passing through the square frame. But be careful! The insulation must have worn off because there’s a lot of unchecked electricity flowing through it.

The second prize bubble once again requires an early release from the grapple. Your sack person is a pro at that now, right? Let’s hope so since coming up short here could land your sack person skewered on the row of spikes lining the edge of the track. Keeping the kart centered and on target takes it through the prize bubble and back onto the track where a pair of jet packs sweetens the deal.

Your sack person could be forgiven for missing the third and final prize bubble here. It’s tucked away ever so discreetly along the right side, but it’s neither in the air nor on the track at all! This little guy seems to have wandered off or been blown aside by an errant breeze. It’s sitting on the plush green platform on the right. Steer the kart to the right through the swing and release slightly early to pop what is arguably the trickiest bubble of this race.

Zeppelins Rule!

Commuting can be a real pain and Don Doubtworthy has just the solution. His impressive fleet of zeppelins soars high above the gridlock to get you there faster AND with a gorgeous view to boot. Still, a ride this sweet isn’t without its drawbacks: it’s a mighty tempting target for thieves. To counter any unwanted attention, the zeppelins are equipped with heavy-duty cannons. Unfortunately, the Hoard aren’t very impressed and have managed to commandeer one of their own.

Don Doubtworthy is certainly taking this grand theft zeppelin well. In fact, he’s acting even more chipper, if that’s even possible. Another of his zeppelins pulls up alongside the Hoard with your sack person aboard, ready to do battle. It seems he’s found a silver lining: a live demonstration of the zeppelins’ awesome might!

INCOMING!

With the Hoard and your sack person zipping about on and between these two zeppelins, it’s a mystery who could be manning the cannons. But WHO is firing isn’t nearly as important as WHERE they are firing. Watch out for flashing red-white crosshairs on the decks of both zeppelins. These warn of incoming artillery fire. Steer clear!

Level Info

Level Type: Battle

Total Prize Bubbles: 12

Clear Rewards:

• The Infallible Breakfast Machine
• Zeppelins Rule VS
• Level Complete Gifts

1—Aerial Acrobatics

Each zeppelin is equipped with dual launch pads designed for quick disembarking. It’s unlikely their designers intended for them to be used high in the skies for boarding others like airborne pirates. Nevertheless, these launch pads should be a cornerstone of your sack person’s strategy. Use them to frequently fly between zeppelins and to stay out of the other drivers’ congested conflicts. They’re extra useful as the arc of their launch propels your sack person through a thick cluster of weaponators, virtually guaranteeing rearmament with each bounce.

2—Don’t Look Down

There’s a precariously positioned prize bubble in an unlikely place on the red and blue zeppelins. Skirt the deck’s edge between the launch pads to find and pop it without falling over into the blue heavens.

3—Blue Barriers

For the most part, both zeppelins have identical layouts. However, the blue zeppelin offers slightly more protection from enemy fire provided by the higher barrier on the flat section of its deck. This modest obstacle can mean the difference between surviving and spilling your sack person’s stuffing.

The Infallible Breakfast Machine

Don Doubtworthy knows that the key to a productive day is starting it off right with the most important meal of the day: breakfast. He’s proud to introduce the latest time-saving convenience—the Infallible Breakfast Machine! It does it all: coffee, donuts, toast, jam, pancakes, bacon…you name it.

The delicious smells of breakfast wafting through the Craftverse have lured the rumbling tummies of the Hoard here. Even thieves have to eat, right? But not content to merely steal their meal, the Hoard are also sabotaging the machine, causing it to go haywire. Stop them before everyone winds up scrambled!

Major Food Groups

Unlike most battles, the goal of this level is to collect the most points by being the first to claim the highlighted goals that appear as massive bubbles. These goals have prominent multi-colored arrows and a blue icon with a white flag floating above to indicate their location.

If the goals are outside your sack person’s current field of view, the blue flag icons stay on the screen’s edge to guide your sack person to the next tasty destination. These goals usually appear in one of the four colored zones, but occasionally get scrambled all over the map.

Level Info

Level Type: Battle

Total Prize Bubbles: 17

Clear Rewards:

• World’s Fair in Love and War
• Stuck in a Jam
• The Infallible Breakfast Machine VS

Level Complete Gifts

1—Colors To Jump For

The absolutely fastest way to get to the blue or green zones is via the launch pads on the ground floor. Even if your sack person is puttering about on the upper levels already, it pays to drop down and head for the nearest convenient launch pad to your destination.

2—Splatulas

Careful crossing over the bridges joining the middle ground between the green and yellow zones. There are two massive spatulas that can flatten your kart like a bug without breaking a sweat in their pancake output. Avoid the pain—not to mention the unsanitary impact on those pancakes. Ick.

3—See Saws

Traveling between the red and blue zones via the bridges? Watch out for the oscillating saw blades moving back and forth. Your sack person doesn’t just have to worry about accidentally touching the serrated edges—making contact with any part of the blade punches your sack person’s card just as easily.

4—Hot Stuff, Coming Through

The mercury must be rising on the thermostat because things are getting extremely hot around here. Your sack person faces a very similar set of hazards crossing between the blue and yellow or the green and red zones. Both routes are directly in the way of an overhead conveyer transporting burnt foodstuffs. Toast in the case of the former, and donuts for the latter. Either way, don’t let your sack person get hot under the collar.

World’s Fair In Love and War

It’s Don Doubtworthy’s favorite time of year, when the World’s Fair comes to town. It showcases the best and brightest in leisure technologies designed to ease your busy modern life. Of course, many of these products are unpolished or in the prototype phase, but that won’t stop Don Doubtworthy from making the sale. He’s not worried about shoddy workmanship and your sack person shouldn’t be either.

Level Info

Level Type: Race

Total Prize Bubbles: 19

Clear Rewards:

• Best Before Date
• World’s Fair in Love and War VS

Level Complete Gifts

1—Swing High, Swing Low

The first launch pad sends your sack person soaring between two giant electrified gears. Fortunately, there’s a grapple sponge to help your sack person swing to safety. However, there is a twofold choice in paths. Release early and steer the kart to the left to land a little sooner, popping a prize bubble on the track in the process before hitting a row of jet packs.

With that prize bubble taken care of, be sure to swing hard and high in subsequent laps to reach an upper deck above the track and on the left. This narrow passage bypasses part of the track and is home to an out of the way prize bubble.

The lack of railing might seem like a good reason to drop back onto the main track, but you’d be making a mistake! There’s a whole other upper deck to cut through with another prize bubble to claim. Take a well-timed hop after popping the last in the string of score bubbles to the opposite side of the track where more score bubbles and a prize bubble await.

2—Spin Cycle Shock

The track might start grinding your gears when this next stretch substitutes spinning wheels for a proper road. Worse still, each of the three wheels spins in the opposite direction of the last. It can be disorienting and an out-of-control drifter could wind up feeling 1.21 gigawatts of voltage from the electrified side walls.

The central wheel has three trapped tourists flailing wildly from inside their stranded rides. They could sure use some help, but the electrified bases around them zap any Good Samaritans who touch them.

3—Shifting Gears

There’s a massive, electrified gear prominently located just before the finish line. It’s relatively harmless for your sack person’s first time through, positioned flat and parallel to the ground the first lap. Be sure to stay centered coming off of the launch pad and ignore the overhead grapple sponge. Instead, catch a lift off of a second launch pad at the gear’s center.

In the next two laps, something’s gone haywire and the gear shifts into a vertical position—right in the path of all the racers! This must be one of those bugs Don Doubtworthy mentioned that still needs ironing out…

Luckily, that grapple sponge your sack person passed on last time is still there. Swing from it and guide your kart carefully through the spokes of the electrified gear and land either to the left or right to pop the two prize bubbles there. Pick up the one you skipped the next lap around.

Best Before Date

Don Doubtworthy is so confident in his customer service that he’s sure any issues with your newly purchased refrigerator can get cleared right up before any food goes bad. Of course, he very quickly and conspicuously leaves the area after this promise. Why? Well, it looks like he might have spoken too soon as the level has become overrun with food gone bad. Worse than making a stink, they’re downright poisonous!

Your sack person needs to put pedal to the metal to escape this festering field before the stink overwhelms everything. Pass through all the checkpoints and reach the helicopter before time runs out and you become a victim of yesterday’s leftovers!

Green Grossness

Avoid the puddles of green goop oozing throughout the level. It’s anyone’s guess what this stuff was before the fridge went haywire. However, there’s no need to guess what it is now: deadly! Just touching the stuff melts your sack person and costs precious seconds. Avoid making contact with the stuff at all costs!

Level Info

Level Type: Checkpoint Race

Total Prize Bubbles: 19

Clear Rewards:

• Monster Trucks
• Tank Combat
• Best Before Date VS
• Roots of All Evil

Level Complete Gifts

Staying Above the Mess

Be ready for any opportunities to grapple. Quite a few of this level’s prize bubbles require your sack person to swing to exactly the right spot to pop them. Because this is a checkpoint race, you only get one shot at it. Make note of all their locations on the map.

1—Jet and Jump

Hopefully, your sack person hasn’t gotten too queasy from all the green goop stinking up the place. Two prize bubbles in quick succession require some dexterous driving. Keep to the right while driving through the tenth checkpoint. A prize bubble is nested between a putrid puddle and the encroaching slime along the right wall, requiring your sack person to first drive through a jet pack.

If navigating that narrow stretch of dry land at top speed wasn’t enough of a challenge, your sack person needs to use that speed to hop the central puddle ahead directly beneath the eleventh checkpoint.

2—Graveyard Goodies

Don’t let the spooky specters of dearly departed dinner give your sack person the chills in the cemetery. What seems like a ghostly obstacle course is much less intimidating as long as you focus on the path laid out for your sack person. Simply follow the string of score bubbles that wind past the central tombstones while avoiding the ooze to pop two prize bubbles and safely escape this burial ground.

3—Falling For You

The eternal debate between cake and pie gets a lot simpler following the twenty-fourth checkpoint. The towering slices of cake are falling over themselves to try and squash your sack person. Steer wide and clear of them as they topple to avoid a flattened fate.

Challenge Levels: The Progress Emporium

Stuck in a Jam

Lane Change Lunacy

If there’s one thing the Craftverse likes almost as much as creating is blowing up things and rebuilding something new from the debris. Naturally, there’s a booming business in exploding crates. In fact, the roadways are getting choked up with trucks transporting bombs to the farthest corners of the Craftverse. It’s getting so congested, a sack person can hardly get to work in the morning!

The goal of this level is to pop as many of the score bubbles as possible and rack up an impressive high score. Touching any of the other cars on the road causes your kart to explode, as does making contact with any mines dropped in the roadway. Your sack person only starts with three lives so cautious driving is a must. Use the left stick to move side to side and control the kart’s speed.

Level Info

Level Type: Challenge

How to Unlock:

Place in Top Three in Best Before Date

Clear Rewards:

Reach 10000 Points to get all the prizes.

Easy, Speed Demon!

This level isn’t timed so there’s no need to speed through it recklessly. The only time your sack person should speed up is to keep a score multiplier going. Otherwise, it pays to be patient and wait until the next consecutive string of score bubbles appears.

Tailgate Party

Most other drivers have learned to simply avoid this particular road because of all the traffic. As a result, there are only two different types of vehicles your sack person encounters on this street.

The red trucks prominently display its dangerous mine cargo in the flatbed. Steer clear of these lethal long-haul truckers as their drowsy drivers are dropping their payload all over the place.

Your sack person should instead focus on closely tailing the blue trucks. These rides are overflowing with score bubbles and periodically drop long strings of them in the road. Pursuing them and their points are the key to success here!

Monster Trucks

Controlling the King

Demolition crews take pride in their work but sometimes yearn for a way to earn their living in style. For the masses who long for big explosions and even bigger dinosaurs, Don Doubtworthy has mixed the past and present into one awesome sight: the Mechasaurus Rex! The king of the dinosaurs inspires this towering beast’s design, but it’s anything but cold blooded. Capable of spewing immense fireballs, this ride is sure to come to a construction site near you!

Driving the Mechasaurus Rex is a straightforward affair. It only has one speed: fast. Use the left stick to direct Rex and press to shoot fireballs in the direction it is facing. The goal is to destroy as many trucks as possible within the time limit. Each truck you destroy extends the time slightly.

Level Info

Level Type: Challenge

How to Unlock:

Place in Top Three in Best Before Date

Clear Rewards:

Destroy 40 Trucks to get all the prizes.

Backfireballs

The Mechasaurus’ explosive breath is great for clearing roads, but it can also backfire! Try not to get too trigger-happy when facing a wall—the fireballs can easily ricochet back and unintentionally blow up your ride. How embarrassing!

The same goes when closing in on a truck. Try not to open fire at point blank range or you risk getting caught up in the same explosion.

Stomp the Block

Fireballs aren’t the only way to take out all the trucks zooming around the town. Your Mechasaurus Rex’s powerful legs are good for more than just chasing trucks down, after all. In fact, they can squash them flat! While in pursuit of your target, take the time to swerve into any trucks that cross your path to add to your count while barely breaking Rex’s stride.

Mine-fulness

After your Rex has blasted through a fair number of trucks, the drivers start to catch on. To protect themselves, they start dropping mines in the road. Hah! Their dinky little explosives aren’t particularly intimidating to the Mechasaurus. In fact, they barely slow it down.

Making contact with a mine causes the Mechasaurus Rex to spin out of control for a brief time. It’s a minor inconvenience at most, and easily recoverable. Still, when time is ticking down, it can make a big difference. Keep an eye out for the glowing lights on the ground indicating a mine, and then blast them with Rex’s fireballs to clear the road.

Tank Combat

Tanks for the Memories

Great wars were once fought in the Craftverse, but over what, few recall. Now, old Wool War II relics like these tanks are being brought out of mothballs for entertainment rather than conquest. Go ahead and take one out for a spin to see if they still run after all these years.

Direct your tank using the left stick and your standard gas and brake control scheme. You fire by pressing . Your tank is equipped with plenty of ammo, so there’s never any need to worry about reloading or running out. Your sack person starts the round with only five lives but so do your opponents. Whittle down theirs before you run out of yours!

Level Info

How to Unlock:

Place in Top Three in Best Before Date

Objective:

Be the last tank rolling!

Revel in Ricochets

The key to victory over the other tanks is studying the angles. Don’t worry, though, there won’t be a math quiz afterwards.

Each tank round you fire ricochets three times before coming to a complete stop and exploding. Keep this in mind while bouncing shots around corners and taking out the enemy before they can even get a clear line of sight. Shoot them before they can even see your sack person!

Destructive Behavior

This battle arena starts out neatly symmetrical, but that doesn’t last for very long. Notice the pink bits in the wall? They mark where construction was over budget and supplies ran low. Pummel these spots enough times with tank rounds and they get blasted to pieces, opening up new angles of attack. Use them to your advantage and keep an eye out for the enemy to do the same.

The Progress Emporium Prize List

Prize Bubble Prize Packs—Future Perfect

Prize Bubble Prize Packs—Zeppelins Rule

Prize Bubble Prize Packs—Infallible Breakfast

Prize Bubble Prize Packs—World’s Fair in Love

Prize Bubble Prize Packs—Best Before Date

Challenge Levels—Stuck in a Jam

Challenge Levels—Monster Trucks