Help/FAQ

Thank you for playing Travel Merge Family!

If you have any questions concerning the game, there are some hints to help you:

 

Frequently Asked Questions:


What is click lock and how to unlock it?

The Click Lock feature prevents you from accidentally collecting non-final level jewels from the game board. To activate or deactivate it, tap the lock icon at the bottom next to the heart.

To unlock it, click on the lock icon at the bottom right of the screen.

 

My progress won't disappear if I reinstall the game?

On Android, progress is tied to the device — you can safely delete and reinstall the app (you might only lose the last 5–10 minutes of gameplay). On iOS, however, deleting the app will also delete your progress. To keep your progress safe, use Facebook login. But note: if you log out of Facebook on Android, your progress will revert to the state it was in before linking.

 

Mystical airplanes

With mystic planes, you can unlock special mystic sectors: Treehouse, playground, attic.

 

What is merge?

Travel Merge Family is a merge based game, which means that you need to combine 3,5 or more objects by dragging one object and dropping it over the group of others.

NB: You can’t merge objects if they are diagonally placed.

 

How do you open the treehouse, and the rest of the special, mystical sectors?

The treehouse opens right after you've unlocked, and partially set up the bathroom.

The playground is unlocked after you have unlocked and completed the treehouse.

The attic is unlocked after you have finished the tree house and playground. 

 

What is a Joker-Orb, and what is it for?

The Joker-Orb acts as a versatile figure to merge. 

With his help, you can merge almost any figures for which you lack parts.

Just drag the Joker-Orb onto the figures and they will be merged.

 

Why do you need helpers, and how do you get them?

Assistants will help you with disassembling items.

If your characters go to bed, you can use an assistant to continue the disassembly.

Helpers are made from the merging of tool figures.

 

How do you optimize your play space if you're short on space?

If you run out of space on the playing field, in our game there is a game shelf that acts as a storage, you can put some items on it to save them.

Also, in our game there is a garage sale, with which you can sell all the extra items, you can find it by a large sign near the house.


What are the things you need to bring with you for? (Blue suitcases, thermoses...)

You need to collect “travel items” to prepare for each travel. Every travel requires specific items to bring along. The furniture islands (Wardrobe station, kitchen station, barbecue grill, dining table in the living room, e.t.c.) around the house provide different travel items — you’ll need to gather them. Don’t sell items that seem unnecessary right now — they may be needed for future travels.

Once a travel item reaches its final level, you can tap it to store it in your inventory, which you can view in the photo album.

 

How do you get extra crates when traveling if you don't have enough?

If you don't have enough crates in a journey to reach a certain stage in the journey, use a mine.

A mine is an item that, when you disassemble it, will give you extra crates. A mine looks like a wheelbarrow.

In the Switzerland journey, the mine is the train that is at the very beginning.

 

Where to get universal furniture?

Universal furniture refers to high-tech robotic items — one in each room. Once you collect and place all the high-tech items in every room, you'll unlock a secret area hidden inside the mountain. Versatile furniture becomes available once you unlock the second floor of the house.

Further it will fall out during various disassembling of items and from chests.

Also, universal furniture can be purchased in the game store.

 

What is a jewel tree, and a money tree?

These magical trees are very difficult and time-consuming to collect, but once you complete them, you'll be rewarded with a set of harvestables that produce jewels or money. The Jewel Tree and the Money Tree are planted in the yard in front of the house.

Where to get more pets and also what are they for?

Pets are mostly brought back from travels. Pets need to be fed — when a pet is fed, it gives you a heart. By collecting hearts, you earn various rewards in the Care reward track. You can also feed your friends’ pets and receive hearts that way too.

Mannequin

For each journey, you need to collect a specific outfit and place it on the mannequin. You can merge outfits directly on the mannequin — three different items of the same level can be merged together. Hats + dresses + accessories to gain one costume piece of your choice of the next level. To merge on the mannequin you need to drag pieces of costumes and drop over the mannequin. Then, tap on the mannequin to open its pop up and tap on the button “merge’

To interact with the mannequin - just click on it.

A window will open in front of you, showing you what clothes your mannequin is currently wearing.

There will also be two buttons "Take Off" and "Merge" at the bottom of the window

By clicking on "Take Off" you will remove all the clothes from the mannequin.

Clicking on "Merge" will open another window in which you will be able to choose one of the three clothing items, which can be obtained if your mannequin is wearing clothes of the same level.


Gameplay related questions:


Unpacking boxes

You need to unpack boxes while playing. Every box has a bar, denoting the number of possible interactions. When the bar is empty, the box is fully unpacked and a chest is dropped out.

Each unpacking demands energy.

 

Dismantling furniture items

All furniture in the game works like a special construction set — you can disassemble it to later assemble higher-level furniture. Final phases cannot be disassembled. You need to dismantle furniture items while playing. Dismantling is needed to gain new furniture items, which means that you need to disassemble the furniture items of the same branch of the previous level, then you need to merge disassembled items to gain the furniture of the next level.

 

Decorating and placing

Every room has its own furniture to be decorated with. To decorate rooms you need to place furniture items on their pedestals.

Pedestals are special platforms, which denote where and what furniture is to be placed.

To see what furniture can be placed on a pedestal you need to tap on the pedestal you want to know about.

To place furniture on its pedestal you need either to drag it and drop over one of the accessible pedestals or to tap on your furniture item, tap on the button “place” and then tap on one of the accessible pedestals.

 

Rooms opening

To open new rooms you need to fully decorate the previous ones which means that you need to fill all the necessary pedestals with the relevant furniture.

Sometimes you also need to create and collect some number of golden keys or remove obstacles to open new rooms.

 

Characters

You unlock characters while playing. Characters are needed to make two types of interactions with objects: unpacking or dismantling.

Each character has its own number of possible interactions. It has no connection to the global “energy”. If all the possible interactions are made, a character goes to sleep to restore their number.

To accelerate characters’ sleeping time you need to create a bed. When improved, the bed makes characters’ sleeping time even shorter.

Parents and kids sleep in different beds.


Energy

Energy is one of the main resources to progress in the game. Unpacking, disassembling and some other actions demand some energy.  

There are several sources of restoring energy:

-  Energy is restoring itself up to its limit through time

- There are some special figures on the field which you can merge to gain some      energy. (You can merge Coffee sticks  to gain small coffe cups, You can tap on small coffee cups to get a bit of energy, or merge them into larger coffee cups that give you more energy. Then you need to collect coffee cups to restore energy).

            - Free energy appears in the energy store once in X hours

- Ads watching  in the energy store also restores energy

            - Energy can be bought for soft currency (coins) in the energy store

The same coffee energy is used in both the House and Travels, while each Event on separate location has its own separate energy that is not connected to the house.

Furniture islands

Furniture islands are massive figures which provide you with traveling items and other figures once in X hours.

To create a furniture island you need to create max level figures of its branch and fill its pedestals with them. Then you need to “transform” these furniture figures into a furniture island by tapping on the button “disassembly”. This action usually demands energy and time to be fulfilled.

When a furniture island is created, it can be further improved by filling it which means that you drag objects off its branch and drop them over the furniture island. Each furniture island has 5 stars over it which denote the stage of its improvement.

 

Travelling

When you collect all the required clothes and traveling items, you are able to go on a trip to one of the countries. Egypt, Hawaii, Japan and other countries and places are waiting for you.

 

Events

From time to time you face different events while playing. Some of them bring you to different locations, some ask you to make particular actions in your house (home field).

Each event has its own reward track which is filled when you conduct needed actions. Therefore, if you actively participate in the event you gain valuable rewards.


Game advice
  • Focus your attention on one room to make better progress.
  • Don’t forget to unload the truck to get new boxes to unpack.
  • Merge small coffee cups into large coffee cups to get more energy.
  • Use the mannequin to gain extra bonuses.
  • Complete quests to obtain rewards.
  • Complete daily tasks to get small rewards and fill reward track to gain a fiinal   one.

 

Mail

You can receive game news via the in-game mail. To check your mail, tap on the “message ” sign in the top right corner.

 

Friends

You can visit your friends’ houses. In the future you will be able to feed their pets and water their plants. To visit your friend tap on the icon “Friends” in the bottom right corner, open the tab “Friends” and choose the friend to visit.


Thank you for playing Travel Merge Family! We’re constantly improving the game to create enjoyable experience for our beloved audience!

If you encounter any bugs, glitches or other inconveniences, please let us know via support [at] arrugames [dot] com

Sincerely yours,

ARRU Games Team