Unlocking Superior Cradlecoffin Parts in Synduality: Echo of Ada

Select Language:

Synduality: Echo Of Ada places you in control of a Cradlecoffin, a special machine designed to navigate the harsh surface of Earth after a catastrophic rainfall event has devastated humanity. In this versatile mech, your mission is to collect AO crystals to fund your operations, gather materials, and, if the mood strikes, challenge other players.

The Cradlecoffin serves as your primary tool, and it’s vital to keep it in top shape. While it may not offer the extensive customization options typical of mech games, every choice you make holds significant weight since a mishap could lead to major setbacks. Here’s what you need to know about customizing your Cradlecoffin.

What Are Cradlecoffins?

The term “Cradlecoffin” might sound grim, but these machines allow humanity to venture outdoors without putting themselves at risk. Interestingly, there are no humans inside a Cradlecoffin; instead, it’s operated by your Magus, an AI companion that helps you during missions. The name comes from the compartment in the back of the mech where the Magus controls it.

While Cradlecoffins are marketed as all-weather vehicles, they have notable weaknesses. They are particularly vulnerable to rain, which can greatly diminish their resistance and overall durability. Submersion in water is also a critical flaw, leading to immediate destruction. These machines are specifically designed for surface exploration.

Cradlecoffins operate with a battery, thus they cannot be deployed indefinitely. Although spare batteries exist, they are extremely rare outside of certain single-player missions and cannot be kept. While Cradlecoffins are formidable, they require careful management; they are not invulnerable and can be easily lost.

What Parts of the Cradlecoffin Can Be Customized?

In a mech game, you might expect a wide range of customization options, but that’s not quite the case here. There are six customizable components of the Cradlecoffin, with only three being physical parts. They are:

• Body – Determines most of your durability and weather resistance, along with cargo weight and battery life.
• Arms – Provide additional durability, influence reload times, and affect other skills.
• Legs – Enhance durability and influence movement capabilities, including quickstep distance.
• Weapon Slot 1 and 2 – These two slots allow you to equip any weapons you choose.
• Excavator – Used for mining AO crystals, with better variants yielding higher-purity crystals.

The arms also dictate the type of weapons you can wield, either energy or live ammunition, or both. Unfortunately, there are no options to change colors, name your mech, or customize weapons, which limits personalization. Losing your mech results in the loss of all your equipment, making it less appealing to see someone else using your customized parts!

You can access customization through the sortie menu, allowing you to modify your loadout and view all your stats more comprehensively.

How to Increase Your Cradlecoffin Stats

Once you access the Cradle Customization menu, you’ll see a 3D representation of your mech accompanied by charts and bars showing various stats. While the output will be considerably high (often maxing out around 10,000), other stats will be relatively lower. To increase these stats, you need to acquire new Cradlecoffin parts.

Each component of the Cradlecoffin comes with set stats. While durability may decrease over time, the stats cannot be improved beyond their initial values. Therefore, the only way to enhance your stats is to obtain new parts, which involves some effort.

There are five primary methods to acquire new Cradlecoffin parts:

• Purchasing them in the Item Shop after completing relevant requests, usually at a capped green rarity.
• Crafting them after unlocking crafting recipes through requests, though you won’t be informed until after completion.
• Receiving them as rewards for completing requests.
• Obtaining them from the Drifter Pass, Synduality’s battle pass.
• Looting them from defeated players.

Importantly, you can’t find parts randomly; the best pieces will typically be awarded to you. However, if you lose these valuable parts, they are gone for good, and you may have to rely on lesser components from the Item Shop. Some parts can be crafted, but these options are often costly, require rare materials, and take real-time to complete. Losing crucial parts may force you to start over unless you have stockpiled some backups.

Newer parts generally serve as upgrades to previous ones, making the loss more painful. If you’re concerned about losing a part, consider insuring it. While this won’t return the item, it will refund much of its monetary value.