To free the Earth Giant in Coral Island and unlock the Giant Village, you must progress the Giants questline and clear down to level 40 of the Earth Shaft, then interact with a special runic stone to break the curse.

Step-by-step: How to free the Earth Giant

1. Reach the Giants questline

  • Progress the main story until you experience the Mythical Dream and visit the Lake Temple at least once.
  • After this, visit the Cavern the next in-game day; the Chieftain will appear and explain that the statues at the entrance are petrified giants, including the Earth Giant.
  • Accept the quest “Petrified Giants I” , which tasks you with freeing the Earth Giant by exploring the Earth Shaft.

2. Prepare for the Earth Shaft

  • The Earth Shaft is the first mine, located to the right inside the Cavern entrance.
  • Before going deep, bring: healing food, a decent weapon, and free inventory space, because you’ll find earth geodes and bronze ore on the way down.
  • Expect combat and resource rocks on each level, so plan for multiple in-game hours or trips if your energy is low.

3. Descend to level 40

  • Your goal is level 40 , which is the lowest level of the Earth Shaft for this quest.
  • Use ladders as you uncover them; bombs/explosives can speed up progress on ore-heavy floors.
  • You can use the mine elevator to return to the deepest level you’ve already reached on later trips, so you don’t need to clear all 40 in one run if your energy is tight.

4. Break the curse at level 40

  • On Earth Shaft level 40 , you’ll find a large stone with glowing green runes bound by magical vines.
  • Walk up to this runic stone and interact with it; a short scene plays where the stone breaks and the curse is lifted , freeing the Earth Giant.
  • This completes Petrified Giants I and officially frees Grog, the Earth Giant.

5. Meet Grog and unlock the Giant Village

  • After freeing him, use the elevator to go back to the Cavern entrance; you’ll meet the Chieftain and Grog there in a follow-up scene.
  • As a reward, you earn 150 coins , finish Petrified Giants I , and unlock Petrified Giants II , which focuses on the Water Giant.
  • The next in-game day, Grog sends you a letter inviting you to the Giant Village , located west of your farm house.
  • Visit the village with him; he opens it up fully and introduces the enchantment table , where you can add and later stack enchantments on your tools as you free more giants.

Quick HTML table recap (Earth Giant steps)

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Step What to do Key details
Start questline Finish Mythical Dream, visit Lake Temple, then go to Cavern next day.Meet Chieftain, learn statues are petrified giants.
Accept quest Take “Petrified Giants I” from Chieftain in the Cavern.Task: explore Earth Shaft and free Earth Giant.
Enter Earth Shaft Use the mine entrance on the right side inside the Cavern.First of the four shafts you’ll unlock.
Reach level 40 Descend through combat and mining floors to the 40th level.Collect earth geodes and bronze ore on the way.
Break the runic stone Interact with the green runic stone wrapped in vines on level 40.Stone shatters, curse is removed, Earth Giant freed.
Aftermath Return via elevator, meet Grog and Chieftain at Cavern entrance.Earn 150 coins, unlock Petrified Giants II.
Unlock Giant Village Read Grog’s letter next day, go west of your house to the Giant Village.Gain access to enchantment table and stronger tool upgrades as more giants are freed.

Mini forum-style note and current context

“I’m on level 40 but don’t see the giant, just a weird stone with vines. Bug?”

Players often confuse the runic stone with a bug, but interacting with that stone is what actually frees the Earth Giant; the giant himself appears in the follow-up scene at the Cavern entrance , not inside the mine floor.

As of late 2025 and early 2026, this mechanic is unchanged in the full release and later patches: level 40 of the Earth Shaft plus interacting with the runic stone is still the required trigger to free the Earth Giant and move on to the Water Giant questline.

TL;DR: Push to Earth Shaft level 40 , touch the glowing vine-wrapped stone , then meet Grog at the Cavern entrance the same day and check your mail the next day to fully unlock the Giant Village and progress to the next giant. Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.