Welcome to my walkthrough of Potions: A Curious Tale! The prologue of the game introduces you to Luna and the basic game mechanics.
There are four missions to complete your onboarding experience:
I recommend focusing on completing the prologue missions before going out of your way to explore all areas.
Arriving in Old Haven
You begin your adventure in a dark room on a ship. The Deck Hand comes in and shares a Potion of Healing. Drink the potion and head out the door. There’s nothing interesting to see in the basement, so continue upstairs.
A Kraken is waiting for you above deck!
Sinbad will hint that he can’t approach the weapons without the tentacle attacking him. Move Luna and you’ll notice a single tentacle following you along the ship. Bait the tentacle towards the weapons, and move away after the tentacle starts to attach. Do this for both weapon racks and Sinbad will compliment you.
Oil and fire will spill on the floor. Bait the Kraken to attack the oil and then the fire to defeat it and unlock the Squid Pro Quo achievement.
Sinbad will compliment you again before letting you debark at Old Haven.
Family Reunion
A woman named Emily will verbally harass you right after leaving the boat.
After the conversation, explore town until you find the house in the northwest with the potions symbol.
Head inside and greet your granny. She will confirm your talent as a Potions maker and ask you to gather Mushroom, Feather, and Ash. While exiting the house you will bump into Mary, which is an opportunity to show off how many things you can pick up at once.
Head west to leave the town. You can find the ingredients in the Dark Forest and the Farm respectively. Note that the Ash ingredient is found in Soot Balls. I encourage you to grab at least 3-5 of each ingredient to avoid making a second trip later.
Return to Granny and craft the Minor Explosion Potion per her instruction, unlocking the Beginner’s Brew achievement.
If I Could Just recall
Granny will ask you to retrieve the Stone of Recall from the well in the farm. Head back to the farm and into the well, and use your new Minor Explosion Potion to defeat the rat. You will receive the Stone of Recall. Before heading home, head north further into the cave to find a chest full of goodies.
Return to Granny and meet Prince Charming, who in my opinion is anything but charming.
After he leaves then Granny will give you the recipe for the Minor Potion of Healing. Granny will ask you to craft 2 of the new healing potions and deliver one each to the Inn and the Huntsman.
Make your deliveries and return home. Granny will give you the Water Bomb potion recipe and instruct you to visit her elder sister in the Deep Dark Forest. You will need several Minor Explosion Potions to traverse the forest, so collect any ingredients necessary and craft the potions before heading to the Dark Forest.
A Strange Hut
Head east through the Entrance to the Dark Forest, taking care to avoid the timed water trap. If you want to avoid using a Minor Explosion Potion then you can kill the mushroom creature by luring it into the trap, which will net you both Mushrooms and Mushroom Spores. Head east until you find a path blocked by 3 rocks and use a Minor Explosion Potion to clear the way.
Enter the Twisted Forest, the second area of the Deep Dark Forest. From now on you can fast travel here when leaving town. Head north and deactivate the blue stone to unlock a path further down the road. Continue east until your path is blocked by 3 trees, then head south. Make your way south and east until you see a red barrier. Defeat the two mushrooms while they’re stuck behind the log.
Continue south to meet Nayr. Luna will invite Nayr back to Old Haven. Collect the nearby ingredients before heading back to the red barrier.
Use red stone near the barrier to unlock it and make your way further east until you reach the next area: Baba Yaga’s Hut. Speak to the cat and offer it your ham. The cat will introduce itself as Helios and lower the hut for you to enter.
The door is stuck, so use a Minor Explosion Potion on the nearby rock to get a jar of oil that you can use to unstick the door. If you happen to use the nearby cauldron then it will reset the hut. You can ring the nearby bell to lower the hut again.
Enter the hut and comfort the servant to meet Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga will give you her broom but ask for materials so she can craft a new one. At this point you will unlock “A Strange Request” and unlock the Sweep Speed achievement.
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