How To Get Wheat in Hades 2

Discover essential tips on how to get wheat in Hades 2. Unlock secrets and enhance your gameplay.

In Hades 2, conquering the Titan of Time, Chronos, depends on mastering Melinoë's skills and resourcefulness. This guide focuses on acquiring and utilizing Wheat, a crucial resource for enhancing her abilities.

Melinoë's journey involves cultivating resources in the Underworld. Wheat, along with other crops like Garlic and Poppy, empowers her magical arsenal in the fight against Chronos. This guide details how to obtain and cultivate this vital ingredient. Note that Hades 2 is in Early Access, so details may evolve.

Obtaining Wheat

Wheat cultivation begins in the Crossroads, utilizing seeds harvested from the Fields of Mourning. Planting requires Soil Plots created via the Flourishing Soil incantation.

Harvesting Wheat Seeds

• Locate Wheat seeds within the Fields of Mourning.
• The Silver Spade is essential for harvesting these seeds from designated Digging Spots.
• Unlock the Silver Spade by using Moly in the Cauldron for Night's Craftwork (first obtaining the Silver Pick), then upgrading with ten Silver (mined in Erebus with the Pick).
• By the time you reach the Fields of Mourning, you likely possess most, if not all, Gathering Tools. The Silver Spade enhances your chances of discovering Digging Spots, while the Reagent Sensing incantation highlights their locations, alongside other resources.
• Hecuba, Melinoë's final recruitable familiar, can also unearth seeds. Upgrading Hecuba with Witch's Delight increases her Digging Spot discovery rate. The Bravery of Familiar Spirits incantation (requiring Wheat) unlocks abilities like Hecuba's Earth Bond.

Utilizing Soil Plots

• The Flourishing Soil incantation (requiring six Moly, costing one Moly to cast) provides two Soil Plots in the Crossroads for planting.
• Additional plots are obtainable via the Rich Soil incantation (three Lotus from Oceanus) and Verdant Soil (one Garlic and one Wheat).
• Each seed has a unique growth time (measured in locations visited). Wheat requires 13 time units.

Wheat's Applications

Wheat is a key reagent in various Cauldron incantations:

• Verdant Soil Incantation
  • Use: Adds two more Soil Plots.
  • Ingredients: 1 Garlic, 1 Wheat
• Bravery of Familiar Spirits
  • Use: Empowers familiars with upgraded abilities.
  • Ingredients: 1 Wool, 3 Wheat
• Bones of Burnished Bronze
  • Use: Grants Melinoë armor upon collecting Bones.
  • Ingredients: 3 Fate Fabric, 3 Wheat, 3 Tears
• Observance of Gaia's Secrets
  • Use: Increases chance of finding additional ingredients
  • Ingredients: 5 Wheat, 5 Moss

These incantations have prerequisites. Verdant Soil requires Flourishing Soil plots. Bones of Burnished Bronze necessitates collecting Ashes, Psyche, Bones. Gaia's Secrets requires all Gathering Tools. Wheat's usefulness unfolds gradually, as access to it is tied to reaching the Fields of Mourning and fulfilling other requirements.