How To Get Wheat In Hades 2

To defeat Time, one must take their time. In Hades 2, the Titan of Time, Chronos, awaits Melinoë in her family’s House. To reach him and succeed against him, she first needs to grow in her magical and combat abilities.

Hades 2: How To Unlock All Tools

You’ll need tools in Hades 2 if you’re going to unlock new weapons and cast incantations.

Bringing farming simulators to the Underworld, Melinoë must collect and grow seeds and other resources from these strange lands. Resources such as Wheat, Garlic, and Poppy can be grown in the Crossroads and used to empower Melinoë’s abilities in her mission to defeat Chronos. This guide explains how to gather and grow Wheat for her incantations.

Hades 2 is still in Early Access at the point of writing, so some information in this guide may change over time.

How To Get Wheat

Melinoë digging for Wheat seeds in the Fields of Mourning.

Wheat must be grown in the Crossroads, using seeds found in the Fields and Mourning, and you have to plant them in the Soil Plots created by the Flourishing Soil incantation.

Finding And Collecting Wheat Seeds

Wheat seeds are located in the Fields of Mourning, and can be harvested using the Silver Spade. You can unlock the Silver Spade first by using one Moly in the Cauldron to cast the incantation Night’s Craftwork, which will first grant you the Silver Pick, then by unlocking the Silver Spade using ten Silver.

Silver is found in Erebus and mined with the Pick, and each instance harvests three Silver, so it should be a quick upgrade.

By the time you reach the Fields of Mourning, it’s likely that you’ll already have most of the Gathering Tools, if not all, and maybe even some upgrades for good measure. You need the Spade to be able to interact with the Digging Spots where seeds are hiding.

Equipping the Silver Spade will increase your chances of finding Digging Spots, and the incantation Reagent Sensing will alert you to the presence of any Digging Spots, Outcroppings, Lost Shades, Fishing Points, and gatherable resources.

Hecate’s hound familiar, Hecuba, the last of the familiars Melinoë can recruit, will also replace the Spade if you bring her along, digging up seeds herself. Giving Hecuba Witch’s Delight can upgrade her abilities, one of which will also increase the chance of Digging Spots appearing.

Bravery of Familiar Spirits, which requires Wheat, is the incantation you’ll need in order to get abilities like Hecuba’s Earth Bond.

Using Soil Plots

Wheat Seeds in the Greeneries menu. It shows that they take 13 Time Units to grow, and are found using the Silver Spade in the Mourning Fields.

The Flourishing Soil incantation will bring two Soil Plots to the Crossroads, required for growing the seeds Melinoë collects on her missions. The incantation becomes available after collecting at least six Moly, and costs one Moly at the Cauldron to cast.

You can gain two additional Soil Plots with the Rich Soil incantation, costing three Lotus that you can collect in Oceanus, and another two with Verdant Soil, costing one Garlic and one Wheat. Both of those must be grown in the Soil Plots.

Each seed has a different Growing Time. The time units here are measured in Location, or room, or are determined by other events such as going to the Hot Springs or Fishing Docks with companions. Wheat takes 13 time units to grow.

How To Use Wheat

Melinoë farming Wheat Seeds at the Soil Plots in the Crossroads.

Wheat is a reagent that can be used for a number of incantations in the Cauldron.

Use	Effects	Ingredients
Verdant Soil Incantation	Summons a second pair of Soil Plots.	1 Garlic, 1 Wheat
Bravery of Familiar Spirits Incantation	Allows you to empower your familiars with new and upgraded abilities by gifting Witch’s Delight.	1 Wool, 3 Wheat
Bones of Burnished Bronze Incantation	Grants Melinoë Armor whenever she collects Bones as a room reward.	3 Fate Fabric, 3 Wheat, 3 Tears
Observance of Gaia’s Secrets	Grants an increased chance to find additional ingredients when gathered by hand.	5 Wheat, 5 Moss

These incantations have other prerequisites before Melinoë can see them in the Cauldron. For Verdant Soil, you must first have the plots from Flourishing Soil. With Bones of Burnished Bronze, you need to collect a large number of Ashes, Psyche, Bones, and Nectar over multiple runs, Gaia’s Secrets requires you to first have all of the Gathering Tools unlocked.

With Wheat only becoming available after reaching the Fields of Mourning, many of its uses will take some time to become apparent, having prerequisites or other difficult-to-collect materials involved.