Gathering resources is a very important part of Hades 2, almost as much as mastering combat and taking down the titan of time. Exploring the world you’re given access to and using your tools to extract all the precious items from it will let you cast incantations, upgrade your arcana cards, and unlock new weapons and tools to empower Melinoe further.
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To help her on her quest, Melinoe has been granted a little bit of land at the Crossroads to create a garden. Here, she can plant seeds, which will grow into useable and useful plants, crucial for spellcasting and upgrading.
Hades 2 is currently in Early Access. As a result, the details below may change over development.
Updated March 8, 2025 by Alexis Campbell: Revised how to receive seeds for gardening. Added update material from Olympus and War Song updates, including new customization for the garden and new seed types.
How To Unlock Soil Plots
Before Melinoe can use the garden to grow plants, she’ll need to unlock some Soil Plots. This is done wholly through incantations. Specifically, the following:
|
Incantation |
Recipe |
|---|---|
|
Flourishing Soil |
1 Moly |
|
Rich Soil |
3 Lotus |
|
Verdant Soil |
1 Wheat, 1 Garlic |
Moly and Lotus are Flora-type resources, picked up on runs through Erebus and Oceanus, respectively. You can increase their spawn rate only via the late-game familiar, Gale.
Wheat and Garlic must be grown in your garden.
Each incantation will add two Soil Plots to your garden, for a total of six.
If you haven’t unlocked any of these incantations yet, keep playing the game and talking to every character with an exclamation point next to their heads whenever possible – especially Odysseus and Hecate. They’ll unlock eventually.
How To Decorate The Garden
The garden can be expanded and decorated by speaking with Dora at her location just south of the cauldron and trading Prestige for decoration items.
Decorations include:
Decorating the garden has no effect on the number of plots that are available for cultivating, the time it takes for plants to grow, or the output of your plants.
All Seeds And How To Get Them
You can acquire seeds through a multitude of paths, but they’ll all require you to head out on a nightly run after unlocking the Silver Spade.
From then on, you can find seeds by:
- Digging up soil patches
- Talking to NPCs
- Purchasing them from Chaos Wells or Shrines of Hermes
- Taking Demeter’s Plentiful Forage Boon
- Planting and then harvesting seeds (Low-to-medium chance)
Digging up soil patches during a run will be your most common method of finding seeds. To increase the number of soil patches found, you can:
- Increase the level of your silver spade
- Choose the familiar Hecuba to accompany you (and upgrade her skill, Earth Bond)
The seeds available in the game are detailed below:
|
Seed |
Location |
Time To Grow |
|---|---|---|
|
Mystery Seeds |
Demeter, Odysseus, Narcissus, Chaos Wells, Shrines of Hermes |
11 Time Units |
|
Erebus |
5 Time Units |
|
|
Oceanus |
9 Time Units |
|
|
Wheat Seeds |
Mourning Fields |
13 Time Units |
|
Poppy Seeds |
Tartarus |
21 Time Units |
|
Garlic Cloves |
Ephyra |
5 Time Units |
|
Rift of Thessaly |
9 Time Units |
|
|
Olives |
Mt. Olympus |
53 Time Units |
|
Snake Reeds |
Mt. Olympus Summit |
77 Time Units |
|
Origin Seeds |
Chaos Gates |
7 Time Units |
Time Units are an indication of how long it takes a seed to grow. You can expend Time Units by completing runs, doing the Trials of Night, or by doing activities with NPCs at the Crossroads (such as fishing or bathing).
