No matter which map you’re playing on at the moment in Mudborne, you’ll need to do some jumping between worlds, spending time in both the waking and dream worlds in order to find everything you need to repopulate the areas of all the missing frogs.
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By bringing a frog with the correct A.N.O.U.R.E.S., you’ll be able to unlock reflection pools all over the various maps in Mudborne. The pool correlates to the same location in the dream world as it does in the waking one, so plan which pools you use to jump between worlds based on your end destination.
Unlock Reflection Pools To Travel Between Worlds
It’s not long into your arrival in the world of Mudborne that you’ll stumble across your first frog-shaped pool, large stone structures you’ll find dotted throughout each area in your atlas to help you navigate through the various world maps. You’ll notice as you begin exploring that you can’t readily access several areas in the first section – there are locked doors you have no keys to open, chests on islands you’re not tall enough to reach, islands you can’t hop to without lilypad stones, and more. What’s a frog to do?
While these things may be inaccessible at first, it might just be because you’re looking at the map of the waking world, since you can also access the map of the dreaming world, which will be ever-so slightly different. Not only will you be able to collect all kinds of unique resources that aren’t available back in the waking world, but you’ll also have access to blocked paths or hidden keys that open passages back in the waking world. To get to the dreaming world, though, you’ll need to use a reflection pool to teleport between worlds.
Your frog will hop into the pool, close its eyes, and awaken in the same pool in the other realm. While the maps of the worlds are physically the same (with islands in the same place between waking and dreaming worlds), you can use reflection pools to access inaccessible areas in different realms, solving puzzles and hopping between realms readily to work on the solution in both.
However, reflection pools are closed by default, and you’ll need to unlock pools by bringing frogs with the correct genetic code when you step in. You’ve been putting in a lot of work to breed different kinds of frogs, using magic mud to adjust their stats as they grow from eggs to tadpoles and into full-grown frogs. Each pool requires its own specific frogs to unlock, so be mindful of your breeding progress and try to make as many variations of frogs as you can.
To see what A.N.O.U.R.E.S. you need to open each reflection pool in Mudborne, approach the statue itself, and you’ll see a genetic sequence appear in the bottom-right corner of your screen. The next time you return to that statue, equip a buddy frog whose A.N.O.U.R.E.S. are listed and you’ll unlock the reflection pool for teleportation. For a helpful hint on how to get them, check out the mushrooms on the small signs nearby – they’ll help you figure out which mushrooms to put into magic mud to result in a frog that opens the gate.
Reflection pools remain open once unlocked, so you’ll only need to bring that specific frog the first time you go to unlock it.
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