Ixis' Treasure Hunter's FAQ

[Shadow]

Yes, I know I'm replying to myself, but this is great. I've been experimenting with various ingredients, and I made two discoveries.

Cold Soup:
Any Soup + Any Icechunk

Not that interesting as ........................

Rainbow Soup:
Rainbow Mushroom + Any Soup

This soup gives the most awesome effect ever, you have to try it.

I'll just edit this post with any other discoveries I make.

Poison Loaf:
Rotten Meat + Anything --- And Poison Loaf + Poison Loaf
Yes, making one poison loaf actually spawned two recipes on my book for some reason. o_o You can combine two poison loafs ... to make a single poison loaf. Seems pretty strange. lol

[Karn]

Has anyone considered the possibility that the larger fish in the ocean (not the minibosses, but the very big ones that take a bit to kill like the fire breathing seahorse or thing surrounded by black fish in the Kelp Forest) might have a rare chance to drop a very nice food so you can get the recipe? Some of them might end up being guesswork, but it's worth a shot if they might have a rare chance to drop nice things. This is all speculation, though, and it'd suck to kill one 100 times for nothing.

[Shadow]

Has anyone considered the possibility that the larger fish in the ocean (not the minibosses, but the very big ones that take a bit to kill like the fire breathing seahorse or thing surrounded by black fish in the Kelp Forest) might have a rare chance to drop a very nice food so you can get the recipe? Some of them might end up being guesswork, but it's worth a shot if they might have a rare chance to drop nice things. This is all speculation, though, and it'd suck to kill one 100 times for nothing.

I've killed those sea horses a bunch of times, they don't ever seem to drop anything but leaf x3 ... which is very nice since a lot of the cooking I do involves them, and I hate swimming all over to uproot plants.

Not sure about the other little giants, such as the semi-invisible squid you see in a few spots, I haven't killed the others very many times.

[Karn]

The thing I talked about with the fish drops some nicer items, tasty cakes and a few other Heal+2 things, but I haven't seen anything better than that come from it. That's what made me think maybe it drops something really nice at a rare chance.

[Don Andy]

This should so be stickied.

[Ixis]

Found a new health egg today (whoo! Unless, someone found it before me and I missed the note...)

I'm waiting till I'm done for the night to update the list. I'm stuck trying to find the best way to get that Sun Temple memory (the second cogwheel part is a bitch.) Also, where's the giant whale and crab boss that drops the crab armor?

[Don Andy]

Found a new health egg today (whoo! Unless, someone found it before me and I missed the note...)

I'm waiting till I'm done for the night to update the list. I'm stuck trying to find the best way to get that Sun Temple memory (the second cogwheel part is a bitch.) Also, where's the giant whale and crab boss that drops the crab armor?

Well, Sun Temple is mostly just patience, but I heard you can exploit those thingies you can sprout in nature form to catapult you up.
The giant whale is in the eastern part of the Abyss from what I remember. You have to swim past a hot stream to get to him, so you need spirit form. You'll also need a song to open his mouth, can't remember where that one was, though.
Lastly, the crab boss is in these sea horse ruins somewhere (Arsani or whatever they were called). I think if you will swim up high enough there, you'll come to a rock out of the water you can jump over. Behind that is a "small" pool with the crab. Probably the easiest boss in the game :p

[flammiebc]

I found a couple interesting items on my quest to make divine soup....(still not quite there, but getting close!)

Veggie Soup = Hot Soup + any Bulb (yes, actually two entries on the list for this)

Magic Soup = Hearty Soup + Healing Poultice

I currently stand at 10.5 pages of recipes, so there's still room for improvement.

A useful trick is to fill up with sea loaf, so that if you create an invalid combination, it stops you while saying "too full" instead of consuming ingredients. 

Next stop: royal soup!

[Krissy]

I am trying to find in abit more detail on the final health upgrade egg location. Like more detail on what to use and how to get it?

And also...where is this giant amoeba?

[Don Andy]

Giant Amoeba? Do you mean that giant jellyfish? If yes, it's in the western part of the abyss. On the map should be a small circular cave with a lot of crabs in it. Slightly east of it is the entrance to the boss. You can even swim to a small tunnel from that cave.

[Ixis]

I see, I've been exploring every inch of the game north of the bottom part (the maps south of Mithalas, which I'm assuming is the abyss.) Things left to find above the Abyss are:

Hot zone in Mithalas and Hot zone in the green health egg/sunkenship starfish area.

And I finally got to the top of the Sun Temple. Beast form's jump helped. You have to volley back and forth between two cogs in the second part for it to work. Haven't gotten the Nature Form jump to work.

Updating list, grabbing the Krotite armor and getting some sleep.

[lukich]

Ok, so I really suck.  Can someone give me more help finding the Song Cave?  I think the easiest way would be directions starting from Naija's home cave.  Thanks in advance.

[Don Andy]

Ok, so I really suck.  Can someone give me more help finding the Song Cave?  I think the easiest way would be directions starting from Naija's home cave.  Thanks in advance.

I can't give you the EXACT locations, but in the map you should be on (outside her home) in lowest region of the map should be a set of tunnels, with a few currents. If you keep going right in these tunnels, you should eventually come upon a pointy stone (or several of them) with a big swirl on them. If you do see such a stone, you are near the cave. Just keep going in that direction.

[Xaith]

Found a new health egg today (whoo! Unless, someone found it before me and I missed the note...)

I'm waiting till I'm done for the night to update the list. I'm stuck trying to find the best way to get that Sun Temple memory (the second cogwheel part is a bitch.) Also, where's the giant whale and crab boss that drops the crab armor?

The giant whale is in the lower left cave of the right map of The Abyss (the one with the entrance to the Ice Cavern).
Here's a picture of the map:


The Crab Boss should be located in the Arnassi Ruins map with the ancient turtle that brings you to the "Simon sez" monster, upper corner.


Nevermind, found the walker baby.
I'll add some information on how to find it:
Travel to the ancient turtle in the Kelp Forest, swim straight down into the current until you face a splitup of the path. Swim down again until you get to the big kelps on the floor and swim left, until your minimap blackens out. Switch into the Sun form and continue left until you see a path on the minimap leading down. There's a "rock-disguised" monster right ontop of the entrance. Continue down, swim past the giant walkers until one of the walkers blocks your path, swicth into Spirit form and slip through the walker, leave the Spirit form and get the walker baby.

I also pinpointed the entrance on the map:

[Xiagan]

Does anybody know if this Simon says-bubble-eye-thingy in a cave in the kelp forest which drops the third cooking slot drops something else if you play it again? I totally won't do it, it was damn hard, but it IS possible to play again, so...?

2 Arcane poultices are in the current-tunnels before the Mithalas-boss, hidden in glowing plants you have to sing to, to open them.