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Gathering resources is a very important part ofHades 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.
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 July 18, 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:
Verdant Soil
1 Wheat, 1 Garlic
Moly and Lotusare Flora-type resources, picked up on runs through Erebus and Oceanus, respectively. you’re able to increase their spawn rate only via the late-game familiar, Gale.
Wheat and Garlicmust be grown in your garden.
Each incantation willadd two Soil Plotsto 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 withan exclamation point next to their headswhenever 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 tohead out on a nightly run after unlocking the Silver Spade.
From then on, you canfind seeds by:
Digging up soil patchesduring a run will be your most common method of finding seeds. Toincrease the number of soil patchesfound, you can:
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).
