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Hades 2sets Melinoe on the path of destroying Chronos, Titan of Time. The road leading to Chronos is not easy, and you must first unlock many incantations and power-ups, and enhance Melinoe before she can have a shot at killing Chronos.
Night Shade is one of the many items that help you unlock powerful incantations and give Melinoe more fighting chances during encounters and against bosses. This resource is a plant and therefore the seeds must be obtained first to grow and collect them. This guide showcases how to get Night Shade seeds and grow this plant in the game.
Hades 2 is in Early Access. As the game development advances, some content may or may not change. We will update this guide as required once the game comes out of Early Access.
How To Get Nightshade
Toobtain a Nightshadeitem, you must firstcollect Nightshade seeds. Theseseeds do not dropby defeating enemies, bosses, or clearing encounters. They can beobtained by digging into the dirt platformsthat appear randomly as youexplore Erebus.
Youneed to unlock the Silver Spadebefore digging andextracting the Nightshade seeds.
How To Get A Silver Spade
Aftergetting ten silver, head to the training room and unlock the Silver Spade.
Unlocking Rich Soil Incantation
You mustunlock the Flourishing Soil incantation to plant any seedin the game. For this, head to the Crossroads andinteract with the cauldronat the center of the room.
The Flourishing Soil is one of theearly game incantationsthat you should be able to see after doing a few runs andcollecting at least one Molly item.
This incantationgives you two soil spots to plant seedsthat you have. Theplanting location is near Odysseus, the Veteran Tactician. Afterplanting a Nightshade seed, you are required tocomplete five encounters for the seed to growso that you canharvest it after returning to Crossroads.
How To Use Nightshade
Afterobtaining a handful of Nightshade items, you will need these tounlock mid-to-high-level incantations. Incantations such asDoomed Beckoning and Floral Fortune require you to have a couple of Nightshadeitems before you’re able to unlock these.
TheFloral Fortune unlocks the pawn shopat the Wretched Broker merchant. If you have excessive Nightshade items, you cansell each item for ten Bones.
TheNightshade item is abbreviated as N.Shadeon some in-game menus. Do not confuse this item with any other, as both refer to the same thing: Nightshade.
