As you make progress inHades 2, you’ll start coming across more and more reagents with which to cast incantations and upgrade your various weapons and tools. One very important reagent is Moon Dust, which is used to upgrade possibly the most important resource at your disposal: the all-powerful Arcana cards that provide Melinoe with significant upgrades.

Of course, obtaining enough Moon Dust to be able to upgrade your cards is no mean feat, and while there is a multitude of sources of the stuff, it’ll be quite an investment of effort to grab it in the amounts you need.

Arcana Menu overlaid on melinoe at the Altar in Hades 2

How To Get Moon Dust

The first thing you’ll need to do to acquire Moon Dust is to unlock the stuff! To do this, you’ll need tounlock the ability to upgrade your Arcana cards. This requires you tocast theConsecration of Ashesincantation, which will provide you with three Moon Dust for free!

Once you’ve cast this incantation, numerous methods to obtain more Moon Dust will start to appear for you, based on your story progression and what other incantations you have cast:

Star Dust can also be purchased from the Wretched Broker, but if your intention is to turn it into Moon Dust, it’s far more efficient to simply purchase the Moon Dust outright.