Hades 2 sets 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.
Hades 2: How To Unlock The Ward To The Surface
The surface provides a whole extra route in Hades 2, but you'll need to do some legwork before you get up there.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
To obtain a Nightshade item, you must first collect Nightshade seeds. These seeds do not drop by defeating enemies, bosses, or clearing encounters. They can be obtained by digging into the dirt platforms that appear randomly as you explore Erebus.
You need to unlock the Silver Spade before digging and extracting the Nightshade seeds.
How To Get A Silver Spade
After getting ten silver, head to the training room and unlock the Silver Spade.
Unlocking Rich Soil Incantation
You must unlock the Flourishing Soil incantation to plant any seed in the game. For this, head to the Crossroads and interact with the cauldron at the center of the room.
The Flourishing Soil is one of the early game incantations that you should be able to see after doing a few runs and collecting at least one Molly item.
This incantation gives you two soil spots to plant seeds that you have. The planting location is near Odysseus, the Veteran Tactician. After planting a Nightshade seed, you are required to complete five encounters for the seed to grow so that you can harvest it after returning to Crossroads.
How To Use Nightshade
After obtaining a handful of Nightshade items, you will need these to unlock mid-to-high-level incantations. Incantations such as Doomed Beckoning and Floral Fortune require you to have a couple of Nightshade items before you can unlock these.
The Floral Fortune unlocks the pawn shop at the Wretched Broker merchant. If you have excessive Nightshade items, you can sell each item for ten Bones.
The Nightshade item is abbreviated as N.Shade on some in-game menus. Do not confuse this item with any other, as both refer to the same thing: Nightshade.
