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REKA · Getting started

Pick up the gathering book at the witch’s gate first so your crows can harvest resources. Next, collect 10 mushrooms and 6 honeycombs for Baba Jaga, recover the stolen talisman from the Lutki, and complete the chicken ritual to awaken your walking cottage. The chapter checklist below highlights key progression milestones rather than every minor errand.

Pick up the book from the bench at the witch’s gate before gathering with your crows. Raise your oil lantern to highlight quest items and treasure chests—holding the lantern up is a separate action from switching on its light. Because map layouts change between regions, navigate by location names and landmarks rather than fixed coordinates.

  1. Begin with Baba Jaga’s requests: gather 10 Edible Mushrooms and 6 Honeycombs, recover the stolen talisman from the Lutki, and use the teleport charm to return. Keep your Pine Branch, talisman, and fire ready for the rituals ahead.
  2. For the chicken ritual, place a chicken in the nest beneath the big white oven. Cleanse the ritual sites with the Pine Branch, take the large egg from the ancestor shrine, and put it into the oven. Set out the grain offerings, touch each bone with your talisman, then fetch the living embers from Baba Jaga’s fireplace to complete the ritual with her.
  3. Before traveling on, finish any conversations and village errands you want to complete on the current map. Sit in the skeleton chair to steer your chicken-legged cottage, then walk to the map edge to travel. Subsequent regions are procedurally generated, so rely on location names and landmarks rather than fixed coordinates.
  4. Once you learn a recipe, craft it at its matching station. The calculator lists direct ingredients for that recipe only—prepare intermediate items such as Flour or Black Salt separately. When a dish has multiple recipe variants, select the version that fits your stock.

    Recipes & ingredient calculator · Flour · Black Salt

View story spoilers · Progression checklist

Trial of the Chicken

  1. Collect 10 mushrooms for the old woman’s soup.
  2. Collect 6 honeycombs for the old woman’s soup.
  3. Follow the compass at the top of your screen to find the talisman the Lutki stole.
  4. Use the teleport charm to return to the old woman.
  5. Go inside and talk to the old woman.
  6. Go to the small island outside the old woman’s hut, find the big crooked pine and snap off a branch.
  7. Pick up a chicken you like and go to the old woman behind the house.
  8. Place the chicken in the nest under the big white oven.
  9. Cleanse the ritual site with your pine branch.
  10. Go into the old woman’s house and get the large egg from the ancestor shrine.
  11. Put the egg into the big white oven.
  12. Place your offerings into the bowls behind and to the right of the ruin. You can find grain by the hut in the garden.
  13. Talk to the old woman.
  14. Touch each bone with your talisman.
  15. Get the living embers from the old woman’s fireplace.
  16. Give the embers to the old woman.
  17. Complete the ritual.
  18. Learn how to build.
  19. Find more furniture.
  20. Help the villagers to the northwest.
  21. Discover some recipes.
  22. Talk to Baba Jaga when you want to move on.
  23. Interact with the skeleton chair to control your hut. Walk to the edge of the map to travel onwards.
  24. Build and furnish your house.
  25. Find a cat to the southeast.
  26. Help Yullia from the village find her friend.

Trial of the Forest Spirit

  1. Before felling trees to expand your cottage, earn the forest spirit Leshy’s approval by doing him three favours.
  2. Follow Baba Jaga’s advice and speak to the Lutki again. Helping them may earn Leshy’s approval: he regards them as his children.
  3. Ask the villagers what they know about the forest spirit, as Baba Jaga suggested.
  4. Follow the merchant’s advice and speak to the hunter.
  5. After completing three favours, accept Leshy’s invitation to his domain and face his trial.

Learning the ropes

  1. Learn the basics and help more people. Baba Jaga will then teach you more.

A Shrine to Siva

  1. Follow Baba Jaga’s instructions and pay your respects to Siva.

A Visit

  1. Visit the person Baba Jaga wants you to meet. She has marked the location on your map.

Souls

  1. Use your new mask to find ghosts. Help them pass on and collect Ghost Ashes to prepare for the last trial.
  2. Craft protective charms from Ghost Ashes and place them around your cottage to prepare for what comes next.
  3. Craft some extra Warding Bones and keep them in your backpack for the next stage.

Dziady

  1. Arrive at the place you have been preparing to visit.

Acceptance

  1. Speak to Baba Jaga to find out what she needs.
  2. Make Clarity Cordial for Baba Jaga.
  3. Place Baba Jaga’s bed.
  4. Make pancakes for Baba Jaga.
  5. Bring cloth to Baba Jaga.
  6. Bring grain to Baba Jaga.
  7. Build the banya.
  8. Bring Baba Jaga an egg.
  9. Check on Baba Jaga to see how she is doing.
  10. Travel to the next location.

Ascension

  1. On arrival, tell Baba Jaga you have reached your destination, as she asked.
  2. Baba Jaga has died, leaving you alone in the cottage.
  3. Perform Baba Jaga’s burial rites.

Nawia

  1. Enter Nawia, the land of the dead, to seek one last conversation with Baba Jaga.

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