Aka Starter Information | A Newbie’s Information to Aka

Aka is an cute farming sim that includes a crimson panda named Aka. He has been by means of some very laborious occasions and is making an attempt to reside the remainder of his life in peace after the nice struggle. Although the sport seems to be quite simple, it has numerous depth, quests to finish, and even a couple of collectives to seek out. On this Aka starter information, we are going to go over all the things you should know to begin the sport off proper, in addition to talk about a couple of of the tougher quests to finish. 

How To Rebuild Your Boat in Aka

The boat is the bread and butter of Aka, as it’s your technique of journey to all the different islands in-game. As of proper now, there are 4 islands in whole; Pine Island, Palm Island, Maple Island, and Bamboo Island. You’ll start your journey on Pine Island, and it seems your boat has been damaged shortly after you arrived at this newfound dwelling of yours. 

For those who journey East of your own home, so all the way down to the seaside the place the Smoothie Shack is situated, you will note your damaged boat and a curious-looking character standing on the finish of the dock. That curious character is called Soupo, and by his identify, you may assume what he desires from you in return for fixing the boat. When you converse to him, he tells you a few particular vegetable soup recipe close to and expensive to his coronary heart. For those who can carry him each the soup and the supplies wanted to repair your boat, he’ll repair it proper up so that you can use. 

To repair the boat, you will want x12 Wooden, x3 Metallic Bars, and x2 Rope. To make the soup for Soupo, you will want x1 Carrot, x1 Onion, x1 Bean, and the Cauldron which is discovered inside Thom’s home. Thoms home is above your private home, and you will get there by utilizing the ladder subsequent to the Properly in your plot of land.

The components to the soup are literally obtainable to you earlier than you begin farming, however they’re hidden away behind the Witch’s hut. For those who stroll up the left facet of the Witch’s hut, in between the Witch’s Hut and the Blacksmith, it is possible for you to to stroll behind the hut. There, you won’t be able to see because of the exterior of the hut being in the best way, however should you stroll round you will note the pickup icons, which appear like three mild blue traces. These three totally different objects are in actual fact the components for the soup.  

After you carry Soupo the soup and the required supplies, he’ll rebuild your boat and you may be in your strategy to all the different islands to discover and discover extra cool objects and recipes!

The Ghosts in Aka

The entire quests appear to revolve across the totally different ghosts and/or recollections of your previous. All of those ghosts can solely be seen at evening, that means you’ll by no means see them roaming round in the course of the day. To finish the overwhelming majority of the quests in Aka, you will want to enterprise out and discover at evening searching for the totally different ghosts. Here’s a fast listing of all of the ghosts we got here into contact with. Please word we won’t be giving freely their location or quests to protect the enjoyable of exploration and the sport’s most important storyline. 

• Shy Ghost 
• Lenno
• Gaagi
• Kachina 
• Tekoa 
• Tala and Sakari
• Sahale 
• Misao 

All of those ghosts tie into the primary storyline, and so they have a really significant story to inform about not solely their previous, however yours as effectively. Discovering them could be very enjoyable and generally difficult. Remember to look in probably the most random of areas to see if possibly you’ll find those we situated, or extra that is perhaps there that we missed. 

Free The Prisoner Quest 

Now, there’s a quest that you simply come to very early on within the sport that appears fairly easy; discover a key and free the ghostly prisoner from behind the bars. Properly, the placement of the secret is almost unimaginable to guess or discover! So, let’s talk about the place it is situated and the place to seek out the ghost to free within the first place. 

The ghost in query is called Lenno, and he can solely be seen at evening like all the different ghosts within the sport. He seems to be made of fireplace and ash and is jet-black in coloration. You could find him contained in the water temple, proper beneath the ladder. While you converse to him, he’ll let you know his story and the way he turned trapped behind these bars within the first place. As soon as his story is full, you’re going to get a quest titled “Free the Prisoner!” which asks you to seek out the important thing to free Lenno. 

The hot button is hidden very effectively behind the waterfall on Pine Island, within the middle of the map. As soon as inside, you may choose up the important thing and convey it again to Lenno to free him from his jail. 

The hunt is pretty straightforward, however the important thing location is certainly a problem. Hopefully, this makes getting began on the primary questline a bit simpler. 

Aka Suggestions and Tips

There won’t be a serious quantity of labor to do in Aka, but it surely nonetheless has numerous price and depth. Right here are some things we want we knew once we began taking part in, and what we discovered works finest alongside the best way:

Respawn Timers on Assets 

Timber and Metallic Ore nodes have a respawn timer. Now, we will not pinpoint the precise timing, however we do know that they reset not less than as soon as day by day after you sleep. The timber don’t break if you hit them, they simply drop x1 Wooden. They can’t be hit a number of occasions in a row to acquire extra wooden, just one wooden per tree per day.

The Metallic Ore nodes you can find randomly in caves additionally respawn as soon as per day, so they provide you a large provide of steel ore to carry to the forge and soften down into steel bars. You’ll have to hit the ore nodes a couple of occasions with a pickaxe to interrupt them, then it is possible for you to to choose up the ore and stone it creates. 

Construct Your Boat!

Constructing your boat as quickly as attainable is essential. Pine Island solely has a lot to supply by way of quests and assets, so it’s good to get a head begin on touring round and finishing quests, in addition to gathering objects that will likely be wanted for quests afterward down the road. 

Go to The City through The Prepare

Now, on our first go round, we did not even understand the practice was as necessary as it’s. While you first go to the city through the practice on Pine Island, it looks like it is just a bit place to discover, strive on a couple of hats, and switch in these recyclables; that isn’t the case.

This city is dwelling to recipes, an inventor that provides you the gear you should repair the Cable Automotive on Maple Island, the hat maker who has the hat you should even entry maple island, and even a spot to carry your cans (they’re referred to as Waste within the sport) in alternate for useful objects reminiscent of seeds and crops. This city was not even on our radar once we began and have become important to the sport afterward. Be sure to discover each nook and cranny to seek out all the recipes and hidden gems right here. 

Discover All the things 

There are such a lot of issues hidden all over in Aka, that you’ll actually must discover each area you see (and a few you do not see simply) to seek out all of it. Identical to the cave that homes the frog totem or the hidden cave to seek out the prisoner’s key, there are a number of areas, caves, and tunnels which can be hidden all around the islands. Be sure to undergo each space high to backside to seek out one thing you will have missed earlier. 

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