Aka Starter Guide | A Beginner’s Guide to Aka

Aka is an cute farming sim that includes a pink panda named Aka. He has been by some very exhausting occasions and is making an attempt to reside the remainder of his life in peace after the nice battle. Although the sport seems to be quite simple, it has a variety of depth, quests to finish, and even a couple of collectives to search out. On this Aka starter information, we’ll go over the whole lot it is advisable to know to start out 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 the entire 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 house of yours. 

When you journey East of your home, so all the way down to the seashore 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 known as Soupo, and by his identify, you may assume what he desires from you in return for fixing the boat. When you communicate to him, he tells you a couple of particular vegetable soup recipe close to and expensive to his coronary heart. When you can convey 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 have x12 Wooden, x3 Metallic Bars, and x2 Rope. To make the soup for Soupo, you will have x1 Carrot, x1 Onion, x1 Bean, and the Cauldron which is discovered inside Thom’s home. Thoms home is above your house, and you will get there through the use of the ladder subsequent to the Properly in your plot of land.

The components to the soup are literally out there to you earlier than you begin farming, however they’re hidden away behind the Witch’s hut. When you 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 as a result of exterior of the hut being in the best way, however if you happen to stroll round you will note the pickup icons, which appear like three gentle blue traces. These three totally different gadgets are in reality the components for the soup.  

After you convey Soupo the soup and the required supplies, he’ll rebuild your boat and you may be in your approach to the entire different islands to discover and discover extra cool gadgets and recipes!

The Ghosts in Aka

All the quests appear to revolve across the totally different ghosts and/or recollections of your previous. All of those ghosts can solely be seen at night time, that means you’ll by no means see them roaming round throughout the day. To finish the overwhelming majority of the quests in Aka, you will have to enterprise out and discover at night time 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 freely giving their location or quests to protect the enjoyable of exploration and the sport’s essential 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 properly. Discovering them may 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 just 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 hot button is almost unattainable to guess or discover! So, let’s talk about the place it is situated and the place to search out the ghost to free within the first place. 

The ghost in query is known as Lenno, and he can solely be seen at night time like the entire different ghosts within the sport. He seems to be made of fireplace and ash and is jet-black in colour. Yow will discover him contained in the water temple, proper beneath the ladder. If you communicate to him, he’ll inform you his story and the way he turned trapped behind these bars within the first place. As soon as his story is full, you’ll get a quest titled “Free the Prisoner!” which asks you to search out the important thing to free Lenno. 

The bottom line is hidden very properly behind the waterfall on Pine Island, within the heart of the map. As soon as inside, you may choose up the important thing and produce it again to Lenno to free him from his jail. 

The search is pretty simple, however the important thing location is unquestionably a problem. Hopefully, this makes getting began on the primary questline a bit simpler. 

Aka Ideas and Methods

There won’t be a serious quantity of labor to do in Aka, nevertheless it nonetheless has a variety of value and depth. Right here are some things we want we knew after we began enjoying, 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 at the very least as soon as every single day after you sleep. The timber don’t break if you hit them, they only 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 see randomly in caves additionally respawn as soon as per day, so they offer you an enormous provide of steel ore to convey 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 doable is essential. Pine Island solely has a lot to supply when it comes to quests and sources, so it’s good to get a head begin on touring round and finishing quests, in addition to amassing gadgets that might be wanted for quests afterward down the road. 

Go to The City by way of The Prepare

Now, on our first go round, we did not even notice the practice was as essential as it’s. If you first go to the city by way of 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 house to recipes, an inventor that provides you the gear it is advisable to repair the Cable Automobile on Maple Island, the hat maker who has the hat it is advisable to even entry maple island, and even a spot to convey your cans (they’re referred to as Waste within the sport) in change for useful gadgets reminiscent of seeds and crops. This city was not even on our radar after we began and have become very important to the sport afterward. Ensure that to discover each nook and cranny to search out the entire recipes and hidden gems right here. 

Discover All the pieces 

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

That is the tip of our Aka Learners information. Take a look at our different guides under!