Elin: How To Make Wishes

If you've been diligent in exploring the Nefias of Elin, you may have picked up the strange key item "Fragrance of Goddess". This allows you to wish for any item in the game, but how to use it is not immediately apparent.

This guide will cover how to get the Fragrance of Goddess, how to use it for making wishes and the best items in the game to wish for. We'll also cover the "Black Cat's Saliva" item that upgrades your wishes to become even stronger. It's very easy to accidentally spoil your wish, so we'll also note some common traps people fall into.

How To Get The Fragrance Of Goddess

While exploring the overworld or delving into Nefias, you'll rarely encounter statues of the various deities. Each statue gives a reward related to their deity, though we're looking for the Luck Goddess Ehekatl:

• Statues of Luck give you the item Fragrance of Goddess, used to make wishes.
• The Statue of Harvest gives you a special book that grants an extra feat point upon reading. They can also be given to companions.
• The Statue of Machine gives a high-tier gene that can be installed for half the usual price.
• Statues of Element and Earth give you single-use hammers that let you transmute most items. Useful for reducing the weight of an item or turning a weapon into a deadlier material.

These statues appear rather rarely and can only be used once each. They have a high sell value that sharply declines after granting their boon. Statues of Wind and Healing do not currently have a use in the game, so they can be sold if you manage to drag them to a shop.

The easy way to find these statues quickly is to travel the overworld while holding a Detector tool. This item emits a beep if you carry it while entering a map containing a specific item. You can configure the item depending on whether you're specifically looking for Statues of Luck or just interesting loot in general.

• Entering "Statue" into the detector will also reveal the locations of shrines, a more common feature with less interesting rewards.
• Entering "Statue of" will narrow it down to mostly the god statues with a few false positives on specific maps, such as towns with decorative statues.
• Entering "Statue of Luck" will give you only one statue type, but you'll miss out on other fun loot like Element's Hammers and Mani's Genes.

The detector requires you to walk a few steps on the map before it starts beeping to indicate whether you've found a statue. It will also only work if actively held in your hand and not just placed on your hotbar. Some workshop mods modify how the detector works to make it more streamlined.

High-level Nefias can also be a good source of statues. Exploring level 100 dungeons we found two statues of luck in back-to-back floors, but the regular combat makes the detector hard to use.

If you want to save the statue for later, either for ornamental purposes, to sell or because you want to bank an extra wish, you have two options for getting these statues back to your base:

• The golden statues rarely drop while fishing, but there's no guarantee which statue you'll find. During a test with 1,000 bait and 80 fishing skill, we got two statues of unrelated deities.
• Using a land deed to claim the land will prevent the area from being despawned. You can either build a new base around the statue you found or use a delivery box to send it to another base. This method doesn't work in a dungeon.

Whatever your method for gathering the Fragrance of Goddess, you'll now need a way to use it for wishing.

How To Make Wishes

Once you've gained the Fragrance of Goddess needed to make wishes you need to work out how to use it. The item description notes it's related to the Goddess of Wishes but doesn't specify how.

In the early game you may have learned to avoid recklessly drinking from wells and fountains: It can damage your learning potential or give you harmful mutations. Now that you're able to make wishes, you'll want to drink from fountains at every chance you get.

Bring a Blessed Potion of Cure Mutation when drinking from fountains. This can cure any negative mutations while keeping the beneficial ones.

You've got a roughly one in ten chance of getting a wish, so some wells might run dry in the process. You can travel between several, but its best to use wells in settlements. The only drinking water source that cannot be used for wishing is the holy well in Noyel. Instead you can bottle the water here so you can bless potions and items.

When you drink from a well while holding the Fragrance, there's a chance that a textbox will appear on-screen, similar to when writing your epitaph or tuning the detector. Type your wish here and it will appear on the ground below you. The game will try and find an item containing your wish in the name and then give you either a generic or enchanted version, depending on the context.

If you aren't expecting the wish prompt, it's very easy to accidentally hit confirm on your wish without typing anything. You will lose your wish in the process and be given a "quiver" since the text prompt begins with a single q already entered.

Best Things To Wish For

Being able to wish for anything is very open-ended and a bit intimidating. It takes a lot of effort to make a single wish, so you want to be sure it isn't wasted.

How well your wish is granted may change with your language settings and phrasing. The input box doesn't have space for longer item names, and if a lot of items share a name, its hard to get a specific version.

This is noticeable with decorative items like "A Crystal" which will instead give you the crafting item "Earth Crystal". We did all our testing in English.

If playing with an Oath of Destiny, you're often best using a wish that produces consistent results. The Palmia Times will note wishes made by other adventurers, and if they were granted. Otherwise, you can load back and try different ways of phrasing your wish.

Item	Wish Phrasing	Benefit	Alternative Ways To Get It
Generator	"Generator"	Wished generators have the advantage over crafted ones of not needing a human to manually power them.	A single generator can be found at the Truce Grounds. It doesn't respawn.
Lightsaber	"Lightsaber"	The off-brand laser sword scales to your magic device and casting skills instead of swords and tactics. It always has 100% armour penetration.	None
Vindale Cloak	"Vindale"	Familiar to Elona veterans, this protects you from Ether Disease. If you don't have a reliable source of antibodies, this is a great find.	None
Seven League Boots	"League"	Another returnee from Elona, these increase your travel speed on the world map. Some timed quests won't be possible without these.	None
Machine Table	"Machine Table"	This crafting table is normally difficult to gather the materials for.	Can be crafted but requires rare microchips.
Railgun	"Railgun"	The science fiction rifle is exactly as powerful as it sounds. Wished versions normally have plenty of upgrade slots.	Can be found in high-level firearm shops, around investment level 30 .
Futon	"Futon"	The highest quality portable bed. Great to keep in your inventory while traveling.	Can be crafted at higher levels.
King's Bed	"King's Bed"	This bed multiplies the productivity of most villagers and raises your property value tremendously.	Can be claimed with furniture tickets or crafted with carpentry. Requires very high levels of either.
Syringe of Ether Solvent	"Solvent"	This item removes only your most recent symptom of Ether Disease, letting you keep your wings but lose the facial sores.	Can be purchased in Little Garden after killing a Big Daddy and freeing a little sister.
Rare Crafting Materials	"Sun Crystal"	These are used to craft some nice utility items, the Sun LMP and grimoire of Study.	Can be found from mining in high-level Nefias.
Unique Furniture	"Tree of Cherry"	If you're aiming to build a unique-looking base, a good starting point is items you can't normally obtain.	Some furniture can't be brought home unless wished for, while others require several hundred furniture tickets to claim.

If you're not worried about potential spoilers, you can open the game in debug mode by adding "-DEV" to the startup properties in Steam. This will spawn you into a developer room containing a statue of luck right next to a well.

You can use this repeatedly to test different wishes before repeating one in your game.

Banned And Restricted Wishes

Some wishes give disappointing results, notably any version of trying to wish your way into wealth:

• Wishing for Oren will give you money but less than you'd get from wishing for an expensive item and instantly selling it.
• Wishing for small medals won't give you enough to buy a single antibody potion (but you can directly wish for "antibody" and get the potion).
• Wishing for gold gives you only four bars, but wishing for a "resident ticket" gives you three tickets, each able to save you several times that amount.

Other wishes are banned, directly or indirectly. This will result in the Gods laughing at you, and your wish will be wasted.

Banned Wish	Notes
Specific Eggs	If you want to breed the ultimate pet, you'll need to do it the hard way.
Specific Spellbooks	You can wish for a generic spellbook but won't get anything impressive.
Specific Spell Rods	The only exception is the "Rod of Wish".
Choosing Item Materials	You can ask for a "sword" but not an "iron sword".
Statues or Shrines of Gods	You can't use your Statue of Luck to wish for another Statue of Luck.
Statue Drops	Any item granted by other god statues, such as a "paper hammer", is banned.
Items With Stars In Their Name	If you want "★Ehekatl's Body Pillow" you'll need to earn 40,000 chips at the casino.

Lastly, some wishes will give you exactly what you ask for but in sabotaging ways:

• Wishing for a "Rod of Wish" will give you a rod with zero charges and a lesson about getting greedy.
• Wishing for genes will give blank genes with no traits. Wished genes are edible but have no nutritional value.
• Wishing for the gods by name will give you (non-functional) statues or figurines of them. Not all the gods have statues or figurines available.
• Wishing for a fertilized egg without specifying the creature will give you a chicken when it hatches.

How To Get Black Cat's Saliva

You can only hold one Fragrance at a time and make only one wish per year. Trying to collect a second or getting a new one within a year of making your last wish will give you the related item "Black Cat's Saliva."

This second key item increases the strength of your wishes:

• Equipment you wish for will be made with better materials and enchantments. Your railgun can be made of actual metal instead of grass.
• Items you wish for can appear in larger quantities.
• Items with levels (such as monster balls) appear at higher levels.
• Currencies you wish for will drop in larger amounts (but normally still aren't worth wishing for).

The process for collecting Saliva is the same as for getting your first Fragrance, but it can be stacked. Travel about with your detector in hand and tune it in to "Statue Of". You're liable to gather an assortment of useful items from the various god statues alongside Ehekatl's.

Saliva is not consumed when making a wish, so the strength of all future wishes will rise from collecting it. You can deliberately hang onto your Fragrance to turn all future rewards into Saliva.

The way wishes get stronger with more saliva means it's often better to spend early wishes on items that aren't as impacted by quality and material. The Seven League Boots can be swapped out for another pair in combat, so it normally doesn't matter if they're made of paper and have no benefits besides their travel speed.

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