Haven Game Guide (Achievements, Optional Bosses, Tips, and Recipes)

You can not save the game by yourself, it will save automatically when you change of area. Keep that in mind and don’t quit the game before exiting your current area, or it may be very frustrating.
I read dev saying they are working on manual save.At the end of the game, DO NOT take off the ship before finishing all you wanted to do in the game, there is no turning back unless you made a save.
To make a save, in the main game menu, select the third choice, where you can choose your save, and copy it (X button on PS4 controller).
I read dev saying they are working on an option to restore the save before the ending.

Healing hug (idling while low life) can heal a great amount! In fact the character with the lower life will just heal until his/her HP are the same than the other character.
So in fight you can always shield with the same and full heal him/her after the fight. But shielding with a depleted one is against the shield mechanics, and your character will take more damages… (It’s not RP and I like to play RP in this kind of game!).

You will unlock a map at some point of the game, so don’t worry!

Take care of Oink!

Try to give creamberry fondue to Birble.

In the settings you can enable an option allowing you to look around while gliding:
=> In Controls => Allow camera control while gliding.

There are a lot of post meal cutscenes, so don’t hesitate to take a meal in the Nest whenever it is possible! If you are playing RP and eating at least twice a day, don’t worry about it!

In this game you will more XP with discussion between characters than fights. Meals help too.
If you want to level up (there is no need to rush levels, so really no need to use this trick), you can in the Nest just COOK/EAT -> SLEEP -> COOK/EAT -> SLEEP -> etc…

Lovebirds
Hold each others’ hands and never let go

Just slide in straight line for about 10 seconds, without parting hands. It’s very easy while solo playing, I don’t know about co-op.

Flower Powered
Try on the flower boots

During the epilogue, not missable.

Hug therapy
Give a healing hug

While one or both character(s) low life (in yellow or red highlight), stop moving to trigger the idle animation, which will be the healing hug.

Head in the clouds
Become a bird perch

Idle in the grass were there are birds, Yu will sit and a bird will land on her head.

An eye for an eye
Take a spill each, back-to-back

Near the end of the game, you will learn how to make one character propel the other in order to catch animals like “flow squids”. Do this badly and fail to catch twice (one time per character propelled to the floor) and the achievement will pop. Revenge!

Life’s short, ride long
Land a double backflip

I don’t know, I just jump full speed from a cliff. It’s pretty easy, it’s a double flip only because both of them flip once!

Ain’t no mountain high enough
Reach the heights

There is a thread near the entrance north of Benadon, which leads to the mountain.

Over my dead body
Block attacks until exhaustion

Shield successively with the same character until his/her shield runs out (become violet).

Last minute
Launch a max-power assistance

With a fallen character (let one of the character die), help him/her with the other, wait for the spin to circle two times, and release the button when the two light bars are blue.

Perfect timing
Launch a max-power double-attack

While charging an attack both together (double attack), wait for the circle to spin until the two lights are on (until the two lights are blue). It’s easy when surprising enemies before beginning the fight.

Strike!
Hit 5 critters in their weak spot, in one swoop

Wait for a fight against five or more ennemies, the fist time the game will show you how to use an item, which will one-shot all ennemies enemies at the same time.

Shake the rust off their feet
Pacify five critters in one swoop

Easy to get with the Strike! achievement, once the five enemies down, pacifie them at once. Do it quiclky before they raise again. To do so, use the item with one character while charging the pacify with the other.

Unstoppable
Finish the game with 3 KO or less.

Having one character down in a fight don’t count event if you don’t help him/her before pacefying the last ennemy. If you undergo a real KO (both characters down), you can exit to main menu and reload, the KO will not be counted, but you will lose a little bit of your progress.

There is just bellow an entire chappter about strategy to beat these bosses.

Thar she blows
Beat the Beruberu

You just have to spend two or three days without coming back to the nest for this creature to appear on the Nest islet.

Back to rust
Beat the Lorudo

You’ll find it at night on Lonarow.

My little pony
Beat the Heliga

You’ll find it on Nekame.

Balding bloot!
Watch helplessly as the Nest falls

Like new!
Finish repairing the Nest

Second thoughts
Choose not to sever the flow bridge

Don’t look back
Choose to sever the flow bridge

The best ones, often goes with a nice cutscene!

Mooning the moon
Midnight skinny dip

Stay at evening or night on the beach in Chogeko islet, and (I think I selected the sunbath option on the sand) a dialog comes, then a cutscene.

Can’t get wetter…
Getting handsy under the waterfalls

You’ll find two waterfalls on Nekarow. Interract with both of them once, you’ll get a cutscene for each one.

Pearls before Birble
Lure in Birble with creamberry fondue

Give some creamery fondue to Birble, climb on it and you will go to a new islet.

In my shoes
Taste the hygrocybe rubescens

Take care of Oink! Pat Oink from times to times (each time that trigger a cutscene count), and eventually you’ll get some mushrooms. The characters will eventually try the mushrooms after a meal in the Nest, just wait and enjoy the cutscene.

Heartstrings
Play a guitar ditty

You need to find the guitar on the beach in Chogeko (plunge in the water from the top pic, then explore the cave), and the eventually (not at the first try) Kay will make a guitar from the shell (cutscene after a meal in the Nest), and at one of your next campfire night, after eating Yu will play.

Strip-a-bobble
Lose a game of strip-a-bobble

It’s a random dialog after a (non-appledew based I think) meal. Just have lunch in the Nest and this cutscene will come eventually!
To speed up the process, you can COOK/EAT -> SLEEP -> COOK/EAT -> SLEEP -> etc…

A love supreme
Reach the maximum relationship level

You will get this easily while playing. But if you want to speed it up, eating and talking are the best way to tie bounds between characters.

Self-sustainability
Fill the vegetable patch

Catch three seeds for each kind of plant (Yu and Kay have a little game about gathering these seeds) and go back to the Nest.

À la carte
Taste every dish

You need to eat every dishes in the game (I don’t know about the campfire one’s, I personally got this achievement after a meal at a campfire).

Spring cleaning
Clean up the rust on every fragment

On your map in the menu, with the cursor on an islet, you can see a panel on the right of your screen. It contains information, such as if there are still rust on this islet. It will be written All clear! otherwise.

I you only want to play through the game once but are an achievement hunter, you will want to get Second thoughts and Don’t look back during the same playthrough.

You will only need to make a save before making your choice.

To do so:

1. Exit the current area in order to force the game to save.
2. Return in the main menu of the game.
3. Go to the choosing save file option.
4. Copy your current save file (X button on PS4 controller).
5. Play one choice with your first save.
6. Play the other choice with your second save.

Informations here are not all mine, I just gathered some useful datas from forums and Steam Discussions.

Before attacking a boss, make sure to have some balms crafted. It is preferable to have some omni-impact and omni-blast capsules too, and to be max level.

Remember to block at any time, and you should be fine.

Achievement: Thar she blows

I have not yet fight this boss myself, so I found this from N7 Reyes on a forum (TrueAchievements).

First phase easy peazy just deal damage using duo blast then duo impact.

Second phase it’ll have either a red or green aura. The red is weak to only DUO blast while the green is weak to only DUO impact

And finally the third phase is when it starts charging up its laser attack. Plenty of time to prep your shields and wait for it to attack. Not worth trying to squeeze in one more hit, trust me. I believe it attacks in two successions so wait for that second attack. After the second laser it should be stunned and you’re good to continue the combo.

Now for actually getting some damage on this unit you’re going to want to hit it with a blast or impact capsule while it’s stunned. Charging up duo attacks takes too long in comparison to having one/both of you using a capsule attack. Good luck and remember to block!

Achievement: Back to rust

In this fight I ignored the two little mobs, beacause the boss will respawn them, so I just shielded their attacks.

Shield all attacks alternatively with Yu and Kay.
The other one will throw three blast (distant) attacks in order to make it’s eye glow red, then deliver a duo impact attack to deal huge damages, and repeat.

Achievement: My little pony

Kill the two other mobs, more importantly the left one, which is a healer.
The boss fight itself is a classic fight, without difficulty.
He will kindly heal you after the fight.

Confidence