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  • How To Start The Quest
  • Fixing Up The Landslide
  • New Horizons, Potions, And Quests
  • Completing Annoying Bugs And Unknown Residue
  • Your First Chemistry Test

Potion Permit is a unique farming simulator and RPG that shakes up the typical ‘new farmer’ narrative by introducing you as the new chemist for the village. You get to concoct prescription potions to give to the villagers to build trust and fix their ailments while uncovering a story of grudges within a very untrusting community. One of the largest tasks you’ll have to do in this game is to retrieve the Letter of Recommendation, but this mission is as simple as being in the right place at the right time.

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    Your main option for receiving a letter of recommendation will be just progressing through the days while treating patients and mastering as many potions as possible. It’s the easiest way to trigger the scene that will begin the mission. Luckily, your first run-in will happen at your house once Xiao retrieves you, stating that your coworkers from the Medical Association have arrived to check in on you shortly after Rue has recovered.

    How To Start The Quest

    Because Potion Permit is such a linear game, tending to your patients that come in every other day is the best way to spend your days. There will be an intense amount of grinding to collect resources to make those potions you’ll need to treat them with.

    Once you’ve progressed through the days, treated patients, and eventually treated Rue, you’ll be summoned to the office where you’ll talk with your team from the Medical Association and Myer, who says you’ll need to earn the villagers’ trust.

    They aren’t exactly the most welcoming of people right off the bat, but you only need to talk to 10 of them to finish Myer’s quest of introducing yourself to the townsfolk.

    He then divulges that there is a bit of a history between chemists and the town in the past, where the previous chemist came out as a bit of the bad guy and wiped out a lot of natural resources in Moonbury. So we have some holes that need digging out, but talking to villagers every day and treating your patients can help restore that trust.

    Which leads to your first Badge of Approval. It’s important to keep the trust up in the game so that you can keep running into cut scenes that will help with your progression. But after this, you can head east to the Meadows, where you’ll officially start the sequential events.

    Fixing Up The Landslide

    Because of your newly refined status as “Maybe we can trust this person,” you are able to head to the Meadows where the Rangers are busy appraising a wall of rocks that occurred from a landslide. They say to fix this, they are going to need some resources, gold, and a steel fishing net.

    This is where all that time spent in the day collecting resources is going to come in handy. You’re going to want to be spending as much time and stamina in your early days collecting resources, so it’s easier to unlock this next area.

    Olive’s Bathhouse can restore your stamina for the cost of a couple of hours of your day, so make sure you visit her before she closes the shop.

    We then head into town where we ask the tavern for advice on where to get steel fishing nets. But apparently, they will all be out, so you have to go straight to the source: Ottmar. Ottmar is a big sweet lug who will easily trade you the steel net for a couple of things you can forage from the forest.

    List:

    • 5 Basil
    • 5 Mushrooms
    • 3 Honey

    And just like that, you have all the items you need. But the next issue is going to be gold. In the future, you’ll be able to donate your extra potions to the Medical Association for some extra cash, but until then, you’re going to be treating patients and unlocking some more mini-games around town.

    You can help better the town and improve some of the areas that are rough-looking from going without cleaning for so long, and you’ll also get money for helping out the community. At the police station and the church, you can spend a couple of hours organizing bottles and crushing grapes. Two short and easy mini-games will pay you for your time and help you build up some funds for sorting out that landslide.

    Steel Fishing Net

    • 1,500 Gold
    • 175 Wood
    • 225 Stone

    New Horizons, Potions, And Quests

    With this, our world has opened to many more ingredients that we can use, and boy, are we going to need them. Not only will it make previous potions a lot easier to make by starting to collect these new resources, but also tackling these sturdier rocks and trees will result in more drops.

    You’ll probably want to invest in stronger tools to get your gathering done faster. Heart and Sparks should have upgrades already available; they are pricey but don’t require too many resources. You’ll likely need them before even thinking about going to the next area, and it’ll make resource gathering a breeze.

    There are two areas that you are going to want to visit next. One is north of our new teleport flag, just past the fixed landslide. Heading there will trigger a scene where Matheo and Forrest come to check out the fields where bugs seem to be affecting some of the flora in a small alcove. Not knowing their species, we have to figure out who to talk to learn more about them.

    The next spot you will want to look into is in the southern area of the Meadows. Exactly north of the teleport flag, right between the Meadows and the area that turns into the Barren Wastelands.

    Here is a rather concerning-looking area that is emitting some strange gases. We catch up with Forrest, who tells us that this area is dangerous and that if we want to learn more, we have to go to Myer since he’s the one that knows the history of activities that went down in the Meadows.

    Completing Annoying Bugs And Unknown Residue

    These two quests need to be done before you can trigger the next set of events that’ll get you closer to the Letter of Recommendation. Annoying Bugs is the quest that starts after you find the area where a nest of bugs has infested some wildlife in the Meadows.

    So you have to track down Victor to figure out more about them. In return for his knowledge, you give him the specimen you came across and head back to your house, so you can make a safe repellant that will drive away this rare species of bug known as Frostmites.

    While it is doable to make this potion from the new resources you get from the Central Meadows, Hearts and Sparks offers an upgrade for your cauldron that allows you to use more items in your potions, making both of these more advanced potions easier to make with more basic items.

    Once you finish crafting this Repellant, you take it back up to the alcove where the nest is and spray it down. This almost immediately clears out all of the bugs and revitalizes the Konjac in the area, leaving you a very valuable new resource for potions and one step closer to your Letter.

    Unknown Residue leads you to talk with Myer, who explains a bit about the experiments that were going on between the community and the former chemist. While they were trying to figure out more about the wildlife around Moonbury, their experiments, unfortunately, began to pollute and destroy some of the most important and memorable flora that Moonbury treasured.

    Myer offers up some of the old chemist notes that he kept, and after checking the bookshelf to the right of Myer’s desk, we take them back to our house. This starts a new mini-game called Researching, where you flip through different elements until they ping and select the right amount of elements to finish your research and come up with a potion to create.

    Combining your new and old resources, this potion is easy to complete once you open up another slot in your cauldron. This gives you the Iris Vial, which you can take to Myer, who will redirect you to join up with Forrest to address the gaseous area in the Meadows.

    Once applied, this clears up any more eruptions coming from the catastrophe left behind, and in its place grows Rainbow Dew. After this quest closes, you can spend the rest of the day collecting resources and preparing for the final step.

    Rainbow Dew is another valuable resource that’s a 2x2 puzzle piece that helps out with a lot of future puzzles.

    Your First Chemistry Test

    The next day, Collin and Xiao visit your home to praise you for your good work by fixing up the area with potions. Collin believes it’s time for you to try your hand at a test he hands over for you to do some research, and it is up to you to make the potion required for the test and bring it to Xiao.

    Using those skills from Unknown Residue, we play the mini-game for research and head over to the cauldron to make a new potion called Blue Blood. However, ingredients will become quite limited thanks to this difficult test, but your new ingredients will become your key to success.

    Konjac is the perfect piece to fit the 1x3 floating puzzle piece to the top right, with Rainbow Dew serving as a great Tetris block to fill out the bulk of your potion puzzle. Once complete, turning this potion to Xiao will bring you back to the Town Hall, where all of your colleagues have gathered to marvel at your potion prowess.

    By recognizing your growing success with the community and your studies, the Medical Association graduates your medical license so that you can continue making more advanced potions and achieving new recipes. However, this is not your Letter of Recommendation. That comes the next day.

    Once one more day of collecting, friend-collecting, and potion-making cycles around, you wake the next day and go to your door, only to be revisited once more. Collin will come by and congratulate you once more but mentions that if you want to keep advancing, then a Letter of Recommendation will be needed. And Ta-da, he presents it to you.

    Now, the Letter of Recommendation is only an item you need to continue progressing the storyline and unlocking all of the map. Turning it into Myer will start you on another run of quests similar to the ones you did to get your upgraded medical license.

    Heading up the path to the snow-ridden mountaintops, you come across the broken-down Cable Car, but you’re going to need a more advanced Stamp of Approval to begin researching how to fix it. And the cycle repeats.

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