Earthlock: Festival of Magic
25 Achievements
1,000
25-30h
Lango Plantmaster
Fully level up every type of plant
80
0.65%
How to unlock the Lango Plantmaster achievement in Earthlock: Festival of Magic - Definitive Guide
You'll acquire the seeds for the minor tier throughout the game as you progress. In order to get the higher tiers you will first need to get the minor plant to level three. To level up a plant you simply just need to keep harvesting them, and after so many harvests it will level up. After that, if you haven't already you will need to find a recipe that requires ingredients from the higher tier. Once both of those have been done when you harvest from the plant it will pop up saying "mutated" and you will have the seed for the next tier. For example, you can't get the Poison Lily Magnum seed from the Poison Lily until you defeat Magoc the Hollow and get the Toxic Lance ++ recipe from him even if your Poison Lily has been level three for ages.
That's essentially all there is to it, the only challenge to it is finding recipes so you can get the higher tier seeds. Another thing I'd like to mention though is that although there are 24 plants there are only 22 places to plant seeds in the farm. You will have to uproot a plant in order to make room for whatever two you may have left. This does not mess up the achievement, it's the only way to plant the final two. I'm sure it's obvious, but just uproot two of the minor plants. They should be level three by this point, and the items you can craft with their fruit will be pretty useless compared to higher tiers so it won't matter at all.
I have the recipes waiting, and the only story progress I can make from this point is to fight the final boss. Not sure what else I should do.
Note: If you play with the physical copies un-patched and kill 50 Ghost for the Spiritualist of the Sands trophy, you will not get that trophy as this trophy unlocks instead. Now is this a good thing or a bad thing? Some people question if this glitch will save you time or not. In my honest opinion, it will not save you time. Sure this trophy will be the last garden trophy you'll unlock, however, the difference in time required to fill the garden and fully leveling up every type of plant is relatively the same amount of time. Unlocking Diligent Hogbunny and then finishing the last two plants for this trophy to unlock is roughly less than 2 hours of a difference.
This is the most time-consuming trophy in the game as you need to fully level up every type of plant. As mentioned in the Gardener of Lango trophy, there's a random chance you'll get a seed. This seed is actually the next upgrade version of that plant. You'll want to keep harvesting plants until you get all of their seeds at least once. Once you do have a seed, you need to plant it and level it to level 3. Keep on repeating the harvesting process until a seed is given to you from it. I highly recommend that you farm plants once you get them and upgrade them to level 3 before leaving the Plumpet Island. This will greatly reduce grinding if you do it early.
Below is a list of all eight types of plants in the game:
- Rock Spud Minor - Story related, cannot be missed
- Lÿsrose Minor - Story related, cannot be missed
- Fire Tongue Minor - Story related, cannot be missed
- Aqua Weed Minor - Story related, cannot be missed
- Tooth Cactus Minor - Story related, cannot be missed
- Spark Bloom Minor - Found in a chest after rescuing Taika (see A Stormdog's bond )
- Snow Grass Minor - Story related, cannot be missed
- Poision Lilly Minor - Found in a chest after defeating the Mushriga (see Custodian of Scrollroads. )
It should be noted that you will end up filling the entire garden (see Diligent Hogbunny ), however, you need to unroot 2 Minor plants because the garden doesn't have enough room for the final two seeds that you need to plant. I recommend uprooting these two:
- Lÿsrose Minor
- Rock Spud Minor
Once you have all plants fully leveled up. The trophy will unlock once you have these versions at level 3:
- Rock Spud Magnum
- Lyrose Magnum
- Fire Tongue Magnum
- Aqua Weed Magnum
- Tooth Cactus Magnum
- Spark Bloom Magnum
- Snow Grass Magnum
- Poison Lily Magnum
The above plants are the final upgrade versions of all types of plants and they can be used to craft the strongest ammo and items in the game. Furthermore, you can't get plants to mutate until you have a recipe that requires the said plant.
To level up a plant, you'll need to harvest it often. I'm not sure on the exact number of times it takes for each level increase, but if you pick the plants a few times each visit to Plumpet Island, you should get each of them maxed out before you get all the other achievements. If not, simply stand in your garden and pick them over and over for a while. You get more ingredients from higher level plants, so maxing them out earlier in the game may be beneficial if you want to spend the time.
There are eight types of plants in the game, as follows:
- Spud - Story related
- Revival - Story related
- Fire - Story related
- Aqua - Story related
- Cactus - Story related
- Shock - In a chest next to the Quadragon boss (Taika rescue)
- Snow - Story related
- Poison - In a chest next to the Mushriga boss
Once you fully level the basic version of a plant, you will see a notification that it has mutated, and a new seed type will be added to your inventory. Plant this new seed in a new slot and continue to level it the same way you did before. There will be a third mutation for the final version of each plant. Once you level up the third version of each plant, the achievement will unlock. Note that you do not have to keep the basic versions planted to unlock the achievement, and in fact you'll be forced to uproot at least two of them since there are only 22 seed spots, but 24 total plants. You only need the third-tier plants in the ground and and fully leveled to unlock the achievement.
NOTE: It has been found that you actually need a recipe that involves the plant type to get the next level of seed. The one most people seem to hit this issue with is the third tier of the poison plant. Make sure you do the "Konkylian Custodian" achievement to get the Toxic Lance++ recipe. Once you have that, the plant will mutate properly. But again, every plant requires this process. Find the "+" version to get the first mutation and the "++" version for the second mutation.