MINI NINJAS
35 Achievements
1,000
10-12h
Botanist
Collect one of each ingredient
30
How to unlock the Botanist achievement in MINI NINJAS - Definitive Guide
Look out for plants,flowers and mushrooms that can be picked up. If you are struggling to locate any, use Hiro's spirit ability and take control of a nearby animal (any animal will work).
When you have taken control of an animal, look around your surroundings for small, dark blue smoke trails comming from the ground, trees and structures (bridges and buildings).. these indicate where items such as flowers, plants and even statues are that can be picked up.
You should have the majority of ingredients at, if not before half way through the game.
To check which ingredients you have and which ones you are missing, press "select" then (RB) or 'Right Bumper' untill you get to your ingredients page.
List of Ingredients and their respective chapters:
Blue Petal- "Ninja Mountain" (Ch. 1)
Oyster Mushroom- "Ninja Mountain" (Ch. 1)
Ginseng Root- "Ninja Mountain" (Ch. 1)
Anemone- "Ninja Mountain" (Ch. 1)
Spear of Ashida- "Ninja Mountain" (Ch. 1)
Tiger Lilly- "Leaving Home" (Ch. 2)
Stone Cap- "Leaving Home" (Ch. 2)
Burdock Flower- "Leaving Home" (Ch. 2)
Horse Tails- "A Distress Signal" (Ch. 5)
Sacred Lotus- "A Distress Signal" (Ch. 5)
Wild Parsley- "Winter Range" (Ch. 11)
Mountain Fire- "Winter Range" (Ch. 11)
You will have the majority of the ingredients about halfway through the game, you can see the ones you need by navigating to the ingredients menu by pressing .
Here are some places you can find the ingredients:
Blue Petal - Ninja Mountain
Oyster Mushroom- Ninja Mountain
Ginseng Root- Ninja Mountain
Anemone- Ninja Mountain
Spear of Ashida- Ninja Mountain
Tiger Lilly- Leaving Home
Stone Cap- Leaving Home
Burdock Flower- Leaving Home
Horse Tails- A Distress Signal
Sacred Lotus- A Distress Signal
Wild Parsley- Winter Range
Mountain Fire- Winter Range
There are twelve total. This one should come naturally. As of the writing of this guide, there is not a map available for the ingredients, but many of the ingredients are in plain sight. I had no difficulty getting this trophy by just collecting the ingredients that I saw as I went along. Here is a list (complements of ErmacVersion1) of the ingredients to be collected along with known levels that they are on:
- Ingredient, Level it can be found
- Blue Petal, Ninja Mountain
- Oyster Mushroom, Ninja Mountain
- Ginseng Root, Ninja Mountain
- Anemone, Ninja Mountain
- Spear of Ashida, Ninja Mountain
- Tiger Lilly, Leaving Home
- Stone Cap, Leaving Home
- Burdock Flower, Leaving Home
- Horse Tails, A Distress Signal
- Sacred Lotus, A Distress Signal
- Wild Parsley, Winter Range
- Mountain Fire, Winter Range
Build up throughout the game - Will unlock on Level 14 (or later) if done correctly
This achievement should come naturally, but can be missed if you don't care about collecting flowers nor herbs.
There are a total of 12 different kind of herbs/flowers/mushrooms to be found throughout the game, and can be used as an ingredient to mix yourself healing and other potions, if you have the recipe of course (buy these recipes from the different Tengu you come across in the game).
Below you'll find the name of each one of them, as well as the earliest level to find them on. There are a lot of them throughout the game, so don't panic if you can't find one right away.
You actually don't need to have them all in your inventory. Once you've found a missing herb/flower, it will be highlighted in your inventory. Having all 12 highlighted will suffice to unlock the achievement.
Level 2 : Blue Petal / Oyster Mushroom / Ginseng Root / Anemone / Spear of Ashida
Level 3 : Tiger Lilly / Stone Cap / Burdock Flower
Level 6 : Sacred Lotus / Horse Tails
Level 10 : Wild Parsley
Level 14 : Mountain Fire