You can’t spend eternity just hacking away at Hades 2; sometimes, you will need to relax a little bit as well. Thankfully, the hot spring is there for you and a companion to enjoy when things get tense.
The best thing about bringing someone to the hot springs is that you can have a conversation with them you would not otherwise witness, and get some additional lore about each character, as well as further developing your relationship with them. Given that the strength of the writing and character building is always a core part of Supergiant Games’ work, you can bet this will be quite rewarding over time.
Which characters can you bring to the hot tub in Hades 2?
So far, Dora, Eris, Hecate, Odysseus, Nemesis, and Moros can all be brought to the hot springs with you in Hades 2. All of the characters need to be somewhat friendly with you before they will just dive in, however. This means you will need to bring them gifts to improve their affection for you. The most prominent gift for many of these characters is simple Nectar, and for most of them the characters, you can just keep bringing them Nectar to unlock the required level of affection to get them in the tub. You can purchase Nectar from the Wretched Broker, or as a reward for clearing areas on your dungeon runs.
| Character | Gifts |
|---|---|
| Dora | 1 Nectar |
| Eris | 3 Nectar |
| Hecate | 2 Nectar |
| Moros | 2 Nectar |
| Nemesis | 3 Nectar (you need to go fishing with her first) |
| Odysseus | 1 Nectar |
There is one more thing that you will need to convince people to get into the springs with you, Bath Salts. To get the Bath Salts, you need to unlock the springs (more on that later), which will get you a single dose of the useful resource. To get more, you can purchase them from the Wretched Broker, who will sell you the Bath Saltes for 50 Bones. You can also find them while out and about on your runs, but you will need the Silver Spade to be able to dig them up.
This might seem a little complicated, but you will need to do the following steps:
- Purchase the Night’s Craftwork incantation at the Cauldron early in the game. This will cost a single Moly, a plant you can find early in the game.
- Go to the main area and use 1 Ashes to buy the Cresent Pick.
- Equip the Cresent Pick and do runs to find the Silver nodes. You need 10 Silver in total.
- Use your 10 silver to craft the Silver Spade tool, then use that to find the Bath Salts.
As you may have guessed, the expectation is that you will get to this later in the game, so don’t worry about it all too soon. There is also a very useful way to check how far along you are with your relationship with someone. Play through and fight Hecate three times, and this will give you access to the Book of Shadows. You can then upgrade the book of Shadows using the Empath’s Intuition spell that you can learn at the Cauldron near Hecate. Once that is done, the character pages in the book will display the next level of affection for each character, and what they need.
How to unlock the hot springs
If you have yet to unlock the hot springs, it is not that hard to do. First, you will need to do a few runs of the game. After passing enough nights, a recipe will appear at the Cauldron near Hecate called Rite of Vapor-Cleansing. To properly make this spell you will need 2 Moly, 2 Lotus, and 2 Nightshade, which can be collected doing various runs through Erebus and Oceanus. The exception to this is Nightshade, which must be grown at the Crossroads.
