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Secret Fairy Guide
Among the many, many discoveries to be found in the world of Tunic, are the 20 secret fairies. This guide to Tunic's fairies and their locations and puzzle solutions is spoiler free, with tips and complete cheat code solutions as well for those who seek them.
Right before the Overworld entrance to the Dark Tomb is a waterfall that you can walk into. In this room you’ll find a small altar that you can’t really do anything with even if you interact with it. According to page 48 of the instruction manual, this is the fairy’s secret gathering place. Except, when you first find it, there aren’t any fairies around. It’s up to you to find and rescue them so they can return their sacred place.
These fairies can be found scattered across the entire world and each one has its own way to be found and rescued. In this guide, you’ll find information on where to find the fairies and how to rescue them.
Fairy Rewards and Gathering Place Location
You can claim rewards from the fairies at the Secret Gathering Place, just north and northwest of the main save point in the center of the Overworld. There is a waterfall pouring over the mountain just to the north of the Well entrance and west of the Sealed Temple. Go behind the waterfall to find the gathering place and your released fairies.
Secret Fairy Locations and Puzzle Guide
Page 48 of the guide actually provides a list of each fairy's location but some of them are written in the game's secret language. That being said though, all locations that are written in this language will be found in the Overworld. Each Fairy involves a D-pad entry puzzle in a specific locaiton.
Here are some puzzle solving tips:
Fairy Puzzle Tips
- If there's a horizontal line crossing through a line-drawing Fairy puzzle like a +, that means to enter the same command twice. (e.g. up, up).
- To find Fairy code entry locations, enter this code on the D-Pad while the game is unpaused at any time: UP, LEFT, UP, RIGHT, DOWN, RIGHT, RIGHT. If you enter this, Fairies will swarm near a puzzle hint, or door or other entrance leading to one.
Below you'll find a list of all 20 locations for each fairy as well as how to rescue them.
Location: On the eastern side of the Overworld, near the entrance of the Forest Fortress.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up , Left, Down, Left, Down, Left, Down, Left, Up, Right, Down, Right, Right, Down, Right
Location: On the island on the south beach of the Overworld (next to the bridge leading to the Ruined Atoll). You can easily spot the small island and curved path on your map.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up, Right, Down, Left, Down, Left, Down, Left, Down, Left, Up
Location: Stone wall below the West Belltower in the Overworld. The moss pattern on the wall (which continues around the right corner) provides the directions you enter on the D-Pad.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up, Right, Up, Left, Down, Left, Up, Left, Up, Right, Down, Right, Down, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Down, Right, Down
Location: In the Overworld, enter the room under the bridge on the very far right side of the map.
In this room you'll find a pool of water that reflects a pattern of light on the wall. Copy the pattern.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Down, Right, Up, Right, Down, Left, Down, Right
Location: Behind the waterfall next to the Overworld entrance to the Dark Tomb.
Inside you'll see a pattern written on the walls. Both patterns may be partially blocked by the stones so be sure to look at both carefully before copying the pattern with the D-pad. It may be helpful to physically write down complicated patterns like these on a piece of paper.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Down, Right, Up, Right, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Left, Up, Right, Up, Right, Up, Left, Down, Left, Down, Left, Down, Right, Down, Left, Down, Right, Down, Right, Up, Right
Location: Inside the Sealed Temple (behind the big golden doors at the center of your Overworld map), copy the blue pattern on the ground.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Down, Right, Up, Up, Left
Location: Travel to the Top of the Mountain and at the gate, take the back path to the right of the door.
At the snowy top of the Quarry, look for three rocks stacked on top of one another.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up, Right, Down, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Down, Left, Up, Right, Right, Down
Location: This fairy will only appear at night so you'll need to sleep in the bed in the Old House in the Overworld. From there, fast travel to the East Forest and go back to where you entered the East Forest for the very first time.
From there, teleport to the pillar on the bottom left corner then keep going forward and over the doorway arch until you reach the area above. Along the path you'll see a fox spirit moving in a specific pattern. Mimic the pattern with the D-pad.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Down, Left, Up, Right
Location: Fast travel to the Great Library and run back to the great hall. Find the large rug at the center of the room at the base of the stairs and copy the pattern with the D-pad.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up, Left, Down, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Down, Left, Up, Left, Down, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Up, Right, Down, Left, Down, Right, Down, Left, Down, Right
Location: In the Overworld, head to the south western beach and find the bridge that leads to the Ruined Atoll.
In the very back of this room will be a pattern on the wall that you can copy with the D-pad (you can copy either the pattern on the left or the right.) Doing this will reveal an opening in the wall that you can enter.
In the next room you'll a 3D puzzle in the form of a large pillar that you can climb by using the wooden ladders. Write down each step you take (e.g. climb UP, run RIGHT, climb up, run LEFT) until you reach the very top. Once you've reached the top, enter the pattern of the path you took with the D-pad.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Left, Up, Right, Up, Right, Down, Right, Up, Right, Up, Left, Left, Left, Up, Right, Up
Location: In the Overworld, find the compass just south of the entrance to the Forest Fortress.
Read the plaque on the compass and take note of the 4 lines of text.
Open the instruction manual and turn to page 34. Here you'll be able to decode which of the symbols on the plaque mean North, South, West and East. Transcribe these directions to Up, Down, Left and Right.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Left, Right, Down, Up, Up, Down, Right, Left, Up, Right, Down, Left, Up, Down, Right, Left
Location: In the Overworld, enter the Old House and use the D-pad to copy the pattern on the curtain hanging on the wall.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up, Up, Right, Down, Down, Right, Up, Up, Right, Down, Down, Down
Location: In the Oveworld, head to the waterfall in the northeast corner of the map and run along the edge to enter a cave behind it.
Inside, run straight into the top left corner of the room to find another secret passage. Eventually you'll see a room to the left with a single enemy.
Do NOT attack the enemy or get its attention. Instead, observe its walking pattern and then copy the pattern using the D-pad.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Down, Down, Right, Up, Right, Down, Left, Down, Right, Up, Right, Down, Down
Location: In the Overworld, head south until you see the two fox statues (one with a head, one without) beside two spiral staircases. Walk down the steps next to the fox statue with a head and throw a bomb up against the wall. This will reveal a hidden opening you can enter.
Inside will a golden cube floating in the middle of the room. Once it begins to move, copy its movements with the D-pad. There will be a lot of steps (mostly ups and rights) so watch it closely.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Right, Right, Right, Right, Up, Up, Up, Up, Right, Right, Right, Up, Up, Up, Right, Right, Up, Up, Right, Up
Location: In the Overworld, run to the bridge that leads to the Swamp on the far east side. Teleport dash over the pieces of rubble to reach the shore and head left to the bridge and enter the hidden doorway underneath it.
Inside this room you'll see a treasure chest in the middle but in order to get to it, you'll need to traverse the room's invisible maze. Go through the maze but keep note of the path you took.
When you've reached the entrance, ues the D-pad to punch in the pathway you took to reach the middle.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up, Left, Down, Left, Up, Right, Down, Right, Up, Right, Down, Left, Up, Left, Up
Location: In the Overworld, start from the fast travel teleporter near the Old House and head east, down the steps until you find the fountain that previously contained an instruction manual page on the pillar in the center.
Around the fountain you'll see symbols on the ground that are each made up of a certain number of tiles. On the D-pad, enter the direction of the tiles in order from 1 to 6.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Down, Left, Left, Down, Up, Right, Down
Location: In the West Garden, travel to the far south west corner of the map. Note the arrow pointing off to the left.
Using the Crown, you can blink across the rocks in the water and use them as stepping stones to get to a small island with a tree.
Surrounding the tree will be small bunches of flowers. each bundle containing a different number of flowers from 1-6 . Using the D-pad, press the directional keys in numerical order.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Left, Down, Right, Left, Up, Down
Location: In the West Garden, from the Boss area, run south until you can climb down the wooden ladder and step down into the large open area, right here:
Using the D-pad, copy the pattern on the ground.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up
Location: Fast travel to the Interior of the Eastern Vault and exit through the golden doors to the south to return to the Fortress. Run down the stairs and make a left until you reach a room that will have several custodians standing around where a power block once stood. Around the power block will be several groups of candles, each group containing a different number of candles from 1 to 6.
Using the D-pad, press the directional keys in numerical order
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Right, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left
Location:
Fast travel to the East Forest and run into Guardhouse 2 to make your way down to the lower East Forest.
Once you enter it, go right at the crossroads to find a broken Golden Obelisk.
Using the D-pad, punch in the path created when putting together all pieces of the Golden Obelisk.
D-Pad Secret Puzzle: Down, Right, Down, Left, Up, Left, Down, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Down, Right, Down, Right, Down, Left, Down, Right, Down, Left, Up