When Zau reaches Kivuli in Tales of Kenzera: Zau, he needs to find ingredients for a potion to help his friend Sabulana. However, the journey is long and requires a new ability to find what he needs.
Once you’ve received your task by speaking to Sabulana, make your way through the village. It’s a long journey, but despite the map suggesting you can collect ingredients from some detours along the way, you can’t get them without a new ability – Zawadi’s Hook.
You won’t be able to find this until you reach the heart of the village and face off against a new enemy, the Roho ya Uwindaji. These are fast warriors who like to dodge around behind you. Watch their movements closely and dash behind them when they attempt to charge you. They can be made vulnerable using the strong attack of the Mask of the Sun, which lifts them in the air where they can be juggled.
Once this new enemy is defeated, you can begin seeking out Zawadi’s Hook, which you need for all three ingredients.
Where to Find Zawadi’s Hook
To begin searching for Zawadi’s Hook, head left from the heart of the village to find Sabulana’s home. You can find some clues to the locations of the three ingredients here. Jump through the higher floors of her home and continue until the ledge ends. Drop down to the lower level.
Continue along this path, defeating some easy enemies and jumping some spike pits. Be careful on the ledges with extended planks, as they can lean downwards and send Zau into the pits below. Along the way, you’ll notice some strange markings above some pits, and a cable system. Ignore these for now, we’ll be revisiting these soon.
Finally, use a mushroom to bounce over a hut and then drop down through a platform marked with a zigzag pattern. Down here, you’ll find a Shaman Shrine that grants you Zawadi’s Hook. This will allow you to grapple onto hooks across the world, which were the strange markings you passed on the way here.
To return to the heart of the village, follow the path back the way you came. Along the way you’ll get plenty of opportunities to try out your new ability and get used to how it works. Keep going until you reach the cable system you passed earlier. Use your hook to cross the spike pit to the right and use your spear to activate the ring above the platform you reach. Now quickly, hook back across the pit and use the hook above you to the left to reach a door leading to a grapple obstacle course. This takes you back to the exit of Sabulana’s home.
With your new ability, more parts of Tales of Kenzera: Zau has opened to you, including the three locations of the ingredients you need.
Where to Find a Kifo Flower
The easiest ingredient to get after getting Zawadi’s Hook is the Kifo Flower. When you return to the drop just outside Sabulana’s home, there is a grappling hook above and to the left. You need to use this to escape the drop, but it also puts you on the path of the Kifo Flower.
This requires you to launch Zau up through the forest. Dash past a low wall, jump on the mushroom in the middle of the spike pit, and use the hook three times to guide Zau to another mushroom on the left of the top spike pit, next to the branch wall.
Along the next path, the next spike pit needs to be cleared by dashing over to the far wall, then launching yourself towards the higher wall you passed, and then using that to reach the higher ledge. Then, use another mushroom to clear the next spike pit. Here, you’ll find a grove with the Kifo Flower. After defeating a couple of Roho ya Uwindaji, return to the heart of the village by following the path to the right.
Where to Find Furuha Berries
From the heart of the village, head right and use the hook to the right of the elevator to reach the Gleaming Haven, which leads to the Furuha Berries. This route is fairly straightforward. There are a couple of spike pits that you’ll need to cross using mushrooms. At a split path, head right, using two mushrooms to cross the spike pit.
Aim for the protruding part of the tree, which partly conceals your path. Next, use a combination of the hook, wall jumps, and double jumps to reach the top of the Gleaming Haven. Here, you’ll find the Furuha Berries.
Where to Find a Uongo Leaf
The Uongo Leaf is found on a path just north of where you originally met Sabulana, so you’ll need to backtrack all the way there. There is a shortcut that takes you part of the way from the Furuha Berries if you take the path left from the spike pit with double mushrooms, but you’ll need to return along the rest of the route.
After taking an elevator down, you’ll soon find yourself under a hook that leads upwards to the Fluttering Boughs. While the path is short and mainly consists of using two mushrooms inside spike pits to climb the trees, there is an enemy to watch out for. After the first mushroom, there is a loose plank with a shielded Roho ya Mtupaji immediately after. Try and dodge the other side of it and use your strongest attacks to break its shield quickly.
After another mushroom bounce, you’ll find the Uongo Leaf. With all three ingredients, backtrack to Sabulana, and you’ll progress to the next part of Tales of Kenzera: Zau.
Tales of Kenzera: Zau is out now for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.
