In the early stages of your journey in Hades 2, the new roguelite action title from Supergiant Games, you will be introduced to the cauldron. Now the cauldron is not just a place you can craft incantations to do a variety of things, but you will also be able to access the shop, summon allies and also grow your crops. You will find the Cauldron at the first part of the crossroads, and past Melinoë’s room and also past the Fated List of Minor Prophecies. Headmistress Hecate will be stationed behind the cauldron.

If you’re wondering, yes, there are a ton of Incantations, so let me help you out with that! Here are all the Incantations, what they do, and also what you need to craft them:

INCANTATIONS

ABYSSAL INSIGHT

• Effect: Activate the Pitch-Black Stone and unlocks Trials which you can attempt for Star Dust.
• Recipe: 2 Fate Fabric, 2 Pearl, 2 Moly, 2 Nightshade

ASPECTS OF NIGHT AND DARKNESS

• Effect: Unlocks Weapon Aspects and Weapon Upgrades.
• Recipe: 5 Bronze, 1 Nightshade

ATTENDING A FAITHFUL BEAST

• Effect: Allows your Animal Familiars to work for you when left at the Crossroads.
• Recipe: 1 Tears, 1 Wool, 4 Wheat

BRINY LIFESPRING

• Effect: Reveals a hidden chamber in Oceanus, where you may restore some healing in peace.
• Recipe: 3 Limestone, 3 Lotus

CIRCLES OF PROTECTION

• Effect: Unlocks Warding Circles throughout Erebus.
• Recipe: 1 Moly, 1 Lotus, 1 Mandrake

CLEANSING OF FOUNTWAIN-WATERS

• Effect: Enhance Fountains so that they restore +10% Life.
• Recipe: 1 Moly, 1 Lotus

CONSECRATION OF ASHES

• Effect: Enhances the Altar of Ashes and allows you to upgrade your Arcana cards. Also grants you 3 Moon Dust for free.
• Recipe: 6 Ash, 1 Cinder, 6 Fate Fabric

DIVINATION OF THE ELEMENTS

• Effect: Allows you to see the Elements of the god Boons you acquire, and lets you use Infusions.
• Recipe: 5 Psyche

DOOMED BECKONING

• Effect: Summons Moros a second time, after which he will start regularly appearing at the Crossroads near the Fated List.
• Recipe: 3 Fate Fabric, 1 Nightshade

EMPATH’S INTUITION

• Effect: Upgrades the Book of Shadows to relay relationship progress information with each character.
• Recipe: 1 Fate Fabric, 3 Myrtle

FAITH OF FAMILIAR SPIRITS

• Effect: Grants a Witch’s Delight, which in turn unlocks Familiars.
• Recipe:  2 Nectar, 1 Lotus

FATED INTERVENTION

• Effect: Unlocks the Fated List, which will provide you with rewards for your achievements. This gives you your first meeting with Moros.
• Recipe: 1 Silver, 2 Ash, 2 Moly

FLORAL FORTUNE

• Effect: Adds two Soil Plots to the Crossroads, unlocking Gardening. Also grants you one Nightshade Seed.
• Recipe: 1 Moly

FLOURISHING SOUL

• Effect: Unlocks the ability to sell plants to the Wretched Broker for Bones.
• Recipe: 1 Ash, 1 Nightshade

FORGET-ME-NOT

• Effect: Unlocks the ability to track recipes, giving you visual reminders whenever you have a choice between resources/tools.
• Recipe: 1 Moly

GATHERING OF ANCIENT BONES

• Effect: Blesses one of your weapons per night. This blessed weapon will give you a bonus of 2 Bones per room you clear.
• Recipe: 2 Limestones

GREATOR FAVOR OF GAIA

• Effect: Allows you to upgrade your Gathering Tools.
• Recipe: 2 Marble, 4 Bronze, 4 Iron

GOLDEN LIFESPRING

• Effect: Unlocks rest areas in Tartarus where you can restore life.
• Recipe: 3 Marble, 3 Shaderoot

KINDRED KEEPSAKES

• Effect: Enables you to switch Keepsakes in the transition areas after bosses.
• Recipe: 4 Limestone, 2 Moly, 1 Lotus

KINSHIP FORTUNE

• Effect: Unlocks Exotic goods at the Wretched Broker. At first, you can only buy Nectar, but more will become available as you upgrade the Crossroads. Also grants one Nectar for free.
• Recipe: 60 Bones

NECROMANTIC INFLUENCE

• Effect: Melinoe will summon shade allies to attack enemies automatically if she sprints through Lone Shades during a run.
• Recipe: 5 Psyche, 5 Nightshade

NIGHT’S CRAFTWORK

• Effect: Unlocks Exotic goods at the Wretched Broker. At first, you can only buy Nectar, but more will become available as you upgrade the Crossroads. Also grants one Nectar for free.
• Recipe: 60 Bones

OBSERVANCE OF GAIA’S SECRETS

• Effect: Gain a 20% chance to gain one extra resource whenever you pick one up.
• Recipe: 7 Moly, 7 Lotus, 7 Moss

PERMEATION OF WITCHING-WARDS

• Effect: Unlocks the Ward to the surface path, which gives you an alternate path.
• Recipe: 1 Cinder, 1 Shadow, 3 Moly

PROPENSITY TOWARD GOLD

• Effect: Unlocks golden urns, which drop gold when destroyed.
• Recipe: 1 Limestone, 1 Fate Fabric

PURIFICATION OF FOUNTAIN-WATERS

• Effect: Improves fountain healing by 10%.
• Recipe: 1 Nightshade, 1 Cattail

REAGENT SENSING

• Effect: Activates a visual notifier that there are resources to claim after clearing an encounter.
• Recipe: 1 Moly

REVIVING A MOURNFUL HUSK

• Effect: Allows you to revive Golden Boughs in the Mourning Fields, which will point you towards the goals of the current room.
• Recipe: 1 Myrtle

RICH SOIL

• Effect: Adds two more Soil Plots to the Crossroads.
• Recipe: 3 Lotus

RISE OF STYGIAN WELLS

• Effect: Enables the spawning of Wells of Charon during a run, allowing you to buy minor boons.
• Recipe: 1 Moly, 1 Nightshade

RITE OF RIVER-FORDING

• Effect: Adds a Fishing Pier to the Crossroads, allowing you to fish with certain characters. Also grants you a Twin Lure for free.
• Recipe: 4 Driftwood, 2 Cattail

RITE OF SOCIAL SOLIDARITY

• Effect: Adds a Taverna to the Crossroads, where you can socialise with certain characters. Gives you a free Ambrosia and unlocks the purchase of Ambrosia from the Wretched Broker.
• Recipe: 2 Nectar, 2 Garlic

RITE OF VAPOR-CLEANSING

• Effect: Adds a Hot Spring to the Crossroads, where you can take baths with certain characters. Gives you one free portion of Bath Salts and unlocks the purchase of Bath Salts from the Wretched Broker.
• Recipe: 2 Moly, 2 Lotus, 2 Nightshade

RUSH OF FRESH AIR

• Effect: Unlocks Shrines of Hermes on the surface route.
• Recipe: 3 Fate Fabric, 1 Wool, 2 Driftwood

SANDY LIFESPRING

• Effect: Unlocks rest areas in the Rift of Thessaly where you can restore life.
• Recipe: 3 Iron, 3 Driftwood

SUMMONING A COLONY OF BATS

• Effect: Unlocks the cages of All-Seeing Bats in the City of Ephyra, which provides a map to the city.
• Recipe: 3 Moss, 3 Rubbish

SUMMONING OF THE MERCANTILE FORTUNE

• Effect: Unlocks the Wretched Broker, who will sell you items in exchange for Bones.
• Recipe: 10 Bones

SURGE OF STYGIAN WELLS

• Effect: Wells of Charon also now appear in the transition areas after bosses.
• Recipe: 3 Moly, 3 Cattail

UNEARTHED TROVES

• Effect: Unlocks Infernal Troves, which allow you to fight extra enemies under a time limit to gain gold.
• Recipe: 5 Limestone, 1 Nightshade

UNRAVELING A FATEFUL BOND

• Effect: Allows Melinoe to breathe on the surface, removing the constant damage.
• Recipe: 2 Lotus, 2 Moss, 2 Nightshade, 2 Thalamus

VERDANT SOIL

• Effect: Unlocks two more Soil Plots. This is the final Garden upgrade.
• Recipe: 1 Wheat, 1 Garlic

WOODY LIFESPRING

• Effect: Unlocks rest areas in Erebus where you can restore life.
• Recipe: 3 Silver, 1 Moly

For more on Hades 2’s new and returning Boons, head here.