Botanicula Walkthrough

Welcome to the Botanicula walkthrough on Gamezebo. Botanicula is a point-and-click adventure game played on PC and Mac created by Amanita Design. This walkthrough includes tips and tricks, helpful hints, and a strategy guide on how to complete Botanicula.

Game Introduction – Botanicula

Three Feathers

Click on the seven buds in the tree

The large creature that bumps into the tree is blocking your way. You need to find the three feathers he lost to help him on his way
Go north

Click on the spiked black creature (orange). He will hide behind a leaf. Keep clicking on the leaves he hides behind until he comes out with a Jack-o-lantern. Then click on the lantern twice to get your first creature card
Click on the two sets of twigs until they bloom (yellow)
Click on the green creature behind the leaf until he falls off. You will get the creature card when you exit and return to this screen
Exit west

There are more twigs to click here. You need to make both these twigs and the ones in the previous screen flower to get the card
Click on the small top leaf to release a spider
Pull the spider down to release his balloon
Then click on his balloon
Go west

All of your friends can have a go at getting the feather; click on each of them in turn. Only Mr. Twig will be successful
If you click the dead leaf under the feather it will fall off and a fresh one will grow back
Go back east and then north

Click on the bud to release the bug
Exit this screen and come back for your creature card
You can release more bugs and drop the brown pods if you like, but I don’t think it does anything
Go south and east, back to the main intersection
Go north

Click on the six pods for a creature card
You can also click on the bee that lands
Go south to the main junction and exit northeast
You can only go north right now

Click on the brown leaf four times until the feather comes out – it will fall down the hole in the previous screen
To get the feather out of the hole, click on Mr. Lantern. Then click on the shell
Mr. Feather and Mrs. Mushroom will each find another creature
Click on the shell three more times to get another creature card (thanks to Gamezebo reader qmax for the tip!)
Go east

The third feather is just floating here, so click on it
Go two screens back west to the main junction and go south to the creature who lost his feathers
As soon as you give him the feathers you won’t be able to go back, though, so if you’ve missed any creature cards, go get them now
Click on the big creature to give him back his feathers

Five Keys

Five Keys

Go south

Have some fun with the magic mushrooms
Go south

Talk to the chestnut creature that runs into you
Go south again

Click on the beehive so a bug comes out that will drop a seed
Click on the seed and the snail will go and get it
You can now go northwest

Use your mouse to nudge the red ball through the holes in the pod so it knocks the key a little closer. Careful because it can bounce quite hard!
Take the key
Go back one screen and go southwest
You will be scared to the east by the big black spidery thing

Pull the scribbled leaf up to get a map of this part of the tree. The map will go into your menu bar at the top, next to the creature cards. The white light shows your current location. This map will be refreshed in each new section but will only show locations you’ve already visited
Go northeast

Click on the woodpecker three times. The first and third times you get a creature card
Click on the small leaf in front of you for another card
Go east and southwest down the narrow branch with the berries

Click and hold the gray creature until his eye starts flashing and he makes a sound. Two more similar creatures will arrive, so do the same with them. All three of them need to be singing at the same time, so if one of them stops, make him start again. Do the same with the next four, and then with the large one that arrives
Go into his mouth

Click on the green creature so he spits out the key
Try all your characters for some fun, but to get the key have Mr. Poppyhead pull the string. Then have the other four help him pull
Take the key
Go south

Have grandpa tell you a story
Go back north and east

Go southeast

Go south

Click on the pod, then keep clicking on the different parts until you’ve created a second pod
Go back one screen and go east

Click on the small creature and another big creature will arrive
Click on the small creature again to get the card for the big one
Go east

This is my favorite part of the game. I actually went back to it a couple of times to do it again!
Click on the big red spike and pull it down. Release your mouse once the creature has bounced onto the spike
Take the key
Click on the green spiky thing on the right to get another card
Go west three screens, then go north and then east

Use your mouse to gently nudge the red creatures until one of them lands in the big trumpet
Go northeast

Click on the stick insect 4 times
Click on the green ball on the side of the tree
Go north

Click on the brown egg follow the white creature south
Click on the white creature and follow it east

Click on the white creature again so it will lay three brown eggs
Click on the eggs to hatch them and wait until you get a key
Take the key
Go east and south so you’re back with the red jumpy things, then go southeast

Jump the gap and try to go east for another creature card
Try to take the final key

When you’re in the water, use Mr. Twig to get the key
Click on the red balls until you reach the key. You only get four clicks, and only one option gets you the key, so you need to try a few strategies
When you’re back you get another creature card
Once you’re sure you’ve done everything you need in this chapter, click on the pod to unlock it

Five Wishes

Click on the lamp for a genie
All your friends can make a wish. Mr. Lantern doesn’t know what to wish for, so start with the others

Mrs. Mushroom wants a carousel ride
Turn the handle clockwise until the carousel starts up
Click on the trumpet

Mr. Poppyhead wants to go to the stars
Click on the green seed twice

Click on the shuttle

Mr. Twig wants Christmas
Pull the cord down and release
Click on the present

Mr. Feather wants music
Click on the white ball
Click on the pink bug’s face, his bagpipes, yoyo and harmonica and on the yellow bug’s trumpet, drums and banjo
Click on the triangle when it comes down

Mr. Lantern now knows what he wants: to scare away the black spidery thing
Release the string and capture the spider

Three Babies

Pick up what looks like a green bean but turns out to be a head and drag it to the green creature

Go east and watch the scene
Go north

Go west

Grab the top of the dandelion flower and shake it vigorously until all the seeds have come off
Take the green ball
Go back east
If you go east again you will be chased off, so go north
There’s nothing to do in this scene, so go east
There’s nothing here, either, so go south

You can try going south again on this screen but you will be chased back again so it’s a dead end
Give the green core of the dandelion head to the caterpillar
On the next screen, the chestnut creature has lost her three babies – you need to find them
Go east

Click on the bee and click on it again after it lands on the left
As soon as you’ve clicked the bee for the second time, click on the leaf under the pear for a creature card
You can also drop a caterpillar-like creature from the strings of beads next to the pear
Go east
The fishing creature needs a worm
Go south

Click on the creature in the pool four times
Then click on each of the four creatures on the branch and watch them sing
Go northwest

Try to take one of the baby crabs
Go back to the crab in the northwest and have him chase you again. You fall off the branch

If you click on the ladle flower with water, the water will bounce out and land on the branch, sprouting a new shoot. Click on the empty ladle flowers to move them left and right so the water lands on the dead flower in the middle. The circled flowers in the image need to be where they are in the image, the rest can be anywhere else

If you manage to hit all the little white stumps on the branch and make them sprout, a creature will appear and make some pretty lights (thanks to Gamezebo reader GamingIsAwesome for the tip!)
Go west

Wait a second for a worm to appear
Click on the worm and pull it to the right until it lets go
Go back east to the ladle flowers and then east again

One of the five friends can rescue the baby. Try them all for some fun, but it’s Mrs. Mushroom who will be successful
Go west and follow the baby up the flower
Go northeast

Give the worm to the fishing creature
Take the baby crab he gets you and watch him catch a big fish
Go northwest to the flesh eating leaf and then north past the pear

Click on the three ringing pears several times until a dragonfly appears
Go east on either of the branches

There is a tree squirrel jumping around. Click and drag the three leaves he lands behind. He will go down the hole
Click on Mr. Twig’s eye twice
Go east

Give the baby crab to the spider
Go east

Click and drag all the white sheep so they float off, starting with the top ones and making your way down to the baby (you need to remove all the sheep to get the card)
Take the baby
Go southwest twice to the screen with the tree squirrel and then go southwest two more screens (go past the bat for now)

Either click on the large leaf or on the bug in the back
When he’s full and flying around, click on him when he’s over the snail so the sap lands in the snail
Repeat the process until the snail is full
There are little black leaf creatures behind the leaf on the right, but they didn’t give me a creature card

Go east to the screen with the bat and wait for the snail to arrive
Click on the bat and pull him down so a bug comes rolling out
Click on the snail and hold until he is fully charged, then release to blow a large bubble
Click on the bubble to pop it
Repeat this process until the bug comes falling down and you can pick it up
Go east to the tree squirrel and then straight west to the dragonfly
Now go northwest

Click and pull the creature so he lets go
Then click and pull his hanging leg to the branch where your friends are
Try to exit west
Give the bug from the bat to the beetle
Go west

When the pigs are sleeping, climb onto the branch
Click on the branch to jump so the acorns fall off
When the pigs are eating the acorns, click on the big momma pig to bounce off it and release the baby
Go west

Click on the mushroom for another grandpa story. You won’t get a new card for this, but another mushroom will be added to your original grandpa creature card
Go east twice times, then south at the dragonfly and west at the flesh eating leaf so you’re back with the chestnut creature who lost her babies

Make sure you’ve done everything you want to do in this chapter, then click on the chestnuts and watch the scene

Fourteen Chickens

After the scene go south to the city map

House A
You need to create a chicken by sounding the three trumpets. At first the results may seem random, but there is actually a pattern. Follow these steps, paying attention to the color of the trumpets:
a) Click the bottom trumpet twice. You should get two parts of the same color: red, green or blue
b) If the parts are red, click the middle trumpet to get a chicken (1/14)
c) If the parts are green, click the top trumpet for a frog
d) If the parts are blue, click the bottom trumpet a third time for a snail
Take the chicken and exit

House B
Click on the six trays of soil and watch
Click on the top right fruit and then on the top left
Click on the little gnome
When he lands, click on him again
Take the fire flower and exit

House C
Talk to the chestnut in house C. Conveniently, he’s looking for a fire flower, so give yours to him
You get his chicken in return (2/14)
Move his paintings as there is a coin behind the one in the top right. There are four locations you can find coins, but you will only find them in the first three locations you look

House D
Click on the chestnut that comes in with a stack of nuts and pick up the nut he drops
Click on the pepper shaker on the shelf behind the cook
Drag Mr. Feather to the large sleeping chestnut on the right and shake to drop some pepper on him
When the cook is chasing off the giant chestnut, quickly take the chicken (3/14)

House E
Click on all of your friends in turn for some optional games. If you don’t like them you can skip them, but you will need to have clicked on each of the five friends to get the card

Mr. Lantern will follow your mouse back and forth, each time swinging a little further. Keep moving him back and forth to gain enough momentum to swing through the hole
Mr. Twig will follow your mouse to bounce onto the trumpets. Bounce on one trumpet enough times to a black spider comes out. Then bounce on the spider to return to the city
To get Mrs. Mushroom out of her dream, pop all the bubbles so she falls through the hole
Mr. Feather just keeps on falling and falling. Pop his bubble when a black sphere comes up

Mr. Poppyhead needs to catch all the bubbles until one comes out containing a chicken (4/14)
House F
Click on the Shaman chestnut three times
He needs an ant egg before he will give you the chicken
Go to the city map and exit to the west

When you try to take the large ant egg, Mr. Lantern will be carried off to the nest
Exit southwest
Pull the cork out of the bottom of the nest and go in through the hole

You’re able to only see a small part of the nest at one time, so at each junction you will have to guess your route. The screenshot shows the whole maze. You need to make at least one wrong turn to get a creature card
When you find Mr. Lantern, keep clicking on him until he has wriggled himself free
You will get an ant egg

Return to house F and give the ant egg to the Shaman
He doesn’t actually give you a chicken, just an egg. Liar!

House G
If you try to take the chicken, the sleeping chestnut will wake up
Open the cupboard and take the empty lamp
Siphon off the light in the big lamp so it gets dark. The light will go into your inventory
When it’s dark, take the chicken (5/14)

House H
There’s a lot to do in this place!
First light the lamp with the light from house G
The next step takes some agility: you need to click on the running chicken on the line, pull it down and release it so it bounces. Eventually, it will bounce against the ceiling and get stuck. You can then take it (6/14)
Put the Shaman’s egg on the large nest on the left to get a chicken (7/14)
There’s also a coin in the nest on the right

House I
Open the drawer for another coin
Click on the oven. The chicken is in it, but you need to give the chestnut some other food in return
Give him the nut from house D and get the chicken (8/14)
To get the creature card you need to find four black creatures. One is in the bowls on the right, one is behind the pipes at the top, one is in the blue jar (keep clicking on the jar until the lid comes off) and one is in the brown jar (pull the lid up until the creature comes out)

House J
If you didn’t get three coins already, pick up the coin that’s here
Put your other coins in the machine too – three in total
Take the chicken once the flood has drained (9/14)
Exit the house and re-enter

Click on the heron’s beak to stab it down. Time it so that it catches the little green frog that jumps past

House K
Click on the pipe to make a lot of junk come out
The chicken is inside the pink umbrella (10/14)
Click around a bit for other things to do, like taking a picture
Click twice on the safe to open it and find a yellow creature. Take the creature
Place the orange balloon above the spring and click on the spring to jump it and pop the balloon and get another creature card

House L
Replace the chicken with the yellow creature from house K (11/14)

House M
Pull the lever to revive the Frankenstein chestnut
Click on all five dials to have to cuckoo chickens come out
Click the six trumpets in quick succession to have six light bulbs come out. They have to all be out at the same time and briefly hover in formation at the top for you to get the creature card. It is best to click the far left one last

House N
Click on the Jack-in-the-box three times to have the chicken come out. Don’t forget to take it when it’s out or you have to click several times more to get it again (12/14)
Keep clicking on the Jack-in-the-box until you’re back at the start – this takes about 13 clicks. You will get a creature card

House O
Click on the chestnut and he will challenge you to a volleyball match
Play with Mrs. Mushroom
Keep bouncing the ball back to the chestnut. When the ball hits the ground on your side of the net, the chestnut scores a point; when the ball hits the ground on his side of the net, you score a point. You need three points to win
Take the chicken (13/14)

House P
Click on the igloo for a sleigh with a chicken to come out
Click on the basket of snow at the top, and when it’s been refilled, click on it again to make a mound of snow at the bottom
Release the sleigh again
Take the chicken from the snowman and then click to pick it up (14/14)

Now for some extra fun, keep clicking on the igloo over and over, making more and more penguins come out
The eleventh penguin gets stuck and you need to drag him out
Have Mr. Feather lift the penguin by clicking on it and dragging it further and further up until it lets go

Return to the big house in the north to return the chickens

Eight Blue Eyes

The Root System

You’ve now entered the root system, which is a bit of a maze. Be systematic in your way through it and pay close attention to the symbols by the exits. I’m going to make my way through roughly clockwise

We’re first going to follow the symbol with three circles on sticks, with a few side trips, so go east

Click a few times on both mushrooms
Before we continue on to the circles on sticks, briefly go west to get your mission

You’re in a cave with a creature with many eyes hanging from the ceiling. Inside is a disc with a star on it, which you will need for a later mission. Pick the flower with the blue bud. The bud will be swallowed by the eye creature and one of its eyes will open. To get the disc out, you will need to find eight of these blue buds/eyes in total. There are nine locations in which you can find them, but as with the coins in the previous chapter, you will only find eight in the first eight places you look
Go back east to the cave you just came from and go east again

Click on the baby in the swinging cot and wait for the mom to return. You will get the creature card later
If you move your cursor over all the white hairs of the glowing bulbs on the wall, making them chime and curl, you will get another card (thanks to Gamezebo reader GamingIsAwesome for the tip!)
Go east

Chase the black deer all the way around
Talk to the black bean
Take the north exit

Click on any of the light bulb mushrooms to get the creature card for the baby in the cot. Note that you will have to do both actions to get the card
Go west, following the symbol that looks like a rising sun

Click and drag all the planets out of the wall so they pop back in orbit
Click, drag and release one of the heavier of your friends (Mr. Poppyhead is quite effective) to break the meteor

Click on the yellow planet eleven times until a flower with a blue bud pops up
Take the blue bud
Click on the yellow planet a few more times, and keep clicking on all the other planets until you’ve found all tricks and you get a creature card
Go west to the little caterpillar symbol

Welcome to the trickiest and most frustrating part of the game! The worm on the left has stolen the black bean’s star and you need to get it back. Click once on the star to attach it to your cursor, then slowly drag it through the maze to the exit where your friends are. The worm will wake up and quite rapidly follow you. If he captures the star he will take it back to his lair and you will have to start over. You have to be quite precise in the route you take, because if you move your cursor outside of the tunnel even a little bit, the star will get stuck. When that happens just put your cursor over the star again and continue, but you will lose valuable time
Follow the circles on sticks symbol back to the black bean in cave E

Put the star in the center of the cave. Surprise! He’s actually a green bean!
Click on the green bean(s) several times to get the card
Take the blue bud and the beach ball
Go southwest

Light the three lamps. There are multiple small lamps you can light too, including one on the screen to the north, but this won’t give you anything new
Briefly go southeast, following the symbol that looks like an Easter egg, to find out that you need to find a trumpet (image shown below), then return to this screen
Go southwest to the water symbol

There are five bouncy creatures here, and each of your five friends will bounce on a specific creature when you click on it. You need to make all your friends bounce at the same time. To do this, click on the creatures in the order shown in the image in fairly quick succession. Then click once more to release them all
Go southeast, following the symbol that looks like… um… Pacman? Let’s say Pacman

You will get a new mission: find the star, water, sun and leaf discs. You’ve already seen the star disc with the eye monster
Go back to the room with the bouncy creatures and go southwest to the water symbol

You will need to find an eye for the yellow submarine
Return to the bouncy creatures and go west, following the symbol that looks like a light bulb

You can see the trumpet that the little guy in the Easter egg room is looking for, but you can’t get to it from this side
Take the northwest exit to the infinity symbol

I don’t know exactly when it happens, but if you chase the little creatures around enough you will get their card
Take the north exit towards cave O

Take the northwest exit to cave O

Watch the puppet show. Watch over and over until you get the creature card. In the last scene, where your friends are eating the monster at the dinner table, you can find another blue bulb
Exit and go south back to the infinity cave
Go straight west and west again to a cave with many arms (cave P)

Take the arm straight west

Pull the tongue of the creature that drops down. The giant tortoise will start moving
Be patient, as eventually you will get a creature card, and find another blue bud behind him
Go back to cave P and go southeast

Get another Grandpa story, which will also be added to your original Grandpa card
Go back to the cave with many arms and go due east

You will find yourself on the other side of the big toothy monster in cave M
You can now take the trumpet
Make your way back through the infinity cave to the top part of cave M (light bulb symbol) and go straight north, to the cloud symbol

Click on some of the pointy mushrooms to release tiny fireflies. When one of the fireflies is in front of the green frog, click on him for him to catch the flies. When you miss he will catch Mr. Feather (don’t worry, he will spit him out again). When you succeed you will get another card and a blue bulb will grow on the left side of the tunnel
Go south to the cloud symbol

You need to make your way to the east exit of the cave by bouncing from planet to planet on the cushion creatures. You can move the creatures around by clicking on them. The directions you can jump in will be indicated with white arrows
First jump straight down onto the small cushion in the default position on planet 1

Move the small cushion aside and move the large cushion to where the small one was
Make sure the cushion on planet 2 is on the bottom side of the planet, or else you will bounce back to the start
Jump back to the left onto planet 1 and land on planet 2
Move on to planet 3

Move the cushion to the top of planet 2
Move the cushion to the top of planet 4
Move the cushion to the right on planet 5
Jump to planet 4
Exit east

Take the blue bud
Move the cushions to the positions shown in the screen shot. To get the two cushions in the bottom right on top of each other, move the large one to the left as far as possible and then move the smaller one to the right until it’s on top of the large one. Then move both of them right
Take the leaf disc
Jump back and exit to where the frog is
Go north to the circle with the dot in it, which I will call the sun symbol

Keep clicking on the worms until you get the card
Go west to the sun symbol

Interact with all the circus creatures until you get the card
Replace the eye with the beach ball from cave E, with the star and the green bean
Briefly go southeast and talk to the daredevil, who will tell you he needs a helmet for his act
Go out and out again, and go north at the yellow worms. You will be back at the start in cave A
Follow the symbol with the three circles on sticks. As soon as you see the Easter egg symbol, follow that one

Give the trumpet to the creature

Click on the monster for a card
To get the blue bud, take exits A, B and D
Take exit C to the top part of the cave

In the top half of the cave take exits A and B
When you fall down, take exits A and B again and then take the sun disc
Exit west to find yourself back in cave I
Follow the water symbol back to cave L with the yellow submarine

Give the eye from the circus act to the submarine and click to board

Under Water

The image above shows the layout of the underwater maps. You can go through the two empty maps in the middle, but as there is nothing there for you to do, they are not shown in this walkthrough

Just put your cursor over one of the black water creatures to get the card
Go straight west

Go west again

Grab the slug’s eye and stick it to the submarine
Go southeast

Go south

Go southeast

Go south

Detach the sticky eye from the submarine
When the giant crab is up, stick the eye to the crab
Take the water disc
Click on all the little crabs to get the card
Go north back to map 6, then go east

Move your cursor over one of the jellyfish to get the card
Go south

If you haven’t already found all the blue buds, there will be another one in this screen
Go back north to map 8 and go east

Move your cursor over one of the creatures for a card
Go north

Go through the gap in the north

Click on the pumpkin next to the peanut creature for a mini game

To get the creature card you need to race the striped ladybug around the track and win
To move your (dotted) ladybug, click once on the disc in the middle and pull it into the direction you want to move
If the two ladybugs bump into each other, yours will slow down while the striped one speeds up, so be careful
The best way to win is to stay just behind the striped bug until it swerves away from the center and then to quickly overtake it on the inside
After completing a race, win or lose, the peanut creature will jump up and down with excitement. While he is jumping, quickly click on the purple pumpkin on the wall behind him to knock off his helmet (thanks Eli!)
Pick up the helmet
Exit to map 11
Go northwest

Move your cursor over one of the black leaves to get the card
Go west, back to map 1 and exit north to cave L
Exit cave L and go north and twice west to cave T with the circus act
Click on the gong so it is two levels down from the top
Go southeast to the daredevil and his cannon

Give the peanut’s helmet to the daredevil
Get below the cannon
Click the fuse and watch the daredevil hit the gong for another card
With all eight blue buds (or seven if you took the one from the eye monster itself) make your way back to cave C with the eye monster

Feed the buds through the tube one by one until all eight eyes are open and you’ll receive the star disc
Go south to the water/Pacman symbols and southeast to the spirit guy who set you the disc challenge in cave K

Make sure you’ve completed everything you need to do in this chapter and then click on the spirit to give him the discs

Five Spheres of Energy

You’re in a completely black area. You can go in various directions but you just get snapped back by the mouths in the wall. However, you can go through the mouths if you click on them when you’re near them

North
The giant leech will grab you and put you into one of the pods. If you try and take the energy sphere, he will just catch you and put you back
Click on the pod to the left of you (A) and then on the white arrow that appears in front of it. The creature inside the pod will be released, and while the leech is busy catching it you have time to move into the empty pod
Repeat the process with pod B
Finally, click to release Mrs. Mushroom in pod C, but then instead of trying to get into her pod, quickly grab the energy sphere

Northeast
When you try to take the energy sphere, the anemones will snap at you and block your way. The only anemone not in your way is #7
You can pull the anemones down by pulling others up. Each anemone controls one or two others:
1 controls 5 and 7
2 controls 3 and 6
3 controls 2 and 4
4 controls 3 and 5
5 controls 4 and 1
6 controls 2
7 controls 1
You need to figure out a way to pull anemones 1-6 down and out of your way. Unfortunately you can’t reset this puzzle, but in case you’ve come here from the default position as shown in the image, click 1, 3, 4, 5, 1. If you’ve already changed the default setting, try and work it so that anemone 1 is up and all the others are down. Then pull 7 up and 1 down and grab the sphere

East
On the next three screens you will need to click on Mr. Lanter to charge him and then click on the enemies coming towards him to shoot them. Don’t wait until you see something move before you charge, but recharge as soon as you’ve shot. Fortunately you can’t really miss. Some enemies you have to shoot multiple times, as shown by the number of red eyes. If they catch you, you have to restart the screen
On screen three they will all start coming at you at once, so shoot the nearest ones first
When you’ve shot all the little ones on screen three, take the energy sphere

A giant, slow moving monster will come up, so keep shooting it until it’s dead
When it’s dead, grab the energy sphere again

West
Once again you will be thwarted in your efforts to get the energy sphere
Click on the snappy things in the order shown in the image to tie them all into a messy tangle
Try to take the sphere and they will snap at you again and tighten the knot
Make for the sphere a second time to be successful
Northwest
Click on the sphere to light the room

Click on one of the creature’s legs

Rather than going for the energy sphere, click on the blob itself

If you move your cursor to the sphere, it will jump to a different blob. You can get the sphere when it’s on the second blob from the left but try them all for some fun
When the sphere is on the second blob from the left, move your cursor around the sphere to the blob itself and click on it

Direct the sphere with Mr. Lantern in it to the energy sphere by shooting jellyfish at it
Finish the game by exiting south and then clicking on the sphere to the right of the spider