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Living with an Elf -A Cozy Forest Retreat- GUIDE
04/24/2025To save money in the very early game, buy only fruit from the market, taking Lucia along for the 20% discount. You only need to have Lucia cook one per day to avoid starvation penalties.
Your first goal is to unlock the recipe for Great Recovery Potion, the real money maker. The MC will hint at this during the opening tutorial. This requires crafting 50 or more regular recovery potions.
Start by spending as much time as possible gathering herbs in the forest. You can continue gathering after sunset (when Lucia goes to sleep), but return home when the clock hand is one notch to the left of “straight up”. If you stay too late you’ll suffer sleep deprivation.
At first just make flu potions. Use a single common herb and add flowers. When you run out of flowers you can make a batch, but don’t use all the herbs, you’ll need at least 6 for later.
Go sell the flu potions and buy 2, 4 or 6 Betrayal Violet Flowers, whatever you can afford.
Start crafting recovery potions using 1 herb, 1 shamrock and 2 violet flowers (yields 9 potions) and repeat until you run out.
Sell the recovery potions, buy more Violet Flower, buy or gather more herbs and shamrock and repeat until you’ve crafted 6 batches of 9 potions. The recipe for Great Recovery Potion will unlock the next time you sleep.
After that just go to the river (unlocks after collecting herbs 20 times) and search for Agyrium Lichen. With a single Lichen you can make 6 great recovery potions by using 2 violet flowers. The other base ingredients, shamrock and royal green flowers can be bought at the potion shop, don’t waste your time trying to gather them. You will make a profit of 6*1500-300-400-2*600=7100 from each Agyrium Lichen you can find. On rainy days you can also find Rain Blue Flowers at the river. Using 2 of those instead of violet flowers will give you a profit of 17*1500-300-400=24800 per lichen.
If you run out of LP while gathering at the river you can use your own product (great recovery potion) to recover 100 LP, once per day. Once you start making some real money have Lucia grind cooking to level 10 to unlock the tavern, then go eat Cheese Hamburg Steak to improve vitality in order to raise max LP (while also recovering a lot of LP). Whenever your health is below 50 you can eat Honey Veggie Potage at the tavern for +50 health.
Player stats
this is basically energy
when gathering herbs it is consumed at a rate depending on the region
crafting a potion consumes 1LP
you regain 50LP by sleeping
eating a meal can also recover LP (it’ll say in the meal description) — this is the main way to recover large amounts
the best meals are at the tavern in town (especially once you unlock the secret menu)
recovery and greater recovery potions give 30/100 LP but can only be used once per day
there is a potion that can recover all LP 3 days after taking it; I never bothered with it
= Vitality =
this doesn’t do anything on its own but raising it improves other stats
you gain 50 LP for every 100 endurance
you gain 1 extra ejaculation for every 400 endurance
vitality is increased by eating certain foods
vitality can be lost (5 points per day) while sick
= Health =
when health is less than 20 the main character has a chance to get sick (character status will change from Normal to Flu); see below for what that does
health is reduced by 1 each time you gather herbs (1 per time unit spent) and by 3 when you craft potions (doesn’t matter how many you craft in one session); sleep deprivation adds an extra penalty
if you don’t eat anything in one day, the next day you lose 5 health
if you don’t eat anything for 2 days, the next day you lose 10 health
the penalty increases for each day you go without eating up to a maximum of 25
health cannot decrease below 0 or go above 100
= About Flu =
the first time you get sick Lucia will heal you back to full after 1 day (removing the sickness and setting health to 100); she will only do this once
while sick you can’t do anything other than talk to Lucia or craft potions
the sickness takes 5 days to clear on its own
taking a flu potion reduces the sick time by 1.5 days
crafting potions increases the sick time by 0.5 days
when you recover from the flu you gain 50 health; if you were starving this gets immediately reduced by the starving penalty
= About sleep deprivation =
if you go to bed after midnight (3 time units after Lucia goes to bed) you’ll be sleep deprived the next day
in that state you’ll take an extra 3 points of health damage when gathering or crafting
simply go to bed before midnight to get rid of this status
= Compounding level =
doesn’t confer any benefits, but some potions have a minimum level requirement
raising this is also necessary for story progression (see that section for details)
you can raise this by crafting potions; what matters is the type and quantity of potion crafted, ingredients don’t matter
you can also raise it by paying Lobellia; her level 5 course available late game is the most efficient
the max value is 99
Lucia stats
mainly raise this by having Lucia cook at home; you can see how much xp you get from each dish
desserts generally give more xp but less of other benefits
Lucia learns new recipes at level 5,10,20,30,40,50,60
using Spirit Fire Powder while cooking doubles the xp gain
you can only eat 3 dishes total in one day; if you eat 3 meals in the tavern you won’t be able to cook anything at home
After becoming lovers, if Lucia’s cooking sterminate is less than 20 she’ll get lessons at work, raising it to 20.
= Affection =
measures how much she loves/trusts the MC
talking to her raises it by 2
eating together at the tavern raises it by 2 (except rainbow slime jelly, which raises it by 30)
playing in the river (with or without sex) raises it by 3
pillow talk after sex can increase it by 5
= Service =
measure how good she is at sex, which determines how fast she can make the player cum
you’ll want to keep this lower than lust if you want to be able to make her orgasm without using potions
raise this by asking her to service you at night; you get bonus points from telling her she’s doing a good job at least 3 times
If you tell Lucia that “it hurts” during 3 service sessions (not counting the initial one) she’ll go to Lobellia for advice and gain 100 service (but only if her service is under 300).
At service level 600 she starts performing “cleanup blowjob” after sex.
= Lust =
measures how much she wants sex, and also how easy it is to make her cum
her dialogue during sex changes at level 300 and 600; this also affects the forest sex scene (which has 3 variations depending on her lust level)
raise this by having sex with her
having sex in the forest gives 10 points
using a Succubus Aphrodisiac (during cooking) or a Brothel Incense raises it by 50
= About Horny Status =
Lucia can get horny if you don’t have sex with her for a while, but only if her lust if above 300. This takes about 15 days.
Alternatively, use a Brothel Incense after 6 days of abstinence and it should trigger in a day or two.
You can also use Succubus Aphrodisiac to make her horny, but in order to unlock that potion you need to wait for her to become horny on her own.
The Horny status changes some dialogue, especially during sex. There is not much difference between Horny status and lust over 600.
Having sex while Lucia is horny will increase all 3 stats by 30.
= About Sex Talk =
Choosing certain dialogue options during sex (not foreplay) 3 or more times in one session can give you bonus stat points. For example “I love you” gives 10 affection and 3 lust/service. She may also comment on it during pillow talk.
Story progression requirements
bar + Lucia part-time job unlocks at cooking lv 10
Lobellia shop unlocks after selling 30K worth of potions and compounding level 10
Flower present (and lovers status) happens after selling 50K worth of potions, 50 affection, Lucia working, at least one date and met Lobellia
Fairy mischief happens after 20 collections, 60 affection and compounding level 15
First dream event happens with 70 affection after fairy mischief and gifting flowers
Second dream happens after first and 80 affection
Lobellia visits after 2nd dream when Lucia is not at work, unlocks sex with Lucia
Tavern commissions unlock after compounding level 30
Engagement Ring quest after 200 affection 200 lust 200 service
Herb transmutation unlocks after 200 collections [visit Lobellia]
True ending requirements
unlocked the bookstore by visiting the city of Nimrond, “Walk in the city” then “Continue walk” 3 times
bought the Book of Immortality from the bookstore
seen all 3 plays at the city theater
obtained all 6 commission gifts
compounding level 99 (get the level 5 training from Lobellia a few times)
Potion recipe unlock conditions
3) Refreshing Water Potion = 3 orgasms in one session (may need to use Big Dick Magic Potion and have high vitality)
4) Big Dick Magic Potion = have sex 10 times (both forest sex and night time sex count, so this can be done in 5 days)
5) Powerhouse Lover Potion = ejaculate 3 times in one session (need to raise vitality)
6) Succubus Aphrodisiac = make Lucia horny (15 days without sex and lust over 300)
7) Flash Potion = 3 mischief encounters
8) Lure Fragrance = 1 mischief success (capture fairy) [visit Lobellia] OR engagement ring event
9) Miraculous Luck Potion = collection count 150
10) Spirit Fire Powder = cooking level 30 [visit bar]
11) Evil Repellent = 3 mischief encounters
12) Sleeping Scents = after sleep exhaustion (stay out collecting past midnight then keep making potions)
13) Awakening Potion = after first mischief
14) Paralysis Powder = complete 5 commissions OR engagement ring event
15) Brothel’s Incense = lust 100 [visit Lobellia]
Raising Compounding level to 99 unlocks all recipes, but that’s a late game thing.
Late game money making
In the late game you should have all potion recipes unlocked (if not see that section) and you can easily get ingredients via fairy farming + transmutation. You should also be getting free random ingredients from the Fairy Treasure Chest (see rewards section).
For basic potion ingredients sold by the potion shop it’s better to just buy them. Lobellia’s ingredients are not worth buying, use transmutation instead.
When crafting potions use a single ingredient and add either 2 Rain Blue Flowers or 1 Elven Fragment, whichever results in a higher yield.=== Fairy farming ===
This becomes possible after unlocking Lure Fragrance and Paralysis Powder.
Use the Lure Fragrance in the morning, then go to the cave area. You have a high chance to encouter the Death Fairy and after using Paralysis Powder you have a high chance of capturing her (you get 2 tries). In exchange for letting her go she’ll give you 15 high level flowers and 1 Elven Fragment.
The flowers can be used to create other potion ingredients via transmutation, instead of wasting time trying to collect them. Save the blue flowers for potion making.
The fairies found in other zones give rewards that are less useful, but they all drop 1 Elven Fragment. In the evening/night time a different fairy shows up regardless of zone.
Commission rewards
Peregrine: Fairy Treasure Chest = gain random herbs each morning
Grohl: Cave Raider’s Knowledge = collect herbs twice per time unit, at half the LP cost
Kervran: Love Inn Recommendation = unlocks the love hotel option at night
Belladonna: Black Witch’s Cauldron = improves potion yield by 30% when using flowers
Kyrion: Water Serpent Sacred Stone = allow choosing next day’s weather
Barliman: Master Merchant Negotiations = get 20% discount at the market without Lucia
How to unlock all sex scenes
For the scripted scenes that can be seen in Memory:
1. First sex scene: part of story progression, can’t miss it
2. Forest sex I: After first sex. Invite Lucia for a walk in the forest, go to the spring, play in the water, take off your clothes. Lucia’s lust must be under 300.
3. Forest sex II: Forest sex with lust between 300 and 600.
4. Forest sex III: Forest sex with lust over 600 or Horny status.
5. Wedding night sex: part of story progression
6. Masturbation I: Make Lucia horny (see “Lucia stats”). Go into town alone and come back.
7. Masturbation II: Repeat the above.
8. Bathroom sex: Visit the Luxury Inn in the city, during honeymoon or later. Choose to take a bath together, then after washing choose to make love to her.
9. Hotel sex: Visit: As above, but don’t take a bath (can get both on the same trip)
10-17. Love hotel roleplay scenes: Invite Lucia to go to the love hotel at night. See “Commission rewards”.After getting the True Ending you can also unlock all the scenes that you may have missed, but replaying them from Memory skips straight to the sex so you don’t get the full experience.
