Plants Intro

## Unlocking Plants

To unlock plants in your garden, click on the weed next to the inventory chest in the lower right of the brewery or any garden.  This will open the plant academy. You can click through to unlock or view the unlocking requirements. You can also view the unlocking requirements from your inventory by clicking the inventory chest.

The plant academy will automatically scroll from a plant you've unlocked up to the highest level plant you've unlocked. You can toggle unlockable plants using the garden icons on the left.

For the first few level of plants, only the Aqua Garden is required, and you can unlock the plants in order.  However, at level 6 of your aqua garden, you'll need plants from the rock garden in order to advance. From there, you will no longer be able to unlock plants in order as they appear in the inventory chest. There's no definite order in which you must unlock plants and gardens, particularly later in the game when you have 4 regular gardens, but each plant requires specific brewery items which you won't be able to brew unless you've unlocked all those plants first. If you're unsure, click "tip" next to the gardener. The gardener will offer a suggestion on which plant you should unlock next.

Use the trowel to plant your garden items or click on an empty garden plotUnlock plants by clicking on the weed to open the plant academy menuUnlock plants by gathering the necessary plants and/or brewery items and unlocking them in the plant academy
## Managing Inventory

You can open your inventory from any garden or from the brewery by clicking the chest in the bottom right corner of the game window or by clicking an empty garden plot. At first, you won't have many plants, but as you progress through the game, you may find it helpful to organize your inventory using the included sorting tools. You can search for a plant by name using the search box, or you can use one of the many sorting tabs.

I personally use the "amount descending" sort option the most since I usually want to plant more of the plants I have the least of. Sorting by time can help you find something that fits in your schedule, and sorting by garden enables you to find something quickly.

You can use all three sorting options at once (garden tabs, element buttons, and ascending or descending order), to quickly find exactly what you need. However, if you're used to certain plants being next to each other, reorganizing may take a bit of getting used to.

For more on how to use the inventory, check out this forum post.

## Q&A

Q. Help, I'm stuck in the plant academy and there's no button to get back to the main game screen.

A. Although nearly every screen in the game has either a "to my island" button or a red X in the corner so you can get out easily, there is no such button in the plant academy. Fortunately, a recent update has added a "back" button to the bottom right. However, if at any time you want to return to the main game window, just scroll down and click on the mist outside the main game window. This will refresh the game screen and take you back to your island overview. (You can also click to the left or right of the game window if your screen resolution is wide enough).

Q. Are there any shortcuts?

A. Technically, it is possible to unlock a plant even if you haven't unlocked all the previous brewery items and plants. You can win potions, powders, and herbs from the wheel of fortune or gardening championship, or you can purchase them when they're on special deals from Moana. These are unreliable, but if you get lucky and happen to know what you need to unlock the plant, it's possible.