Gwen Questline Walkthrough + Spirit Guide (Spiritfarer)

Gwen's first quest in Spiritfarer
Gwen
Where to Find Alt Harbor (X: 43, Y: 40)
Spirit House Gwen’s Lodge
Mini-Game Jellyfish Event
Favorite Food Black Coffee

Gwen is the first spirit you’ll ever meet, and she will actually teach you the basics of the role of Spiritfarer.

This guide will cover Gwen’s complete quest line step-by-step, as well as her characteristics, mood factors, and more.

How To Get Gwen

You first meet Gwen waiting on Alt Harbor / Spiritfarer
You first meet Gwen waiting on Alt Harbor.

You first meet Gwen in Alt Harbor, right after Charon hands you over the role.

Just jump on the buildings to reach her spirit at the top. Additionally, this part of the game will also teach you how Spiritfarer’s platforming mechanics work.

After talking, she will then lead you to your boat, before revealing her true form and starting her quest line.

Gwen’s Complete Quest Line

Set Sail, Captain!

The ship that Gwen will provide to you after you meet her / Spiritfarer
The ship that Gwen will provide to you after you meet her.

Start this request by sailing towards Albert’s Shipyard, located at X: 61, Y: 64.

Then talk to Alex in order to get the Beginner Blueprint Station Upgrade.

The first Blueprint upgrade is free / Spiritfarer
The first Blueprint upgrade is free.

Next, head back to the boat and interact with the trash to salvage it and get 10 Maple Planks and a bunch of other materials.

The planks are then used to build Gwen’s Guest House in your blueprint station, under the “Unique Buildings” tab.

The Guest House is the first building you’ll ever construct in the game / Spiritfarer
The Guest House is the first building you’ll ever construct in the game.

I Get Cranky When I’m Hungry

Gwen will ask you to retrieve Bright Jelly via the Jellyfish Event / Spiritfarer
Gwen will ask you to retrieve Bright Jelly via the Jellyfish Event.

After a while, Gwen will talk to you and introduce you to the game’s first minigame: the Jellyfish Event.

She will ask you to sail towards a new location revealed on the map, and the minigame will start once you arrive and talk to her.

The location of the first Jellyfish event / Spiritfarer
The location of the first Jellyfish event.

During this event, all you need to do is hit the jellyfish passing by through the ship.

Regular jellyfish will give you game currency called Glims, while green jellyfish will give Bright Jelly.

We also created a full guide of the Jellyfish Event if you’d want more information.

After the event, you should have collected enough Bright Jelly to build the Kitchen from your Blueprint Station, which Gwen will instruct you to do.

Building the kitchen via the blueprint station / Spiritfarer
Building the kitchen via the blueprint station.

Once you’ve built the kitchen, Gwen will teach you how to cook, and then will hand you some corn to make Popcorn with.

Head inside the kitchen and put the corn inside the oven.

A timer will then appear, and the popcorn will be ready once the timer finishes counting down. This process is the same for all dishes, although the waiting time varies for each recipe.

Cooking the corn that Gwen gave you in the kitchen / Spiritfarer
Cooking the corn that Gwen gave you in the kitchen.

Once you have your popcorn, interact with Gwen again and give her the popcorn from your inventory to boost her mood and finish the request. She will also hand you an Obol after.

Giving food to spirits will help boost their mood / Spiritfarer
Giving food to spirits will help boost their mood.

Seeds for the Future

For this request, Gwen will give you a new island to visit: Mosstein Cove.

Mosstein Cove on the World Map / Spiritfarer
Mosstein Cove on the World Map.

Once on the island, Gwen will teach you how to cut trees.

This is done by interacting with the highlighted trees and sawing back and forth until you get the logs.

Sawing trees for logs / Spiritfarer
Sawing trees for logs.

After that, keep heading right and jump over the water to find a limestone node. You can mine this by holding the interact button and letting go once the axe is glowing.

If you don’t let go at all, the axe will explode and you will need to repeat the process.

Keep hitting the node until you get limestone.

Let go of holding the axe once it starts to fully glow to hit the node / Spiritfarer
Let go of holding the axe once it starts to fully glow to hit the node.

You can explore some more of the island if you wish, but to continue the request you’d need to sail towards another new island on your World Map: Hummingberg.

The island of Hummingberg / Spiritfarer
The island of Hummingberg.

Once you get to Hummingberg, walk to the center of the island village until you find a Raccoon Shop.

The seed prices will initially be super expensive, but after talking to Gwen, the prices should go down. Buy some linen seeds for 70 Glims each.

Buying linen seeds at the Raccoon Shop / Spiritfarer
Buying linen seeds at the Raccoon Shop.

Head back to your ship after and look for the Field building in your Blueprint Station. You’ll need to build the Field to plant your seeds for this request.

Here’s all the materials this building requires:

  • 15 Maple Logs
  • 3 Limestones

Note: You should already have these materials from your previous Mosstein Cove visit.

Building the Field via the blueprint station / Spiritfarer
Building the Field via the blueprint station.

Once you’ve built the field, head inside and interact with any of the plots of land to plant linen seeds.

Water the seeds, and Gwen will officially end the request and the game’s tutorial section.

Planting seeds in the Field ends the game’s tutorial section / Spiritfarer
Planting seeds in the Field ends the game’s tutorial section.

The More, The Merrier

Right after the tutorial, Gwen will ask you to recruit more spirits. This divides the request into two parts:

  1. Recruiting Atul
  2. Recruiting Summer

So we’ll start by sailing towards the island of Barkensheim Creek, located to the left of Hummingberg.

Start by sailing to Barkensheim Creek / Spiritfarer
Start by sailing to Barkensheim Creek.

After arriving, walk right until you find a short spirit standing beside the water. This is Atul, and he will immediately give you the “Sticky Fingers” request upon talking to him (he’ll ask you to retrieve his lemon in the water).

To do this, jump in the water and dive (hold down and press jump button) in the part where you can see a glimmer.

After getting the lemon, hand it to Atul and he will join your ship right after.

Dive down to the glowing part in the water to retrieve Atul’s lemon / Spiritfarer
Dive down to the glowing part in the water to retrieve Atul’s lemon.

Note: The second part of this request can only be completed once you have the Obol that Atul will give you after his “Nice Catch” request.

Once you have two obols, head back to Hummingberg and interact with the shrine that Gwen introduced earlier.

Then exchange your two obols to unlock Stella’s double jump ability.

Exchange your two obols for the double jump ability in Hummingberg / Spiritfarer
Exchange your two obols for the double jump ability in Hummingberg.

After that, continue heading right until you find the broken ladder right beside the Raccoon Shop.

Double jump to reach the broken ladder beside the Hummingberg Raccoon Shop / Spiritfarer
Double jump to reach the broken ladder beside the Hummingberg Raccoon Shop.

Double jump to reach this ladder and climb on the platform above, then keep heading right until you find a ladder that goes down.

You’ll find a small platform with a bench below. Talk to the spirit sitting on it, and she will immediately join your boat as Stella’s aunt: Summer.

Once Summer reveals her true form on the ship, Gwen’s request will end.

Finding Summer at the far-right of Hummingberg / Spiritfarer
Finding Summer at the far-right of Hummingberg.

Spring Feet

After getting the Obol from Atul, Gwen will talk to you to give this request. It will automatically end once you acquire the double jump ability from Hummingberg.

Usonia 1

Gwen asking for her own space in the ship / Spiritfarer
Gwen asking for her own space in the ship.

After completing a couple of Summer and Atul’s requests, Gwen will talk to you again and ask for her own space, since they no longer fit in the Guest House.

She will then give you the Gwen’s Lodge blueprint, which requires:

  • 10 Maple Logs
  • 2 Limestones
Building Gwen’s lodge on the ship / Spiritfarer
Building Gwen’s lodge on the ship.

This unique building is found under the 2nd tab of the blueprint station, and we have a detailed guide on how to build Gwen’s Lodge if you need more info.

Gwen will end the request once her lodge is built.

Cut from the Same Cloth

Gwen asking for the Loom / Spiritfarer
Gwen asking for the Loom.

During this request, Gwen will talk to you and ask for a Loom on the ship.

This building is unlocked via the Hobbyist Blueprint Station, so you’ll need to head over to Albert’s Shipyard to purchase the upgrade. The upgrade itself requires:

  • 2 Maple Logs
  • 1 Limestone

For a more detailed breakdown of this upgrade you can read our full Blueprint Station Guide.

The Hobbyist Blueprint upgrade / Spiritfarer
The Hobbyist Blueprint upgrade.

Once you have the Hobbyist upgrade, head back to your blueprint station at the ship and look for the Loom.

This building requires these materials:

  • 10 Maple Logs
  • 8 Quartz
Building the Loom / Spiritfarer
Building the Loom.

The request automatically ends once you have the building on your ship.

Basic Moves

You can input up to 50 pieces of the same item inside the Loom / Spiritfarer
You can input up to 50 pieces of the same item inside the Loom.

After building the Loom, Gwen will head inside and teach you how to use it.

She will also give you some fiber to use.

The Loom minigame works like this:

  1. Interact with the machine and input the material you want to use. You can input up to 50 of the same item.
  2. Hold the interact button until Stella hits the yellow marker.
  3. The more accurately you hit the marker, the more output you get.
Hit the target marker every time to get maximum output / Spiritfarer
Hit the target marker every time to get maximum output.

The request will end after the Loom minigame.

Back to the Past

Villa Maggiore location / Spiritfarer
Villa Maggiore location.

After a while, Gwen will talk to you again and tell you about her family’s old mansion, as well as its location.

Upon your arrival at the island, go up the stairs and head right to find Gwen on the balcony. She will hand you the key to the villa, and ask you to find her old music box.

However, your objective at the captain’s log is to find the Loom Upgrade.

Start by unlocking the Villa with the key from Gwen / Spiritfarer
Start by unlocking the Villa with the key from Gwen.

Here’s where to find it:

Step 1: Enter through the front door and head right (where there’s light inside) until you find the ladder at the very end.

Enter through the front door and head right / Spiritfarer

Step 2: Go up to the second floor and head left until you find another ladder. Go up this ladder to reach the fourth floor.

Go up to the second floor and head left until you find another ladder / Spiritfarer

Step 3: From the fourth floor, head left and go down another ladder to the second floor.

From the fourth floor, head left and go down another ladder to the second floor / Spiritfarer

Step 4: Head left until you find the next ladder, then go down to the first floor.

Head left until you find the next ladder, then go down to the first floor / Spiritfarer

Step 5: Keep heading left towards the next ladder that’s all the way beside the wall, and use that to climb up the second floor.

Keep heading left towards the next ladder that’s all the way beside the wall / Spiritfarer

Step 6: Walk towards the right to find the next ladder, and climb up to the third floor.

Walk towards the right to find the next ladder, and climb up to the third floor / Spiritfarer

Step 7: Finally, walk right and climb the final ladder.

Finally, walk right and climb the final ladder / Spiritfarer

Step 8: Interact with the door to reach the balcony with the spirit and the chest. This contains both the Loom upgrade and Gwen’s music box.

The chest in the villa balcony contains the loom upgrade and Gwen’s music box / Spiritfarer
The chest in the villa balcony contains the loom upgrade and Gwen’s music box.

Jump down to where Gwen is and give her the music box. This ends the request.

More than Meets the Eye

Gwen will talk to you and ask to get the Loom upgraded / Spiritfarer
Gwen will talk to you and ask to get the Loom upgraded.

Gwen will now ask you to use the blueprint you found to upgrade the Loom.

To do this, head to your blueprint station, go to the “improve” tab, and click the Loom. This upgrade requires:

  • 10 Maple Planks
  • 18 Linen Threads
  • 8 Bright Jellies
Head to your blueprint station, go to the “improve” tab, and click the Loom / Spiritfarer
Upgrading the Loom lets you weave threads into fabrics / Spiritfarer
Upgrading the Loom lets you weave threads into fabrics.

Once built, Gwen will head inside and ask you to weave threads into fabrics via the same minigame. The request will end right after.

Gwen will teach you how to weave threads into fabrics before ending the request / Spiritfarer
Gwen will teach you how to weave threads into fabrics before ending the request.

Pretty On the Inside

Gwen asking for improvements for her lodge / Spiritfarer
Gwen asking for improvements for her lodge.

Next up, Gwen will talk to you and ask for her cabin to get improved.

For this, you will need to get three decorations. Here’s a complete list:

Upgrade Required Materials
Reading Corner
  • 2 Maple Planks
  • 5 Linen Fabrics
  • 80 Glims
Bookcase
  • 2 Maple Planks
  • 2 Linen Fabrics
  • 250 Glims
Wall Decorations
  • 4 Maple Logs
  • 120 Glims
There are three improvements you can add on Gwen’s Lodge / Spiritfarer
There are three improvements you can add on Gwen’s Lodge.

You can also check out our Gwen’s Lodge Guide for a more in-depth breakdown of getting all these materials.

After getting all of the improvements, Gwen will head inside and end the request.

What Gwen’s Lodge will look like once all the improvements are made / Spiritfarer
What Gwen’s Lodge will look like once all the improvements are made.

Taking Time Off

Next up, Gwen will ask to be left alone for a while / Spiritfarer
Next up, Gwen will ask to be left alone for a while.

The next time Gwen talks to you, she will say that she feels off and needs her own space. She will then disappear from the boat.

After a while (or after you’ve done other errands), go inside her lodge to find that she’s still nowhere to be found.

This ends the request and immediately starts the next one.

I Must Be Off

Finding Gwen in Villa Maggiore / Spiritfarer
Finding Gwen in Villa Maggiore.

For this next request, you will need to look for Gwen.

As she’s nowhere on the ship, head back to Villa Maggiore. You’ll find her standing on the far right of her house, and she will talk to you. She will also ask for a hug, and the request will end right after.

One Last Time

Gwen will immediately ask to be taken to the Everdoor after getting back on the ship / Spiritfarer
Gwen will immediately ask to be taken to the Everdoor after getting back on the ship.

Once you’re back on the ship, Gwen will talk to you on the ship’s bow and say that she’s ready to leave.

So you’ll need to sail towards the Everdoor, located right in the middle of the map.

Once you’re there, Gwen will go to the back of the boat, say her goodbye, and go to the little dinghy with you.

The Everdoor is located in the middle of the map / Spiritfarer
The Everdoor is located in the middle of the map.

Next you’ll find Stella paddling along the water with Gwen talking. At the end, Gwen will leave for Everdoor.

Taking Gwen to the Everdoor / Spiritfarer
Taking Gwen to the Everdoor.

After a short animation, Stella will find herself in a platforming section.

For the platforming, just follow the butterflies / Spiritfarer
For the platforming, just follow the butterflies.

During this section, just follow the violet butterflies and interact with them whenever they stay at one place to reveal a memory with Gwen.

Interact with the butterflies whenever they stop to reveal a memory / Spiritfarer
Interact with the butterflies whenever they stop to reveal a memory.

You will repeat this process a few times, with easy platforming sections in-between. At the very end, you’ll encounter the giant owl Hades for the first time.

You will meet Hades for the first time at the end of this section / Spiritfarer
You will meet Hades for the first time at the end of this section.

After he’s finished talking to you, you’ll find yourself back on the ship, and Gwen’s Spirit Flower can be found in her bed inside her lodge.

You will find Gwen’s spirit flower inside her lodge once you’re back on the ship / Spiritfarer
You will find Gwen’s spirit flower inside her lodge once you’re back on the ship.

This ends Gwen’s questline in the game.

Characteristics

As the first spirit you’ll meet, Gwen will teach you about the basics of your role / Spiritfarer
As the first spirit you’ll meet, Gwen will teach you about the basics of your role.

Gwen introduces herself as Stella’s best friend and ‘sister’ figure when she was still alive.

Like all of the spirits that will board your ship, Gwen’s mood is affected by what happens there. Luckily, you can always keep her mood up by giving her coffee and hugs.

By contrast, she gets annoyed by the morning bell, and whenever she’s hungry.

Her food preferences are:

  • Favorite Food: Black Coffee
  • Likes: Comfort Food and Fine Dining Food
  • Dislikes: Fruit and any dish with shellfish

Gwen also provides perks by visiting the loom and making threads and cloths. She will then give these to you when you talk to her.

Naturally, Gwen is also the first spirit you’ll take to the Everdoor / Spiritfarer
Naturally, Gwen is also the first spirit you’ll take to the Everdoor.

Mini-Game

Gwen will also introduce you to the Jellyfish event, where you sail to dark purple areas on the map and catch jellyfish for bright jelly and glims.

Note that you can still do this event even after Gwen leaves.

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