How To Upgrade Your Gourd in Black Myth: Wukong (Drink Type & Soaks)

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The healing Gourd in can be upgraded to restore more of your health every time you drink from it. However, certain items called soaks can be added to your Gourd to transform the drink within it to provide other benefits as well. These alternate drinks can also be upgraded to give you stronger effects beyond just helping you recover from damage in battle.

Gourds can be broken down into three parts — the Gourd itself, the drink inside the Gourd, and the soaks added to alter a drink's properties. Gourds have various base effects, but many are defined by the maximum number of drinks they can hold. For example, a Gourd could heal you and help you recover from poison in , but it has fewer drinks than your standard Gourd.

Black Myth: Wukong provides two graphical profiles for easy settings: Performance and Quality mode. Each has pros and cons for different players.

Gourds, drinks, and soaks can all be upgraded with the Shen Monkey NPC found during Chapter 1. This character is located at the Marsh of White Mist Keeper's Shrine but moves to the Painted Realm once you unlock that region later. Among his starting wares, the Shen Monkey offers several drinks and soaks to get you started, including:

Item

Item Type

Description

Cost

A Thousand Days Inebriation

Drink

Each sip recovers 60% of your max HP but temporarily impairs movement.

9,000 Will

Pinebrew

Drink

Each sip recovers 35% of your max HP. When your HP is below 50%, and you drink, you also gain extra Focus from a sip.

6,000 Will

Flower Primes

Soak

Using the Gourd removes all four bane status effects.

12,000 Will

Celestial Lotus Seeds

Soak

For a brief moment after using the Gourd, a small amount of health is slowly recovered.

2,400 Will

Drinks and soaks should not be confused with medicines in , which are consumable items used to give you stat upgrades rather than healing effects from sipping your Gourd.

Upgrades for your Gourd cost Luojia Fragrant Vines, while upgrades to drinks cost Awaken Wine