How to Farm Ashes and How to Use

Ashes is a Reagent item in Hades 2. See how you can get Ashes, as well as all the uses for Ashes in our guide!

How to Farm Ashes

There are two ways to farm Ashes as you venture through the Underworld. Either through room rewards, purchasing at the Wretched Broker, or through Charon's Shop.

1. Go through rooms with the Ashes Icon
2. Buying at the Wretched Broker

Go Through Rooms with the Ashes Icon

Going through rooms with the Ashes Icon guarantee that you will get Ashes as your reward for clearing the stage.

Buy at the Wretched Broker

After unlocking the Wretched Broker, you can now buy Ashes in exchange for bones.

How to Farm Bones and How to Use

How to Use Ashes

Used For Incantations

Ashes is used in performing Incantations by the Cauldron in the Crossroads. These can achieve several effects varying from unlocking merchants and tools, to enhancing healing mechanics, and even augmenting certain boon-related gameplay aspects.

Incantations using Ashes

Ingredients	Incantation	Effects
・Ash x2 ・Silver x1 ・Moly x2	Fated Intervention	Beseech the Three Fates to lend their aid in a time of great need.
・Ash x1 ・N.Shade x1	Floral Fortune	Exchange plants and other goods for Bones at the Wretched Broker.
・Ash x6 ・F.Fabric x6 ・Cinder x1	Consecration of Ashes	Enhance the Altar of Ashes so that you can unlock the potential of your Arcana. Grants +3 Moon Dust.
・Psyche x30 ・Ash x30 ・F.Fabric x3	Shadow Extraction	Manifest +1 Shadow, used for powerful incantations.

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Used to Unlock Arcana Cards

Ashes are also used to unlock Arcana Cards in your Altar of Ashes. These cards offer semi-permanent buffs that remain active as long as you have them equipped. The number of cards you can equip is determined by your Grasp.
How to Increase Grasp

Ashes Info

Ashes Information
Ashes
Description	Remains of the dead and buried, which yet possess a spark of something there.
Type	Reagent
Room Reward Type	Minor

Hades 2 Related Guides

List of All Items

All Reagents

Bones	Ashes	Psyche	Fate Fabric
Silver	Limestone	Glassrock	Marble
Bronze	Iron	Plasma	Cinder
Pearl	Tears	Zodiac Sand	Wool
Darkness	Shadow	Entropy	Moon Dust
Star Dust	Nightmare	Rubbish