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Mystic Ark（Super Famicom）
7 Arks, key items and healing items
Search Ark targets, Matoya's ingredients, and destinations for Hearts and keys. Choose recovery by target and value, and distinguish the Deck Brush tool from its weapon version.
Scope: Japanese SFC version / existing material checked October 2, 2026; additional correction scope October 13, 2026 / reproduction on hardware unverified / Content checked: October 15, 2026
7 Arks: progression and equipment uses
| Ark | Acquisition | Exploration / materialization | Effects in equipment / on reserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power | Sand: Chavez's Altar | Windmill device / materializing a companion | Axe Attack +30 |
| Light | Fruit: northeastern tree | Music box, machinery, arena entrance | Supports weapon enhancement for swords, katana, knives, bows, axes and boomerangs. Increase remains pending because sources disagree |
| Wisdom | Children: Cecil's storeroom | Clock, ancient monument / second companion | In a shield, offers instant-death protection. Not described as complete immunity |
| Fire | Greenery: Hydro Cell | Entrance lamp at the northern hut | Supports weapon enhancement for swords, katana, knives and bows. Armor use provides fire resistance. Increase remains pending |
| Wood | Wind: Nanaka | Pencil, trees, stumps, wardrobes | Armor use protects against sleep/petrification. Reserve-figurine use recovers MP. Recovery-rate figures remain pending |
| Water | House of Darkness: final chest | Kitchen bottle, Kumu windmill gear | Armor use provides ice resistance. Reserve-figurine use recovers HP. Recovery-rate figures remain pending |
| Darkness | Fairy Tales: Karaskobes Falls | Crystal deep in the temple | Adds petrification to staff attacks. Not guaranteed to affect every boss |
- Power and Wisdom can materialize companions, so check party composition before placing them in weapons or shields. Resistance is not presented as guaranteed complete immunity.
- Sources disagree on whether Light and Fire add a fixed amount or multiply weapon power. This table adopts none of +40, +20 or 2× as a confirmed value.
- Distinguish Wood/Water figurine recovery from Power/Wisdom companion materialization. Placing Wood or Water in a figurine alone does not add a battle companion.
Choose Light/Fire by weapon type rather than character name
| Weapon type | Light | Fire | Check when choosing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swords, katana, knives, bows | Supported | Supported | Candidates for sharing Light and Fire between different weapons |
| Axes, boomerangs | Supported | Not listed as enhancement targets | Use Light here and reserve Fire for a sword or similar weapon |
| Nunchaku, iron-man Arms | Not listed as enhancement targets | Not listed as enhancement targets | Do not confuse them with other weapons the character can equip |
- Even for Reeshine, support differs between nunchaku and boomerangs. Check the equipped weapon before assigning an Ark.
- Primarily covers Japanese SFC uses, with overseas English-patch guides as supplementary material. Attack multipliers/additions remain pending due to conflicting sources.
5 ingredients for Matoya's medicine
| Ingredient | Where to look |
|---|---|
| Onion | Crate in the Blood Hook kitchen |
| Fire Scotch | Ganbos tavern shelf. Speak to the proprietor first |
| Chess Piece | The cat playing chess aboard the Blood Hook |
| Rat's Tail | Bragg in the cell |
| Healing Sapling | Speak to the cat in the Aquatic Plant Jungle |
31 progression-item entries
| Item | Acquisition / creation | Destination / use |
|---|---|---|
| Rusty Key | Chest in the first World of Sand hut | Hut door |
| Report | Pinkhead aboard the Ganbos | Sixpack aboard the Blood Hook |
| Rank Certificate | After reporting the reconnaissance | Entering the Ganbos through the front |
| Stone Moon | Wardrobe in your room aboard the Blood Hook | Crescent-shaped recess on the southeastern bridge |
| Iron | Deep in the World of Sand quarry | After giving one to Sixpack, keep another for the Warrior's Sword |
| Deck Brush (tool) | Jarasy aboard the Ganbos | Hat, floor crack and synthesis. Distinguish from the weapon version |
| Pineapple / Grape Hearts | Item-shop owner after Metal Fox | Seed figurines in the temple kitchen |
| Chick Heart | Shake the tree at the crow's nest | Chick figurine outside the temple |
| Jar of Cold Water | Upstream in the Water Source Cave | Bring the sloth out of Watermelon |
| Beetle's Key | Beetle in Grape | Northeastern tree entrance |
| 4 books | Clock, plant, well and desk in the dead end | Return to the shelves to open the bars |
| Milk Tea | Put milk and tea into the Empty Bottle | Chocolate tablet on Sweet Mountain |
| Candy | Back of Sweet Mountain | Exchange with Regina for the Plaza Heart and other uses |
| Plaza Heart | Exchange with Regina | Plaza figurine on temple floor 2 |
| Book Fragment | Mansion library event | Opens the Great Cedar Grove route |
| Brass Key | Neen after returning to the mansion | Laboratory entrance |
| Edison Heart | His house in Keepunsign | Return it to the temple figurine, then take it home |
| Rona Heart | Bottomless Cave | Return it to the temple figurine, then take it to Snowgate |
| Letter | Einstein's bookshelf | Edison in Keepunsign |
| Beech Sap | Fill an Empty Bottle in the grove west of Dupro | Machine repairs and Warrior's Sword. Prepare enough for both |
| Veralite | Bell in Bell Forest | Edison's machine repairs |
| Open Card | Loosewrench in Metalimo | Elevator. Upgrade its destinations after Death Knight |
| Blue Book / Black Book | Below the Ruins Tower | Give to Siltis. The returned Black Book is used higher in the tower |
| Ancient Mirror | Quicksand Cave | Blocks the power at Korn's entrance clone |
| Lizard Tail | Hatch the egg in the House of Darkness | Give to the bird to open the optional Fierce Beast room |
| Amethyst | Jar in the House of Darkness | Sealed statues |
| Sandwich | Ark of Wood on the tree left of Twinkle's inn | Opens Gum Forest's route |
| Letter of Introduction | King after meeting Lion | Head to Waz's Tower |
| Glass Ball | Ark of Water on Kumu's windmill gear | Use on the Kuru Forest tree |
| Glass Slippers: 19 | Choose 19 feet at the tree where you use the Glass Ball | Give to Cinderena |
| Concealing Clothes | Tailor room after the residents vanish | Pass the figure blocking Karaskobes Falls |
15 recovery and battle-item entries
| Item | Recovery / use | Target / caution |
|---|---|---|
| Potion | HP40 | 1 person |
| Herb | HP100 | 1 person |
| Herb Cookie | HP160 | 1 person |
| Herb Soup | HP240 | 1 person |
| Special Herb | Full HP recovery | 1 person |
| Mystic Scent | MP16 | 1 person |
| Mystic Musk | MP40 | 1 person |
| Perfume | MP80 | 1 person |
| Mystic Spray | MP100 | 1 person |
| Mystic Vial | Full MP recovery | 1 person |
| Mystic Bottle | Full HP/MP recovery | 1 person |
| Empty Bottle | Collect milk, tea and other liquids | Also used in mixing-content mechanisms |
| Cross | Instant-death protection equivalent to Death Guard | Use it as an item; merely carrying it is different |
| Magic Mirror | Magic protection equivalent to Mirror | Use during battle |
| Antidote | Cures poison | Petrification-curing effects differ by source and are not guaranteed |
- Crosses and Magic Mirrors must be used in battle, not merely carried. Prepare separately for recovery amounts and who can use them.
Equipment to collect after checking conditions
| Equipment | Acquisition condition | Deadline / caution |
|---|---|---|
| Warrior's Sword | Bring Iron recollected in Sand and Beech Sap to Ratwood's weapon shop. Finished after completing the World of Greenery | Take the Iron before finishing Sand. Repairs also use sap, so separate the bottles and purposes |
| Steel Sword | Sloth in Pineapple after obtaining the Ark of Light | Return and speak after acquiring Light |
| Mandarin Stem | Corn's 9 Puzzle in the developed town of Grape | For Kamio. Revisit the World of Fruit |
| Titanium Armor | Loosewrench in Metalimo after Death Knight | Receive before obtaining the Ark of Fire |
| Holy Blade | Use the Ark of Wood to open the wardrobe near the temple kitchen | Side trip after obtaining Wood |
| Waz's Staff | Speak to Waz in his tower | A candidate staff for the Ark of Darkness |
- Base Attack and character-specific damage are separate. No unverified ranking of every equipment item is provided.
Hydro Area synthesis: 5 checked families
| Crafting candidate | Example ingredients | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Deck Brush (weapon) | Deck Brush tool + Potion + Empty Bottle | Staff for Meisha and others. Same name as the tool version |
| Alkaloid Bucket | Empty Bottle + Poison Apple | Lux Part |
| Mirror-Plated Shield | Potion + Pork Belly | Shield crafting candidate |
| Full Metal Jacket | Mystic Scent + Iron | Lux Armor |
| Holy Robe | Potion + Mystic Scent + Troll Harp | Robe crafting candidate |
- Ingredients can be selected from multiple categories. The table gives concrete examples within the same categories, not every combination.
- Records say each special equipment item can be made once, but priorities and exceptions based on already crafted equipment are unverified. Save before adding materials and check the result. Seed/Bottle generation rates are omitted because sources disagree.
Find by puzzle or acquisition location
Limited supplements for the Pirate and Children worlds. Open answers for the room you need. All-world chests and the laboratory number board's initial layout/input sequence remain under review. No hardware retesting has been performed.
Location-specific puzzle procedures →Acquisition-location checks in the Pirate and Children worlds →
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