Mother 3 Walkthrough - Chapter 1

After you wake up try to go downstairs and leave the house. Once you're dressed go back downstairs and hold B to charge at your mom, she'll give you some Nut Bread as a result. Exit the house and go east to a new area, follow the tutorial steps and charge the Drago like your dad instructs and then fight the Mole Cricket to learn how battles work.

There will be some scenes after which you'll be controlling the dad - inspect the dog house for a Stick and make sure you equip it. From here you'll want to head north into the town square, talk to the guy on the bench to get the Tazmily Map which is an important item.

Continue north from the town square and go west at the cross roads. You will pass by a building to the north that you must enter to continue. Inspect the top wall in the building and it will ask you for your name, specifically the name of the person playing the game - pretty neat.

Exit the building and keep going north, the first person you see on the next screen will be someone named Mike (pictured below). Talk to Mike multiple times and he will give you a couple of Nut Cookies which may or may not come in handy for you.

Footnote: Talk to Mike repeatedly to get a couple of Nut Cookies out of him

North of Mike you'll find a cabin as well as your first few enemies - some bats. Next to the cabin you'll find a present with Aries Bracelet inside. You can equip this onto your character for a +3 Defense bonus, I recommend you do that now. West of this cabin is a hot spring which you can use to heal to full health.

From this cabin you'll want to travel north into the forest. Avoid the fire in here as it will damage you. Keep going north until you find the man you're looking for (someone named Lighter) lying on the ground. Talk with him and then pick up the wooden beam here to get Lighter's Lumber. Equip this in your inventory and then continue north for your first tough fight.

We'll be fighting 3 Fireflies at one time here and it'll be a pretty tough fight. Try to take out two of them before you use any healing items because in one round they will eat away almost all of the health you heal. Heal yourself again when the fight is finished because you'll have another fight coming up.

Go north and enter the cabin using dash - when you try and go upstairs you'll trigger a boss fight against a Flying Mouse. Defeating the mouse will earn you some Peculiar Cheese. Continue upstairs and dash through the obstacles to reach Fuel, then escort him outside.

Return to the village with Fuel, you'll be stopped for a scene on the way back. When you regain control of yourself grab the Antidote from the present in the far room and then exit the building for a scene. After it's over you'll want to return home and interact with the pigeon for another scene. You'll be able to recruit your dog into your party next, you should definitely accept since it'll make things easier.

Northeast of your home you'll find a present with a Nut Bread inside. There are a few other presents scattered about town too if you're interested, use my map below to see where everything is in the town. When you see NB on the map that means Nut Bread. Apologies as I was really limited for space in some parts of the map when detailing it.

Explore as much as you want and collect whatever you'd like, to advance the story you'll want to travel to the northern most part of the map that you can. Up here you'll have to chat with Bronson (dark haired guy) and then Jonel to the west of Bronson. You can find Bronson close to where my map says BJ and MM Charm.

After talking with Jonel you'll have to talk with Wess too (and maybe everyone else standing around the cliff). During this conversation a new character will be introduced, their default name is Duster - but you get to name them whatever you want.

Duster will create a way up the wall and then join your party. Inspect the tree for a Scrap of Cloth and then go inside of the cave for Beef Jerky and Nut Bread. When you're ready to continue with the story keep going north and you'll run into a Reconstructed Caribou boss fight.

Once the fight is over inspect the notebook here and read it, you'll obtain a Pig Mark Notebook afterward. Continue north until you see the scene of the UFO taking off then go back south until you trigger another cutscene. After that scene continue northeast to find your kids near a campfire. Talk to your kids then go north and talk to Bronson.

There will be a scene during which you find out what happen to your wifey. When you regain control of the dad you need to check the table then check the door twice. After the cutscene eat the Apple and inspect the door again, this time using the Hand File that your kid gave you.

Exit the jail and go east into the town square and from here north to the cemetery. Continue northeast through the cemetery and talk with Alec who is standing next to the grave with your son. When the scene is over you'll want to return to town, talk with Mapson in the middle of the town square if you want to get the next location marked on your map. When that's done visit Bronson's house which is to the left of Thomas' Bazaar. Talk with Bronson and get your Drago Fang weapon.

Visit Wess at his house northeast of the town square and he will give you a Thunder Bomb. Search behind his house (to the left of the chimney) and you will find another Thunder Bomb.

Tip: You can go north of the cross roads and then return to Wess' house for another Thunder Bomb. This can be repeated infinite times.

Next, you'll want to go east of town square and speak with Lighter who is found all the way east standing next to the ocean. Talking to him will get you the Manly Bandana item. All we have left to do in town right now is to visit Thomas Bazaar and see if a Better Stick is currently available. Even if it's not, he should have two items available to you - take both.

Tip: You can get rid of your old weapons by using the Drop command in the menu. There is no reason to carry them around since other characters can't use them and you can't sell them.

We're done in the town portion, now it's time to head all the way north to where Alec lives. Talk to Mapson sitting on the bench in the town square if you don't already have the location circled on your map. It's the northern most house on the map though so it's hard to miss either way.

Don't forget about the hot springs too - that heals your wounds, it's a great spot to use for some healing inbetween grinding. In the area before Alec's House you'll find a present with an Aquarius Bracelet inside, this will give you a +5 Defense boost so use it immediately.

Once you get to Alec's house talk to him and then exit the house. Learn about the Arrow Lizards and interact with them to use them, follow their directions to a lake. Talk with the frogs then jump across them to the other side of the lake.

If you need to rest at the hot springs here then you should; you can also get Fresh Milk from the cow but it spoils quickly. When you're ready to advance the story, talk with the leader inside of the shell house (pictured below). There will be a short scene with everyone inside after which you'll want to travel through the cave to the north.

Make sure you talk with everyone inside of the shell house

Alec will guide you through the entire cave, at some point you'll pass a present with a Running Bomb in it. There may be more presents I missed that are slightly outside of your cone of vision, if you look closely you can see them. Keep following Alec's directions and you'll be lead to a set of vines. Climb up all the vines you see until you eventually make it outside.

Being outside won't last for long, you'll need to go back inside but this time it's a cave where we can actually see. Climb up the ladder in here and grab the present with a Beef Jerky inside. Keep climbing and you'll have a scene with the aliens. If you inspect the machine they left behind you'll see that it can be used to instantly heal all of your HP.

Climb back down all the ladders and exit this area to the east. This will put you into a large outside area with a couple of different presents scattered about, in the east I found a Sprinting Bomb and in the northwest I found some Fresh Lumber. Far to the northeast I found Beef Jerky - it's right before the transition that leads to where the boss is. In the next area you'll have a scene, chase the baby Drago - grab the Nut Bread if you have room for it and continue west.

In this next area you're going to encounter Trees which explode when defeated and deal 150 - 200HP worth of damage. I strongly recommend you dodge as many of these enemies as possible because defeating them before they explode and deal a ton of damage isn't really practical.

Run from all trees that you encounter in battle - they're not worth the trouble to fight at this stage

Tip: During the Trees final attack that hits for 150+ spam the A button to reduce the amount of damage you will take. If you decide to fight them, this is the only way to survive that attack.

Keep going west and you'll pass a broken machine, on the other side of it you'll find a present with Beef Jerky inside. Just north of this present is where you'll meet the final boss of this chapter, Mecha-Drago. During the first round of the fight you'll want to use the Drago Fang item in your inventory. Follow that attack up with a Thunder Bomb for a chance to stun the boss for a few rounds. I'd recommend you use all your bombs against the boss too.

When you finally manage to defeat the boss make sure you spam the A button while he is performing the final attack. This will reduce the amount of damage you take from it and it's the only way to survive it. When the fight is over watch the scene - this concludes Chapter 1.

 

Continue to Chapter 2 of my Mother 3 Walkthrough