Milky Well

The following is an in-depth guide for the Third "Your Sanctuary" location of EarthBound.

On your way back through the Lilliput Steps, attack enemies from behind to help level up Paula some more. Go back through Happy-Happy Village and through Peaceful Rest Valley to Twoson. On your way back, you'll notice that the old broken bridge from earlier is fixed now, making going back much easier. If Paula dies you can revive her at a hospital. First, go back to the Polestar preschool and talk to Paula's parents. Her dad will give approval of her to go with Ness, and her mom will give you a Hand-Aid. This fully revives your HP. Go to Everdred in Burglin Park and he will give you a Wad of Cash worth 10,000. Don't get excited thinking you can buy a bunch of stuff, because it's completely useless. Go to the theater for the Runaway Five show. You'll get a backstage pass. Present it to the main entrance to get in. Go through the main door and head to the left, present your pass to the guard to let you through. If you talk to the band members, they'll talk about how they're in big debt. After watching their show, go to the manager's office to the left of the main entrance. Present it to him, he'll make you go to the other side of the desk. After you give it to him to pay off the Runaway Five's debt, he'll let them free. The Runaway Five will now offer you a ride to Threed. Make sure you are ready, and then hop on their bus to ride to Threed.

Threed

♪Threed, Zombie Central♪

Throughout Threed, there are many difficult enemies, including Handsome Tom, No Good Fly, Putrid Moldyman, Smelly Ghost, Smilin' Sam, Trick or Trick Kid, Urban Zombie, Zombie Dog and Zombie Possessor.

HP: 133

PP: 16

OF: 27

DF: 25

SP: 11

GT: 5

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 50%

Flash: 99%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 99%

Hypnosis: 50%

HP: 100

PP: 0

OF: 23

DF: 13

SP: 10

GT: 3

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 99%

Hypnosis: 0%

HP: 203

PP: 0

OF: 36

DF: 41

SP: 9

GT: 54

Fire: 25%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 10%

Brainshock: 0%

Hypnosis: 99%

HP: 194

PP: 50

OF: 35

DF: 89

SP: 10

GT: 2

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 50%

Flash: 99%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 0%

Hypnosis: 99%

HP: 161

PP: 55

OF: 34

DF: 44

SP: 17

GT: 16

Flash: 99%

Parlysis: 50%

Brainshock: 10%

Hypnosis: 50%

HP: 142

PP: 0

OF: 30

DF: 37

SP: 7

GT: 12

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 99%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 0%

Hypnosis: 99%

HP: 171

PP: 0

OF: 31

DF: 24

SP: 10

GT: 15

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 25%

Flash: 99%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 10%

Hypnosis: 50%

HP: 210

PP: 0

OF: 39

DF: 51

SP: 30

GT: 10

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 99%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 0%

Hypnosis: 99%

HP: 176

PP: 0

OF: 28

DF: 19

SP: 30

GT: 9

Fire: 25%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 99%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 10%

Hypnosis: 50%

These guys are pretty tough, so make sure your healing often. Buy some better options at the drugstore and heal at the hotel. In the hospital you can check the drawers for an Insignificant item which you can trade with somebody in the Twoson hospital for a Magic Truffle. You can also try training at the graveyard.  Once your ready, go to the far northwestern part of town and investigate the zombies there. Go back into town and follow a lady walking into the hotel. Walk into the room that she's in and she'll ambush you with a bunch of zombies. When you wake up, Paula will call Jeff for help.

Snow Wood Boarding House

♪Snowman (Snow Wood Boarding House)♪

You are now controlling Jeff. Try leaving the room, where Tony will join you for a moment. Go outside and go to the next door and collect all of the cookies. You may need to drop certain things to make room for all of the cookies. Go down a floor and into the left room. A guy will give you a key to the lockers. You can try to use the key in the locker room but it won't work because the key is bent. Go back to him and talk to him again. He'll give you a bad key machine which can unlock any door. Try opening all of the locker doors, and you'll get a Holmes' hat, a Pop-Gun, and a Broken Air Gun. Equip the Pop-Gun. You can now leave the building and go through winters.

Winters

♪Winters White♪

Go to the drugstore to the right immediately upon leaving the Snow Wood Boarding House. Sell some of your cookies and the Broken Spray Can for money. Buy some stuff as well as a pack of bubble gum from one of the people inside. Then talk to the monkey and he'll join your party. In Winters, you'll find Gruff Goats.

HP: 45

PP: 0

OF: 8

DF: 23

SP: 12

GT: 0

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 0%

Hypnosis: 99%

These guys might chip away at your HP, but they should go down fairly quickly and give a ton of experience points. While your going through Winters, there's a spot with a tent. This is a perfect spot to train up Jeff, as the tent can heal you back up.  Ideally, Jeff will be around level 15 before leaving the area, with two small dungeons with little amount of enemies in the mix as well. So it will be a good idea to level him up a bit now. When you walk down, you'll find a bunch of watchers who are watching for a sea monster called Tessie. In one tent you can save your game, and in another you can heal yourself up. Have some of the stew in the one tent and then walk out to where the dirt part is and the bubble monkey will take you on top of the Tessie monster who will bring you to another part of land. You'll come to a part with two paths, one with an iron pencil and one with a cave. Go into the cave.

Brickroad's Maze

♪Apple Kid's Theme♪

There are certain enemies that you'll encounter the first time through this maze, Including the Mad Duck and the Worthless Protoplasm.

HP: 51

PP: 0

OF: 12

DF: 24

SP: 30

GT: 5

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 50%

Hypnosis: 10%

HP: 38

PP: 0

OF: 11

DF: 21

SP: 27

GT: 0

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 99%

Hypnosis: 0%

These enemies shouldn't be too big of a deal. If you can't grab all of the presents here, you can always come back later to grab them. For now, just focus on making your way to the end of your maze and then save. Go outside of the maze and talk to Brick Road so he can heal you, and then move onto the next cave area.

Rainy Circle

♪Caverns of Winters♪

This cavern is actually where you'll find one of the "Your Sanctuary" locations, but you shouldn't go to it right now. Throughout the dungeon, you'll find Arachnid!s, Elder Battys, Struttin' Evil Mushrooms and Strong Crocodiles, though you may only encounter these later when you return to to Rainy Circle.

HP: 216

PP: 0

OF: 61

DF: 30

SP: 23

GT: 3

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 505

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 99%

Hypnosis: 0%

HP: 294

PP: 0

OF: 66

DF: 72

SP: 33

GT: 8

Fire: 75%

Freeze: 75%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 99%

Hypnosis: 0%

HP: 417

PP: 0

OF: 85

DF: 131

SP: 17

GT: 5

Fire: 75%

Freeze: 75%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 10%

Hypnosis: 50%

HP: 60

PP: 0

OF: 15

DF: 10

SP: 5

GT: 5

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 99%

Hypnosis: 0%

These guys might be a bit tough, but your going to want to fight them a lot so you can prepare for fighting the next set of enemies coming up. Grab the presents up the ropes for a Cheap Bracelet and a Bottle Rocket. Use your gum on the monkey near the rope on top of the cliff so he can bring it down for you. Climb up and then ignore the Sanctuary Boss and leave. You're now in the part where the entrance to Stonehenge is, but there's no need to go into it right now. In this area, you'll find Cave Boys.

HP: 314

PP: 0

OF: 21

DF: 33

SP: 5/75

GT: 0

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 25%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 0%

Brainshock: 50%

Hypnosis: 10%

These guys can be really tough and they also have two different versions for when you come back with Ness and Paula. You might want to train a bit with previous enemies before you take these on, though they give a bunch of experience points and once you defeat one, it shouldn't be that hard to defeat all of them. These are your last enemies, so make sure you get your level up high before moving on. When your ready, go south inside a lab, where you'll find Jeff's father, Dr. Andonuts. He said he built a machine called the Sky Runner which can take you back to Threed to meet with Ness and Paula. You can go upstairs and grab a Broken Pipe before moving on. When you're ready, head into the Sky Runner to take Jeff back to Threed. 

Beneath Threed Graveyard

♪Dangerous Caves♪

Use Jeff's Bad Key Machine to get out of the room Ness and Paula were stuck in and climb out of the Threed Graveyard. Now that you're back in Threed, head to the drugstore and the mysterious man behind the pizza shop to buy Jeff a Copper Bracelet, Hard Hat, Toy Air Gun (If his IQ is below 12, if it is above 12, put the Broken Iron in Jeff's inventory and sleep at the hotel.) and a few bottle rockets. If Jeff's IQ is below 12, use the Toy Air Gun and train until it is above 12. Now that you're all ready, go south and check the new tent that showed up to fight the Boogey Tent.

HP: 579

PP: 56

OF: 43

DF: 69

SP: 10

GT: 15

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 25%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 0%

Brainshock: 50%

Hypnosis: 10%

The Boogey Tent shouldn't be too big of a deal, but you should be able to beat it with bashing and PSI Fire. You can also use the bottle rockets you bought for Jeff. After you defeat him search in the trash can he leaves behind for the Jar of Fly Honey, which you need to save as you're going to need this for later. Soon after, Apple Kid will give you a call saying he invented Zombie Paper, bug paper for zombies. He said he has the pizza man coming to give you the invention. Head to the other tent and use the zombie paper inside. Then go sleep at a hotel. In the morning, every zombie will get trapped on the paper, including the zombies that were blocking your way forward. So prepare yourself and head to the upper left corner of the map. Go into the hole that the zombies were guarding earlier and proceed through the cave. The enemies down here are tough, so be ready for that. Eventually, you'll come across the Mini Barf.

HP: 616

PP: 0

OF: 45

DF: 71

SP: 10

GT: 19

Fire: 100%

Freeze 25%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 0%

Brainshock: 50%

Hypnosis: 10%

This guy shouldn't be too big of a problem. Keep bashing him and using PSI abilities until he goes down. When you defeat him, go through to get to Grapefruit Falls.

Grapefruit Falls

♪Peaceful Rest Valley♪

You'll encounter many enemies here for the first time, the Armored Frog, Farm Zombie, Plain Crocodile and The Red Antoids.

HP: 202

PP: 0

OF: 37

DF: 108

SP: 7

GT: 5

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 75%

Paralysis: 75%

Brainshock: 75%

Hypnosis: 75%

HP: 171

PP: 0

OF: 31

DF: 24

SP: 10

GT: 15

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 25%

Flash: 99%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 10%

Hypnosis: 50%

HP: 234

PP: 0

OF: 40

DF: 55

SP: 10

GT: 1

Fire: 50%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 10%

Hypnosis: 50%

HP: 112

PP: 30

OF: 29

DF: 27

SP: 10

GT: 4

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 10%

Hypnosis: 99%

These enemies are pretty tough, especially the Plain Crocodiles and Red Antoids. The guy right at the entrance to Grapefruit Falls can sell you healing items which you might want to pick up. Grab the Bomb and the Protein Drink along the way. Head up north until you find a cave. Head inside.

Cave to Saturn Valley

♪Saturn Valley Caverns♪

Here you'll also find the Violent Roaches.

HP: 209

PP: 0

OF: 30

DF: 26

SP: 35

GT: 9

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 99%

Hypnosis: 0%

These guys are pretty easy, you can just keep bashing them. As your heading to the right, go through the one room on your way to get a bottle rocket. Continue to the right to get to Saturn Valley.

Saturn Valley

♪Hi Hi Hi♪

The first thing you'll want to do is go to the hotel and the hospital to cure yourself for free. On the top of the north ladder you'll find a Rust Promoter. Go into the north cave and talk to every Mr. Saturn. One will mention giving you something, and another will give you the secret to getting into Master Belch's base. You need to talk to him to progress. Go to the store and buy Silver Bracelet's and Great Charms and a Red Ribbon for Paula. Now go back to Grapefruit Falls and north and into the waterfall. Walk left until somebody asks for the password. At this point, don't touch the controller at all for three minutes and you'll be let in.

Belch's Factory

♪Belch's Factory♪

The first thing you see when you walk int he door is a Slimey Little Pile who will fight you if you say you don't have Fly Honey with you.

HP: 224

PP: 0

OF: 42

DF: 61

SP: 15

GT: 7

Fire: 75%

Freeze: 75%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 10%

Hypnosis: 50%

He shouldn't be too big of a deal if you just keep bashing. You'll also encounter some other enemies in the Factory. Foppies and Mostly Bad Flies. 

HP: 120

PP: 10

OF: 29

DF: 9

SP: 1

GT: 5

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 99%

Hypnosis: 0%

HP: 141

PP: 0

OF: 32

DF: 16

SP: 15

GT: 4

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 50%

Hypnosis: 10%

These enemies aren't too hard and should net you a ton of experience points if you defeat them. Continue along the path, only going off only to grab a Bomb, an IQ Capsule, and a Broken Laser. The Broken Laser is another item for Jeff that can be fixed if he sleeps over a certain IQ, so give him the IQ Capsule. Continue along the path and go through a door for a Vital Capsule, Calorie Stick and HP-Sucker. This is an item that can infinitely steal HP from the enemy. Continue on. You'll find a room with a magic butterfly. This continuously respawns, so you can train your party here for a bit. When you are ready, move on and fight Master Belch.

HP: 650

PP: 0

OF: 50

DF: 88

SP: 16

GT: 20

Fire: 75%

Freeze: 75%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 10%

Brainshock: 0%

Hypnosis: 99%

Use the Jar of Fly Honey immediately and he will become harmless. You can just bash and use PSI abilities like Freeze if you want. Go through the door behind Master Belch and you'll be taken back to Saturn Valley fairly quickly. Use the spring for a cutscene and it will heal you of many status conditions and your HP and PP. Next move on to Milky Well, the next "Your Sanctuary" location. Before you head on, check Jeff's IQ. If it is over 24, go sleep at a hotel, if it is under 24, train until it is. Then repair Jeff's broken laser. You can also store your Fly Honey. Also, check the Mr. Saturn that wanted to give you something. He'll give you the Mr. Saturn Coin. Then head to the Milky Well.

Milky Well

♪Save the Miners!♪

Beware of the new enemies, the Ranboob and Tough Mobile Sprout.

HP: 232

PP: 42

OF: 41

DF: 63

SP: 20

GT: 1

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 50%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 50%

Brainshock: 10%

Hypnosis: 50%

HP: 179

PP: 13

OF: 33

DF: 27

SP: 18

GT: 6

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 100%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 99%

Brainshock: 99%

Hypnosis: 0%

PSI Fire works well, so use that on groups of enemies. Then go through the area and fight the "Your Sanctuary" boss, the Trillionage Sprout.

HP: 1048

PP: 240

OF: 54

DF: 88

SP: 16

GT: 21

Fire: 100%

Freeze: 50%

Flash: 50%

Paralysis: 0%

Brainshock: 50%

Hypnosis: 10%

Use all you have on it, including bottle rockets, PSI abilities, and the HP-Sucker. Once he's done, go through the door he leaves and record the third melody on your sound stone.

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