How to make a cheese mushroom and pillar in The Plucky Squire

If you’re trying to complete every achievement or trophy in The Plucky Squire, you’ll eventually encounter ones asking you to make a cheese mushroom and pillar. You’ll find the opportunity to do this during Chapter Six after meeting a hungry rat.

Before you obtain your cheese, you’ll need to solve the puzzles involving this rat. Let’s check out the solution for this puzzle and the cheese transformations that follow. With that said, there are major Chapter Six spoilers throughout this page, so follow along with the story as you continue reading.

How to solve the rat puzzle in The Plucky Squire

Before you can unlock cheese at all, you’ll need to solve a puzzle involving a “horrible rat”, as Rif puts it. When you enter the area, Rif will tell you about the rat in a dark hole, and it’s up to you to figure out what’s going on. They suggest finding some cheese, eventually leading to our mushroom and pillar side quests.

The first part of this puzzle is using the green portal in the top-left corner and tilting the book so the nearby wooden block slides to the left. Doing this reveals a key, which you’ll use on the blue door in the bottom-right corner of the page.

After hopping back in and unlocking the door, you’ll find some metal spikes leading to the sentence “These metal spikes were quite a bother.” Swipe your sword at metal and carry it over to where the key is, replacing the word “Wooden” with “Metal.” Now, the wooden block from before is a heavy metal one.

With this heavy block available to use, jump back out of the book and tilt the pages so that the block slides away from the wall, then back into it. Doing this breaks open a cave, where you’ll find something important: mushrooms. Keep this location in mind for later.

Instead, go through the cave until you see the word “glowing,” and use it on the wooden block again. Now, you can tilt the book once more to bring the block into the cave entrance, lighting up the entire area and revealing another key and door combination. Unlocking this door leads to the word “cheese” for the final part of the puzzle.

How to make a cheese mushroom in The Plucky Squire

Now that you have access to the word “cheese” from the rat puzzle, you can turn the cave’s mushrooms into cheese to complete the first trophy. To do this, swipe at the word “cheese” with your sword and carry it over to “Here were some mushrooms” in the same cave. Placing cheese in the blank spots converts the mushrooms, automatically completing the achievement.

Don’t ditch this sentence yet, though. Since the pillar appears later in this chapter, you’ll still need to complete this puzzle by turning your current glowing block into a cheese one. Now, you can jump out of the book again and give these pages one last tilt to slide the block over to the rat, completing the puzzle and allowing you to progress further. Keep this page in mind, though: you’ll need it later.

How to make a cheese pillar in The Plucky Squire

Encountering a pillar that you can turn into cheese requires advancing further into Chapter Six. You’ll know you’re ready when you finish a few boss fights and spot two towering pillars acting as music speakers.

These speakers appear alongside another character, Gozzy, who you’ll need to deal with to advance further. However, for the purpose of this trophy, we don’t have to worry about him: the focus is on the two speakers next to him.

Use the green portal to your right to jump out of the book, flipping through the pages until you find the word “cheese” from the rat puzzle. After grabbing it, head back to Gozzy’s area and place the word on either of the pillar sentences to turn them into cheese, completing this second achievement.