How to upgrade your Gourd and heal more in Black Myth: Wukong

Your Gourd is an important source of healing in Black Myth: Wukong, and when you are suffering too much damage, you can take a little sip and see your health come back. This is how to take full advantage of it.

How to upgrade your Gourd

To upgrade your Gourd, you need to play through the game until you meet Shen Monkey near the Marsh of the White Mist Shrine location in Bamboo Grove. He will allow you to upgrade it. He is a little bit of a drunk but means no harm. He will have a range of options available, and they are all important and can require different resources.

The most basic way to upgrade your Gourd is to get more healing sips from it. To do this, you will need to get a resource called Luojia Fragrant Vine. These are rare, hidden throughout the game, and will require a mild bit of exploration to get most of them. The very first one is actually just outside; all you need to do is walk up the ramp toward the Shrine, and you will find a bright yellow vine hanging off a tree to the right. Bring it back to Shen, and he can upgrade it for you. Each upgrade gives you one more healing sip.

How to Upgrade Drinks

Drinks are the actual liquid that is in the Gourd, and they all have different effects. To upgrade this, you need to find a resource called Awaken Wine Worm, which is yet another rare and tough-to-find item. It will appear in different places throughout the game, usually glowing a bright golden color, wherever it may be. The very first one you will find is after a boss called the Black Wind King.

You will find different drinks as you play through the game, and each one has different effects. Some instantly heal you, while others will give you a small amount of instant health but then much more health over time.

Brews

Brews are the final piece of the Gourd puzzle, and these can have all manner of different effects that are added to the healing. You might get cheaper use of a skill after healing or better immunity to certain damage types. While the Brews themselves cannot be upgraded, you should consider them as an upgrade to the main Gourd, and remember to examine them when you are stuck on bosses in case there is a benefit there that might help you.