The developer of Secret Staycation just released a huge update with a lot of unlockable food items and an entirely new area connected to the main map. There is a twist that we will get into down below, but let’s just say there will be a lot of waiting involved. In this guide, I will be showing you how to unlock the Mitarashi dango food item that was added in the latest patch!
How to Get Mitarashi Dango Location
First up, you will want to head to the new area. To do this, jump down from the spawn area and head over to through the doorway to the right. Keep going until you reach the end of the hallway.
There, you will find a white vent, and this will automatically open when you walk close to it. Go through this passage and you will be teleported to the new rooftop zone.
Once you find yourself in the rooftop garden zone, the next step will be to find a stick. There is really no advice I can give here, as it can spawn in seemingly random parts of the map.
Since people are constantly grabbing it or knocking it around, it might take you a while to find one. I got mine from one of the planter boxes by climbing up a shovel
My only tip to hopefully speed this up is to leave the area and then go back in through the white vent. This will put you in a different instance of the map that hopefully has a stick lying around.
Once you find it, simply approach it until you get a new button on the screen that lets you attach a rope to it. When you do, press G and you will now have “Just a stick” attached to your character.
Bring this over to your plant pot, which is always highlighted while you are in this map and will have a tag that has your name on it. Once you step on top of the pot, the stick will be automatically planted.
SIDE NOTE: If you need help collecting other of the many food types available in the game, check out our guide on all food locations.
Watering the Stick
Once you have planted the stick on the pot and gotten over the fact that you are trying to grow something out of a barbecue skewer (lol), walk over to the faucet near the white vent that you entered through.
Stand right under the running water and then head back to your plant pot. Take note that you do not need to stand there for long. Simply touching the running water is enough, and your character will start dripping to indicate that you are wet.
Once your character is dripping water, you will want to stand on your pot to start watering whatever is planted on it. The soil will change color and turn into a darker shade of brown, indicating that it is now wet.
NOTE: There seems to be a bug wherein certain characters just cannot seem to water it. In my case, the black olive cannot water the pot, so I had to switch back to the apple to get it done. Leaving the map is okay, as whatever you had planted will stay on your pot even if you leave.
The Waiting Game Begins
Once the soil is wet, there is really nothing else you can do but wait for it to grow. Do not waste your energy going back and forth to drip all over it again, as all you will be achieving is resetting the watered status of the soil.
I did not time the entire process, but I believe it took me roughly 20 minutes, give or take. Do keep in mind that this includes time that I forgot to water it when it dried back up as I was busy writing this article.
On that note, the soil will eventually dry. When this happens, simply touch the running water and go back to drip over it until it turns dark brown again. That’s really all there is to it.
In the case of this food item, since it really isn’t a plant, the only indication that it is growing is that a white dango ball will appear on the stick over time. This will continue until around three dango balls are on it.
While waiting, you can spend this time searching for your next seed, as there is a whole bunch of other food items that you will need to unlock this way! Just keep it on your rope until you’re ready to plant it.
Eventually, the skewer will be complete and will have sweet soy sauce all over it. It will also start shimmering with white stars, indicating that you can now pick it up. Congratulations, you now have the Mitarashi dango!
Once you have gotten the notification that you unlocked the Mitarashi dango, you can remove the stick from your pot by stepping beside it and pressing G to attach a rope to it. Walk away and it will be pulled out of the pot and disappear, leaving room for a new seed.
If you already had a seed attached to a rope while you were waiting, my suggestion is to go under the ramp and then detach the seed there to hide it from other players while you pull the plant out of the pot.
That is pretty much everything you need to know in order to unlock the new Mitarashi dango food item. While you are here, consider checking out our guide on how to get the white marshmallow in Secret Staycation to get even more sweet food morphs in your roster!
