Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling – A Guide To Medals

There are many RPG games that use creative and simplified mechanics to customize your experience and Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling is one of them. You only get a team of three characters to guide who level up together and share stats. However, by using special items called Medals, you can alter the various properties of each character.

These handy items are scattered throughout the game and range from generally useful to extremely niche. There’s a huge number and many different types to explore and combine. The catch is that you only have a limited number of points to equip medals and the more powerful they are, the more they cost.

Types Of Medals

Throughout the course of the game, you’ll discover a large variety of medals with their own effects and applications. Even so, they all fall into one of several categories.

Resistance: These are medals that boost a single character’s resistance to certain status ailments such as poison or frozen.
Stat: These medals will improve either a single character’s or the whole team’s stats. These can be boosts to health, attack, defense, or Teamwork points.
Enhancement: These medals are very particular and are designed to alter the properties of a character’s abilities. This can range from making a particular attack cause poison or improving a technique so that it lowers enemy stats.
Ability: One of the rarer and more powerful types, these medals actually grant your characters different skills to use in combat that they otherwise would never learn.
Gameplay: These are technical medals that change how the game is played and can even have overworld effects.

Medals of any type can have a range of point costs from zero all the way up to 6. You only have a limited number of Medal Points (MP) to equip the ones you want and MP can only be raised by three points whenever you rank up. Since you only have a finite number of ranks, you’ll need to decide early on how much you want to rely on medals.

Earning Medals

Medals are an important item in the game and you’ll want to have as many as possible to give yourself more strategies. Despite how important they are, there are multiple ways to earn medals which range from easy to difficult.

Exploration: One way to find medals is simply to look for them. You can often find them out in open, in hard-to-reach areas, or hidden behind obstacles.
Defeating Hard Bosses: At the beginning of the game, a moth-like character in the Association HQ will give you the Hard Mode medal. It’s free to equip and raises the strength of encounters to provide greater challenge and reward. Every time you defeat a mini-boss or main boss with this medal equipped, return to the moth and they’ll reward you with a medal.
Completing Side-Quests: Like other RPGs, this one has a large catalog of side-quests to accomplish. They range from extremely easy to very hard and can involve finding objects to defeating special enemies. Quests appear on the notice boards frequently and some of them will reward you with a medal when completed.
Buying Them: Almost every item you can find in the game can be bought, including medals. There are two main medal shops, one across from the chef in the Ant Kingdom and one in an underground chamber hidden behind cuttable grass in the same area. The first has three on display and deals in berries while the second has two on display and only accepts crystal berries. If you’re not happy with what’s on display, you can talk to vendors to show you the rest of their stock. There are some medals that can only be gotten from these vendors so be sure to visit often.