Hades players are discussing one of its rarer discoveries – a food chamber reward.
The discussion surrounding the appearance of the chamber popped up on the Hades subreddit a few months ago, with Redditor StrouticusRex posting an image of the chamber and saying, "Since when is there a FOOD reward door?"
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The image shows Zagreus stood in Asphodel next to a reward chamber that simply has food on it. Hades players will know that food is usually an item that can be brought from Charon's shop, or given to Zagreus from certain NPCs during a run. Meanwhile, chamber rewards will usually have boons from the gods, a pom of power, Daedalus' hammer coins, or even gems for renovations.
With so many different potential rewards, it's incredibly unlikely for the game to end up choosing food as a chamber reward, which is why so many players are reporting having not seen it, or only having seen it so rarely.
As it turns out, seeing a food reward room requires a very specific run setup, and only happens when the other types of rooms cannot be accessed. Redditor darchangels13 explained, "There's 3 kinds of rooms: Gold Laurel borders indicate anything you can use in-run (boons, God trials, poms, hearts, hammers, and money). Blue Laurels are anything that increases your long term success (keys, darkness, gems, nectar). Specia rewards: Charon shops, NPC encounters and others cannot be re-rolled.
"Blue can never become gold and vice versa. You also can never see two of the same reward. I think you can see food on rooms with 3 exits that are in the BLUE laurel category because rerolls would simply swap between two choices otherwise. Food is a default reward you can receive if for some reason you can't get one of the others. You might see food if there was a Pom rolled but you have no boons that level."
As you can see from that description, getting a food chamber in Hades is mostly down to luck and being unable to reach literally any other option. It's nice to see that the game has solutions for unlikely situations like this, though.
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