Loftia Bounce Shoes and Adventures: Recipe, Jump Pads and Every Gauntlet

The Bounce Shoes recipe is the reward for finishing page 2 of the Central Lake Research Station

The recipe is not sold anywhere. It is the page reward for page 2 of the Central Lake Research Station in the Hanging Gardens, so every bundle on that page has to be done, not just one. The recipe only appears once the whole page is complete.

Page 1 comes first. Its only bundle, Anadromous Odyssey (Allis Shad, Atlantic Salmon, Atlantic Sturgeon and Rainbow Trout from the river beside the station), unlocks the level 2 Project Station and level 2 Refining Station recipes. You need both to make the shoes.

Fishing starts with Kassim’s main quest Fish Are Friends, which gives you the Collector Rod. One creator’s bundle walkthrough labels the Bounce Shoes under Murky Waters because it was the last page 2 bundle they finished. It is the page reward, so the order does not matter.

Craft Bounce Shoes from 2 Aluminium Bar, 10 Resin and 2 Banana Leather

With the recipe learned, craft the shoes at a level 2 Project Station. The three ingredients:

• Aluminium Bar (2): refine Bauxite Ore at a level 2 Refining Station. The Loftia Codex lists 5 Bauxite Ore per bar recipe. One player’s guide from the beta found the ore in caves; we could not confirm the exact spots a second way.
• Resin (10): gathered from Pine Trees in the Overgrowth, the dark forest in the Hanging Gardens. Resin is the slow part. Players have called it hard to find, so collect it whenever you pass a pine.
• Banana Leather (2): refine Bananas at a level 2 Refining Station. Bananas come from Banana Trees.

The game spells it Aluminium Bar. Pin the recipe from the crafting menu to track all three on screen while you gather.

Bounce Shoes work automatically on Jump Pads in the Hanging Gardens

Bounce Shoes go into your key items, like the Glider. There is no gear slot: once crafted they are simply on you. The item text says their alloy reacts with Jump Pad magnets. One streamer without the shoes could not use a pad her friend had just used.

The developers’ own description is “reach new heights in the Hanging Gardens with Bounce Shoes”. In practice they open the higher parts of the district:

• Everything Is Connected: this main quest from Kassim asks you to go up to the lookout, get the Bounce Shoes recipe and craft the shoes before you head to Gridfall. You cannot skip them in the story.
• Secret Lake: faelunia’s guide shows a climbing route up the Hanging Gardens mountainside to Secret Lake using Bounce Shoes instead of the upgraded glider. Other players go in with the Propeller upgrade.

Do not confuse them with rail boots, a different item for riding the rails in Gridfall.

Adventures are 4 minute team runs on Ryder’s research islands

Adventures are Loftia’s group mode. You ride Ryder’s airship from the Adventure Dock in Loftia City to a research island and work through a mission list with up to three other players. The obstacle courses inside are called gauntlets.

Unlocking Adventures: Adventure Awaits!

1. Finish Cliff’s Permission to Glide. This opens Meet Ryder: find him at the Adventure Dock.
2. Ryder gives Adventure Awaits! Salvage resources around Loftia City with your hammer until you find 3 Scrambled Coordinates, then show them to Ryder. The demo patch raised their drop chance during this step.
3. Play an Adventure to the end and report back with the island data.
4. Rewards: 15 Scrambled Coordinates and the Flare emote.

How a run works

• Entry: Adventures use Scrambled Coordinates. You get more from salvaging and foraging, the Daily Goodies Chest near the hot air balloon in your neighbourhood, and, per the Codex, Cella’s Key Shop for 30 Dew each after her quest The Real Treasure. One creator notes there is a cap on how many you can hold, so spend them instead of hoarding.
• Team: matchmaking fills a team of up to four. Sometimes you land with fewer players or solo, and the timer stays the same, which players on Steam say makes some runs hard.
• Timer: about 4 minutes to finish as much of the list as you can.
• Missions: five lines. Three are island tasks, drawn from Energize the Beacon, Repair the Wildlife Feeders, Free the Birds, Rescue the Castaway, Redirect the Antennae and Build Seismic Sonars. The other two are gauntlets, shown as Gauntlet – name. Some tasks are co-op, such as the antennae.
• Rewards: Bloom and outfit fragments are the main draw, and the whole team shares the rewards for what the group completes.

Sixteen gauntlets are confirmed in Early Access, seven of them new since the demo

Each gauntlet starts with a banner that shows its name and its rules: how many players it is built for, and whether your Glider or Propeller is switched off inside. The names and rules below are read from that banner in lailaidx’s Early Access run of every gauntlet on one island set (uploaded November 6). The nine demo gauntlets also appear in LEESHx’s demo walkthrough and in lailaidx’s earlier demo video.

“Not shown” means the banner was cut off in the footage we could check. Smooth Operation also appears in the official launch trailer’s mission list. Twisted Metals shows as “Twisting Metals” on its start banner but “Twisted Metals” in the mission list and in the official store screenshots.

More gauntlets on other islands

The list above is one island set. Official material names more gauntlets that are not in it:

• Board of the Rings: on a lake island with wooden piers, shown in an official Steam screenshot and the launch trailer.
• Twisted Path: in the launch trailer, on the canyon island.
• Ramp Up: Patch Notes #2 fixed graphical glitches at the “Ramp Up Gauntlet” entrance. We could not confirm whether this is the gauntlet the banner calls Ramp Age or a separate course.

The developers promised “more distant research islands with even more exciting gauntlets” for Early Access, and more are planned during the Early Access period, so expect this list to grow.

What the demo gauntlets ask you to do

These notes come from LEESHx’s demo-era walkthrough, with a second source where noted. All nine are still in Early Access under the same names, but we have not seen anyone re-test the routes since launch. Most gauntlets end with a reward orb you grab to complete it.

• The Grid: collect six orbs across moving platforms, then take the final piece.
• Might As Well Jump: the course splits into left, right and middle sections. Grab four orbs in any order to free the fifth, trapped in a red box in the centre.
• On and On and On: hit three buttons in the room with your hammer. Their positions change from run to run. A Steam player’s summary: go through the door and press all the switches.
• It’s High Bloom: built for two, but one player can do it. Stand on the button until the moving platform is about halfway, jump across, then later put the cube on the button and ride the platform up to the reward.
• Split Paths: faster with a partner. LEESHx and lailaidx both show a solo method.
• Fly High: needs two players (the banner says so too). One presses the button that starts an updraft, the other glides up on it. This is why the Glider is allowed here.
• Twisted Metals: time your jumps across rotating crates.
• Convey Your Way and Drop It: both use hammer switches along the course.

We have not found two independent walkthroughs of the seven new gauntlets yet, so we are not printing step-by-step routes for them. lailaidx’s video shows a full run of each.

Ask for help at a gauntlet sign and teleport to start if you get stuck

• Two-player gauntlets: press the sign outside a gauntlet to request help. Your team sees a notice naming the gauntlet. Use it for Fly High and the others marked for two.
• Stuck under the map or in a wall: one player’s fix is Esc, then the teleport to start button. The demo patches also improved respawning after falling off Adventure islands.
• Short-handed runs: pick the solo gauntlets and the tasks one person can finish. Two players have cleared every task with seconds to spare, but it depends on which tasks the run rolls.
• Learn the names: the mission list only shows gauntlet names, so knowing which ones are solo saves time in a 4 minute run.

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Source & credit

Loftia is developed and published by Qloud Games and is in Early Access on Steam. Recipes, quest steps and bundle contents were checked against the Loftia Codex (a fan-made database at loftiacodex.com, not affiliated with the developer), the official Early Access page and patch notes, Steam community discussions, and videos by lailaidx, LEESHx, ChromaGlitch, LoftiaBoy, faelunia, Fleurs and Chels. Gauntlet names and rules were read from the in-game banners. Details only one source shows are marked as such. Screenshots are from the official Steam store page and the official launch trailer.