The short answer
- Petrified Garden
- A hidden area. Start a teleport at any Wing Altar and walk off the platform while it is running. You drop through the void and land next to the Stone Hut crystal monument.
- Fossils
- Rewards from the skull door under the garden. The Fossilized Fish comes at 20 Strange Silver Etched Skulls, the Flying Mushroom Fossil at 30, the Fossilized Anemone at 40 and the Sonic Crystal Fossil at 50. The Pigeon Fossil waits behind the door after all 69.
- Ratty Bug
- Three different things. The statue with the purple gem is a colour clue for the garden puzzle, the Silver Ratty Bug Figurine is treasure to sell, and the Ratty Bug Compendium is a book that opens doors in the Tower of Knowledge.
- Spirit Oil
- A consumable that gives weapon experience to the weapon you have equipped. Umbada sells it for 15 Ancient Coins, and the stone centipedes outside the garden’s monument drop it, which makes the garden the best place to farm it.
- 69
- Silver skulls
- 20
- Skulls for the fish
- 30
- Skulls for flight
- 15
- Coins per Spirit Oil
- 9 min
- Read time
- Nov 2026
- Checked on
You reach the Petrified Garden by walking off a Wing Altar mid-teleport
There is no door, key or boss in the way. The teleport animation is a real space, and you can leave it.
- Use any Wing Altar and pick any destination.
- Move while the stars are on screen. Walk or Wind Dash off the edge of the platform before the trip finishes.
- Fall. Everything vanishes for a moment, then you land in a grey stone ruin. The Memorial Sculpture achievement pops for reaching it.
- Save at the Stone Hut. That is the garden’s one crystal monument. Its own Wing Altar is on the far side of the area, so you can leave and come back normally from then on.
One player walked in at level 22, long before they were ready for anything else there, so reaching it is not gated by progress. The game does hint at the trick. Players point to a note in the Tower of Knowledge library about taking a leap of faith, and one player quotes Peha telling you to seek the spaces in between. Most people still find it by accident.
What is in the Petrified Garden, from the first visit to the skull door
The garden is small, but it holds a boss, a five-key puzzle, two of the best utility items in the game and the door that every fossil comes from.
| What | Where in the garden | What you need |
|---|---|---|
| Stone Hut crystal monument | Where you land | Nothing |
| Orbewa Egg | Just outside the Stone Hut | Nothing |
| Silver Pocket Watch (treasure) | In the raised hand of the giant woman statue | A careful landing on her hand. Players use the Cestus uppercut plus one Wind Dash from the statue beside her. |
| Lost King Ojjama | The round platform across the gap from the garden | Four Wind Dashes, or three plus the Cestus uppercut. He drops Trident Key – Onyx. |
| Five-key statue puzzle | The central structure, with a trident slot under each small creature statue | All five trident keys |
| Epha Sword and Wing Stone | Chests in the two stone huts that open when the garden wakes | The puzzle solved. An Epha Mimic is waiting in there too. |
| Three meals with Meal Tickets | Behind a secret door in the left wall of the corridor past the Stone Hut | The Mask of Second Sight helps you spot it |
| Two Strange Silver Etched Skulls | One on the central statue, one behind a secret door | Jump from a small statue for the first |
| The skull door | Underground, below one of the huts | The garden awake, plus all four lenses in the Mask of Second Sight |
Waking the garden
The central puzzle wants each trident key under the creature whose gem colour it matches: Amethyst for the Ratty Bug, Sapphire for the slime, Emerald for the bat, Onyx for the stag and Ruby for the fish-man. Our trident keys guide has where every key comes from and the full puzzle. When the fifth key goes in, Living Stone pops, the stone creatures around the garden come alive and the sealed huts open. Save before you place the last key, because the fight starts straight away.
The Wing Stone is the reason to do this early. It is a Wing Stone Fragment that never runs out, so every trip to a Wing Altar is free from then on. The Epha Sword is a 13 Power weapon that deals Slash and Heavy damage, with a gem in its guard that charges as you hit things and then releases a wide slash. Pull your keys back out afterwards. They come back as hollow keys and still open ordinary trident locks.
Getting under the garden
The glowing statues you see through the Mask of Second Sight are crowned stone fish-men, and each one guards a seal. They do nothing until the garden is awake. After that, hit one a few times until it comes to life, kill it, then press the seal behind it. Each seal needs its matching lens in the mask, so you need all four lenses: Puwema’s, Wodaso’s, Jigeki’s and Sipeha’s. With four seals broken, drop through the hole in the floor of the hut, take the teleport platform below and follow the cave to a round door. If a seal will not respond after you beat its guard, players fixed it by reloading the area and clearing the enemies around it again.
Every fossil comes from the skull door, one for every 10 skulls
The fossils are not pickups. Something behind the round door under the garden, named only as Strange Voices, takes your Strange Silver Etched Skulls and pushes a reward out for every 10 you have handed over.
| Skulls handed in | Reward | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Ancient Stone Duck Figurine | Not a fossil. Take it to Umbada to add the collectible charms to the shop. |
| 20 | Fossilized Fish | Accessory. Raises Luck and your status resistances. |
| 30 | Flying Mushroom Fossil | Accessory. Lets you propel yourself up through the air. |
| 40 | Fossilized Anemone | Accessory. Effect not confirmed. |
| 50 | Sonic Crystal Fossil | Accessory. Players use it as a movement speed boost. |
| All 69 | The door opens. Pigeon Fossil inside. | Unlimited teleport to any crystal monument you have visited. |
The door takes skulls in any amount and catches you up in one go. In Occam’s Beard’s full collection video, 54 skulls go in at once and the duck and all four accessory fossils come out one after another. There is no counter anywhere in the game, so keep your own tally.
Fossilized Fish: Luck and status resistances
The item text does not spell the effect out, which is why so many players ask. Equip it and watch the stats panel: Luck goes up and so do the resistances. Luck is what decides how often enemies drop items and coins, so the fish is a farming accessory. Players stack it with the Amulet of the White Branch and the Chill Amulet for the most drops. We have not seen exact numbers posted.
Flying Mushroom Fossil: flight
The in-game description reads: “The fossil of a mushroom thought to only exist in fairy tales and fables. It allows you to propel yourself up through the air.” It has to be equipped in an accessory slot to work. Occam’s Beard counts 15 of the 69 skulls as needing it, with the other 54 reachable without flight, so getting to 30 is comfortable. Players also use it for an Energy Cell on a cliff in the Ancient World and for the alcove high in the shaft of Dagoom’s boss room in Obmuer Temple.
Fossilized Anemone and Sonic Crystal Fossil
The Sonic Crystal Fossil is handed over with the line “gotta go fast”, and players describe it as the speed accessory for getting around quickly. We could not find the Fossilized Anemone’s effect confirmed anywhere. One player mentions a fossil that stops the damage you take from falling in water, without naming which one, and the Anemone is the only fossil that leaves unexplained. Treat that as a guess until you read the item yourself.
Pigeon Fossil: the last reward
Hand in the 69th skull and the door opens. The Pigeon Fossil is in the hallway of old screens beyond it, sitting on one of the televisions on the right wall, and it is easy to run past on the way to the ritual. It never runs out and lets you teleport to any crystal monument you have visited, not just Wing Altars. Two PS5 players reported in mid-November that using it crashed their game, so save before you try it on console. For the 69 skull locations, start with our key items and upgrades guide, and for what the ritual leads to, the endings guide.
The Ratty Bug statue, figurine and Compendium are three separate things
The Ratty Bug statue is a clue, not a puzzle
The stone Ratty Bug with a purple gem stands on the Isle of Neasied, close to where the game starts. Players place it below the island’s Wing Altar, with a pair of Skeleton Archers on the ledge above it. Hitting it does nothing, and players who tried matching weapon techniques to its colour got nowhere. It is one of five gem statues around the island, and its only job is to tell you that the Amethyst trident key belongs to the Ratty Bug slot in the Petrified Garden. The other four are covered in our Storm Gem and statues guide.
The Silver Ratty Bug Figurine is treasure
It drops from a Mimic chest on the Isle of Neasied. One walkthrough puts that chest at the base of the central tower and another in the Mossy Golem area, so we cannot pin the spot down more tightly than that. Like everything in the bag section of your inventory, it has one use: sell it to Umbada for Ancient Coins. Sold treasures go on display around the shop. A complete collection list also has a Gold Ratty Bug Figurine and a Plush Ratty Bug, which work the same way.
The Ratty Bug Compendium opens book doors
The Compendium is a red book in a breakable crate on the Isle of Neasied, on the route by the collapsed bridge toward the Tower of Knowledge. Look for a skeleton with the Injured Knowledge Keeper’s Note beside it. One checklist has you drop down behind the building to the left of the save point to reach it. The note is from a keeper who was carrying a replacement book back to the Tower of Knowledge when the bridge collapsed. Smash the crate next to the skeleton.
It is not one of the six books for the Tower’s shelf puzzle. Its use is the plain book slots in the Tower of Knowledge, which accept any book:
- Up the stairs from the Foyer monument there is a door on your right that looks like it opens from the other side. An empty slot in a bookcase nearby takes any book and opens it.
- The caged chest under the stairs needs two books at once. One slot is by the gate, and the second is on the floor above, next to the blue orb statue.
Generic books do not lock in place, so you can take the Compendium back out and reuse it. Players name How to Serve Humans and The End of Epha as other books that fit these slots. The six-book puzzle itself is in our Tower of Knowledge walkthrough.
Spirit Oil gives weapon experience, and the garden is where you farm it
Spirit Oil is a consumable. Use it from your items and the weapon in your hand gains experience, a few levels’ worth on most weapons. The game’s own text only says that applying it increases the bond you share with your weapon. It does nothing else: rusted weapons evolve at level 10 whether you get there with oil or with kills.
Where Spirit Oil comes from
| Source | Detail |
|---|---|
| Umbada’s shop | 15 Ancient Coins each. One player ties it to having brought Umbada the duck figurines, so expect it later in the stock. |
| Stone centipedes, Petrified Garden | Two of them stand right outside the Stone Hut once the garden is awake. This is the farm. |
| Fixed pickups | Scattered through the game. One player found a bottle in the alcove in the shaft of Dagoom’s boss room (Flying Mushroom Fossil needed), and our weapons guide lists one in each Blood Key Stone vault. |
| Other drops | One player also got it from the Guardians in the Record of Sin, and found them much more trouble than the centipedes. |
There is no fixed total we can give you. One player had a couple of dozen spare after two endings without farming, and the shop and the centipedes make the supply endless.
The centipede farm
- Wake the garden first. The living stone enemies only appear once the five keys are in.
- Equip the Fossilized Fish, the Amulet of the White Branch and the Chill Amulet for Luck.
- Rest at the Stone Hut, step outside and kill the group by the central podium: two centipedes, a skeleton and a crawler. The centipedes are weak to Impact, and players clear the whole group with an area attack such as the Iron Fist’s missiles.
- Go back in, rest, repeat. Drops stay on the ground between rests, so only collect every 10 or 20 rounds.
One player reports about three bottles a minute with every Luck boost running. Another needed about 850 centipede kills to finish levelling every weapon this way.
What to spend it on
- Weapons you dislike using. The Perfected Weaponry achievement needs every main weapon levelled and upgraded, and slow ranged weapons are a chore by hand. One player suggests wearing the Training Band while you use the oil.
- Gagi’s Magical Pot. The weapon Chef Gagi gives you for 60 Meal Tickets spawns a meal every time it maxes out, then resets to level 1. One Spirit Oil maxes it, so each bottle is a permanent stat boost. Players who tested it found status resistances cap at 100% and nothing else capped.
- Not the Trident, unless you want the Ruby key right now. One bottle breaks it on the spot.
Peha is a character, and she is separate from the Sipeha statues
If you searched for Peha and got statue results, the names are the cause. Sipeha is one of the island’s gods, and the eight seated Sipeha statues carry the seals for the True Holy Sword. Peha is a person you meet once.
- Where she is: in a garden deep under Deimpo Mausoleum, by the Puwema’s Rest Room crystal monument.
- What she gives you: Puwema’s Lens, the first of the four lenses for the Mask of Second Sight. Without it you cannot finish the skull door route above.
- Why she vanishes: she tells you she is tired and goes back to sleep. When you return there is no body. Use the Memento Mirror at her coffin for Peha’s Memento.
The walk to her is in our Deimpo Mausoleum walkthrough, the memento in the Memento Mirror guide, and the eight statues in the Sipeha seals guide.
Mistakes that cost time in the garden
- Mistake: Hitting the glowing fish statues before the puzzle is solved. Fix: They cannot be woken until all five trident keys are in. The mask highlights them early, which misleads people.
- Mistake: Looking for the Fossilized Fish as a pickup. Fix: It is the 20 skull reward from the door under the garden.
- Mistake: Saving skulls until you have all 69. Fix: Hand them in as you go. Flight at 30 makes the last 15 possible.
- Mistake: Leaving trident keys in the garden. Fix: Take them back out after the fight. Keys left in a lock vanish from your inventory, and you have to go back to that lock for them.
- Mistake: Leaving after the ritual without the Pigeon Fossil. Fix: Check the televisions on the right wall of the hallway.
- Mistake: Keeping the Silver Ratty Bug Figurine for a quest. Fix: There is none. Sell it.
FAQ
What does the Fossilized Fish do in Queen’s Domain?
It is an accessory that raises Luck and your status resistances. Luck increases item and coin drops, so players wear it while farming.
Where do I get the Fossilized Fish?
Hand 20 Strange Silver Etched Skulls to the door under the Petrified Garden. It is the second reward, after the Ancient Stone Duck Figurine at 10.
How do I get the Flying Mushroom Fossil?
Hand in 30 skulls at the same door, then equip it as an accessory. It lets you propel yourself up through the air.
How do I get to the Petrified Garden?
Start a teleport at any Wing Altar and walk off the platform while the teleport is still running. You fall through the void and land at the Stone Hut crystal monument.
What is the Ratty Bug statue for?
Its purple gem tells you the Amethyst trident key goes in the Ratty Bug slot of the Petrified Garden puzzle. You cannot interact with the statue itself.
What do I do with the Ratty Bug Compendium?
Put it in one of the plain book slots in the Tower of Knowledge, which accept any book and open doors. It is not part of the six-book shelf puzzle, and you can take it back out.
Where can I buy Spirit Oil?
From Umbada for 15 Ancient Coins. The stone centipedes in the awakened Petrified Garden also drop it.
Who is Peha?
The woman in the garden under Deimpo Mausoleum who gives you Puwema’s Lens. She is not one of the Sipeha statues.
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Source & credit
Queen’s Domain is developed by Freshly Baked Games and published by Future Friends Games. The skull reward order and the Flying Mushroom Fossil’s item text were read from Occam’s Beard’s Silver Skull 100% Collection Guide on YouTube and matched against Sdaknight’s 100% collection guide on Steam. The Spirit Oil item text comes from Nerzgunzen79’s weapon levelling video, and the Compendium’s location from Supreme Intelligence’s video. Item effects, the centipede farm and the Tower book slots come from players on the game’s Steam discussion board and the Queens_Domain subreddit. Where only one player has reported something, we say so. Images are frames from the official trailers on the game’s Steam store page. Checked on November 13, 2026, with the game on patch 1.01.06.
