Well, while wrapping up a lot of post-game collection, I realised that I didn't really know where to start with some of it, or how to get progressing, but couldn't find anything with less detail than simply telling you where everything is; so I decided to put together this quick guide for people, like me, who wanted to get cleaning up Picnic, fill their wardrobe and get the kittens home, but still wanted to do the hunting themselves.

I'm going to include visual references for some things, so you might find it useful to refer back to once in a while if you forget the location of certain things. However, the goal of this guide is to give you a quickly readable and digestible set of pointers to get you back on the hunt. It's probably best to read this on a per-section basis as you come around to collecting a particular item.

In Luncheon, you can find the house of a cat named Beans, who tells you that her four kids are missing somewhere around Luncheon and the surrounding areas. She asks if you would go find them and bring them home. Pretty simple fetch quest stuff! Only with a person's children.

Here's a spoilered list of quick points if you don't wanna read the whole section:

• There are 40 kittens hiding in the foliage around Picnic.
  
• Finding them unlocks more furniture for you to decorate with. These unlock in sets. Finding all the kittens unlocks all of the sets leftover.
  
• Kittens are not very good at hiding. Look for shaking foliage and listen for them meowing. Some will jump around to other trees and/or bushes.
  
• Beans will eventually give you an app to tell you how many kittens remain in certain areas of Picnic.

As you explore Luncheon in search of the missing kittens, you will be given two kinds of cue while in any screen with a hidden kitten: audio, and visual. The audio cue is the sound of a rambunctious child who thinks they're about to outsmart the grown-ups and thereby stay outside for the rest of their life; the visual cue is that something on-screen that a tiny cat could feasibly hide inside - a bush, or the top of a tree, for example - will visibly shake, presumably from the stifled laughter of a kitten hiding within.

To completely rumble a hiding kitten, simply take your brush to whatever you can see they're hiding inside of, and give it a few quick jabs with the paintbrush. The kitten will immediately jump out of whatever they were hiding in, coated in the colour of paint you used to reveal them, and stand waiting to be picked up. That's it! They're not as good at staying hidden as they think they are.

You, like me, will realise very quickly that there are actually more than four kittens hiding in the Luncheon area, and after returning more than four to Beans, she will also acknowledge this grievous miscalculation.

Turns out, there are just other parents whose kids have gone missing amidst the chaos of Picnic losing all of its colour. 40, in fact, are hidden all over Picnic! So, Beans tells you that any more kittens you find on your journey around Picnic, she will happily take care of while she tries to inform their parents.



Finding more missing kittens after this point is really a case of standing still for a few seconds when you enter any new screen for the first time; the audio and visual cues will usually be given to you after a second, and generally the location of a kitten on the screen is appropriate to your current Brush Powers earned, so you're pretty much always able to get them once you know where they are.

After some number of kittens found, Beans will give you a new app for your phone, Kid Tracker. When you click the button with the Cat face on it in your phone menu, the map will be segmented and each segment will have a number telling you how many kittens remain in that area. This is as specific as the game gets with telling you where the remaining missing kittens are.


Once you have this app, it might be a good idea to clear out segments one at a time. However, you can receive the app fairly early, so maybe just check it every now and then while naturally progressing the story.

There are some kittens later in the game who will jump between props on the screen, the little rapscallions. But this actually might make it easier for you since you get a huge, moving sprite on screen, and they come out of their hiding place the same.

In order to make space for the additional kittens, Beans will begin to move collections of decorations out of her house. At some milestones of number of kittens collected - the exact number Beans will helpfully tell you if you speak to her again - she will offer for you to take your pick of one of three sets she has removed & arranged on her lawn.

It's worth pointing out that, upon collecting all 40, Beans will just let you have all of it; so if you don't feel any strong attachment to any particular set at any one time, don't worry about it and just grab any of them.

Picnic is under siege! There's trash everywhere!

Well, not everywhere, but there's quite a lot of it about - and you can help clean it up! If you see some Trash, just walk up to it and press A to pick it up. You will sometimes find multiple in one spot, so make sure you check before you walk away, especially if you find it somewhere that's awkward to get up to.

Here's a spoilered list of quick points if you don't wanna read the whole section:

• There is lots of trash around Picnic.
  
• Trash can be exchanged in multiple places - Dinners, Teatime Meadows, Feast - for single decoration items.
  
• Spinach, who is north-east of Dinners, can help you by telling you where there is still trash. He will give you a location, and a number of screens with Trash still on them somewhere. Don't get confused.
  
• Not all the Trash in the game is collectable in the world; other sources are outside the scope of this guide.

Trash can be found as one of five items in Picnic. They can be painted, but this doesn't do much since they have a grey hue already which helps them stand out a little bit against the world, painted or not.

Every named location in Picnic has a certain amount of Trash in it to collect. The rate at which you find and collect Trash will, naturally, decrease as you mop up the obvious ones, and you might end up getting a bit stuck. Unlike with Kittens, you're not given a handy tool to find more, so where can you even start?

Spinach is a somewhat surly seagull living just outside Dinners, on the path up to Brunch Canyon. He seems to have a particular grudge with people littering (understandably), and even documents where Trash can be found.




When you speak to Spinach, he will happily tell you which area in Picnic has the most screens with Trash in them. He doesn't give you an exact quantity of Trash left to collect. This is an important distinction, as will become clear if you go on to collecting Gifts.


So, it's important to first of all make a note of where Spinach tells you to look, and how many screens have Trash in them. When you start collecting Trash, make sure that if you find Trash once on a screen, do a thorough search before moving on.

Once you have cleared the number of screens Spinach told you, go back to him and speak to him to get the next location that needs clearing up.

Travel Note:

If you have the Jump ability, the quickest way to get to Spinach is to fly to the Grub Canyon Transit Bench, then walk two screens left and one screen up. Otherwise, the quickest way is to fly to Dinners Transit Bench, then go three screens right and one screen up.

Trash can be exchanged in a number of places around Picnic for single items of decoration, typically themed based on who or where they were acquired from.

Firstly, there is a Plant Exchange project operating out of a store in Dinners, run by Croquette, where you can exchange Trash for plants. Plants are available in one of four styles, priced between 1 and 3 pieces of Trash each, the price based on which shelf the item is on.


Secondly, in Teatime Meadows, you can find the house of Kiwi and Pomelo; Kiwi is Picnic's bard, and as such seems to have accumulated a large stockpile of abandoned instruments, music players and records in the house. So, Pomelo will exchange Trash for them!



Pomelo's exchanges are all fairly expensive, at 4 Trash a piece.


Feast contains the third character who will exchange Trash for decor, Ixora, this time with a bug theme.

Scattered across Picnic are plenty of Gifts! Gifts come in two sizes; small and large, or tiny and big, or microscopic and ginormous. Whatever you like. The difference is that Small ones contain items of clothing, and Big ones contain Brush Styles. Both of these are a great way to expand upon the ways in which you are able to express yourself, so they're well worth picking up!

Here's a spoilered list of quick points if you don't wanna read the whole section:

• Gifts come in either Small or Big sizes. Smalls are Clothing, Bigs are Brush Styles.
  
• Beetroot, who lives on the south-east end of the Sips River, will tell you which location in the game has the largest quantity of Gifts left to find. This seems to only count Small Gifts.
  
• The Clothing Shop in Potluck will allow you to exchange items of Clothing you own, for ones left to find in the World. A great way to fill your Wardrobe with stuff you like!
  
• There are some Brush Styles and items of Clothing that are not found in Gifts. This Guide won't cover those.

Gifts can be found all across Picnic; they generally are given as a reward for creative exploration, or a bit of puzzle-solving. Similar to the Kittens, you are generally equipped to access any Gift you find as you progress through the game, but you might like to wait until a particular part of the story before committing to the Gift wrap-up (heh).

As with the Trash, you might eventually start to slow down with collecting Gifts, and again can become stuck. Luckily, as with the Trash, there is a helpful character who can give you the information you need!

Beetroot is a dear old wolf who lives in a cottage on the Sips River. Start from Bean's house in Luncheon, and walk two screens left to the river embankment. Continue South, until you reach the end of the embankment, and Beetroot's cottage.


Speaking to Beetroot, she will give you the name of the region on the map with the most Gifts left to find, and the quantity of Gifts left to find there - this is an important distinction from Spinach, who gives you a number of screens. The number she gives you seems to count only Small Gifts.

Also, keep that in mind as Big Gifts tend to be a little trickier to access and, based on your current story progression, might be inaccessible to you. They are generally not terribly difficult to locate, but will require some aspect of problem-solving to actually open them.


Small Gifts outfit you with most of the games clothing items, which give you an opportunity to dress up however you like! You can pick a staple and stick with it, or dress up for the region you're in; get your beach body out for a day in Brekkie, or wrap up warm for the ascent up Dessert Mountain.

In the cafe in Luncheon, Oats will give you riddles for certain outfits he'd like to see (he will eventually move outside). Correctly solve one by wearing the right outfit, and he'll give you a fancy pair of eyewear for each one you solve!


In Potluck, you can find a Clothing shop, with a twist; the shops proprietors specialise in exchanging clothing you own, for Gifts you haven't collected yet. It's worth popping in to say hello and see what's on offer as you progress, as their range of exchangeable Gifts expands to cover your increasing exploration of Picnic. If you find something you're not fond of, you can exchange it for, hopefully, something else you like! The service is entirely free and, if you're planning to collect all the Gifts, you're gonna get all your stuff back anyway, so all in all it's a nice service!

Big Gifts are a little trickier to get your paws on, often requiring you to solve a self-contained puzzle, or find some obscure pathing. There are far fewer of these than Small Gifts, because they contain a bigger reward - Brush Styles!

You're given a starter kit of Brush Styles when you attend the Art Academy for the first time, and some can be unlocked with progression and exploration; but the majority are found in Big Gifts! These can be a great way to have a lot more fun with your painting, whether in the world or when painting on canvas.

To complete your collection of both Clothing and Brush Styles, you'll need to do more than just open Gifts in Picnic. Make sure you talk to folk around the world, be curious and, most of all, be helpful!

I hope this guide proves helpful in gently nudging you in the right direction towards collecting all of the goodies hidden around Picnic, while making sure you still have plenty of fun exploring and solving puzzles!

Please feel free to leave feedback, and make sure you include the name you used at the start of your game. This isn't helpful, I just like to know.

Thanks for reading!

• 1.0: initial version of guide

• Kids: confirm when Beans starts offering you sets of furniture.
  
• Kids: confirm when Beans gives you the Kid Tracker.
  
• Kids: confirm unlock order for furniture sets (random? sequential?)
  
• Trash: get some pictures of all the different kinds of Trash.
  
• Trash: confirm that places for trade-in are correctly named, and list of trade-in places is conclusive.
  
• Trash: confirm prices of items for trade-in from Feast.
  
• Gifts: get some pictures of all the different kinds of Gift.