Ruffy And The Riverside – Etoi Guide

Ruffy and the Riverside is a 3D platformer bursting with character and strewn with collectibles. The Etoi are a small, furry, and very shy race of creatures that help keep the natural world of Riverside healthy and clean. With the return of Groll, the Etoi are needed now more than ever, and it’s up to Ruffy to find all 30 and return them to the Etoi Sanctuary. So here is our Ruffy and the Riverside Etoi Guide to help you find all these fuzzballs and unlock the I Love Etoi and I Love All Etoi achievements.

Following this guide will also help players unlock the Mushroom Maniac achievement.

Players will want to find all the Etoi, as you need the max number of 30 to complete the Dirty Spots side quest and unlock the Mr. Clean and Clean Countryside achievements.

Want to read our thoughts on the game? Here is our Ruffy and the Riverside Review.


Riverside Town

1.

Back down at street level, you’ll find a stone pillar puzzle with its solution close by.

Use your Swap to change the stone blocks to wooden crates and smash them to solve the puzzle.

The Etoi will appear.

2.

Head through the main Riverside Town entrance and head to the right. You’ll spot another stone pillar puzzle near a cliff, with its solution on the wall nearby.

Once you’ve solved it, the Etoi will appear.

3.

Head round to the back of Riverside Town to find a large yellow mushroom.

You need to use your Swap to change 15 small mushrooms to yellow like the big Mushroom.

Once all mushrooms have been swapped to yellow, the Etoi will appear.

4.

In the same area as the big yellow mushroom, on the edge of the cliff heading to the Basilica of Besties, is a shaking tree.

Use your Swap to turn it to stone, and the Etoi will appear.

Central Riverside

5.

Just as you enter Central Riverside, turn right and head up the path.

Use your Swap to turn the shaking tree into stone.

6.

Head back down and into Central Riverside. Near the start of the Five Fellows racetrack is Veena’s house.

There is a shaky tree under which Iddi is sitting.

Turn the tree to stone, and the Etoi will appear.

7.

Go West into the castle and find the rear entrance that leads to the Realm of the Dead.

Climb the nearby ladder and turn around to spot another platform.

On the platform is a box with the Etoi hiding inside.

8.

Leave the castle and head to its northern wall.

There is another stone pillar puzzle here, with the solution on the castle wall behind it.

Solve it, and the Etoi will appear.

9.

Nearby is a large blue mushroom. Just like with the yellow mushroom before, you need to Swap all the nearby little mushrooms to blue.

There are 15 small mushrooms to Swap.

Once all the mushrooms are blue, the Etoi will appear.

10.

Go North past the big blue mushroom, near where Silya, the giant turtle’s pond, is located.

You’ll spot another shaking tree. Turn it to stone with your Swap, and the Etoi will appear.

11.

In the middle of Central Riverside, just South of the lava geyser, is a rocky outcrop with a stone pillar puzzle on it.

Solve the puzzle, and the Etoi will appear.

12.

Along the path leading into the crater with the lava geyser is the solution to this stone pillar puzzle, with the pillars above it.

Solve the puzzle, and the Etoi will appear.

13.

To the West of the crater (just North of No.7) is a shaking stone pillar.

Use your Swap to change it to wooden crates, smash it, and the Etoi will appear.

14.

Head over to the pond with the barrel lift to Joboo’s floating island.

Look out for another shaky tree.

Turn it to stone with your Swap, and the Etoi will appear.

You are halfway through our Ruffy and the Riverside Etoi guide. Well done, keep it up!

15.

Head to the icy area on the East side of Central Riverside, go through the cave, and turn left like you are going into the Bale Ranch.

There is a shaky tree on the left.

Use your Swap to turn it to stone, and the Etoi will appear.

Eddler’s Lab & Beach

16.

As you walk down towards the beach and Eddler’s Lab, look out for a shaky tree on the right-hand side.

Turn it to stone with your Swap, and the Etoi will appear.

17.

There is a large red mushroom on the path down to the beach.

You need to Swap 15 small nearby mushrooms to the same colour.

Once all 15 small mushrooms are red, the Etoi will appear.

18.

Near the big red mushroom are two pools of quicksand. Cross them on the circling platforms, and use your Swap to change the arrows on the door.

Behind the door is the solution for a nearby stone pillar puzzle, so remember it!

Head back across the quicksand and climb up the ladder next to them to find the stone pillar puzzle.

Solve it and the Etoi will appear.

19.

Head to the beach, and look at the cliff wall to the right, opposite the crow on the wooden structure. You’ll see a cave blocked with stone blocks.

Swap all the blocks into wooden crates so you can smash your way through. Behind them is another wooden crate you can smash, which hides the Etoi.

20.

Now, head across the water to the island with Eddler’s Lab.

Around the back of it is a stone pillar sticking out of the sand.

Swap it to wooden crates and smash it to reveal the Etoi.

Bale Farm

21.

Run down the path to the Bale Farm and turn left.

The Etoi is hiding in the crate behind the stands.

22.

Cross the race course and head up the hill to the northeast. You should spot a hot air balloon in the sky.

Use your Swap to change the weights on the balloon from wood to stone.

The hot air balloon will come down, revealing the Etoi.

Realm of the Dead

23.

On your way to the Realm of the Dead, you grind a rail across a gorge using a hay bale.

Climb up the ladder and through into the next part of the cave, where you’ll find a stone pillar.

Swap it to wooden crates, smash it, and the Etoi will appear.

24.

Once you’ve made it to the graveyard in the Realm of the Dead, look on the right side of the first row of graves.

You want to do your slam attack on the tomb that is shaking.

Do this until all 6 candles are lit. This will reveal the Etoi.

Wondrous Woods

25.

On your way to visit the Tree of Life in the Wondrous Woods region, you will see a large orange mushroom.

This time, there are 30 small mushrooms scattered around this area that you need to make orange using your Swap. (All mushrooms are in the area before the rail)

Once all 30 mushrooms are orange, the Etoi will appear.

If you have been using this guide, you should unlock the Mushroom Maniac achievement once you have solved the four large mushrooms.

Serpent Door Cliff Area

26.

Once you have solved all 7 serpent puzzles in Central Riverside, you unlock the Serpent Door on the East side of the region.

As you enter this new area, there will be a shaking tree on the right side. Swap it to stone and the Etoi will fall out.

27.

There is a known bug that affects Etoi No.27 from being accessible, but thankfully, the developers have provided an excellent step-by-step solution, which you can read below.

There is a large tree near the back of this area. It has glowing roots growing into layers of rock.

You need to light up the number of dots on each rock that matches the number of roots growing into it.

Once you have swapped the correct number on each rock, the Etoi will appear.

Veena

28, 29, and 30.

The last 3 Etoi are given to you by Veena at her house near the Five Fellows Race track in Central Riverside.

You need to have cleaned five of the six dirty spots as part of the Dirty Spots side quest. You need 6 Etoi to clean each pool, so you need to have found at least 24 Etoi to achieve this.

Etoi Sanctuary

With all 30 Etoi found, head back to the Etoi Sanctuary, and Iddi will thank you for returning all the Etoi!

To learn more about the Dirty Spots side quest and how to unlock the Mr. Clean and Clean Countryside achievements, check out our Ruffy And The Riverside _ Dirty Spots Guide.

You will also unlock both the I Love Etoi and I Love All Etoi achievements for finding one Etoi and all of them, respectively.


That was our Ruffy and the Riverside Etoi Guide! We hope you found it helpful, and there are more guides for this game below.

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Harry Glynn Jones

Just a dad of two with 30 years of gaming under his belt. Advocate for more mascot platformers. Enjoyer of RPGs, Metroidvanias, Puzzle games and Indies. I love all things video games and would like to make one someday. I play them, I talk about them, might as well write about them! Lead Guides Editor for Gamer Social Club.

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Ruffy And The Riverside – Etoi Guide

Harry Glynn Jones

Just a dad of two with 30 years of gaming under his belt. Advocate for more mascot platformers. Enjoyer of RPGs, Metroidvanias, Puzzle games and Indies. I love all things video games and would like to make one someday. I play them, I talk about them, might as well write about them! Lead Guides Editor for Gamer Social Club.

12 Responses

  1. Hello, I have a problem with the location of the etrois. I am at 26/30, so I am missing the 3 of Veena , but I can’t find the 27. I checked the 27 in your guide which seem to have all been collected (no shaking trees and missing crates so logically collected). Do I have a bug in my counter or one of the places must meet a particular condition? (I thought of night via the city clock but the images in your guide are during the day). Do you have a solution? Thank you.

    1. [Update] Hi Stella,

      I’m sorry I made a mistake that I will be updating now. You need to solve the blue tree puzzle. This involves colouring the correct number of dots on each rock the tree is on top of, based on how many roots are growing into the rock. I hope this helps!

      Hi Stella, if you have been ticking them off as you go using my guide as reference, I don’t know how you would have missed one. You say you found the one behind the serpent door, on the cliff with the big blue tree? If so, then all I can recommend is going back and checking all the spots, I found I missed a lot of the tree ones until I was actively looking for them. I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful, but if you figure out which one you are missing, perhaps I can go through my recordings and find some better images/explanation.

      Best of luck!

      Harry

      1. Yes that’s it ! I knew there is something to do with that tree! But how do you colouring the dots ? I can’t use swap

      2. Hi Stella,

        Use the blue dot on the large stone nearby, should let you swap the colour!

      3. I already tried it but it didn’t work…
        I can take the blue and dark colours on the dots but I can’t swap. I only can swap the leaves on this tree…

      4. Hi Stella,

        Sadly, that sounds like an issue to raise with the developers. I’m sorry I can’t help anymore, and I hope it gets resolved for you soon!

        Best of luck,

        Harry

  2. I have 27 Etoi and 5 spots cleaner but Veena just doesn’t give me the text that she will say goodbye to the 3 she should have 🙁

    1. I had the same issue but I had already completed the butterfly quest. Talking to the turtle to trigger the ending cinematic and credits then immediately talking to Veena when the game loads got her to hand over the final 3 Etoi.

    1. Hello everyone!

      We found the bug that makes it hard to get the Etoi from the tree with the blue dots. Luckily, there is a workaround.

      SOLUTION:
      There is a bug in the current version that prevents you from getting the Etoi located in the tree on the high plateau.
      In PIX drawing mode – if you have set the checkmark for the WATERFALL texture at the world icon in the top left corner, the tree with the blue dots on the plateau will be solved automatically and you will not be able to get the Etoi from it.
      However, there is a workaround: To solve the tree, go into paint mode and UNCHECK the globe icon for the WATERFALL. Make sure you do this somewhere other than the high plateau. Then enter the high plateau and the tree can be solved, giving you the Etoi.

      We are really sorry this happened and we hope you will enjoy our game and get all Etoi now.

      Best regards, Patrick from Zockrates Labs

      1. Thanks Patrick, it works !
        Then I had the same issue with Rumpl and his solution works with Veena. Finally get 100% 🙏🏻

      2. Thank you, Patrick!

        I have updated the guide to include your solution.

        All the best,

        Harry

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