Sealing Wax Acid and the Quest Item Names That Don't Match

Mistfall Hunter’s battle pass hands out repeatable quests that ask you to use a number of a specific item. Several of those quests name the item with a phrase that never appears in your bag, which leaves you holding what looks like the right thing while the counter refuses to move.

This is a localisation mismatch, not a missing item: the quest strings and the item names were evidently translated on separate passes, so the same object can carry two different English names in two different parts of the UI.

Mappings players have worked out

Quest text asks for	Players say it actually is	How solid
Filth Jar	the fetid jar in your bag	One player’s trial and error
Demonhunter Jar	Сосуд для охоты на монстров — a monster-hunting vessel	One player, corrected another player’s guess

On the Demonhunter Jar, the player who identified it added a practical note: you can carry six into a raid and use them on the first six monsters you meet, which is enough to clear the quest in a single run.

The player who originally hit the problem had assumed the Demonhunter Jar was an incendiary and burned a run finding out it was not. Their description of the process is the useful part: they used every tactical item one at a time and watched the counter, and the correct one registered exactly once.

Where this comes from, and how far to trust it. Both mappings come from a single Steam discussion thread — one player reporting, another correcting. Neither has been confirmed by Bellring Games, and no developer or moderator has replied to that thread. They are the best information published, not official answers. If a mapping turns out to be wrong, the counter simply will not move, which costs you a run rather than anything permanent.

The wicker basket case, which may be something else

A separate quest asked for ten wicker baskets. The player looted one from a box, later found another container with the same name and collected from it twice more, and the quest still would not complete.

That does not obviously fit the naming-mismatch pattern — the names matched. It may be a quest that only counts baskets from a particular source, or a straightforward bug. We do not know, and are recording it here rather than guessing, because a reader hitting the same wall is better served knowing somebody else hit it too.

Sealing wax acid is not an item, and that is why nobody could find it

“Sealing wax acid” is one of the most frequently searched Mistfall Hunter item phrases, and it does not appear in any of the community databases that index the game’s 530 non-gear items. That absence stands. What has changed is the reason for it.

It was never an item. Sealing Wax and Acid are two separate clue words printed on the same cipher, and both belong to Sigrid, the tavern wife — so a cipher carrying them goes to her for the bonus. Searching an item database for the pair was always going to come back empty, because a cipher clue word is not a thing you can hold.

This page had it filed under the wrong problem. The mismatch it documents is real, and “sealing wax acid” simply was not an instance of it: the phrase does not come from a quest string at all. All 52 clue words and the seven camp NPCs they belong to are on the cipher word table, which also covers what happens if you hand a cipher to the wrong one.

Prophecy Spindle is a cipher word pair, not an item

“Prophecy” and “Spindle” are two clue words off the same cipher, and both belong to Dew, the maiden at the Goddess Statue. A cipher printing either of them goes to her. She also owns Homeward, Anchor, Echo and Weaver, which is why weaver echo gets searched the same way — see the full cipher word table.

That resolves the search, and it also explains the rest of this section, which is left standing because the absence it records is still true and still worth knowing. “Prophecy Spindle” is not in our weapon table and not in anybody else’s data. Five sources were checked on 9 August 2026, and none of them holds anything by that name — because none of them indexes cipher words:

Checked	What it holds	Result
This site’s weapon table	45 weapons	nothing by that name
mistfalldb.com weapon list	says it covers all 90 weapons	nothing by that name
mistfalldb.com item list	the non-gear items	nothing by that name
mistfallhunterwiki.net materials list	87 construction materials	nothing by that name
mistfallhunter.wiki	where our own weapon figures came from	no such page exists

Each of those was checked against something already known to be in it — Absolution and Venomfang in the weapon lists, the Soul Jar among the construction materials — so what is recorded above is an absence, and not a lookup that quietly failed.

There is a real Spindle, and it is not a weapon

The Starsilver Spindle does exist, and three community guides agree on what it is. It is not gear at all. It is the item the Watchtower landmark in camp has to be given before it will upgrade.

• It is bought from the Curio Shop, at the Goddess Statue in camp, for 7,200 Star Silver. It does not drop on expeditions.
• Star Silver is refined from Moonlight Nectar at that same statue.
• Applying one upgrades the Watchtower. What the finished chain pays out is cosmetic rather than combat.

How far to trust that. All three of those guides are second-hand. Bellring Games has published nothing about the Spindle, the Curio Shop, or what the Watchtower costs, and one of the three marks its own price as community-reported. What the figures have going for them is that they agree across sites which do not cite one another, and that is the most that can be said for them.

The two are not the same thing. Until the cipher words were mapped, the Starsilver Spindle was the closest guess available, and this page was careful to present it as no more than that. It is now clearly a third object: Prophecy and Spindle are Dew’s cipher words, the Starsilver Spindle is a camp upgrade material, and neither is a quest string that disagrees with your bag. The Starsilver entry stays because it answers a real question — if you arrived here part-way through upgrading the Watchtower, the thing you are looking for is the Starsilver Spindle, and it is sitting in the Curio Shop.

Why a real item can be missing from every database

The Starsilver Spindle is also absent from all five sources in the table above. The same five that hold no Prophecy Spindle hold no Starsilver Spindle either — a purchasable, documented, entirely real item, invisible to every database that indexes this game.

That is worth stating plainly, because it settles how much the table proves. Those databases index gear and the things you carry into a raid; a camp upgrade material is neither, so it falls straight through them. The table is therefore good evidence that a Prophecy Spindle is not a weapon — and it is not evidence that nothing by that name exists anywhere. Only the first of those is a claim this page is making.

Working out which item a quest wants

Until the naming is fixed, the reliable method is the one the reporting player used:

1. Take the quest, then open your tactical items and use them one at a time.
2. Watch the quest counter after each use rather than at the end of the run.
3. The moment the counter moves, that is the item — note the bag name against the quest name so the next repeat costs you nothing.

Carrying six of a candidate item into a raid, as suggested for the monster-hunting vessel, makes this cheaper: you get six attempts at the counter in one run instead of one. Whether you live long enough to spend all six is a different question, and that one comes down to the class you take and to how extraction works — a run that ends early ends the test with it.

Related

The mismatch described here turned up in the battle pass quests. The story quests are a separate track, and every one of them — all 128, with what each asks for — is listed on the full Mistfall Hunter quest list.

Battle pass quests sit inside the seasonal systems — see Season 1 — Soul Hunt for what the season contains and Path of Glory Ranks for the ranked track that runs alongside it. Item terminology that is consistent between quest text and bag is collected in the glossary.