Clover Leaves

Clover leaves are Twinsen's lives. Every time his life points drop to zero, he will lose a clover leaf. If he loses all his clover leaves, he will die, resulting in game over.

In LBA, after losing a life, Twinsen respawns at where he entered the current map. So, spare clover leaves can be used as items to instantly refill HP and MP to avoid losing the progress. In LBA2, this feature was dropped since Twinsen respawns at the last safe-to-stand-on point before his death, making it unnecessary.

Clover leaves are stored in Clover Boxes which limit the maximum lives Twinsen can have at a time. Additional boxes can be found to increase this maximum. In LBA2, picking up a clover leaf with no empty boxes available replenishes life and magic points to maximum, and the next clover after that refills the Horn of the Blue Triton.

Clover leaves aren't randomly dropped from dead enemies, only a few specific ones drop them. Very rarely, they are available as random drops in specific game events. Most can be found in special places like some specific mushrooms. Some of them are given to Twinsen by NPCs as rewards.

In LBA1, clovers are easy to obtain but are just as easy to lose: almost every monster in the game is strong enough to do Twinsen in from full health in less than ten seconds.

Locations table legend

Availability

• Permanent: accessible during a large part of the game (generally, for the whole time on a planet)
• Temporary: accessible during a short frame in the plot; alternatively, in an area that is technically accessible afterwards but is such a detour that it's impractical
• One-time: given one-time and doesn't respawn upon revisiting the area; alternatively, located on a map that's impossible to revisit

Difficulty: remoteness/technical

Remoteness

• Near: at, or almost at a major path - can be collected without spending much time while in the area
• Far: requires a detour of at least a few minutes of real time to (re)visit while in the same area
• Remote: requires a trip to another area and/or a very time-consuming sequence to revisit

Technical difficulty

• Easy: no specific problems, can be used to replenish leaves supply by revisiting the area if not one-time
• Medium: slight problems without a high risk to lose a life
• Dangerous: need to avoid high danger to pick - likely to lose lives on an attempt

Clover leaves locations

LBA

Location	Amount	Availability	Difficulty	Requirements/Notes
Citadel Island, Little Vachold street	3	Permanent	Far/Dangerous	soldier behind sandbags
Principal Island, ruins	1x3	Permanent	Near/Dangerous	Sphero Clones
Principal Island, water tower	2	Permanent	Remote/Easy	inside, one of the mushrooms
Principal Island, Peg Leg street	1	Permanent	Near/Medium	ruins of a house, only when returning from Water Tower and have a spare clover box
Temple of Bù, first area, NW	3	Temporary	Near/Medium	in the urns in the passage towards the statue, after the hall with two fire faces and moving blades
Citadel Island, ancestral cave	5	Permanent	Far/Easy	requires Ancestral Key
White Leaf Desert	1	Permanent	Far/Medium	E corner of the map, only accessible with Proto-Pack. Watch out for steep slopes and gunfire
White Leaf Desert	3	Temporary	Near/Easy	Joe the Elf after freeing him; he disappears from there after you get the Clear Water
Hamalayi Mountains, Rabibunny Village	1	Permanent	Near/Easy	A rabibunny at the SE end of the village. Kill the mutant attacking him; after the factory destruction - just talk to him.
Hamalayi Mountains, Rabibunny Village	3	Temporary	Near/Medium	An old rabibunny at the E edge of the map. Kill the mutant attacking him before he bites the dust
Hamalayi Mountains, subway station docks	3	Permanent	Near/Easy	Raymond the Elf after freeing him. The primary supply of clovers since then because you pass him many times after that
Hamalayi Mountains, catamaran docking area	3	Permanent	Near/Dangerous	on an islet behind a rabibunny rebel, in the southern drum
Tippett island, outside the club	3	Permanent	Near/Dangerous	The hatless Groboclone mugger
Principal Island, water tower	3	Temporary	Remote/Easy	Joe the Elf, emerges from a telepod after you pour Clear Water into the tank
Principal Island, library	2	One-time	Remote/Easy	Given by the librarian after you pour Clear Water into the water tower
Brundle Island, Teleportation Center yard	3	Temporary	Near/Dangerous	A red Globoclone, appears from a telepod if you enter an elevated area behind the front door
Fortress Island, outside the fortress	3	Temporary	Near/Dangerous	Right-hand quetch clone guarding the gate
Fortress Island, training swimming pool	5	Temporary	Near/Dangerous	On the slope along the W wall of the E section. Only accessible before draining the pool. Very likely to attract the Flying Groboclones
Fortress Island, prison	3	One-time	Near/Easy	Raymond the Elf, if you let the nurse press the alarm button before dispatching them, then go reclaim your stuff. Upon revisiting the area, the cell block door is locked and impossible to open
Polar Island, construction site, 3rd area	5	Temporary	Near/Dangerous	Sphero clone near the stones blocking the path

LBA2

Twinsun

Location	Amount	Availability	Difficulty	Requirements/Notes
Citadel Island sewers	1	Permanent	Near/Medium	On a solitary tile along the SW wall. Easy to fall into the water if not careful
Citadel Island, Tralü's Cave	1	One-time	Near/Easy	Given by Raph after killing Tralü
Citadel Island, warehouse	1	Temporary	Near/Easy	In the three drums behind the sitting worker
Dome of the Slate	1	Permanent	Remote/Dangerous	In the NE corner
Desert Island cemetery	2	One-time	Near/Easy	Heal Joe the Elf with the Horn of the Blue Triton
Desert Island, School of Magic	1	Permanent	Near/Medium	Complete the Blowgun test in half the time limit (takes lots of skill or a blowgun)
Desert Island race track	3	Permanent	Far/Medium	Follow the racer for one lap, without bumping into him or getting too much behind (or ahead)
Desert Island, Cave of the Pearl of Incandescence	4	Permanent	Remote/Dangerous	Only accessible from Moya's back
Desert Island, Temple of Bù	1	Permanent	Remote/Medium	the section before the gates that trigger the roller-coaster video clip
Desert Island, Island across from the Hacienda cave	1	Temporary	Near/Dangerous	Main cave, the farthest islet in the lower area. Easier to get on the way out
Desert Island, alien base	2	Temporary	Near/Easy	in the hangar, on top of the highest pile of crates

Zeelich

Location	Amount	Availability	Difficulty	Requirements/Notes
Otringal, prison	1	Permanent	Far/Easy	in the 2nd cell in the left row (obscured by a wall)
Otringal, Fish-Bull training grounds	1	Permanent	Far/Easy	in the central kennel
Island of the Francos, refinery	1	Temporary	Near/Medium	in the 2nd hall, turn off the geyzer left of the entrance and go into the crawlway behind it
Island of the Francos, refinery	1	Temporary	Near/Easy	in the last hall, in one of the fish-bull shit piles (apparently, sometimes, these hounds shit clovers)
Island of the Wannies, village	1	Permanent	Near/Medium	outside, in the area a gap across the pond with the frog
Island of the Wannies, village	1	Permanent	Near/Dangerous	passage to the chapel, from the lowest firefly. When entering in running mode, there's a chance it'll be hit by a fireball shortly
Island of the Wannies, mine	1	Permanent	Far/Dangerous	main cave, on the island near the lava falls
Island of the Wannies, mine	1	Permanent	Far/Dangerous	farthest cave, on the staggered cliff in the SW corner
Island of the Mosquibees, test of truth arena	N/A	Temporary	Near/Random	a rare random drop from rolling balls
Island of the Mosquibees, cave across the bridge	1	One-time?	Near/?	Falls from the spider sometimes (specific condition unknown)
Island of the Wannies, Building company	1	Temporary	Near/Medium	(after the Queen's capture) Falls from the guard on top of the stairs at the entrance hall
Island CX, tower entrance hall	1	Temporary	Near/Easy	Falls from the machine-gunner
Otringal, Emperor's Palace	1	Temporary	Near/Easy	in the most SW room (before getting the fragment) or in the 2nd farthest room in the eastern row (after), in fish-bull's shit (eww!)
Dark Monk's Statue	1 x3-4	One-time	Near/Random	in some mushrooms in cave areas (random, usually about 3 total); falls from FunFrock/FunFrock's clone sometimes. Very rarely, some stashes have 3 or even 5 leaves.