Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35236548-20180418013054/@comment-35315474-20180421020728

Seabiscuit, go to your inventory and look through your Miscellaneous section until you find something you want more of (such as Cotton). Click on it. A popup will appear with information on how you can obtain it.

In the case of Cotton, it says you can obtain it by trading with Lady.

Click on the traders (small round heads floating in the middle portion of the game -- if you don't know their names, just click on all of them to find the Lady and to get to know which one is which). When you find Lady, you will see that she will give you Cotton (and other things) if you give her a Mechanical Bird.

Now click on the Mechanical Bird, and it says it can be created by the Inventor.

Go to the Inventor. It says you can invent a Mechanical Bird by combining 3 items (blue, red, and purple) AND COINS. ← Aha! That's what Lola's mention of coins was about.

To figure out how to obtain the blue, red, and purple items, click on each of them and the instructions will tell you.

Basically, throughout the game, when you don't know how to obtain something, just click on it, and it will tell you. Keep going until you finally figure out how to get it (which may be several steps, as with Cotton). The game requires a lot of exploring to figure things out. You can also look through the wiki information on this board to learn more about various parts of the game. I find them invaluable.