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No problem, yes you have to equip them and any other items you may loot in the future.
If you go to the menu, click equip and you can click optimize and it will auto equip what the game thinks is the best gear/weapons you have in your inventory.
Or you can equip each item for each slot manually through clicking equip.
Hope this helps.

Hey,
There's a sword and armor piece you find in Lily's living room that will help you win the fight.
The armor is in the drawers, and the sword is in the bottom left box near the exit door.

The sword is in the bottom left box near the exit door!

Thank you for the feedback!

For the Witch, you're able to defeat her after finding all of the gold in and outside of Lily's(and the sword), finding the axe in the village, selling the sword and buying an Elemental Cloak from the shop.

Once you defeat the Witch, you will be able to loot her house which includes learning your first spell. Defeating the Witch also opens up the Fairy Den to the west of her house, which is a fletched-out story where you bring items to the Fairy to be able to serve her.

One of the items you will need to bring her will be a Mandrake Root, dropped from the Treants in the Forest. You will be able to one shot the Treants with the spell learned from the Witch. (I uploaded a complete guide to v.01 in the devlog)

There's also more content to the east of the forest, which leads to the end of v0.1 where you defeat the castle guards in the village.
I will work on fixing collisions and hopefully adding more art to the beginning characters, as when I was starting the game/those characters I was 'getting a feel' for how I wanted things to go. Later characters are more fletched out with art!

Thank you!

Hello everyone!
If you're struggling with any parts of the game, feel free to comment here and I can help you out. (Hint: There are items to find in most areas, whether it's weapons, armor, or gold. These will help you defeat enemies and progress through the story. Look in boxes, shelves, bookcases, etc.)

Amazing! Thank you for the work you put into this.