GroveBound
Grove Bound
Grove Bound is a cozy woodcutting RPG with a twist there’s no combat.
this is an early demo, and there’s plenty more to come. If you have ideas or feedback, feel free to share them. I’d love to build this together with the community.
Wishlist : https://store.steampowered.com/app/3959750/Grove_Bound/
Discord : https://discord.gg/kyPrPr3pN6
Instead of fighting enemies, the world itself is the challenge. The grove is wrapped in darkness, lit only by your lantern and the occasional campfire. Some paths will be blocked, but with a bit of planning, better tools, and upgraded skills, you can work your way through and even shape the grove to your advantage.
There’s no rush here. No ticking clock. Just you, your axe, and a quiet forest to explore at your own pace.
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Features
Chop, Mine, Fish, Cook & Craft
Spend your days gathering, crafting, and slowly improving your tools as you settle into life in the grove.
Find Your Favourite Gear
Discover and upgrade equipment that suits your playstyle some might even hold little secrets.
Wander into the Grove
Take your lantern and explore at your own pace. The deeper you go, the more there is to find.
Pack What Matters
Your bag is small, so choose carefully. Bring what you need and make the most of what you find.
Meet the Neighbors
Get to know a cast of friendly, slightly odd locals. Help them out, and learn their stories over time.
Little Mysteries Everywhere
Poke around, try things out, and uncover hidden corners of the world.
A Gentle Pace
Keep yourself fed and rested, but there’s no pressure take each day as it comes.
With cute pixel art visuals and a cozy mysterious atmosphere, Grove Bound is about progress, planning, and finding comfort in the unknown one tree at a time.
Development log
- Grove bound v0.3.1 patch notes10 days ago
- Grove bound v0.3.0 patch notes15 days ago
- Grove bound v0.2.19 patch notes56 days ago
- Grove bound v0.2.17 patch notes76 days ago
- Grove bound v0.2.15 patch notes79 days ago
- Grove bound v0.2.10 patch notes81 days ago
- Grove bound v0.2.9 patch notes81 days ago
- Grove bound v0.2.8 patch notes82 days ago
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Having A TON of fun playing this game! I love the progression of slowly being able to unlock more areas and tools.
Unfortunately, I somehow broke the game XD.
I died in the moth temple and I tapped in the upper right corner right as Igni respawned me back at the camp. It immediately transported me to the door of the moth temple. Both bridges were broken again and the campfire next to the sawmill was unlit despite me having lit it previously using the ember heart from Lily's quest. I couldn't re-obtain the heart from the quest so i was eventually forced to abandon that playthrough.
I have no idea what caused this or how it happened.
When you die the game saves it sounds like as it was loading you interrupted the save and therefore saved a blank file before your data could load in. Will see if I can fix recreate this and fix it.
I think this should not happen again i have added some safegaurds. This could be caused by dying while entering a door. sorry you lost your progress there is nothing more dishearting but hopefully caught this for someone else.
I noticed some items were duplicating in crates after I transferred them out of the crate, saved, and continued the game.
Many items can be used for fuel in Igni, including raw catfish. I tried to drag a raw catfish into the grill as the fuel, and the webpage crashed with an HTML error.
Oh very interesting I'll have a look and get these fixed in the next build
Updated the dragging items in the cooking menu and forage it was trying to swap with the ghost item. so will no longer crash and should work as intended. I cant seem to get anything to duplicate are you dragging them out of the crates ? Can you give me more details ?
I found the mechanism of the dupe. Doesn't have anything to do with saving and exiting.
1. Remove the item from a crate by clicking on the item stack.
2. Close the crate by pressing escape, not the X.
2.5 Repeat steps 1 and 2 to take items from the crate.
The items that you removed are in your inventory, and when you open the crate again, the stack of items is still in the crate.
3. Open the crate and deposit the items from your inventory into the crate by clicking on the items, as you would normally.
4. Close the crate by clicking the X.
The number of items in the stack in the crate persists.
Also, in the middle of testing the duping, an empty crate next to a full crate was somehow filled with the same items as the one next to it. I didn't touch those items, just opened and closed the crate and pressed escape to save and exit a few times.
Awesome thanks I'll get this fixed
this is fixed now thanks alot never would have found this need to test with esc used more places
A bug I found, wherein items I’d built underground are appearing in the overworld:
this makes sense in a weird way there being spawned in when they shouldn't at the same positions will get a fix in soon
that should be fixed now if you save and refresh creates should only appear where you placed them will have a deeper investigate tomorrow think there is a small chance of them not spawning in properly due to a race condition. but should be fine 90% of the time
Ok. I made 12 Hot Glowshroom Stews so far but the Kobold doesn't give me the option to give any to him. Doesn't tell me how many it should be, so I would have assumed it's only one. Or maybe I need to add more ingredients?
Should just be one when you talk to botch does he tell you to go find his brother's? He should tell you what step you where on. Could be a bug that needs fixing. If your on the find my brother's step it should be in the dialogue then back to botch for your reward after you do both brothers requests
Oh hang on its not glowshroom stew it's red mushroom stew you have the wrong stew.
Ohh, thanks ;) and he even mentions it's made from the red giant mushrooms. Probably happened because I was just on the mission to find out what the glowshroom stew is actually useful for, as it's clearly not meant to be eaten.
I updated the dialogue in the last update to make it more obvious. Used to just be mushroom stew
Glowshroom stew gives fuel to your lantern when you eat it and a small amount of energy back. So if your going away far you could make some to recover fuel without an igni, probably more relevant with later areas I haven't added yet
Hello thank you for your answers.I'm doing the totem quest but my crafting level is too low to make the 2 last totem. And i completed all the other quests so far. So i'm just trying to craft planks to improve my stats but its taking a while. Am i missing something ?
One of the fastest way to get xp is to sacrifice stuff at igni for crafting that's burning totems I believe. There is also a ring in the moth mine to let you get logs quickly from normal trees. If you prefer mining and smithing tools is good xp you can burn the tools at igni.
Each bunny totem give a total of 12 xp to make and burn and copper axe gives 44 to make and burn for xp
Hello again, i don't find tin deposit i've looked everywhere in the mine... where is it please ?
It's in the mine to the far right start at botch and the forage and keep going right you should find some
Hello first of all thank you for this game. Sadly i'm stuck cause i dont understand how to get a bowl.
You can get a bowl by chopping coconut trees once you get a coconut smash it with a hammer then eat the flesh to get two bowls. Hope this helps
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Your welcome glad your having fun!
noticing a slightly annoying bug. If I place any tool in a crate of any size and walk away, it will vanish. I've lost a fishing rod, a hammer and two knives this way. Kinda defeats the purpose of having storage.
That's odd I'll have a look into this and get a patch out hopefully tomorrow.
hey sorry that took a second didnt get time to work on it till tonight chests should work properly now and it might even have saved your items from before.
No worries! I can confirm the issue is resolved. While the lost items remain lost, that's not the end of the world. Nothing unique was lost.
Ahh that's good, thanks for catching this
Cute game, got me hooked for like three hours straight. Progression feels polished, played up to skill level 6 on some of them and did Lily's mission, entered the moth cave and died in there due to the third trap on the right lol, which was avoidable. Only thing that didn't click immediately for me was the crafting system when I unlocked the skill level to make stone tools, but that resolved itself when I found the table.
Good work!
Awesome its so nice to see people having fun with it total passion project in my free time. I think i could do a better job of directing people to crafting and cooking near the start seems to be a sticking point. there is a really cool ring in the dungeon to the right if you get past the traps. really need to add some invulnerability time after you get hit so you don't get hit by every other trap when you panic. anyting you want to see added new item to craft, skill to train or object to build? Farming is most likely the next skill
I think a single text reference that you need a crafting table would suffice, so the player knows it's not in-menu crafting. I got the ring, but I bum-rushed the third trap on the way back when I realized that getting hit isn't insta-kill, but "only" drains your energy and during chopping wood that never killed me the few times I dropped to zero, so I assumed I could just cheese it. ;)
I actually think the difficulty is a bit on the low side, but that fits the atmosphere. I don't think it's too hard, if any a bit "too" easy. I pushed stamina up for carry weight and then farmed some oak when I got that, bought the level 3 backpack, etc. I think the game speed is well done and doesn't feel too skinner-ish. So far everything is foraging related, dunno if or how well farming fits into that, as it may shift the feel of the game from forest to farm akin to Stardew Valley, but who knows :P
My plan for farming is more food options with buffs and a big increase to cooking so you could make food that gives you a speed boost or protects you from the cold gives you a +1 to a skill for a duration stuff like that. Also for later in the game transportation via certain plants like an ent to allow you to get about easier when the map is much bigger. Nothing is set in stone yet the game is very much a sand box so you could ignore farming if it's not for you.
I attempted the "tutorial" and Igni was pretending to be Lily..
After i reloaded page, Lily showed up and wouldnt sell me things but tbh idk if she was suppose to. thats how far i got.
Even tho I didnt get to far, i still know this game can be fun without the bugs so ill wait on rating and give it a try again
Not sure what's happened there you can right click on her and select shop to open her shop
Can you give me some more information on what you done to get to this state and what your running It on so I can fix this. Ie windows or mobile and what browser, most people haven't had an issue with the tutorial so curious how it broke. Second time you probably selected that you didn't want to do the tutorial.
So I started with the tutorial all the way till Igni asked me to press "Fuel" and put "Kindling for my lantern, but I didnt have Kindling so I exited out his menu and went to chop trees. I got the logs and made them to kindling, went to igni and I died from my lantern going out. (Im not sure if i was in Igni's menu or not when I "died".) When I came back to life, I dont remember if it reset the game or if I just respawned, but I went back to Igni and gave him the kindling for the fuel for the lantern and thats when igni's dialog was saying hes Lily and something about the shop. Even Igni's Sprite was still in the dialog and Lily didnt show up until I reloaded the page.
Awesome it's almost certainly dying in a funny spot this is great will try to reproduce and get it fixed this weekend or have dying in the tutorial restart the tutorial
This is fixed now couldn't have found this without your help thanks alot
i offered my axe to ignis during the tutorial. i am now soft locked.
Only if you do so before lily, will make the wooden axe unburnable during the next update.
This has been fixed you can no longer burn your axe in the tutorial
Game menu is uninteractable. Worked yesterday, so I suppose it's newest patch (0.3.0) bug.
I have not updated the game from yesterday. What menu is not working?
Main menu, when starting the game. None of buttons are clickable.
Works now, maybe it was on my side.
I'm stuck on King's password. I have the letter and I tried all the red words, twice. Could you let me know if I'm on the right path or if I need to look for the password elsewhere. (Perhaps there is more then one letter?)
If the password is a mirrored word, could you give me a spoiler so I can check if this is a bug.
You are on the right track you should write out the red words. You need all of them to make the password
Aha! Got it. Clever, but you may find King's puzzle is difficult for anyone playing whose first language isn't English. But I wouldn't necessarily change it. Eventually you or a fan will make a walkthrough to help people who need a hint.
there is a spoiler section on discord with a lot of solutions to things
yeah I think your right a few people whose first language is English also struggled. hope you had fun figuring it out.
Put low-level food on top of the grill and trigger the 'turn combustibles to fire' event first. You can then bypass the skill check and cook high-level food before the 'fire' runs out.
good catch ill get that patched
This is fixed now no more cheating cooking higher items thanks for catching this !
Some gameplay, a bit of critique ;)
This is great I'll have a watch now. So good to see someone playing and how they natural discover things / what friction points there are. Thanks a lot !
I can't figure out how to cook. Do I need equipment or something?
There is a cooking area if your explore you will find a grill it's off to the left of the starting area
I finally got to level ten on mining! For some reason I'd convinced myself the coal would give diamonds, I have no excuse for why I'd think that. (Also convinced myself the catfish would be in the pine forest, with even less excuse, and got very startled when I fished one up by the sawmill.)
diamonds are a good idea and can definitely be added to drop tables I think a few more gems would be good and maybe a use for them long term.
Yay! Being able to make jewelry would be cool. (And I've figured out why I expected catfish to be in the pine forest - there's no food source there (unless you count pinecones)).
very true i hope to add a farming area / skill there at some point.
Have you changed something on Lily's quest? I haven't been able to get it to work these last few days, and I'm not sure if it's because I've been rushing it a bit; I asked if she had a quest but not the specifics of the flowers, and when I brought the flowers I clicked the 'tell me about the flowers' dialogue option and got a blank dialogue box (with the fox icon). Then I couldn't move till I opened the stats screen or the skills screen, and the blank dialogue box stayed up till I went in the mine.
nope not changed it looks like dialogue system has broken some how ill give your steps a try and see if i can get the same state
Seems like it might be connected with King - the times I couldn't do Lily's quest, I'd gotten the emberheart from the standing stones to summon King and did King's quest before getting the flowers for Lily. This time I got Lily's emberheart, used that to summon King, did King's quest, and when I reached Pierre and tried to talk to him I got the blank box. I could still talk to King, but only King. I collected the standing stones emberheart, but I couldn't use it on a campfire - I tried the one in the mines first, then the one at the sawmill. Neither worked.
Very odd dose saving and reloading fix it or is it always gave the blank box after that. I'll have an investigation this weekend and add in same safety features to the dialogue system so if it's blank and falls over you can close the box instead of getting locked in the dialogue
found it. it was king related as he is the only one that has a text entry dialogue option. entering text and talking to someone else cause them to try and fill in data to a non existent variable so dialogue system crashes. fixed now and i also fixed a few other problems with the dialogue system and removed unused code so hopefully something like this wont happen again.
Thank you!
They all repeat back the last thing I've said now. It might be replacing the first line of their own dialogue? I'm not sure if it's replacing it or just happening before it.
my bad in my clean up i accidently removed the skip that would hide that dialogue. that should hopefully be it all sorted now but let me know if you notice anything else.
I may have softlocked myself; I read in your responses there are 4 embers so I should have enough for all, however I had avoided the mine fireplace and lit every other fire and now I have zero idea where the last ember is. Did I make a mistake by not lighting the mine before every other fire?
Nope you should be fine.standing stones has an embed,lily's quest has and ember, pieres quest gives you an ember and the statues in the mine give you an ember
Okay, then about the statues I had made totems for 2, but the third I assumed were for making out of a pine log, which I cannot cut down without a copper axe that I cannot acquire without being able to make a copper axe with the smithy, correct?
ahh no yes you are right that is a soft lock let me add a way around it.I have added the forge so its accessible without the campfire lit so you can get copper axe so you can cut pine to make totem to get ember to allow for easier access to a shop in the mines. Might have the pine forest locked off by copper axe too in the future so its not as convoluted if you go to the mine last.
If you lock off the pine forest I think you'll need to change the route to the red flower? (Unless I've been going the wrong way to get it, which would fit my track record...)
ahh yes true i could move it or lock off access to the camp fire in the pines without a copper axe. make the game no liner i said it will be easy :P
Thank you!
First, a bug report: If you walk into one of the red mushroom trees from the left or right at the base on one that is only one space away from the wall, you will be stuck unless you cut down the tree at which point it lets go.
It's not likely, but this could lead to a softlock if the player does not have an axe available to chop down the mushroom tree.
This is a very fun game, charming and chill, a great way to whittle away the hours.
I recommend giving the player a chest to place some items so they can clear inventory, also being able to discard items would be a critical addition to make sure they can have space if they really need it in the moment.
Really cool game so far!
Awesome I'll fix the bug with the mushrooms. Right click and destroy frees up space.building chests is coming soon when I get some time to develop it you can use the log storage and grill for storage of specific items at the moment.
mushroom and coal updated so you should no longer get stuck it turned out some of them where in between multiple tiles and not snaped to the grid so the player was trying to get to a tile it couldn't reach.
Love this game! Would help if Igni's tutorial speech mentioned kindling, took me a while to find that was possible and it makes levelling up crafting and keeping the lantern fuelled so much easier.
Yeah I think that's a good idea there is currently no tutorial on using items on eachother too. So would make sense
absolutely loving this game!
if you're looking to add more features, i think it'd be great to add some sort of discard option in the inventory. its a bit annoying in the mines when i come across rocks that i am strong enough to destroy, but my inventory is too full so i have to take the long route instead. i also accidentally got stuck with some flowers permanently in my inventory, since i forgot which ones i still needed to give to lily, and now there's no way to get rid of the extras.
i also constantly feel like i've accidentally done a quest before it was asked of me (i fixed the sawmill before even lighting the fire there, because i was curious enough to stumble through the moth area and found the gear before i knew i needed it) and it might just be me but i completely forgot that characters with shop menus could have quests, so i was wondering about the king's note for ages before i realized that the king was just. standing next to me the whole time. i think maybe having a like. active quest checklist could help with that? but also its very much an issue with how i play and skim dialogue haha :P
another inventory/quality of life thing that might be worth adding is like. double clicking or right clicking an item to select all of them at once (like to move all of the same log into the fire at once or move all fish chunks into the shop to sell) because clicking does get a bit tiring..
thanks for making such a wonderful game :D i loved playing it
Great feed back there is a destroy option on items to get rid of them. But I assume you mean a drop ? I think sell all sell 5 ect right click option would be good. I should probably change shop to be the second option so default is talk
oh gosh i didnt even realize i could right click items in the inventory! thats on me haha
I think I may have possibly found a bug! So I got the ember and lit it at the king's place, I solved his puzzle too. But all my MAP progress only got reset, I have to rebuild the bridges and light the fires all over again. All my levels stayed the same, just the map only restarted to the beginning.
I'll have a look
Omg I love this game but I'm very stuck TvT. How the EVER LOVING FUCK am I meant to light the braziers in the moth dungeon. Am I stupid?! I genuinely can't figure it out. However, GREAT game!! I absolutely adore it, I'm in love!
I genuinely can't figure out what "simplest food" means T^T
Simplest food for a fire you need to use a log on it it will change colour then click on the brazier
There was a confusing use option on the braziers i have removed that to make using more obvious
Oh my days i'm stupid, of course. In my head I was literally looking for simplest food. Thank you!!
your not the only one might change it to kindling and a different riddle
I think log is the right answer, It's just confusing since there food for fire and just food lol
I am pretty far along here. I am at least level 9 in all skills, have 3 embers going. 2 questions: is it possible to make the boat and is it possible to get the gem machine going? I am not looking for hints really. I gave the Botch 1K twice and I can mill pine planks so I don't know if the game is done for me for now or what. I can mine coal also, so it is easy to get coins.
sounds like the quest state isn't saving you can get the gem accumulator you have to go to his brothers after you give him 1k ill check why its not saving properly, the boat you just need to bring him the right items and he will try them, but sounds like your mostly done
apologies looks like there was a silly bug that was resetting the quest after you stopped talking to him or left the cave, should be fixed now next time he takes your money he will remember.
LOL, I want a refund. what a scam!! That guy took me for 2k!! Seriously though, thanks. I really appreciate the game and I hope that you add more in the future. I think it's a great concept.
I'm really enjoying the game, but have gotten stuck with the Moth Dungeon. I am pretty sure I understand the braziers - but nothing I use on them (from logical to not) has worked. Is there a hint I could receive for how to get the door open? I'm unable to progress without Planks and this stinking door is keeping me from them!
I have tried kindling, berries, cooked berries, a torch, the lantern, logs, bunny and rabbit figures, the feather, and both inventory tools.
Just a normal log you use it then click the brazier. It will be a lighter colour when being used
I must have not selected the item properly, but I swear I tried that. To the moths!
it might have been a bug. ill have an investigate and see if i can break it
you can go out of bounds near the northern cavern entrance and the ginger tree
good spot ill get this patched now
thats fixed now no more escaping the map... hopefully
I love the game! I spent too much time on it before my final exams lol... oh just one question, are we supposed to be able to smith the tin bars before we're able to mine the tin? Because I feel like it should be the other way around right?
Opps yea it should be I'll swap those around in the next build
that's been updated now not bronze was also wrong
Pretty good game, enjoyed it so far. Just wondering, is the "Shiny Fish" actually in the game? Not sure if I have to cut up random fish till I get a pearl or something, and I've already got everything else done (Aside from figuring out what doing the offerings actually did)
Yeah they are you need to complete king's quest to get them. There more likely with higher spirits levels
turns out that bait fishing had a bug that caused shiny fish to be rare not less rare. also have made rare fish twice as likely to show up
So, when I click "talk" and chose do you have a quest at Lily, it opens a dialogue box and the game sort of freezes and I have to click on a firely to get out of it. I also tried talking to Igni but the same thing happens. The King, I can talk to but I cannot figure out his note for the password but that's beside the point. I feel like there are things that I am supposed to do that I can't do. PLease help. Thanks, Dave
Sounds like a big I'll take a look
Is the box empty? What device / browser are you on i can't seem to get this behaviour to happen. There should be a steam windows version soon that should run better.
I am using Chrome but I can switch to another. I am using a windows laptop that is new, running 11. OK, for some reason I can talk to Lily and I got her quest done thanks.
super cute game, definitely interested in a full version, wishlisting! I am having a small issue though that seems to be barring any more progress; I lit the fire at the saw mill and fixed it with the gear, but the moment I put logs in and click on something to start the progress, the progress bar pops up for a split second and then it tells me there's no logs in the mill, and my logs disappear from the pile. I've tried different amounts/types of logs, have tried holding button, clicking button rapidly, clicking just once and waiting, trying to hurry from one machine to another, in case I was just getting the input wrong, but it happens no matter what ;w; not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if it's a bug, but I thought I'd mention it just in case! :3
I'll have an investigate and see if something has broken thanks for letting me know. Once the machine is fixed it should be put something in log pile then spin up each of the machines keep the bars up. So sounds like a bug.
do you have the correct crafting level ? I was not able to get this happening in my testing does saving and reloading still cause it to happen ? very confused by this one
Yep, I have the crafting level :3 It was still doing it earlier today if I clicked on the crank or levers first, but it finally let me click on the gears to start it, and let me make the planks. I just reloaded it to try taking a video, and the issue is gone, I can start it from any of the 3 areas now. I wish I'd gotten more info to help, sorry ;w;
That's okay it's probably something to do with the interaction system
Buenas noches , si no es mucho pedir una traducción al español es un juegazo y créanme una traducción al español seria fantástico , si es posible claro esta
Me encantaría, pero solo estoy trabajando yo en el juego y no sé español. Quizás en el lanzamiento de Steam pueda.
gracias , y tranquilo es un juegazo
Really enjoying the game so far, but I ran into a bit of an issue. I got the king's note, but I can't figure out the password. I'm fine being stuck on a puzzle, but I keep fishing up more notes in a bottle. They're slowly taking over my inventory and I can't get rid of them because I haven't finished the quest yet.
I'm drowning in paper.
oh no Ill look into this now. you can put them all in Igni and save and reload his item slot isn't saved so it will delete them. write down each of the words on a pace of paper in order should help with the puzzle. I might capitalize them too.
Thank you for the hint! When I completed the quest and reloaded, all the additional notes had cleared from my inventory.
It should check if its in your inventory and turn it into a trout instead of giving you another one. it checks for notes and the bottle so not sure what's gone wrong there
A full set of what I did, in case it helps with finding the cause.
Talked with King and received the quest.
Bought Net 3 and fished up a bottle
Broke bottle without talking to the king again, which ended up with a dialogue option of "I got the bottle open" without an interim "I got the bottle" or something similar.
Tried like 15 different words and shelved the quest
fished for an extended period of time (15 minutes or so) and obtained 3 additional bottles.
awesome found the bug patch incoming and i have enable deleting for the note and bottle as you can always re-fish them again. turns out I was overwriting the data for shinny trout so every shiny trout after that first one was a message in a bottle instead.
Save and refresh the page you should only be able to fish up one now and should be able to delete any dupes in your inventory
Fantastic work!
I have not figured out out how to make a fishing pole or buy one. I have been playoing this for a while I have the ability to cook all the fish but no idea how to catch one.
you need to light the fire at kings on the beach using an ember heart to unlock fishing
added the basic fishing net to one of the barrels beside kings so you can do some fishing without unlocking the shop
I just got the net , thanks. The embers seem so inportant I did not know when or when not to use them. It seems like you get two and that's it
There are 4 of them but. No wrong answer.
Liked it! But got stuck. I solved 2 quest/puzzles: Lily's flowers and the standing stones. I put an ember in the NW, and one by the sawmill, then there seems to be no more embers to get. I got planks but couldnt get a fishing rod and couldnt do anything with the copper.
there is one from the lil pirate rat near the saw mill you have to make the oak bridge or go through the mines to get to him. the other one is in the mines and needs quite high forestry to get. you can light them in any order and it changes how the game plays.
also for the copper there is a forge in the mushroom mine to turn it into bars
OK, I’m completely stuck. I’m skilled enough to make mushroom stew but cant seem to figure out the ingredients.
Also, I can’t find King’s bottle. Can anyone give me a hint? (“It involves fishing” is a perfect hint).
Lastly, I may have found a bug: when I saved and came back, the chest in the cave respawned and gave me another ember heart. Was that supposed to happen?
the one by the statues shouldn't ill look into that now. mushroom stew needs the mushroom logs and a bowl to put it in. i think ill add a clue to the dialogue as a few people struggled with how to make it.(its really not obvious) kings bottle is found by fishing lots the higher your spirit the more likely you are to get it just use the best net you can and it shouldn't take long, fishing with bait make it more likely to get fish instead. thanks for the feed back
Thank you for your quick response! I could have sworn that I tried the bowl with the mushroom log…I obviously didn’t or it would have worked! I also was able to get King’s note. I had a feeling I was just being impatient with that one…!
Unfortunately I ran into the same cave bug when I restarted…Now I have 2 extra ember hearts:
I wasn’t in the caves when I saved and quit. I was near the beach campfire both times. Not sure if that might help but worth mentioning.
I'll keep at it when you leave the cave it saves so not sure why it keeps spawning it for you.
if you reload does it respawn it could be my last fix. fixed the saving but you needed to collect it once more to actually save the data.
think i found it or at least something related, dieing and respawning was not saving data so if you went into the cave solved the puzzle and died you could collect the ember heart and puzzle would reset same for the moth mine.
not sure what happened with the chest added in another check just in case, doesn't seem to happen for me when i reload next to it. also updated the Bish dialogue to add in a hint to the mushroom stew.
Is Fishing supposed to take forever, or am I doing something wrong? Seems like it takes me ~5 minutes to catch a single fish.
(Using Fishing Rod 1 with Worms/Fish Cuts, 6-6-5-5-2 stats)
It is supposed to take a bit higher spirit helps and spirit equipment it's supposed to be a bit afk. But if you think it's far too slow I can speed it up a bit more.
no your totally right its far too slow, have updated it now to be faster and twice as fast if your using bait. If you save and refresh that should be live now let me know if that feels any better, might speeds up fishing and spirit means your more likely to roll a good fish and less likely to get a nothing roll.
Honestly, I don't mind if it's slow on purpose, I just wanted to make sure that *I* wasn't doing anything wrong. I'll definitely test it out, though.
I tried it and it was really slow much better now. Also bait costs money so should be rewarding
I'm not sure what happened, but going into the Moth dungeon seems to have reset bridges and the fires I lit with ember hearts. (Unfortunately, I don't think I can do Lily's quest again to replace the one from her.)
It also seems to have reset chests, thorns, etc., though my skills and inventory haven't changed. Very odd.
This is very odd I'll look into it.sounds like something messes up the save file and it reloaded when you enter/exit the moth mine
Great game! Two potential bugs and one place I just seem to be stuck.
Bug 1: I completed the 3-item task that gets you a chest inside the cave. I clicked on the chest and got a notification that I don't have enough space for the reward. When I exited the notification, the chest was gone, and I didn't have the reward. I tried exiting and re-entering the cave, but no luck.
Bug 2: I'm level 6 cooking. Somehow, I made some fungus sap, even though that says it requires level 9. Now, if I try to make it on any grill I have unlocked, it prevents me, but guess I somehow made some at some point? I'm honestly not sure how.
Stuck: How do I make a plank?? I'm level 6-8 in every skill, but I still haven't figured this out. I've tried using the hammer on everything in/near the sawmill with no luck. Two items tell me "I don't think that's the right machine to use this on," but the other seemingly just does nothing when I use the hammer on it. I've approached the water wheel from the east but can't find any sort of interaction there either.
That is a bug for the first one. Ill get that fixed in the next update.
not sure about bug two ill investigate that.
you need to use an ember heart at the saw mill and complete the quest to fix the sawmill. I think i could have better popups there to make it more obvious. you will be one ember short from that chest being missing it shouldnt have aloud you to collect it if your full. but you only need 3 for the demo. I would advice not using an ember on the pine forest camp to save you needing to restart.
Ahh, I'd already used one on the pine forest. I used them on pine forest and inside the cave. Is there another ember heart I can access at this point, or am I stuck without the chest/without the sawmill working?
you are a little bit stuck lily, has one standing stones has one , Pierre but he is trapped behind the sawmill quest being done. don't worry I'm about to do an update to fix the chest and it will let sawyer show up at the sawmill without the fire being lit.
I have updated with a new build with a few Qality of life changes chests can no longer be looted if your inventory is full or you cant carry the item. sawyer is now there by default so you dont need an ember heart to do his quest. mushrooms in the mines now keep track of there state and are saved. the UI text is now all using the same font. will hopefully get an update tomorrow with a fix to the sawmill and forge not saving items that are left in them. hopefully this helps and you wont have to start over :)
Cool, thanks! I got past the point I was stuck at.
One other one I noticed - crafting the bronze pick is requiring tin instead of bronze. The tin pick head icon shows up in the "recipe," and it won't let me make it with a bronze head.
I have updated the recipe it was using the wrong pick axe head should let you craft it now.