BROKE a tutorial quest moving barrels!

[Mr. Moyer]

I'm playing the "jumbo demo". First time through I beat the section on the ship until the ship sank, but then got an infinite "saving" screen.
Tried again just now and had the "good idea" during the quest to put the six barrels on the mat that I should instead drop them in the hole that leads downstairs to see if they fall... turns out they don't fall through but they do get STUCK in the hole, permanently attached as part of the floor now. I can't smash them or grab them with the gloves anymore. I just broke the tutorial quest so I can never finish it. Game over, man. And I can't even die because it's the demo tutorial!

To anyone else playing the tutorial or the demo, BEWARE: do not put the barrels into that hole in the floor! Also, don't bother trying to stack them on top of each other on the mat. You physically can stack them probably 4 barrels tall by jumping on the wall and such... but it only registers as placing the barrels down for the quest if you put it on the floor to cover the entire mat, so you need ALL SIX barrels in the right place.

[Krytical]

i literally just did this, was curious if anyone posted about it lol

edit: btw if you go into first person you can pick up the barrels (v by default i believe)

[Mr. Moyer]

This should have been addressed before the game was released. I like that the ship shows a bit of damage from the previous storm, but that hole in the floor is just begging to try dropping a barrel through it. So they should have either patched the hole, or made it so the barrel falls all the way through so you can pick it up from downstairs after you drop it.

[tjzamo]

If you press 1 or 3 (I believe it's 1) your character will look down and you will be able to pick up the barrels in the hole. The game should have explained that, I had to look through the controls to figure it out.

[lilisaur]

tjzamo has provided the explanation - the barrels don't fall through the floor but attach on their side to the edge of the hole. When using Gloves you can place most items just about anywhere, so long as they touch another item on any of their six surfaces - with the bottom surface being most commonly used. When you tried to drop them the the hole, they attached on a side surface and the only way to pick up the barrel again is to use the button to have the builder look/aim downward.

Its a useful feature in the game but for the early part of the demo, having that hole is a bit of a trap. I ran into same issue playing the demo the first time (and this was the Japanese demo no less so I was mostly relying on the visual cues) and just had to restart it because I couldn't figure it out. Its not really a bug, just a bad design element so early in the game.