Help! Tea Leaf Bronze+?

[FruitLord]

So I sold all my starred tea leaves and kept some regular ones for errands. Realized on Winter 24 I need a bronze or better for the offering. It's the last thing I need on that altar which apparently unlocks the greenhouse.

Is there another way to get a bronze+ tea leaf or am I just basically screwed for a year?

[FruitLord]

Been searching for a solution for 4 hours now. CE Tools aren't updated/working with the 1-131 version on game pass. And there's no built-in solution like buying it from some shop or getting it as a gift. So I guess this ends it for me. Maybe after all the roadmap updates I can return to it. 1500ish hours in Stardew(thanks to mods) so I'm sure once this game is mod-ready it'll be similar.

[Abby9898]

Did you happen to have any tea seeds saved? Otherwise you'll have to wait until next winter, sadly. You can't buy anything that is starred as far as my knowledge goes. I'm sorry about all of this, that really sucks!

[FruitLord]

I had a small stack of basic tea leaves, no quality. Basically if I continue playing I have 2 options. 1) Play another year with a lot less to do because the ocean and mine are done, or 2) Start over and improve my efficiency, namely earning gold faster.

Everything was new to me this run, so it was much easier to get past bugs or incomplete systems in the game. But some of these bugs should have been run into and addressed easily long before it made it out of early access. And something like combat being the way it is feels like it was tacked on last second to appease some folks. So I'm ok waiting until they finish making the game to play it for real. I imagine Stardew on day 1 was probably the same. I didn't get to it until 3 years after it released and tons of these things were probably addressed along the way.

Or maybe its just me. Roots of Pacha was fun w/ the wife for one short playthrough but had a similar issue for us. We ran out of stuff to spend time on rather quickly. I will say that mods have a huge impact on games like this. So I'm excited that they are wanting to support modders in the future. It turns a 30ish hour game into something that can be enjoyed time and again for years.

[JVC]

On the steam version the game has backups for something like 10 days but haven't figured out how to access them. If game pass doesn't have a way of accessing them and reverting to the save from 10 in-game days ago, you're out of luck.

Seems like someone managed to transfer a save from game pass to steam but not sure if game pass has any backups to use.

https://www.reddit.com/r/coralisland/comments/17zmu84/anyone_knows_how_to_restore_backup_saves_on_game/

If you've been playing that long and completed the mine and farm, it's surprising that you haven't had Ling upgrade the crop quality on your farm. I did that as early as I could to get better sales prices.

Alternatively wait till someone updates the tool you're using to manipulate the game files.

Don't agree that it is a 30 hour game, I don't use mods or cheats and I'm more than 100 hours into the game trying to finish the museum collections.

[FruitLord]

Crop quality is maxed out. I just sold all the tea leaves for money to do more upgrades and had forgotten I needed a tea leaf of quality.

Completing the story objectives is really what I meant. If I was doing 100% then yes it is probably much longer. For instance, getting perfection in Stardew requires cooking all recipes. Passing time to reach the end of year 2 to learn all recipes from the TV cooking show takes a lot of time but is boring. So if I'm mostly just passing year 2 in this game in order to unlock the greenhouse it would be more frustrating than fun.

There is still more to do in the game, I haven't seen heart events...but I'm also stuck on at least 1 character with that due to a bug that evidently a *lot* of people encountered.

Thank you for that thread, I'll see if I can restore a 10 day old save.

[FruitLord]

I posted a follow-up that was removed, presumably for a link to a google drive video file.

I was able to restore an old save back to Winter 16, which is when my tea leaves were ready to harvest. This was for the game pass version of the game as I do not own it on steam yet. Here is the reddit thread with a user who made the video and posted it in his comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/coralisland/comments/184egn4/lost_tools_while_participating_in_winter_fair/