About to lose tutorial, help!

[Captaivian]

I just started Against the Storm, and I was really loving learning all the mechanics of the game, but the final request made was to go into the dangerous glade, and collect the ancient tablet. All well and good, but as I entered, I realized that three of my citizens would die every minute until I brought all the required items to the shrine. Fair enough, all I need to do is bring the items. Except one of the required item I cannot produce. Simple tools. It says that it requires a carpenter, smithy, toolshop, tinkerer, or scribe. I have none of these buildings, and cannot make them. They have not been offered to me by the queen, and I am left wondering whether I'm meant to simply wait out the death of all my citizens. Is there a solution, or was this an intentional defeat? Seems odd to experience at the end of a tutorial. Any explanation would be appreciated.

[ulzgoroth]

You only require one material. Pick the one you can supply.

[Bukkfrig]

Messaggio originale di ulzgoroth:

You only require one material. Pick the one you can supply.

This. And also the first "threat" goes off after 30 seconds and kills some of your people - it's basically just to show you the effect - but after the first lot, the timer goes up to 5 minutes.

[Captaivian]

Messaggio originale di ulzgoroth:

You only require one material. Pick the one you can supply.

No, it says it requires all three materials, wood, fabric, simple tools

Messaggio originale di Bukkfrig:

Messaggio originale di ulzgoroth:

You only require one material. Pick the one you can supply.

This. And also the first "threat" goes off after 30 seconds and kills some of your people - it's basically just to show you the effect - but after the first lot, the timer goes up to 5 minutes.

Yes, it killed some of my people, and the timer has gone up to five minutes, but I still have no way of producing simple tools. I've overall just given up and am waiting out my death. There doesn't seem to be any solution.

[Bukkfrig]

You are right, it does require all three: as seen here

You should have started with 40 Simple Tools: as seen here

I can't think of any way you would have been able to get accidentally get rid of them by other means, as there is no trader and no other caches (?) so if you don't have them, that does sound like a bug.

[Leisurely Luke]

Hey! You should start the tutorial with 40 Simple Tools in your Warehouse. Aside from the Ancient Shrine which requires 10 Simple Tools, there's only one other event where you could spend 4 of them, so it shouldn't be possible to run out of Simple Tools in the tutorial.

Is there a chance there are other materials missing that are required to work on the Ancient Shrine event? When you hover over the goods icons in the Requirements section of the Ancient Shrine panel, the tooltip will show how many of those goods you have in your Warehouse (next to the chest icon on the tooltip).

If there are other materials missing, you can also try replacing them by clicking on their icon and selecting other resources accepted by the event.

Fortunately, the Ancient Shrine has special conditions in the tutorial, so it won't kill your villagers more than twice.

Please let me know if this helped or if you're still missing the Tools. We certainly didn't make the tutorial unwinnable by design :D

[Tocho76]

I´m playing demo
I have 36 tools on the warehouse but on the dangerous glade shows as "unavailable material" and can´t complete quest :(

EDIT:
Never mind, it worked now after several minutes just doing nothing and writing on the forum xD

[Captaivian]

Messaggio originale di Leisurely Luke:

Hey! You should start the tutorial with 40 Simple Tools in your Warehouse. Aside from the Ancient Shrine which requires 10 Simple Tools, there's only one other event where you could spend 4 of them, so it shouldn't be possible to run out of Simple Tools in the tutorial.

Is there a chance there are other materials missing that are required to work on the Ancient Shrine event? When you hover over the goods icons in the Requirements section of the Ancient Shrine panel, the tooltip will show how many of those goods you have in your Warehouse (next to the chest icon on the tooltip).

If there are other materials missing, you can also try replacing them by clicking on their icon and selecting other resources accepted by the event.

Fortunately, the Ancient Shrine has special conditions in the tutorial, so it won't kill your villagers more than twice.

Please let me know if this helped or if you're still missing the Tools. We certainly didn't make the tutorial unwinnable by design :D

Hey, wow, I appreciate you explaining the situation. Yes, I was in the wrong, I did indeed have the 40 simple tools to begin with. While I had originally changed one of the other materials to its alternate (from some potion/dew to cloth), that got reset when I initially got confused and quit. When I reloaded, it went back to the dew option, wouldn't let me investigate, and I was convinced it was the simple tools that was inhibiting me. All is now resolved. I apologize for making a big deal out of it on here, and I thank you and everyone for your explanation.

[Leisurely Luke]

Messaggio originale di Captaivian:

Hey, wow, I appreciate you explaining the situation. Yes, I was in the wrong, I did indeed have the 40 simple tools to begin with. While I had originally changed one of the other materials to its alternate (from some potion/dew to cloth), that got reset when I initially got confused and quit. When I reloaded, it went back to the dew option, wouldn't let me investigate, and I was convinced it was the simple tools that was inhibiting me. All is now resolved. I apologize for making a big deal out of it on here, and I thank you and everyone for your explanation.

No problem at all! It's always a lesson for us what elements of the game might not be clear. I'm glad you figured it out and wish you lots of fun with Against the Storm ^^

[Ryosen]

Messaggio originale di ulzgoroth:

You only require one material. Pick the one you can supply.

Thank you! This step wasn't clear in the tutorial. Clicking on the rain collector item, which I can't make, then changing it to fabric (which I had plenty of), made it possible to complete the challenge.