Marahna quests bugged

[Rico Len]

Unfortunately, as soon as I unlocked the god-sim portion of Marahna I went too fast, and cleared the entire island and built roads before I got the quests to do so, and now I can't progress. I'm stuck on a quest that wants me to clear the island of swamps or jungle, and because I have nothing to clear it won't give me credit for having done so, likewise, I also have the quest to build roads to a creature lair, and when I try to do so, it says I don't have enough power to do that. I've got the whole main island settled, but nothing more I can do because I'm not getting credit for what I've already done.

I'm stuck until they patch a fix for this. I wish I had made incremental saves so I could go back to the start of this island and begin anew.

[Galedrid]

That quest doesn't complete until you've finished basically the entire story in that zone.

It isn't super clear about what it requires to complete it, but yeah, it's not that it's bugged, it's unclear completion requirements.

Just keep playing, getting as much population as you can to trigger the next quests.

There's something you need to do to the islands to get more quests to unlock.

[SprigganXIII]

Yeah it seems bugged I just finished it too, it just triggers way later in the area progress

[Rebelle Winter]

I was really confused about this one but it seems to trigger around the time you have built on every available tile in the zone, meaning you have to progress enough to have sealed all four monster lairs.

[Music_Box_Mimic]

I have the same issue. I'm completely stuck. I destroyed everything my people built on the island three times and the population is capped at 122, but it still says it's not enough to attack the lairs.

I loaded a saved game from before. This time, my population was only 42, but it was enough to attack the monster lair to the east of the temple. Seriously, this is a huge progression break bug. I can't believe testers hadn't find that destroying everything on the island before the quest triggers results in this issue.

I hope they fix it soon...

[Rico Len]

I'm still stuck, and there's no sealing the monster lairs, or ANY way to progress anymore. I've tried going to the other lands to see if I can do something there, but I feel like I'm being pretty meticulous in covering all my bases and still I'm not finding a way forward.

[Doesnotcompute83]

Have you tried using the giant earthquake spell between the upper lefthand island and the main island to connect them?

[Kythlyn]

This quest has a misleading description. It is actually about a treasure hunter, who will find what he is looking for shortly before the second act of this area. Just keep playing and it will complete eventually.

[Rico Len]

"Have you tried using the giant earthquake spell between the upper lefthand island and the main island to connect them?"

... NO! Does that work??? I'll go try it now!

[Rico Len]

So I tried the earthquake, and expanded the land to the island above, that was cool, but I'm still not strong enough to have my citizens take out a monster lair, and I'm not getting credit for having cleared the island of all obstacles.

Faith and Tolerance, and The Thrill of the Treasure Hunt won't progress. Period.

[Kythlyn]

Originally posted by Rico Len:

So I tried the earthquake, and expanded the land to the island above, that was cool, but I'm still not strong enough to have my citizens take out a monster lair, and I'm not getting credit for having cleared the island of all obstacles.

Faith and Tolerance, and The Thrill of the Treasure Hunt won't progress. Period.

Please see my above reply.

[sagevallant]

It is important to remember that sometimes you must smite your own people to get them to build higher tier buildings. They won't replace basic buildings on their own unless you blow them up.

[Rico Len]

I'm VERY EMBARRASSED to say, but the real problem here? Is that I never accepted the quest to close the first den.

[TheLastLine]

Originally posted by Rico Len:

I'm VERY EMBARRASSED to say, but the real problem here? Is that I never accepted the quest to close the first den.

Lol it happens, I couldn't finish Northwall for a bit because of that.

[Warrior of Right]

Well at the very least this post led to people learning how to connect the two land masses with an earthquake. (i definitely did not remember that)

[Kilboy (Inept)]

Originally posted by Rico Len:

I'm VERY EMBARRASSED to say, but the real problem here? Is that I never accepted the quest to close the first den.

Thanks. Was stuck with the same problem. 😀