Emma's Iron Will quest - nearly impossible to catch NPC

[iacs]

Emma's Iron Will is a quest from Sun Haven's quest board where Emma, Liam's little sister, gives you 3 days to bring her 5 iron ore. Getting ore is not a problem, however giving it to Emma is nearly impossible. In rainy days she stays in her house whole day and even in sunny day she does the same with 50% probability. Even if you luck into sunny day where she does not sit in her house whole day, she still leaves it for only few hours midday. And unless you are friend with Liam, you are blocked from ever entering house and thus compleating quest, as he is romancable NPC and you can not enter their houses unless friendship is large enough.

Dear developers, can you please give Emma more interactive shedule, where player has more options to find her to handle gathered ore? Or at least prolong quest from 3 days to something like a week, to give us more chances to find day where Emma actually leaves her house? Because situation when you have to gift her brother havenite merely to have option to give her iron ore is not good situation - even it you do not compare quest reward with havenite cost, this way lies sudden date quest marks littering map, and you currently can not tell NPC "let's stay friends" without going on a date.

Strictly speaking it is not a bug, merely interaction between her schedule and her brother being romancable character, but it does not make giving Emma requested ore easier.

[Jet]

I agree that NPCs who spend all day in their house can cause problems for players who don't have access to their home yet. Hopefully NPCs get their all of their "alternative" schedules fleshed out.

Thing is... Maybe you are actually experiencing a bug?

It only takes one full heart to get access to an NPC's home, even if they are romancable. You can usually get a full heart with an NPC just by having a good conversation with them and gifting them something just a bit "nicer" than apples. I haven't run into anyone who reacts poorly to being gifted something I cooked, even if it wasn't one of their favorites.

(Also... Liam likes coffee, cookies, flour?, and chef hats - most of which is a fair bit cheaper than havenite.)

[iacs]

First, to get to know what Liam likes legally, without looking on wiki, you need to get into his house. And to get to his house, you need some hearts with him. Secondly, havenite is liked by everybody and it was what I keep in inventory.

Regardless, NPC that spends 2 days out of 3 at home and is a quest-giver looks like problem, even if I managed to catch her on the last day of quest.

[Jet]

Hmm... you mean you found out that all NPCs like havenite without looking on the wiki? lol
Either way, I only mentioned his likes because they're cheaper than havenite. That's also why I suggested cooked meals and conversation as a potentially cheaper method of getting a heart. You don't need havenite or illegal wiki knowledge, just a desire to befriend your neighbors.

Anyway, I was just confused at first because it sounded like you needed more than one heart to get into his house, but it seems that's not the case. So yeah, like I said before, I definitely agree that NPCs spending too much time in their house is a problem.

[Rosealyn]

Hi there iacs! More NPCs are now accessible in their homes, including Emma and her sister Elizabeth. Thank you for your feedback!