Flax / Rope?

[Mandrake]

Found a few rope, able to make the sickle, I read about flax for more and there are a bunch of recipes that need it. I can't find flax on any of the normal islands. I can't make a sword to 'de-tox' the corrupt islands if it might be there - Blueberries, tomatoes, wheat, sugarcane, shrooms, plants... just no flax - anyone else? I have found some blue-ish flowers that look like good candidates, but they don't harvest.

[Pesky]

If I remember correctly, flax is tall green stems, looking like long grass. And in a previous version of the demo I didn't find any near the starting place, I had to move out of that area.

So your only source of materials to make rope is to kill bad guys. Sorry.

[Mandrake]

That sucks... chicken / egg... can't get the sword without rope, can't get any more rope without sword. lol

[Pyrrhus]

Best luck we had was looking for the smaller corrupted islands. These can be taken down with an axe after a little practice and yield the fibers to make weapons to take on the larger ones. I think the limited scope of the demo means that combat is the best/only route to rope. This doesn't appear to be the plan for later releases... just what we have now.

[Mandrake]

I have found an island with a single corrupt 'fungal tree', but all I can get through are the nodules and the fungus itself... then it 'regrows' and it's minions come out and I die every time. It's a bit more difficult than the old single-kill island heal. I can kill one or at most two of them before I'm a goner. If you try to fly away and recover, it just resets. Me. Kinda wish they had a tilde menu to give yourself items to at least have a last resort for us combat losers. lol

[Mandrake]

Uh ok, I have killed about everything, searched for and found everything (except the big, full sail - I can only seem to find the original, small, half-sails on the first main 'helm island' with all the bits on it) and I still don't have enough rope to make enough sails to get an island moving and I've yet to find any flax or other rope substitute anywhere. I couldn't figure out anyway to get those little guys to spawn in other than just attacking either - so no way to farm them for it. Anyone else find plants or other means of rope?

[Ornalee]

If you get Mykter Fiber, you can use it to make rope in the crafting table or in your personal crafting menu -- I can't remember which.

Get the fiber from killing the nasty plants that don't have the tentacles. There are some on a small island, near-ish the beginning, and some that you have to hunt down on other infected islands after you think they're cleared. You find out they're still there when you do the whole restore environment thing.

I haven't seen any flax, yet, it may not be in the demo. If it is, it's a grassy clump with blue flowers.

[Nicolas Fournier]

There is currently a bug where the nodes don't give mykter fibers (what is needed for rope), we're currently fixing it!

Flax isn't featured in this demo, since it's for a later biome that's still WIP!
A temporary fix is to create a new world and go farm some mushrooms enemies :)
Btw, if I may ask, where did all your ropes go (what have you invested them in)?

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by Nicolas Fournier:

There is currently a bug where the nodes don't give mykter fibers (what is needed for rope), we're currently fixing it!

Flax isn't featured in this demo, since it's for a later biome that's still WIP!
A temporary fix is to create a new world and go farm some mushrooms enemies :)
Btw, if I may ask, where did all your ropes go (what have you invested them in)?

Hi there, thanks for responding. I would highly recommend an alternative in the meantime. Not everyone is good at battle just to make rope. Or increase the RNG for rope in chests if there is no way to implement a temp node from an existing shrub. :)

USAGE: First it forces you to learn tools in a certain order and the sword is the last or close to last one - so you waste some rope on those. If you're only getting a single rope at a time here and there from the rare chest that has one (I think one of them had two), then that's a pretty slow process itself. Once I did finally brave the corrupted islands with the axe enough times to make a sword - I was then able to finally grind a bit easier and get enough to make two of the basic sails you can find on that same island as the helm, etc. but that's not even close to enough to get an island moving. It was barely a tick on the meter. :\ However, four floaters and two rudders seem to be enough (although pretty pitiful on the meter, but at least enough to work it looked like)
So, I kinda gave up at that point. I'll try again on a new game save I guess and see if more rope might spawn in the chests or something. I really want to fly an island at some point, but it's pretty disheartening right now.

I appreciate your hard work on the game itself though, it will definitely have a home in my library. I'm looking forward to being able to play it.

Take care

[Mandrake]

UPDATE: I made a new world and very interestingly, my character stayed the same with all inventory in tact. The world however, aside from the large circular knowledge stones, all the smaller ones were now active and granted me new blueprints I needed (still no large sail yet though, just the triangle one now.
Also a bummer, I now found 0 rope in any of the chests, although plenty of stuff in them, and now the shroom dudes don't drop any of that fiber stuff to make rope with either!
There is a major rope-deficit in this game! XD
Side note: I picked up a blue bug somewhere - a chest I think - but I'm unable to equip it or figure out any other way to drop it on an island to add to the ecosystem. It wasn't flagged by the crafting system or anything as if I needed to put it in a garden or something. So just some FYI

[Kalnaur]

If you can find any pre-built hanging lamps (I'm not sure if the starting island is always the same, but mine had a cabin among pines with a basement), you can go into the build menu and then deconstruct the hanging lamps to get a single unit of rope per lamp.

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by Kalnaur:

If you can find any pre-built hanging lamps (I'm not sure if the starting island is always the same, but mine had a cabin among pines with a basement), you can go into the build menu and then deconstruct the hanging lamps to get a single unit of rope per lamp.

Thank you! I did find a couple of them right after reading this. I sketched them and then deconstructed. Also, for whatever reason, it's like the fibers were saved up for the last island I hadn't come across yet. It had the two stacked houses with 3 nodules that had to be killed to clear the island... I got nearly 100 fiber from just those battles after having gotten none! lol
I'm finally flying an island around. Now I just need animals to spawn in again, so I can repair the ecosystems of all these islands I've de-corrupted :)

[Honey Badger]

Originally posted by Nicolas Fournier:

There is currently a bug where the nodes don't give mykter fibers (what is needed for rope), we're currently fixing it!

Flax isn't featured in this demo, since it's for a later biome that's still WIP!
A temporary fix is to create a new world and go farm some mushrooms enemies :)
Btw, if I may ask, where did all your ropes go (what have you invested them in)?

Really! My daughter and I have spent 3 hours trying to find flax because of what you posted about some blue flowers. F this game. We are done.

[SMChillin]

Originally posted by Honey Badger:

Originally posted by Nicolas Fournier:

There is currently a bug where the nodes don't give mykter fibers (what is needed for rope), we're currently fixing it!

Flax isn't featured in this demo, since it's for a later biome that's still WIP!
A temporary fix is to create a new world and go farm some mushrooms enemies :)
Btw, if I may ask, where did all your ropes go (what have you invested them in)?

Really! My daughter and I have spent 3 hours trying to find flax because of what you posted about some blue flowers. F this game. We are done.

That's some seriously misplaced anger. A dev answered a question about flax not being in this demo and because you chose not to read more than the first two posts you got mad enough to drop the game. I think the deconstruction feature nets you plenty of rope, assuming you can look at a thing and realize it took rope to make; hanging lanterns and rope barriers are on a bunch of islands. One thing to note is you can deconstruct tools in inventory but the prompt is partly covered by your health, so if you make or find a tool that needs rope you can get that back.

[Sox'n'Fox]

Originally posted by Honey Badger:

Originally posted by Nicolas Fournier:

There is currently a bug where the nodes don't give mykter fibers (what is needed for rope), we're currently fixing it!

Flax isn't featured in this demo, since it's for a later biome that's still WIP!
A temporary fix is to create a new world and go farm some mushrooms enemies :)
Btw, if I may ask, where did all your ropes go (what have you invested them in)?

Really! My daughter and I have spent 3 hours trying to find flax because of what you posted about some blue flowers. F this game. We are done.

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Blender McBiscuits]

Originally posted by SMChillin:

That's some seriously misplaced anger.

It's not misplaced. It's frustrating searching all the islands to find the flax you need to progress, and only find out there isn't any from looking through the forums. Just don't put the blueprint for the brewing station in the game, if you can't build it. You can spend hours wasting your time on this wild goose chase.

Anyway it's not like he was pissed off enough to go find Astrolabe's HQ to burn to the ground. He just posted his pissed-offness about a game feature, to the game's forum. This forum is amazingly polite by modern Internet standards!