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Arcanestomper Jan 22 @ 12:55am
How to get linen sails
I have unlocked five different kinds of leaf and wool sails. But I have not found a single linen sail blueprint yet. Is there some other requirement. I have flax and linen. I've visited every quest location in the first two areas.

I thought maybe I just need to find more lost anchors, but my stormchaser doesn't even locate any more when I try to use it.
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Xiff Jan 22 @ 1:59am 
So far I've only found 1 Linen sail. It appears that the lost anchors give recipes in a specific order. so you have to learn all the wool sails before the next lost anchor found gets you a linen sail. I found the linen sail I believe in the first area of the middle section, same sector as the Windmill is learned but not necessarily the same island, just dont know which island I learned it on specifically. The first linen sail for me was Linen Gaff Sail.
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J Jan 22 @ 2:25am 
lost anchors give all the sails, ive maxed them out so far but i cant craft them cuz the Stones refuse to give me the workbenches i need xD
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Pesky Jan 22 @ 5:47am 
Linen is the last material used for sails. You don't need linen until very late in the game. Don't worry about it.
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Weaver Jan 22 @ 6:37am 
The "?" locations hold key technology you cannot learn any other way.

Also anchors and knowledge stone recipes are separate for each biome.
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Arcanestomper Jan 22 @ 8:41am 
Originally posted by Pesky:
Linen is the last material used for sails. You don't need linen until very late in the game. Don't worry about it.

Yeah and I am at that point in the game. I can't get into the next area because I don't have linen sails.

I guess I'll circumnavigate the inner ring again looking for lost anchors.
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xitooner Jan 22 @ 8:51am 
Originally posted by Arcanestomper:
Yeah and I am at that point in the game. I can't get into the next area because I don't have linen sails.
If you build a "Stormchaser", you can use it to search for the nearest anchor (you follow the smoke it gives off once you tell it to look for anchors). I did it up in the highest tile of the inner ring (ie just below the tier3 section), and it led me to an anchor that gave me linen sail.
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Arcanestomper Jan 22 @ 9:05am 
Yeah, but for some reason it wasn't activating. Anyway I did manage to find another lost anchor that gave me a linen gaff sail. Not the greatest but it'll do.
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xitooner Jan 22 @ 9:16am 
Originally posted by Arcanestomper:
Yeah, but for some reason it wasn't activating. Anyway I did manage to find another lost anchor that gave me a linen gaff sail. Not the greatest but it'll do.

I think thats the one I got too; anything to make it past the wall... after which I have found 2-3 more sails since. I made 100 extra linen before I tried, for repair costs. I needed most of it (maybe I am just terrible at avoidnig rocks.....)
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Weaver Jan 22 @ 9:45am 
Originally posted by xitooner:
Originally posted by Arcanestomper:
Yeah, but for some reason it wasn't activating. Anyway I did manage to find another lost anchor that gave me a linen gaff sail. Not the greatest but it'll do.

I think thats the one I got too; anything to make it past the wall... after which I have found 2-3 more sails since. I made 100 extra linen before I tried, for repair costs. I needed most of it (maybe I am just terrible at avoidnig rocks.....)

I've crossed the barriers about 12 times now, 3 of those times with zero damage. Its rough. Stay especially clear of the little dark ones, they get attracted to your island and go boom much worse than the normal rocks.
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Arcanestomper Jan 22 @ 10:34am 
On my first try I was almost all the way across when I lost my last sail and it sent me all the way back. However I noticed that my speed didn't seem to change regardless of the number of sails I had up. So on my next attempt I only repaired one sail and just went through the whole thing with that one sail. Repairing it as needed. It worked great and saved me a lot of linen.
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karlabofill Feb 20 @ 1:48pm 
I have lots of linen sail plans, but can't make them because what is the rope? My linen fiber makes regular rope, which doesn't work. FWIW, the last five or so anchors I've found prompt me to 'learn' but then don't teach me anything. I've been to every island in the first two tiers, so I'm stuck just peacefully gardening until I get too bored and quit.
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intentionally blank Feb 20 @ 3:34pm 
Originally posted by karlabofill:
I have lots of linen sail plans, but can't make them because what is the rope?
Waxed rope. You need wax from beehives + 2 rope (combine at the workbench).

Originally posted by karlabofill:
FWIW, the last five or so anchors I've found prompt me to 'learn' but then don't teach me anything.
Then you've run out of anchor knowledge! There's still a limited scope to the game, but we're promised that the next update should add more content.

Originally posted by karlabofill:
I've been to every island in the first two tiers, so I'm stuck just peacefully gardening until I get too bored and quit.
Have you gotten the Sawmill from the second Fresco island? It's quite distinctive looking (and a fun little challenge). Once you build the Sawmill (and make the Waxed Rope), you can construct Linen Sails, pass through the barrier, and explore the third and last biome, Red Cliffs.

In case you need further guidance:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3414599424
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