How to restore the swordless statues

[Cavador]

I made a crafting station and crafted a giant stone sword. Then I went to one of the swordless statues and nothing works. I click the prompt to activate the swordless statue with the giant stone sword but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

[Nasty Hobbit]

there are three stone weapons that are specific to each statue. did you try the sword on all of them?

[Cavador]

How am I supposed to know all this? The quest objectives are too vague.

[Garp02]

It appears you just snapped at the person helping and showed no appreciation for them answering your question.
Lets Analyse:

Originally posted by Cavador:

Then I went to one of the swordless statues and nothing works.

It appears you know there is more than one statue "one of the...".

When you look in the chest that gives you the stone weapon recipes, you get three recipes.
This chest happens to be in front of three statues holding different weapons, perhaps this clue is not enough for you. IIRC there are other prompts or information too.
But taking it out on people of the community, especially one who has attempted to help you is not called for.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

[Cavador]

You are absolutely awful at interpreting people. Where in the world did you come up with me snapping at anyone? I will snap at you though with your incredibly rude and erroneous interpretation of my response. Please refrain from making anymore idiotic comments. I most certainly don't need your assistance.

[Garp02]

Originally posted by Cavador:

You are absolutely awful at interpreting people. Where in the world did you come up with me snapping at anyone? I will snap at you though with your incredibly rude and erroneous interpretation of my response. Please refrain from making anymore idiotic comments. I most certainly don't need your assistance.

More times than not guilty parties will deny all wrong doing. But my words fall on deaf ears.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Cavador:

How am I supposed to know all this? The quest objectives are too vague.

Observation in game will give you the answer. You see the statues missing weapons are in three different locations, you get 3 different stone weapon crafting recipes, and from that you can figure out what you need to do.

I think gamers these days are often used to games telling them exactly what to do so they struggle when a game doesn't do that. It's not really the fault of the gamers in this case, it's just the way games have evolved in recent years to hand-hold players through everything, and to spoon feed meta information to players. How many games have friend/foe markers, x-ray vision and detection modes to show you where everything is, quest markers that point you exactly where you need to go? So when a game doesn't do that most of the players who are used to that kind of gameplay get stuck.

[Cavador]

Thanks Macdallan. Now, that's a kind answer and I appreciate that.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Cavador:

Thanks Macdallan. Now, that's a kind answer and I appreciate that.

You are welcome, Cavador. Have fun with the game!