Message Boat quest bugged

[Terrible]

Does anyone know how to fix this or work around it?

[Meowish]

Would probably help if you can be more detail about it... most players only do it once so they don't really check back on it after that and veterans probably already forgotten how that quest works. So telling us what bugs you ran into, and how it happened might give us the insight on what happened there and some might have the answers or solution to it.

As far as my memory holds, you talk to the npc, it brings you in front of a house, you follow the npc into the house, then you have to talk to another npc behind near the water, and it asked you to place the boat, once done report back... Which part of these went wrong?

[Terrible]

Once in the stage of placing the boat there is no "perfect spot" to place it. The boat is completely unable to be placed down. It locks my camera view also I cant ESC out or use a menu. ALT F4 is the only way to get out.

[Meowish]

I don't remember the perfect spot thing, back when i do it, simply place it anywhere in the water area near that npc and it should be counted.

For camera locking, you might want to try the zoom in/out button and see if that helps.

Hint: Don't rely on the mouse, use controller or fully keyboard play and you should be able to avoid a lot of the camera problem.

[Bnuuy]

I've got this same issue. To clarify putting down the boat only keeps it in the same spot, the middle of the pond you're asked to put it in and the camera stays fixed there. It looks like it's asking for a touch screen interaction since it asks you to "Drag" the boat icon into the water which tells me I think this quest was completely forgotten about when porting to PC. You literally have to ALT + F4 out of the game otherwise you're completely stuck. I've pressed every single button on my keyboard and mouse, held down buttons, opened up the chat beforehand to get it to work and nothing does.

[Lewdis]

Stuck here, says to drag but it's not possible.

Looking at their beta feedback post from October, it's listed as a known bug, shame they didn't fix something that they literally know about but released anyway.

"-Deck & Controller- Message boats cannot be placed blocking progression of Season of Revival Quest 2"

[Miles]

Same here, tried everything, no way to work around it it seems

[Terrible]

Alright. Thanks for the responses. I hope it gets fixed at some point for PC.

[Botox]

I have this same issue. Pressing Left Alt brings up the mouse, but I still cannot drag anything to the spot.

The spot where you first place the message boat is fixed (as in, cannot place it anywhere else, not that the bug is fixed ^^). No matter where you walk to in the quest area, it gets placed in the same spot.

This is the final quest for the Hopeful Steward (Quest Giver) - so, we will be unable to complete it until this bug is fixed.

[Armane]

I don't know if using Left Alt works now, but using the button prompts I was able to place the boat and finish the quest for the Enchantment Guide. However, the Hopeful Steward seems to be bugged and doesn't recognise that I finished the quest (I think I might have already started the Season of Enchantment quests, so maybe that's why); every time I re-enter Aviary Village approaching the Steward will trigger the cutscene for visiting the Enchantment Guide.

[Terrible]

In order for me to bypass the bug I had to download the game on my phone and link my steam to it. Then do the quest on my phone. Worked flawlessly that way.

[Yikes]

So I might be able to help you if you're still trying to do it. Do not hit any buttons when you're in the animation of being able to place the boat. Move a little bit on the outside of the water and use (ALT) to click the boat with your mouse and drag it. If you've already hit the key instead of the the mouse and drag you need to restart your client and redo it.

[one_loaded_banana_gun]

When I try to do it I couldn't even mouse over the icon to try to place it. The only way for me to get out of the mission was to kill the game with task manager. :/

[Meowish]

There's another work around for this currently, and that's to login your steam account on the mobile version and finish the quest there, then come back to the pc version and continue playing....

The message boat is known to have several bugs right now and the devs are looking into it, so if you are unwilling to wait for the next update patch and wished for a fast solution, you can try all those "work arounds" suggested by other users up there. Or try finishing that quest on another platform.

https://thatgamecompany.helpshift.com/hc/en/17-sky-children-of-the-light/faq/1303-known-issues-patch-0-25-0/

[aLPha_tONic]

I stuck on that quest too. :(

[Botox]

Nguyên văn bởi Yikes:

So I might be able to help you if you're still trying to do it. Do not hit any buttons when you're in the animation of being able to place the boat. Move a little bit on the outside of the water and use (ALT) to click the boat with your mouse and drag it. If you've already hit the key instead of the the mouse and drag you need to restart your client and redo it.

This worked for me, first try on PC.