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Sanfranman491 Jan 5, 2022 @ 5:23pm
Sims 3 Adventures China, question/help
I visited Resolute Fist Retreat. I stood on the floor and revealed stairs to a lower level. I opened a treasure room, but a door is locked, needing a keystone. Any online articles I'm finding are awful in explaining how to obtain this keystone. Some articles just say I should already have it. Other articles say I need to begin certain quests before coming here. One article says I need to learn karate......so I did. And another help guide is mentioning I need to visit tombs, that aren't even in China. I am frigging stumped
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HiFive Jan 5, 2022 @ 5:27pm 
Yes, you need to get a certain quest to get the keystone. It's a storyline quest for China.
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Sanfranman491 Jan 5, 2022 @ 5:44pm 
Originally posted by HiFive:
Yes, you need to get a certain quest to get the keystone. It's a storyline quest for China.
Well, China sucks so far. I accepted a challenge From Sun Young Kim to go to Dragon Cave, but my sim can't enter the cave. Wtf
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HiFive Jan 5, 2022 @ 5:48pm 
The very first quest you get is usually the one for the underground area of a very large building in the town. Did you get that quest yet?
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marstinson Jan 5, 2022 @ 7:33pm 
Originally posted by Sanfranman491:
Well, China sucks so far. I accepted a challenge From Sun Young Kim to go to Dragon Cave, but my sim can't enter the cave. Wtf

There is a road leading up to the Dragon Cave (which looks like a dragon's head). You need to interact with the back wall of the cave ("investigate" maybe? I forget what's on the menu for that). You'll find a secret door that will let you in for the rest of the quest.
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Sanfranman491 Jan 6, 2022 @ 3:04pm 
Originally posted by marstinson:
Originally posted by Sanfranman491:
Well, China sucks so far. I accepted a challenge From Sun Young Kim to go to Dragon Cave, but my sim can't enter the cave. Wtf

There is a road leading up to the Dragon Cave (which looks like a dragon's head). You need to interact with the back wall of the cave ("investigate" maybe? I forget what's on the menu for that). You'll find a secret door that will let you in for the rest of the quest.
That's exactly what I'm doing. My sim stomps his feet with the bubble thought of no access (footprints with a line through them). I can see stairs behind that wall but I'm not able to reach them.
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Sanfranman491 Jan 6, 2022 @ 3:06pm 
Originally posted by HiFive:
The very first quest you get is usually the one for the underground area of a very large building in the town. Did you get that quest yet?
I have a challenge for Dragon Cave. I'll try to find how to begin the quests
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HiFive Jan 6, 2022 @ 3:45pm 
It's been some months since I've played this game, but I still think you are missing some quests that come before you get the ability to enter the cave. What quests have you done in China so far? Is this your only family member that has travelled to China? I'm assuming it is. Do you have any other quests for China? If so, do those first, and come back to the cave later. Also, did you try to push on the door?

When my Sim doesn't have access yet, I usually do other quests and come back later to try until it finally opens. You can make a lot of Simoleans in China by collecting the minerals and smelting them, so I always love to travel to China with a new character for that.
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marstinson Jan 6, 2022 @ 7:31pm 
Originally posted by Sanfranman491:
Originally posted by marstinson:

There is a road leading up to the Dragon Cave (which looks like a dragon's head). You need to interact with the back wall of the cave ("investigate" maybe? I forget what's on the menu for that). You'll find a secret door that will let you in for the rest of the quest.
That's exactly what I'm doing. My sim stomps his feet with the bubble thought of no access (footprints with a line through them). I can see stairs behind that wall but I'm not able to reach them.

There is no prerequisite to the initial quest to explore the Dragon Cave, but you need to do this one to get to several others. The initial area that you can explore isn't that big and the rest of Dragon Cave will unlock as you complete other adventures. If that back wall is not working (it's "Inspect," not "Investigate" ... my bad), then there is something glitchy about how Shang Simla or that particular lot loaded. I'd recommend backing up to the save before you traveled (you did make one, right?) and load it in again. You'll have lost whatever you've done since arriving, but I'd prefer to lose a bit of time than be stonewalled on doing anything else.

Alternatively, you can abandon the quest (it just disappears from your adventure journal) and pick up another from the adventure board. Since you haven't unlocked the back wall, you should be able to pick it up again when you come back (your first trip is only for three days), which will hopefully make that lot load in properly.

If you have Master Controller installed, you can try a reset. I'd start with resetting the back wall (reset object), then try resetting the lot, and resetting everything as a last resort. I'd be concerned that resetting everything will mess up something you've already done since arriving in the neighborhood since there are triggers that get tripped when you do some things, so definitely do a "Save As" before trying it. If it does mess up something, you've got something to revert to. "Reset Everything" is best reserved for the home neighborhood, but it may be worth trying.
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