How do you finish Home Sweet Home

[Grubberdeck]

I've played 35 hours before and finished this quest before but had to start over again due to new updates. Seriously, this quest is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tedious.. I've probably missed a tiny bit of wall somewhere (yes I've been to the attic and fixed the floor there) and the yellow arrow (indicating that the quest is not complete) is driving me mad. My middle finger hurts from holding the RMB to see what I may have missed. Is there any way the yellow arrow let's me know WHERE the bit of wall is I've missed so I can finaly get on with the game?

Sorry, this is realy anoying for a completionist like me :)... I've been walking the property for over an hour now

[Merck]

I posted some tips on the forum; "A Quick Guide for New Players.."
http://steamcommunity.com/app/678900/discussions/0/1620600279658021873/. On page 2, is information about Fixing the house.

Have you received the award for completing the house iteself? Or the other buildings also? You can check on each structures status in the TAB menu. If so, then all you need to do is to walk towards the marker in the middle of the yard (near the gazebo). Note; Oftentimes you have to go outside the farm buildings areas & then return to the gazebo area to trigger the actual completion of the HSH quest. I believe this is due to the 'hit-box' of the HSH marker, & the need to get 'outside' of its perimeter. So if you run around the back of the cow barn, & then to the gazebo, it should trigger for you.

If still having issues with the house itself, check the forum above first. Foundations sometimes get missed, & there is the bathroom wall that is easy to miss. Another spot is the exterior wall just above the porch.

[Tryst49]

I tried a new start. Fixed up all the buildings and the arrow was on the gazebo. The stats told me all buildings had been fixed but the HSH quest would not trigger as complete.

Shrugged it off and picked up some metal sheets and started fixing the metal fencing around my house,. Started at the garage and worked my way around to the hen house. Got to the hen house door and fixed that part of the fence and the HSH quest triggered as finished.

Seems the fence is also part of the quest but isn't listed on the stats as requiring a fix.

[Grubberdeck]

Thanks for the tips!

It's all done, but the quest isn't finishing:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1622128313
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong

EDIT: I've been all around the property to fix the fences

[Tryst49]

Personally, I just ignore it and keep doing what you need to do. It will trigger eventually.

[Merck]

Usually I just have to walk up to gazebo & then run around the barn, then back to gazebo to trigger the HSH quest completion.

If that doesn't do it, then I would recommend you go to the bus stop & travel to another locaton on map & then return to gazebo. Hopefully that will do it for you. If I get the time I will try a new save & see if bugged.

[Grubberdeck]

So, what I'm basicly getting from the comments is that the first tutorial quest of the game is broken? Correct me if I'm wrong

[Tryst49]

Originally posted by Grubberdeck:

So, what I'm basicly getting from the comments is that the first tutorial quest of the game is broken? Correct me if I'm wrong

Yes, it is bugged and I believe has been reported more than once.

But right at the start of the game, the social points don't count for much. So it's just as easy to keep doing other things and let it trigger when it wants to. No doubt, in time, the bug will be squashed but really, there's no point in making a big deal about it since that won't get it fixed any sooner.

To be honest, triggering any quest completion with a specific location is dodgy at best and this game does it a lot. It's usually better to do it with an action like taking a photo of your hard work, hitching up your tractor to the trailer you've just worked to earn instead of just walking up to it etc.

[Merck]

Originally posted by Grubberdeck:

So, what I'm basicly getting from the comments is that the first tutorial quest of the game is broken? Correct me if I'm wrong

I don't necessarily believe that it is "broken". I have ran so many different starts of the game (& even some players games that they thought were messed up), but on all of them I was able to trigger the HSH quest.

In the above listed forum posting, I list exactly what is needed to complete the house. And the method to run up to the gazebo (marker indicator), then run around the outside of some of the farm buildings (such as cow barn), & finally back to the gazebo area, has always triggered the HSH quest for all my various games.

Tryst49 may be correct in discussing a better way to trigger the quests. There are already a few such quests (ie.. Oliver's old Jack Bear tractor) that trigger when you jump onto the tractor. So maybe the developers could look at making the benches inside the gazebo to be the way to trigger the HSH quest.

[Merck]

Home Sweet Home (HSH) Quest completion

OK just finished a new start game, HSH quest. Took me less than 20 minutes (granted I have done so many times that I know where all parts are).

Results:

1. Initially completed all buildings fixing any red spots (Engineer's Sight).
   
   • Repaired only - No upgrading.
     
   • To finish the house I only worked on the house. No fence or playground repairs (even though showing red). Received house Social Points.
     
     After all buildings were completed (Farm Statistics - TAB menu), I went to the gazebo. No triggering of HSH quest.
   
   
2. Went back & fixed all remaining Red items around the farm:
   
   • Playground equipment - everything.
     
   • Wooden picket fence along drive into farmstead - couple sections.
     
   • Chain link fence around farmsteads perimeter & gates - couple gates & sections of fencing.
     
     Headed back towards gazebo area & immediatly triggered the HSH quest.

Note also; I did not do any other quests prior to this quest. Such as Oliver's job or run to John's Store.

Important to repair all red items in & around the farmstead to complete the HSH quest.

[Tryst49]

I didn't have to do the picket fence or the playground, just the chainlink fence and associated gates around the property from the garage to the cowshed. However, it doesn't hurt to fix EVERYTHING anyway.

[Merck]

Yeah probably some of the above listed items (from #2 onward) that don't necessarily need to be done to finish the quest, but I didn't want to do an item - then run to see if it triggered - then try next section of fence (or whatever).

But as Tryst49 stated; "...it doesn't hurt to fix everything anyway."

But the HSH quest should trigger if you complete all the red items listed above.

I think players should also stop & consider they may have not finished something in a quest before stating that "its a bug..." or "game is broken...". Just because a player cannot find the way to complete a task right off, doesn't mean that its the games fault.

Heck, if I drove my vehicle off the edge of a cliff, it doesn't mean there is a defect in my vehicle, or that its broken. But more likely that I as the driver, did some thing that was not good to do, or not intended in the original design of that vehicle!

Maybe there was a design flaw or bug in my programming???

[Grubberdeck]

Originally posted by Merck:

Yeah probably some of the above listed items (from #2 onward) that don't necessarily need to be done to finish the quest, but I didn't want to do an item - then run to see if it triggered - then try next section of fence (or whatever).

But as Tryst49 stated; "...it doesn't hurt to fix everything anyway."

But the HSH quest should trigger if you complete all the red items listed above.

I think players should also stop & consider they may have not finished something in a quest before stating that "its a bug..." or "game is broken...". Just because a player cannot find the way to complete a task right off, doesn't mean that its the games fault.

Heck, if I drove my vehicle off the edge of a cliff, it doesn't mean there is a defect in my vehicle, or that its broken. But more likely that I as the driver, did some thing that was not good to do, or not intended in the original design of that vehicle!

Maybe there was a design flaw or bug in my programming???

I think there is a bug in your programming. I give you my reasons:

My quest finaly completed out of nowhere when I was driving to the store. This should not happen, espescialy if it's your first introduction to the game. This is damaging to the developers and their product. I am trying to point that out.

So yes, if you say that I "just blames the game" (although I gave you a screenshot of completion), you don't want this game to be good, you don't want bugs to be fixed, you are a huge motivation for the devolopers to just don't give a flying flying because people like you will back them up.

But I do care, that's why I asked and reported it. Have a nice day

Cheers

[Merck]

Oh I don't think you could really say I don't care about the game. Just check out some of the postings I have submitted. And indeed you did give a screenshot, which helped us see that you completed the buildings. But from there we narrowed down that there are other parts of the farmstead that still required doing. That screenshot greatly helped to understand that it wasn't one of the buildings, & thus there had to be other items that where not completed. Nowhere does the game say that only those buildings are required for completion of the HSH quest.

And my comments about automatically calling some thing a "bug" or "broken", is addressed to the general gaming community who seems to always jump to that conclusion whenever they cannot complete something. This happens in all games. I fully understand how frustrating this can be at times. But I look at them as a puzzle to solve. Hence the reason I have done so many restarts of the game, or made multiple saves, just to try one item, then another, all on the same "control" save.

My problem with that type of mentality is that it can easily bog down the developers who have to spend time trying to figure out what the problem is - & if not really a problem - then they just used valuable time that could have been directed elsewhere. This is especially a problem when often the players refuse to add pertinant information about their system specifications, hardware being used, old save versus new game, etc...

I have seen postings where player could not do a specific thing or a certain option didn't display for them. Just to find out many posting later they were using a different controller or they had remapped the keys (& subsequently forgotten or changed another key).

Or the standard of using hardware that just meets minimum specifications or has a specific brand of hardware. Again after many postings & repostings, it is found out what is actually the culprit. Often its because they have out-of-date drivers or some other program is causing conflicts or tying up resouce memory.

And I have lost count of the times that someone in a game forum could easily use the search option, & find an answer, but again a new forum or questions. All to find out that the issue has been solved (& posted) previously.

Are games perfect - not even close. But if we really want to help inprove the game then we should put forward some effort on our part to give the developers as much information as possible (who, what, where & why), so that they can hopefully narrow down or replicate the issue.

And finally, I am not against posting about subjects just like this - there are many good suggestions about how this process could maybe be improved. And it also shows the developers that some players are still having some problems with certain parts of the game mechanics. All which they can add to their list of things to do.