Softlocked on Artemis Island?

[Malidictus]

I ended up doing Artemis Island last. By the time I went there, I had no gems left. What few gems I found on the island, I spent on the walls upgrade shrine. Well, turns out I need to stag in order to complete the island, and the stag costs 1 gem. So what do I do? I don't have any gems and I don't have access to the final island, which I presume will open up once I'm done with Artemis.

Am I softlocked? How was I supposed to know that progress would require a gem? That hasn't been the case with any other island. What do I do now?

[Helen - Raw Fury]

Hi there, I am sorry to hear you are having an issue. Could you please submit a support ticket to our helpdesk: https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 including your playfab name so that the team can look into this for you? Thank you.

[Malidictus]

My "playfab" name? What would that be? I'll file a report, sure - was just hoping there was something I'm missing.

[sharkosaurus]

lack of gems is very much an issue in the olympus, adding an extra 2 or 3 gems to every island that has gems would easily prevent softlocks like this while also allowing more experimentation

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by sharkosaurus:

lack of gems is very much an issue in the olympus, adding an extra 2 or 3 gems to every island that has gems would easily prevent softlocks like this while also allowing more experimentation

It wouldn't help with the softlock, unfortunately. I didn't unlock the spider which costs 3 gems, the bear which costs 3 gems, the chariot which costs 2 gems and the stag which costs 1 gem. They'd need to add something like 10 more gems across the non-final islands to avoid that. I suspect (but can't prove since I soft-locked myself) that the last island would offer a large number of gems. After all, previous Kingdom campaigns were retroactively changed to offer just enough gems to unlock everything.

The easiest way to avoid this soft-lock is to just... not have the Stag cost gems. Have it cost gold. Or better yet, turn it into a "quest" where the player has to fight the Greed in order to liberate the stag. Mission-critical items shouldn't cost a finite resource that the player could spend before getting to them - like I did.

[lord_hx]

I’m experiencing the same issue. Unfortunately Artemis is my last island so I cannot travel to another islands and get gems. I’m curios, I didn’t see any gem chests on Artemis island too. Is it expected?

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by lord_hx:

I’m experiencing the same issue. Unfortunately Artemis is my last island so I cannot travel to another islands and get gems. I’m curios, I didn’t see any gem chests on Artemis island too. Is it expected?

I didn't find any gems, either, nor on the island leading up to it. I suspect (but have no evidence to confirm) that island contents are procedurally generated. This ensures that the player will find stone on the first quest island and iron on the second quest island. Unfortunately, this seems to lead to a situation where all of the game's gems are generated in the first 6 islands or so, meaning the player can cap out early. Which is pretty bad if you happen to do Artemis last.

[Xan]

I had a similar issue, the golden stag was behind a Greed Portal and wouldn't walk past it.
I chased after it, it switched direction and went off screen.

Instead of chasing it, I went back and it re-spawned on the other side of the Greed Portal, then I managed to walk it to the Cage.

[Huxxy]

I'm in the same boat. No gems left, not even to buy back, so can't complete the island.

[lanavis]

A solution could be too add a gem vendor (or add that function to the gem storage guy). They could be unlocked after a quest similar to the one freeing Persephone on a new island. The gems could be worth 20 or so coins per gem. Or you could have all gems, dogs, merchants lost to the greed be returned after the last portal on each island is destroyed. I assume that would help with having enough gems to unlock plot critical stuff.

[Dast'ro]

I should not re-post my self tho I can understand this can be frustrating so this is a fix for you guys that softlocked:

1) navigate to: X:\Users\"Username"\AppData\LocalLow\noio\KingdomTwoCrowns\Release
2) You'll find save file "global-v35"
3) It's gzipped so first you need to add .gz extension to the filename and unpack it with your favorite archiving software.
4) unpacked file open with a text file software
5) find all lines that have something like that: "numStolenGems\":0
6) replace all lines to eg: "numStolenGems\":10
7) save (you don't need to do with the save file anything more after that), start your game and your able to buy those extra gems at merchant with donkey island.

If you're not into manual save editing just reach devs helpdesk and they will fix your save file for you.

[m.]

Hi Monarchs! For those of you experiencing this issue - we're sorry about that!
The new patch that is now available on Steam fixes this issue for new saves.
If you have been soft locked on Artemis' Quest on a previous save due to a lack of available Gems, please reach out to our support desk at https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 so the devs can help.
You can find more information about the patch at https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/701160/view/4535779621889180443
Thank you!