Why can't my flagship pick up a quest item?

[Joe Coffee]

So I'm playing a sandbox map with AI. I've picked up a quest to deliver some poems or literature book by the Qin Princess to a destination. The AI deposited it as a floating junk near my harbor for some reason. Why does it look like floating junk? But I digress. But even though my flagship is within the radius of where the floating junk is, I can't pick it up.

What gives? Do I need some other ship built to get it?

It's annoying AF the way it's geared. Why can't the AI just hand off a lousy book of poems into my hold if I'm nearby instead of throwing it in the sea? Whatever.

[Hundinger]

Looks like your ship is full. Make sure you have an empty slot on your ship before trying to pick up something else. It might seem strange that one book of poetry would take the same amount of space as 50 tons of steel, but that's how it is. You need an empty slot to pick up anything.

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

Looks like your ship is full. Make sure you have an empty slot on your ship before trying to pick up something else. It might seem strange that one book of poetry would take the same amount of space as 50 tons of steel, but that's how it is. You need an empty slot to pick up anything.

There's nothing in the holds at all. If I'm interpreting the thing right, I got two empty slots "+" where something can be stored. I never used the flagship at all til this quest started; therefore, there's nothing full in that I could've blundered before asking.

[Hundinger]

Weird. Are you able to pick it up by right clicking on it?

[Smokerbait]

Originally posted by The Jerker:

It's annoying AF the way it's geared. Why can't the AI just hand off a lousy book of poems into my hold if I'm nearby instead of throwing it in the sea?

Book of Poems, or any other delivery quest item that you pick up from an AI, is supposed to be deposited into your ship's hold, and not dropped in the water, so don't fret too much. It's not supposed to be this way.

Originally posted by The Jerker:

There's nothing in the holds at all. If I'm interpreting the thing right, I got two empty slots "+" where something can be stored. I never used the flagship at all til this quest started; therefore, there's nothing full in that I could've blundered before asking.

One thing: you say you had two empty slots. For your Flagship, you should see 3 slots on top, and 2 below. The TOP slots are all cargo slots, and are necessary for holding quest items like the Book of Poems. The two BOTTOM slots are for equipment to enhance your ship. These can't hold cargo. Are these the two open slots?

This is the only thing I can think of that would cause the Book to be chucked into the water, and you unable to pick it up.

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by Smokerbait:

Originally posted by The Jerker:

It's annoying AF the way it's geared. Why can't the AI just hand off a lousy book of poems into my hold if I'm nearby instead of throwing it in the sea?

Book of Poems, or any other delivery quest item that you pick up from an AI, is supposed to be deposited into your ship's hold, and not dropped in the water, so don't fret too much. It's not supposed to be this way.

Originally posted by The Jerker:

There's nothing in the holds at all. If I'm interpreting the thing right, I got two empty slots "+" where something can be stored. I never used the flagship at all til this quest started; therefore, there's nothing full in that I could've blundered before asking.

One thing: you say you had two empty slots. For your Flagship, you should see 3 slots on top, and 2 below. The TOP slots are all cargo slots, and are necessary for holding quest items like the Book of Poems. The two BOTTOM slots are for equipment to enhance your ship. These can't hold cargo. Are these the two open slots?

This is the only thing I can think of that would cause the Book to be chucked into the water, and you unable to pick it up.

Why didn't I think of that? Yes, the two bottom slots can't be used for picking up stuff. One of the three above need to be free.

[Smokerbait]

Edit: I think you might have gotten it. Yay!

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by Smokerbait:

Originally posted by The Jerker:

It's annoying AF the way it's geared. Why can't the AI just hand off a lousy book of poems into my hold if I'm nearby instead of throwing it in the sea?

Book of Poems, or any other delivery quest item that you pick up from an AI, is supposed to be deposited into your ship's hold, and not dropped in the water, so don't fret too much. It's not supposed to be this way.

Originally posted by The Jerker:

There's nothing in the holds at all. If I'm interpreting the thing right, I got two empty slots "+" where something can be stored. I never used the flagship at all til this quest started; therefore, there's nothing full in that I could've blundered before asking.

One thing: you say you had two empty slots. For your Flagship, you should see 3 slots on top, and 2 below. The TOP slots are all cargo slots, and are necessary for holding quest items like the Book of Poems. The two BOTTOM slots are for equipment to enhance your ship. These can't hold cargo. Are these the two open slots?

This is the only thing I can think of that would cause the Book to be chucked into the water, and you unable to pick it up.

Ok now that's a learning lesson. I got rid of something in my hold (steel), and was able to pick up the book. But I don't know why it was there in the first place. I always thought that was a permanent thing in my ship which is why I didn't understand.

Thank you.

[Hundinger]

The game just gives you a little more extra building materials on your ship. You could settle another island with it or just transfer it to your island storage. You will transport a lot of things between your islands in this game, sometimes manually, often via an automatic trade route.

The two slots below the cargo slots are for items that improve your ship, make it faster for example. You will find items like this in form of quest rewards for example or be able to buy them from traders.

The game doesn't do a very good job of explaining the most basic functions. They seem to assume players know this, and often they are right. But I think they need to consider even people who never touched a video game in their lives. Make a very basic tutorial for them.

[Lailantie]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

The game doesn't do a very good job of explaining the most basic functions. They seem to assume players know this, and often they are right. But I think they need to consider even people who never touched a video game in their lives. Make a very basic tutorial for them.

Yes yes yes! I recently watched a video where a guy asked his girlfriend who had never played a video game before to play some of his favourite games and he would not help her. He had the same realization. If you don't know what all of this means, you can't apply it. If you don't know what to look for you can't find it. I have only started to play video games 4 years ago at the age of 54, and I had SUCH a learning curve. Fortunately my husband also played that game and he could help me out with the basics.

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by Lailantie:

Originally posted by Hundinger:

The game doesn't do a very good job of explaining the most basic functions. They seem to assume players know this, and often they are right. But I think they need to consider even people who never touched a video game in their lives. Make a very basic tutorial for them.

Yes yes yes! I recently watched a video where a guy asked his girlfriend who had never played a video game before to play some of his favourite games and he would not help her. He had the same realization. If you don't know what all of this means, you can't apply it. If you don't know what to look for you can't find it. I have only started to play video games 4 years ago at the age of 54, and I had SUCH a learning curve. Fortunately my husband also played that game and he could help me out with the basics.

I saw these videos, they're fun to watch, it's cool to see someone who's had little or no connection to gaming just have a wide-eyed sense of wonderment!

I really like this game so I don't fault not understanding something more like I'm an old gamer who's lost too many brain cells over the decades. :P

[Hundinger]

I know that channel too. It's great.