Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Revenge of Xarr-Zuul
Oofta_D Dec 9, 2023 @ 8:51am
Arcane Gemstone
First, great mod! I'm sure this was a ton of work, it's much appreciated.

However, I've explored all of the Cuanach Mire, gone through the cave and Galathar's Mausoleum but can't find the arcane gemstone. The room at the end that looks like it should have it (2 pedestals and an altar) only has 2 chests in the secret rooms.

My journal still says I have to find the arcane gemstone, but I've looked everywhere and checked every chest to no avail.
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Oofta_D Dec 9, 2023 @ 9:19am 
D'oh! I figured it out. I had backed up the party to the door after teleportating in because I set up a couple of ongoing AOE spells. Because I was standing on the trigger to open the door when the combat ended, the spirit did not appear.
El Santos  [developer] Dec 10, 2023 @ 7:19am 
LOL, all is well what ends well. Reading you first message I started sweating, already my mind running through the level, thinking what I might have done wrong, why you didn't speak to the spirit. Fortunately you figured it out! :)
Pendulumzz Mar 6, 2024 @ 12:00am 
I unfortunately did not read this and i think I may have done the same thing. However I went out and back in... and my autosaves have gone past the point of me going to before that battle and I'm kinda stuck now.

Is there a way to trigger the spirit post battle? I've walked all over the place down here and can't seem to get it to trigger :(
El Santos  [developer] Mar 8, 2024 @ 4:15am 
@Pendulumzz, I had another user feedback about that problem of yours, and realized there was actually a bad trigger that was introduced by my last update. It's been fixed now, and I hope it will work for you even in your saved game. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you!
mnduerrs Mar 10, 2024 @ 5:27am 
@El Santos, whatever you did didn't fix my problem. I have a save file that is before we ever even enter the final chamber of that dungeon. I opened that save file, completed the final battle again, and still Galathar doesn't appear?
El Santos  [developer] Mar 11, 2024 @ 2:07am 
@mnduerrs the way Dungeon Maker works, the updates won't fix some things once they have been triggered, for example variables. The only way to make my fix work is to reload the game from a save BEFORE YOU ENTERED THE MAP for the first time. Not the final chamber, I'am afraid, but the whole map (In this case, Galathar's Dungeon). I wish I could do more, but it's the way the Dungeon Maker works...
mnduerrs Mar 11, 2024 @ 2:11pm 
Ah! Okay. Makes sense. Unfortunately I don't have a save from before I entered that dungeon. I guess I'll just have to replay things from the beginning. :D
El Santos  [developer] Mar 12, 2024 @ 2:16am 
@mnduerrs I am really sorry about this 'bug', and I don't wish you to have to restart the whole campaign. So, I had another idea to help you and anyone who has the same problem with an 'old save' to continue: I simply added a chest near Galathar's tomb, with the Arcane Gemstone inside. The chest, as far as I know, should appear even on old saves. It's not the way you were meant to get it, but at least you can continue. So, make sure your game has updated to version '1.4.2' and you should see the new chest. Let me know if it worked. Thank you and apologies again for the inconveniences. El Santos
LaughingThunder Mar 16, 2024 @ 3:11pm 
Using 1.5.97, my friend and I playing two characters and an NPC apiece fought and won in the battle for the sarcophagus with the light cubes and invisible stalkers. We found two chests with an intelligence book and a +2 wand of the war mage. We did not find the arcane gemstone of Galathar even though we looked everywhere. We reloaded and made certain to stand in different places in the sarcophagus room, but still found nothing. We read the notes and fought it for the second time, but still could not find a trigger spot or chest in the sarcophagus room or the campfire room just adjacent. One of us did this solo and had no problem with this part, though had minor problems elsewhere.

Can you please tell where the trigger is or the chest that you added?

As an aside, I don't understand why you are only getting three stars. This is a five star adventure. Well done!
El Santos  [developer] Mar 17, 2024 @ 5:28am 
@Mirrored Way Galathar (who will give you the gem) should appear after you defeat all the monsters in the room. Because of a silly bug I introduced in one late update, that wasn't happening. I fixed it, but to make it work, after updating the game, you should go back to a saved game where you still haven't entered Galathar's tomb (the whole dungeon map, not the room). Otherwise your saved game will retain the original status in which the dungeon was when you saved, not updating. To fix this for people who don't have that game saved so far back, in the last update I added a simple chest that is just there in front of the altar in the room where you fight. I thought that would appear in old saves too, but from what you say, even that doesn't happen. Unless you actually have the chance to restart this map from the beginning, I'll have to find another way. This is driving me mad :)
As to the '3 stars', this is bothering me too. I think it's because out of 756 subscribers, only 30 bothered rating the mod at all. Since 3 out of those ratings are negative (people who don't like the campaign are probably more motivated to leave a rating), three stars is the average result. It's a shame, because I too think this campaign deserves better. If all the people who appreciated the mod actually rated it accordingly, I think the overall rating would be much better :steamsad:
El Santos  [developer] Mar 17, 2024 @ 7:52am 
@Mirrored Way I updated the mod again, now even if you can't revert to an old save you should still be able to find the Arcane Gemstone in a 'virtual loot' on one of the 'reading desks' on the east side of the sarcophagus in the 'final fight' room. Not the official way to receive the gem, but at least you can continue. Let me know if it works. Thank You.
LaughingThunder Mar 18, 2024 @ 1:50pm 
We tried everything and I do mean everything. We reloaded after the final fight, before the final fight and fought it again, and then out to the black dragons and fought all of the way back through. We clicked on everything, glowing with the ALT key or not.

The only thing my buddy and I could think of is that we ran as a party of two players and most everyone else ran solo. Even the version number you told us to check is a solo version number. The only solution I could suggest is to not have that set of conditions for future games.

I do hope you release again. Fantastic eye to detail, very creative, crafted into a cohesive story line...I loved it.

For now, though, we are burned out!
El Santos  [developer] Mar 19, 2024 @ 2:19am 
@Mirrored Way, once you have entered a map for the first time, some variables and switches are defined and they STAY that way even if you update the game. Object and decorations are updated, variables and triggers and other 'behind the scenes' stuff, are not. The only way to apply the update to everything is to go back to a save where you have NOT entered the map yet. I'm not talking about the room where you have the fight, but the whole map, the whole dungeon (called 'Galathar's Tomb' in this case). Reloading before or after the fight does not work. Anyway, as I said in a previous message, in my last update 1.4.6 I put the Arcane Gemstone as a simple 'loot' in one of the reading desks (the one to the right of the sarcophagus), with no 'conditions' whatsoever. I also tried myself going there using a previous save to check if that loot appears after updating the mod, and it does. Also, neither the previous conditions nor this last update should be affected by playing solo or not. The campaign is not a 'solo' one, as far as I know. So, I am sorry to hear that you are burned out, but could you please verify if that loot appears for you now? Thank You!
Last edited by El Santos; Mar 19, 2024 @ 4:46am
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