#“I Need a Bigger Boat” quest bugged -can’t unlock boat :(

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eager stone
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Cross posting this from my Reddit post, hopefully someone may be able to help us- we have a land-locked pirate :

Bugged? Help! My Father can’t complete “I Need A Bigger Boat” quest

Setup to the issue/bug, detailed as I can:

-I’m hosting game, wife and dad connected to my machine.

-we’ve all share completed “Rescuing the Crew” together.

-“I Need a Bigger Boat” quest at this point has the two shared sub steps completed for all as we’ve doubt the hull pieces.

-I (by myself later that evening) finished repairs completed “I Need a Bigger Boat” quest line, no issues.

-Next night both rejoin, both have materials to repair the boat in hand:

- wife repairs, gets boat, walks off to complete rest of quest, no issues.

-Dad, walks up IMMEDIATELY after wife to repair ship, commits materials, and says nothing happens, doesn’t get fanfare message “speak to Dr Galen”etc, and from what he says, when he clicks on the wrecked ship hulk, it reports something like “you need a crew of 7 to man this ship”, not the message you get when (ship’s repaired), despite the fact that we’ve completed the Rescuing the Crew mission with his character on my server.

-The last two bullet points of “Bigger Boat” remain unchecked for him after giving the required materials, btw.

To make matters worse, we attempted to restart/reconnect to the server to see if it would correct the questline for him, an now the broken ship hull is GONE. Removed from the game on my sever. Odd. How would other new players joining ever get their ship?

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So what I’d like to know is how do we snap him out of this loop?

It appears he’s completed his quest on his character, he completed the crew, fixed the ship - he just can’t unlock his ship. Any ideas? I fear starting his own server will just spark more empty prisoner cages, as the shared quest is completed

woeful gyro
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Thanks for the report. Shared quest progression requires all players to be on the same exact quest step and online on the server at the completion time.

Can you please share a screenshot of your father's journal screen with this quest opened and a screenshot of his map?

eager stone
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Here’s his quest screen, his overmap, and the prisoner island close up showing his completed prisoner breaks- the three outside marks. The three of us did these together coop, in nightly sessions I opened most cages, my wife one, he claims none. Also. In the original report above, it appears the repairable ship wreck hull has respawned after disappearing for a session. So that’s a plus

torn cipher
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So did he himself interact with all the prisoners (multiple per camp) ?

eager stone
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Here is the order: all 3 of us raiding camps
-He open no cages.
-Also note that my wife, also along for the prisoner camp raids, opened only 1 cage. I opened all others as they fought/looted.
-Later that night, they logged off, I returned to the wreck, added nails etc, got the talk to the Dr, same as demo, got my boat, I then prepared 2x the materials in a crate for them to pick up and “fix the ship” the next evening.

  • next night, they both logged to my server, camps freed (as you can see in his progress) wife picks up supplies, fixes boat, talks to Dr, completes quest, father then immediately picks up supplies, approaches wreck clicks on it, doesn’t get the advancement message/fanefare (if I recall)
  • he says the message reads something like “you still need 7 crew etc” when clicking on the hull. His materials vanished from his inventory.

Could the materials have not taken or registered with his current state of messages/completion?

also odd the whole boat wreckage and collisions left the beach for one session and returned. Not sure if that’s normal but thought I’d mention that

steady basalt
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yes same has happened with me i play single player

woeful gyro
keen pewter
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just finished this quest ~1h ago and its working fine for me

steady basalt
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i had to move my camp fire an the doc is no longer ther , someone said to move the camp fire where nothing is around it i did an was able to get the boat but the doc still isnt back

woeful gyro
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Use your bonfire to settle him again

steady basalt
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how

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do i right click on the fire ?

woeful gyro
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Look at it and press E on your big campfire

steady basalt
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ok thank you ill try that

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thank you that worked

eager stone
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What do I do if the wreck that came back is now gone again when I reloaded it- this is the second time it’s vanished/reappeared vanished (I’m solo currently) collision box and all, leaving only debris piles and assorted crabs . Not sure what he could click on …

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woeful gyro
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It only appears when there is a player in the world, who still has the quest.

eager stone
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Ah ok, that’s good to know, thanks. He was in earlier to get the shots. He’ll connect soon to gather that status message. Also thinking about to having him reapply a fresh set of supplies to the ship on my server, see if that advances it.

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Also pulled Dr Galen to a fire next to the wreck, away from main base, for what it’s worth.

eager stone
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Well, it turns out he was and is confused by the dialogue trees an how they were worded to him.
This is case closed- he didn’t quite understand the wording of the first option and how it propelled the quest forward, so this was user error, I apologize, as it was difficult to see on our end.
Know this- my dad is 80 years old, (pass this on to the team, maybe their oldest player?) born in ‘46, and avid game gamer and model ship builder and LOVES this game 🙂

So sorry about the mix up, he’s old and some of the dialogue answer text has confused him a bit compared to the rich expressive story text, it seems.

Keep up the good work and thank you SO, SO much for the quick response and the help!

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torn cipher
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tbh it is confusing as it's part of the "repair the ship" questline :3

woeful gyro
rotund herald
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I do single player and cant repair the ship

torn cipher
rotund herald
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all good, i think the interation should do the right click to continue. and all of sudden always do E button

hollow bolt
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I'm having the same issue on my first playthrough, solo game. I first visited the damaged ship with the proper materials. Then I visited all the pirate camps and interacted with all the jail cells. I had to return to finish killing the pirates. The ship still says "To finish the repairs... ...seven men will do". I have restarted mutliple times. I have revisited ALL the camps and killed all the pirates again (as they had all respawned) within the same day. All jail cells were empty. I returned to the ship, to the Doctor, back to ship several times.

This seems like a problem of the count of activities being sufficient to close the "Rescuing the Crew" quest, but still not triggering the boat to be repairable.

I'll supply screenshots.

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One unusual thing I did that may be considered "out of order" was interacting with jail cells before killing all the pirates. (I thought I could just free them and run away.) But I did return and kill everyone and loot the camps.

hollow bolt
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I also have 2 bonfires. I placed one near the shipwreck when I first arrived. I clicked Settle to move the Doctor to the shipwreck area. That did not change the quest behavior.

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Oh hang on... My maps shows a camp 0/2! I don't think that was there before. Nevermind. This was a Smugglers Cache. I completed it. Still can't reparit the boat.

rotund herald
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then right click to continue, my issue is im not do the right click, instead i do klick E all the time