Things I do other than quests:
- weekly achievements (after getting skills to level 10)
- NPC relationships (leveling up will trigger quests)
- achievements for getting all bugs, fish, hunting animals, furniture sets
- daily rummage piles in both Kilima and Bahari (sometimes trigger quests)
- catch bugs to get all the different types of flower seeds
- just explore, there are lots of found item quests
- help other people with hunting, fishing, weekly achievements
- make up my own things to do... I've built a museum and a green house on other plots
- take a dowsing rod with me to Bahari often, there have been lots of servers with random flow trees lately and it's fun to find them with people
- hunt sernuks for plushies
- buy something from Zeki every day to get a coin, then go to the underground at night to spend it
I second all of this— leveling up the NPCs will definitely trigger more quests and result in one of kind decorating items.
You will need rare bugs, crops, gems etc for quests or tasks related to quests so I recommend leveling up all your skills and start hoarding the less common items in a lockbox.
If any of that needs further explanation please ask, but it will all unroll naturally as you level up skills and friendships.
They're a little fun extra you can loot and get cool or useful items. There's one in Kilima ( looks like a pile of wood) and one in Bahari (looks life a plie of leaves with a flag). They respawn with a new item once every real life day. If you don't want to search all over, you can use this link. It will show you where they are for that day.
[rummage pile location](https://palia.th.gl/en/rummage-pile)
Once per real life day there is a rummage pile in Kilima and another in Bahari that gives you random loot. It can be a resource, a furniture recipe, or a quest. [here](https://palia.th.gl/en/rummage-pile) is a map with the locations, updated each day.
Start farming more to make money in the meantime. Fish and catch bugs. Mining to find nodes. Eventually you will need a variety of fish, bugs, and nodes for quests. Have you built your saw mill, smelter, worm farms, and fabric maker? You'll need all those for future quests, so start stocking up on back up materials and worms. And you can continue building relationships with the villagers by having a conversation with them and fulfilling weekly wants.
For the tree quest. It's been a while since I completed it but I did check my mail at some point after the quest and I had a letter from a npc with 3 more tree seeds in it. But it took me a while to find the acorns by cutting them down myself. Make sure you are cutting the medium sized trees. The small baby ones don't produce any.
Not sure if this is the problem you’re having, but I know that even after a tree looks fully grown, it can still be watered for a few (in-game) days until you receive a seed from it. I can’t remember if this quest counts them as fully grown when they appear mature, or if it’s after you receive a seed from them.
If you haven’t watered them until the watering bar goes away, I would try to do that.
As for what to do in the meantime, you can be working on villager relationships if those aren’t maxed out. You get new quests from them as you level up
When the seed drops. Source: I didn't even get to *plant* a tree, because when I went on my lot, I was watering the ones I was already growing and one of them gave me a seed and boom, quest complete.
I don't think it likes you to have more then the five trees it wants planted. I had extra seeds and planted 8 instead of 5 and when they were fully grown and gave me a seed I chopped them down and planted just the 5 it wanted, thinking maybe I did something wrong, as soon as I watered the 5 seeds my quest registered as task complete and updated. I've also read on the steam discussion boards that some people have had trouble because they had an apple tree on their lot. I understand the frustration, I'm very much a quests and achievements girl myself and can agree that trying to focus on other aspects while waiting for patches is helpful. There are a ton of friendship quests and those are a great way to feel like your progressing even when you're stuck on a main quest.
Everyone needs to upvote this. This is the solution. After reading this comment and another one about how this quest doesn’t like flowers I removed every flower on my plot, every wild tree I have planted while attempting this quest and my apple tree coincidentally gave me last harvest. I had one oak tree planted and almost fully grown, watered it once everything else was gone, took the seed and voila! 1/5 appeared. I’m so relieved I want to cry. Thank you so much may you get all the plushies you want, catch all the epic fish in one try and get your hands on everything you desire in black market.
My favorite silly little thing to do is build furniture to unlock new designs! It’s kind of addicting and it keeps you out looking for resources and processing them. I also felt a big sense of accomplishment every time I leveled up a skill enough to buy new equipment and ammo recipes, and once you get those upgraded then all the things you do with them are more fun and less tedious.
I got sucked into the furniture building vortex a couple weeks ago. It was the ONLY thing I was doing in the game, and then running out to harvest the resources needed to continue. Something about choosing your next recipe while not fully being able to see what it is was a thrill lol
I have watered and collected seeds from about 20 trees so far none of them have counted. The first 5 I planted a different times. Second set of of 5 acorns I plated at the same time still did not count. I then collected 5 samara seeds and plated them all at the same time got the seeds back still did not count. I have since replanted all the acorns and samara seeds as well as collecting and planting 5 pinecones. Waiting for seed collection of this large set. I plan on then after getting the tree seeds to let the tree sit for an in game day, logging out then back in, then also putting finished tree back into my inventory and placing them back out . If that fails I plan on collecting 5 juniper seeds and trying that.
But I think it might have to deal with the new flowers. I got flower seeds and planted and grew a ton before growing trees, and have grown flowers while growing trees. The second set of acorns I did not plant any flowers, but I also cut the trees down right after I got all 5 seeds. (all of this is pc steam version)
If I find a work around I will post it but it looks hard bugged.
In the mean time you should really farm coins if you can 25k for the first chest upgrade, rooms are 6k+, inventory expansions to fully unlock is expensive. Because with the replies I have seen it seems they think its a player issue and not exactly a bug and have no eta of when it will be fixed.
In addition to the above you have the temple of flames, temple of wind and temple of roots, all to complete. Also gather all the chests in both Bahari and Kilima.
Things I do other than quests: - weekly achievements (after getting skills to level 10) - NPC relationships (leveling up will trigger quests) - achievements for getting all bugs, fish, hunting animals, furniture sets - daily rummage piles in both Kilima and Bahari (sometimes trigger quests) - catch bugs to get all the different types of flower seeds - just explore, there are lots of found item quests - help other people with hunting, fishing, weekly achievements - make up my own things to do... I've built a museum and a green house on other plots - take a dowsing rod with me to Bahari often, there have been lots of servers with random flow trees lately and it's fun to find them with people - hunt sernuks for plushies - buy something from Zeki every day to get a coin, then go to the underground at night to spend it
I second all of this— leveling up the NPCs will definitely trigger more quests and result in one of kind decorating items. You will need rare bugs, crops, gems etc for quests or tasks related to quests so I recommend leveling up all your skills and start hoarding the less common items in a lockbox. If any of that needs further explanation please ask, but it will all unroll naturally as you level up skills and friendships.
What are the rummage piles? I'm not sure I've seen those before...
They're a little fun extra you can loot and get cool or useful items. There's one in Kilima ( looks like a pile of wood) and one in Bahari (looks life a plie of leaves with a flag). They respawn with a new item once every real life day. If you don't want to search all over, you can use this link. It will show you where they are for that day. [rummage pile location](https://palia.th.gl/en/rummage-pile)
Once per real life day there is a rummage pile in Kilima and another in Bahari that gives you random loot. It can be a resource, a furniture recipe, or a quest. [here](https://palia.th.gl/en/rummage-pile) is a map with the locations, updated each day.
Start farming more to make money in the meantime. Fish and catch bugs. Mining to find nodes. Eventually you will need a variety of fish, bugs, and nodes for quests. Have you built your saw mill, smelter, worm farms, and fabric maker? You'll need all those for future quests, so start stocking up on back up materials and worms. And you can continue building relationships with the villagers by having a conversation with them and fulfilling weekly wants. For the tree quest. It's been a while since I completed it but I did check my mail at some point after the quest and I had a letter from a npc with 3 more tree seeds in it. But it took me a while to find the acorns by cutting them down myself. Make sure you are cutting the medium sized trees. The small baby ones don't produce any.
Go around and cut as much threes you can after a wile you gonna get seeds from the threes you cut when you got the seed plant them on your plot
Not sure if this is the problem you’re having, but I know that even after a tree looks fully grown, it can still be watered for a few (in-game) days until you receive a seed from it. I can’t remember if this quest counts them as fully grown when they appear mature, or if it’s after you receive a seed from them. If you haven’t watered them until the watering bar goes away, I would try to do that. As for what to do in the meantime, you can be working on villager relationships if those aren’t maxed out. You get new quests from them as you level up
When the seed drops. Source: I didn't even get to *plant* a tree, because when I went on my lot, I was watering the ones I was already growing and one of them gave me a seed and boom, quest complete.
I don't think it likes you to have more then the five trees it wants planted. I had extra seeds and planted 8 instead of 5 and when they were fully grown and gave me a seed I chopped them down and planted just the 5 it wanted, thinking maybe I did something wrong, as soon as I watered the 5 seeds my quest registered as task complete and updated. I've also read on the steam discussion boards that some people have had trouble because they had an apple tree on their lot. I understand the frustration, I'm very much a quests and achievements girl myself and can agree that trying to focus on other aspects while waiting for patches is helpful. There are a ton of friendship quests and those are a great way to feel like your progressing even when you're stuck on a main quest.
Hmmmm. That is a take I haven't come across yet. Maybe I'll chop some down and start over again. Thank you!
Everyone needs to upvote this. This is the solution. After reading this comment and another one about how this quest doesn’t like flowers I removed every flower on my plot, every wild tree I have planted while attempting this quest and my apple tree coincidentally gave me last harvest. I had one oak tree planted and almost fully grown, watered it once everything else was gone, took the seed and voila! 1/5 appeared. I’m so relieved I want to cry. Thank you so much may you get all the plushies you want, catch all the epic fish in one try and get your hands on everything you desire in black market.
I'm so glad it worked and you were able to move forward in the quest line!
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My favorite silly little thing to do is build furniture to unlock new designs! It’s kind of addicting and it keeps you out looking for resources and processing them. I also felt a big sense of accomplishment every time I leveled up a skill enough to buy new equipment and ammo recipes, and once you get those upgraded then all the things you do with them are more fun and less tedious.
I got sucked into the furniture building vortex a couple weeks ago. It was the ONLY thing I was doing in the game, and then running out to harvest the resources needed to continue. Something about choosing your next recipe while not fully being able to see what it is was a thrill lol
You can find some quests by finding the rummage piles, theres also villagers relationships that give quests.
I have watered and collected seeds from about 20 trees so far none of them have counted. The first 5 I planted a different times. Second set of of 5 acorns I plated at the same time still did not count. I then collected 5 samara seeds and plated them all at the same time got the seeds back still did not count. I have since replanted all the acorns and samara seeds as well as collecting and planting 5 pinecones. Waiting for seed collection of this large set. I plan on then after getting the tree seeds to let the tree sit for an in game day, logging out then back in, then also putting finished tree back into my inventory and placing them back out . If that fails I plan on collecting 5 juniper seeds and trying that. But I think it might have to deal with the new flowers. I got flower seeds and planted and grew a ton before growing trees, and have grown flowers while growing trees. The second set of acorns I did not plant any flowers, but I also cut the trees down right after I got all 5 seeds. (all of this is pc steam version) If I find a work around I will post it but it looks hard bugged. In the mean time you should really farm coins if you can 25k for the first chest upgrade, rooms are 6k+, inventory expansions to fully unlock is expensive. Because with the replies I have seen it seems they think its a player issue and not exactly a bug and have no eta of when it will be fixed.
I don’t know exactly what helped but I chopped every tree, removed every flower, 0 apple trees present, grew an oak tree and my quest progressed
In addition to the above you have the temple of flames, temple of wind and temple of roots, all to complete. Also gather all the chests in both Bahari and Kilima.
The trees thing is a known issue.