Month: January 2022

The Good Life — Game Quest Guide

The Good Life Quest Guide

updat­ed 02/20/2022 — fan-made and com­plet­ed as I play the game

GODDAMN HELLHOLE!!!

  • Pub­lished: PLAYISM
  • Devel­oped: White Owls Inc
  • Plat­form Played: Xbox Series X
  • Price: Free from Game Pass
  • Rat­ed: T (Teen)
  • Genre: Adventure/Action, Role-Play­ing

Quick Jump

  1. Tips & Tricks
  2. Main Quests
    1. Home is where you make it?!
    2. A Pho­to for Flamin­go
    3. Rain­ing Cats and Dogs
    4. Scale the church’s bell tow­er
    5. Inves­ti­gate the Shrine on the Hill
    6. Run­ning, Leap­ing, Hop­ping Shoes
    7. Mid­night Ren­dezvous
    8. The First Bit of Leg­work
    9. The Gold­en Full Moon Fried Egg
    10. The Hand­ker­chief’s Scent…
    11. Mor­tif­er­ous Pre­mo­ni­tion
    12. Back­ground Check 101
    13. The Oth­er World
    14. Route A — An Antique Emblem
    15. Route B — The Blind Vet­er­an
    16. Route C — The Her­itage of Rud­man White
    17. A Very Impor­tant E‑mail
    18. Shi**y Coun­try­side Hol­i­day
    19. Wet Work: Sheep Rob­ber
    20. Redact­ed Report: Part 1
    21. Wet Work: Sting
    22. Redact­ed Report: Part 2
    23. Wet Work: Dead Drop
    24. End of the Line
    25. The Glow­ing Moss Expert
    26. John’s Inven­tion #65
    27. World’s Worst Stream
    28. Epi­logue
    29. The Ulti­mate Deci­sion
  3. Side Quests

Tips & Tricks

*Fin­ger Gun to Head*

  • When try­ing to take a pic­ture of a spe­cif­ic thing, make sure the green words pop up on the pic­ture. If you don’t see the spe­cif­ic word­ing then it won’t count for either the quest or the Flamin­go upload
  • Try to do all of the Wildlife sur­vey pic­ture upload quests as soon as pos­si­ble to get improved recipes that actu­al­ly help with life/stress/health replen­ish­ment
  • Start Route A quests first to get the Pan Flute to help go faster around the map.
  • Gen­er­al­ly speak­ing, if the health­i­ness bar is low­er than 50% her chance of ail­ment goes up. Same with the Hunger meter. When both are low, it increas­es your chance of ail­ment.
  • Be sure to do side quests that you can before hit­ting up main quests because some will no longer be doable if you don’t.
  • Get­ting mon­ey:
    • Upload pic­tures to Flamin­go that are required and fit the hot­words for a steady stream
    • Sell things that you col­lect. Bugs sell for a lot in bulk and are easy to find. Min­ing mate­ri­als make the most mon­ey.
  • Char­ac­ter Sta­tus
    • Naomi’s face pic­ture shows her cur­rent stress lev­el (very sub­tle and hard to tell unless up close). If this is too low, her charis­ma goes down and that dri­ves shop prices up. Take a show­er and groom at the mir­ror (or in a box as a cat). Drink­ing teas help with stress, too.
    • Health­i­ness is the bar below her face pic­ture. Try to keep it above 50% to avoid get­ting ill. Sal­ads and oth­er foods that deliv­er Health­i­ness. Med­i­cines improve it too.
    • Hunger is above the HP and Awak­e­ness meters next to the stom­ach icon. Eat food to keep her full.
    • HP is the red squares next to the heart icon. Full heal is avail­able at the doc­tor’s office or can be replen­ished by food or med­i­cines
    • Awak­e­ness are the green squares next to the eye­ball icon. Drink Ded Bull to stay awake or eat cer­tain foods or drinks. Go to sleep to replen­ish
  • Ail­ments
    • Cold: Play­ing in the rain with 50% or low­er health­i­ness
    • Headache: Being too hun­gry and shrine warp­ing long dis­tances
    • Toothache: Being hun­gry and eat­ing too many items (around 5 or 6)
    • Lum­ba­go: Being hun­gry, unhealthy and lift­ing heavy objects
    • Alco­holism: Drink­ing too much alco­hol. You need to drink A LOT. Drunk­en­ness goes away on its own after a while, but alco­holism needs to be cured
  • The cat sprints faster and jumps high­er than the dog but runs out of sta­mi­na quick­ly. It can also home in and kill small ani­mals. Low defense.
  • The dog has bet­ter sta­mi­na and can fight, but much slow­er than the cat. Can­not jump high enough to get over many stone walls.
  • Sheep rid­ing is faster and makes you imper­vi­ous to bad­ger or bee attacks. Can’t jump. Can’t pick up items while rid­ing. Can’t take pic­tures while rid­ing.
  • Make sure that you have the quest you want select­ed before doing the action. Most quests will not auto­mat­i­cal­ly count unless the quest itself is select­ed.
  • Fight­ing: real­ly quite cum­ber­some in the game, but the eas­i­est way is to attack the ene­my with the dog, run away from it until it stops, then run back–> attack –> run away until it does­n’t fol­low –> repeat. Each ene­my has an attack area lim­it. Oth­er­wise, you’ll take tons of dam­age.
  • Fash­ion­ing clothes will help a lot with stats and allow­ing more back­pack space.
  • For what­ev­er rea­son, per­haps a glitch, I keep los­ing the mon­ey in my bank account in the game, so while the game rec­om­mends keep­ing your mon­ey in the bank just in case you die, I feel like you should keep most of it on your per­son. Every time I fin­ish an urgent quest, I lose about 400 cred­its. This just makes it impos­si­ble to save up for any­thing in the game!
  • The Mac­Cauley Kids:
    • Emma: On Sun­days she’s at the church, Sat­ur­day she’s with her grand­ma
    • Clay: On Mon­days she can be found in Town Hall, Thurs­days
    • Char­lotte: Fri­day next to the riv­er to the East of town where there are 2 shrines. Next to the South­ern Shrine. Tues­day

Main Quests

YEEAAH, BABY!

Home is where you make it?!

  • Go to the house, then check the PC

A Photo for Flamingo

  • Upload a pho­to to the social media site

Don’t Go Out Tonight…

  • Wait until evening and then go out any­ways

Raining Cats and Dogs

  • Fol­low the prompts then gath­er the items, take a pic­ture of the glow­ing rock and then go back to the drunk­ard witch­doc­tor lady. Watch cutscene.

Scale the church’s bell tower

  • Go around to the side of the church, use the cat vision and then to the bell tow­er

Investigate the Shrine on the Hill

  • Talk to the cam­era store guy (son of the Berry­mans), then go to the des­ti­na­tion points

Running, Leaping, Hopping Shoes

  • Fol­low the instruc­tions to get the mate­ri­als from the Knight guy, then get them made by the clothes lady, and then give them to Eliz­a­beth
  • *Note* Before or right after doing this quest and before the Mid­night Ren­dezvous quest, make sure you fin­ish up any oth­er side quests, specif­i­cal­ly those deal­ing with Eliz­a­beth, oth­er­wise you won’t be able to do them lat­er (i.e. The Beau­ti­ful Town of Rainy Woods quest)

Midnight Rendezvous

  • Meet up with Eliz­a­beth and fol­low her through the course of 3 chas­es. Crazy Bad­gers.

The First Bit of Legwork

  • Talk to the witch­doc­tor lady, talk to the rock­er pub lady, talk to Eliz­a­beth’s weird author broth­er

The Golden Full Moon Fried Egg

  • Go to cafe and talk to the mush­room eat­ing guy. Go find the chub­by, smil­ing Asian lady whose house is next to the gen­er­al store/clothes store. There’s a chick­en in the back named Mrs. Jas­mine. Get a gold­en egg, go back to the cafe, car­ry the egg to the author guy and watch the cutscene. Awoo!

The Handkerchief’s Scent…

  • Fol­low the instruc­tions, then fol­low the scent

Mortiferous Premonition

  • Fol­low the foot­prints, take a pic­ture of the crime scene

Background Check 101

  • Go to the town hall which is behind the gen­er­al store/clothes store. When com­ing from your house, take a left at the ATM

The Other World

  • Upload a pic­ture of some­thing cute and fluffy (I for­get what I uploaded now. Maybe a bun­ny or a mouse?)

Route A — An Antique Emblem

Route A — An Antique Emblem

  • Fol­low the map

Route A — Onward to the Grungy Old Cas­tle

  • Go towards the map mark­er

Route A — Three Tri­als

  • Fol­low the direc­tions to catch a sheep and get back to the Sheep But­ler (walk up to a sheep in dog form and bark at it until it shines blue, then turn into a human and press A to tame). Then fol­low his instruc­tions before rid­ing back to Bur­ley’s Farm to the map mark­er

Route A — Tri­als Com­plete

  • Fol­low the mark­er to get back to the Sheep man

Route A — Clas­si­cal Cos­play

  • Wool felt can be got­ten from attack­ing sheep, gold nuggets from min­ing (buy pick­axe from knight man), glass beads are usu­al­ly on rooftops (get as cat), liq­uid vitae is made from the witch­doc­tor lady. Put on dress and then get back to the Sheep Man.

Route A — Breach­ing the Lake

  • Explore the area past the gate

Route A — A Knight’s Tri­als

  • Do all of the annoy­ing sheep run tri­als. The time lim­it is extreme­ly gen­er­ous.

Route A — The Tale of the Blood­wood­es

  • Go to draw­bridge and choose the cor­rect por­trait. It’s Macauley’s pic­ture, the guy with the glass­es.

Route A — Faster than Light

  • Tame the Leg­endary Sheep like you would any sheep (I had to do it twice for some rea­son), go back to draw­bridge. Cut scene starts auto­mat­i­cal­ly.

Route A — A Tale of Yore

  • Talk to the ances­tor peo­ples (check out all the food on the tables!).

Route A — Car­ry Those Bar­rels!

  • Get to the cel­lar. You only need to bring 3 bar­rels. The walk­ing mech­a­nism is ter­ri­ble. Be care­ful not to run into the glow­ing sides or you will get hurt and even­tu­al­ly die. If you do, it’s not a big deal, just annoy­ing.

Route A — Lord of the Booze: The DrinK­ING!

  • UUUUUGGGGGHHHH. Make sure you tap the arrows, try not to hold it. If/when they start giv­ing you the drink­ing bot­tle aids, use them, they make the stu­pid bal­ance bar longer. Do your best.

Route A — Event Hori­zon: Epi­logue!

  • Talk to Bur­ley and the Knight man

Route B — The Blind Veteran

Main Quest - Route B -The Blind Vet­er­an

  • Find him on the map

Main Quest - Route B -Mas­ter and Stu­dent, at Odds

  • He’s going to use the path that cuts behind the back­yards from the town square to behind the vet­eri­nary clin­ic. Hit the pee bar when it’s a tiny bit before the blue to get it square on each time

Main Quest - Route B -To the North!

  • Go to the map mark­er to the way north­ern part of the map. Make sure the quest is active in order to reach it

Main Quest - Route B - To 1977!

  • Get some Whiskey and Hot Cof­fee at the pub

Main Quest - Route B -Find the High-Tech Thingy!

  • Talk to Clay Macauley (Mon­day)
  • Talk to Char­lotte Macauley (Fri­day)
  • Using the 2 pic­tures, find the loca­tion. Just fol­low the map to direct­ly North of town and a cutscene with Emma starts. Mem­o­rize the scent from the Old Label, fol­low it to the West­ern part of the lake to a dog pee spot. Pee, then dig to find the item.
  • Go back to the pub and approach the bar­tender to start a cutscene

Main Quest - Route B - Back to the North­ern Moun­tains

  • **NOTE: be sure to fin­ish the quest Con­cerned Sis­ter, Clue­less Broth­er before fin­ish­ing Route B quests oth­er­wise it’ll be greyed out and undoable**
  • Get back up to Sur­vival Guy and it starts a cutscene

Urgent Quest - Route B - Woman VS Moun­tain

  • Turn into a dog, make sure you scent him before you talk to him. Then you’ll have to “fol­low close­ly” as he runs through the snow. It’s a joke, because for what­ev­er rea­son you can’t run quick­ly, and he’s always ahead of you. If you go the wrong direc­tion, you have to start again from the last point you stopped. The last, long one, is impos­si­ble to fol­low him, so make sure to fol­low his scent and not veer too far off the path.

Main Quest - Route B - To the Mine!

  • It’s the mine! Reach the map mark­er for a cutscene

Main Quest - Route B - Into the Dark­ness

  • Tried to go back into the snow­storm to look for deer and stuff, but the sto­ry won’t let you, so in the mine we go. Mem­o­rize the Blind vet’s ban­dana and sniff your way through the mine. You can’t trans­form into human, and if you lose all your HP on the elec­tric fences, you game over and have to do it all over again. Make sure you run before you jump over the elec­tric fence. Or just use the cat.

Urgent Quest - Route B - The World’s Old­est Com­put­er

  • Now to blow up the door. Make sure you clear the 3 card­board box­es out of the way and then car­ry 3 box­es of dyna­mite. Thank­ful­ly, she runs at a decent speed and auto­mat­i­cal­ly places them on the ground. KABOOM. Yeeeaaah, Baby! Head to the Moth­er Brain. I took a pic­ture of it. Insert the thing and answer the triv­ia ques­tion (if you were pay­ing atten­tion dur­ing the snow­storm thing)
    • Alfred
  • Then you get Weird Seed (JackandG0891) and it tells you to go plant it in the mid­dle of Stone­henge
  • Some­one’s been fol­low­ing you and you now fol­low the glow­ing foot­prints nav­i­gat­ing around elec­tric wires, through a door and into…cherry blos­soms?

Main Quest - Route B - Out of Place Arti­fact

  • Free Camp, a shrine, and…WTH?? Stone­henge and UFO??? And that kid!?
  • You’re too fat, so plant the weird seed and pee on it
  • Change into a cat and climb that suck­er
  • Mini-game dodge the chick­ens while run­ning and catch the kid. If you get hit, you get hurt and have to do it again
  • Then it’s bat­tle royale with David the Cat. The cat is imper­vi­ous, so dodge until it hun­kers down and charges. Dodge. The game will give a *dooop* sound when the cat is inca­pac­i­tat­ed. You have oppor­tu­ni­ty for 2 claw attacks.
  • Watch the cutscene

Main Quest - Route B - Blue Pea­cock: Epi­logue

  • Talk to pub­mas­ter, sur­vival guy, the vic­ar, and his wife

Route C — The Heritage of Rudman White

Main Quest - Route C - The Her­itage of Rud­man White

  • Talk to the Town Hall poet lady and watch the cutscene. Get the 3 gnomes and run them to the White res­i­dence (left of town hall) BEFORE Eliz­a­beth’s broth­er gets there (about 1600–1700 hours). Oth­er­wise, you have to do it all over again. One is in the Asian scone lady’s back­yard, anoth­er is in the yard right next to hers (across from the town hall), there’s one you have to get from behind the cam­era shop, there’s anoth­er right in front of the dri­ve across the way from the White res­i­dence. I snapped a pho­to of the 3 gnomes when I was done, and it got decent likes on Flamin­go.

Main Quest - Route C - To the White Res­i­dence!

  • Talk to the detec­tive with the bird and het­e­rochro­mat­ic eyes, then run to the right side of the house (as you face it), hop up onto the wall that runs per­pen­dic­u­lar to the house, run and jump through the break in the fence. Pro­ceed to the front and unlock the gate. Mr. White does­n’t seem to care much that you’re tress­pass­ing

Main Quest - Route C - Weird Voice

  • Go to the left side of the house and talk to the cam­era guy. Go get the hot food and run it to him. It will cutscene auto­mat­i­cal­ly.

Main Quest - Route C - The Secret Roy­al Blood­line

  • Go to the Map Mark­er

Main Quest - Route C - To the South­ern Lake!

  • Get to the map mark­er and watch the cutscene. Take a pic­ture of the trees above the can­vas (make sure you’re using a tele­pho­to lens) sit­ting on the easel. Return to the detec­tive.

Main Quest — Route C — To the White Res­i­dence Again!

  • Head to the map mark­er. Watch scene. Learn secrets.

Main Quest — Route C — Cur­tana, Blade of Leg­end

  • Get to the Kingswood gate (very far South­west por­tion of the map). Turn into the dog and talk to the detec­tive.

Urgent Quest — Route C — The Kingswood

  • Mem­o­rize Martha’s scent from the paint­box, then talk to the detec­tive guy. Fol­low her scent, mak­ing sure not to veer off the path too far

Main Quest — Route C — What the Kingswood Guards

  • Make sure to pow­er up the shrine, then con­tin­ue for­ward in what­ev­er form you desire (I decid­ed to switch quick­ly over the A Bright Future quest for a bit and com­plete that before return­ing to the main quest).

Urgent Quest — Route C — Secret of the Kingswood

  • You can’t access items or turn into ani­mals here you can only take pic­tures. Place the Jar on the star pedestal, the Gar­den Gnome on the Mush­room pedestal, the Antique Hour­glass on the Wheel Pedestal, and then Wood (the wood­en crate) on the Tree Pedestal. You’ll know you have the right item when it slides auto­mat­i­cal­ly to the cen­ter of the pedestal, and you can no longer “check” it.
  • Turn into a dog and pull the chain
  • Watch scene
  • Get Cur­tana

Urgent Quest — Route C — Cur­tana’s Desire

  • Approach the lake

Main Quest — Route C — Blade of Mer­cy: Epi­logue

  • Vis­it the witch­doc­tor lady. Talk to the Berry­man fam­i­ly

CATASTROPHE POINT

A Very Important E‑mail

  • *Note: check­ing the com­put­er starts the quest, so if you want to fin­ish any oth­er quests, do so before­hand, because oth­er­wise you’re com­mit­ted until after­noon the next day**
  • Head home and check email.

Shi**y Countryside Holiday

  • Do stuff until 1400 hours the next day when the sci­ence team arrives or just sleep it off.
  • Go to Town Square
  • Watch scene

Wet Work: Sheep Robber

  • Go get one of Bur­ley’s sheep at night­time
  • Ride it to the tent

Redacted Report: Part 1

  • Go talk to the sci­en­tist
  • Choose your next tar­get

Wet Work: Sting

  • Take a pic­ture of the sci­en­tist in Eliz­a­beth’s wheel­chair from the front
  • Go show it to Nor­lock

Redacted Report: Part 2

  • Return to the sci­en­tist

Wet Work: Dead Drop

  • **NOTE: You won’t be able to buy or eat any­thing from the towns­folk for a bit after doing the 3rd sab­o­tag­ing quest so either stock up on things or make your own for a while. **
  • Wait until the town turns into ani­mals (around the full or new moon). Dur­ing the day­time, go talk to the Cafe guy who gives you 2 choic­es. I held onto mine, then read a few books to make it to night­time. Go in front of the Macauley res­i­dence and a cutscene will start

End of the Line

  • Talk to all the towns­folk (or at least try to…)

The Glowing Moss Expert

  • Go to the Cafe to talk to Mush­room Guy

John’s Invention #65

  • Go find Cam­era Guy at his house…
  • ..but he’s not there so go into the garage and check the spot
  • Watch the scene

World’s Worst Stream

  • A big sto­ry sig­nif­i­cant cutscene then launch­es
  • A mini-game of sorts starts where you have to aim the cam­era prop­er­ly for 10 shots. You have to be sure to aim the find­er on the white and red tar­get for each image. Your retic­ule will turn green when you aim prop­er­ly but be care­ful as they change every few sec­onds. If you mess up, then you get flat­tened by Hugh, the big goon, but it’s okay as you get to try again

Cutscene!

“LOBSTAAAAH!!!”

Epilogue

  • Cutscene
  • Debt paid off with 2 mil­lion monies left­over!!!

The Ultimate Decision

  • Now to choose an end­ing:
  • End­ing A: Donate all my mon­ey to the town in order to keep its secrets well-pro­tect­ed
    • Com­pletes The Rainy Woods Route.
    • There’s a cel­e­bra­to­ry cutscene where Nao­mi is made hon­orary cit­i­zen of Rainy Woods for her altru­is­tic deci­sion. All left­over occult gos­sip on social media regard­ing the Rainy Woods inci­dent are snuffed out with the donat­ed mon­ey to pro­tect the secrets of the town. The scene ends with some creepy, mys­te­ri­ous music and a panoram­ic view of the town.

“Nao­mi end­ed up los­ing her sta­tus as a jour­nal­ist due to the Rainy Woods inci­dent, but thanks toa cer­tain crafty some­one at Morn­ing Bell, she man­aged to get her Flamin­go account back. At one moment, she’d got­ten over three mil­lion fol­low­ers… A far cry from what she’s got now, but it’s still more than enough for some­one like her, right? Now she just needs to keep upload­ing pho­tos so that steady stream of Emokes does­n’t dry up! With a lit­tle hard work, she might end up becom­ing yet anoth­er glob­al influ­encer who lives in the mid­dle of nowhere! I still believe in you, Nao­mi!”

  • End­ing B: Run back to NYC and live out the rest of my life drown­ing in lux­u­ry
    • I don’t know what hap­pens here because I did­n’t choose it. Kind of wish I did, though.

Secrets of Rainy Woods: IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPLETE

  • Anoth­er cutscene.
  • …umm… E‑El-Eliz­a­beth?!?!?!?!?
  • “GODDAMMMMNN HELLLLHOOOOOLE!

You are now free to fin­ish old quests and take on new ones!

Side Quests

The Beau­ti­ful Town of Rainy Woods (Eliz­a­beth Dick­ens)

  • Take a pic­ture of the town
  • Upload it to Flamin­go
  • Talk to Eliz­a­beth

Shut­ter Junkie (Easy) (John Berry­man)

  • Take 30 pic­tures. Do it all in one go if you want, then just delete them.

Mnemosyne Has For­sak­en Me (Rita Bar­rett)

  • Take a pic­ture of the weath­er­vane atop the Asian scone lady’s house (near the ATM and to the right of the cafe). Make sure you do it at night, though, because you need a “star.” Does­n’t mat­ter if it’s cloudy, so long as it’s night­time.
  • Bring it to the Town Hall Poet lady.

Humans Need Treat­ment Too (George Fakhoury)

  • Run around and do stuff in the rain with health less than 50% (bet­ter less than 20%) to get a cold
  • Bring the hunger meter to low and then tele­port to and from the far­thest shrine on the map (make sure to warp home with the map, oth­er­wise you pay $10) to get a headache
  • With the dropped hunger meter, make sure you eat a ton of food (i ate about 6 small items) to get a toothache
  • Lum­ba­go: Bring health­i­ness way down to zero and then to in front of 1977 pub and lift the keg.

Are You Tak­ing Care of Your Skin?! (Vir­ginia Yeats)

  • Fol­low Vir­gini­a’s direc­tions to go home and either take a show­er or do make­up and get back to her.

Home Improve­ment (Dou­glas McAvoy)

  • Get the nec­es­sary mate­ri­als (from the mine in the North, the mine in the North­east towards the top right of the map, or the West mine near the edge of the map) and
  • Talk to McAvoy to remod­el.
    • 10 for the shack, or 250 for the nicer house.
  • Giv­en that I was poor as heck, I still chose the expen­sive one and now I kind of wish I’d cho­sen the shack, lol.

Gar­den 2.0 (Dou­glas McAvoy)

  • Make sure you bring mon­ey so that he can change your gar­den lay­out

The True Face of the Angel of Death (Mor­ris Down­er)

  • Take pic­tures of the 2 first scare­crows as marked on the map
  • When you try to get the 3rd one, but he’ll say he wants a clos­er image
  • You have to save up your mon­ey (about 700) to get a tele­pho­to lens
  • Take the pic­ture and return to show him

Out­door Kitchens, Parts 1–3 (Mor­ris Down­er)

  • Pay for 4 (after you open up 1), then 7, and then the rest of the Out­door Kitchen/Campsites. They range from 75 — 100 moolas.

Cat-Dog Shrines, Parts 1–4 (Salome Macauley)

  • Unlock 1, 4, 10, then 31 (1 monies each).

Be For­ev­er Yvonne (Rud­man White)

  • Pick up the busts and then car­ry them to the tar­get loca­tions to take pic­tures of them. 3 loca­tions, 3 pic­tures. Ugh.

Inno­cent Ani­mal Rhymes (Ian and Allen White)

  • Make sure you have the quest high­light­ed and then go kill the tar­get ani­mals (so far I’ve had hedge­hog and red fox)
  • Can take job any time and it will be a ran­dom ani­mal to kill each time.

[Job] Wildlife Sur­veys (#1–6) (email)

  • #1: Wood Mouse, Brown Rat, Red Squir­rel
  • #2: Pine Marten, Hedge­hog, Rab­bit
  • #3: Bad­ger, Red Fox
  • #4: Red Deer (found in the for­est due South on the map)
  • #5: Quail, Chick­en, Pheas­ant, Duck, Turkey
  • #6: Fly­ing Pid­geon, Fly­ing Mal­lard (aim just a lit­tle above the birds while walk­ing up to them and take pic­tures as you walk)

VIP Pho­tos #1 (email)

  • Weird Author Guy (Eliz­a­beth’s broth­er), and Town Hall Poet lady

Tourism Prospects (email)

  • Take pics of the cafe, the pub, and the hotel

Dai­ly Life in the Coun­try­side (email)

  • Take pic­tures of Cam­era Guy, Knight man, Clothes/Store girl

Faith in the Mid­dle of the Nowhere (email)

  • In the late after­noons, go to the church and peo­ple will like­ly be there vis­it­ing a grave

More sheep than peo­ple? Seri­ous­ly…? (email)

  • I found a place in the North­ern Mid­dle por­tion of the map where the sheep all gath­er on the grass­lands around 1 sin­gle tree. NW of your house, just a lit­tle N of the camp site to the E of the mines and SW of the mer­chant sell­ing meat.
  • There’s anoth­er group to the SW of town

Inhab­i­tants of the Hap­pi­est Town in the World 1 (email)

  • Take pic­tures of every­one list­ed and upload them.
  • Hint: The Whites you have to do the begin­ning of the Rud­man White quest first to open up the gates
  • David O’Reil­ly is usu­al­ly way up north where you can’t get to unless you start the oth­er main quest, but he’s in front of his house or near the church on week­ends.

VIP Dish (Bruno Evans)

  • Talk to the mush­room cafe guy and he tells you where to look for the mush­rooms. Then make sure your hunger meter is 0 and order the spe­cial mush­room dish

Rainy Woods Restau­rant Alliance (Bruno Evans)

  • Make sure you have the tele­pho­to lens. Stand far enough away that Macauley starts hunch­ing over. Take a pic­ture when the green words label the image prop­er­ly. Bring it back to the cafe guy

The Cutest Inhab­i­tant of Rainy Woods (John Berry­man)

  • Take a pic­ture of
  • ATM
  • Tele­phone Booth (from the house run straight in front of and past the general/clothes store and it is bright red next to the road. There’s also one in Town of Eccles)
  • Green Truck (Bur­ley’s Farm)

The Witch’s Cap­sules (Pauline Atwood)

  • Cap­sule sheet is on top of 1977 (use cat), then she makes you find 1 rare but­ter­fly wing, 2 rab­bit furs (low rate drop from killing rab­bits), and 3 sage.

The Witch’s Poul­tices (Pauline Atwood)

  • Fol­low the map mark­er to find the recipe, bring it back and then col­lect
    • Rare But­ter­fly Wings
    • Large Ani­mal Femurs (found through pee­ing and then dig­ging as the dog, gen­er­al­ly in areas pro­tect­ed by bad­gers, but any­where else, too)
    • Wrap­ping Leaf
  • The map will mark some areas to look, but I had to look all over the map for more femurs.

[Job] Local Food Cul­ture Report, #1–4 (email)

  • All recipes pro­vid­ed via email. Make and take a pic­ture, then post:
  • Mushy Hedge­hog & Pump­kin Pie
  • Roast Duck with Peach Wine Sauce
  • Warm Red Fox and Radish Borscht
  • Red Deer Sun­day Roast (Red deer are found either far North in snowy moun­tains or far South in Deargshaw For­est, York­shire pud­ding found in the town of Eccles on the East­ern part of the map at the shop, Aspara­gus found in shops in both Rainy Woods and Eccles)

The Ter­ri­to­ry Mark­ings of Rainy Woods, Parts 1–3 (Hor­a­tio Stringer)

  • As the dog, pee on 10, 20, 30, & 40 spots. Make sure to dig after you do as some items can only be found via dig­ging.
  • Hints:
    • You can pee on wan­ing scent spots and still have them count
    • You don’t need to have the quest equipped for it to count

Fig­ure out who lost this! (David O’Reil­ly)

  • Fol­low the scent from the item screen and fig­ure out who it is. Make sure you smell each green spot when you get to the end and the cutscene will start auto­mat­i­cal­ly when you smelled the end smell. This is ran­dom each time, not always the same per­son. You can like­ly do this indef­i­nite­ly. I did­n’t.

A Meaty Inven­tion (Thomas Berry­man)

  • Talk to Cam­era Guy’s Dad, the gro­cery own­er. He gives you a 3‑part cook­ing quest.
  • You need to secure at least 3 (I’d rec­om­mend more just in case, and then for mak­ing it lat­er):
    • Suf­folk mut­ton (sold at Bur­ley’s Farm or the meat trad­er one of which is N of your house E of the mines)
    • pota­toes
    • but­ton mush­rooms
    • beef

Yeatschan (Vir­ginia Yeats)

  • Make sure the pot­ted gera­ni­um is RED (just take it from the R side of the cafe) and find a striped deck chair
    • There are 2 chairs North of your house. One is right near the meat mer­chant North of the house, and anoth­er is in a barn some­where North mid­dle-map of your house.
  • Then acquire a Del­phini­um seed (can buy at store) and make sure it has time to bloom­ing.
  • Get a Wood­en Bench & Table turned pink from the paint Vir­ginia gives you from the knight man. You need 9 wood which you need to buy from the knight but can only buy 3 per week or so. It will be deliv­ered to your stor­age. Set it up in the gar­den and then talk to Vir­ginia

Slow Life on the Farm (Lonette Bur­ley)

  • Catch a wild sheep (near the farm) and ride it to Bur­ley. Then run any sheep 100 yards (just down the street and back). Brush a sheep. Run a sheep 500 yards. Shear 3 sheep (I had 2, so then I just bought the last from Bur­ley). Run a sheep 1000 yards. Then break 100 bar­rels or box­es with sheep.
  • Hint: Most farms or larg­er homes out­side the town have a few crates and bar­rels. For exam­ple, Bur­ley’s farm has 7 crates and 4 bar­rels. The main road to Eccles has white bar­rels you can run through

A Bright Future (Kevin the Tourist)

  • This quest came up after fin­ish­ing Route A for me, but like­ly after fin­ish­ing any Route. Talk to the tourist who is run­ning around town square. The mini map shows you exact­ly where to stand for each pho­to which is nice, but the annoy­ing part is that it does­n’t show you on the big map where you need to be.
  • Make sure each pic­ture says “sim­i­lar to old pho­to” then go back to Tourist to show him.
  • Old Pho­to 1: low­er left part of map in Kingswood (must have fin­ished Route C)
  • Old Pho­to 2: Smack in the mid­dle of the snowy moun­tain (must have fin­ished Route B)
  • Old Pho­to 3: Tak­en from the roof of a house, towards low­er right por­tion of map (must have fin­ished Route A)
  • Return to him.
  • In your stor­age are 3 items he gives you: F.K. (a stuffed ani­mal), Sleepy (a shop dis­play fig­urine), and a Donut Cush­ion (a cush­ion in the like­ness of a straw­ber­ry choco­late donut with sprin­kles), all of which are dec­o­ra­tions for the gar­den

Elixir of Dreams (George Fakhoury)

  • You need to be com­plete­ly smashed. I drank so much that I Game Overed 2x and then I became an alco­holic, indi­cat­ed by the text on the screen and the fact that I moved at the speed of zom­bie.
  • Talk to the vet
  • Turn into an ani­mal

Crav­ing a Trop­i­cal Vaca­tion (Email from E)

  • Striped Beach Chair can be found North of your house.
  • Beach Ball, Beach Para­sol and Side Table can be cre­at­ed through the knight man, but the mate­ri­als need­ed have to be found. Most of them can be found by dig­ging with the dog

Find the Gold­en Eggs! (Jin Yi Han)

  • Dur­ing a full moon, you can find them up around the UFO (Stone­henge), or you can buy 3 of them from her her­self the 3 days around the full moon

A True Dame (Dou­glas McAvoy)

  • *Not yet done*

Con­cerned Sis­ter, Clue­less Broth­er (Michelle O’Reil­ly)

  • Get Rab­bit Meat, Cour­gette, Onion, and Pota­to, then bring them to the pub lady who makes the Pie.
  • Deliv­er it pip­ing hot to her broth­er. On the week­ends and late, he’s typ­i­cal­ly at his house.
  • Go back after the cutscene, then she wants you to get him an Endurance Cap­sule (1 vivid cater­pil­lar, 4 basil, 2 rab­bit fur, 1 basil seed) from the witch­doc­tor lady.
  • Deliv­er it to David the Boy Scout who will have appeared in front of his house
  • Then return to the pub lady

I am the One True DrinK­ING! (Bene­dict Macauley)

  • I have cho­sen not to do this one until I acquire at least 5 bot­tles of the stuff from Vir­ginia Yeats (shop­keep­er) which will help extend the stu­pid see­saw board.

Sur­pass­ing Sheep (Samuel)

  • Talk to the sheep­man but­ler. Bring him a sheep ful­ly maxed out in any stat.

A Sur­prise for Martha (Thomas Berry­man)

  • Find Martha
  • Take pic­tures of her:
    • Paint­ing (must say Martha Berry­man Paint­ing),
    • Eat­ing her lunch (12:00pm)
    • As a dog (either on the new or full moon’s 3 days. She and her hus­band are in the park next to Town Hall. She is the Posh Dog)

The Human Race’s Old­est Com­put­er (John Berry­man)

  • Go to the Old Com­put­er in the mines and put the hack­ing don­gle into it.
  • Answer Ques­tions
    • Lugh
    • Alfred
    • The Wick­er Man
  • Return to cam­era guy and chat with him

Check on Martha’s Fam­i­ly for her (Martha Berry­man)

  • **Impos­si­ble to com­plete if not done before Shi**y Hol­i­day quest**

I want my Grand­chil­dren to Smile (Salome Macauley)

  • Get a pheas­ant plume, a dinosaur fang, and a small dia­mond and deliv­er them to each of the Macauley kids (Clay: Mon­day; Char­lotte: Tues­day & Fri­day; Emma: Sat­ur­day, Sun­day)
  • Return to Salome

A Life-Sized Doll (Char­lotte Macauley)

  • Make a Cowhide Jack­et and show Char­lotte

Bless­ings of Joy (Hen­ry Poe)

  • Mem­o­rize Hen­ry Poe’s mes­sage and then as Hor­a­tio to trans­late. Choose the 2nd option.
  • Deliv­er a small dia­mond to Poe, and then go back to Hor­a­tio for anoth­er trans­la­tion.
  • Choose the 1st option then deliv­er to Poe a Gold Nugget
  • Back to Hor­a­tio and choose the 3rd option
  • Find a High-Qual­i­ty Feath­er (from ducks or mal­lards) and deliv­er it to Poe

Like Some­thing Out of a Sto­ry­book (Emma Macauley)

  • Show Emma pic­tures of:
    • The UFO
    • The Town of Eccles (make sure it says “NOT Rainy Woods”)
    • The Old Cas­tle (you have to get it from South of Eccles as shown on the map)
  • Show Emma (Sat­ur­days and Sun­days)

The Mas­ter Detec­tive’s Assis­tant (Nor­lock Home­less)

  • You need to order Nor­lock­’s favorite food: Fish and Chips at the Tav­ern
  • Go to the Store/clothes place and chat with Vir­ginia
  • Talk to William the nov­el­ist
  • On Tues­days and Fri­days go to the Macauley house (across from town hall) and choose the quest. Char­lotte will appear
  • Mem­o­rize the scent and fol­low it down the road next to the tav­ern, through the park, and to Nor­lock­’s house where he is stand­ing. Try to walk past him to fin­ish the quest

The Glut­ton (Clay Macauley)

  • Make Vic­to­ri­an Sponge or buy it from the restau­rant and give it to Clay Macauley
  • Note: Clay will spawn in front of the Macauley res­i­dence if you choose this quest (on a Mon­day or Thurs­day)
  • Now make or buy a Tri­fle from the restau­rant and bring it to Clay

Bridge of Notes (Hor­a­tio Stringer)

  • Talk to Hor­a­tio and then to Hen­ry Poe
  • Choose the 1st option
  • Back to Hor­a­tio –> 2nd option
  • Poe –> 3rd option
  • Hor­a­tio –> 1st option
  • Poe –> 3rd option
  • Hor­a­tio –> 2nd option

Genius Cre­ativ­i­ty (William Dick­ens)

  • Snap a pho­to of 3 gnomes gath­ered togeth­er (hint: put the gnomes in your gar­den because you’re going to need them for the next quest and it will save some time run­ning around, espe­cial­ly for the far ones)
  • Show William the pic­ture

Genius Cre­ativ­i­ty: The Sequel (William Dick­ens)

  • Get a pho­to of 5 gnomes and a red flag. He does­n’t care if they’re dolls or gnomes, nor if the flag is a flag so long as it’s red and flut­ters.
  • I placed the 4 gnomes I saved from the pre­vi­ous quest and picked up one more from a spawn point in front of the red cloth on the clothes­line found behind the house next to McAvoy’s place.
  • Return to William

Genius Cre­ativ­ty “The Recipe of a Genius” (William Dick­ens)

  • He gives you the recipe for Roast Bad­ger (Bad­ger meat and pota­to). Make it and bring it to him hot.
    • Note: I had to make it in the out­door kitchen because for some rea­son the game would­n’t let me out of the house when I was car­ry­ing it
  • Now make a Toma­to-Sim­mered Bad­ger dish (Bad­ger meat and toma­to) and bring it to him hot
  • And final­ly, the Toma­to-Sim­mered Badger…WITH HERBS dish (Bad­ger meat, Toma­to, Rose­mary, & Oregano)

The Spe­cial­ty of Rainy Woods (Eliz­a­beth Dick­ens)

  • Make some tanned sheep leather (2 wool felt and 1 rough bark through McAvoy) and show Eliz­a­beth
  • Then get her an Ancient Fos­sil Shell (a reg­u­lar ancient fos­sil is fine. You need to pee on the dog mark­ing spots and then dig at the dig­ging spots as the dog)
  • Now to find a glass bead (most roof top items are glass beads, but also able to be found by dig­ging or in trash­cans)
  • Take every­thing to Vir­ginia at the gen­er­al store and have her make a dec­o­rat­ed leather wal­let

How’s Your Cook­ing Game?

  • Take a pic­ture of a home-made meal and show it to Eliz­a­beth. Make sure it says Naomi’s home­made meal. She won’t accept a bought one.
  • Then upload it to Flamin­go and return to her

Rainy Woods is So Quirky! Vol. 1–5 (Lucy Turn­er via email)

  • Upload a pho­to of UFO, Giant Com­put­er (from mine), a Rom­ney Sheep (sheep in the pen at the sheep farm), the church grave­yard, and the white flower bed near the old cas­tle (near the gate lead­ing to the cas­tle).

Lonet­te’s New Ven­ture (Lonette Bur­ley)

  • Talk to John the Cam­era Guy
  • Talk to McAvoy the Knight Guy. He wants a hot shep­herd’s pie. Get one from the tav­ern and run it over to him.

[SPS Quests] (Lucy Turn­er via email)

  • Take pic­tures of the fol­low­ing peo­ple eat­ing then upload it to Flamin­go:
  • Mor­ris Down­er - at 21:00 he drinks cof­fee. Take a pic­ture of that.
  • Thomas Berry­man — around noon, he eats in his shop
  • Michelle O’Reil­ly — I caught her eat­ing at a table around 22:00 on a Tues­day
  • Bruno Evans — he’s usu­al­ly stuff­ing his face with mush­rooms in the morn­ings when he first opens. I caught him at 11:20am on a Tues­day
  • Hen­ry Poe — around noon he sits on the bench in the park and eats

DIY: Elevated Wood Planter

01/16/2022

What: Mak­ing a wood­en ele­vat­ed planter

When: April 2021

Sup­plies: Wood (lots of it), router, sander, wood screws, rub­ber feet (option­al), wood stain, wood seal­er, wood filler, drill, dri­ver, shop vac­u­um, clamps, cir­cu­lar saw, ruler/square, pen­cil, rub­ber mal­let, wood glue, weed bar­ri­er cloth

Time: a few days’ worth of time for me

The Plan­ning: I spent a LONG time research­ing and plan­ning for this project. It was very excit­ing for some­one who had nev­er done any­thing deal­ing with wood­work before aside from ran­dom­ly putting two pieces of wood togeth­er into a makeshift stool. Hours of image and prod­uct search­ing along with videos. Here are few of the images I found online that I ulti­mate­ly decid­ed on using as ref­er­ence:

The Process (in pic­tures!)

Get­ting Start­ed:

^This was the gath­er­ing and deci­sion stage where I had to decide how I want­ed to ori­ent the wood, made a few test cuts, mea­sured out some things, fig­ured out rough­ly the size I was going for and if it was rea­son­able giv­en the mate­r­i­al. Wood qual­i­ty and that kind of thing are new to me, so I was­n’t sure what to buy, and then just went for it. Ver­ti­cal or hor­i­zon­tal planks? In the end I went for hor­i­zon­tal for less wood cut­ting and less screws required. My sis­ter has a pre-made planter she bought with ver­ti­cal planks, and it was­n’t secured, so some­how squir­rels dug into them and knocked them all out. Not hap­pen­ing with this planter.

Router Work:

^Very fun to use a router and it was very first time, to boot! I found out that router bits are very sharp, that rout­ing makes a MASSIVE mess and should be done out­side, if pos­si­ble (still find­ing saw­dust in every sin­gle nook and cran­ny of the base­ment), and there’s a rea­son why router tables are a thing. I would def­i­nite­ly use a rout­ing table the next time if I could.

Frame Assem­bly:

^As you can see, I don’t have a very large base­ment at all. Nei­ther do I have sawhors­es. I did­n’t even have enough clamps and had to impro­vise a lot of what I was doing. This was prob­a­bly the most frus­trat­ing part of the project, try­ing to weed through all of the wood for straight wood, doing all of the math and mea­sure­ments, only to require revi­sion half-way through, then hav­ing the frame con­tin­u­ous­ly fall apart from lack of appro­pri­ate equip­ment, and deal­ing with the lit­tle imper­fec­tions here and there. It kind of looks like a bed frame, does­n’t it, though? I was so proud when I achieved the last pic­ture in this set.

The Slats

^Dry lay­ing of the wood and then using spare pieces of wood as spac­ers. Turns out that it was­n’t per­fect­ly even, but that’s okay, because who would notice? The spac­ing is for air­flow for the plants and water drainage. I debat­ed whether or not to place cor­ner slats, being afraid that water would just sit with­out being able to be drained, but went for it any­ways, con­sid­er­ing it would be sealed with the rest of the planter. I guess if I want­ed to get fan­cy, I could have grad­ed the wood a bit away from the cor­ners.

Remain­ing Assem­bly

^Lit­tle things like try­ing to fig­ure out how many and where to place screws with­out them over­lap­ping or break­ing the wood. Not too many, but not too few. Where would it be best of lift the hefty thing espe­cial­ly when it’s full of wet soil? It was very dif­fi­cult and painstak­ing to cut the top trim and secure the 4 cor­ners. Then rout­ing those to a smooth edge and sand­ing it all down to smooth­ness but also to rid of the pen­cil marks. My lack of prop­er clamps came back to haunt me with the top trim. Then wood filler to fill in the holes and more sand­ing. This part took a huge chunk of the time and made a mas­sive mess. But it’s most­ly done! And it looks good!

Stain and Seal

^ Yay! Then I decid­ed to put feet on it because I did­n’t want the wood to just sit on the ground soak­ing up water. That’s where one of the leg pieces that was full of knots con­tin­ued to be the bane of the project. Also, I used the wrong screws. Make sure you’re using wood screws. It’s not shown, but I caulked around the rub­ber feet and the wood.

Fin­ished Prod­uct

^ Not shown in pic­tures, but you can see the weed bar­ri­er I line it all with so that the soil won’t fall through the bot­tom of the planter. Grand­moth­er = Very Hap­py. Me = Proud.

In Con­clu­sion: This entire project took me about 3 week­ends to do and hon­est­ly, by the end of it, I just want­ed to be done (espe­cial­ly because I end­ed up crush­ing my foot some­thing awful with some of the equip­ment ear­ly on). It cost me around $300 — 400 in equip­ment and sup­plies (most­ly because wood prices in 2021 were sky high) which puts me over the amount to just sim­ply buy one pre-made. On top of it, the sheer weight of pure wood is sub­stan­tial and some­thing I did­n’t real­ly con­sid­er when plan­ning the project. Nor was I plan­ning on so much left­over wood. One of the biggest prob­lems I ran into with it all was the qual­i­ty of the wood. SO MANY of them were too bowed or warped to work with and now they’re just sit­ting there being a fire haz­ard in my base­ment because it cost me so much mon­ey to begin with. How­ev­er, the process, the plan­ning, the doing, and then the recep­tion by my grand­ma, grand­pa, and oth­er rel­a­tives made it all worth it for me. I was and con­tin­ue to be proud of what I did despite the mis­takes and imper­fec­tions. The best part about it all is that I know that if I ever want­ed to attempt it or some­thing sim­i­lar in the future, then it will take much less time sim­ply because I know more about what I’m doing (and also because I the right tools now). I have oth­er ideas in mind (like a top for the planter and an out­side squir­rel-proof toma­to plant cab­i­net) that hope­ful­ly I can bring to fruition one day.