idk what to do at this point, i cant activate the contraption for the bridge, i saved the ranger from the slime and i found the two in the abandoned bar, how do i progress
Hey i've uh.. kinda come across a huge bug. The game wont keep the saves i make. I just played for pretty much 40 minutes, got past all of the bandit cave and the digital world part, went back to the inn, saved like 5 times, exited thru the menu just in case, and closed the game. Then i opened it again just to be sure and it all went back to the save i made before leaving the inn before going down the well. I dont know how to fix this, please tell me if you know, if this persists i dont think i'll be able to keep playing since i dont want to have to beat the game all in one sitting, thank you.
Have you properly extracted / unzipped the game? If you haven't done so, your saves won't write.
Additionally, have you made sure to save your game to a location on your harddrive? Saving to cloudsync options like OneDrive or iCloud causes discrepancies that can make saves disappear.
If the problem isn't any of these things, then we'll need to see a screenshot of your save folder to determine more details.
OK, first thing's first, what OS does your computer use? Windows? MacOS? Linux? And to that end, you've made sure to download the right version of the game for your OS?
As far as we can tell there's no specific issue where you're losing your saves. If you moved the game folders around or maybe even left the game running for a long time... or maybe just something odd happened and your saves got corrupted.
What we'd recommend, after checking your OS, would be to download the game again, extract it, run it fresh and try saving your game somewhere near the start. Close it, open it again, check if your saves are there. If it works, then try dragging ALL the contents of the older game save folder (the one where they're having issues with) into the new download, and see if you can still make new saves.
Whats the recommended level for going into the well south to the inn the first time? It says i cant escape until i find an escape route and im scared. Im currently lvl 4
i usually like to lose on purpose during boss battles to see the defeat cutscene but i didnt do it against the large slime dragon at the purple cave because i was just tired and i saved after the battle. Is there any way to see the cutscene? Does the same enemy show up in the future? Or would i have to just restart the entire gameplay to see it?
Alright, does the gallery have all cutscenes or only enemy game over cutscenes? Does it also have other animations like ehat the enemies do to you once you're in grapple mode?
hullo, i spent all of today beating the game, had to start all over cuz i have a bad pc with little storage but holy hell i love the additions (i didn't get to the full Desert before i had to get rid of it for storage reasons last update) but i love the addition of the RPS like battles
one issue that i think could be fixed/changed is at the moment if you miss a scene, too bad for you, its not unlocked in the gallery, go start a new file to see it. i would hope that either next update or full release that that's changed where it pity gives you the scene unless you can still access it
You can unlock scenes you missed in the gallery at the end of the game by returning to prior saves. You don't need to start a whole new game and get everything in one playthrough.
Just make sure to save fairly often. We give you 99 slots for a reason!
Also, when it comes to basic enemy loss scenes, we actually DO give these to the player just for passing through the area. The more circumstantial CGs and Game Overs are things you have to find to unlock. If we gave all of these away without people discovering them... well, why bother making secrets?
Exit the Inn and travel one screen to the left. The tent is in this area. However, it disappears after you complete Desert Temple. You may need to return to a prior save.
However, I seem to have gotten myself stuck. I'm at the River Passage with Kuno. We're at the point of the quest where we're meant to run into a pulsing flower (according to the timeline) but.... It's just not anywhere. I don't know how I could have missed it. The timeline's been a great help but it sadly can't help me find that damn pulsing flower. I'm quite stuck.
Follow the River Passages to the East as far as you can go. When you reach an area with a broken bridge, head North. The flower you're looking for is in this area, near a large puddle of goop...
Sorry, but there's no way to automatically unlock the whole gallery. You will just have to play the game, use the hints, and discover the scenes yourself.
If your game is deleting your saves, please make sure to properly extract / unzip the game. You need to do this, or the saves will not remain.
I'm trying to get into the desert, but it's telling me there's a sandstorm, and I can't cross. I've talked to everyone and honestly can't figure out what I'm missing. Fun game btw. nvm I found the forest trail
i think i messed up. i was in a underrground bandit camp and the game crashed and deleted all my saves when i sat own in a chair? do i just start over?
The cauldron can be found from a secret-ish merchant in the outskirts of the jungle.
You'll need to return to the jungle, head down into the slug lair and follow a pathway through that leads back to the surface. From there, you should be able to find the merchant and the cauldron.
Does anyone know how to unlock this chest? The only thing I can think of is the chest in the cliffside cavern, but I tried everything and it doesn't seem to unlock it
The mimic chest in the cliffside cavern. I believe to unlock it in the gallery you need to fail the QTE but then defeat the red slimes afterwards, but I might be mistaken.
If that doesn't work, try interacting with the chest and failing the QTE when you have 50 or less Stamina.
I don’t remember exactly where the apple is, but it isn’t available until after you return from the Moonlight Abductor and have access to the gallery, it is not in the gallery.
Sorry, but we don't really want to spoil how to find all of the apples. But there are a few clues that we tell people:
Nine apples are outside, one apple is inside. All of the outside apples are on or near trees and plants. The inside apple is NOT in the 'underground maze'
Man this game is the best thing I've ever seen the great story the caracters the imagination . I dont think i could find something so good . Keep up the great work good luck with your college and have a great life
What does corruption level mean , why isint there an android version and why when i try finishing the 1 quest when i get the final fruit my game crashes?
Corruption level influences some minor dialogue changes, makes certain lewd scenes unavoidable, and adds variations on existing scenes.
No official Android version because the plugins and systems we use for various aspects of the game don't work with the emulators out there. An Android version of Grove would be missing features.
...not sure why your game is crashing during the fruit quest. Does an error message pop up? Are you playing the most recent version v0.308? If it keeps causing problems, you can chose to pick up just one of the fruits too.
No need to fully restart! The game has a 'permanent' gallery, so you can return to previous saves and get things you missed, and it'll appear in your end-game gallery save!
Hullo! I had a little question/suggestion to make. Is it possible to change the time of day? If not, could something like that be added? 'Cause right now, you can't interact with the Moonlight Abductor guy since the game is locked to daytime. Other than that, I really love this game! It's so charming and a big breath of fresh air from all the VNs!
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idk what to do at this point, i cant activate the contraption for the bridge, i saved the ranger from the slime and i found the two in the abandoned bar, how do i progress
If you are where I think you are... there is a 'slime cave' you must explore. Fully. There should be a boss at the end. That's all I can offer.
After fighting the boss what should I do?
I can't move forward after that ;-;
How do i teleport btw? I've seen the game say i cant teleport in a few places but i dont know how to do it anyways lol
In your menu, use your Docs. Case.
Hey i've uh.. kinda come across a huge bug.
The game wont keep the saves i make.
I just played for pretty much 40 minutes, got past all of the bandit cave and the digital world part, went back to the inn, saved like 5 times, exited thru the menu just in case, and closed the game. Then i opened it again just to be sure and it all went back to the save i made before leaving the inn before going down the well. I dont know how to fix this, please tell me if you know, if this persists i dont think i'll be able to keep playing since i dont want to have to beat the game all in one sitting, thank you.
First and foremost, are you running Grove v0.308?
Have you properly extracted / unzipped the game? If you haven't done so, your saves won't write.
Additionally, have you made sure to save your game to a location on your harddrive? Saving to cloudsync options like OneDrive or iCloud causes discrepancies that can make saves disappear.
If the problem isn't any of these things, then we'll need to see a screenshot of your save folder to determine more details.
Yes, the game is on v0.308
I dont think the unzipping is the problem, the game saved just fine until this point.
And im pretty sure the game is saved on my hard drive because i dont even know what a onedrive or icloud is
I just checked the save folder and it says it was last modified on november 4th, which was the day i got to the part that glitched the game
I cant exactly open the files because its on ''rpgsave'' format
OK, first thing's first, what OS does your computer use? Windows? MacOS? Linux?
And to that end, you've made sure to download the right version of the game for your OS?
As far as we can tell there's no specific issue where you're losing your saves. If you moved the game folders around or maybe even left the game running for a long time... or maybe just something odd happened and your saves got corrupted.
What we'd recommend, after checking your OS, would be to download the game again, extract it, run it fresh and try saving your game somewhere near the start. Close it, open it again, check if your saves are there.
If it works, then try dragging ALL the contents of the older game save folder (the one where they're having issues with) into the new download, and see if you can still make new saves.
ALRIGHT
PROBLEM SOLVED!!!
THANK YOU
(no like actually, if i couldnt fix the problem myself i'd probably reinstall the game and start all over again)
Whats the recommended level for going into the well south to the inn the first time? It says i cant escape until i find an escape route and im scared. Im currently lvl 4
Level 4-5 is appropriate. And as you may have discovered, there's an alternative to combat inside...
Hehe yeah you can just walk up behind them and instantly disintegrate them
Hmm, I wonder what the high corruption level does in this version and if there will be additional content
Does the gallery only show game over screens or does it also show enemy grapple mode animations or other kinds of cutscenes?
Hello
i usually like to lose on purpose during boss battles to see the defeat cutscene but i didnt do it against the large slime dragon at the purple cave because i was just tired and i saved after the battle. Is there any way to see the cutscene? Does the same enemy show up in the future? Or would i have to just restart the entire gameplay to see it?
you get access to the gallery after you beat the current end of the game, you'll be able to see it there
...Oh. I see.
Alright, does the gallery have all cutscenes or only enemy game over cutscenes? Does it also have other animations like ehat the enemies do to you once you're in grapple mode?
It has game overs, grapple scenes, and any 'extra' scenes that might exist too.
hullo, i spent all of today beating the game, had to start all over cuz i have a bad pc with little storage but holy hell i love the additions (i didn't get to the full Desert before i had to get rid of it for storage reasons last update) but i love the addition of the RPS like battles
one issue that i think could be fixed/changed is at the moment if you miss a scene, too bad for you, its not unlocked in the gallery, go start a new file to see it. i would hope that either next update or full release that that's changed where it pity gives you the scene unless you can still access it
You can unlock scenes you missed in the gallery at the end of the game by returning to prior saves. You don't need to start a whole new game and get everything in one playthrough.
Just make sure to save fairly often. We give you 99 slots for a reason!
Also, when it comes to basic enemy loss scenes, we actually DO give these to the player just for passing through the area. The more circumstantial CGs and Game Overs are things you have to find to unlock. If we gave all of these away without people discovering them... well, why bother making secrets?
Dear Dev
Hey, so it's me again . I would like to ask you mr.Dev when will be next update? since it's been a while after last update.
thank you in advance
Sorry, but we don't have any news on updates yet. It's a very busy year for us with work and studies.
game is fun but every time I end the game when I come back none of my saves are there.
Sounds likely you haven't extracted the game. You need to do that or your saves won't write.
我很好奇下一次更新什么时候更新，我很期待
Just thought i'd drop this info, try to play this game on an SSD, as the game lags badly when loading large areas on a HDD
May I ask corruption, where is the tent? This is the only one left.
Exit the Inn and travel one screen to the left. The tent is in this area. However, it disappears after you complete Desert Temple. You may need to return to a prior save.
This game has been so much fun thus far!
However, I seem to have gotten myself stuck. I'm at the River Passage with Kuno. We're at the point of the quest where we're meant to run into a pulsing flower (according to the timeline) but.... It's just not anywhere. I don't know how I could have missed it. The timeline's been a great help but it sadly can't help me find that damn pulsing flower. I'm quite stuck.
I'd very much appreciate some help!
Follow the River Passages to the East as far as you can go. When you reach an area with a broken bridge, head North. The flower you're looking for is in this area, near a large puddle of goop...
Let me know if you managed to get pass it, I'm having the same issue and when I try to go north frome the bridge I just... can't go any further...
I want to unlock the whole painting collection, but it has been cleared. What should I do?
Sorry, but there's no way to automatically unlock the whole gallery. You will just have to play the game, use the hints, and discover the scenes yourself.
If your game is deleting your saves, please make sure to properly extract / unzip the game. You need to do this, or the saves will not remain.
I'm trying to get into the desert, but it's telling me there's a sandstorm, and I can't cross. I've talked to everyone and honestly can't figure out what I'm missing. Fun game btw. nvm I found the forest trail
the game is so fun the only down was for the coin flips for 5 need good luck hehe
i think i messed up. i was in a underrground bandit camp and the game crashed and deleted all my saves when i sat own in a chair? do i just start over?
Did the game provide an error message? That's a very severe crash, and there's no reason why it should have deleted your saves...
Unless you didn't extract the game properly first. If you don't extract / unzip the game, your saves won't write properly.
You'll have to replay through for now. Save often, and if you experience this crash again please let us know and we'll look into it.
What to do with moon dust?
Can be used to create an item by taking it to the Wizard.
Yeah. He's talking about cauldron, but I can't seem to find it. Is it in the basement? I tried to get through but failed 😭.
The cauldron can be found from a secret-ish merchant in the outskirts of the jungle.
You'll need to return to the jungle, head down into the slug lair and follow a pathway through that leads back to the surface. From there, you should be able to find the merchant and the cauldron.
Does anyone know how to unlock this chest? The only thing I can think of is the chest in the cliffside cavern, but I tried everything and it doesn't seem to unlock it
The mimic chest in the cliffside cavern. I believe to unlock it in the gallery you need to fail the QTE but then defeat the red slimes afterwards, but I might be mistaken.
If that doesn't work, try interacting with the chest and failing the QTE when you have 50 or less Stamina.
Thank you. I appreciated your help
I think I need help. I have found nine of the ten apples, but I have lost the last one. So I think I need help
Until now, I found the ninth one, but the last one didn't have a clue.
I don’t remember exactly where the apple is, but it isn’t available until after you return from the Moonlight Abductor and have access to the gallery, it is not in the gallery.
So until I finish the main line of the game, can't I find the last one?
Sorry, but we don't really want to spoil how to find all of the apples. But there are a few clues that we tell people:
Nine apples are outside, one apple is inside. All of the outside apples are on or near trees and plants. The inside apple is NOT in the 'underground maze'
It's possible to change the movement key to: W, A, S, D instead of arrows?
If the game doesn't allow it, try this:
In Microsoft community or just google, search "How do I reassign hot keys for my keyboard?"
Unfortunately I'm not allowed to attach website link here.
Man this game is the best thing I've ever seen the great story the caracters the imagination . I dont think i could find something so good . Keep up the great work good luck with your college and have a great life
Thank you!
What does corruption level mean , why isint there an android version and why when i try finishing the 1 quest when i get the final fruit my game crashes?
Corruption level influences some minor dialogue changes, makes certain lewd scenes unavoidable, and adds variations on existing scenes.
No official Android version because the plugins and systems we use for various aspects of the game don't work with the emulators out there. An Android version of Grove would be missing features.
...not sure why your game is crashing during the fruit quest. Does an error message pop up? Are you playing the most recent version v0.308? If it keeps causing problems, you can chose to pick up just one of the fruits too.
How do I beat the Enthralled Explorerer in the orange side-quest
Try grappling with him, and using the Resist skill during certain openings. Pay attention to the words and visuals to figure out the best time.
Will this game have TFs in it?
how do i continue the story on explore the vast deserts?
Your destination is in the top-right. Look for some stairs.
Hey there... when I visit the memories in the main hall... there is a room missing. Is there a biome I forgot to visit or is it meant to be like that?
You didn't miss anything, don't worry. That's just redundancy for us.
Is it still long for this game to update? (bc this is my fav game)
Thanks for the kind words. We haven't got any estimated time for the next update. We'll make an announcement when we do.
This is a guide made by a fan, not by us. You should ask over there instead.
how can I get the latex suit for grove
You can either get captured by the bandits, reclaim your gear, and bring the 'scraps' material to the Blacksmith...
Or later in the game you can use the synthesis cauldron to make said scraps, using a few enemy drops.
ok, and also is there a way to go inside the flower house
No, not yet
ok...keep up the college good work and great job with the game design
Thank you~
how can I unlock all the memories in the gallery without restarting the game?
No need to fully restart! The game has a 'permanent' gallery, so you can return to previous saves and get things you missed, and it'll appear in your end-game gallery save!
ok i se
No update on my favorite game yet? :')
Sorry, no ETA at the moment. We're going through some busy IRL stuff now (University, Masters, etc.)
Hi sorry if this was asked before but, my saves get automaticly deleted when I try to play the next day is there anything I can do to prevent this?
Extract the game. Saves won't write if you don't extract the game before playing it.
Is there any progress in translating this game into Japanese?
v0.308
Sorry, no progress. We've had no update from the people who volunteered.
We aren't native Japanese speakers and we don't want to provide a shoddy machine-translation.
Oh, that's too bad.
If I had the skills, I would have loved to help.
Thanks for a great game! I am a Japanese speaker and I am enjoying it very much.
We greatly appreciate you playing!
when can we expect an extention to continue the story, just finished and want to know what the deal is with this "corruption" enemy?
Sorry, no ETA at the moment. We're going through some busy IRL stuff now (University, Masters, etc.)
Hullo! I had a little question/suggestion to make. Is it possible to change the time of day? If not, could something like that be added? 'Cause right now, you can't interact with the Moonlight Abductor guy since the game is locked to daytime. Other than that, I really love this game! It's so charming and a big breath of fresh air from all the VNs!
You can change the time of day! Take a HOT Coffee Bean to the Inn and interact with the coffee cup!
Oh, I completely forgot about that! Thank you for reminding me!
I believe you need to come back later. There'll be something you can 'activate' to get up there.
Ooh, thank you!