Maids & Masters v0.17

The most likely answer is that there's a room somewhere that you haven't gotten everything from, or there's a type of item (like broken barrels) that you're missing.

I've done that quest probably over a dozen times now, and I tend to miss either the closet next to the coat check, the larder beneath the kitchen, or the rooms in the west wing of the second floor.

In what way? To throw out some guesses/examples, you can't change the MC's name for story reasons, but there is a costume system that lets you change his appearance after you've earned certain trophies.

Phoebe and Vicky can use Butler gear. For reference, if you don't feel like going through the equipment screen one by one to find out who can equip what, their Maid entries in Estate Info will tell you.

Not telling you exactly what to do at every single step is on purpose. Exploration is a part of the game, and can lead to things that aren't going to be mentioned in the Task List, like trophies.

For the trophy at Fekhacht, you have to come back later (specifically, after the scene with Willow back at your Estate).

I don't have nearly enough time to put together something like a wiki, but I'm happy to answer questions however you find me. Here, Twitter, BlueSky, Patreon, Subscribestar, wherever. I also have a private discord that Patrons and Subscribers get access to, which is the fastest way to get ahold of me.

The door for the tower itself?

There's an illusion on it, similar to the trees concealing the underground path. You have to walk through the door on the inside in order to get it to appear on the outside.

(though tbh I'm just now realizing that's never pointed out in-game - added an event for that for v0.16)

You don't. It's there for future content that hasn't been implemented yet.

Yeah, I'm aware. I've been trying to work with people to find a handful of solutions that should work for the majority of people that don't require a bunch of hoop-jumping, but I haven't had much in the way of confirmations one way or the other.

Once I've gotten a decent number of confirmations that a certain method works, I'll start including it in the README and online in places like my dev blog so Mac users can hopefully get something working for themselves.
Trouble with that being not a lot of Mac users download games like mine in the first place, so it's slow going, even working with other devs.

All three of those puzzles work the same way. Some panels you just need to step on twice.

There's nothing extra like needing to step on them in a specific direction or anything.

The short answer is to talk to Bianca in the dungeon. She'll tell you what to do.

The long answer depends on which step you're on. If Bianca isn't there yet, you have to continue the story until she asks you to meet you there. Assuming you're stuck on the first step, make sure the challenge is active when you talk to her.

It's kinda story locked, but there are still things you can do with it.

If you find the headstone, it's similar to the two ruined Estates in the swamps in that you have the option to repair or destroy the headstone. The consequences for what you do (if anything) become relevant during the second Haunt, and some other things become available after completing the second Haunt. The state of it will also be relevant in Act 3.

It sounds like you've encountered a remnant of spaghetti code. You're not locked out of it by progressing through the story.

There's a switch that tells the game whether you've found the place and know what it is that needs to be flipped. Once it's flipped, you'll get a bit of dialogue every time you enter the map that'll tell you that you can work on it and roughly what to do. If you're not getting that dialogue and you've already been there, you might've just found the place before you had Phoebe around to tell you what it is. If that's the case, go inside the shack, check the chest (even if it's empty), then leave the grove and come back. That'll flip that switch and let you go about fixing the place up.
If you're getting dialogue that says to come back alone when you can't invite someone yet, that means I need to update the dialogue.

I do, but it's a Patreon benefit. I typically don't invite people outside of my Patrons to join it.

I don't mind being bothered, though. I typically only check most things once or twice per day, but I like talking about my work, even if it's just finding and fixing bugs.

Well, let's try to figure it out. For anyone who doesn't want to see spoilers or how the sausage is made (so to speak), look away.

To get it out of the way, sharing your save will give me a lot of insight into what's happening, if you don't mind doing so (just keep in mind I need both the numbered save and the global.rmmzsave, or I won't be able to load the save). If you don't want to share it publicly, feel free to find me on Twitter (or X or whatever it is now) and DM it to me there. Also, I apologize if I repeat anything I've told you before, I just want to be thorough.
For the mechanical bits, it is possible to get her pregnant before the game phase changes, but you might have to try a few times to get it to happen. Deirlinn has roughly a 28% chance of becoming pregnant every time you try. If you were successful, she'll have an extra line of dialogue every time you repeat the scene while the screen is black. When she gets pregnant, the game checks the current game phase and adds 18 to it. If you have Trophy 0 from Arrival and make Punchinella active, there's an instance of her between Phoebe's house and the elder's house. She'll tell you what the current game phase is, as well as confirm whether Deirlinn is pregnant and what game phase she'll give birth in.
Once the relevant game phase comes up or has passed, the birth event will trigger as soon as you enter the final version of your Estate's yard. That means if you see weeds and your garden and pool look like crap, it will never trigger. Same with if the Freeze is active. If your pool and garden are fixed up and there's no snow on the ground, the event can trigger. So if you did get Deirlinn pregnant in game phase 0, the earliest the event can trigger is game phase 18. If you left Cumhaill after the funeral and returned, the game phase may have been 1 or 2, meaning she'd give birth on (or after) game phase 19 or 20 respectively.  For this particular example, she can't give birth on game phase 19, because the Freeze doesn't end until game phase 20.
There are a few things that could be happening that's causing you to miss the event before the second Freeze. If memory serves, it's possible to go from game phase 18 into the Freeze without going outside, and if you do that, Deirlinn's stuck waiting for the Freeze to end. The second Freeze ends on game phase 20, so if you did end up not getting her pregnant until game phase 1 or 2, that would explain why it isn't triggering. If you want to confirm that, you could try continuing on and seeing if the birth event triggers after you've completed the Freeze.
As an extra bit of information, if you're worried about Kala's bonus Freeze objective (since that requires Deirlinn being in your nursery), you don't need to worry about that locking you out of getting the second Freeze trophy. The trophy doesn't require Quinn or Teely, so if you've completed one (or both) of their extra objectives along with everyone else's, you'll still get the trophy.

I hope this helps.

Every Hold that needs one has a Writ somewhere.

There might be two different Holds you're referring to, and both are locked behind progression. One opens up after Viridius (though you can open it early if you do a certain thing) and the other has a Writ that's given to you as part of the interlude between Act 1 and Act 2.

Thanks for the report! Good news: it's already been fixed in v0.12.

Bad news: You'll have to use the Homing Stone to get out of there.

18 game phases (or supply cycles, to use the in-game term) after they get pregnant. The earliest it's possible for Deirlinn to give birth is immediately before the second Freeze. There's also a few points where the game phase can jump forward earlier than you think it would at the start of the game, so it's possible it was 1 or 2, meaning she wouldn't give birth until after the second Freeze since the event that triggers the birth event only happens from the final non-Freeze version of your Estate yard.

Most likely. The trophy is for completing a certain amount of optional extra events. The extra events can't be completed until after their original event is completed. If you've done a Maid's extra event, it'll have an "Extra Event Completed" gold star when you check their Character Task in the Completed page of the Task List. You don't need to do all of these events, since two Maids are optional and you may not have them, but they do still have their own events which count towards the trophy and at least one event for another Maid involves one of them, so you do need to get at least one or the other.

Weird. It should've completed as part of the same event that gave you the next quest. Sorry for the trouble.

Thankfully no, it'll only be a visual bug.

I'm not sure how it happened, since The Color Green should only be active if you never started Green With Rage (the aggressive path). The only time it wouldn't be active but still in your quest log is if you failed the first step and were forced to switch paths, but then it'd be failed, not active. I'll have to dig into that more to try to figure out what happened.

There's a step missing from the Task List (that's been added in v0.11); you just need to return to your mansion to trigger a short event with Jenny, and then you can go through that entrance to the swamps in the north forest.

That one I'm unfortunately not totally sure how to fix. It's been reported before, and it's most likely related to movement misbehaving, but if that were the case, you should still be able to open the menu. I've played through that section multiple times myself and never encountered it, and calculating the movement doesn't show any incorrect collisions with the walls. It's a bug I thought I squashed multiple times.

This might break the movement, so for anyone else reading this, don't apply the patch unless you encounter this specific issue, but this patch should fix it if movement is what's causing the freeze. Same as the last one, extract into the game folder and overwrite.

I can help! Sorry for the trouble.

Unfortunately that's a rather complex bug. It's fixed for v0.11, but it can be tricky to fix for a save that's already encountered it. If you're lucky, you can apply this patch (extract it into the game folder, overwrite files) and it should work. If that doesn't work, send your save to me (I'll need both the numbered save and your global.rmmzsave files) and I can fix it manually for you.

Saves from v0.9.2 and earlier won't work at all, sadly. They're from a different version of the engine.

Saves from v0.10 and newer should carry forward fine, though.