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.
Thanks for that. I did manage to get it. It took awhile. The only other one I can't seem to get is the Griselda 16 one. Pretty sure I did the diplomacy correctly (more than once) but I never got any trophy for it. I just worry if I'm missing out on a benefit, like a manor upgrade, an interaction like with the demon one or party benefit like the holy headpat one.
Yeah, that one is definitely pretty tricky. It's possible to lock yourself out of it all the way up to and through the final negotiations. I may put in an alternate way to earn it in Act 2, but it's difficult to find a good place for it that makes sense.
It's nothing too big, though. It'll affect some dialogue during Act 2, and it might change how a future event happens (I don't have that fully planned out yet), but that's pretty much it.
Well skipped. Although I would have thought making a truce rather than being a thrall would have influenced it. Must have been something else.
Trying the mind maze and that is confusing. I did the everything you mentioned to an earlier questioner but that doesn't seem to activate the chest/trophy or even unlock the route. My inner completionist both loves and hates this.
And was there equipment I missed to chop down the shack tress and remove the fireplace? Or does that appear after the Lalita content so I shouldn't worry yet?
I try my best. I like talking about my work and I like feedback, so it feels like it's a good idea to interact when I can.
I don't blame you. Both are deliberately difficult. Griselda is supposed to be the best negotiator on the continent, and I wanted to try to give this feeling of barely scraping by when you get to the end of the segment. The mind maze is also supposed to be novel, and built to play you against yourself. Bad news about that is that it's hard to convey those things without making it hard on you as a player. Good news is that nothing else in the game is likely to be that difficult until very near the end.
Though if you're still stuck on the mind maze, the key is that 'choice cancel' mechanic. That won't help you get the trophy, though. The only hint I'll ever give for the trophy is that you need to keep going until you start getting extra dialogue. That'll let you know you're on the right path.
For the hidden shack - sorta but not really. You can't fully complete repairs there until after Lalita's segment, but the thing you need to chop down the trees is the Cumhaill Accord. You should be prompted to do that after you've gotten everything else done (which does require some equipment and Scrap Stone, but that's not for the trees) and the rest will happen automatically.
In my task list i have the quest The Color Green and the last part is to return to the mansion ive done that but it just does not register as ive finished the quest, but i do have the next part already drain the swamp. will the quest the color green not being completed ruin anything for me ?
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.
Forgot to mention that the Wait for viridius part of the quest never counted as finished either but i was able to keep on going anyways. glad its just a visual bug tho
I already answered you on the other game page, but tl;dr, you have to use the "choice cancel" mechanic. There's more info on that in the Hints & Tips section of the README.
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.
The event is built to trigger as soon as you want into the mansion. It starts with her saying "So... This is it, huh?" Phoebe will also bother you about sealing her Pact if you haven't already.
After the event finishes, a switch is turned on that allows you to get into the swamps.
Interesting indeed. I'm wondering if you aren't at a different part of the game.
I'm happy to help troubleshoot if you're stuck, though. What's the Main Story task you have in the Task List, what what's the most recent incomplete objective?
Hey so another problem. I'm at the green hair master's mansion and I'm at the part where he comes back from the bath to his romm. He speaks to Jenn and then they move right and left as she's bloking him but them the game frezes. I can't move nor open any menus
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.
Hey i've finished floor repairs ( I tried doig it on my own but bave up and asked ella to finhish it alone) and talked to phoebe and got all 3 girls in my party.
the questbook is telling me to go to south wood to chop trees but whenever I try to leave the manor I get a text from Elle saying that we should wait till all girls are in the party and can?t leave
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.
.rar is just a different type of archive. If you don't want to (or can't) use Winrar, you can also use 7zip to extract it. I'm sure there are other options as well, but those are the two I'm familiar with off the top of my head.
The Task List will always list your next general objective. If you're lost and not sure where to go, there are maps with location names in the Locations section of Estate Info, though you might need to scroll down past the text to see them. Past that, there's a few hints and tips in the README and on the dev blog.
If you're still stuck after looking through all of that, don't be afraid to ask me specific questions. I like feedback and want to be able to help if you've encountered a bug.
It's not officially supported, so unfortunately I can't really help much. You should be able to look up a guide and go from there, but I've seen some people that use Joiplay report errors that I can't fix due to the plugins that make the game work, so be aware of that as well.
I'm hoping to have an official mobile version at some point in the future, but getting it working is more complex than I currently have the knowledge for, so there's no ETA on that.
Can you manually add Maids to your party, or is it only story locked? I just got Ella but nobody else is in my party...
Having only one party member to use is kind of... annoying.
Oh, and that Lothario's Estate.
How do I get there exactly?
It just says walk the North Road, but the only section n9rth won't let me pass. Melissa just says the village is to the west and that it leads to your uncle's place... Been looking all over but I can't find where to go...
Ella should only be the only Maid in your party during the first part of floor repairs. After you complete the first part, you go to Phoebe and she and Melissa are added back into your party. If you got past floor repairs and still only have Ella, I have to ask if you've modified your save to add extra Scrap Wood to your inventory, as that's the only cause for that I've been able to pinpoint. Doing so breaks the sequence and skips the part where your other Maids are added back in.
If that's not the case, I'd appreciate additional information so I can try to figure out what happened that let you get past that sequence without needing to go to Phoebe and getting the other two back.
The issue with taking the road north to leave for Lothario's may be related, as the transfer there is checking for whether or not Phoebe is in your party. Unless you can get to the road but can't leave north from it - that's checking if Extermination is done (which you do from Melissa back at your Estate). Though Melissa shouldn't be giving you directions to Lothario if you haven't completed Extermination yet.
And to provide an alternate answer to your first question, I can add them back to your party manually using the dev build if I have your save, but there isn't a bugfix feature or anything like that to add Maids to your party.
Please mark the download with platform tags (I’m assuming just Windows for this one…), so it can be downloaded/updated using the Itch.io desktop app.
If it’s not clear what I mean, “Maids & Masters: Arrival” has the tags I’m talking about, the others don’t. I don’t know what that looks like from the developer’s side though.
Yup, I know what you're referring to. I didn't know what to do with it at the time and figured it out more recently, so things like that get added as I update things. Once the next update becomes available, I'll update this to include those as well.
And to answer the implied question, yes, this is (currently) Windows only.
You need to satisfy the two larger flames. There's two ways to get past them. One is with the trophy you can find there (though getting that is more difficult - if you start getting extra lines of dialogue, you're on the right track). The other, you need to use cancel to make a hidden choice (when choices are presented, hit X or Num0), but you need to take a step with each before the hidden choice works.
The only hint I'll give (aside from the extra dialogue being evidence of progress towards it, and letting you know that leaving the maze resets that progress) is that you have to do everything.
Assuming you mean the hedge maze on the right side of Griselda's mansion, there's not a lot to it. It opens up as a way to get behind the mansion after you go back to your guest house and sleep for the first time. If you're looking for the thing Bianca is telling you to do there, interact with the gargoyles - it's triggered by one of them.
I can promise I'm not trying to give you anything except the game. RPG Maker VX Ace (the engine this is made in) produces a self-extracting archive when the game is compressed. Running it is the same basic process as extracting a .rar or .zip file., you just can't preview the files before extracting.
Edit: This only applies to v0.9.2 and earlier. v0.10 onward is made in RPG Maker MZ and files are compressed into a .rar archive.
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How do I get trophy 13? I've been doing all the events during the freeze. Am I missing something?
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.
Thanks for that. I did manage to get it. It took awhile. The only other one I can't seem to get is the Griselda 16 one. Pretty sure I did the diplomacy correctly (more than once) but I never got any trophy for it. I just worry if I'm missing out on a benefit, like a manor upgrade, an interaction like with the demon one or party benefit like the holy headpat one.
Yeah, that one is definitely pretty tricky. It's possible to lock yourself out of it all the way up to and through the final negotiations. I may put in an alternate way to earn it in Act 2, but it's difficult to find a good place for it that makes sense.
It's nothing too big, though. It'll affect some dialogue during Act 2, and it might change how a future event happens (I don't have that fully planned out yet), but that's pretty much it.
Well skipped. Although I would have thought making a truce rather than being a thrall would have influenced it. Must have been something else.
Trying the mind maze and that is confusing. I did the everything you mentioned to an earlier questioner but that doesn't seem to activate the chest/trophy or even unlock the route. My inner completionist both loves and hates this.
And was there equipment I missed to chop down the shack tress and remove the fireplace? Or does that appear after the Lalita content so I shouldn't worry yet?
And thanks for being a good replier.
I try my best. I like talking about my work and I like feedback, so it feels like it's a good idea to interact when I can.
I don't blame you. Both are deliberately difficult. Griselda is supposed to be the best negotiator on the continent, and I wanted to try to give this feeling of barely scraping by when you get to the end of the segment. The mind maze is also supposed to be novel, and built to play you against yourself. Bad news about that is that it's hard to convey those things without making it hard on you as a player. Good news is that nothing else in the game is likely to be that difficult until very near the end.
Though if you're still stuck on the mind maze, the key is that 'choice cancel' mechanic. That won't help you get the trophy, though. The only hint I'll ever give for the trophy is that you need to keep going until you start getting extra dialogue. That'll let you know you're on the right path.
For the hidden shack - sorta but not really. You can't fully complete repairs there until after Lalita's segment, but the thing you need to chop down the trees is the Cumhaill Accord. You should be prompted to do that after you've gotten everything else done (which does require some equipment and Scrap Stone, but that's not for the trees) and the rest will happen automatically.
Lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO mithril hourglass you legend Thanks
In my task list i have the quest The Color Green and the last part is to return to the mansion ive done that but it just does not register as ive finished the quest, but i do have the next part already drain the swamp. will the quest the color green not being completed ruin anything for me ?
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.
Forgot to mention that the Wait for viridius part of the quest never counted as finished either but i was able to keep on going anyways. glad its just a visual bug tho
Well, I am just stuck at the mind maze inside the tower. I dont under how the locks work to open more paths. Just not figuring out the connection.
I already answered you on the other game page, but tl;dr, you have to use the "choice cancel" mechanic. There's more info on that in the Hints & Tips section of the README.
how to get to the swamps, i cant directly enter from north forest
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.
oh, I was having this same problem, I think. Let see if talking to Jenny works.
So I went to talk to Jenny. And She tells me the room is cozy if messy and she'll get back to work soon.
The event is built to trigger as soon as you want into the mansion. It starts with her saying "So... This is it, huh?" Phoebe will also bother you about sealing her Pact if you haven't already.
After the event finishes, a switch is turned on that allows you to get into the swamps.
Interesting. So I got impatience and got the 0.11 release and manage to go collect wood.
But I manage to skip the sequence where I seal a pact with Phoebe.
Interesting indeed. I'm wondering if you aren't at a different part of the game.
I'm happy to help troubleshoot if you're stuck, though. What's the Main Story task you have in the Task List, what what's the most recent incomplete objective?
Hey so another problem. I'm at the green hair master's mansion and I'm at the part where he comes back from the bath to his romm. He speaks to Jenn and then they move right and left as she's bloking him but them the game frezes. I can't move nor open any menus
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.
The patch didn't work but reloading a previous save solved my problem
Hey i've finished floor repairs ( I tried doig it on my own but bave up and asked ella to finhish it alone) and talked to phoebe and got all 3 girls in my party.
the questbook is telling me to go to south wood to chop trees but whenever I try to leave the manor I get a text from Elle saying that we should wait till all girls are in the party and can?t leave
Can you help?
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.
The patch worked.
Thank you. Off to playing the game now
hey um i can not download Mac version (maids&master v0.10.1MAC.rar it does not have the zip at the end instead it has rar
.rar is just a different type of archive. If you don't want to (or can't) use Winrar, you can also use 7zip to extract it. I'm sure there are other options as well, but those are the two I'm familiar with off the top of my head.
android?
does anyone have a save for the previous version please? I don't want to go through everything all over again on a new device
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.
Ah..i see, can I then get a save from version 10 please?
does we have any guide or walkthrough guy , cuz i'm stuck
The Task List will always list your next general objective. If you're lost and not sure where to go, there are maps with location names in the Locations section of Estate Info, though you might need to scroll down past the text to see them. Past that, there's a few hints and tips in the README and on the dev blog.
If you're still stuck after looking through all of that, don't be afraid to ask me specific questions. I like feedback and want to be able to help if you've encountered a bug.
How can i play the new version on joiplay?
It's not officially supported, so unfortunately I can't really help much. You should be able to look up a guide and go from there, but I've seen some people that use Joiplay report errors that I can't fix due to the plugins that make the game work, so be aware of that as well.
I'm hoping to have an official mobile version at some point in the future, but getting it working is more complex than I currently have the knowledge for, so there's no ETA on that.
This game is the tits!
Can you manually add Maids to your party, or is it only story locked? I just got Ella but nobody else is in my party...
Having only one party member to use is kind of... annoying.
Oh, and that Lothario's Estate.
How do I get there exactly?
It just says walk the North Road, but the only section n9rth won't let me pass. Melissa just says the village is to the west and that it leads to your uncle's place... Been looking all over but I can't find where to go...
Ella should only be the only Maid in your party during the first part of floor repairs. After you complete the first part, you go to Phoebe and she and Melissa are added back into your party. If you got past floor repairs and still only have Ella, I have to ask if you've modified your save to add extra Scrap Wood to your inventory, as that's the only cause for that I've been able to pinpoint. Doing so breaks the sequence and skips the part where your other Maids are added back in.
If that's not the case, I'd appreciate additional information so I can try to figure out what happened that let you get past that sequence without needing to go to Phoebe and getting the other two back.
The issue with taking the road north to leave for Lothario's may be related, as the transfer there is checking for whether or not Phoebe is in your party. Unless you can get to the road but can't leave north from it - that's checking if Extermination is done (which you do from Melissa back at your Estate). Though Melissa shouldn't be giving you directions to Lothario if you haven't completed Extermination yet.
And to provide an alternate answer to your first question, I can add them back to your party manually using the dev build if I have your save, but there isn't a bugfix feature or anything like that to add Maids to your party.
Please mark the download with platform tags (I’m assuming just Windows for this one…), so it can be downloaded/updated using the Itch.io desktop app.
If it’s not clear what I mean, “Maids & Masters: Arrival” has the tags I’m talking about, the others don’t. I don’t know what that looks like from the developer’s side though.
Yup, I know what you're referring to. I didn't know what to do with it at the time and figured it out more recently, so things like that get added as I update things. Once the next update becomes available, I'll update this to include those as well.
And to answer the implied question, yes, this is (currently) Windows only.
Fair ‘nuff. I hadn’t realised you couldn’t change it after-the-fact; that seems like an annoying limitation.
Yes.
There are currently two characters you can have kids with and more planned.
Deirlinn (in Cumhaill) and Vendra (in Ventíre).
There's more than one target.
How does the mind maze work?
You need to satisfy the two larger flames. There's two ways to get past them. One is with the trophy you can find there (though getting that is more difficult - if you start getting extra lines of dialogue, you're on the right track). The other, you need to use cancel to make a hidden choice (when choices are presented, hit X or Num0), but you need to take a step with each before the hidden choice works.
How do i get the trophy?
Now that would be telling. =P
The only hint I'll give (aside from the extra dialogue being evidence of progress towards it, and letting you know that leaving the maze resets that progress) is that you have to do everything.
Assuming you mean the hedge maze on the right side of Griselda's mansion, there's not a lot to it. It opens up as a way to get behind the mansion after you go back to your guest house and sleep for the first time. If you're looking for the thing Bianca is telling you to do there, interact with the gargoyles - it's triggered by one of them.
Thanks for the help i got lost
Hey so is this game safe? I don't see any comments and I don't want to download a virus.
I can promise I'm not trying to give you anything except the game.
RPG Maker VX Ace (the engine this is made in) produces a self-extracting archive when the game is compressed. Running it is the same basic process as extracting a .rar or .zip file., you just can't preview the files before extracting.
Edit: This only applies to v0.9.2 and earlier. v0.10 onward is made in RPG Maker MZ and files are compressed into a .rar archive.
ok thanks just wanted to check