Bandages for the Queen
Rumours
They say a queen in a tomb can't sleep: come close and you hear her shiver through the stone - "Brrr..." A stele with an ankh stands on the sand over her gateway.
Who: The Queen
Hints
Open them one at a time — from a gentle nudge to plain advice. "Good to know" is about what might trip you up.
Hint 1
The queen lives in the tomb closest to your house. A stele with an ankh stands on the sand over its gateway, and nearby you can hear someone shivering through the stone: "Brrr..."
Hint 2
The queen is cold: her bandages are worn out. She needs string, salt and flowers, so count how many of each she asks for.
Hint 3
String is twisted from grass at the workbench. You get Grass by cutting grass and bushes with a sword.
Hint 4
Salt is the white crust of a salt flat or the pink rock salt in caves. You dig it out with the drill like any other block.
Hint 5
Desert flowers are cut with a sword: by water, in oases, and here and there out in the sands. Better not to drill them.
Good to know
- You don't have to bring everything at once: each time, the queen takes what you have and tells you what's still missing.
- In a world with other players, only one of you helps the queen at a time: if another player is already on it, or someone already helped her today, come back tomorrow.
Full solution
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This is the whole story of the quest, to the very end.
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Find the queen's tomb: it's the one closest to your house, with a stele with an ankh over its gateway. Go down to the burial chamber, where the queen sits on her golden sarcophagus. Stand beside her and press E (on a phone, the glowing action button): she asks for six bits of string, three lumps of salt and five desert flowers.
From Cubby's diary
Found a mummy queen in a tomb! She sits on her golden coffin, shivering: her bandages are worn, and there's a draught. She wants six threads for new bandages, three bits of salt to keep them dry and five desert flowers for a garland.
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String: at the workbench put three Grass in a row to make one String. You need six, so that's eighteen grass. Cut grass and bushes with a sword (click, or the action button on a phone) to get Grass.
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Salt: find a salt flat (a white crust on the ground) or the pink veins of rock salt in caves, and dig out three blocks with the drill. Both Salt Flat and Rock Salt will do.
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Flowers: hold a sword and swing it at a flowering plant by water, in an oasis or out in the sands. You get a bunch of Desert Flowers, and the plant stays and flowers again the next day. You need five bunches.
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Go back to the queen and press E (the action button on a phone): she takes everything you've brought. Once she has it all (six string, three salt and five flowers), she spins like a top and winds herself in new bandages.
From Cubby's diary
Brought the queen everything! She spun like a top: old bandages off, new ones on. Then she stood swaying: "My head is spinning!" It hadn't spun in three thousand years.
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Then the queen speaks up by herself and gives you her Ankh, the key of life, plus the key to her own tomb's chest (or tells you it's on the altar in the storeroom). With the ankh in your rucksack, go up to the sarcophagus in any other tomb and knock with E (the action button on a phone): the sleeper inside wakes and hands over the key to its tomb's chest.
From Cubby's diary
The queen is white and warm now, in a garland! She gave me her ankh, the key of life. Knock with it on any coffin: the sleeper inside wakes and gives up its chest's key. Only knock politely!
Reward
With the ankh in the rucksack, go up to the coffin in any other tomb and knock (E): the sleeper inside wakes and hands over the key to its tomb's chest. Once in each tomb.