The Golden Key
Rumours
They say a very, very old tortoise in a lace cap lives on a flat stone in an oasis pond. She's three hundred years old - well, maybe two hundred and ninety-nine. She sighs that she hasn't seen the sun in a hundred years...
Who: Tortilla
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
Old Tortilla has three troubles, and she'll tell you about them herself. Help with all three, in any order.
Hint 2
The bank of her pond is steep: Tortilla needs a ramp of four planks where a ribbon is tied to a peg. Planks are made from wood at the workbench.
Hint 3
Cactus fruit isn't shaken down, it's knocked down: strike a cactus that has fruit on it with a sword.
Hint 4
A crack in a shell is patched with clay. Clay is on the takyr, where the ground is cracked.
Hint 5
Once all three troubles are over, talk to Tortilla again.
Good to know
- You can only talk to Tortilla from her side of the bank, not across the pond.
- In a world with other players, only one of you helps Tortilla 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 a pond in an oasis: a very old tortoise in a lace cap sits on a flat stone in the water. Come up to her from her side of the bank and press E (on a phone, the glowing action button). Tortilla asks for a ramp of four planks by the ribbon on the peg, three cactus fruits and two lumps of clay.
From Cubby's diary
Met Tortilla the tortoise - very old, in a lace cap! Three troubles: the bank's too steep to reach the sun, she's peckish, and her cracked shell lets in a draught. She wants a ramp of four planks, three cactus fruits, two lumps of clay.
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Planks: drill through the trunk of any tree to get Wood. At the workbench one Wood makes four Planks, exactly as many as you need.
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With four planks, go to the ribbon on the peg by the pond and press E (the action button on a phone): you lay a ramp from the water all the way to the top. By day Tortilla climbs out along it to sun herself.
From Cubby's diary
Laid the planks from the water to the top - a ramp! Tortilla climbed it, settled in the sun and shut her eyes: "Ah, my old bones are warming!"
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Find a cactus with fruit on it and strike it with a sword (click, or the action button on a phone) until a Cactus Fruit falls; walk over it to pick it up. Get three, go up to Tortilla and press E (the action button on a phone) once for each fruit: you toss it and she catches it in the air.
From Cubby's diary
Tossed Tortilla cactus fruits; she snapped them out of the air and crunched. Three! "Full as in my youth! Two hundred years ago..."
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Drill two blocks of Clay out of the takyr, the flat cracked ground. Go up to Tortilla and press E (the action button on a phone): she swims to the bank and you patch the crack. Press it again for the second lump.
From Cubby's diary
Tortilla swam to the bank and I patched the crack in her shell with clay. She giggled - it tickled! No draught now, good as new.
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Once the ramp is down, the fruit eaten and the crack patched, press E by Tortilla again (the action button on a phone). She dives to the bottom and gives you the Golden Key: it opens a chest on its stand when you have no key of your own for it, just turn it in the lock. After that the key swims back to Tortilla to be cleaned for three real days (not game days); then fetch it at her pond by pressing E, which is also where it turns up if you throw it away.
From Cubby's diary
No more troubles! Tortilla dived to the very bottom and brought up a golden key - kept 300 years for a kind heart. It opens any chest! She only asks me to bring it back: she cleans it.
Reward
The golden key opens any chest on a stand that has no key of its own: just turn it in the lock. Then it swims back to Tortilla to be cleaned for three days - fetch it at her pond.