Spoiler stupid COAS grapes wine lute and salt quest

So i was happyly following walkthrough for COAS quest http://sites.google.com/site/skodacoas/home/important-quests/killing-the-beggars-lost-ship-city-quest and unfortunatle when i got to "bring those greedy womens some stuff and maybe even save them later" i unfortunatly read... "One will ask you for 10 pieces of salt, the other one will ask you for 10 grapes, 3 whine bottles and one Lute (the Medieval guitar). If you plundered all the chests before and didn't store these goods you have a serious problem...".
I like to explore things thoroughly so ALL DAMNED CHEST were empty already so like mentioned i had "a serious problem" (other walkthrough i found after this mentioned to save those items BEFORE talking about this quest so i guess i was unlucky). After some sleep + go to shop + damn shopkeeper in the middle of the salty sea have NO SALT and only once he had ONE PIECE of grape i decided it's not the way to go...
After some forum browsing only solution seemed to be cheating... though no thorough explanation was provided (aside from debugwindow which i didn't try that have no real description on what it can do but maybe it's self explanationary when you turn it on...).

So what i did and decided to share with any other poor lost souls is:
open wherever_you_installed_your_game/Program/console.c which should look like this:

void ExecuteConsole()
{
ref pchar = GetMainCharacter();
if (!bSeaActive) ref lcn = &Locations[FindLocation(pchar.location)];
ref ch;
int i;
int limit;

Log_SetStringToLog("Executed Console");
}

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and add few lines at the end so you get something like this:

void ExecuteConsole()
{
ref pchar = GetMainCharacter();
if (!bSeaActive) ref lcn = &Locations[FindLocation(pchar.location)];
ref ch;
int i;
int limit;

Log_SetStringToLog("Executed Console");

TakenItems(Pchar, "potion5", 10); //grapes
TakenItems(Pchar, "potionwine", 3); //wine
TakenItems(Pchar, "mineral2", 1); //lute
TakenItems(Pchar, "mineral10", 10); //salt
Log_SetStringToLog("STUPID QUEST!!!");
}

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Save file and press F4 while in game (whole file editing process can be done without exiting the game) and... DONE! All items are placed safely in your inventory. Now just restore orginal file content and you're good to go. Just look out for your maximum load since you can't run when you exceede it (just get below maximum and change location and you can run again).
Hope it'll save next person couple of hours i spent trying to buy things at shop and later testing some game code or starting from a previous save

Did you check the chests in the back of the Fernando Diffindur? I usually forget about them but if my memory serves me right they have everything you need.

Yeah like i wrote i was really thorough with my "exploring" (chest plundering) of COAS and i cleared them right after i got all the keys (since going back and forth not knowing which one is right is a pain ). But the solution above saved me days of pointles "reseting" shop merchendise hoping for right items (actually i'm not sure you can even buy all of them) which is another feature to be remade in AoP series since random is NEVER good and shop should always have a stock of basic items (also i'm against all that level based item drops and their avaiblity in shops but that would require complete remake of ingame economy ).

Ok here's the thing . I dont have console.c . I know I need the mod to have it but is there any other way because I realy want to keep the game original I dont want to mod it and i dont want to reload my save before I went to CoAS because I found the lever and Morgans riper on my first dive and also I had found the Admirals key and I dont want to have to do it all over again . Also I dont have the Normal key I dont know why but in the chest where it should have been there was a complex key. Please if there is any other way to spawn in items in my inventory or even in the shop please tell me . I only need 8 bags of salt

Sasha2 said:

Please if there is any other way to spawn in items in my inventory or even in the shop please tell me . I only need 8 bags of salt

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I don't think there is - you can try using the Beta- test mode from this post http://piratesahoy.net/threads/rean...w-in-german-and-uk-version.13297/#post-320074

when you Press F11 then click in the installation button ( bottom right ) and put a tick beside Beta Test Mode

This puts all the quest Items in the item traders ( stall traders ) but I don't think it puts them in shops so it won't help you in the CoAS - as there are no Stall traders there that I can remember.

I don't think there is - you can try using the Beta- test mode from this post http://piratesahoy.net/threads/rean...w-in-german-and-uk-version.13297/#post-320074

when you Press F11 then click in the installation button ( bottom right ) and put a tick beside Beta Test Mode

This puts all the quest Items in the item traders ( stall traders ) but I don't think it puts them in shops so it won't help you in the CoAS - as there are no Stall traders there that I can remember.

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Thank you I managet to find the average/normal key and I got the salt from the cabin in Diffindor I will try to collect toe Cursed Pearls for ship of souls the way you prposed