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What's up with the bottlecaps?

By IrisNebula

TL;DR: Nothing. Read inside for details. -- I made this guide to save you your time looking around for what you missed, because the first thing I looked at were the guides and I didn't find anything, then I searched more and found lots of people wondering about them in the discussions. I searched some more, found the answer and came back.

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Category: Achievements, Characters, Story or Lore

Languages: English

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15 Sep, 2024 @ 1:35pm

15 Sep, 2024 @ 1:40pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Intro

The story of the bottlecaps

Extras

Comments

Intro

So, you completed all side-quests, finished the game, partied hard, and was still left with 5 bottlecaps in your backpack that tell you they are to be delivered to ???, along with 4 undeliverable gems.

Well, you didn't miss anything! The bottlecaps were apparently used in the demo and left over in the final game but never got assigned to a quest. That explains why they exist but don't tell you what to do with them.

The story of the bottlecaps

In the demo the setting is another map, a small clearing in the forest, and the ending of the demo sends you on a quest to Grumblewood Grove to deliver a letter to Greg, so it seems the writing had the demo designed more as a prologue. However, I guess because of time/money constraints the inhabitants in the clearing are just alternative versions of characters from the final game, not independent creatures living someplace else.

So, there the bottlecaps were part of a love quest from alt Irene to alt Donna, Irene asked you to collect them and bring them back, then sent you to deliver them to Donna as a gift. There were actually 6 bottlecaps in the demo, but one was a Discord quest for early players and I don't think is part of the final game. The rest remained in, but since no quest was written for them in the end, they are only part of the collect 40 trinkets achievement.

I wish that, just like the gems, they had at least changed their status to undeliverable since they didn't use them, in order not to confuse us, it was low-hanging fruit as far as fixes go...

Anyway, now you can stop wondering and put the game behind you!

Extras

Game spoiler not related to bottlecaps, but also something I saw people wondering about: Yes, you did meet worm-boss, he left the well to some place else. That's why the "well voice" doesn't answer you anymore, he's not there. He climbed to the top of the bamboo forest. It's Jim.

I finished the game having completed everything I could find and Janet told me I did 55 deliveries. If you have less, you probably have something more to do. If you have more, then I missed something myself. Hopefully not!

4 Comments

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IrisNebula [author] 11 Nov @ 6:03pm

Glad you found it useful!

6lancmange 11 Nov @ 12:57pm

Oh, I'm not sure about the spoiler, I think I talked to someone who is supposed to be the secret character before having another talk with the "secret" character. Maybe it's just that there's no more conversation, like for example some of the bunnies just have nothing to say at the end!

And thank you so much for the guide, I opened up Steam overlay before finishing the game just to see if there's an achievement with a hint that could say what I should do, and your guide was at the top. I did though find another bottlecap almost at the end, I didn't see it at first. So this confirms it was the last one!

I guess I just can't have two spoilers in one comment so it's a little enigmatic.

IrisNebula [author] 10 Sep @ 1:53pm

Yay! Thanks for confirming :)

Hollow Kane 10 Sep @ 1:59am

Thanks, i was a bit stressed about these bottlecaps, but now it's all clear.

Also ended up with 55 deliveries in the end, i don't think we've missed anything.

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