Topic: Regarding tutorial "This land is our land": unable to continue building sentries.

Hello everybody. I am new to Widelands and I find it really nice (both phylosophically due to low pacing and aesthetically). Just to notice I installed it under GNU/Linux OpenSuse 11.3 (but this is just secondary to the main issue). I am trying the tutorials. Now on tutorial 3: This land is our land. I find something weird regarding building sentries. My tactics is to strictly follow the objectives and build the military resources (tower and sentries) after securing food resources (fisher hut, bakery,a well and a farm). I even included a fernery to provide crop for the bakery (this was not in the objectives but obviously necessary). Afterwards I go on building a lumberjack's hut to cut trees and discover new buildings as well as quarries to provide stones for buildings (This wasn't also in the objectives but found to be necessary too to disclose new buildings). So far I reached the mines on the east side of the map built some coal mines, and made the work. But here the problem comes: When I want to continue building sentries to discover buildings and the granite mines, that may be at the north east of the headquarters, I find I get short of stones: A message stating "No stones" appears with the bell ringing frequently. This is despite I collected all the stones in the quarries and set the Headquarters to all the possible settings, regarding resource storage: normal, keep resources, don't store resources, leave resources out of headquarters. Strange enough the balance shows that there are stones in the headquarters. As a result, this precludes me to continue the game looking for the granite mines, which I believe would solve the sentry building issue (and many others). I would appreciate your help very much. Thank you in advance for your reply. Regards. germ

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Hi germ, and welcome to the forum.

I am happy you managed to solve your main problem on your own.

I find I get short of stones: A message stating "No stones" appears with the bell ringing frequently. This is despite I collected all the stones in the quarries and set the Headquarters to all the possible settings, regarding resource storage: normal, keep resources, don't store resources, leave resources out of headquarters. Strange enough the balance shows that there are stones in the headquarters. As a result, this precludes me to continue the game looking for the granite mines, which I believe would solve the sentry building issue (and many others).

I am not sure about the bell ringing part, but the message is warning that the quarry ran out of stones, not your HQ. Which makes sense when you say you have collected all the stones in the quarry. Since this building is out of resources it will be unable to do is job in the future and you may as well burn it down to free up the space for another building and/or relocating the worker to somewhere he can actually do something. In the message window, if you either click on the button in the upper right corner, or press 'G' you should go to the building which sent the messages. Note that for instance mines will send a similar message when they run out of resources. This is mentioned in the tutorial available from the main menu, but this was added in build 16, and I don't know if openSUSE has updated Widelands yet.

Ships!

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germ, there are stones laying around also. You can build a quarry to harvest those.

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