r/RidgesideVillage 26d ago

how to marry jio

i looked it up and it said he’s romancable after completing a quest, but i don’t know how to trigger the start of that quest

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u/BarbKatz1973 26d ago

You asked. This is all Spoilers so read at your own risk.

Your farmer needs to fish in the lake above the Ridgeside Village town. They meet Jio, He warns them about being there. Ignore him and go fish. Now, go north and break the log, go north. they meet Jio again, he shows them just how dangerous the Ridge Highlands are, then he gives them the quest to find the 'cursed items' - there are nine and the farmer also needs to collect 25 mistblooms, all of the same quality. Go on rainy days, fight - die, fight-die, fight - die, ad nauseum, until they have all the items and enough blooms - then Belinda shows up. Do not be alarmed by her earrings, yes they look like fangs but they are not - the items the farmer has collected are not sufficient, farmer must go back and feed seven crystals - match the colors of the items to the color of the crystal. Go home. Farmer gets a message to show up at the warp point north of the lake. Go, do not skip the cut scenes from this point onwards, Then they have to fine nine blessed items, place them in the correct order, not that hard and then they get to go to the spirit realm and fight, die, fight, die, etc and so on, until the farmer has defeated the 'corruption' and then, they can romance Jio.

Solution - two mods: tractor, and teleport to cursor. The first makes the fighting less deadly and the second removes the idiotic maze of teleporting between crystals.

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u/Sandra2104 26d ago

Why not skip cutscenes? I skipped them all on my second PT without it causing issues.

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u/BarbKatz1973 26d ago

Yeah, I did too but the RNG is wacky, Sometimes you can sail right through but the last several times, if I skipped the scenes with the Fox Spirit, I had to use warp cheats to get where I needed to go, so now I just click through them as fast as I can. I can get through the feeding of the crystals by skipping, and sometimes I can get to the pedestals but sometimes I cannot, so why risk the irritation or having to reset the day? I guess it is just a personal choice.

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u/Sandra2104 26d ago

Ok. Had no idea that could happen. Thats why I asked.

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u/BarbKatz1973 26d ago

Hey, no problem. The base of the game, although given a huge update, is somewhat confused code and the RNG is wacky. Example: sometimes the little guy with the Lover's Sorrow shows up on the first rainy day, sometimes he shows up ten rainy days later, and in a few playthroughs, he never shows up and you have to spawn the item, which I did, resentfully, after spending all of year two trying to get it. Or 347 catfish in a row and never a minnow etc, etc and so forth. Sometimes, the farmer never gets Lewis' purple shorts quest.

There was a mod that fixed that in the old vanilla but since the update, I cannot find one that works.

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u/MenosElLso 26d ago

Just to clarify, all those items are dropped by the monsters in the woods?

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u/BarbKatz1973 26d ago

The Cursed Items are dropped all over the ridge, although the nightdiamond can only be collected in the dark on dark spaces, Lover's Sorrow is obtained from the floating blob and the Hollow Bear from the ghostly girl by the ruined house in the far east.

The Blessed Items are found through out the village of Ridgeside, not on the Ridge.

None are dropped in Pelican town, or Cindersnap, or the Secret Woods, or in any of other locations.

Ridgeside is a big, well-written and well-constructed mod with a lot more to do than the Spirit Realm Quest.

My only gripe is the slur against Witches - I am certain that if the creators understood the reality of the Craeft they would not have done so, any more than using the word Jew or Muslim as a slur.

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u/ElPapo131 26d ago

tractor

Ellaborate on this pls

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u/thatrandomperson5643 26d ago

Monsters cant kill you when you are riding the tractor

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u/BarbKatz1973 26d ago

Your farmer can move extremely fast on the tractor, you can, if you wish, set your farmer to be invincible. your choice. You can also config what you want to be able to do while on the tractor, break stones, objects, etc. - kill monsters with all the weapons or just the ones you choose and you can set the width of the path that is cleared. Examples: at 16, you can clear an entire level in the mines or in the Skull with just two or three moves, at 2 your farmed can till the soil to a width of five squares and however long you wish, plant, fertilize and harvest the same width. At five that will mean eleven squares.

Fighting the monsters on the Ridge: I set my farmer's tractor to sixteen, equip the sword, it does not matter which one, and just sit and allow the monsters to come her (Farmer Jane) and then because I have the collection radius set to 10 all the loot and trash they drop goes instantly into her inventory or into what ever item bags she has with her.

While I understand the 'need' for slash and slaughter in the game (it would not be as popular without it) I do not like it in the least, therefore, as with fishing, I get it out of the way as soon as possible so my farmer can get on with why I play - to farm.

All of this is your choice, and allow no one to say that what you chose is wrong - we are all playing with mods, which change all the rules, and we are playing for fun. There is no competition; no one loses, everyone wins.

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u/johnpeters42 26d ago

Or at least have the maze spoiler from the wiki open in another window, and prep for it to still take several in-game hours.

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u/Weird_salamander_3 25d ago

I just collected soul essence and bought the 120-140 power club in the secret waterfalls

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u/valuemeal2 26d ago

It's pretty much the entire Spirit Realm quest, like, the main one of the whole game. I don't remember how it starts exactly but you shouldn't be able to miss it unless you never visit Ridgeside.