Postage and Handling

## Quest progression

***Postage and Handling*** is one of Leif's quests, triggered by reaching  Acquaintance level with him. Finishing the quest unlocks the Shipping Catalogue and Shipping Station in the General Store's stock, which are important items that allow players to buy items at their convenience, as well as buy many items that are unavailable otherwise.

## Questline

1. ***Postage and Handling***
2. *Mysterious Outsider*
3. *You've Been Away For HOW LONG?*

## Walkthrough

As with all quests, all conversation from this quest is automatically recorded in the quest Journal. If the world is a multiplayer one, then as soon as the host of the world completes this quest, the quest is considered complete for all players on that world.

The quest begins by talking to Leif. He will mention that things have been a bit blue and that it has been a long time since he was last able to contact his family back in the woodlands. He's been thinking for a while that he could open up a small post office in his shop, but needs help to do so. Leif will then give the player the blueprints to craft the required items.

You have to complete the tutorial in order for this friendship quest with Leif to pop up.

### Craft the items

It is not necessary to learn the blueprint in order to successfully craft the item. All craftable items can be crafted without learning the item's blueprint. If the blueprint is not yet known, crafting that item does not cause the blueprint to be remembered.

The reagents, or crafting components, are gathered from different sources. The flower petals can be plucked from flowers around the island, the Lumber must be  Sawed from Raw Wood cut from trees with an Axe, and the Nails and Metal Bands must be bought from the Building Store. The only station needed is an  Assembly Station.

 Post Counter |  Blue Petal (x10) Green Leaf (x4) Lumber (x4) Nails (x2)
 Post Office Postbox |  Blue Petal (x4) Lumber (x5) Metal Bands (x2) Red Petal (x5)

### Upgrade the store

After finishing all three items, go to the totem outside the store. Interact with the totem and uncheck the **area protection** to allow items to be placed, then place the items anywhere within the yellow bounding box of the store. The bounding box's visibility can be turned on from the totem interface so that the player can clearly see where the box is while working on the building.

A totem's requirements, its bounding area, and the totem's name can be checked at any time by interacting with the totem. Shops usually have more than one (base) tier. In order to check the requirements for upgrades, you will need to browse to the next page/tier by clicking the triangle arrows (forward/backwards) on the totem. Unmet requirements for each tier are listed in white text and state the amount of items missing for that requirement, while met requirements are listed in light blue text.

Moving items or blocks within the store around, or even completely remodeling the store, is allowed at any time, even without a remodeling quest like *Postage and Handling* active, so long as the required items are all placed by the end of the day.**[ ? ]** If required items from the base tier are missing, then the store will not be considered complete and will not function: Leif will move out of town after a while and store stock will no longer appear as long as the store is incomplete. Leif will move back to town and the store will resume operations after the base requirements are once again met. Additionally, the quest will not be completed until all requirements are met.

### Find the postal workers

Once the items are placed, talk to Leif: he should mention the need for postmen and suggest asking the Murmurs. Talk to the Murmurs until one of them talks about seeing postmen early in the morning. At this point, the journal entry for this quest will update.

Keep looking for File:Character Model Icon Robin.png Robin and File:Character Model Icon Wren.png Wren in town every morning. Both postal workers will leave town via the Airship Landing around approximately noon. Only one postal worker can arrive per day, and the postal worker that can arrive will alternate every other day. After the first postal worker arrives, there is a 50% chance per day that one of them will arrive, so some days, a postal worker may not arrive at all. If a maximum of four days in a row passes without one of them arriving, then one of them is guaranteed to arrive on the fifth day.

Robin will immediately agree to the work; it is only Wren that needs convincing. When talking to Wren, the pink-haired postwoman, the player must repeatedly initiate conversation with her several times in a row (on the same day) until she states the following:

**“***Really? You still won't leave me alone? Alright. If it will get you to leave me alone, I'll go talk to the guy. Happy?***”**
If Wren leaves town before stating the above dialogue, then the quest will not move forward and the player must wait for her to visit town again to repeat the process. She must state the above dialogue for the quest to move forward.

After both Robin and Wren agree to do the work, talk to Leif again to complete the quest and unlock the reward.

## Rewards

* Shipping Catalogue, Shipping Station, and Airship Anchor become available in the General Store's daily stock

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## References

1. ↑ Staxel Discord. April 5, 2019. DeamonHunter (developer): "They(*sic*) way postmen work is as follows: When you start out, a postman will appear next day no matter what. There must be a single day wait, then afterwards its 50% chance per day to get a postman. If it reaches 4 days, the next postman will appear. The same postman can't appear twice in a row."