King's Quest 3

[thewalrus]

     I have quite a problem, I only have about 55 points and I can no longer save my games. It seems I must have used up all the slots. How do I delete some of the exsisting saved games or save over the others??? Anyone else have this dilema?

TheWalrus

Goo, goo, ga, joob!!!

[Mr. Mozzarella]

I think you can just delete the savegames in the game directory (or better copy them to another directory in case you want to use them again ...)

my problem:
Where the hell is that stupid wand??? I thought it was with manannan when he was sleeping (that's how it was in KQ5, wasn't it?) but it is not ... I have all ingredients for the understanding the animal language and some other spell and now I only need that wand, I guess ...

ThanksÃ, 

edit: nevermind, I got it ..
and now I have almost every spell except for the teleportation and am wondering when Manannan will wake up and be hungry ...Ã,  :
but if I do wake him up and wonder around a bit he sometimes appears and kills me, although I am not carrying anything red or even blue, seems like a dead end of some sort .. did anyone else experience this?

And how do I get him to be hungry again?
(When I go to town and stay too long he also kills me, but when I'm in the house he just won't wake up)

[jane]

Please please someone help with the brew spell -  where do I find the brazier to light?

As to the save games I had the same problem - the only way I could sort this was to save over exisiting saves - a bit of a confusion though as it didn't allow me to change name of saved game 

Mr. Mozzarella ............You have to be patient, I had to wait ages, maybe 5/10minutes for him to wake up or get hungry, are you still carrying the wand?  As you have to put that back otherwise he will kill you.

[Fribbi AGDI joker]

I am on the pirate ship. I already have my stuff back and a shovel and right now I don't know what I am suppose to do. In a old walkthrough I found for KQ3 EGA I am suppose to stay in cabin and wait until the pirates has reached the land. Well I have waited and waited and waited...and waited. Still nothing happens. So what am I suppose to do then to escape from the pirate ship?

[Mr. Mozzarella]

I am on the pirate ship. I already have my stuff back and a shovel and right now I don't know what I am suppose to do. In a old walkthrough I found for KQ3 EGA I am suppose to stay in cabin and wait until the pirates has reached the land. Well I have waited and waited and waited...and waited. Still nothing happens. So what am I suppose to do then to escape from the pirate ship?

Spoiler

yes, you have to wait ... and when someone shouts, you should go up ... but how you ultimately reach land, I haven't figured out yet .. just notice that Alexander obviously can swim better in KQ3 than in KQ6

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[Dreamless]

à can't find the little feather to complete one of the spells.
Can anyone tell me where to find this little feather

I continued the game without the spell with the little feather and are now standing before the locked gate of a big castle witch i cannnot open. Is this because of the missing spell?
If yes i have to restart the game after killing Mannanan

Thanks Ã, in advance.

**edit** Never mind. I finished the game. Without the little feather and the spell made of it. I suppose i have to get the little feather from the chickens. But i can't catch one

[Mr. Mozzarella]

à can't find the little feather to complete one of the spells.
Can anyone tell me where to find this little feather

I continued the game without the spell with the little feather and are now standing before the locked gate of a big castle witch i cannnot open. Is this because of the missing spell?
If yes i have to restart the game after killing Mannanan

Thanks Ã, in advance.

the feather is needed for the language spell, isn't it? I am not sure (didn't pplay the original) but it could be that you can survive without having it ... only you will then miss some nice conversations ... but you could have got it from an animal that has feathers (and there were some around your house )

@AGS user (and everybody else):
I now managed to leave the sea but then I have to face this kind of problem
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Spoiler

I also tried flying away, but after landing I have the swimming animation again

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and shortly after:


Can anybody of those who are already past the escaping from sea point tell me how to deal with this situation? For the moment of teleporting, I have the normal standing walkcycle, but then it changes to this stupid swimming thing ...
I managed to ignore the bugs in the game until now, but this is now really destroying the funÃ, 

[Dreamless]

Thanks Mr.Mozzarella for your reply. (I edited my post at the same time you post your reply i think).

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To leave the ship just jump of the ship and start swimming to shore. You must find the right route to reach land. Just try a few times. It worked for me.

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And yes. There are numerous bugs in the game. Sometimes when not beeing able to move using the map is helping.

[Mr. Mozzarella]

yes, I finally made it out of the sea (somehow my problems always solve themselves the minute after I post them)
for everyone else encountering the swimming problem I described above:

Spoiler

The stone teleports you RANDOMLY, so try until you "randomly" are teleported to the beach in the same screen that has the ship and shark in it. at least it worked for me - I had the walk cycle then again

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and against all my good intentions I just finished the game ... but I will play again, when the voice pack is out, of course. I also just got about 190 points, and I still don't know what to do with the shovel, the fly wings, the sleeping spell ... (and probably some other things as well ...) so I just have to try a bit, I guess

I was a bit disappointed the game was so short, but I guess that all these early games weren't much longer. Unfortunately I never played the originals, but AGDIs KQ1 was not very long either. The oldest original KQ I played was number 5 and this was already a bit longer ...

so, apart from the non-walkable-area bugs and some other things I enjoyed it (what about opening a thread just for funny screenshots from this game? after all, we won't see them anymore should a new version be released)
It's always a bit sad to see how fast you can play through a game that took months and years to be made ...

[jane]

Phew after battling through the bugs I finally finished it!   

[Fribbi AGDI joker]

I am on the pirate ship. I already have my stuff back and a shovel and right now I don't know what I am suppose to do. In a old walkthrough I found for KQ3 EGA I am suppose to stay in cabin and wait until the pirates has reached the land. Well I have waited and waited and waited...and waited. Still nothing happens. So what am I suppose to do then to escape from the pirate ship?

Spoiler

yes, you have to wait ... and when someone shouts, you should go up ... but how you ultimately reach land, I haven't figured out yet .. just notice that Alexander obviously can swim better in KQ3 than in KQ6

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How many times am I suppose to wait until I hear someone shouting?

20 minutes or 30 mintues?

The time is 1:38 when I last played the game.

[Mahaloth]

Where's the stone? I assume it's just on the ground on some screen. What screen is it on? It's for the teleport spell.

Hey, I also have the porridge laced with "cat spell". Mananan went on a journey for the second time. Any idea how long his second journey is? I'm tired of waiting for him to ask for food.

[Mr. Mozzarella]

How many times am I suppose to wait until I hear someone shouting?

20 minutes or 30 mintues?

The time is 1:38 when I last played the game.

well, I think I had to wait for about 10 or 15 minutes ... maybe you first have to complete other actions on the ship ... have you got your possessions back and did you look into every room? (I think there are two or three rooms that you really can't do anything in, but you can have a look...)
Edit: And I think you have to wait in the cargo.

Where's the stone? I assume it's just on the ground on some screen. What screen is it on? It's for the teleport spell.

Hey, I also have the porridge laced with "cat spell". Mananan went on a journey for the second time. Any idea how long his second journey is? I'm tired of waiting for him to ask for food.

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it is not on the ground (but I also thought that at first and touched every stone on every screen ...) someone will give it to you ... ever wondered what is inside the cave with the web?

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about the journey: I don't know whether there's a rule about how long Mannannan stays away, but in my case it took 20 or 30 minutes I think. It would make sense to have a rule here, because then you could look at your timer and try to be back before Manannan returns from a journey. The good thing is that you don't even have to wait in front of the computer, as you will hear when he returnsÃ, 
I also have no idea, how many times Manannan goes on a Journey. For me there were only two Journeys, and one sleep in between, but after a sleep he isn't hungry so I was waiting quite some time until he was hungry again ..

I also had something buggy with the second journey. He returned, asked for food, I went to the kitchen, he was sitting there. Then he disappeared from the table and reappeared at the left screen exit, again asking for food. He disappeared and didn't appear at the table. Only when I left the room and returned, he was sitting there again (luckily ...) So don't be surprised if that happens.

[ltcolonel97062]

I am just wondering what all the easter eggs are? And how do I find the scene with Mordack in it?

[jane]

Spoiler

Re waiting on the ship - not sure if this helps but nothing happened until I saw the cook, listened to rats, ran from sailor, interracted with lifeboat and tried to untie rope etc.  After I had explored all ship and got my possesions back then I only had to stand around in the hold for a couple of minutes before they shouted.   [\hide] 

Great game despite the bugs, but I did find waiting such long times frustrating

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[Radiant]

Please please someone help with the brew spell -  where do I find the brazier to light?

The brazier is right there in the lab. However, you must make the storm spell last - it requires an empty jar that (because of a bug) is only generated by another spell.

just notice that Alexander obviously can swim better in KQ3 than in KQ6

Undertow

I suppose i have to get the little feather from the chickens. But i can't catch one

Keep trying; it seems there's a random chance of succeeding for this.

Where's the stone? I assume it's just on the ground on some screen. What screen is it on? It's for the teleport spell.

The oracle (who lives behind the spiderweb) gives it to you. You don't need it to finish the game.

I also have no idea, how many times Manannan goes on a Journey. For me there were only two Journeys, and one sleep in between, but after a sleep he isn't hungry so I was waiting quite some time until he was hungry again ..

He should journey as many times as you need him to, but eventually you will run out of food and he'll get angry and do one of his punishments, and if you get too many of those, you die.

Oh and the shovel is for treasure digging, which near as I can tell is a pixel hunt (after you've been told where the treasure is, of course).

[Fribbi AGDI joker]

How many times am I suppose to wait until I hear someone shouting?

20 minutes or 30 mintues?

The time is 1:38 when I last played the game.

well, I think I had to wait for about 10 or 15 minutes ... maybe you first have to complete other actions on the ship ... have you got your possessions back and did you look into every room? (I think there are two or three rooms that you really can't do anything in, but you can have a look...)
Edit: And I think you have to wait in the cargo.

This is sure a big minus for this great game. I don't have time to wait to do something. They really had to torture us with those times bullshit.

Give it up guys it is 2006 so when you are going to fix this remove that time please. It is just a waste of time having that crap in the game.

[Fizzii]

Oh and the shovel is for treasure digging, which near as I can tell is a pixel hunt (after you've been told where the treasure is, of course).

I believe the treasure is still 5 paces east of the palm tree. At least, I found it without much trouble.

The funny part is that you can dig multiple times in the same spot and get a treasure chest each time

[Mr. Mozzarella]

just notice that Alexander obviously can swim better in KQ3 than in KQ6

Undertow

yeah, I forgot

Where's the stone? I assume it's just on the ground on some screen. What screen is it on? It's for the teleport spell.

The oracle (who lives behind the spiderweb) gives it to you. You don't need it to finish the game.

I did need it. How else am I going to escape from the shark? (aside from the fact that this was hard enough for me )

Oh and the shovel is for treasure digging, which near as I can tell is a pixel hunt (after you've been told where the treasure is, of course).

Well, no one told me about any treasure.

Also, I have not met any cook (although I was in the kitchen, but it was empty)

[sthomannch]

pirates come and go, they are very busy

Spoiler

sometimes you find a pirate or the captain or guybrush, sometimes you don't. To escape from the shark: Do not use the storm brew, you will need it later in the game! Jump over board and swim. Due to a bug, I was not able to fly. You could also try the teleportation spell, but I gave up after rubbing dozens of times. Treasure: listen to the mice (or rats)

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