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Why Can’t I Get or Unlock This?

Choose what you’re trying to get, craft or unlock. We’ll show you the known requirements and what may still be missing.

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Why can’t I get the Golden Rod?

Available after an unlock (random) in the release.

Do this first

Start with this one

The nearest step on the route is “Unlock the Craftsman's Bench”.

Do this first

Either of these routes works.

Get it the recorded way

This comes from a random source, so meeting the requirements does not guarantee you get it on any one attempt.

Why?

Unlock the Craftsman's Bench
The recipe is already known; the Craftsman's Bench is what produces it.
Get it the recorded way
Unlock the Tinker's Desk
The recipe is already known; the Tinker's Desk is what produces it.
Get it the recorded way
Unlock the Workbench
The recipe is already known; the Workbench is what produces it.
Get it the recorded way

Part of what this needs is recorded in a form we cannot turn into something you can check, so the list above is the part we can confirm.

Other requirements

You do not need to work out which of these something is first — search for it and we will take it from there.

Search for whatever you are trying to get, and we show every requirement the release records for that thing.
Tell us which of those you have already done, and the answer narrows to the one thing still in the way.
Where a requirement is not recorded clearly enough to check, we say so instead of guessing.

The Progression Assistant starts from where you are and tells you what to do next. This page starts from the thing you want and works backwards.