I'm using the following walkthrough on GameBoomers. Kheops Studio's GameBoomers Walkthrough. I didn't use the walkthrough until the section "Restore Jep to full health".

Jep has drunk the two remedies and eaten the orange, pine nuts, and grapes. The next step in the walkthrough is to use the knife on the brown coconut to get stripped coconut and coconut fibers, use knife on stripped coconut to get coconut strips, feed the coconut strips to Jep, and restore Jep to full health. The problem is I have no brown coconut in my inventory, and I've scoured everywhere on the island, but there are no more coconuts. Also, I've found the maple tree, tried to use the knife on the gash in the maple tree, and tried to use pot to get maple syrup. But neither of these worked.

I've completed all the previous steps in the walkthrough on my own.

I'm thinking that maybe I've used up all the available coconuts on the island in earlier steps and now the game is stuck in a dead end because I don't have what's needed in my inventory and/or I've completed tasks out of order.

Any suggestion on what I should do next?

Thanks,
Craig

Hi Craig, I haven't played this game but have never heard of anyone here running out of coconuts.

I found this online; have you tried it? To obtain more coconuts in "Return to Mysterious Island" on PC, look for palm trees and search for coconuts at the tops of the trees, then use a rock (G key) to knock them down.

Just a thought .... if it would help.

The Universal Hint System has a walkthroughs for both the first and second of these games at :

https://www.uhs-hints.com/hints/search.php?search=mysterious+island

No matter what I try, the knife won't cut the maple tree so I can collect the maple syrup. I've went back to multiple save games including a saved game where I just opened up the pathway from the beach to the rest of the island.

Any ideas on why this is occurring? I have the knife and the empty bowls. Are there other tasks I need to complete to trigger to make the maple syrup available? Are there specific items that must be in my inventory?

Thanks,
CraigR

Does your knife have a flint on it that you need to remove? I'm just looking at this walkthrough: http://www.gameboomers.com/wtcheats/pcRr/ReturnMysteriousIsland.htm

Hi CraigR, I merged your Mysterious Island thread with your previous thread about Mysterious Island so that your questions about the game are all in one place.

Marian: Thanks for combining my posts. Regarding my earlier thread, I meant to come back and update that I was able to resolve the issue with healing Jep. I did notice I was also having the issue with the maple syrup at that time.


oldbroad: Thanks for responding. The problem was using the knife with the handle instead of the knife by itself. I'm glad you helped me resolve the issue, but this makes absolutely no sense at all to me. The knife blade is sharp regardless of whether it's attached to a handle or not. This is disappointing because so far, all the inventory puzzles have been logically consistent. Some of them took some thought to figure out, but they were logical. Differentiating between a knife by itself vs. a knife on a handle is the definition logical inconsistency, in my opinion. Does attaching the knife to a branch dull it while detaching it magically make it sharp again? Oh well, at least you helped get it solved for me. :-)

BTW, are there any more illogical situations like this later in the game. I hope not.

Thanks,
CraigR

P.S. I have a similar issue with Pendulo's Vertigo game. During the first relive/analyze, there's a hotspot that doesn't appear for me. I posted a separate thread for this.

Hi CraigR. I'm glad you were able to resolve the issue. From reading the walkthrough, it appears that was a "flint" attached to the knife to make a lighter, not a "handle", so you were dismantling a lighter?? Anyway, I have played the game but very long ago and don't remember much detail, so I can't answer about illogical situations. I hope you can enjoy the rest of the game!