The game is generally good at making sure you have access to everything you need at any stage to progress. It will always place a patch of stone and clay deposits near your spawn and run other checks to ensure that everything will work out.

Except for weeds.

Sometimes - albeit rarely - it is possible to generate a map in which you become isolated from weeds by deep water. An example of this would be seed 412788275 (default spawn point). You spawn on the right half of the map, and there are absolutely no weeds to be found anywhere. There are plenty of weed patches on the left side, however it is inaccessible because of the deep water.


^ No weeds can be found on this whole island.
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In Enlightenment mode it is virtually impossible to get stuck. You just have to make it over to the other island and find weeds there.

You have three methods of crossing deep water:

1. Buckets
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Fill the buckets with soil, then dump it onto the shallow water tiles.
You need to put soil 6 times per tile.
You can use this to create a land bridge.
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2. Dugout Canoe
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This is a vehicle.
Use it to traverse water.
Bring a spade with you to dig out some weeds.
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3. Bridge structure
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In some cases it is possible to construct bridges to connect islands.
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As the research works a bit differently in Settlement mode, all these methods require at least stage 4. But you must have weed production to complete stage 3.

Which means none of these methods actually work in Settlement mode.
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The fix is to manually give ourselves a patch of weeds by editing the save file.

1. First, make sure your hands and backpack are empty. Go to your forestry and pick up 1 log:
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2. Save the game. I called the save file "weeds fix".
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3. Open the "Load game" menu. Don't load anything, just click this:
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4. Keep the game running. Now find your save file folder:
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5. Open World.txt and search for this string (including quotation marks):
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6. Directly after this bit you will find the following keywords: UID, TX, TY, Rotation, Carry, CarryObjects, and then finally "ID":"Log".
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7. Carefully replace Log with WeedDug
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8. Save the file, then go back to the game and load this modified save.
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9. You should now have some loose weeds in your hands!
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10. Plant them in soil, wait a bit, and dig them out. Now you have 2! You know what to do.
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