Rescue Survivor confusion

[Vinraith]

So I found a "Rescue Survivor" mission scroll, but apparently in order to use it I have to rescue another survivor? This seems... circular. How am I supposed to rescue a survivor (to get my mission scroll to work) if I can't use the scroll to get a mission to rescue a survivor? 

[IIE16 Yoshi]

Granted, I'm calling on my....*checks*....14 hours of time played, but I think it means that you need to have already found a survivor mission naturally, and that the survivor in question is the one that allows you to use the scroll. From then on, you can use the scrolls as much as you want.

[Vinraith]

OK, how does one go about "finding a survivor mission naturally?" I've played about 10 hours and certainly never seen a mission with a survivor as a reward, is that supposed to be happening? The "find survivor" scroll was a mission reward, so I thought that's how you found survivors, there are missions that directly give you a survivor instead of a scroll?

[IIE16 Yoshi]

OK, how does one go about "finding a survivor mission naturally?" I've played about 10 hours and certainly never seen a mission with a survivor as a reward, is that supposed to be happening? The "find survivor" scroll was a mission reward, so I thought that's how you found survivors, there are missions that directly give you a survivor instead of a scroll?

I've found one survivor, he comes as part of a Rescue mission. Have to wander thru a building to find him, then guide him back to the mission entrance/exit without him dying from monsters, all without use of the local map. And after finding the survivor, the local chunk is buried under monsternests. Like, I had 5 nests on the screen at once. It's mad. Not as mad as the anachronism mission, though.

[Vinraith]

Hmm, maybe I haven't been going into building enough, that would make sense. Since stash rooms mostly contain platforms and boxes, which can trivially be bought with shards, I've largely been neglecting them.

Anyway, thanks for the information, I'll just have to start searching more buildings!

[IIE16 Yoshi]

Hmm, maybe I haven't been going into building enough, that would make sense. Since stash rooms mostly contain platforms and boxes, which can trivially be bought with shards, I've largely been neglecting them.

Anyway, thanks for the information, I'll just have to start searching more buildings!

No....
What I mean, is the mission involves going into a building. Not that it can be found in one, though, it probably CAN be found in a building if you happen across secret mission rooms. Buildings, within buildings. The mission appears like normal, on the world map. Sorry for confusion.

[Vinraith]

Oh, ok then. I really don't understand, then, why I'm seeing missions with scrolls of "find survivor" as rewards, but no missions with survivors themselves as rewards.

[IIE16 Yoshi]

Oh, ok then. I really don't understand, then, why I'm seeing missions with scrolls of "find survivor" as rewards, but no missions with survivors themselves as rewards.

The scroll will generate a mission to rescue a survivor, methinks. Like how 'Seek Resources' will find you missions with certain materials.

[mrhanman]

You can find Survivor Rescue missions without a scroll.  They mostly appear in underground areas and large buildings. 

[Vinraith]

Oh, ok then. I really don't understand, then, why I'm seeing missions with scrolls of "find survivor" as rewards, but no missions with survivors themselves as rewards.

The scroll will generate a mission to rescue a survivor, methinks. Like how 'Seek Resources' will find you missions with certain materials.

Right, but it won't let me use the scroll because I don't have the right kind of person in my settlement, I need to rescue a survivor in order to be allowed to rescue a survivor. 

You can find Survivor Rescue missions without a scroll.  They mostly appear in underground areas and large buildings.

OK, so there are missions in underground areas and buildings that straight-up give you survivors, not scrolls, right? Are these listed as "secret"? I've found a few secret missions but none with survivors as rewards. Perhaps I've just been unlucky?

This does seem like the kind of thing that could stand to be clarified a bit in the help tips. Anyway, thanks for the clarification.

[IIE16 Yoshi]

Yeah, just play for long enough and you'll crash into a randomly generated mission to rescue a survivor, I've only found 1 survivor, but I think I have like 6 buildings, so at least two of them are going unused at the moment. I still don't really understand the town concept as a whole, I just build the buildings as soon as I get the scrolls for them, and beyond that, I just abuse the Opal Crystal for infinite enchants while I'm trying to improve the RNG qualities.

[Misery]

Yes, you need a specific profession of NPC in your settlement (Apothe....Apothe..... Apothesomething, I think it is) to use the Rescue Survivors scroll.    It's been an issue for some players due to the difficulty of GETTING that NPC without said scroll that you in fact need him to use.   

The recent patch SHOULD make it easier to find this guy now by looking for the missions in buildings.