Discover everything you need to know about obtaining the Orb of Sorrow from Hardware Store in Angst: A Tale of Survival.
Acquiring the Orb of Sorrow in Angst: A Tale of Survival is challenging, as you need to make your way to the whole new area. The Hardware Store is far away from the main cabin, and navigating there is much difficult. Make sure you’ve Iron Knife in your backpack before entering the Hardware Store. Carrying enough food supply and other useful items.
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Locate the Norwest Bridge

To get to the Hardware Store’s location, you must first find and repair the Northwest bridge. Make your way out of the cabin and go to the backside of it. Keep moving in a straight direction, but there’s nothing to find. Make sure to collect the useful items like red berries and mushrooms on your way. Return to the cabin and open your quest menu. Click on ‘The Orb of Sorrow’ quest to find out your objectives.
Your objective is to reach the Hardware Store in the town in the North, find the basement, obtain the Orb of Sorrow, and return to the cabin. Make your way north from the Frozen Lake and locate the old Hardware Shop. Go to the marked waypoint on your map.
Repair the Northwest Bridge

Interact with the bridge to find out the required materials to repair it. Repairing the Northwest bridge requires 3xRope, 4xStone, 6xWood, and 4xStick. Woods and Sticks can be obtained by cutting down the tree with an Axe. You can acquire the rocks by mining the nodes with the Stone Pickaxe.
2x Grass is required to craft a Rope at the crafting menu. Once you get the required materials in your backpack, interact with the Northwest Bridge. Allocate the materials to repair the Bridge to move to the other side.
Locate the Hardware Store

The Orb of Sorrow can only be obtained from the Hardware Store in this ruin. However, there’s no electricity in the store. So, you need to use the Fuse to repair the Fuse Box. You will encounter the wolf here as you move forward. Equip the Iron Knife and start hitting this enemy to eliminate it. Block its attacks by pressing the RMB to avoid taking the damage. Open your map to find out the exact location of the hardware Store.

Continue moving to your destination using the marked waypoint till you find the small boats. Be aware of the wolf in front of you. Hold your weapon before moving in and start attacking the wolf till it dies. Killing the wolf allows you to obtain the Raw Wolf Meat and Wolf Fur.
The weather here is cold, and your warmth level gets low very quickly. You need to warm up near a fire to gain warmth. Interact with the car’s truck to acquire the Metal Part and get inside the Hardware Store.
Obtain the Orb of Sorrow

Approach the counter in front of you to collect the Notes. Move to the left side of the room to obtain the Snow Hat. Wearing this hat allows the food to replenish more hunger (+30%). Take the stairs on your right to go down.

Interact with the Fuse Box after getting down and use the Fuse to repair it to turn on the lights. Take the stairs back to move up and get out of the Hardware Store. Search the car on the right to obtain the Fuse and a Metal Part. Make your way back to the Hardware Store and repair the Fuse box in the basement.
Once you repair it, the enemy will rush towards you and hit you with a massive attack. Equip your Iron Knife and start dealing damage to the enemy till it dies. Defeating this enemy will drop an Orb of Sorrow.
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