Confirmed — and it's wider than the one quest you caught.

Quests that require you to be holding a particular piece of equipment aren't checking it at all. There's a blanket "skip any equipment requirement" line in the quest code. It was put there for the Maple Island tutorial quests, which require the starter shirt that characters in the original game were created already wearing and that we don't hand out — without the skip, the whole tutorial chain would have been unstartable.

The trouble is it also switches off about 90 genuine checks. Yours is one of them: "You are a True Maple Lover" should only appear if you're actually carrying the 15-Day Dreamer Medal. It also breaks the opposite kind of check — quests written to disappear once you already own the medal keep being offered, because that check is equipment-based too.

The fix is to narrow the exemption down to just the starter clothing instead of all equipment. Everything else then enforces properly, and the code already knows how to count items you're wearing as well as items in your bag.

Confirmed — and it was wider than the one quest you caught. Quests that require you to be holding a particular piece of equipment weren't being checked at all. There was a blanket "skip any equipment requirement" line in the quest code. It was put there for the Maple Island tutorial chain, which requires the starter coat that characters in the original game were created already wearing and that we don't hand out — without the skip those 19 quests would have been unstartable. The trouble is it also switched off 61 other genuine checks, in both directions: yours ("You are a True Maple Lover" should only appear if you're actually carrying the 15-Day Dreamer Medal) and the opposite kind, where a quest is supposed to stop being offered once you already own the medal.

The exemption is now narrowed to that one starter coat, so everything else enforces properly. The code already knew how to count items you're wearing as well as items in your bag, so an equipped medal counts.

One knock-on worth flagging: a few quests will now correctly sit and wait for an item you have to obtain elsewhere. "Silver Mane" wants you to already own the Hog, and the Donor Medal / hunter-title quests want the matching medal in hand. That's what the original tables say, but if any of those items has no way of being obtained yet, that quest will look stuck — tell me and I'll chase the missing source rather than reopen the hole.