diff --git a/internal/apply/apply.go b/internal/apply/apply.go
index 5958d18..77a9a7c 100644
--- a/internal/apply/apply.go
+++ b/internal/apply/apply.go
@@ -76,11 +76,22 @@ type Error struct {
 	Resource string
 	Err      error
 	Done     Report
+	// Others is how many more resources also failed. Named rather than folded into the message,
+	// because "one thing failed" and "eleven things failed" are different machines and the first
+	// line is what somebody reads.
+	Others int
 }
 
 func (e *Error) Error() string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("applying %q: %v\n\n%d resource(s) were applied before this and remain; "+
-		"the machine is in whatever state that left it.", e.Resource, e.Err, len(e.Done.Outcomes))
+	also := ""
+	if e.Others == 1 {
+		also = ", and one other resource also failed"
+	} else if e.Others > 1 {
+		also = fmt.Sprintf(", and %d other resources also failed", e.Others)
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("applying %q: %v%s\n\n%d resource(s) were applied and remain; "+
+		"everything was attempted, so what is not listed as failed was done.",
+		e.Resource, e.Err, also, len(e.Done.Outcomes))
 }
 
 func (e *Error) Unwrap() error { return e.Err }
@@ -129,11 +140,32 @@ func Apply(
 	// restarting for it every time would make a steady machine restart its services for ever.
 	changed := map[string]bool{}
 
+	// Everything is attempted, and every failure is reported.
+	//
+	// **It used to stop at the first one**, and that made one broken resource hold the whole
+	// machine hostage: a module declaring a package that does not exist meant every module
+	// ordered after it was never applied, for ever, and the mesh reported "failed" without
+	// saying that the rest had not been tried. A machine with one bad module and nine good ones
+	// ran none of the nine.
+	//
+	// The argument for stopping was that a resource may depend on an earlier one. It still may —
+	// and it will then fail its own check and be reported, which is more information than not
+	// attempting it. A service started against a file that was never written does not verify, and
+	// this host reads back after every write precisely so that is caught rather than assumed.
+	//
+	// What does not change: **a declaration that cannot be parsed is still refused whole.** That
+	// is a different thing — one is "this machine could not do it", the other is "this was never
+	// a declaration", and they are fixed in different places.
+	var failures []*Error
 	for _, resource := range d.Resources {
 		was, _ := known.Find(resource.Identity())
 		outcome, err := applyOne(ctx, sys, resource, run, changed, was, unseal)
 		if err != nil {
-			return report, known, &Error{Resource: resource.Identity(), Err: err, Done: report}
+			failures = append(failures, &Error{
+				Resource: resource.Identity(), Err: err, Done: report,
+			})
+			log(fmt.Sprintf("  failed %s (%s): %v", resource.Identity(), outcome.Target, err))
+			continue
 		}
 
 		// Only now. The record follows the fact, never leads it.
@@ -149,6 +181,16 @@ func Apply(
 			log(fmt.Sprintf("  %s %s (%s)", outcome.Action, outcome.ID, outcome.Target))
 		}
 	}
+
+	if len(failures) > 0 {
+		// The first, carrying everything that did happen. One error is what the caller reports
+		// and what a person reads first; the rest are in the report, which is what the mesh
+		// keeps.
+		first := failures[0]
+		first.Done = report
+		first.Others = len(failures) - 1
+		return report, known, first
+	}
 	return report, known, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/apply/apply_test.go b/internal/apply/apply_test.go
index 3415849..acfcbe3 100644
--- a/internal/apply/apply_test.go
+++ b/internal/apply/apply_test.go
@@ -178,9 +178,16 @@ func TestARenameToTheSamePathDoesNotDeleteTheNewFile(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAFailedStepFailsTheApply(t *testing.T) {
-	// novox/hq ADR 0010. And the error carries what HAD been done, because the machine is in
-	// whatever state the apply reached and the only honest thing to hand back is that list.
+func TestAFailedStepFailsTheApplyAndTheRestIsStillAttempted(t *testing.T) {
+	// The apply fails, names the resource, and carries what did happen — because the machine is
+	// in whatever state the apply reached and the only honest thing to hand back is that list.
+	//
+	// **And everything is attempted.** It used to stop at the first failure, which made one
+	// broken resource hold the whole machine hostage: a module declaring a package that does not
+	// exist meant every module after it was never applied, for ever
+	// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/011). The case for stopping was that a later resource may depend on an
+	// earlier one — and it still may, and it then fails its own check and is reported, which is
+	// more information than not attempting it.
 	dir := t.TempDir()
 	blocker := filepath.Join(dir, "blocker")
 	if err := os.WriteFile(blocker, []byte("i am a file\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
@@ -190,7 +197,7 @@ func TestAFailedStepFailsTheApply(t *testing.T) {
 	d := parse(t, `{"declaration":1,"resources":[
 	  {"id":"fine","type":"file","path":"`+filepath.Join(dir, "fine.conf")+`","content":"a\n"},
 	  {"id":"doomed","type":"directory","path":"`+blocker+`"},
-	  {"id":"never","type":"file","path":"`+filepath.Join(dir, "never.conf")+`","content":"b\n"}
+	  {"id":"after","type":"file","path":"`+filepath.Join(dir, "after.conf")+`","content":"b\n"}
 	]}`)
 
 	_, _, err := Apply(context.Background(), archHost(t), d, store.State{}, store.OriginCarried, noServices, nil, nil)
@@ -205,12 +212,43 @@ func TestAFailedStepFailsTheApply(t *testing.T) {
 	if applyErr.Resource != "doomed" {
 		t.Errorf("the failure names %q, not the resource that failed", applyErr.Resource)
 	}
-	if len(applyErr.Done.Outcomes) != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("the error does not carry what was already applied: %+v", applyErr.Done.Outcomes)
+	// Everything that worked is in the report, before and after the failure.
+	if len(applyErr.Done.Outcomes) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("the error does not carry what was applied: %+v", applyErr.Done.Outcomes)
 	}
-	// And nothing after the failure ran.
-	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "never.conf")); !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
-		t.Error("the apply continued past a failure")
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "after.conf")); err != nil {
+		t.Error("a resource after the failing one was never attempted, so one broken module " +
+			"still blocks every module after it")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEveryFailureIsCountedNotJustTheFirst(t *testing.T) {
+	// "One thing failed" and "eleven things failed" are different machines, and the first line is
+	// what somebody reads.
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	for _, name := range []string{"one", "two"} {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, name), []byte("a file\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	d := parse(t, `{"declaration":1,"resources":[
+	  {"id":"first","type":"directory","path":"`+filepath.Join(dir, "one")+`"},
+	  {"id":"second","type":"directory","path":"`+filepath.Join(dir, "two")+`"}
+	]}`)
+
+	_, _, err := Apply(context.Background(), archHost(t), d, store.State{}, store.OriginCarried, noServices, nil, nil)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("two impossible resources did not fail the apply")
+	}
+	var applyErr *Error
+	if !errors.As(err, &applyErr) {
+		t.Fatalf("got %T", err)
+	}
+	if applyErr.Others != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("the failure says %d others also failed, and one did", applyErr.Others)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "one other resource also failed") {
+		t.Errorf("the message does not say others failed: %v", err)
 	}
 }