Quick Questions

Skye

As per the wares list:

        draft496265 a draft for a blank ceramic insert             99     500gp
        draft496829 a draft for a blank canvas                     98     500gp
        draft497019 a draft for a rough chunk of wood             100     500gp
        draft497088 a draft for a blank piece of slate            100     500gp
        draft497095 a draft for a blank sheet of parchment         99     500gp
        draft497220 a draft for a plain length of silk            100     500gp
        draft497311 a draft for a blank mural                     100     500gp

Jurixe

Can anyone confirm what sort of item the base item silk is supposed to produce? I thought it might be silk tapestry but then the base word would be tapestry. So for this would it be 'silk painted with a war scene' or something?

Tahquil

I think that's the intended way. Visually kinda like a wall scroll.

Jiraishin

What exactly is the 'taste' description for beverage designers supposed to be? What is it supposed to look like (besides being under 120 characters and ending in a full stop)? How does tasting differ from probing or drinking the liquid?

Ellodin

if you buy food made with cooking, for instance, you can do SMELL and TASTE on the item for different lines. looks something like:

A plate of kung pao chicken smells like teen spirit.

A plate of kung pao chicken tastes like a punch in yo mouf.

assumedly, it's the same thing

p.s. try tasting your elixirs like frost or your health vials

Jiraishin

Thanks. This is my first time with a food-type design skill.

Custom kawhe here we come.

Torben

I could swear steel encased strong chests requires a key from a mob/dug up or w/e or the handle method. I've been getting the keys but I can no longer unlock chest when I try to "unlock chest" (says I don't have the right key for it). Am I being dumb and forgetting something here? I did bug it but came back saying not a bug. 

Tahquil

This has been happening to me... but it's been happening for far longer then anything that may have been disturbed during the recent diving changes so they may have dismissed it thinking it was impossible because they didn't touch that section of code.
@Ictinus @CodeMinion1

I just ignored it because I nearly always use the handle method.

Gror

Torben said:

I could swear steel encased strong chests requires a key from a mob/dug up or w/e or the handle method. I've been getting the keys but I can no longer unlock chest when I try to "unlock chest" (says I don't have the right key for it). Am I being dumb and forgetting something here? I did bug it but came back saying not a bug. 

It has always been my experience that if there is a key it works for the steel chest. This is definitely a new problem, as yesterday I did a bunch of diving, got way more keys than normal, and not a single one worked to open any chests. They are on average worth more if you use a key over the handle method. 

Tahquil

Is there evidence of the worth more?

Taryius

I haven't had any success with keys on them since the changes, just been using the handle method. Not sure if they removed keys from working with them.

Gror

Tahquil said:

Is there evidence of the worrth more?

I have kept records of my last 400 dives, pre changes. There is a much smaller sample size of the ones with keys, but yes, there is evidence. It is not a huge difference usually. Sometimes a crappy key chest is worse than a decent no key chest. But all "big" chests have had keys. My biggest is like 32k. 

Vhaith

Is there any way to find out who is what Elemental Lord? Like a clan or something? Or a simple command that lists everyone who has done the quests and chosen a faction?

Cooper

Nope. 

Minifie

Vhaith said:

Is there any way to find out who is what Elemental Lord? Like a clan or something? Or a simple command that lists everyone who has done the quests and chosen a faction?

watch deathsight and see the specific elemental deathsights, in room descriptions and uhhh. . . That's probably it. 

Jiraishin

Are flasks designed through the beverages skill wearable, or can they be made so? I'm thinking of making a hip flask or something of that kind, but don't want to bother if it can't be worn.

Same question about the 'skin' diagram type. Also, can those be made waterskins or wineskins, or will the item type always be 'skin', no prefix?

Vhaith

Minifie said:

Vhaith said:

Is there any way to find out who is what Elemental Lord? Like a clan or something? Or a simple command that lists everyone who has done the quests and chosen a faction?

watch deathsight and see the specific elemental deathsights, in room descriptions and uhhh. . . That's probably it. 

Found a clan!

If anyone else is wondering it's called Yggdrasian Academy.

Not sure how active it is, but it's a start!

Vinzent

Which is better, lucky or aim to kill?

Dochitha

Vinzent said:

Which is better, lucky or aim to kill?

@Penwize

Proficy

Lucky!

Increased damage doesn't matter if your not getting critical hits in the first place

Mroxyl

With Lucky and the level one crit pendant, should there be a 3 or 4 percent crit bonus? I had thought four, with one from lucky and three from the pendant, but do they not stack or am I not seeing something somewhere?

Kriex

Nevermind. I am going crazy

Antonius

Mroxyl said:

With Lucky and the level one crit pendant, should there be a 3 or 4 percent crit bonus? I had thought four, with one from lucky and three from the pendant, but do they not stack or am I not seeing something somewhere?

Critical hit pendants are 2/4/6%, not 3/6/9%, which is probably where your confusion is coming from. 1% from Lucky, 2% from the level one crit pendant.

Mroxyl

@Antonius That would be it, thank you.

Jiraishin

Do tradebooks act like skill-specific crafters' portfolios? If not, what do they do? If so, how many designs do they hold apiece?

I did look at the artefact helpfile and the TRADEBOOK syntax, but am still unsure. Thanks.

Skye

The tradebooks hold the base schematic/recipes/patterns for that particular design skill.

For example, if you have a cooking tradebook, you can populate it with the base recipes that are on sale in the crafter's guild (yes, you have to buy and add the patterns yourself, so don't feel obligated to buy everything at once). Then, instead of holding 35478329354 base patterns or having to re-buy them when they decay, you can copy the patterns from the tradebook instead.

A populated tradebook will look something like this:

tradebook tome list
    ID Recipe                                 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     1 a recipe for a plain loaf of bread
     2 a recipe for a plain salad
     3 a recipe for a plain cookie
     4 a recipe for a plain scone
     5 a recipe for a plain muffin
     6 a recipe for a plain cake
     7 a recipe for a cup of cooked food
     8 a recipe for a plain bread roll
     9 a recipe for a skewer of cooked food
    10 a recipe for a platter of cooked food

So, if I want to start creating a loaf recipe, the syntax will be DESIGN SKETCH COPY 1 FROM TOME

It's more a convenience thing and I did kinda wish they came pre-populated, but I wound up buying tradebooks for all my design skills because holy crap, it's so much easier than carrying a bunch of extra items around.

You can also populate the tome directly by using TRADEBOOK <TOME> BUY so you don't wind up with all the patterns in your inventory that you wind up dumping because why would you bother carrying them around after that >_>

Numira

Are the artistry help files not live on the Achaea web site, or am I just struggling with some operator error today?

never mind, its the second one

Jiraishin

What are the item types for Sculpture?

Tahquil

Sculpture isnt a defined skill so go nuts.

Astarod

I’d like my Silverbright Square Statue to be of solid silver @Jiraishin