Game Development: Under Pressure

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Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby jorb » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:53 am

We've been developing, and here's what's new,

Colliquative Pressure Cooker: Craft and place in a stove. Place items in the cooker. Light the stove. While items are in the cooker, their two highest Alchemical dimensions will slowly harmonize at the higher of the respective two levels. The longer the items stay in the cooker, the more their Chymicall Instability increases, as does the risk of an accident. Accidents include exploding stoves, cookers, loss of items in cooker, &c. The risk of a more severe accident also increases with higher instability.

Change to Compost Alchemy: Compost Bins no longer take the Alchemies of matter fed to them into consideration when determining the Alchemy of the Humus they produce. Humus Alchemy is now a function of the Compost Bin's Alchemy and the Alchemy of the Worms in the Compost Bin. Worms can be placed in any container and will then eat most any plants when placed next to them. When worms eat a plant, their Alchemy will move toward the Alchemy of the plants eaten. The Alchemies of the matter fed to the Compost Bin still matters, but only insofar as more pure inputs are turned into humus faster.

Trial by Fire: Can now be used by anyone, not just members of the village that built it.

There are more items in the Cooker's vein coming. Stay tuned.

Enjoy!
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Re: Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby belgear » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:53 am

Thanks!
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Colliquative Pressure Cooker

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Seems you can place directly in now and get up to 100% efficiency

Earthworm = 4% Efficiency
Python = 16% Efficiency

Worms in the Humus Bins
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Re: Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby Siobhan » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:55 am

i like the worm idea, looking forward to testing this out
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Re: Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby FailureToThrive » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:55 am

Sounds good!
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Re: Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby Darkside » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:55 am

woah... interesting.... hope an exploding cooker doesnt destroy a house too!

Worms can be placed in any container and will then eat most any plants when placed next to them


Wonder how many people will log back in tomorrow and find containers with some random worms they left laying around and empty spots where they once kept some treasured plant items :o
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Re: Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby Siobhan » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:56 am

so can we put worms back into compost bins ?
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Re: Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby PuinSai » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:56 am

PRAS PRAS PRAS PRAS
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Re: Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby martinuzz » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:56 am

I guess now we know why the Chief always had a thing for worms
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Re: Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby jorb » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:56 am

Siobhan wrote:so can we put worms back into compost bins ?


Yes.
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Re: Game Development: Under Pressure

Postby Claeyt » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:57 am

jorb wrote:We've been developing, and here's what's new,

Colliquative Pressure Cooker: Craft and place in a stove. Place items in the cooker. Light the stove. While items are in the cooker, their two highest Alchemical dimensions will slowly harmonize at the higher of the respective two levels. The longer the items stay in the cooker, the more their Chymicall Instability increases, as does the risk of an accident. Accidents include exploding stoves, cookers, loss of items in cooker, &c.

Change to Compost Alchemy: Composts no longer take the Alchemies of matter fed to it into consideration when determining Humus Alchemy. Humus Alchemy is now a function of the compost's Alchemy and the Alchemy of the Worms in the compost. Worms can be placed in any container and will then eat most any plants when placed next to them. When worms eat a plant, their Alchemy will move toward the Alchemy of the plants eaten. The Alchemies of the matter fed to the compost still matters, but only insofar as more pure inputs are turned into compost faster.

There are more items in the Cooker's vein coming. Stay tuned.

Enjoy!

Everybody get you worms out of your boxes before they eat all your plants. Bwahahaha

Easy bake ovens are history. Going to have to actually sit and watch the water boil.
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