Spazzmaticus wrote:tweenprinc3ss wrote:I have to agree with many others so far, new purity system blows. It is over complicated, tedious, and the destroy my perfectly fine 5% compost bin to build a 6% one is totally unrealistic. I like the beginning of the Alchemy system, tho the changes it makes seem too minute to be worth it.
I have a feeling that we are going to have to warm up to the idea that even purity beyond 50'% should be exceedingly rare. Wouldn't expect more than about 20% these days. Pretty sure that is by design, not accidentally. Odds are we'll never see anything 100% pure ever again.
Aye, I agree.
Humus is capped by the worms and the compost bin.
You cannot get higher compost bin than what elements you can find in nature for the ingredients clay (or water), lime and granite - and to find any of these at 10% pure or close to 50.0 in elemental value is exceptionally rare. So your best case scenario is you manage to find all three of those close to 50.0 at 10% purity. Now you plant a sapling and get some 1% or 2% let down unless you are lucky enough to have on hand pre-patch high purity humus, then you might have a 3-4% purity 1st generation plant but lets assume you are not so lucky.
Now you have to do a several month grind of waiting for the tree to grow so that you can get cuttings from it, then replant it in your pot so you get a tree with purity closer and closer to the pot it is grown in. But since trees failure rate is quite high there is a good chance one of your generations fails to produce a plant-able sapling, and then you start over from a impure sapling.
I can confirm crops do sometimes come out with higher purity/elemental values than the humus used to prepare the field with - but it is quite rare and the humus is so heavily weighted that you cannot hope to replant its seeds over and over to raise the purity beyond humus much longer because the more the seed purity exceeds the humus the more the effect is that the result will end up at the humus alchemy levels instead of the seed used to plant.
Then of course worms also factor into but their effect is even less than the humus and due to their feeding mechanism they cannot ever exceed elemental values of the plants you feed them - which are also subjected to that natural ~10% purity cap for foraged items.
The idea that they're "keeping it secret" makes me think the next announcement thread will just consist of Jorb listing features, well ... this happening : 
