Let's play a game. In this game you play the role of Jorb and Loftar and you get to decide the next three updates. The goal of this game is to "fix" purity and or the imbalances it has created.
The rules:
You get three updates. If you need less that's okay.
You only get one post. Put this one in bold. (You may comment on other people's posts or edit your main post as many times as you like.)
Only things that address purity in some way can be included in you updates.
You may not introduce huge game changing elements. For instance no sever wipe, no new severs, no humour caps, etc.
You cant get rid of purity and 100 % has to be extremely difficult if not near impossible to obtain.
Ultimately I'd like to strike up meaningful discussion about not necessarily whats wrong with the recent purity updates, but how they might be fixed without the need for drastic measures. I did decide to put this in ideas and innovations thread so keep that in mind when creating your updates.
Alright, I'll go first:
Update #1: Okay We Hear You
The purity of the boards and nails of the compost bin give a slight bonus to humus purity. With boards adding more than nails.
The purity of the clay in clay pots now gives a slight bonus to the purity of the item being grown.
Purity has been added to nails.
Earthworms will now eat any plant put into compost bin.
The price of Cow Manure sold in Boston has been raised slightly. It now has a randomized purity rating 0.1 - 50.
Sawbucks now have the option to remove log.
Update #2: In Roads To Witchcraft
The stability of your alchemical mixings are now capped by perennial and natural philosophy, with natural philosophy being more important than perennial.
You can now make glass.
Items can now be added to cauldron. Filled with water, stirred and heated over time will create "Mysterious Fluid" with a purity based on the combined purity of the most common highest element. This fluid can then be used in your alchemical devices. Or to water crops, tan hides, etc.
Update #3:
Hollow stumps, berry bushes, thorn bushes and myrtle oak now have the purity of that node. Meaning, items gathered from or from inside them now have purity.
Artifacts now have purity giving a slight bonus to its stats.
Compost bins now have the option to "Chip Wood". Resulting in Wood Choppings being added to your inventory. Doing this several times will damage to your compost bin.
Pots now have the option of "Chip Stone". Resulting in Pottery Shards being added to your inventory. Pottery Shards are a new inspirational not unlike Wood Choppings except gives you arts&crafts, sparks&embers, hammer&nail, and mines&mountains. Doing this will result in damage to your pot. Pots can be repaired with unfired clay.
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