Geographical Purity Variance: Your observations

[dreadlus]

From everything I found so far, it seems stuff tends to cap at around 6-7%. Apparently it's the current cap for natural alchemic properties.

I can tell you my findings so far, you can test them and compare.

In a coniferous forest, near a salt mine, i found:

- salt: rabbits
- merc: snails, witch's hats, crickets
- sulphur: blueberries, lavender blewetts, waxing toadstools, deer
- lead: chestnuts, flint, granite, lime

No water nearby to check purity.

Also, the purities seem to be better outside of a church's area of effect.

[Yourgrandmother]

Okay enjoy your 40-45 element crap

[Hans_Lemurson]

Well, I think that's what it's "supposed" to be. Except for the freakishly lucky people who find 80 element water...

[loftar]

When you have only <insert alchemy here> cereal seeds/flour and for hours around you there is no <insert alchemy here> water anywhere to be found, you might understand why i'm complaining about it.

You seem to be misunderstanding something. When you say "<insert alchemy here>", are you referring to the "dominant" element? In that case, even if your seeds differ in dominant element from your water, it's not going to have a worse effect than the completely unpure water which is all you had until before the update.

[lachlaan]

So say if you have 80/5/5/10 oatmeal, and have to choose between 25/25/25/25 water or 0/33/33/34 water, the second choice would always be better? Would the results of a 2 ingredient recipe with those two possible mixes be 52.5/15/15/17.5 and 40/19/19/22 respectively? so ultimately lower purity oatmeal crackers with the "pure" water as opposed to impure water, if the "dominant" element differed by a lot between ingredient whatever and the water?

[Sidran]

You seem to be misunderstanding something. When you say "<insert alchemy here>", are you referring to the "dominant" element? In that case, even if your seeds differ in dominant element from your water, it's not going to have a worse effect than the completely unpure water which is all you had until before the update.

If I am understanding you correctly, does this mean that already complex alchemy system just got two tracks? For some things dominant element is important.. for some others overall purity.. and we have very ambiguous border between those two. If this is correct, isnt it becoming a bit too complex and ambiguous at the same time?

[Hans_Lemurson]

Example from a bit of foraging in my patch of Autumn Woods:
5 Waxing Toadstools were mercury-poor
3 Chestnuts from were all Lead-rich
3 Snails were Mercury/Sulphur,
1 Wild Garlic was Sulphur-rich
1 Blackberry was also Sulfur-rich.

They share these purity profiles with other items of the same type collected yesterday.

Conclusion:
Foraged items of the same kind tend to share purity, but items of a different type in the same area will have different purity.

[Siobhan]

did anyone answer if the water purity is location based or is there some sort of skill that also boosts the %

[Sidran]

did anyone answer if the water purity is location based or is there some sort of skill that also boosts the %

I am not sure what some boost would do in my case.. lowest prof is 2500, pots 3500 (except perennial) and I havent found any water better than 1.04 multiplier in a wider area of my camp. Not all spots checked but many.

[Hans_Lemurson]

did anyone answer if the water purity is location based or is there some sort of skill that also boosts the %

It is almost certainly location based. I do not know if any skills, proficiencies or tools affect the purity of the water you obtain.

A good system I've found for hunting "Purity Peaks" is to bring two buckets. Fill one, move along the shore (or paddle around in the lake) and then fill the second one.
If the new one is higher purity, toss out the old one and keep going in the same direction.
If the old one is better, empty out the new water and search in a different direction.