I know it's been mentioned before but.. Lime?

[Ferax]

So...

While the game was down I decided to browse the forum a bit and I found the map tool! It's GREAT!!!

On my travels I've discovered a huge huge cliff, like out of Lost World, that just went on and on. I bet there's dinosaurs down there..
I didn't spend -too- much time delving into that as a) I never found a way down, and b) I was on another mission:- Looking for Lime.

The map tool shows me I wandered 400 map tiles in search of it.
The area I'm in has a couple of abandoned mines still yielding ore, and one quite far away sizeable settlement which looked like it belonged to just one or two players. The area it covered was large, with an attempt at the great wall of China cutting off some land, but in my travels I've never actually seen another player. 400 tiles took ages to walk..

I found a lime block, a single lime block, on one of the abandoned mine sites. Thank goodness.
I've also managed to liberate about 10 gardening pots from said places and trudged them all the way home.

Now.. I know some people say depleting resources is part of the game and all that, and it's cool to try and protect resources, I agree.
But running out?
I cant go to market and buy lime. It's not transportable in quantity to Providence.

I certainly won't be using my precious block for fertilising and smithing.
But as someone else said, humans are enterprising. When one method of getting a needed resource doesn't work, they develop alternatives to getting it or replacing it.

We have no such options. Gardening pots are pretty important to the game. I'm only a week old and I only JUST got all my smithing skills the moment the server went down and was dismayed to read lime plays some role in ore production.

Please please consider alternative lime acquisition methods, such as those for clay and hay.
It's when a player comes to a (limeless) brick wall that some will just turn around and leave, rather than spend days wandering, only to die miles from home because you run into some wild aggro spawn at the end of all that searching.

[Reviresco]

Are you near Providence? I live in the non-Darkness boonies far from Prov or landmark warps and there's lime everywhere.

Plus, when you get a character with 150ish yellow bile you can easily carry 250 lime at a time with a backpack. Four trips fill up a stockbin.

[Ferax]

One of the treasures of this game is I have no idea where I am.

I don't think I'm in darkness though. I would categorise my situation as similar to yours, in non darkness boonies.

I have never seen a single lime pit. Heaps and heaps of clay, many quarries, but no lime.

Jealous!

Still working my way toward 20 yellow bile..
Need better food.
Cant hunt anything above rabbits yet.. Got some fish traps down yesterday and they're starting to pay off. But right now there's so much I need and I'm having to work my way up everything. First cotton crop hasn't bloomed yet, and still don't have the skills for a loom, though getting close..

[Reviresco]

You can see where you are with these: http://salemwiki.info/index.php/New_World_Survey

They're under the Craft sub-menu.

A fast way to get 12 wood choppings is from pine cones or finding a woodpile and chopping out 6 wood blocks and splitting them into 12 wood choppings. Fiber can be a cobweb or a woven reed from a body of water (http://salemwiki.info/index.php/Woven_Reeds).

[Ferax]

Oh yes, I made too alts I brought in using those, I didn't realise I could actually see a map from them

[Reviresco]

Oh yes, I made too alts I brought in using those, I didn't realise I could actually see a map from them

I can basically give you as much lime as you want. You'll have to make multiple trips though because you have low Yellow Bile and don't have all of the +encumbrance skills yet. Just make a bunch of http://salemwiki.info/index.php/Woven_Basket and PM me your HS Secret.

If there's even a remote chance you think you'll want to be a miner someday and you live in an area far from any lime, I would suggest moving, though. You have to have lime for smelting. Even when you have a high yellow bile character with +encumbrance skills it's going to be a pain in the ass going to get lime, unless you make an alt near lime and barrel trade it to yourself in Providence. If so, don't put down gardening pots and all that. Just basically bank money from cotton farming for a while and then find a new place.

Edit: Not to be a jerk, but I'm not going to be a permanent lime hookup. I'll give you like 400 at the most and then you should be biled enough to lug a bunch back to your base.

[Trismegistus]

Right-click the map in ur inventory to see it. X marks your spot. Another common behavior, if you decide to not live near lime, is to have an alt(preferably a separate account) somewhere else right on top of a lime spot and port into Providence to meet your character who lives at the main base to bring it back there.

[Ferax]

Ack Ack ack!

That would explain the 2 abandoned mines nearby with heaps and heaps of iron ore lying on the ground..

Thanks for advice and offers. I'll see what I can do when I can get back in world.

But this is what makes the lime situation a pain. No other vital resource in Salem seems to suffer these ills.

[jcwilk]

I have never seen a single lime pit. Heaps and heaps of clay, many quarries, but no lime.

Make sure you know what a lime pit looks like on the map, the different types of pits (stone, clay, lime, sand) can be a little confusing before you've identified them... Lime is the solid white one which at first can look similar to stone quarries. It's usually somewhat common though. Just keep exploring and you'll definitely find one.

Are you using a map tool? I've been using viewtopic.php?f=11&t=9617 which has been invaluable for keeping tabs on nearby biomes, rivers, pits, etc. Note that this is a player made tool, so no guarantees that it's safe to use but it doesn't look like anyone's had trouble with it so far.

Note that when a lime pit "runs out" it's still just as visible on the map, it's just been dug so deeply that the walls are so steep that it can't be dug more, so it's simply bad luck that you haven't seen one yet, not due to them being expended. (unless this has changed recently, but I don't think it has)

[Ferax]

THanks JC,

I have no idea what they look like on the map as I've never found one, but.. I have literally visually checked each tile, by panning out and looking at the whole square on main screen. They seem very distinct to me and easy to tell apart from quarries. I look forward to seeing how they appear on the map some lucky day in the future!

And yes, I got the map tool today as I first mentioned in the initial post. But didn't have it when I was searching, but so keen was I find lime I believe I was very thorough. I walked for hours looking for it..