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Hello, and thanks for playing Arral!

Ah yes, the herbalists puzzle was our first attempt to make more of a direct puzzle in one of our games, something akin to a Nancy Drew game. As you probably found though it is pretty obfuscated to the point where it isn't majorly fun, so props to you for giving it a go!

The Luck\Warmth Ward's additional ingredients can be a powder. The rule of ward means it must contain 1 leaf in addition to golden flower, the rule of luck means it most have exactly 8 affinity, and the rule of warmth means it must have 3 acidity and use at least 3 total ingredients.

Realms×Myths4 years ago (1 edit)

Incorrect.

The rule of warmth says it must have exactly 3 ingredients.

When I used goldenflower, a leaf with 3 acidity, and a powder with 0 acidity, the affinity totaling 8 (1+2+5 if I recall correctly. If the goldenflower adds 1 affinity, it'd be 2+1+5, the end sum is still 8 though) the game said I failed, even all the written requirements were met.

I'm dumb, but not stupid. I can do basic math.

Using a powder was my second attempt. The first attempt used a liquid, a differrent leaf, and then goldenflower

I made sure to use the other leaf ingredient before the goldenflower, too, just like the instructions said to.

EDIT: Having failed both attempts that mathed correctly and followed all the rules as they are written, I came to the conclusion that it would only accept leaves, and that's why it kept failing.

Realms×Myths4 years ago (1 edit)

If you're curious why I used a liquid in my first attempt, the game never said wards couldn't use liquids, and I felt that soaking a woven charm and letting it dry made more sense than covering it in powder.

Furventure Games4 years ago

Ah, I think what may have been going wonky here was a rule that was put into the game but had not been added to the herbalists notes, which stated that wards had to be made with leaf first, followed by liquid then powder. Thanks for pointing this out, it's now been fixed :)

Realms×Myths4 years ago

That still doesn't explain why my second attempt, using two leaves and a powder failed…

Furventure Games4 years ago

Ahhh okay I see. Another rule was transcribed incorrectly - it should be lowest acidity first when there is more than 1 of the same type of ingredient, but the book states it the other way round. Those three ingredients are correct however. Apologies, the 2 things to be made are randomly picked from a larger list and it seems you got the only one that uses this rule!

Realms×Myths4 years ago

That explains a lot…

I also looked at the list of ingredients recently, and unless the ingredients have changed, my first attempt would've failed anyway, even if I put the liquid last and used goldenflower first, due to me misreading something as (leaf, 1, 2) [didn't exist in my recent read through]

But if what you say is true, that means only one ward exists. If do, I think you should add more, and adjust any rules that prevent adding additional wards. But that's just my opinion.

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