HW part: Potion Making

Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:27 pm

I agree, I liked this part. It was comfortable to do- my dial up didn't hang up all the time, and I didn't feel that I had to race anybody or the clock.

I wrote down the steps so that I could find the sequence when I had to start over.

Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:35 pm

I'm glad this step didn't take too much time to do compared to the woods. I need the weekend to study for my exams

Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:36 pm

Cool, I actually got it in less than 15 minutes, considering I was completely lost at first as to what I had to do. English not being my first language can be troublesome, sometimes. XD

Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:05 pm

At first it seemed so complicated, however, after realising that the combinations changed with each potion I solved, it became a whole lot easier.

I'm bored, so I'll type up my orders:
1st: ?
2nd: Slorg, Slorg, Bum, Slorg, Bum, Slorg.
3rd: Slorg, Bum, Bum, Sans, Bum, Jurple, Jurple, Bum, Bum.

And I'm finally participating again. I basically skipped the whole grave step as it was tedious on my internet.

Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:09 pm

I loved this.

1st potion: Jurpleberries->Green Jurpleberries->Blue Jurpleberries->Purple

2nd potion: Jurpleberries->Green Salt->Blue Blumroot->Purple Salt->Grey Bloomroot->Pink Bloomroot->four colours

3rd potion: Jurpleberries->Blue Salt->Purple Bloomroot->Grey Bloomroot-> Pink Jurpleberries->4 colour Slorgblossom->Sparkly purple Slorgblossom-> Silver/Red

Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:24 pm

This part didn't take me anywhere near as long as I thought it would.

As long as you kept an eye on the colors and the corresponding ingredients it wasn't too bad.

Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:37 pm

As with most here, I enjoyed this part. It didn't matter on luck or fast internet, it was logic. If bumroot is added to red it causes it to go green and then if added again is caused to go blue. I need to get to blue but have found out that instead crushed berry things cause red to turn blue.

It helped for me to write everything down, the orders and then I assembled my order from looking at those orders to see if I could copy the order on here.

Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:00 pm

Huh - at first the last potion seemed to be taking me forever - I couldn't get past red/blue/green in a loop.

Once I slowed down and actually paid attention to what the ingredients were doing I realized the pattern was pretty easy to follow (what? Me? Slow?? nooooooooooo....) took me about 10 tries after that building one ingredient at a time - so all in all a satisfying experience.

I'd like to see a logical pattern like this combined with the do it over and over again of grave digging/marking - but where the pattern rotated - seems like it would be both satisfying and a lot more accessible.

Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:54 pm

The first stage I was confused, and got it right by luck. Then I started to understand and wrote what I got in a list in notepad, so when I had to start over, I knew how to get to the farthest spot I had gotten to. I also wrote ones I already tried when I was stuck, and used the process of elimination for it.
It was fun, different, but a little bit frustrating at times.

Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:35 pm

Woo hoo I got it!
That was kinda fun, and easy once I knew what to do. The object is to get to the last color in ten or less steps. It doesn't matter how you get there, or how many ingredients you use (as long as it's less than ten), so several different combinations may work for each person.

The best way for me was to make a spread sheet.
You can see mine here.
A light grey box means that will change the color one step down the chain, a dark grey box means it will jump down two steps. And a white box means it will go backwards or stay the same.
I just thought I'd post my thoughts and method incase my visual might help someone who was stuck here. ^_^

Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:27 pm

I'm very unhappy.

I simply can't do the third one

I've made a table of all the results of adding an ingredient to a potion, and I have eliminated everything. I have no way to get to the sparkly potion

Am I the only one?

I am going through my table again, but I dont' have much hope

(I've even tried doing all the ones with no effect twice...)

Here's the table: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/ ... OSCR44.png

Last edited by Duke of Earl on Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:31 pm

finished. Trial and Error actually....work... heres my combos. After much errors...

red + leaf = Blue

Blue + bronze = purple

Purple + bum = grey

grey + leaf = pink

pink + salt = rainbow

rainbow + bronze = green/yellow swirl

green/yellow swirl + leaf = shiny purple

shiny purple + berry = red/white

Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:36 pm

Duke of Earl wrote:I'm very unhappy.

I simply can't do the third one

I've made a table of all the results of adding an ingredient to a potion, and I have eliminated everything. I have no way to get to the sparkly potion

Am I the only one?

I am going through my table again, but I dont' have much hope (I've even tried doing all the ones with no effect twice...)

Here's the table: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/ ... OSCR44.png

Have you tried starting with a different combination? I found a couple different ways to get to the same point with mine, and when I was stuck doing one, I went a different route from the beginning and got it.

Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:43 pm

Doom Dreamer wrote:
Duke of Earl wrote:I'm very unhappy.

I simply can't do the third one

I've made a table of all the results of adding an ingredient to a potion, and I have eliminated everything. I have no way to get to the sparkly potion

Am I the only one?

I am going through my table again, but I dont' have much hope (I've even tried doing all the ones with no effect twice...)

Here's the table: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/ ... OSCR44.png

Have you tried starting with a different combination? I found a couple different ways to get to the same point with mine, and when I was stuck doing one, I went a different route from the beginning and got it.

I've tried 4 or 5 different routes to get to swirly... but I dont' see how it'll make a difference if each reagent's effect on a certain color is fixed...

"unprintable" Neopets... I never could finish the altador plot too...

And this had better not be due to the fact that I didn't do the grave stuff (I'm a college student, zero time, but weekends)

Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:45 pm

I made a table and just made the headings 1-5 to represent the inggredients, in relation to their position on the screen, and then what they did. it's really easy that way, and i finished the whole thing in under 10 minutes. this was my favourite part thus far