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| [To Be added] Artificer |
Difficulty: Medium Duties: Build contraptions when asked. Build contraptions when not asked. Try not to lose an arm. Allowed Species: Any Allowed Ages: Adult+ Allowed Deity: Any Minimum PQ: -50 Guides: This is the guide, Guide to Masonry |
This page is a WIP
As the local artificer, there's a bit less to do in this medieval style town than you'd like, or so the locals would have you believe. Your presence here is what makes this setting steampunk, and you will make the these dirt shoveling peasants realize that. Some of your work is done already, in the pipes around town, but there is more yet to do. The lords of Vanderlin have allowed you refuge here under the promise that machines of bronze will do the work of men so that no man will have to carry a bucket or pull a gate chain again, and you will make that a reality.
As an artificer, you fill a lot of roles, roles that few others can easily fill. There are three main hats. The simplest, you are a stonemason. You can make some nice statues, and you can build stone housing. People will probably not ask you to do this, but it is one of your abilities. The next, you are an engineer. You have the decently rare engineering skill, and entirely unique to you, it is at a very high level. This means you can craft a lot of unique items that no one else can. And, finally, it is your job to maintain and improve the town's machinery. There is very little of it, and most of it is already built, but, coders willing, you will be able to add increasingly more to further automate the lives of everyone in town.
Sometimes, a craftsman has to blame his tools. You're not going to get far without these.
The job you're least likely to have to do. But how do you do it? Well, the wrench is, in fact, a multitool. Build your gates, build your levers, connect them using the engineering wrench. You will need to fuel your wrench with bronze gears however, but you'll have plenty.
WIP I do not know where to find the crafting difficulties
Bronze Cogs are shortened to Cog. Different from Cogwheels, Bronze cogs are the ones crafted at the artificers table
| Recipe | Application | Ingredients | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificer Table | The artificers main worktable | 2x Plank, 2x Stone | 1 |
| Lever | Toggles activatable objects | 1x Cog, 1x Stick | 1 |
| Trapdoor | Lets you drop fools into pits and lava | 1x Cog, 1x Small Log | 1 |
| Pressure Plate | Activates connected objects when stood on | 1x Cog, 2x Plank | 1 |
| Repeater | Repeatedly activates when toggled | 1x Cog, 1x Iron, 1x Stick | 1 |
| Activator | Uses the item in it when activated, usually for crossbow turrets | 2x Cog, 1x Iron, 1x Small Log | 1 |
| Passage | A one tile lever operated gate | 1x Cog, 1x Iron | 1 |
| Copper Distiller | Brews Brandy | 2x Copper, 1x Cog | 1 |
| Bars | Lets merchants close up shop | 1x Iron | 1 |
| Bent Bars | Stops footpads from climbing over the merchant's desk | 1x Iron | 1 |
| Auto Anvil | Accepts rotational power to automatically smith objects, no skill needed. Crushes orphnas. | 2x Steel, 2x Cog | 1 |
So you looked in your basement and saw that mess of gears and pipes. I promise it isnt as bad as it looks. So what do you do with them? Well you dont do anything with the pipes yet, until someone lets you pump water up Zlevels, unless you're planning on starting a distillery? You never know. But those wooden shafts are how you're going to be powering your powered constructions, and their mechanics are complex enough to warrant instruction. Power is made and trasfered thus.
In order to transfer power, you need some form of kinetic energy to start. Build it on a river and attatch a wooden shaft to begin extending that rotational power. You can change the direction of the shaft with a gearbox, and move up and down Zlevels with a vertical gearbox.
But 8 rpm isnt really all that impressive is it? Are we really going to make the smith obsolete off of something as weak as spinning once every 10 or so seconds? What if we doubled it... and then doubled it again? This is what those big cogwheels are for. When you transfer power from a large cog to a small cog, the RPM doubles, and vice versa. Cogwheels also double as a somewhat cheaper way to move energy a couple squares sideways without comitting 8 small logs worth of wood to two gearboxes. Using a cogwheel will also reverse the direction the shaft is spinning, for better combination of rotational power networks.
Now it's time to use our power. Point one of those shafts or gearboxes towards the construction of your choice and watch it roll! But pay attention, your goggles are telling you something... The shaft network you just built is now under stress. When you increased the RPM, you arent making new power, you're just using more of it. Granted, one waterwheel is pretty strong, and you can just build another if you overtax it, so spinning up your orphan crusher Auto Anvil to maximum speed is usually worth it, but remember that one Big Wheel can only crush orphans so fast.
| Recipe | Application | Ingredients | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Cog | Reduces failure rate of contraptions, Intermediate Material | 1x Plank | 1 |
| Reliable Wooden Cog | Stronger effect than normal wooden cogs | 1x Plank, 1x Essence of Lumber | 2 |
| Unstable Wooden Cog | ??? | 1x Plank, 1x Essense of Wilderness | 3 |
| 3x Bronze Cogs | Everything you do | 1x Bronze | 3 |
| Iron Cog | Waste of good iron | 1x Iron | 1 |
| 3x Steel Cog | I guess if you have steel to spare... | 1x Steel | 1 |
| 5 Custom Locks | For Custom Doors | 1x Bronze | 1 |
| 5 Custom Keys | For Custom Locks, or to make spares | 1x Bronze | 1 |
| 2 Bronze Bars | No great furnace needed | 1x Copper, 1x Tin | 0 |
| Bronze Headhook | Holds heads, Mercs love it! | 1x Bronze, 2x Fibers | 3 |
| Recipe | Application | Ingredients | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze Lamptern | It's Green, and doesnt burn out | 1x Bronze | 2 |
| Recipe | Application | Ingredients | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbow | It's a crossbow | 1x Plank, 1x Steel, 1x Fiber | 4 |
If a contraption you build has a failure rate, you can improve it with wooden cogs! Do this or explode!
| Recipe | Application | Ingredients | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wood Metalizer | Turns certain wood objects into metal objects | 1x Bronze, 1x Wood Cog | 4 |
| Portable Smelter | Turns anything with any metal in it into one bar of metal, great with the metalizer! | 1x Bronze, 1x Coal | 3 |
| Amputation Shears | Lets you quickly remove limbs | 3x Bronze | 4 |
| Engineering Wrench | Medieval Multitool, lets you deconstruct some things | 1x Bronze, 1x Gold | 3 |
| Self Purifying Waterskin | Purifies any bog water into regular water | 1x Bronze, 1x Waterskin | 3 |
| Cooling Backpack | Like a backpack, but it prevents spoilage | 1x Bronze, 1x Backpack 2x Cogs | 5 |
| Recipe | Application | Ingredients | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two Bullets | For the Inquisitor | 1x Iron | 2 |
| 5x Crossbow Bolts | For Crossbows | 1x Plank, 1x Iron | 2 |
| 5x Arrows | For Bows | 1x Plank, 1x Iron | 2 |
| Recipe | Application | Ingredients | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wood | Cheap arms and legs | 1x Plank | 2 |
| Iron | Less cheap, still cheap | 1x Iron, 1x Cog | 2 |
| Bronze | Just like normal arms, cant make legs | 1x Bronze, 1x Cog | 4 |
| Steel | The cooler alloy, can make legs | 1x Steel, 1x Cog | 4 |
| Gold | Heartfelten Medical engineering at it's most expensive | 1x Gold, 1x Cog | 5 |
| Recipe | Application | Ingredients | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Psycross | For the most devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Gold Psycross | For the richest devout | 1x Gold | 3 |
| Astrata Psycross | For the brightest devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Noc Psycross | For the wisest devout | 1x Plank | 1 |
| Dendor Psycross | For the wildest devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Abyssor Psycross | For the stormiest devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Necra Psycross | For the most morbid devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Ravox Psycross | For the strongest devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Xylix Psycross | For the trickiest devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Eora Psycross | For the most beautiful devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Pestra Psycross | For the caring devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Malum Psycross | For the crafty devout | 1x Silver | 2 |
| Malum Steel Psycross | For the craftiest devout | 1x Steel | 3 |