Make alchemy less cancer

[noindyfikator]

Add hearth magic:
- Discover properties of an alchemy ingredient
- idk, 250-500 exp?
- accesible after alchemy skill is learned

Thanks

[Massa]

Add hearth magic:
- Discover properties of an alchemy ingredient
- idk, 250-500 exp?
- accesible after alchemy skill is learned

Thanks

the joy of discovery is unironically a good thing for food and alchemy even if you hate it because it's not immediately fun

[Sevenless]

The only thing alchemy has going for it as a system is discovery. Like, the entire system is currently based on it. That's why the properties scramble each world. Take that out and you need to redesign the entire system.

[Audiosmurf]

I think alchemy at least needs some QoL, but I like how arcane it is. Some means to track properties in-game would be good. This idea isn't very good, though, for obvious reasons which are already stated.

[iamahh]

mad lad OP wants to divide by zero and break the universe balance

[terechgracz]

Alchemy is just exercise in logic. You can automate this easily with your choosen software. But game design shouldn't benefit only thoose able of performing such tasks. Using Exp for everything is bandaid that just feels sick. Instead we could have at least book that automatically registers potion made and suggests ingredient's alchemical properties, this would remove need for "advanced" custom software. Another cool thing to do would be able to somehow study alchemical ingredient for chance to discover one of it's properties.

[Sevenless]

Alchemy is just exercise in logic. You can automate this easily with your choosen software. But game design shouldn't benefit only thoose able of performing such tasks. Using Exp for everything is bandaid that just feels sick. Instead we could have at least book that automatically registers potion made and suggests ingredient's alchemical properties, this would remove need for "advanced" custom software. Another cool thing to do would be able to somehow study alchemical ingredient for chance to discover one of it's properties.

Eh, it's not hard to just log it in google docs. It takes me 3-4x longer to collect the ingredients than it does to log the experiments.

It's much easier to log alchemy tests than it is cooking since you don't need to do quality math to see how good something is.

[noindyfikator]

Alchemy is just exercise in logic. You can automate this easily with your choosen software. But game design shouldn't benefit only thoose able of performing such tasks. Using Exp for everything is bandaid that just feels sick. Instead we could have at least book that automatically registers potion made and suggests ingredient's alchemical properties, this would remove need for "advanced" custom software. Another cool thing to do would be able to somehow study alchemical ingredient for chance to discover one of it's properties.

Eh, it's not hard to just log it in google docs. It takes me 3-4x longer to collect the ingredients than it does to log the experiments.

It's much easier to log alchemy tests than it is cooking since you don't need to do quality math to see how good something is.

Bro, it's a game not fucking excel math spreadsheet.

[Liss12]

I'd say make alchemy even more cancer if anything. Make components shift their propeties based on the moon cycle or geographical location. This is optional mechanic for datasheets connoisseurs it should be this way.

[noindyfikator]

I'd say make alchemy even more cancer if anything. Make components shift their propeties based on the moon cycle or geographical location. This is optional mechanic for datasheets connoisseurs it should be this way.

+ randomize by (cube root of square root of day of the month) / (in-game hours + real hours) + some special discrete number