[Official] Potato

[dusky flax]

Cat is out of the bag. Savant soft launch. This one has been baking for quite awhile. I kind of worried you'd all escallop or fry me for this, since my brain has been quite mashed.

[woeful solar]

to many puns

[dusky flax]

TURBO PUNS!

[hushed leaf]

Puntato.

[somber storm]

This quest makes me giggle like a little schoolgirl. Kudos for making this happen 👍

[dusky flax]

@woeful solar should be fixed. I reset your cooldown since you're the only one impacted right now.

I'll edit my OP with each cooldown.

[woeful solar]

does that mean im as if i just began my CD? or I can do the task and start the timer?

[dusky flax]

Yes, I made it so you're right back to where you would be without the oopsie.

[faint sedge]

Will the ||vegetable descriptions|| last into the next phase? I have only been ||feeding my potato other potatoes||
Going back to Wyrom's OP, the ||BREAK|| made me wonder.

[woeful solar]

thank you.

[thorny vault]

I wonder if my potato will eat a donut and get one on its head? With all the potato love, and with Wyrom saying only ||eating the potato|| will cause a bad end, I guess I'll start infusing today!

[woeful solar]

||Yes Maylan it does, but the adjective changed. It doesnt say topped. it says bound.
You tap a knobby sentient potato bound with a lumpy purple potato, which is in your right hand.||

[tall kayak]

||Jokes on you, the last step is EATing the potato.||

[faint sedge]

Oh, then I should start feeding it ||sweet potatoes||. My boi will be stout and sweet.

[crude orchid]

||I kinda wanted to see if mine would eat berries or something, but Wyrom said the potato wasn't EG related and he's not my real dad so I fed it a pumpkin.||

[dusky flax]

||There is an easter egg if you have someone interact with it that isn't on your account.||

||Once you unlock a new phase, that phase is here to stay. Everything will get revisited at the end. Think of this as a tutorial.||

||Nothing punishes you for making wrong choices or bad choices.||

[crude orchid]

I'm too excited over a potato and I have no regrets about it.

[dusky flax]

||POUR does not consume a charge because the sip is really smol. And I didn't want to get into a situation with unlimited drink items. You just need the right kind of drink. I think @compact totem bugged this, but it's a feature. Too many drink items out there to worry about how to reduce a charge properly.||

[compact totem]

Just trying to get my fame bump!

[thorny vault]

Let's be real. This is a bonafide tomagatchi. 🤣

Or a "baby object", but I haven't seen anyone say it's poo'ed mashed potatoes... yet. (all in jest, just amused)

[honest hinge]

I'll be waiting for the release of a slow burning fire via a pile of charcoal , and a crockpot/Dutch oven

[dusky flax]

||I would call this a Wisp 2.0 in terms of progress. Not so punishing as a wisp. But also not as simple.||

[woeful solar]

||>listen pot A knobby sentient potato bound with a lumpy purple potato squints angerly and whispers, "You're not my real dad!"|| LOL

[thorny vault]

Pffft!Hahaha!

[tight wigeon]

||angerly||

[dusky flax]

Haha I'll fix that typo,

[tight wigeon]

||I assumed it was intentional. I AM ANGER||

[dusky flax]

Haha, I'll have it fixed next update. Until then, the potato is hangry.

@woeful solar did it work with the update?

[woeful solar]

checking

[dusky flax]

Looks like you did it, I just didn't see if it worked on your end.

[woeful solar]

nope, still says angerly

[dusky flax]

Oh no, not that, the task.

[woeful solar]

||```>pour pot
A knobby sentient potato bound with a lumpy purple potato squints angerly and whispers, "You're not my real dad!"

eat pot
A knobby sentient potato bound with a lumpy purple potato squints angerly and whispers, "You're not my real dad!"

toss pot
A knobby sentient potato bound with a lumpy purple potato squints angerly and whispers, "You're not my real dad!"``` I think when you try to eat someone elses tater, it should scream for help from it's mom or dad :D|| Oh yeah the task worked. ||it even asked me to take it some place new||

[dusky flax]

All cooldowns are also in the OP, big spoilers though if you want to know.

[woeful solar]

what does OP mean? Overpowered?

[warped obsidian]

Original Post

[tall kayak]

It does in some really great shows. 😏

||Watching the evolution of this storyline in real time based on engagement reminds me of the fun I had 20 years ago playing D&D in a garage with my co workers. 👍 ||

[river moth]

how does one return to the original post without endless scrolling?

[empty rapids]

It's pinned

[late hare]

click the "pins" button, a pin, at the top on desktop. mobile I think its a slide down from the top or something?
From there you click the "jump to" button.

[river moth]

aha! fancy hidden features - Thanks everyone!

||so im feeding the potato and its skin has taken on a certain hue... i have started to feed it something else. will this change it? if so when i look at it after feeding does it change right away?||

[dusky flax]

You can also right click the thread name, copy link, and then at the end put a /1

I wish Discord had something in the ... menu for this by default.

[dusky flax]

||Try doing one of the other tasks to change that.||

[faint sedge]

This potato seems to be ||evolving along Maslow's Hiearchy of Needs||

[elder rivet]

||my body is ready for whatever is required of the third tier||

[river moth]

||if i may make a suggestion, if you break the potato to change it, it should reset the cooldown as well allowing you to feed it right away. ||

[dusky flax]

||There are progression benefits to all of it, but the description changing actually has more to it...soon.||

[faint sedge]

Mama's little helper
||You hold some tobacco leaves to your potato's little face and it devours the leaves.
Roundtime: 2 sec.||

[willow flume]

Do you…know 1206 and use him for hunting also?

[silver kite]

... this is why urchins can't get ahead in life, Maylan, they're raised on ||tobacco leaves and alcohol||

[woeful solar]

||I do not, but I have hunted with a monk before who was using my kitten to launch at critters, which is hilarious, but I guess looking for some SK 1206 now may be worth while for the meme||

[silver kite]

||LMAO you can launch kittens/puppies with telekinesis?||

[tall kayak]

https://media.tenor.com/a8vcneQnsqEAAAAM/keanumovie-keanu.gif

[woeful solar]

||YES! 😄 I have a log somewhere of it from a year or two ago||

[silver kite]

that's amazing

ALSO POTATO UPDATE!!!
||a waxy sentient potato topped with a withered black mushroom||

[tacit dock]

Any speculation from the peanut gallery about what this potato actually does whenever we finish whatever it is we are doing to it?

[silver kite]

My GUESS is ||Potato pet kind of like the Mandrakes||

but it could also be like a endless vodka decantspud

[river moth]

thats exactly what i foraged for mine as well

[wide elbow]

||You glance down to see nothing in your right hand and a knobby sentient potato topped with a mass of congealed slime in your left hand.||
Give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything.

[neon oasis]

That's what the potato gets for saying "I don't know"

[silver kite]

lmao

[tall kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/slime-smile-not-aware-gif-10981355

[woeful solar]

its gonna be a murder potato, I full expect to outfit mine in plate armor and give it a maul

[woeful solar]

So will there ever be a potato gun made by a gnome tinker? We have water cannons

https://tenor.com/view/diy-hack-maker-patato-gun-weekend-project-gif-3411164

[silver kite]

It's ||sentient|| so you want to freeze it and shoot it at things!?

[woeful solar]

Im gonna need alot of his cousins for this to be effective

[woeful solar]

@dusky flax seems the playtime CD is still borked. Its been over 12 hours since our last Big brotato lil brotato session, and Im worried that he may be taken away from me for neglect 😢

Im sure the BBLBAE is a thing

[dusky flax]

What messaging are you seeing?

[woeful solar]

||J>listen pota You hold your potato to your ear and hear the faint whisper, "Thanks for playing with me earlier. I'll want to go somewhere else later." Roundtime: 2 sec.||
im not even sure this qualifies as a teaser, im so used to blotting stuff out at this point

I think Jara is as bored as I am

[dusky flax]

Weird, the update I did earlier got reverted.

[woeful solar]

I feel like Im your guinea pig assistant beta testing stuff for you 😇

[tall kayak]

I'm glad you're this far along too. Been exciting watching the progress.

[woeful solar]

You respond to Wyrom " Sure thing boss!"```

[tall kayak]

Bloody brilliant. 😂 😹

[dusky flax]

Found the issue, false alarm!

We're still going to blame Jara though.

55 seconds before fix is live!

Haha

[tall kayak]

I .... reached max emoji. 😢

[woeful solar]

https://tenor.com/view/frankenstein-its-alive-gif-10618052
I like the message it gives when you try to add more emojies
btw, its fixed, Im just looking for the new destination now 😄

[woeful solar]

Found it 😄
Will check back in 12 hours!

[dusky ledge]

so wait.... ||I have to travel all the way to EN to continue when I'm done infusing?||

[wide elbow]

Yes

[woeful solar]

||one makes what ever sacrifices one must for one's potato||

[dusky ledge]

well that sucks.... mighta just eaten it if I'd realized that in advance....

stupid knife-ear land....

[hybrid mesa]

Whoa!

[hybrid mesa]

I'm just messing with you @dusky ledge 🙂

[wise zephyr]

Yay - got to the ||feeding phase|| today...

[cursive parrot]

Getting nervous I’m using a wrong type of thing in phase 2.

[faint sedge]

Tell us what you're doing and I'll let you know if you're on the right track.

[cursive parrot]

I’ll dm you, still useless with spoiler tagging

[empty rapids]

||How many drinks does thristyboi need?||

[wise zephyr]

Be nice if there was just a warning on certain chats. Click on the Official Potato chat and it says "Hey, there's spoilers here. If you don't want potato spoilers, click here and we'll hide this forum.

[wise zephyr]

||20||

Took me 5 days to remember to do it that many times

[undone nimbus]

rename the channel "Spoiled Potatoes" 😎

[cursive parrot]

||You remove a glistening black apple from in your heavy backpack.
You hold a glistening black apple to your potato's little face and it whispers, "No thanks, I don't eat that. I like to eat vegetation rich in nutrients."
You scowl.
Any chance the apples should work and my dream still has a chance?||

[dusky flax]

||Only foraged items work here, it's too tricky to do this. You can forage for an apple though. With drinks, it doesn't take a charge because a potato only needs a smol sip. But too many items out there I didn't want to get into risking things.||

[cursive parrot]

||thanks for the response. bummer, but I get it. would have been cool lol||

[faint sedge]

Wyrom will I be able to ||feed it to change its look|| in the next stage? I have a special ||foraged herb|| I'd like to give it, but I only have one and I'm not sure when to use it.

[dusky flax]

||When it's done, there is a lot to do!||

[cursive parrot]

||i tried the flesh bark too. no dice. so many nutrients tho!||

[dusky flax]

||As much as I am a fan of you all making it eat organs and drink blood, Quee isn't a darker side of Wyrom.||

[silver kite]

Potato abusers!

[sonic wadi]

It reminds you of the before times? When you were innocent and still hoped?

[foggy condor]

I see Quee and think people are making a red dwarf reference

[candid geode]

||I wonder if you can give the potato some pure potion to drink will turn it into a paladin potato||

[noble yacht]

Is it pronounced ||Q|| or ||Kah-wee||

[soft nymph]

Kwee

[cursive parrot]

||wonder if i have some weird old foraged stuff lying in a locker||

[radiant bloom]

||You glance down to see a waxy sentient potato joined with a length of deep purple shockroot in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.||

||Gonna make it immune to lightning!||

[faint sedge]

I'm going to try a ||luminescent indigo mushroom|| with mine for its final look.

[wise zephyr]

||a knobby sentient potato coupled with a fusiform sweet potato||
::cough::

[faint sedge]

Sweet boi

[foggy condor]

That's my plan...if I ever get there lol

[cursive parrot]

||man. i'm never going to be able to pick something to feed it. hehe.||

[wise zephyr]

||I couldn't either, so I went with canibalism||

[dusky flax]

Think of it more like a symbiotic coexistence vs cannibalism.

[neon oasis]

^ As a side effect of being a messy eater

[native wagon]

heh a fried tater

[wise zephyr]

Like a... vampire tater
||I've already given it an entire Locksmith's worth of my soul. So not the first thing it's leeched off of||

[sick fable]

||You remove a pure potion from in your spidersilk cloak.
pour potion on potato
You pour the potion on a sentient potato, but nothing seems to happen.||

[candid geode]

Darn

[hushed leaf]

So, the phases we know, so far are: ||infuse, CCF thing, drink, feed, visit places - in that order|| correct?

[faint sedge]

yes

[wise zephyr]

||After all this work, this potato is going to die and say like, "Potato is happy to be with Locksmith, my friend"||

[still sleet]

||and then French fries||

[faint sedge]

After ||feeding several tobacco leaves|| to my potato, his look seems to be evolving. It used to say ||topped by tobacco leaves|| and now it is ||flourishing some tobacco leaves||

[undone nimbus]

Mine is ||just now alive!||. Time to start with the ||nourishment||.

[crude orchid]

I was lazy on EG grounds and didn't feel like running out to get a ||pumpkin|| so now we have this chaotic little spud: ||a waxy sentient potato connected to a glittering fairy's skirt mushroom||

[river moth]

||i fed mine some Acantha leaf to begin with then after 1 feeding switched to withered black mushrooms. the appearance has stayed like this the whole time... i have fed about 5? times... is this normal?

The potato appears to be alive. Its small face looks around with a blank expression. It looks hydrated, its skin taking on a pale honey hue, but it is quite malnourished.||

[faint sedge]

Oh pretty!

[hushed leaf]

You may want to ||feed it||!

[faint sedge]

What does it look like when you glance at your hands?

[crude orchid]

||oooh yours has pale honey hue. mine's caramel-colored hue. I dunno looks normal to me but I'm not an expert but ya keep feedin it I think and yeah was about to ask what Maylan just did 😄 i'm slow||

[river moth]

||i have been. i just dont understand why the wording didnt switch... i even used the break verb added in after the first feeding in hopes it would just eliminate the acantha leaf.

oh glancing shows it properly

You glance down to see a waxy sentient potato topped with a withered black mushroom in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.||

[faint sedge]

Yeah the unique looks are in the long description, not the show. (so far). Also neat that your potato's skin color is different than mine.

[river moth]

oh, i figured an appearance was an appearance wether it be glance or look. interesting.

[crude orchid]

all tatos are unique ✨ and tasty

[woeful solar]

Someone say potato tattoo's?

[marsh saffron]

No one said that.

[faint sedge]

potato tattoo

[marsh saffron]

Now ya gone and done it!

[faint sedge]

I'm just following instructions.

[silver kite]

My potato is pallid... I wonder how it'll turn out xD

[tall kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/bored-annoyed-embarrassed-offended-uncomfortable-gif-22607506

[dreamy oriole]

My potato won't ||eat my mushroom|| from my forage item prop, but one of the flowers from it was just fine 😢

[faint sedge]

I had the same issue.

[woeful solar]

||Maybe I shouldnt have fed Spuddy potatoes.

The potato appears to be alive.  Its small face looks around with a blank expression.  It looks hydrated, its skin taking on a pallid hue, and full of nutrients, but quite bored.```
pal·lid
[ˈpaləd]
ADJECTIVE
(of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health.||

[tall kayak]

||Vampire Brotato||

[dusky flax]

||Pallid will be updated to russet in a future update. I'll let you all discover why things are what they are still. Pallid will still be used, but not for what it's currently be set as.||

[wide elbow]

||The potato appears to be alive. Its small face looks around with a blank expression. It looks hydrated, its skin taking on a blood red hue||
Bloody boy

[woeful solar]

I totally forgot the drinking phase affected the color as well, I was giving him vodka. I'm raising an Alcoholic cannibal.

[river moth]

||i filled mine up with wine so he will be in the bar fight right next to yours!||

[woeful solar]

||I also noticed that the farther you go along with the potato, its excitement changes when you toss it

You toss a potato around.  It looks at you and happily squeals, "Queeeeeeee!"```
I seem to recall it used to do one thing, then it chirped, then it did something else, now its doing this||

@dusky flax ||I think I accidentally discovored something.

[You set your potato to not change descriptions.]
>approve pota
[You set your potato to only change the base descriptions.]
>approve pota
[You set your potato to change the base and long descriptions.]
>``` I have no idea what this does, it's probably tied to that break command you mentioned||

||Update: I just looked in the OP and noticed both these verbs in there.||

[woeful solar]

||ahhh, even after you've completed the feeding stage, you can still feed him. I was curious so I fed him a rose and accidentally changed his outgrowth by testing this, and he wont eat anymore nor will he take drink. Do the cooldowns share the same timer? I tried to see if he would take a drink but he wouldnt. I Hope by doing this I didnt mess up his playing timer||
||instead of being bound to what he last ate, he is now sprouting what he recently ate. so there are multiple stages of how much of what they ate is going to appear on them. Wyrom mentioned that he will post all the determinations at the end, but Im somewhat curious now to know the different bonding levels some of you have from the feeding stages. IE how many feedings in a row of the same item = what type of growth is appearing, if any of you are willing to share. We can be mad scientists together||

Jara, why are'nt you up! I need partner in crime

[rigid nebula]

Gryzzlbok’s Log Day 18: Potato

[woeful solar]

Sorry, I was bored 😦

[rigid nebula]

I’m impressed

[woeful solar]

||>more pota More more MORE!||
lol

[green plover]

Hooray! He likes drinking Drowned Manticores! You hold a glass of filthy yellow liquid garnished with chunks of meat to your potato’s little face and it takes a small sip.

[lilac plinth]

Does anyone have a straight forward guide to catch up

[woeful solar]

||1) INFUSE: every 18 hours x10. One can analyze the potato to see how far along on this step only. . After completing this step the potato can no longer be eaten. Wyrom mentioned that finishing the whole process unlocks the ANALYZE verb for everything.

2. Find the Dryad and interact with it in a specific way, the location given is somewhere in Dryad of the Wildwood (CCF reference made earlier)

3. Watering: every 1 hour x20. I believe this step changes the potato's hue

4. Feeding: every 4 hours x12. This step changes what grows on it

5. Playing: every 12 hours x8|| These are the numbers that worked for me, Wyrom has mentioned there is RNG involved so some could be more or even less

[lilac plinth]

Thanks Gryz!

[woeful solar]

||If you click on the pin to see the original post, Wyrom put some good spoilers in there as well||

[river moth]

||will the appearance be selectable for any of the items you fed to it? i fed a bunch of withered black mushrooms and now one of the ranger luminescent indigo mushrooms. i want that to be the affect on him but i think i have more feeding still to do and really hope i didnt lose that chance.||

[woeful solar]

||according to the post Wyrom made in the original post, we can determine what it looks like with the break verb and resetting its feeding etc, if I am understanding it correctly||

[river moth]

||i wasnt too clear with that either. my concernis i fed it a rare herb but now realize i have more feedings left. i dont want to interrupt the process but i also know i wont get another one of these for quite some time so i think i may have just wasted it||

[late hare]

I'm gonna be stuck on that step 2 for a bit due to the location required heh. Ordim ||isn't exactly welcomed in that neck of the world||

[river moth]

depending how big ya are i may be able ta stick ya in a pack and smuggle ya in .. fer a fee of course!... ughh i gotta get away from that pirate ship.. its rubbin off on me

[woeful solar]

I have like 17 of them mushrooms, I can give you some

[river moth]

that would be awesome! where can i meet you and what do you want for em?

[woeful solar]

trophy room, thrak inn, nothing, just glad to help

[late hare]

this would be hilarious to play out in game lol

[woeful solar]

I think Gnomes/Halflings and Dwarves should be able to ride inside a disk

[late hare]

I think you would get a lot of support for that yes
dwarves might be a stretch, they tend to be solid and make up for height with weight

[green plover]

That disk’d be dragging the ground with Trall inside.

[woeful solar]

just need more air lore training

[rotund yoke]

I surprised they never released an item that makes you immune to ground based AOE and spells, "winged sandels.. .etc"

[woeful solar]

Are Aelotoi immune to quake or ewave? I think if we gave them red bull, or stronger coffee they could actually fly

[green plover]

I dunno that anyone wants me having more “air” training… 🦨

[dusky flax]

|| @woeful solar how many times have you successfully played with YOUR POTATO GEEZ ||

[woeful solar]

||5, will be 6 in 30 minutes or so||
lol phrasing!

[lilac plinth]

Like you're 15 again!

[dusky flax]

I never aged beyond 13, so I get it.

[sonic wadi]

I blame the lack of sleep. Every nap ages you like a month now.

[lilac plinth]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pReEPYEt3Ms/maxresdefault.jpg

[dusky flax]

||So this likely wasn't intended, yours was likely just mixed up once when it got stuck. The phases, once you go through them, can't be repeated...yet. Each cooldown is separate though. There was a bug where I was reusing a cooldown that made it seems like you had already played, when I fixed it, I accidentally used the feeding cooldown, that's why it happened. But it's all resolved.||

[radiant bloom]

Interesting, the ||feeding step|| appears to vary based on ||exactly what's fed. The potato I fed strawberries has progressed to the next step, but none of the others have yet.||

[undone nimbus]

Well now I am really worried about ||what I feed it||. Is it possible to ||make a mistake here and not be able to change the look later||?

[woeful solar]

||in the OP, Wyrom added a break and approve verb so we can change things later||

[undone nimbus]

ah! ok got it thanks

[dusky flax]

||Yeah, try looking up potatoes. It's not perfect, but it will make sense with some research.||

[dusky flax]

Lots of reading!

[late hare]

what script do i use for researching ;potatoresearch.lic

[empty rapids]

||chicken manure pellets are the go-to choice fertilizer for potato farmers||

[late hare]

its a long teaser for future ||manure collecting SCOOP item script next EG|| /s

[noble yacht]

I read that ||tomato fertizilier is a choice high in potassium||

[compact totem]

I’m having trouble finding resources that talk about the benefits of ||watering the potatoes with alcohol, or which alcohol|| is best

Maybe it’s just the ||food part||?

[woeful solar]

||I think watering a potato with alchohol is just adding extra steps in the distilling process for a higher proof||

[dusky flax]

||You're on the right path, but there is quite a bit more.||

[long onyx]

Are ||electrolytes what plants crave||?

[crude orchid]

So very, very many recipes come up. ||Imma assume pumpkins and mushrooms are a-ok. nutrients and good soil. and yeah. this is a lovely little adventure||

[long onyx]

Can i still make them work with udoll clothing

[dusky flax]

Haha

[long onyx]

Haha is Wyrom speak for APPROOOOOOOVED

[dusky flax]

https://tenor.com/view/no-yes-clap-meme-bob-pickler-gif-23841006

[empty rapids]

||Bananas are potassium rich. Ilvari sprites make bananas. Time to sacrifice some weapons?!||

[woeful solar]

Potator-ade

[woeful solar]

||I think my potato is broken or magic resistant

>
  1d100: 15 + Modifiers: 250 == 265

You raise the crumpled scroll and gesture to invoke the Telekinesis spell.
Sparks begin to fly between the crumpled scroll and your fingers.  With a sudden burst of enthusiasm, the sparks jump into your hand and a charged feeling surrounds you.
>cast potato
You gesture at a knobby sentient potato sprouting a small rose.
You begin concentrating on the sentient potato, but nothing happens.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.```|| ||and to show the spell works as intended I grabbed a normal potato
```>cast potato
You gesture at a lumpy purple potato.
A velnalin is awakened by your attack!
You levitate a lumpy purple potato at a velnalin!
  AS: +525 vs DS: -47 with AvD: +52 + d100 roll: +13 = +637
   ... and hit for 342 points of damage!
   Strong blow to left leg breaks it!
The velnalin lets out a final agonized sigh and dies.
```||

[wide elbow]

Well I mean you can't use 1206 to hurl players at mobs either. That potato is your repla- friend.

[thorny vault]

Oh... wow. You were not kidding about capping the potato. Alright then...

[silver kite]

If the potato starts replicating we're going to have a problem... 2038 is too close to risk replictaters taking over the world

[hushed leaf]

https://tenor.com/view/stargate-replicators-dont-touch-me-gif-10067748

[silver kite]

Yesss, cultured, Cylnthia is

[hushed leaf]

It was either SG Replicators or ST Replicators.... and ST Replicators didn't seem quite as menacing as SG Replicators. heh

[fiery veldt]

Brawndo

[silver kite]

||You put an oblong sentient potato sprouting a handful of dark blue honeyberries in your viridian shroud.|| I am sure nothing bad will happen by storing it inside the haunted shroud

[neon oasis]

|| I used a banana leaf. it's the closest I could find in the first room I walked into in KF. now it's asking to play. ||

[silver kite]

wait, did you just do it once and it's ||asking to play?||

||I've fed mine... 6, maybe 7 times now? and it still looks malnourished. Maybe I'm not feeding it the right stuff.||

[neon oasis]

oh no, I've been doing it for days. I got to that stage with Gryzzlbok, only I decided to sleep

[silver kite]

hahaha ok I gotchaaa, and accurate XD

@tall kayak You'll never take me alive, spud cop

[tall kayak]

There's no :handcuffs: so I added a 🫶 . 😜

[south plank]

I will protect all of those in need. I will defend you all with the lids of all the boxes I have opened while in the lands. It will be my gift to all!!

I was a little late on this reply😂 my potato was whispering in my ear and distracting me.

[radiant bloom]

||The one potato I've gotten to progress looked malnourished until the moment the feeding step was done.||

[smoky cypress]

Just saw this and it seems like it belongs here

What do you call a reluctant potato? ||A hesitater||

[silver kite]

What do you call a powerful potato?
||Potentator||

[fiery veldt]

There is another one but not necessarily appropriate 😆. Has to do with what Saddam Hussein was.

[dusky flax]

Today is the end of days.

[faint sedge]

oh boy

[dusky flax]

[faint sedge]

@woeful solar we are counting on you, don't let us down!

[undone nimbus]

To the one who came before. The prime potato. The potato pope.

[dusky flax]

When it comes time to face yourself, @woeful solar, will you do what is needed to save Elanthia? Yay, potato!

[sonic wadi]

El Papa?

[undone nimbus]

La papa de primera

[faint sedge]

Potato dad is best dad

[undone nimbus]

Oh he did it? A new species is born? Playable Potato Race Confirmed!?

[dusky flax]

We were all potatoes all along.

[hushed leaf]

Popetato!

[inland basin]

Help us @woeful solar, you're our only hope

[radiant bloom]

Hmm, stuck on a ||playing|| step where I need to ||find somewhere arid and temperate. Weird combination that I haven't been able to locate anywhere in the West, at least (haven't tried RR yet, though). Any ideas?||

Edit: Oh, never mind, finally ||found a spot about halfway between the ferry and Zul after like half an hour.|| 🎉

[severe sail]

I have a trio of sisters who would love their potatoes to be pink, golden, and one of caramel/chocolate/cream. LOL I saw someone with caramel but are any of the others in there as options? None of them have started their potato as yet.

[compact totem]

Would ||SoS around the oasis work? I can’t get the room data resources to load on mobile but seems like somewhere around there|| might qualify

[radiant bloom]

Hmm, that makes sense... ||Will give it a try next time it pops up, assuming my other characters' potatoes ever get past feeding. 🤣 ||

[dusky flax]

Yup!

[severe sail]

Pink? Golden? Chocolate? Cream? What should I be storing up to feed them when I get to that point? LOL

I got my potato giftboxes with my trio of halfling sisters. Since potatoes are food and all.

[celest ingot]

||I'm stuck in CCF. Is it something that is time of day dependent? None of the tree verbs, climb, pluck etc. work for me. I was thinking I'd have to climb the tree, but its impossible to get off the ground.||

[neon oasis]

|| From the lich mapdb, I can find 123 rooms that match. It doesn't look like any of them are in SoS ||

|| for those jq inclined: cat map-*.json | jq '.[] | select(.climate | if type == "string" then . | contains("arid, temperate") end) | (.id | tostring) + " - " + .title[]' . you probably have multiple map json files and I don't know the number so you can change it to one json file ||

[dusky flax]

You'll have to crack the code!

[severe sail]

sighs at Wyrom The only puzzles I'm reasonably fond of are jigsaw puzzles.

[dusky flax]

We can cut the potato up if it helps.

[sonic wadi]

That's how you get more potatoes

[woeful solar]

||```>look at potato
The potato appears to be alive. Its small face looks around with a blank expression. Its skin taking on a russet hue and it appears it was last fed a small rose. The potato looks full of energy. It looks overjoyed. It looks parched. It looks famished. It looks bored.

[sonic wadi]

It's a looker alright

[celest ingot]

According to Gryzz, I've done what I needed to do ||for the CCF step. According to Wyrom, I haven't. Any ideas on what the missing action(s) are? Its now inert to infuse listen analyze and pray.||

[compact totem]

Are you sure you ||did that final thing in the right spot?||

[noble yacht]

Wyrom gave us all tamagachis tamagotchis

[woeful solar]

@celest ingot ||if youre still in CCF, ill head that way||

[noble yacht]

I hope it can die, just like a real tamagotchi.

[dusky flax]

@woeful solar being the first to complete got the unique title Companion of Quee. That is unique to the first person to complete everything! I have some updates and I'll edit my OP once they are live. There was a random element to a lot of it, there was also specific stuff it feeds on which gave varying numbers. @woeful solar just didn't miss a beat and RNGesus graced his potato.

Thanks for having fun with my silliness.

[woeful solar]

I like puzzles

[faint sedge]

Congratulations Gryzzlbok!

[woeful solar]

||You pet your potato and it whispers, "You're the best potato dad a Quee could ask for." The potato glows for a moment and infuses its spirit into you. It looks drained. [You were awarded 500 experience.]||It called me dad!!

[inland basin]

Wait is that repeatable?

[noble yacht]

Congrats.

[sonic wadi]

I'm guessing it's a cooldown

[noble yacht]

I'm guessing 1x/day.

[inland basin]

Was it put in your dome or instantly absorbed?

[woeful solar]

||in my dome. and yeah, its repeatable after we infuse the potato back to full spirit, and the amount we get seems tobe determined by how happy it is, so gotta r edo the other steps, good thing is all the other steps can be done simultaneously since they do not share cooldowns||

[silver kite]

Maybe I can cap by ||Queexp||

[inland basin]

Interesting

[undone nimbus]

Heh this is a pretty fun little doodad.

[rotund yoke]

(in before the CRIES of the lazy) All those spuds on the townsquare bench..... RIP

[undone nimbus]

At some point I'd love a full "behind the scenes" on this one. Maybe after a few more are done. Some of the stuff that went into it looks really elaborate!

[sonic wadi]

I feel we should start to call GM Trolling "spudding" or something if this ends up being way better than any single-shot RPA

[rotund yoke]

I got the solution, first rule of spud club, you don't talk about Queeexp

[edgy furnace]

I'm not sure how it's better than an RPA when it provides field experience and not bonus absorption!

[inland basin]

||So you can do it every 4 hours basically?||

[tall kayak]

Wyrom: Today is the end of days.
Jara: Promise? Oh you mean potatoes. Nevermind, carry on.

[woeful solar]

|| my guess is every 7.5 days since the infuse is the longest process||

[rotund yoke]

You are probably right, its not "crazy better" in the short term but QoL over time

[edgy furnace]

Seems like a great thing for like an empath chilling at town square waiting for wounds.

[elder rivet]

||if it's "just" going into field exp though it isn't that huge of a gain, mechanically. but it would be interesting to see how much the amount can get up to if it's fully cared for before the harvest||

[tall kayak]

Mashed Potato Ice Cream is all I can think of.

[rotund yoke]

I cant wait for the next mania, when 1,000 spuds get taken out of cloaks and rubbed

[tall kayak]

Congratulations @woeful solar || on your many sleepless nights being a proud potato parent! ||

[woeful solar]

||I actually slept in today, 11 hours of sleep||

[tall kayak]

||Tamagotchi||

[woeful solar]

@dusky flax ||not sure if youre still around, im with Xardkor's PC in game, and Im looking at his tater and something seems wrong with his tater tot, it cant be infused and it doesnt have a face at all nor is it whispering anymore||

[woeful solar]

||Yeah, im sure feeding it alchohol/potatos wasnt the optimal happiness level
Google says: Use liquid feeds with vinegar, citrus and other acidic substances around potato plants.
I guess he getting OJ!!||

[tall kayak]

||

Stumbles upon Gryzzlbok 36 hours from now, still having not slept and standing over a juice press muttering the words, "... only healthy meals for my potato child.." in a terrifying psychotic tone.

||

[woeful solar]

||we gotta solve the maximum exp output puzzle now!||

[crude orchid]

best visual

[elder rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/idiocracy-electrolytes-gatorade-thirsty-dehydrated-gif-14846789

[dusky flax]

I looked at it, the correct path forward was not being done.

[woeful solar]

||well i cant see his text what he was typing. but the fact that infuse wasnt working, was giving a complete different message and the face wasnt on the tater, left me perplexed. he said the potato was whispering to him the last few days and it suddenly stopped. Im not sure exactly what could or did happen, but I was with him at the Dryad and when he did the thing it didnt do the thing WINK WINK if you know what I mean||

[dusky flax]

@celest ingot let me know when you're around again and able to go to the spot.

[faint sedge]

Gryzzl, have you discovered any additional interactions now that yours is fully sprouted?

[woeful solar]

||one new verb opened up so far, its the one that gives you exp, I dont wanna put it here without Wyrom's permission, but i began feeding it different foods and drinks, im still waiting for the next play session if he wants to go somewhere special or not. and i began reinfusing him cuz when he gives you exp, he drains all his spirit, so he needs to be reinfused. its my understanding his happiness level determines how much of a boon he gives you. when you look at him you can see his happiness level. Wyrom said he is working on the ANALYZE verb still, if i can think of something I missed ill make sure to report here. I googled what was best to feed potatos and im seeing different stuff, so im testing OJ and pine needs currently. hope this helps||

[faint sedge]

That's cute. I was just curious if it was more "pet-like" in any way. If it follows, has any interactions aside from the care activities, etc. Someone compared it to a tomagachi, and that does feel accurate. Love those things.

[dusky flax]

There are quite a few things added at the end, I'll check on that to make sure they activated at the end.

[silver kite]

RIP to all the tomagachis and digimon in the digidevices, not to mention the nitendogs and the neopets

[woeful solar]

he currently looks like this after I absorbed exp from him and began refeeding him||The potato appears to be alive. Its small face looks around with a blank expression. Its skin taking on a deep orange hue and it appears it was last fed a lumpy purple potato. The potato looks to be gaining some energy back. It looks reserved. It looks parched. It looks famished. It looks bored.||
he looked like this before i sucked the life out of him
||>look at potato The potato appears to be alive. Its small face looks around with a blank expression. Its skin taking on a russet hue and it appears it was last fed a small rose. The potato looks full of energy. It looks overjoyed. It looks parched. It looks famished. It looks bored.|| Makes me wonder if I would have renourished him if I could have gotten a bigger boon.

[dusky flax]

Look will be updated shortly, it isn't registering the being "done"

[celest ingot]

At the spot, thinking druidical thoughts. Like, how does one construct a wicker potato?

[celest ingot]

My potato had gone to the dark side, but Wyrom fixed it.
I'm still wondering if there's a way to construct wicker in game. I can forage slender twigs, but is there any way of constructing anything with them?

[hushed leaf]

I don't think wicker can be player-made, but there have definitely been things sold off-the-shelf that have wicker in their short/long/show.

[woeful solar]

Excellent!

[calm granite]

so it's too late to claim a potato now
unless wyrom wishes to create a potatobox verb for the late adopters

[woeful solar]

@dusky flax ||does the playtime cooldown not reset until the other steps are re-completed?||

[dusky flax]

||Should be 12 hours still. I can peek. I have a bunch of pending updates, I figured out why it was misbehaving, but it was a little extra.||

[woeful solar]

need me to log back in?

[dusky flax]

Yeah, I need like 2 minutes.

[woeful solar]

My potato witnessed his first duel at the boulder, now he wont shut up about wanting to be a sorceror

[dusky flax]

Happens to the best of us.

||What's it showing you when you LISTEN?||

[woeful solar]

||ahh listen works now. it wasnt earlier||

[dusky flax]

||Yeah your timer got reset when you finished in a weird way. It will be fine once I get this update in.||

[woeful solar]

||>listen pota You hold your potato to your ear and hear the faint whisper, "I want to play somewhere hot and damp." Roundtime: 2 sec. I think he wants to go to a den of Ill repute||

[dusky flax]

[candid geode]

Lol

[faint sedge]

What syntax do I use when I find a correct spot to ||Play||?

The good news is, I can finally hug my potato.

[faint sedge]

Struggling with this step since the obvious verbs dont' seem to work. ||PLAY, PLAY POTATO, PLAY WITH POTATO...||

[neon oasis]

||bury||

[faint sedge]

😮

[hushed leaf]

||Jungle Room|| :whistle:

[woeful solar]

Look verb changed a ....."Quee" bit...
||>look at pota The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body. Its skin taking on a deep orange hue and it appears it was last fed some pine needles. The potato has been infused two times and looks long-faced. Quee has awarded you 500 experience over the course of your friendship.||

[woeful solar]

he is obviously going through puberty right now

[faint sedge]

So cute!

[rotund yoke]

someone feed their Quee a 10x lumnis brooch

[wide elbow]

Definitely going to experiment with optimal hydration and feeding once done

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/potato-companion-planting-guide

[tall kayak]

||Temple of Love||

[river moth]

||i swear i have fed my potato at least 20 times.. i have no idea whats happening here.. ||

[dusky flax]

||I'll start finishing the ANALYZE for the completed ones and spill the beans on some other stuff. I believe we still only have 1 finished, but 16 of them are pretty close.||

[somber storm]

Hey you potato-savvy Lords and Ladies: If I don't ||pour drinks on my potato|| because I've simply forgot about the timer, ||does the potato get more and more parched and dehydrated?? –– Like if I take two days off to play on my other character, does the potato completely reset to square one??||

Thanks for any tips.

[woeful solar]

You monster!
By the way. Stick the potato in the family trunk in your locker that way your other fella can help it along the way. That is what I did when I progressed mine because I split my time with the other toon on my account, but Id recomment doing the 8th play time on the characther you wish to get the title on.

[somber storm]

||So it will reset and I have to do all the POURing on it again?|| Not cool 😕

[woeful solar]

I doubt it would reset, I havent been cruel to Spuddy and deny him nourishment 😛 to find out!

[somber storm]

Heh.

[analog vine]

I think only you got the title, Gryzzlbok, the first of his name 😄

[dusky flax]

There is not a custom title for anyone else, just the first person to solve it.

#1153877040202780783 message

I updated the OP.

Click if you dare.

[strong elk]

Potatowned?

[wide elbow]

||After doing some research on Wyrom's hints I would think tomato juice and strand of seaweed are the best things for watering and feeding.||

[dusky flax]

||I made it more generalized with certain nutrients, and I realize there are some overlaps that I couldn't do much about.||

[silver kite]

I was thinking ||beans for feeding, they're rich in magnesium, potassium and phosphate, and basically no nitrogen. Maybe that means bean water would be best for growth... can potatos thrive on beans and coffee?||

[wide elbow]

||Coffee grounds are supposed to be a decent fertilizer so maybe coffee for the drink and seaweed for the food as seaweed fertilizer is supposed to be good. The only other though would be the vegetables or flowers that are good to grow with potatoes.||

[silver kite]

||I was thinking less fertilizer, and more what nutrients they need since Wyrom has mentioned that a couple of times|| though I suppose it's kind of the same conversation lol

[woeful solar]

||You place a knobby sentient potato blossoming some pine needles on your shoulder, which somehow stays put.|| ||reffering to your new notes in the OP, Id have to guess TOSS is one of the verbs to determine happiness level||

[hushed leaf]

This potatopet is so frigging awesome, I'm looking forward to post-EG to start the process of getting my potato sentience!

[woeful solar]

||Im glad to see we can carry the potatoes on our shoulders, I was making plans to carry one in a satchel/makeshift slingshot||

[woeful solar]

||if 500 exp is max, then feeding it vodka and potatoes was a good idea! 💡 ||

[analog vine]

why not both?

[primal prism]

There are so many spoiler tags to dig through, but I was under the impression everyone was getting 500 the first time around.

Yeah, its in the OP.

[wide elbow]

It will be a neat past time to experiment with hydration and feeding to figure out the optimal stuff or just not bother.

If you optimize it would earn an additional 17,750 exp per year approx. More realistically probably close to 10-12k exp. It's a great goofy pet.

[crude orchid]

@woeful solar ||I can't believe I rented a boat for a potato||

[fierce fable]

If it's going into your head and not into your pool then it's not really doing that unless you're frequently letting yourself get belled (I know plenty of people are while RPing, just saying). For others, it's just maybe the difference between 5-10 more minutes on a supernode not having to go back out to hunt. So far I'm not sure I shouldn't have taken the violet orb but there's still a lot to be revealed.

[rotund yoke]

Selling 1 oblong sentient potato, will trade for unattuned indigo orb....

[rotund yoke]

If Wyrom gave you the option, would you eat your sentiment potato child raised since birth? ||As you hear the frantic Queees when your mouth closes in on it 💀 , all for 1 measly violet orb.....||

[faint sedge]

Reserving judgement to see how interactive it becomes when it's fully alive and developed.

[edgy furnace]

||Should try to 308 the finished potato to see if you can accelerate the infusion phase!||

[fierce fable]

I would wait and see before I conclude anything...if it's a high maintenance pet that gives little benefit...but I am kind of optimistic that Wyrom has made it better than what we know so far 🙂

Not that I don't value a weekly red exp orb...but how much has to go into getting that? I guess it can probably be scripted soon enough, making it less tedious.

[faint sedge]

You are the only one who gets that title 🙂 I was somehow scrolled WAY up.

[sonic wadi]

a Gravy Boat?

[dusky flax]

The exp awarded is field exp not instant exp, so you can get more out of it if timed properly.

[woeful solar]

This is new
||Your sentient potato hums an adventurous tune!||

[tall kayak]

||It's the Wizard midi music.|| 😂

[woeful solar]

it reminds me back in the 80s carrying a boombox on your shoulder walking down the street
or maybe that was just an east coast thing

[celest ingot]

I have this vision of you walking around Evermore with a potato blaring out Ghost Town on your shoulder.

[radiant bloom]

||Does it exceed saturation?||

[dusky flax]

Yes.

[fierce fable]

so the extra benefit we're talking about is an extra 1-3 exp per pulse for a few minutes? maybe 13 minutes of an average of 2 extra exp per pulse so 26 sped up exp gain

combine it with a double exp boost for a an extra free 26 exp

[woeful solar]

https://tenor.com/view/doug-maclean-nhl-hockey-stats-statistics-gif-13408391465163304912

[fierce fable]

I'm just curious about the choice to make it field exp - instant absorb 500 exp once per week or whatever is pretty tiny compared to what's offered with lumnis brooches - and those require no maintenance

[fierce fable]

https://tenor.com/view/will-ferrell-confused-math-huh-what-gif-10118626

[sonic wadi]

unless you're playing 24/7, field XP versus instant is largely moot, just leave yourself logged in when you do sleep

but having it be field means people can apply it to alts to get lumnis multiplier etc.

[fierce fable]

a violet orb provides 42875 bonus exp - if it were instant absorb 500 (max) it would take over 85 weeks of potato maintenance, assuming ideal conditions getting the 500 exp target every time, to achieve the same benefit from the consolation orb

[dusky flax]

500 exp on top of a saturation with a violet orb and Lumnis is a whole lot more.

[fierce fable]

that doesn't net any long-term gain since those are both finite total exp? just finishes your orb/lumnis faster right?

[dusky flax]

Faster on a node, maximizing benefits.

[woeful solar]

Im happy with my potato reguardless of what ever exp it did or didnt give, he is like my lil traveling buddy now

[fierce fable]

a violet orb provides 42875 bonus exp...we're talking about each weekly potato use providing an extra couple dozen exp I think - would take decades to match the consolation prize like that hehe

[sonic wadi]

how does 500 become "a couple dozen"? you're right, if you are hunting 24/7 without ever stopping, the violet orb would be better, but presumably you do stop to poop at some point

[celest ingot]

Does it become inedible at some point? Its a decent exp bonus to an alt, but trivial on a main.

[rotund yoke]

I don't think this was ever meant to be a tradeoff for violet orb exp, its just fun toy.... only 1 potato but infinite violet orbs...

[neon oasis]

I’d say pets are pretty expensive on their own. The exp feels like more of a value add

[hushed leaf]

I'm definitely looking forward to my spuddy pet, even without the extra little xp boost it gives every so often!

[neon oasis]

After you infuse it 10 times and it becomes sentient you can’t eat it

[faint sedge]

It feels more like a prop vs a pet in current form. Not saying it's not a cool prop, but it doesn't follow me around and interact with things the way pets do.... so far.

[woeful solar]

I think some of you are overlooking something. Sure you have youre choice, ||eat the potato and get the violet orb|| or accept the real gift that Wyrom took the time and energy to make for us, that also happens to reward us with small amounts of exp over time. Bare in mind he said there are still easter eggs we havent discovored yet. I for one am trully thankful, Im not saying this to earn brownie points, but I trully enjoyed this adventure with the potato so far, and I been having fun RPing with it as well. Im a bit sadded I ate my potato on the characther I RP the most with because he coulda had a drinking buddy, before I realized there was a better prize

[faint sedge]

It's not a matter of overlooking anything, it's a matter of folks having differing preferences and enjoying different flavors. The prop is a cool one, but it's not going to spark joy for some people.

[sonic wadi]

Wyrom also likes to tinker, who knows what he'll ad

[woeful solar]

fair enuff

[sonic wadi]

I'm pretty sure they're all potato flavored ::ducks::

[faint sedge]

I think potatoes are funny and enjoy having a little tomagachi type thing to maintain over time. Doubt I will be diligent enough to get 500 xp per week out of it. But I am going to have fun playing with its look. However, I don't see it as a pet.

[silver kite]

I'm not sure that math checks out lol, 500 exp/week x 52 weeks is 26,000 exp. That's assuming no gift/rpa

[fierce fable]

I see what you're saying - the pooping thing makes no sense unless you're taking a 30+ minute poop and you need more time before you hit clear as a bell. Yes you could pop it at the end of the night and then stay logged on...that's a little more complicated than it sounds when you're also managing alts and swapping their bounties and unlike a red orb I think you want to use the potato asap to get the new timer going? Not exactly straightforward on top of the maintenance to make the spud happy.

I recognizing the RP/prop/pet value but that's a value that's subjective and some will like it more than others. I'm not quite sure how to RP my sinister ivas cleric playing around with a talking potato though.

I'm just looking at the exp bonus provided and wondering about the decision to make it field exp instead of instant, which wouldn't be that amazing anyways (but in the instant-scenario it's clearly worth it over the long term).

[rotund yoke]

We get more than enough orbs from various places these days, why not have a unique spud vs just another 25 TPs...

[faint sedge]

Spuds McLumnis Brooch

[silver kite]

||>feed pota
You hold a jacinthe evermore rosehip to your potato's little face and it devours the rosehip.
Roundtime: 2 sec.

A knobby sentient potato fused with a jacinthe evermore rosehip looks a bit more fleshy!|| It seems the Naidem forageables were acceptable nutrients lol

[woeful solar]

some people you just cant make happy 😛

[rotund yoke]

I do think a kill switch where you can cook and eat your little buddy might be a devious copout for some ppl who arent liking it...

[tight wigeon]

All the low-hanging Samwise/Gollum jokes make it worthwhile.

[faint sedge]

Or, some people are easily pleased with a simple 4x RPA. Don't get me wrong, glad I didn't eat mine.

[tall kayak]

I'm in it for the unique factor and appreciation of art. We all make stuff we're proud of and hopefully want others to enjoy it too. Always good to have options depending on your preferences though.

[worn jolt]

I think the potato is cool but I’m not about that gemstone tamagotchi life so I ate the potatoes this morning. Delicious.

[woeful solar]

So its settled! we agree to agree! 😛

[faint sedge]

For sure. It's a cool little item and probably one of my favorites as far as giftbox goodies go. I love "dailies" like this. The potato might be a close second to the confetti hand canon for my top favorite.

[woeful solar]

What if something happens when multiple potatoes are in the same place....

[faint sedge]

Like Furbies? lol

[elder rivet]

You become potabros

[woeful solar]

I am afraid to ask what a furbies is

[silver kite]

The climate stuff is a lil' difficult

[fierce fable]

In the early potato days we knew that the violet exp orb was the consolation prize and so I think it's reasonable that some of us hoped there'd be a somewhat better long-term option at the end of the puzzle (as compared to the orb). Sure it could have been an RP route vs an EXP route being offered but when Gryzzlbok found it gave 500 exp I was like: "ahah! that is better than a violet orb over the long term - sweet!" Then we found out it was field exp...

[woeful solar]

Any chance our potates are like sooped up spirit beasts that have a corporeal form?

[dusky flax]

Wait, you rather have instant exp?

[elder rivet]

i mean...it's still better. but yeah i'm kinda surprised it wasn't a violet orb at the end + the potabro

[silver kite]

I prefer field exp, since gifting and orb modifiers turn it into a lot more than 500 exp

[dusky flax]

Field exp is infinitely better than instant exp.

[solid jungle]

can't really think of any benefit of instant over field, especially if it can oversaturate

[faint sedge]

Can you use the potato if already saturated?

[fierce fable]

uhh you'll have to explain yourselves - instant is instant - field you have to find a way to absorb where you otherwise wouldn't

you'd take a red exp orb over a slightly nerfed green exp orb?

Sure you can math out a way to make the red exp orb better over IDEAL conditions but it takes a lot more effort to make that happen.

[sonic wadi]

you again seem to be assuming a 24/7 experience gain time. If you stop gaining XP for even an hour, say to sleep, field is the same as instant, at worse, and better because of multipliers

[solid jungle]

field exp is affected by modifiers and counts towards resources.. instant is not

[fierce fable]

guys modifiers have a FINITE amount of exp bonus awarded - you do not get to increase that amount - you can only burn through it faster

[sonic wadi]

I wonder if Wyrom can share the % of characters that burn their lumnis each week?

[dusky flax]

Not 50%!

[elder rivet]

the total exp gain should be the same but the field exp can be used for resource gain, etc. you act like "popping it before bed" is some insurmountable task it really isn't. It's marginally better for the reasons you stated (you actually want to be OUT of saturated faster if you're optimized for finishing bounties, etc.). The field exp is probably substantially better for casual players, very marginally better (with some caveats on usage) for people maximizing exp gain. instant would certainly be a lot easier for almost the same gain if you're an exp machine but it's not a huge deal.

[dusky flax]

But we have a whole lot of characters, I don't think I know the account vs character numbers.

Average user play time isn't an hour a day though.

[sonic wadi]

yeah, but Characters matter, since you could potato XP an alt one day a week for etra XP on that alt. Hell, one of my characters hasn't hunted in... 27 levels?

[fierce fable]

maybe it could be like a lumnis brooch where you can set it to whichever one you prefer - instant vs field - I'd take an easy instant 500 exp over 526 exp that I have to jump through some hoops to make happen

[solid jungle]

I guess it depends on how you play.. if you're never not earning xp while logged in I can see how you'd prefer instant.. but for someone like me who is just on their rear end for 90% of the time, field is the much better deal, lol

[fierce fable]

"much better" is highly debatable - I think 500 vs 526 is what we're talking about assuming you're using a double exp boost at the ideal time

[still sleet]

It’s funny because my view was also that instant experience is a lot better than field experience which is why I assumed it was made field experience

[fierce fable]

yeah I was laughing at the same irony - but maybe that means there's hope Wyrom would give us the option if it's considered a "lesser" option!

[sonic wadi]

this mostly goes to highlight that most people cannot even begin to imagine people playing in a different manner than they do

[fierce fable]

that's a little hyperbolic - for me it's a matter of having set up routines and systems to play the way I play and while I acknowledged I could make your idea work, there are a number of hurdles I'd rather not deal with if I could just have 500 instant exp instead.

[still sleet]

I mean, it is clear to me why some people would prefer field experience, it’s just not what I prefer

I think the argument about not understanding player preferences is fairly confusing in the context of brooches of lumnis

[fierce fable]

for me i kind of look at this how I look at planar vs spiritual for my lumnis brooch - I'll take the instant every time b/c my gemstone life with all my alts and stuff is complicated enough - I like to just rub that brooch while I hunt, extending my hunt by like 2 minutes, and get my daily extra exp absorbed and be done with it.

[dusky flax]

I can look to make a switch between instant and field. And there is an evil optout. It's more involved though. I can probably make it easier, but hopefully zesttest doesn't catch it if I do.

I do consider this on the pet side vs prop though. Like the wisps from CCF. Sure, it's not a follow-me pet, but we have those. The potato doesn't grow legs or anything. This is also free vs 500,000 scrip or extremely rare RNG. I do have plans to expand on the potato for other stuff, they wouldn't be core additions to the script, but addons that either cost silver or involve another free gift down the road. The WEAR function doesn't restrict features either. There are a lot of companion-y things with that part. It might be too slow though. I might speed that up. It reacts to a lot of different situations and areas.

[faint sedge]

I look forward to discovering more and seeing where it goes. I would definitely spend silver to enhance my tader friend.

[fierce fable]

I want to be clear that I have enjoyed this puzzle and I think it's pretty great as a free gift - so I really appreciate the time, effort, and thought that you put into it Wyrom. I'm also looking forward to learning more about it and understanding the potato further because I am still a day or two away from completing mine.

I was just sharing my personal and probably minority feeling about the exp being field instead of instant and I hope you'll either make that toggle-able or leave it the way it is if that's what most players do, in fact, prefer. There's probably no way to make anything that everyone loves and I'm cool with this one being more-geared to those who play different than I do 🙂

[woeful solar]

when you say evilpotout, you mean we can return the violet orb for a potato? cuz I havent rubbed the orb yet

[celest ingot]

Those of my characters that are not interested in a pet would want field exp, and those that are, would want instant.

[wide elbow]

I like the idea of a 100 million silver unlock to allow your tator to gain psionic powers and damage enemies like the thaum tomes.

[tall kayak]

||That's Duskruin 2035, trade account attuned violet orb for one potato. ||

[rotund yoke]

We need battle potatoes, spend our time leveling up our potatoes

[wide elbow]

A paid currency unlock could be to add a different part (arms, legs, weapons) at each paid event to allow it to become mobile and function as a sorcerer animate in combat.

[faint sedge]

Potato spirit beast RSN.

[woeful solar]

this is how we unlock the savant class

[fierce fable]

all this time we thought savants were never going to happen, but it was just an excess of nitrogen?

[tall kayak]

I recall he said this was soft launch savants. 😂

[rotund yoke]

I would spend 50m if my shoulderworn tater became a literal psionic pylon like the elemental hand ones

[woeful solar]

so like some NPC Potato farmer we could turn an attuned violet orb into for a potato sounds like a grand idea 😄

[wide elbow]

Bonus points if other pets eat your potato and become a mutant pet. Tatodragon. Weretato. Tatodrake.

[woeful solar]

Why do I feel like a lobbyist right now....

[rotund yoke]

gryzzlbok got a degree in Potato Law

[tall kayak]

Lobbyists offer brib.... incentives.

[celest ingot]

So do we get to ambush newly rolled savants and sacrifice them for violet orbs?

[solid jungle]

https://tenor.com/view/charlieday-bird-law-gif-8142507

[analog vine]

I appreciate all the time and effort you put into this, Wyrom. Even if the temptation is high to eat my little buddy.

[crude orchid]

how this got glazed over by everyone but Cylnthia 🧨

[dusky flax]

Oh, and yes, the evil optout beyond phase 0 is very rough. I will change it a bit because I really doubt everyone remembers the CCF lore. It was before the days anyone was saving information on the wiki, it was still the Krakiipedia and rarely edited.

You'd have to find it on the play.net forums or have been playing for 10 years.

[sonic wadi]

so there IS still a way to opt out even after phase 0? that should make everybody happy since they can get an orb

[dusky flax]

Yup, I am going to make it easier though.

[tall kayak]

||Please don't let it involve a dagger and the potato saying, "No, don't do it!" like hitting Janet's reset button on The Good Place. 🤭 ||

[sonic wadi]

"I have little tubers!!"

[dusky flax]

Every system I've made part of events are really rich with lore. And I like to revisit my things or revisit things previous GMs did. Like the Web 2.0 storyline for the glaes spiders to become real spiders (and the glaes was their exoskeleton) or Gostahl telling the exact location of Bloodriven before it was ever released. Or most of Khlat's adventures that are now ancient artifacts (whip, tomb, and a few other minor things). Vaemyr's harpoon (Vee's Wake). Skryn's existence. It's all connected.

I do need to take a potato break to finish some QC though, so any updates will be after Sonreeva's launch.

[sonic wadi]

SonQueeva? Take your spud to dungeon day.

[compact totem]

maybe our little spud buds could absorb the 500xp for us! Sorta like LTE

[sonic wadi]

And then have a quest to give your spud a class? Cause I'd totally go empath. Little dude will be a healer

[neon oasis]

I went to the Convocation of Coraesine Field in 2009. Wasn’t around for any of the others. No idea what a dryad or potato would have to do with it.

[radiant bloom]

The weird world of GemStone, where we have people throwing away great ToT rewards so they can get 5000 field exp, other people who think field exp is worthless and want instant absorb, other people throwing away all kinds of exp to loot hunt, and somehow I now find myself in the position of contemplating how infinitely more I'd like indigo exp orbs if they stuffed 21875 field exp in my head.

[woeful solar]

Your sentient potato whistles a jaunty little ditty!

[woeful solar]

will there be an OPT BACK IN if you ate your tater?

[warped obsidian]

Field experience counts towards resources, so I'd always take that

[rigid nebula]

You have to wait like 8-12 hours though

[woeful solar]

Rolling the potato changes the appearance to these in respect to what you feed it. Im sure I may have missed some ||topped, flourising, blossoming, coupled, joined, sprouting, vegetating, fused, capped, merged, bound, paired, connected, growing||

[edgy furnace]

||Let the potato wear our advguild badge and provide the benefits when we wear the potato!||
||Just a half baked idea from my fully baked potato.||

[reef sleet]

Okay....very dumb question. How does a non magic user cook this potato?

[worn jolt]

I handed my monk’s to my wizard and he used 906 on it. Worked fine. As for… 100% solo? Good question I dunno lol.

[reef sleet]

stove didn't work

[sonic wadi]

I'm pretty sure it has to be a fire spell, so you'd need to hand off

[fierce fable]

this is only because going afk/sleep for 10 hours while you absorb 22k exp is a great way to get free exp and work on resources and happens to be almost the perfect amount for an overnight job...however I bet you wouldn't like a violet orb to work that way b/c then it would not be good unless you weren't going to play for 23 hours. Likewise I think 500 exp per week is far less ideal than your indigo orb example b/c it takes extra logistics for very little gain.

[reef sleet]

Anyone want to burn this tato for me?

Time to eat this thing and kill it

[hushed leaf]

I'm at the Naidem exit, if you want it fried.

[fiery veldt]

A Mr potato head!

[fierce fable]

and disaster scenario: at Midnight you use your indigo orb and put 22k exp in your already full head and have 23k to absorb overnight. You go to bed dreaming of your huge exp gains in the morning...but the server crashes at 12:30am. You wake up in the morning to start hunting and find you still have 19k exp in your head and now your orb only gained you 3k more exp than you would have gotten if it weren't field! eek lol

[compact totem]

how would you feel about feeding 500xp to the potato and being awarded a 500xp 2x mod

[tall kayak]

||Large piles of experience....mmmm....dopamine. 🤤 ||

[fierce fable]

if I could feed that instantly it sounds good to me!

[severe sail]

I'm trying to give a potato a drink and nothing is working, it all just rolls off.

tea, coffee, hot chocolate, cider, various alcohols, plain spring water....

[still sleet]

Is your potato thirsty

[elder rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/agnes-agatha-harkness-kathryn-hahn-wandavision-blink-gif-20474213

[severe sail]

Well, I finished infusing and now it's saying 'd...r...y...'

oh, gotta go to nations first, looks like.

[radiant bloom]

Good thing the Dragonfly Festival just happened recently. 🎉

[primal prism]

Is there a warning for the evil opt-out? Would hate to explore my way into a spudless future

[dusky flax]

Yeah, just like EAT, but there are people who didn't feel it was clear.

[primal prism]

Perfect, thanks

[lethal sky]

It would be cool if you could ||bank the final reward, restart the process, and activate that aggregate reward as desired||

[radiant bloom]

||So basically it would be the "save for Duskruin auctions" potato.|| 🤣

[soft nymph]

There's enough stuff to buy at duskruin!!!

[lethal sky]

https://tenor.com/view/nose-tap-taps-nose-nose-tap-taps-nose-gif-22919740

[woeful solar]

sometimes things need to be spelled out for us 🤪
Gutstorm is the classic example of someone who does the opposite of what told not to do

[woeful solar]

||```>poke pota
You give your potato a playful poke, which causes it to give a short little snicker.

nudge pota
You give your potato a little nudge, causing it to wobble.
hug pota
You give your potato a little hug. It loudly whispers, "You're a good person!"```||

[woeful solar]

if I had to surmise a guess, I think my potato likes to hunt bandits
||Your sentient potato hums a war song, fit for a decisive battle!||
Im curious to know if the sentient messages with the humming and whistling are class based or all the same

[fierce fable]

One day the rest of us will catch you and we can share these things - one day 😛

[woeful solar]

I cant wait, I wanna see a room full of taters humming and singing at the next mania!

[wide elbow]

Lol. There's a threshold for potatoes in room > x where they transform into urdaemons and kill everyone.
Before you know it we've brought forth the second urdaemon war

[dreamy oriole]

Decisive Battle is such a jam, though. Potatopal has good taste.

[woeful solar]

||>beseech pota You try to draw on the power of your sentient potato, but nothing happens.||
wonder if this is a future upgrade 😮
||>pray pota You whisper a prayer to an oblong sentient potato growing a lumpy purple potato, and it whispers one back to you.|| btw this one looks the same to others as it does to me, not sure if that is correct or not

[rare imp]

Blasphemy! Pickles are the tops! Pickles > taders > tarts > bagels is far more accurate 😜

[woeful solar]

I remember them dunkin donuts comercials from the 70s as a kid

[radiant bloom]

||1 potato finally finished, some number to go.|| 🎉
Edit: ||Will wait to use it until everyone's at the same step for synchronization's sake, though. 🤣 I think a few more finish tonight... maybe.||

[cursive parrot]

I just got to phase.... 4? I think

||Are the play areas room specific, or general vicinities? ||

[soft nymph]

Once you've opened the gift box is there a time limit within which you have to start the quest?

[woeful solar]

||mostly general vicinities, but there have been some that seem they may be a single room in an area, but im sure there are multiple rooms for each.|| ||if youre having trouble finding a location, hit me up, I been compiling a list as Im sure others have as well||

[cursive parrot]

||can someone help me with the locations? i definitely wont have the patience for this part on my own||

[woeful solar]

||Sure||

[woeful solar]

||so poking it changed as it happiness level rised. It snickered before, now its laughing

You give your potato a playful poke, which causes it to laugh!```||
||im not sure if location changes his hums when out in the field, near WL I was getting Adventurous tune, I believe On Icemule trail I got the War Song when fighting bandits, and in another location, the Deep Freeze, I got this
```Your sentient potato hums an epic melody, filled with complexities!```|| ||ok he just hummed the warsong in the same location in the deep freeze, maybe it has something to do with critters in the room, or it could just be random||

[woeful solar]

||Happiness level changed his hug message as well

You give your potato a little hug.  It smiles and loudly whispers, "Thank you for taking care of me!"```||

||Leafiara informed me that her potato is currently overjoyed and this is the messaging she is getting at the moment

You give your potato a little hug.  It smiles and chirps, "Thank you for taking excellent care of me!  Someone else would have eaten me for my heart!"
>poke pot
You give your potato a playful poke, which causes it to have a fit of giggles!```||

[analog vine]

omnomnom ❤️

[radiant bloom]

||I think it's max happiness since I only just finished that one and didn't get the exp out yet!||

[hybrid mesa]

If I can toss in my 2 silvers, I only get limited play time and feel like I'd appreciate instant absorbed exp over mind.

Bonus exp through lumnis and orbs is limited in the amount, I have no problem filling my mind and having it tick down.

Double exp boosts are timed and I wouldn't base 500 exp more around them.

But guaranteed 3500 more exp a week seems really nice.

[fierce fable]

it's one use every like 7.5 days (at most) for 500 exp (at most)

[hybrid mesa]

ohh, gotcha

[dawn ermine]

Can anyone help me with a potato joke? I don't know where to starch.

[solid jungle]

check YouTuber

[tall kayak]

Who is a potato’s favorite author? 
||Edgar Allen Poe-tato.||

[fierce fable]

||J>bury potat
You bury your potato, which looks around excitedly! After a moment, you pick it back up and the potato whispers, "Thanks for bringing me here."
Roundtime: 5 sec.

A fingerling sentient potato flourishing a handful of sunflower seeds looks fully befriended to you!
[Congratulations you have fully bonded with your potato! You have now unlocked all the features!]

JR>hug potat
You give your potato a little hug. It smiles and chirps, "Thank you for taking excellent care of me! Someone else would have eaten me for my heart!"||

[dawn ermine]

Where can I find chives?

[solid jungle]

small park in WL offhand..

[faint sedge]

Mister you're not planning to eat that potato, are you??? Next you'll be asking me to churn some butter.

[dawn ermine]

No no! I was hoping for chive hair. 🙂

[faint sedge]

Alright well just know that your potato has his eye on you.

[dawn ermine]

this is kinda a cute hairdo tho

an oblong sentient potato capped with a periwinkle seedhead of beebalm

[faint sedge]

D'awwwww!

[dawn ermine]

it's a Fraggle

[fierce fable]

||I wonder now that it's done what the timers/requirements are like for feed/drink/play/infuse...like I'm definitely not going to continue logging on every hour to give it a drink! I wonder how much that will hurt the 500 exp goal or whatever.||

[brittle ember]

||what pool does the 500 exp go into? regular field exp?||

[woeful solar]

||So like if you want to keep this hairdo but feed him something different, I believe you can mess around with APPROVE to lock what settings you dont want changed||

[dawn ermine]

||[You set your potato to only change the base descriptions.]

glance
You glance down to see an oblong sentient potato in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
appro pot
[You set your potato to change the base and long descriptions.]
glance
You glance down to see an oblong sentient potato capped with a periwinkle seedhead of beebalm in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
appro pot
[You set your potato to not change descriptions.]
glance
You glance down to see an oblong sentient potato capped with a periwinkle seedhead of beebalm in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.||

seems setting it to only change ||base description|| removes ||the long||

[dusky flax]

||Yeah, you can play around with the settings to mix and match how it looks that way. I figured with special herbs that exist out there, people would want a way to save it. Also, if you feed it something that you don't want to impact your look, you can. You can flip it on and off as much as you need to. BREAK will reset everything if you need to start over.||

[dusky flax]

||Field exp, so just like killing creatures. It's impacted by multipliers and offers resources. I do plan to make a setting for instant for those that wish that. Updates will come after Sonreeva is launched and I get through some pending QC tasks.||

[brittle ember]

318 could use the same toggle setting (or least a setting to toggle off xp entirely)

[marsh saffron]

I fed mine chives!

[river moth]

ok i am adamant now that my potato is broken. i have fed it so many times and it has not progressed. i fed it 5 of the ranger luminescent mushrooms, countless acantha leaves, various fruit, ambrominas leaves etc. it just isnt moving past the malnourished stage.

[silver kite]

I'm not going to say it's not stuck, but Wyrom did say different foods progressed the counter at different rates... it takes a while, like 12+ feedings

[rare imp]

||Not sure how we are supposed to tell but Wyrom mentioned that feeding it foods high in Nitrogen could delay progression to the next phase||

[long onyx]

Because redacteds are what redacted redacted

[crude orchid]

when does the analyze change on the potato 👀

[wide elbow]

||Wyrom hinted WHAT you fed it played a big part. Normal real world vegetables that are rich in the right nutrients of phosphorous and magnesium are the best from what I understood from his hints.

The "neat" stuff that only exists in Elanthia is probably some of the worst stuff to feed it.||

[river moth]

okay then. guess i need to start foraging actual food to feed it. will give that a try and see how it works. i figured even if feeding it whatever i wanted it should have still progressed.

[woeful solar]

so real food better then processed elanthian food

[neon oasis]

|| iirc, it also doesn't go through stages on its appearance. it stays malnurished until it gets to the next step ||

[radiant bloom]

Never.

[woeful solar]

I am buying a new PC so I can increase my potato harvesting power

[dusky flax]

Herbs don't really help at all. It's mostly looking for things you need to forage that aren't normal stuff we do.

[tall kayak]

||Gives potato a jalapeno pepper.

Your simple potato has evolved into a hot and spicy spud.
||

[river moth]

well that explains it! thanks for the info. i will change up my potatos diet.

[rare imp]

||Hoping I can get my potato to learn how to sail and become a Seaward Spud! Or, at least help fire cannons! ||😆

[empty rapids]

||Spudbob Ovalpants?||

[rare imp]

||Or, perhaps S"quee"dward!||

[tidal spade]

I wish I had a counter for how many times I've grogged/ watered it.

[dusky flax]

||Bring your fully bonded one on your ship and watch!||

[woeful solar]

||I went sailing with mine last night and all he did was hum adventurous tunes. I guess I should stay out at sea longer||

[dusky flax]

||There are a lot of things it can do. I don't think it's done a fraction of them yet.||

[woeful solar]

||if we beseech it while dead, will it rezz us? The beseech message gives a wierd message like certain conditions must be met, similar to the pray step before you find the dryad. I think I have to active an imagination||

[dusky flax]

||That's part of the beseech verb, nothing to do with potatobro.||

[agile valve]

||Arise, chicken potato.||

[brittle ember]

I'm waiting for potato wiki to be published to explain what all to do with it.

[tall kayak]

||https://tenor.com/view/milk-and-mocha-bear-omnom-gif-7817225841402904682||

[dusky flax]

We're up to 8 people finishing their Quee! All in Prime.

[soft nymph]

Prime rules. Plat drools😎

[rigid nebula]

There’s a potato?

[wise zephyr]

I'm so slow - I just finished the feeding phase

[primal prism]

The feed window doesn't work in my play schedule. Still working on it. ||My twice a year bonus exp is going to be wild. ||

[wise zephyr]

||When you get to the correct place, does the potato just do it's thing? Or do I need to do a verb?||

[primal prism]

||I think someone let slip to bury it? Not there myself yet so can't say for sure. ||

[rare imp]

||Perhaps finding the right place and saying a prayer to your potato might help||

[long onyx]

Found my elfster gift this year

[silver kite]

My coworkers random Facebook ad, was telling him about the GS potato a couple days ago xD

[wise zephyr]

What's the timer on ||playing||? Maybe I'll start a timer to remind me.

[woeful solar]

||12 hours||

[wise zephyr]

Thanks buddy. That's so long... my ADHD brain can't handle all these timers!

[solid jungle]

I'm starting to suspect honeysuckle vines aren't very nutritious

[fierce fable]

I think it would be a nice QoL change to update the ||infuse timer POST-completion to not be 18 hours...which is something I don't really want to keep track of for the rest of time. If it were updated to a resets-at-midnight timer with maybe like an 8 infuses-per-completion cycle it would make it a lot simpler to just do it once a day and be content. Of course I could just infuse once a day and ignore the 18 hour timer and be done in 10 days but it's hard to stop the brain from wanting to do better than that lol. The rest of the timers are also the same post-completion and I'm not sure what that means yet...testing now to see if just doing feed/drink/play twice a day is enough to earn the 500 exp at the end.||

[warped obsidian]

||Wasn't it originally 24 hours, and 18 was in response to feedback?||

[fierce fable]

||Yep but the puzzle pre-completion and the rest of your life post-completion are much different phases. In the beginning you want to complete the puzzle as soon as possible but it's time-gated and reducing to 18 hours makes it less stressful to not have timer-creep. On the other hand, once you're done and just doing the 10 infuses until the end of time, you don't want to be "on the clock" so the speak. Most daily quests operate on a resets-at-midnight strategy so you can just do your thing once a day and not worry about timers.
EDIT: Resets-at-midnight instead of the 24 hour timer (in the beginning) would have been a good change as well - but 18 hours made it even faster to complete if you kept up with it which was nice.||

[warped obsidian]

||I'm sympathetic. I compare it to not-specifically-set Lumnis, where I feel pressure to push it back three hours each week. Actually I gave up, and just get to it when I get to it. But I get it.||

[fierce fable]

yeah the QoL-desiring part of me and the min-max part of my brain are both considering what life with ||a potato-pal looks like going forward and I'm still feeling pressure to meet the timers lol||

[analog vine]

max troll mode.

[pliant rose]

Is there an agreed-upon list of ||best stuff to feed your potato? I know generally what I'm looking for, but has anyone mentioned any real winners?||

[woeful solar]

||I think we are all still in the discovery process, Im sticking with the tried and true Vodka/Potato combo||
||J>look pota J> The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body. Its skin taking on a russet hue and it appears it was last fed a lumpy purple potato. The potato has been infused seven times and looks overjoyed. Quee has awarded you 500 experience over the course of your friendship. He seems pretty damn happy||

[solid jungle]

||I think I've discovered that honeysuckle vine i sNOT a good thing, as I think I'm approaching 16+ feedings without progress||

[twilit pilot]

||Mushrooms! Mine seemed to like them, but haven't gotten to the end yet, so can't be sure, but can't go wrong with mushrooms! Too bad it won't eat pickles, this Picklemeister would be a proud pickled potato parent!||

[pliant rose]

||I've been feeding mine mushrooms, but after 14 or so feedings it still looks famished. I was using some of the ones I foraged from EG though, so maybe that's the problem.||

[woeful solar]

||itll look famished till you finish that phase||

[pliant rose]

||Yeah, I know, but the point I was making is I had already done it 14 times and I'm still in the phase.||

[twilit pilot]

|| I was feeding mine primarily flatheads and the odd blue trafel a couple times, but wasn't counting the numbers of feedings, but I'd say I was averaging 2 feedings a day, for like 6-7 days, so you might be getting close.||

[crude orchid]

||Mine ate pumpkins for a time and has been eating the mushrooms foraged at EG since. Now it's done with the eating thing. Now I didn't keep track AT ALL of how often I did this, but I'm past it now so those mushrooms should work out?||

[neon oasis]

||I fed mine random stuff that I could forge in Kraken Falls and looked interesting. I didn't count so I have no idea how many it took.||

[rotund yoke]

||Mine ate all different vegetables around EN and were around 13||

[radiant bloom]

I really want it to be February so ||I can have even more chaotic team arena screen scroll than before with five potatoes whistling the background music of the grand slaughter.||

[solid jungle]

||I'm now envisioning a chorus of potatoes in the stands whistling the hand-to-hand combat theme from the original Star Trek||

[compact totem]

has anyone ||played with their potato in a wet room and would be able to confirm the room as wet? I've tried every swimmable/splashable room I could think of west of the Dragonspine, including:
Darkstone Bay
Charl's Shrine
Graveyard Creek
Coastal Cliffs
Vornavis Beach
Pauper's Pool/Hottub
Vipershroud swamp/creek
Locksmehr River
and more!||

[radiant bloom]

||I used the Vornavis Bog where crocodiles and shelfae live. Kinda surprised to hear that the Graveyard creek doesn't work, actually!||

[crude orchid]

||this is for salty place too? or just wet? I've only hit 2 "hints from the potato" for location so far though myself. took it on a boat in Solhaven first go around, and now it wants ... well it DID want somewhere cold and damp but apparently I took too long to bring it somewhere cause now it wants somewhere temperate.||

[compact totem]

||You hold your potato to your ear and hear the faint whisper, "I still want to play somewhere wet."||

[crude orchid]

||Hrm. Okay not what I had before. I wonder if the same spot would work though? The rent a boat? Row out a smidge and then do it? I literally plunged it into the water there 😄 ||

||Penguin pool in Icemule?||

[radiant bloom]

||Saltwater worked for me on the Vornavis Coast beach.||

[compact totem]

Interesting! That definitely did not work for me. ||[Vornavis, The Bog - 5069] did work, though||

[radiant bloom]

||As far as I can tell, it's based on the climate and terrain that rangers can SENSE. So each room qualifies for two possible things, but they're not often the two things I'd expect. 😄 ||

Edit: ||Perfect example being that the Solhaven cyclops cave literally has cave in the room name, but doesn't count as a cave for the potato...||

[dusky flax]

@radiant bloom is accurate on what it is based on.

[undone nimbus]

This is why I was asking over in scripting if anyone ||had a script that let us query terrain/climate data||

[dusky flax]

||Someone showed me that ;go2 has it all, which made me sad, but seems like it exists in some fashion already. The messaging matches the ranger output, not the internal terms.||

[compact totem]

is there some means by which a ||non-ranger could source that information other than relying on a ranger or using a script? Honestly I was kinda at my wits end with attempting to find a wet room while my character was swimming around, soaking wet, just trying every room with water haha||

[woeful solar]

@dusky flax ||is ANALYZE unlocked? or Is it LOOK instead now?||

[dusky flax]

Update is pending until after Sonreeva launch.

[wide elbow]

Helgas should qualify as a wet environment

[dusky flax]

||There are ways via forage, but I don't know how much players have really discovered over the years.||

[silver kite]

FWIW that's not super easy to find info, it was queried somehow, I played with it a bit and couldn't figure it out lol. I decided I'd rather experiment and ask friends for help/ideas instead.

[long onyx]

Climate wear?

[dusky flax]

We just need some terrain wear now!

Jeep Wrangler Mount collab.

[hushed leaf]

Virilineus has a website with climate/terrain data here: http://www.virilneus.com/roomdata/room.php (very much NOT up to date with area changes and new areas)

[rotund yoke]

I been trying different map datas and can't get anything to match, like Arid in the map data = lush and verdant in game 😖

[fierce fable]

You scan your surroundings, considering the various flora and fauna found here (and noting those which are absent).  The indications of the temperate climate and the plain dirt environment are clearly evident to your seasoned eye.  You also see a reinforced large wooden gate.```

||>;e echo Map.current.climate
--- Lich: exec1 active.
[exec1: temperate]
--- Lich: exec1 has exited.||
Not aware of any way to use this info effectively though. ||I already have a list of ~~22~~ 23 different climate play areas so maybe I don't need it||

[compact totem]

interesting! ||wet doesn't appear to be on any of the maps at all - maybe it used to be "moist" ?||

[neon oasis]

|| lich’s mapdb json files have the climate in them. I’ll pull up wet climates in a few ||

[rotund yoke]

I tried the json as well and its the same....

I am scared to walk to like Sea of Fire and it ends up being all Wet and Moist climate

[neon oasis]

yeah.. looks like the json has
arid; arid, temperate; cold, damp; cold, dry; freshwater; glacial; hot, damp; humid; moist; none; null; saltwater; snowy, arctic; temperate

[undone nimbus]

now we just need go2 to path you to the nearest {input_climate_here} and we're golden 😎

[rotund yoke]

Luckily one of taters wanted ice and I slipped more than enough times in the Griffin's keen to know that is ICE! see my GS geographical knowledge is paying off already! No need for ;go.....

[dusky flax]

||Climate|| and ||Terrain|| aren't the only places it likes to go. GOOD LUCK!

[silver kite]

I noticed that... I think ||elevation|| is one as well

[tall kayak]

||This gives me Runescape treasure trail vibes.||

[fierce fable]

||>wear my pot
You must be holding a fingerling sentient potato growing a wild carrot to cast at it.||
🤔

[cerulean fiber]

Is it.. is it starting its own garden?

[woeful solar]

||so this is what it looks like when you sing to a completed potato, from someone elses point of view

The potato that XXXXX is holding continues singing off-key, "LA LA LA LA HEY!"```||
|| and from your view it says this
```As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the sentient potato in your hand...

An image of a leaf-enshrouded dryad clouds your version, but abruptly ends!
Roundtime: 5 sec.``` Im gonna revist the Dryad to see if she wants to talk to Spuddy||

[woeful solar]

||Im not sure if this did anything expect change how my potato looks. it was knobby, now its budding
Holding a knobby sentient potato flourishing a lumpy purple potato toward a sovereign weeping willow tree, you whisper a prayer to the Wildwood before you. A sudden breeze swirls through the area as a leaf-enswathed dryad forms from the foliage. She steps forward and places a hand on The potato, smiling at it and nods. The dryad whispers a foreign phrase and the potato starts budding. A whirlwind of leaves engulf the dryad, and in a moment, she vanishes.

You tap a budding sentient potato bound with a lumpy purple potato that you are wearing.```I think all I did was reset his growth look, not sure||

Anyone notice this at the Dryad tree before?
||You tap a smoky leather boot illusion.||

Anyone try sailing around with the potato to see if it does that titaniic scene with Jack and that redhead that let him die?

[river moth]

||well my potato is finally fed! took a bit of cabbage and garlic to get him going! fortunately when it came time to paly with him he wanted to go somewhere snowy. and here i was out on the icemule southern snowfields... it was meant to be!||

[frail swan]

||Feeding research so far. Purple cabbage, golden apricots, purple-tipped artichokes, and fresh broccoli finished feedings at 11. Oblong red onions, blueberries, green beans, small apples, strawberries, arugala, scallions, and green pears all finished at 12 feedings. Daggerstalk mushrooms, waxy banana leafs, wild spinach, and garlic still haven't finished as of 14 feedings.||

||All of these were watered on tkaro blossom ale.||

[tidal spade]

Mine is getting a steady diet of blackdew grog and rotting bile green fleshbulbs. We'll see how it goes.

[tall kayak]

||https://media.tenor.com/rnYXXGOlQpMAAAAM/baked-potato-googly.gif||

[river moth]

Who knew there were so many potato gifs available lol

[tall kayak]

||Wyrom went above and beyond researching potato facts and the amount of potato gifs to maximize the hilarity. 🤔 ||

[woeful solar]

totally, I was shocked when I was in Thrak's Inn and this guy was like "is your potato singing?" and I was like "what's that now?" Cuz the loresong was being blocked by images of a Dryad, I had no idea it was singing

[radiant bloom]

||Your song's magic continues to permeate through the potato and you sense that you can only fail to unlock its loresong if you are horribly unlucky. [100 difficulty]||
||It will require a substantial amount of lore to unlock this loresong. [75000 Lore Knowledge]||

||I don't quite value the fun of a singing potato enough to spend 75k lore on it, but once the new bard service goes live and loresinging is free, well.. 😄 ||

[woeful solar]

||when I sing to mine I get 125 diffculty, but this is after I prayed to the Dryad a second time.I orginally had the 100 difficulty the first time. When i get enuff bard juice later today, Im gonna spend the 75k to unlock it to see if it does anything||

[rotund yoke]

||Incoming +5TD tater shoulderworn!||

[woeful solar]

I noticed I have a mechanical macaw on my other shoulder, Im waiting to see if the macaw and the potato interact or have a like a death match for shoulder supremacy, or maybe one is my Angel conscience and one is my Devil conscience.

[crude orchid]

||you watered it in the sin juice 🙀 . kidding. a little. I swear.||

[tall kayak]

#1162140823337578499 message

Bravo, this sounds super fun.

[pulsar smelt]

Can color be changed?

[dusky flax]

Yes

[solid jungle]

||I think I'm 20+ honeysuckle vines and still haven't progressed||

[woeful solar]

||```>recall pota quick
As you recall your song, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the sentient potato in your hand, and you learn something about it...

It is a holy item.
It is a small item, under a pound.
It is estimated to be worth about 2,000 silvers.
It is magic resistant.
It is predominantly crafted of organic material.```
Spuddy is holy!||

[rare imp]

Of course it's holy - ||why else did we need to pray to it as one of the steps to evolve it?|| 😁

[woeful solar]

||it became holy after you go back once it is completed and pray a 2nd time||

[sick fable]

||S1 potato. Point it at undead auto kill 1x per day||

[wise zephyr]

Sorry if I'm asking this again, it doesn't look like you can search forums... And everything being spoilered makes it hard to scroll to find what I'm looking for ||How many trips to various climates do you do before he's on the next phase (whatever that is)||?

[woeful solar]

||The power of potato compels you!!! ✝️||

[fierce fable]

Gryzzlbok summed it up nicely - it's in the pins 🙂

[wise zephyr]

PINS! I always forget about Pins

[fiery veldt]

|| lord Soth power word POTATO ||

[solid jungle]

||even if feeding it something it doesn't like, it's the a cap to how many things it can be fed, or is it infinite?||

[river moth]

||not sure, i was feeding it for a very long time before i switched over to "normal" foods like tomatoes, garlic and cabbage. when i switched over it went really quick. i would say i was in the range of 20 feedings before i swapped over. ||

[solid jungle]

my extreme stubborness and propensity for sunk costs is preventing me from switching, lol

[woeful solar]

Reminds me of my mom when I was a kid making me eat my greens

[dusky flax]

||Yeah, if you don't feed it the right stuff, you could be in this like 200+ days||

[warped obsidian]

||2,000 silvers? I'll give you double!||

[tall kayak]

Challenge accepted

[ebon badger]

woot

A knobby sentient potato bound with a wild carrot looks fully befriended to you!
[Congratulations you have fully bonded with your potato! You have now unlocked all the features!]

[marsh saffron]

A fingerling sentient potato flourishing some chives looks fully befriended to you!
[Congratulations you have fully bonded with your potato! You have now unlocked all the features!]

[river moth]

||im on the playing stage. done it three times now. this has been quite helpful
https://gswiki.play.net/Foraging_locations ||

[rotund yoke]

||After travelling the world with potato friend, i feel like I am becoming an actual ranger... examining climate and terrain to track down the perfect rooms.... quite the mini quest!||

[proper laurel]

Huh - I guess the verb isn't ||play|| for your potato?

figured it out 🙂

[hushed leaf]

I've made a very basic page on the wiki for the Potato, please add whatever you can to it so that others can follow along with their own potatoes without having to scroll through all kinds of ||spoilers|| here! https://gswiki.play.net/Potato

[hushed leaf]

People should also feel free to add their knowledge to that page, too... it's very barebones and could use some wisdom! ^^

[solid jungle]

||alright, after likely near 30 honeysuckle vines, I switched to tomatoes, and it was finally fed after 7 tomatoes||

[radiant bloom]

Yeah, they ||seem to generally respond well to being fed fruits and vegetables.||

[rotund yoke]

The trick is that the last thing they are fed is what sticks i think, so do 7 veggies and 1 other

[river moth]

||You put an oblong sentient potato capped with some green cabbage in your crimson pouch.

i like to think he is wearing a hat... ||

[reef sleet]

Your potato is Irish, obviously.

[wise zephyr]

Yay, I've fully Potato'd

[fierce fable]

the potato has trained you - now you are its slave for eternity

[wise zephyr]

Web Client? Impressive

[native wagon]

web client. You have to do what ya have to do.

[foggy condor]

https://tenor.com/view/stop-whenever-i-want-addicted-im-not-addicted-gif-26125274

[honest hinge]

Yeah on my phone!!
i don't normally, I just got in to see where it wanted to go and debate running home for lunch. Lucked out, was 3 rooms away from what it wanted! 😂

[cursive parrot]

I’ve been using the web for for the early stuff. Can’t do much else now though. Unless someone wants to drag rain around after I log in. 🤣

[green plover]

I managed to hit quite a few of the spots at Naidem, finished my tater earlier this morning!

[silver kite]

I have been slacking on letting mine play, I gave it a cell phone. That should really be enough entertainment

[river moth]

pfft! as soon as i buriied my potato i had a giant yellow pop up! i "queed" with excitement only to find out twilight hall is having an open house..

[woeful solar]

here are some locations to help folks with the play process. There could be closer locations in your vicinity, but these ones here worked for me.
||6395 (CAVE), 6798 (DIRT), 25218 (ARID) [Fangs of the Serpent, Gateway], 2557 (SNOW), 1031 (MOUNTAIN). 1220 (HUMID), 7620 (SAND), RR (JUNGLE), 1224 (HOT & DAMP), 1106 (ARID & TEMPERATE), 5369 (COLD & DAMP), 2558 (ICY), 5101 (BARREN), 14878 (CONIFEROUS), 1410 (DECIDUOUS), 1286 (WET), 420 (TEMPERATE), 288 (GARDEN), 1293 (HILL), 32579 (*** SALT WATER***), 495 (ROUGH), 5211 (BEACH), 1353 (COLD & DRY), 6706 (FRESHWATER), 1418 (GRASSY)||
I do not know how to post on the wiki, nor do I wish to learn, if anyone wants to throw these numbers over there, but as I said there could be several locations for each climate/terrain type. I did not jot down an actual room number for RR jungle because I just auto clicked the map and when it had me running in a loop, I just quickly typed bury while I was in the Karazja Jungle there. If a climate/terrain type you received is not here, I just have not received that assignment from Spuddy yet, but I am constantly updating my list.

[solid jungle]

thank's for that.. was literally going nuts just now ||trying to find an arid temperate spot||

[fierce fable]

if you can find one closer to WL please let us know - that was definitely the most painful hunt thus far lol

[solid jungle]

I too would like to find one closer, lol

[radiant bloom]

I set like 5 gold rings to that spot after discovering it.

[faint sedge]

Okay how do I set my ptoato to never lose this description while still keeping it fed? ||a waxy sentient potato sprouting a tuft of old man's beard lichen||. Also curious what modifies the ||waxy|| adjective.

[celest ingot]

I think that adjective depends on ||what it drank||

[reef sleet]

I think you ||APPROVE POTATO|| to lock in the description.

[faint sedge]

ahhhh right. Thank you

[river moth]

||An oblong sentient potato capped with some green cabbage looks fully befriended to you!
[Congratulations you have fully bonded with your potato! You have now unlocked all the features!]
||
Wooo! now what to do with this thing...

[river moth]

||The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body. Its skin taking on a taupe brown hue and it appears it was last fed a sprig of dill. The potato has been infused one time and looks wiped-out. Quee has awarded you 500 experience over the course of your friendship.|| got it! yay!

[faint sedge]

I locked this in: rough sentient potato sprouting a tuft of old man's beard lichen

[faint sedge]

Wyrom, why can we not kiss our potatoes? 😢

[cursive parrot]

It’s their one rule. Otherwise their significant others get upset

[faint sedge]

But I'm its mom!!!

[wise zephyr]

[Cave] (u3022026)
At the rocky foot of an incline, two tunnels form a 'V' as they head away into darkness following their divergent routes. The ceiling, both within the corridors and in this antechamber is irregular and low, with protrusions that threaten anything taller than a dwarf. The dank odor peculiar to caves rides heavily on the air, carrying with it the pungent overtones of a crypt.
Obvious exits: northeast, east, up
||>bury my potato||
||You go to bury your potato and it whispers, "I don't want to play here, I want to play in a cave."||

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/631bee75-529a-4212-b4dc-618fef27bd93

[wise zephyr]

||u3060002 Cave - Teras||
||None of the caves with the name "Cave" in Greymist Woods that you would think would be a Cave is a Cave||

[fierce fable]

maybe what you think is a cave is not what a potato considers a cave

[dusky flax]

Yeah, it's looking for a specific terrain. A lot of caves might also be flat surfaces, dirt, sand, mountain, and rough.

[celest ingot]

Is there any way of telling what the terrain is in rooms where ranger sense doesn't work?

[wary geyser]

are there outside rooms (with paths rather than exits) for which ranger sense doesn't work?

[celest ingot]

I'm wondering how to tell whether an inside room is a cave or some other terrain.

[wary geyser]

so I'm not 100% sure of this, but I don't think inside rooms qualify as having a climate and terrain (hence the lack of info from ranger sense)

[celest ingot]

What Wyrom said implies they do and that "cave" is one of them.

Also I think there are dwarf racial bonuses for some activities in "cave".
So maybe checking a dwarf's bonuses might allow "cave" to be spotted.

[wary geyser]

dwarf ranger to the rescue! 2849 is right outside a cave in pinefar. Note the subterranean environment - which is what I suspect you're looking for. You scan your surroundings, considering the various flora and fauna found here (and noting those which are absent). The indications of the snowy, arctic climate and the subterranean environment are clearly evident to your seasoned eye. Stealth: Raw hide skill: 555 Raw spot skill: 362 Chance to hide: 193% if I enter the cave (2850), we're in a room with exits rather than paths, which shows no climate and terrain You carefully assess your surroundings, but find no new insight to the terrain and climate of the area. Stealth: Raw hide skill: 463 Raw spot skill: 381 Chance to hide: 82% now, we gotta be careful since most of that stealth difference is just inside vs outside, so I have to check stealth ability in another outside room outside mountainous and subterranean regions Stealth: Raw hide skill: 520 Raw spot skill: 369 Chance to hide: 151% and that does appear to highlight a difference between the outside subterranean region via stealth skills

worth further noting that, based off Vyrshkana's animal companion database, the subterranean environment seems quite rare - perhaps because many "caves" get labeled as indoors and thus not actually possessing a terrain, and in retrospect, there's a lot of stuff affecting those stealth scores, so I'm not sure I view this as a reliable indicator (I see my raw hide skill go up to 570 in mountainous regions that are not subterranean)

[celest ingot]

There's a foraging bonus for dwarves in some but not all underground areas. Plus not all underground areas are the same for forageables, so I think there have to be some terrain/climate settings that are invisible to ranger sense.

[brittle ember]

is there a guide for potato without reading 6000 messages above? I've been infusing it for like 2 weeks now, what do I do now

[faint sedge]

Keep infusing it. Read through Wyrom's pinned top post.

[brittle ember]

||This is just a potato...that you're giving your soul to. Think about that, Brute.||
Does this mean I'm done?

[river moth]

you will have this message pop up when complete

||[Congratulations you have fully bonded with your potato! You have now unlocked all the features!]||

do potatos not show up when worn? i paniced because ithought i lost mine. turns out i dont see it when worn using inventory or inv full ... see below:

You put a glass of ginger white wine in your ora-plated pack.

wear potato
You place an oblong sentient potato capped with some green cabbage on your shoulder, which somehow stays put.
inv
You are wearing some studded leather, a greatshield, a copper-bound ceramic badge, a wiregrass anklet, a tooled leather drawstring coin bag, a dark cordovan case whipstitched with rawhide laces, a crimson pouch, a leather ora-plated pack with reinforced shoulder straps, some dark blue square-toed shoes, and a pair of gold-threaded leggings.

[Click INVENTORY HELP for more options.]

inv full
You are currently wearing:
some studded leather
a greatshield
a copper-bound ceramic badge (marked)
a wiregrass anklet
a tooled leather drawstring coin bag (marked)
a dark cordovan case whipstitched with rawhide laces (marked)
a crimson pouch (marked)
a black-eyed skull-shaped jar containing uncut diamonds (marked)
a twine-wrapped smoky grey jar containing uncut rubies (marked)
a bee-shaped yellow sunstone
a bee-shaped red sunstone
some polished red coral
a twine-wrapped smoky grey jar containing uncut emeralds (marked)
a small snow lily bouquet
a leather ora-plated pack with reinforced shoulder straps (marked)
a glass of ginger white wine
a Chronomage day pass (marked)
a handaxe (marked)
a star sapphire
a bone-hilted iron hunting knife
a monkey paw
a copper lockpick
a piece of green jade
a polished bloodwood wand
a monkey paw
some purple mithril-bloom
a monkey paw
a monkey paw
a light pink morganite stone
a woven cloak
some dark blue square-toed shoes (marked)
a pair of gold-threaded leggings (marked)

[undone nimbus]

it's probably +hidden. Try doing the same thing but with INV LOC

[honest hinge]

Am I missing something? my analyze is still the same

The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body.  Its skin taking on a golden brown hue and it appears it was last fed a small pumpkin.  The potato has been infused one time and looks wiped-out.  It looks parched.  It looks famished.  It looks bored.  Quee has awarded you 500 experience over the course of your friendship.
>anal my pot
You analyze your sentient potato and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

This is just a potato...that you're giving your soul to.  Think about that, Lilanna.```

[fierce fable]

check the pins for this channel

[river moth]

wear potato
You place an oblong sentient potato capped with some green cabbage on your shoulder, which somehow stays put.
inv loc
You are currently wearing:

Hung around your neck:
a rose-inlaid ruby heart medallion (nonfunctional)

Over your chest:
some double leather (functional)

On your back:
a leather ora-plated pack with reinforced shoulder straps (functional)

Attached to your belt:
a crimson pouch (functional)
a tooled leather drawstring coin bag (functional)
a dark cordovan case whipstitched with rawhide laces (functional)

Pulled over your legs:
some dark silver-buttoned breeches (nonfunctional)

Attached to your ankle:
a wiregrass anklet (functional)

(8 items displayed)

same, not showing

[undone nimbus]

freaky

[faint sedge]

One of us should bug this.

[woeful solar]

if you look in a mirror you will see the potato sitting on your shoulder in your features

[undone nimbus]

The more freaky thing is... HOW ARE YOU ONLY WEARING 8 THINGS!??!??!! That's bonkers!

[faint sedge]

Yarr, but it should also be showing up in the INVENTORY LOC function.

[woeful solar]

take the win!

[undone nimbus]

I can't bug the potato yet because I am lazy and haven't finished the PotatoBro Journey so can't wear it

[woeful solar]

Wyrom mentioned he will update ANALYZE after some Sonreeva stuff he had to do

[faint sedge]

Wow Erek. Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

[faint sedge]

But report submitted 🙂

What have people discovered with their fully alive potato so far? I have found:
||HUG with different outputs depending on his mood||

||ROLL, TOSS, and EAT still work||

||PRAY gives a fun little interaction||

||He hums and whistles different styles of tunes based on some factor I am unsure of||

What else?

[honest hinge]

ooohh ok, I thought he meant "another" update. Thanks!

[fierce fable]

||The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body. Its skin taking on an amber hue and it appears it was last fed a wild carrot. The potato is completely drained of energy and looks wiped-out. Quee has awarded you 1,000 experience over the course of your friendship.||
||well...I got 500 exp again by feed/drink 2x a day and play a little less than 2x a day (hard with the 12 hour timer)...I think next go-around I'll try to do it all 1x a day and see how it turns out||

[fierce fable]

||poke||

[river moth]

||>kiss potato
You pucker up and blow a kiss at the sentient potato in your hand.||

[faint sedge]

That is standard messaging, sadly. And I STILL have a sad at not being able to kiss the potato. Woe is me.

And I'm leaving that typo above because the peach emoji gives me a giggle.

[wide elbow]

I wonder what you'll get with just infusing feeding and watering each day.

I'll test that out

[faint sedge]

I have been faithfully keeping mine as happy as I can so far. But I'm only three days in post awakening. I'm almost reluctant to drain him for exp when he's eligible again :/

[tidal spade]

I want to mention how much fun I've had with my bro-tato. Things like this are why I love the game so much. Thank you @dusky flax for such a cool little side quest.

[woeful solar]

I think the hardest thing Ive come across is trying to get the bropotatoes to whistle/hum in synchronization with other potatobroes

[ebon badger]

so me and the spud are buddies...been feeding/making him drink and burying him where he wants...he's happy. At what point do I get the 500 exp?

[woeful solar]

||after the 8th play session, youll get a message about being fully bonded. at this point you can touch him, dont be a perv, and he will drain his spirit into you giving you the exp||

[ebon badger]

thanks me friend...Ox is no pervster...😂

[native wagon]

does he give YOU spirit? like he Wells you?

need to test this out on a newly revived self

[river moth]

oooo that would be super neat! drain spirit back from it

[woeful solar]

he drains his spirit which in turn gives you exp. You then need to reinfuse your spririt back into him to get further exp down the road.
think of it like one them flat exp RPA orbs that you recharge yourself

[hushed leaf]

Giving spirit for exp is amazing, imho.

[warped obsidian]

What's the end-state cycle? Infuse every X hours for Y times to get Z exp and W spirit once. What are X, Y, Z and W?

[hushed leaf]

Looks like it's feed/drink+play for some number of times, and get some number of experience back. I don't think you even need to infuse it, once you've gotten through the initial set of all the things.

[fierce fable]

When you LOOK you see all his happiness/unhappiness stats - which makes me wonder if you just do NOTHING except infuse 10 times and then right before you get your EXP you water/feed/play to flag him to happy...will that result in 500? Curious about your testing as well but I'd probably play with it right before your try to get exp just to see if doing that once (at the end) is enough.

I think the EXP gain is definitely gated behind ||10 infuses on the 18 hour CD||. That being said I haven't tried to get the exp prematurely to see what happens...

[hushed leaf]

Ahh, you do have to ||infuse|| post-full-bonding?

[green plover]

|| Nothing at 3 or less. Will continue trying thru the week. ||

[fierce fable]

<name> buries a knobby sentient potato merged with a handful of plump black mulberries to his ear.
This was from listen - is this an intentional hint or a typo? lol

[dusky flax]

That is an interesting one, let me check on that. I have a bunch of updates pending to fix a few other things.

[radiant bloom]

Make sure to have "||hums||" in the ||"a war song, fit for a decisive battle"|| messaging. 😄 Been getting whispers about that all merchant week. 🤣

[dusky flax]

Is it not showing up?

[radiant bloom]

Shows up in first-person, but not third-person.

[dusky flax]

Oh right, I fixed this, just hasn't been rolled in. Yeah it's in there.

[woeful solar]

Id be like, "Hey dont look at me, talk to the big guy"

[sonic wadi]

I feel like "I fixed that, didn't I? Oh I didn't roll it in..." could be the title of at least 6 GMs memoirs

[cursive parrot]

||You carefully inspect your sentient potato.

You determine that you could not wear the potato.

You place a waxy sentient potato fused with a withered black mushroom on your shoulder, which somehow stays put.

Heheh||

[dusky flax]

Yeah, I might change the verb from ||WEAR|| and ||REMOVE|| since it's misleading. Right now it does not take any sort of ||worn location limit||. And no, this doesn't mean to toss a property on it to get around anything.

But it also means it's not showing up properly in ||INVENTORY||. I'm actually talking to Vanah about this right now on some possible ways to fix it without causing chaos.

[cursive parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/donnie-darko-smile-smirk-creepy-gif-8327415

[rotund yoke]

We need a Halloween potato themed monster, kind of like pumpkin head but potato-head...

[woeful solar]

you know you can have the potato sitting on your shoulder and make him sing when you recall the loresong, you dont need to hold him 😄

[cursive parrot]

||Is there a consensus on the "best" foods and liquids yet?||

[rotund yoke]

https://tenor.com/view/pumpkinhead-gif-27174575

[woeful solar]

||Vodka+Potato||

[solid jungle]

||is there any drink that will give a silver/silvery hue?||

[dusky flax]

||Silvery is a hue it can be, but I can't tell you which food item out in the game will do it||

[silver kite]

... can the potato become a premium enhancive

[thorny vault]

Mine is drinking almond milk, because if I have to, so does he.

[brittle ember]

so to make sure I understand the mechanical part, you ||infuse the potato, feed it, water it, etc, and can infuse it with 1 spirit every 18 hours, and you can then pet it every 180 hours to get up to 500 xp, which works out to roughly 24k xp a year||?

[river moth]

odd interaction:

smile potato
Aesah smiles potato

[fierce fable]

||The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body. Its skin taking on an amber hue and it appears it was last fed a wild carrot. The potato has been infused one time and looks long-faced. Quee has awarded you 1,000 experience over the course of your friendship.||
||first day of feed/drink/play only once and so far it seems satisfied - I'm basically watching for me to feed/drink/play and it still have the negative status indicator in LOOK...which would tell me that it's not frequent enough (although the ultimate indicator is the # of exp gained at the end of the infuse cycle||

[woeful solar]

give it mercury

[tall kayak]

||I was thinking a fused slab of silver.||. Alas, ||not foragable||.

[wise zephyr]

QQ about the End-Game Potato...
||Is there anything I can do that will kill it? What if I don't give it anything to drink or eat for a year? Will it die of starvation? Do I now have a Gemstone IV Tamagotchi?||

[wise zephyr]

||Oh thank god it asks for a new place to play each day... I was having trouble finding a garden in Teras... Sand I think I can handle... Sand Teras u3022023||

[river moth]

||is the happiness level strictly based on what stage you are of infuse / feed / drink / play? mine just moved to content and im wondering if i actually need to play with it similar to a ranger bonding with its companion or if its just a matter of the required steps. ||

[dawn ermine]

a rough sentient potato flourishing a soft-barbed pearly green vine

The safeword is Hasselback.

[dawn ermine]

||Maybe a pure potion will make it silvery?||

[woeful solar]

||I have been testing this, I stopped drinking/feeding/playing. Infuse seems to do the most, 5 days of infusing only and he is overjoyed. I dont know all the factors involved honestly||

[fierce fable]

ooh you're doing the test I wanted to do next - are you planning to do ||nothing but infuse and then right before you get your exp, make it happy with one round of feed/drink/play? I guess it would also be interesting to see how much exp you get if you do nothing but infuse but I assume you'll take a significant hit if it's bored, parched, and famished when you try to redeem.||

[woeful solar]

||well its already overjoyed half way through the infuse process, but yeah||

[dawn ermine]

I want a foil jacket for my potato. 😛

[dusky flax]

||INFUSE is just your timer to get back to using PET to get the exp. The happiness level is how much exp it gives you, capped at 500. It does not lose happiness until you PET it, so you can starve it make it and/or dry out into a potato chip once you've hit the cap. There is messaging indicators to learn the happiness level. Phases 0 through 4 are basically your [slow] tutorial on how to interact with it, but once in phase 5, you can do everything at once. If you don't like to play with it, or you're having trouble, you can get a new task once every 12 hours. Each interaction is worth a range of happiness. Feeding has the biggest swing. Watering will get some updates. Having your potato adventure with you also improves happiness slowly. It won't take constant attention to get it capped to 500 each week, just INFUSE until it's back to 10.||

[fierce fable]

||The last sentence confused me. Are you saying INFUSE only to 10, without doing anything else, will get you the 500 exp each week? If so, that would mean "happiness" is not required for getting the 500? That would be surprising to me. From what I can tell, the happiness goes up with infusing. I have not been able to directly notice any benefits of feed/water/play other than removing the messaging for famished/parched/bored but I assumed doing those things helped with something else that I couldn't see directly.||

||I'd like to see how little attention I can give this tater to get the 500 exp b/c I'm still having a hard time being a sinister ivasian killing machine with a humming potato on my shoulder lol - unless I can find a way to grow tentacles on this thing...||

[dusky flax]

||Once the happiness is capped out, you just have to worry about getting it back to 10 infusions. Once it's capped out in happiness, you don't need to do anything else to keep it happy. The numbers people have shared aren't good numbers to go by, because there is a range, some of it is RNG some of it is dependent on feeding the right stuff. For example, it doesn't only take 8 times to get from phase 4 to 5, it can take more. It can also take less.||

[dusky flax]

||I'd explore the Rift for some interesting herbs, that should help with the sinister look. I'll think about making him do evil stuff, but I usually always make evil stuff.||

[woeful solar]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-darkside-star-wars-evil-innerme-gif-14818845

[fierce fable]

potato are too delicious to be evil imo - well, maybe if you fry them until they're burnt lol

[dusky flax]

||Maybe when the fire is active, has anyone activated the fire stuff?||

[fierce fable]

||::goes to do fire stuff::||

[warped obsidian]

||Everyone got too scared about cooking their spud.||

[river moth]

https://tenor.com/view/the-what-smile-whut-weird-stare-gif-16592004

[dusky flax]

||You can always snuff out your blazing potato.||

[fierce fable]

blue fire leaps from your hand and toward your potato, lighting it ablaze.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>i
You are holding a knobby sentient potato blossoming a wild carrot in your right hand.
>l my pot
The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body.  Its skin taking on an amber hue and it appears it was last fed a wild carrot.  The potato has been infused one time and looks long-faced.  It looks parched.  It looks famished.  Quee has awarded you 1,000 experience over the course of your friendship.  Blue fire radiates from the potato.```
bit of a thing there with the color not being capitalized
```You gesture at a waxy sentient potato topped with a stalk of celery.
greenish-black fire leaps from your hand and toward your potato, lighting it ablaze.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.```

You toss a hot potato around, its blue fire dancing and swaying back and forth. It looks at you and squeals, "Queeeeeeee!"

this 3rd person is probably typo'd too since it shows 1st person at the end by mistake
||Tsalinx whispers a prayer to a knobby sentient potato blossoming a wild carrot, and it whispers one back to you.||
Also I feel that this should somehow indicate that it's ||on fire||
||A knobby sentient potato blossoming a wild carrot is settled on his shoulder.||

[woeful solar]

||did setting him on fire piss him off?||

[faint sedge]

||The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body. Its skin taking on a purple hue and it appears it was last fed a tuft of old man's beard lichen. The potato has been infused four times and looks content. Quee has awarded you 500 experience over the course of your friendship. Blue fire radiates from the potato.||

[woeful solar]

||is the color of the fire based on the element you are attuned too? mine is a crimson fire and I am fire attuned||
||>look at pota
The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body. Its skin taking on an amber hue and it appears it was last fed a lumpy purple potato. The potato has been infused six times and looks overjoyed. It looks famished. It looks bored. Quee has awarded you 1,000 experience over the course of your friendship. Crimson fire radiates from the potato.||

ok i think i got it
||111 = Blue fire radiates from the potato. 906 = Crimson fire radiates from the potato. 713 = Greenish-black fire radiates from the potato.||

[wise zephyr]

||Been feeding mine a rainbow-striped mushroom from EG in hopes he turns into Richard Simmons||

[faint sedge]

I'm an empath and so I'm not attuned to any element. Gryzzl is probably correct.

[long onyx]

Potatos are not compatible with the doll clothing. 😥

[dusky flax]

...yet

[solid jungle]

||won't drink pure potions||

[woeful solar]

Ive been trying to find a silver/silvery drink for you and in the process I learned something from Raelee. Pouring a drink on the ground will give you its color, I was going about the hard way and testing every hour to see the potato change color. So far pouring the drink on the ground is 3 for 3 with the color its changing the potato, not saying this will be true 100% of the time or not because there are clear liquids. Not sure if this will help your drink color scavenger hunt for the silver color or not, but hey, I learned something new today.

[solid jungle]

hey, it'll help and likely save me time in experimenting, lol

[river moth]

||can you clarify this pouring on the floor thing. i dont quite understand. do you drop the potato then pour X on ground? ||

[still sleet]

if you type POUR <x> you'll pour the drink on the ground and it will make a puddle of <color> liquid, which reflects the drink's "official" color

[woeful solar]

sorry if I confused you, and thank you Tikba for clarifying 🙂

[long onyx]

There are certain glasses that show the color too

Or laugh snort

[woeful solar]

this is not as advertised!

>pour stout
You pour some of your stout on the floor.  A puddle of purplish-black liquid forms, and then quickly evaporates.
You have 6 quaffs left.```

[river moth]

so that will change the color of our spuddy? (spud+buddy)

[green plover]

Laugh snort is the best. Especially when it’s wonky and you snort bottles out your nose.

[twilit pilot]

After fully bonding with our spuddy, is the ANALYZE supposed to have more than just the usual: ||This is just a potato...that you're giving your soul to. Think about that, Miffly.||

[dusky flax]

Yeah, it's part of an update that is pending.

[river moth]

does this mean Spuddy is catching on?!

[wary geyser]

my potato changed from ||knobby to budding|| and I don't know why, do we know what controls the ||adjective||?

[woeful solar]

||you went back and prayed with the potato to the dryad again? This is what happened when I did||

[woeful solar]

||also if you click on Wyrom's pin of the original post. If you BREAK, you can reset some of the features and redo them I would assume, I havent played it with myself yet||

[wary geyser]

yep, I did - and I did note at the time that may have been what triggered it, I spammed that verb a few times too but didn't specifically check each time

ah yes, so that did trigger it
||>pray potato
Holding a knobby sentient potato sprouting a wintercrisp apple toward a sovereign weeping willow tree, you whisper a prayer to the Wildwood before you. A sudden breeze swirls through the area as a leaf-enswathed dryad forms from the foliage. She steps forward and places a hand on The potato, smiling at it and nods. The dryad whispers a foreign phrase and the potato starts budding. A whirlwind of leaves engulf the dryad, and in a moment, she vanishes.
A small opaque spider crawls over to your right forearm.

look potato
The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body. Its skin taking on a deep violet hue and it appears it was last fed a wintercrisp apple. The potato has been infused one time and looks long-faced. It looks parched. It looks famished. Quee has awarded you 500 experience over the course of your friendship. Blue fire radiates from the potato.
glance
You glance down to see a knobby sentient potato sprouting a wintercrisp apple in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
pray potato
Holding a knobby sentient potato sprouting a wintercrisp apple toward a sovereign weeping willow tree, you whisper a prayer to the Wildwood before you. A sudden breeze swirls through the area as a leaf-enswathed dryad forms from the foliage. She steps forward and places a hand on The potato, smiling at it and nods. The dryad whispers a foreign phrase and the potato starts budding. A whirlwind of leaves engulf the dryad, and in a moment, she vanishes.
look potato
The potato appears to be alive, having two eyes and a mouth on its bumpy little body. Its skin taking on a deep violet hue and it appears it was last fed a wintercrisp apple. The potato has been infused one time and looks long-faced. It looks parched. It looks famished. Quee has awarded you 500 experience over the course of your friendship. Blue fire radiates from the potato.||

ok, so it's a bit weird, I added the full text because you can see that, although the potato apparently changed then, it's look did not immediately update; looks like it changed later when I was messing around with ||approve and roll||

[celest ingot]

I think my potato will have PTSD. One got eaten for its orb right in front of us.

[woeful solar]

Courtesy of Kotin's player, I think we found @dusky flax 's potato research
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WISCPmdAwtw

[river moth]

found the potato color.... Its skin taking on a fiery gold hue

[faint sedge]

That's a great one.

[solid jungle]

success!

Its skin taking on a silvery hue

[solid jungle]

||Its skin taking on a silvery hue and it appears it was last fed a moonflower. ||

there.. a proper Zelian spud

[fierce fable]

my 18 hour timer has definitely turned into a once a day timer - I ||infuse|| when I wake up in the morning and then by bedtime it's not ready to do it again - and I'm not losing sleep (again) over this potato! lol

[river moth]

||You give your potato a little hug. It smiles and chirps, "Thank you for taking excellent care of me! Someone else would have eaten me for my heart!"||

Beams

[silver kite]

Did... did someone say eat potato?

[fierce fable]

reminds me of this place Jacketz in Amsterdam whose menu is nothing but different types of loaded potatoes - so good - we went twice lol

[long onyx]

That looks amazing

[thin haven]

We went to Jacketz on our honeymoon. Then we went again. And again. And again. We still talk about that place. 😂

[fierce fable]

Name's sentient potato whistles a jaunty little ditty!
seeing this messaging even though the potato daddy is hiding

I would say if your potato whistles your hiding spot is blown, right? but then again you can whistle from hiding and stay in hiding 🤷

[rotund yoke]

Plot twist - the noises are all in your head and you have gone crazy thinking your plain potato is actually sentinent and talking with you....

[still sleet]

“You hear the haunting call of a potato from somewhere in the shadows.”

[long onyx]

Wyrom's code can't be trusted

[woeful solar]

Disclaimer: Dont get to frisky with your taters

>
Hammerrhead gives his potato a little hug.  It smiles and chirps, "Thank you for taking excellent care of me!  Someone else would have eaten me for my heart!"
>
Hammerrhead places a knobby sentient potato flourishing a handful of plump black mulberries on his shoulder, which somehow stays put.
>
Hammerrhead plops down to the ground in a sitting position.
>
Hammerrhead comes out of hiding.
Hammerrhead pets a knobby sentient potato flourishing a handful of plump black mulberries and it whispers to him.  The potato glows for a moment and infuses its spirit into Hammerrhead.  It looks drained.
>
Hammerrhead pets a knobby sentient potato flourishing a handful of plump black mulberries.
>
Hammerrhead lifts a knobby sentient potato flourishing a handful of plump black mulberries from his shoulder.
>
Hammerrhead blinks at a knobby sentient potato flourishing a handful of plump black mulberries in his hand.
>
Holding a knobby sentient potato flourishing a handful of plump black mulberries overhead, Hammerrhead focuses on his sentient potato.  He suddenly looks drained.
The potato recovers some vitality.
>
Hammerrhead gives his potato a little hug.  It mumbles, "Really, Hammerrhead?  Right now?"```

[sonic wadi]

Ultimately I trust Wyroms code as much as I trust Vanahs in that they both have a "fix it fast" mentality

[fierce fable]

careful he might teleport you to RR for that!

[long onyx]

Better than ZL

[somber storm]

This Tater quest has been awesome. Thanks to all involved in making it happen! I might have to stop eating French fries 🤔

[woeful solar]

for the record, ever since this potato quest started, some how youtube knew about it because Ive been constantly getting potato video streams on my feed

[long onyx]

My other discords are talking about potato targeted ads too so it's either partial coincidence or we have tilted the Internet toward potatoes

[tribal pebble]

I don't see it in the pins but if we finished the first step, is there a way to still eat it for an orb?

[woeful solar]

After youve infused it 10 times and it becomes sentient, you can no longer eat it. infact if you try, it squeals and says "Queeee.....

[tribal pebble]

I thought Wyrom had talked about adding a way to reset it so you could turn it into an orb...But it sounds like he hasn't yet released the details then. Too bad.

[woeful solar]

he did, but he hasnt stated the steps, he mentioned it would be hard or something like that

[woeful solar]

#1153877040202780783 message here is where he mentions it

[tribal pebble]

I guess I'll just wait until someone solves it or he makes it much easier. NBD.

[celest ingot]

If a potato were to hum a martial tune, what tune would a potato hum?
I can think of one martial tune which mentions potatoes ... the sweet potatoes came flying out the ground ... Any others?

[foggy condor]

Answer: ||a martial tune||

[river moth]

man i thought my potato just attacked a rolton and i got so excited for a second!

rem potato
You lift an oblong sentient potato capped with some green cabbage from your shoulder.
A militia archer fires from the tower, his arrow striking a rolton!
... 25 points of damage!
Well placed shot pierces knee, that hurt!
It is knocked to the ground!
The rolton is stunned!

really hoping that im asked to throw a spoiler tag on this! lol

[warped obsidian]

Could you put a spoiler tag on that?

||It doesn't need one, I just think it's funny||

[rotund yoke]

typo? ||Mistyfall's sentient potato a war song, fit for a decisive battle!||

[dusky flax]

Yeah it's fixed, just waiting on the rest

[crystal sapphire]

||Astrilyn's sentient potato a war song, fit for a decisive battle!|| doesn't look fixed heh

[hushed leaf]

I'm guessing it's fixed.... but the fix hasn't been released. Waiting on the big update, along with a bunch of other fixes, to still go live sometime.

[crystal sapphire]

next year then

[tribal pebble]

Big thank you for changing the Puzzle to get an orb out of Quee into just a verb. I'm going to ||extract|| it so hard.

[tall kayak]

Please post/spoiler the ||extract|| message. I'm super curious.

[woeful solar]

yeah, like do you eat a potato heart or something?

[dreamy oriole]

||```
You hold a waxy sentient potato merged with a sprig of tiny pale blackthorn flowers and conteplate tearing it apart!
[Doing this to a waxy sentient potato merged with a sprig of tiny pale blackthorn flowers is a permanent decision and will result in not having it anymore. If you really want to do this, EXTRACT potato again within 30 seconds.]

extract my potato

You grip a waxy sentient potato merged with a sprig of tiny pale blackthorn flowers and rip and tear it apart It screams for a moment and is quickly silenced. You extract a shimmering violet orb from its core.
Roundtime: 2 sec.```||

[hushed leaf]

||Poor potato, what did it ever do to you, to deserve having it's heart ripped out?!?!||

[dreamy oriole]

also yes, there's a multiple typos in the messaging

[tall kayak]

||We sincerely appreciate your sacrifice, in the name of science!||

[compact totem]

Brutal

You probably only had another 2yr or so of diligent farming to the hour before your potato farming started to come out ahead of that heart

[dawn ermine]

Anyone get this yet? ||Pulled from my profile info.
Your sentient potato boasts, "My dad slayed a massive forest crone once!
||

[tall kayak]

https://media.tenor.com/wnuxX3yZlb0AAAAM/vegetable-carrot.gif

[fierce fable]

I'm waiting until I figure out the minimum effort required to get ||500 exp every 10 days|| before I decide my potato's fate.

[solid jungle]

||its pretty much just the infuse timer that's gating it (once you finished the initial cycle). I hit max happiness in about 3 days just tending to it casually||

[dusky flax]

It case it's not known.

https://discord.com/channels/226045346399256576/1166968584937943052

No spoiler tags needed there if you want to just read the updates and such.

[woeful solar]

May have to hire a Nanny for your tater, or an Au Pair

[fierce fable]

||I have been doing INFUSE only now for 8 days (8 out of 10) and it's still "long-faced" - so more than INFUSE is probably necessary...so I want to see how much work this is going to be for the coming years (or gulp, decades lol).||

[solid jungle]

||"long-faced" is an indicator of happiness. My understanding (could be wrong) is that infusing is merely the gating mechanism (which, by the way is on a 15 hour cd now), and has no or negligible impact on happiness. Feeding, drinking and playing (and hinted, other things) are the main things that affect happiness, and each is on its own separate, concurrent coldown. Like I said, I got mine to max happiness in 3 days just regular feeding, etc (and casually.. I didn't interrupt my sleep schedule or anything)||

[fierce fable]

||I had thought infusing was the main way to increase happiness and the other things might be necessary to supplement it...but it looks like you may be right||

[woeful solar]

>
On the wooden cart you see a shadowy grey cracked skull pin, an urglaes-faced skull ring, a crystallized argent fossil charm, a gruesome troll-arm sheath, a miniature tart kiln, a toy-like leather bracer, a simple potato, a scrollworked mithril vambrace, a tall black silk hat and an important sign.
>
A sales clerk steps over to you and says, "A simple potato will cost 100,000 General tickets to purchase."
>'woah taters cost 1 mill!
>
You drunkenly slur, "Woah taters cost 1 mill!"```

[wide elbow]

>touch potato
You pet your potato and it whispers, "You're the best potato mom a Quee could ask for."  The potato glows for a moment and infuses its spirit into you.  It looks drained.
[You were awarded 371 experience.]```

Fed it fresh broccoli and water twice a day.  Infused for 10 days.  No plays.

Going to try feeding it tomatoes and milk now.

[proper laurel]

The timer on watering being 1 hour and it not taking any sips from the watered liquid I just do that whenever I remember to until looks overjoyed

[wide elbow]

I'm going off the nutrients. Tomato feeds are recommended for potatoes and calcium rich soil

[solid jungle]

I'm fairly certain that from biggest impact on happiness to least it goes playing>feeding>watering, with my suspicion being that infusing has -no- impact, and is merely a gate for absorbtion

[wide elbow]

I'm just testing stuff to see how high you can get the exp without playing with it at all. It could be that if I had watered and fed it more frequently it would have been higher than 371 but I can consistently keep track of watering and feeding twice a day to see what foods have the greatest impact

[fierce fable]

this is disappointing to see that feed/water twice a day for 10 days wasn't enough to get 500! that would likely put me in favor of ripping out its heart rather than have that much work tending to this potato for eternity...or at least until 2036

From Wyrom earlier in this thread:
Each interaction is worth a range of happiness. Feeding has the biggest swing. Watering will get some updates. Having your potato adventure with you also improves happiness slowly. It won't take constant attention to get it capped to 500 each week, just INFUSE until it's back to 10.

[dawn ermine]

i've been feeding mine excess herbs from my kit that I pickup while hunting... so far 2 infusions and content

[radiant bloom]

Infusing does have at least some degree of impact, since I've seen happiness move up a step after that alone.

So far I've had no trouble keeping mine overjoyed by the sixth or seventh infuse with one watering a day and a feeding every three days if I even remember, but I am logged on a lot, so maybe I'm getting that "having your potato adventure with you" bonus. 😄

[fierce fable]

I did 9 infuses and nothing else and it was still long-faced 😦
on a side note:
Your sentient potato sings a song about you!
Trevic's sentient potato sings a song about him!

[radiant bloom]

Wait, I just realized... can we put foraged food into a basketifier?

[green plover]

If it has flavor messaging, it has the potential to go in the basketifier… if it’s foraged and has no flavor (but functions with the cooking/cheese making/brewing) it won’t but is a likely candidate for the vasculum.

Pretty sure there’s some foraged prop stuff that fits the basket (berries and such).

[radiant bloom]

Experimentation time! Maybe I can end my feeding laziness through the virtues of infinite food.

[honest hinge]

||Your sentient potato boasts, "My mom slayed a towering krolvin huntmistress once!||

[green plover]

Just tried with a forage prop blackberry from Naidem- works in the baskets, but not as tater food.

[dusky flax]

Yeah, the quote there is the only main thing to worry about to get through it are the INFUSEs. Those are your gatekeepers to get the exp. If you INFUSE, feed, water, play each time, you'll be pretty close to 500 a week.

You don't need to feed and water all day for 10 days.

Once a day, if you do all of them, will put you in good shape to be just about done. There is a specific message Quee gives when it's at 500.

[fierce fable]

it's a needy pet (in the context of doing this every 15 hours for years or decades lol) but I think it can be scripted to where it's not too much effort to knock those things out quickly every 15 hours - if not for Lich I'd be rubbing an orb right now lol - but I want to say I am constantly impressed by the amount of effort and detail put into this script and I know so many people are loving their little companion and don't even care that much about the exp carrot. I feel like it would be crazy to take the orb right now with Wyrom continuing to make it better constantly.

[dusky flax]

Some of it was planned from the get go. There are some 2024 updates I want to do. It's really just a Fantasy University crossover. Quee was a funny character (to me).

[tribal pebble]

Hmm. 2024 updates that are going to make me regret the pilfering of its soul?

[dusky flax]

https://discord.com/channels/226045346399256576/1166968584937943052

[tribal pebble]

Many thanks! I had seen the updates you listed there but I wasn't sure if those were more in the short term. But...I guess 2024 isn't that far away. Anyways - appreciate it.

[wary geyser]

just wanted to say I'm enjoying my potato - finally a fun way to display a luminescent indigo mushroom 😀 You glance down to see a budding sentient potato topped with a luminescent indigo mushroom in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.

[fierce fable]

Your sentient potato hums an epic melody, filled with complexities!

[woeful solar]

Your sentient potato boasts, "My dad slayed a multi-horned glowing ki-lin once!```

[fierce fable]

maybe this is a bug?

>listen potat
You press your potato to your ear and hear the faint whisper, "I still want to play in a garden."
Roundtime: 2 sec.```
It said it was bored when I looked - but after I did the listen verb once, it seems to have cleared the "bored" line from the LOOK even though it hasn't played yet.

[woeful solar]

that is interesting, because I thought Wyrom made a remark along the lines that the play location can change, for example, say you couldnt find a garden, so you listened to get the location, and after 12 hours if that, if you didnt find a garden, he may change his location

[fierce fable]

yeah it's not that it was on CD until like an hour ago and I just logged in and did look/listen then noticed it stopped saying "bored" even though I hadn't played yet

[dusky flax]

Yeah, I need to come up with another term. The bored line is the timer. But once it gives you an active task, it just goes away. I need to have something that says you have a task.

[fierce fable]

maybe just change from bored to still bored - or if possible don't clear the bored line until the task is done

[dusky flax]

always bored

[woeful solar]

or...getting impatient 🙂

[native wagon]

Deep heavy Exasperated sigh.

[tall kayak]

Depicted: Your potato starts demanding junk food and the Netflix password.

[dawn ermine]

Something about being a couch potato is perfect.