#Rumor Woods 2026 - Long May the Candy-maker Reign in the Halls of Honeyed Gear

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balmy raven
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This year's Vault Item is the return of the candy-making machine, however, very soon now, folks will notice that the very bottom of the analyze has a small addition to it:

[Dual-mode is not unlocked.  To unlock it, simply ADD another candy-making machine to it.]```

G>add my machine to my other machine
You hold a gnomic candy-making machine etched in blue against a gnomic candy-making machine and contemplate merging them!
[This will permanently consume a gnomic candy-making machine etched in blue and cannot be undone.  If you are sure, ADD machine to machine again within 30 seconds to confirm.]

>**add my machine to my other machine**
You press a gnomic candy-making machine etched in blue firmly against a gnomic candy-making machine, aligning the two machines at their bases.  A grinding series of mechanical clicks, snaps, and internal shifts follows as components from both devices interlock and fuse.  A gnomic candy-making machine etched in blue is consumed in the process, its workings drawn fully into a gnomic candy-making machine.  When the sounds finally cease, a small lever has appeared along a gnomic candy-making machine's side frame.

A new line will be added to the analyze:

> [Dual-mode is unlocked.   FLIP the machine to toggle between candy-making and resin-molding modes.]

>flip my machine
You grasp the small lever on the side of a gnomic candy-making machine and pull it decisively downward.  A rapid series of mechanical clicks, sliding panels, and locking gears follows as the device reconfigures itself, components shifting into entirely new arrangements.  When the sounds finally cease, what was once a gnomic candy-making machine has become a gnomic resin-molding press.

You analyze the resin-molding press and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

Introducing the Gnomic Candy Press, now in resin-molding mode! Brought to you by the ingenious burghal gnome duo of Fryc and Shives, this device has been modified to produce resin figurines, sculptures, and beads in addition to its original candy-making function.

How does it work?
It's easy! With these simple steps, you too can be an amazing artisan!

Step 1: PUSH a CANDY ROLLER into the press.
Step 2: POUR some FLETCHING GLUE into the press.
Step 3: TINKER with the press to create your resin items!

Each application creates 10 pieces in your tray. The type of item produced depends on the roller currently installed:

Figurines are produced by rollers featuring humanoids, monsters, and animals. It will create 5.

Sculptures are produced by rollers featuring inanimate objects. It will create 5.

Beads are produced by rollers featuring abstract shapes. It will create 10.

To remove glue from the press, TURN the press to open the release valve.

To switch back to candy-making mode, make sure the press is completely empty and FLIP it.
Pour a grot t'kel potion onto a roller, then PUSH it into the press to unlock a chance at creating a magic figurine or sculpture. For each one produced, there is a 10% chance it will become magical, allowing it to have magic IMBEDDED within.

Item Composition
Figurines are named for their design: a grizzly bear figurine, an elven warrior figurine, and so on. Sculptures follow the same pattern: a leather boot sculpture, an iron kettle sculpture.
Beads take the shape name directly: a star bead, a crescent bead, a spiral bead.

Roller Compatibility
All candy rollers are compatible with both modes of this device. If a roller predates the dual-mode update, you will be prompted to return it to your roller holder to refresh it before use in resin mode.

Alterations
You may alter your device, but the LOOK is hard-coded, so please make sure your short and/or long description make sense.
[This device is currently in resin-molding mode. FLIP the press to switch to candy-making mode.]```

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Additionally, Honeyed Gear has two updates:

  • 100 new designs have been added to the pile
  • a Designatrix 500 has been added to the desk in the back room. This blank metal rod can be used like so:
You analyze the metal rod and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

Blank Candy Maker Roller Rod
A blank metal rod is a blank roller rod awaiting a design.  It has not yet been shaped into a specific form.

To choose a design, follow these steps:

Step 1:  GLANCE at the rod to browse all available candy roller designs.
Step 2:  WHISPER to the rod a {number} to select your desired design.
Step 3:  WHISPER to the rod a {number} again within 30 seconds to confirm and permanently transform a blank metal rod.

Once transformed, a blank metal rod becomes a fully functional candy roller bearing your chosen design and a randomly selected metal.  This action cannot be undone.

A blank metal rod may not be altered until after it has been transformed into a roller.
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tinker my press
You grasp the crank handle of a gnomic resin-molding press and begin turning it, setting the internal mechanism into motion. Fletching glue pours from the glue basin into the mold channel, filling the circular impression as a small warming coil heats the resin to its working temperature. Rhimar rods press against the basin the moment the cycle completes, cooling the resin rapidly as it sets. As the clockwork pieces cease their whirring, a series of freshly cast beads clatter into the tray near the device's feet.

look in my press
Compact and sturdy, the press features a central resin basin flanked by two narrow feed channels. A flow control valve at the base governs the release of glue, should any be loaded into the mold channel, which is positioned directly over a series of a circle-cut metal rollers. A long crank handle extends from the side, ensuring smooth operation, while a wide footer provides stability. A small lever along the frame suggests the device has more than one purpose. Affixed to the frame, a small plaque bears the inscription: "The Resin Press of 5126, a Fryc and Shives Invention."
In the tray of the resin-molding press you see a circular bead, a circular bead, a circular bead, a circular bead, a circular bead, a circular bead, a circular bead, a circular bead, a circular bead, a circular bead and a circular bead.

You remove a circular bead from in a gnomic resin-molding press.

point my (weaving) lathe at my bead
You think you could cut a circular bead into a silver-chased circular bead with a small steel-tipped lathe with an oak handle, which can then be used for weaving.

balmy raven
balmy raven
balmy raven
balmy raven
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To learn more about the Gnomic Candy Press, visit the wiki.
Special thanks to Elysani for additional designs. Tivvy for talking me off the ledge. Ethereal and Isten for QC.

balmy raven
shrewd plover
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Oh, wow! And if you do not have last year's Candy machine, can you obtain a second one to make all the new wonder?

balmy raven
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I.. don't know how that's handled for catch-ups. I'll find out.

lilac condor
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Can the figurines, sculptures, and effigies be used with the tinkerer spider in the spider box to turn them into weavables too?

balmy raven
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I think they fall in the organic category, but I can do some testing.

lilac condor
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Oh, I thought the tinkerer only checked for the treasure system noun, not the material too. Thanks for looking into it! Any idea how much the blank rollers and NPC will cost?

balmy raven
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This may take a moment because.... I.. don't have a tinker spider.

half flare
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You're too busy making amazing things to get to play with your own toys 😄

balmy raven
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>look my box
Meticulously crafted, the octagonal shadow box is framed in glossy ebonwood. Its back wall is fitted with a smoky, obsidian mirror that seems to absorb all light. Gossamer threads, anchored to silver hooks in the eight corners of the piece, weave together to create an intricate web that supports a grizzly bear figurine at its center.
>tickle my box
Moving furiously, a dark plum amethyst tarantula crawls down from the corner of the box and moves to a grizzly bear figurine positioned at the heart of the web. Rubbing its front legs together, the tarantula creates a spidery skein of light that momentarily obscures the figurine from view. Turning around, the tarantula scurries back to the corner of the box and, when the light fades, a grizzly bear charm seems much changed.

The web within an octagonal ebonwood shadow box suddenly collapses, dropping a grizzly bear charm onto the mirror lining its bottom.

You remove a grizzly bear charm from in your shadow box.
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balmy raven
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The roller is 1,000.

shrewd plover
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Please remind me - the Vault item is ACCOUNT or CHARACTER attuned?

And hopefully since we need two of the machines, we can open two vaults this time?

balmy raven
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Only one Event Vault may be redeemed per run of an event per character. The Event Vault itself is not attuned until it has been REDEEMed. Once redeemed, contents are typically attuned either to the account or to the character, depending on the item. Special items are always character attuned.

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So, this run is the upgrade from last year.

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So, this year, you'd get the candymaker if it is your first time. Next year, you'd get the resin maker if this year was your first time.

shrewd plover
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So are these ACCOUNT or CHARACTER attuned?

balmy raven
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Special items are always character attuned.

sharp dome
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I appreciate the information. Since I don't have an item from last year, I think I'll pass on this year. Both items are very well done and I'm glad they're going to make people happy, but I don't have much interest in buying something in the off chance that the next upgrade will be something I'm interested in

lilac condor
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Thanks for confirming on the tinkerer. How will the design options that are longer than 15 characters work with being turned into weavables?

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"Figurines are produced by rollers featuring humanoids, monsters, and animals. It will create 5.
Sculptures are produced by rollers featuring inanimate objects. It will create 5.
Beads are produced by rollers featuring abstract shapes. It will create 10."

"Resin Presses accept glue to create figurines, sculptures, effigies, and beads.
There is the same chance to create magical item for figurines, sculptures, and effigies as there is to create a magical candy."

I may be confused, but is there anything that actually makes effigies?

feral wigeon
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Wonderful upgrade, thank you!

balmy raven
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In most cases, the machine is smart enough to separate them. If there are two words in a design (separated by a space) then it will place them separately. For example: an orange blossom-shaped turns into an orange/blossom/bead.

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I guess I forgot to mention the effigies. I'll get that updated.

delicate whale
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well the million dollar question: will any of this work with 325 now?

balmy raven
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Does 325 work on blank imbeddibles?

delicate whale
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on orb gems and ranger made wands and trinkets.. this was brought up last year with the candies.. I understand disallowing it if due to technical limitations.. but.. it would seem really odd if holy symbols couldn't be imbedded with 325, ne?

balmy raven
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So, I guess the difference is that the rollers aren't holy symbols so much as they have 'deity-based iconography.' They create the effigy. However, I can look at this to see but I can't make any promises

lilac condor
balmy raven
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Not intentional... I may have lost some while alphabetizing cause... that was a fun day.

balmy raven
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This appears to be the discrepancy:
a bean-cut
a bone-cut
a charm-cut <-- removed on purposed because too ambiguous
a dodecagonal-cut
a doll-cut
a flame-cut
a gooseberry-cut
a dill leaf-cut
a hammer-cut
a helmet-cut
a juniper leaf-cut
a mongoose-cut
a moon-cut <-- changed to crescent moon because moon alone in this instance would be a circle?
a pomegranate-cut
a sheep-cut
a skull-cut
a skunk-cut
a slipper-cut
a swamp rose-cut
a zydris leaf-cut
an acorn-cut
an elk-cut
an ice tulip-cut
an ovoid of-cut

lilac condor
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The other missing ones I noticed were:
crow
eagle
seal
berry
heptagon
oval
pixie

balmy raven
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oval is there, it is ovoid.

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I removed a bunch of duplicates, too.

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I moved all blossoms, leaves, hearts, dragons (except for teadragons) together.

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Like pudgy bumblebee was there twice (once under pudgy and once under bumble) silver-tipped quill, same thing

shrewd plover
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OK, checking back again to make sure I understand this before I write it up.

Last year, if you did not buy a Vault, or you broke your item from your vault, because we had no idea it was going to get new features on the new 5 year plan ...

... How will people be able to "catch up" because they're always going to be missing a step?

balmy raven
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They will catch up next year. Once the five years are up (if I survive that long), I'm sure we'll do a catch-up year.

shrewd plover
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OK, so catching up will be possible, somewhere down the road. Next year, in theory, it will have a new tier/whatever it is being called.

balmy raven
shrewd plover
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You WILL survive, and it will be GLORIOUS! Thank you.

balmy raven
lilac condor
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I preferred the generic 'berry' for weaving, but I'll remove that from my target list then. There's spotted seal and seal on the Wiki separately so I was just going by the list that people shared last year.

balmy raven
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It could be that folks only put the tap on them, but spotted seal seems to be in both last and this year's list... so...

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After adding back in and doing some reorganizing, fixing duplicates, etc....

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There's 532 designs.

gleaming bridge
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With all the flipping back and forth between resin and candy- is there a slight chance the candy tastes like glue?

balmy raven
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heh

radiant sequoia
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This is a very neat item and I can see a lot of uses for it.

I am disappointed, however, because (unless I missed something really obvious) last year's item was never announced as multi-year. I chose to pass on it because I did not foresee ever really using the candy press itself. Had I known it was going to be upgradable in some way, I would have chosen otherwise and likely purchased the vault with it.

It feels bad to feel like I'm being penalized for not knowing about an announcement that was pending an entire year in advance. I'm much less likely to buy the vault this year, too, as a result.

For clarification, and to help me decide if I want to even invest in this now-upgradable multiyear item.. How long will its upgrades be available with RW runs? Will someone who starts to buy in this year be able to "complete" it or will they forever one year behind and thus forever out of luck? I saw mention of a "catch-up" year, but wouldn't that mean that those who did get the candy press last year, even without knowing about the mutliyear upgrades, will instead be the ones out of luck in the end?

sharp dome
rancid zenith
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Like the Duskruin vault items (and EG vault item) our plan is to extend these to unlockables over the course of multiple runs. The plan right now is 5 runs for all of these, but should we cut them short, we'll announce it ahead of time. There won't be a specific catch up year for any vault item, but there will be other opportunities to get them, such as base game feeders (treasure chests), raffles, auctions, and special events. There are vaults from last year still out there as well that exist. Most the people who stockpile them do use them for exp orbs though, so they might not be hitting the market. There is a timestamp on them that will cause the delivered ones to behave the same for the year they were delivered/purchased.

radiant sequoia
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While that's great and something that I support, it's very different to present that as what you are doing so people can decide if they want to buy in on a multi-year item that, at year 1, might not really be their thing.. vs.. bringing it up a year after the fact as a, "by the way, that very niche thing we sold last year is now a multi-year item".

For example, the DR shard this past run wasn't really my jam as it stood, but I am intersted in its future potential. Had it not been announced as a multi-year item, I would not have purchased a vault. But it was, so I did. That was not the case with last year's RW vault item.

rancid zenith
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We'll figure out something that works for it as we move forward. If we need to do something where you can catch up a single year, we'll do it.

radiant sequoia
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Thanks for responding and addressing it, Wyrom. I'll look forward to the catch up opportunity, then.

sharp dome
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I again agree completely with @radiant sequoia here. The candy maker vault item was never advertised as a multi year item, so I didn't pick it up as it didn't fit my characters. I didn't buy the vault at all last year, so I didn't buy it and then break it for an orb.

The urnon shard also doesn't fit any of my characters, so I also did not buy that, even to break for an orb. However, that one was advertised as a multi year item, so I knew what I was giving up by not buying it. If it turns out that a later upgrade suits me, that's my own fault since I knew that was a risk.

For the candy maker, I had no idea I may potentially lose out of future unlocks because that was never mentioned as a possibility.

ivory oxide
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Yeah you can't convert an item to a multi-year thing on year 2, and be like, "Well, hope you get one in a raffle, or an auction"

balmy raven
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There must be some kind of miscommunication because the vault item was listed after February's DR of last year as being a multi-year item.

ivory oxide
balmy raven
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That announcement wasn't tied to the machine, it was announce outside of the event. I don't have my hands on it, my hands are a little full at the moment, but the announcement said that Vault items would be multi year going forward.

jade cypress
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IIRC that was in August.

sharp dome
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I found this in an announcement from EG last year, after the candy maker had been released.

We are also starting something new with the special item, where it can be upgraded each year. You will always get the base item each year, but you can use the base item to upgrade your previous year's item if you choose. You can BREAK the special item for a violet exp orb, like we've done with previous items.

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#event-announcements message

lilac condor
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Is there any way to see the updated list of options before buying a rod?

balmy raven
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Does glance work when not in hand?

lilac condor
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No, it just shows this:

glance rod
You glance at a blank metal rod on a smooth walnut writing desk.

balmy raven
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All the new ones are on the wiki.

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All the past ones that fell off were added to it.

undone moon
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Hi, can someone help me understand how to customize the candy/resin rollers? I buy a blank rod and:

Each cylinder on this desk is calibrated for use with the Gnomic Candy/Resin Press.

  • The Chitinform Sketcher accepts paper insect templates. Once processed, it enables the Press to produce insect-shaped candies.
  • The Skycoil Draft Engine does the same for avian designs.
  • The Nautilograph Array handles sea creature patterns.
    Where is the sketcher/engine/array?
balmy raven
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So the sketcher is for bugs on parade.

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The skycoil is for jeepers creepers

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Nautilograph is for life aquatic

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the ROD is for any roller in the pile

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GLANCE at it to pick a design

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I just made funny names for them because I had my Gnomic Tinkerer's hat on.

undone moon
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Ohhh so I buy the blank rod, GLANCE, and then that sets the design?

balmy raven
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and it made me laugh

balmy raven
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so be prepared to repeatedly glance

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532 possible

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Once I'm done futzing w. bugs, emails, and discord, I'll try to go update the wiki.

rancid zenith
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For the "wasn't clear about unlocks" issue. I can do one of two things. Discord isn't the best metric to use, but I'll put the feeler out here. I can allow a second vault to be purchased per character this run, it will have to be at the mid point of the event. OR we can simply offer the candy maker +1 year after they are done.

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Tag or reply to me, I might not see responses over here.

sharp dome
radiant sequoia
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I prefer option #1 of the two presented. Oop forgot to tag but I see you typing.

rancid zenith
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Could also sell one for silver that is unbreakable, but that might be difficult to price out properly that is achievable while keeping the intended way of obtaining them. With a second vault, you will have a number of things expire on you, like the exp scroll.

radiant sequoia
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For what it's worth, I'm also okay with a purchase in a shop option.

rancid zenith
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Okay, let me see the easiest and least impactful way to handle it.

sharp dome
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To state for the record, I don't care if people can buy a second vault. People who would break the first one for an orb would do it for a second, and I'm not in an XP race with anyone. I don't care if they get more.

radiant sequoia
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Thank you, Wyrom.

lilac condor
lilac condor
# rancid zenith Could also sell one for silver that is unbreakable, but that might be difficult ...

If the vault item is sold in the shop for silvers, people will want refunds on the vaults, because the vault item being character-attuned for the CRAFTING ITEM is what made them difficult to pass around to the alts with the crafting fodder to use.

If you let people combine unattuned and attuned items and end up with a GMA unattuned crafting item, it's also going to screw over the entire vault market for more GMA resale of these vault items that are worth more than the 1500 SC incidental value.

undone moon
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You could... sell a package with just the candy maker in it, perhaps? And no other vault items?

lilac condor
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People who purchased the vaults also purchased them in good faith that the crafting item would be character-attuned as advertised and that was the only opportunity to buy them. It's going to deter people from buying vaults too if things can randomly just be changed after sales. It's the same thing that happened with the spider houses being offered at EG after people purchased extra vaults for them for a much higher cash cost.

undone moon
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I mean, really? I have no horse in this race because I kept mine last year. But people are just looking for a way to catch up. Do we have to make it so complicated?

jade cypress
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I am LITERALLY sitting on a vault FROM last year because RW didn't even run in Plat. I have no horse in this race in terms of catching up, but I totally support the availability of a second vault now because of communications last run. I lose out on everything with an expiration date in that because it's already too late.

rancid zenith
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Nothing is being decided on a few comments on Discord right now. I was just putting a feeler out. I still need to see what even is possible. The silver option wouldn't really be a feasible one. Just looking for people to engage in the discussion without any sort of worry about their suggestions.

undone moon
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The candy maker is the vault item this year, so I don't really understand the argument around it needing to be an exclusive item available for one year only. Doesn't really hold weight now.

sharp dome
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I appreciate that you're willing to listen to us.

shrewd plover
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I totally would not have broken mine last year if I had known at the time, that the vault thingies were turning into a five year plan.

I will have to decide pretty soon what in the world to do this time.

It may have been a very long day the last two days, and I may be particularly irritated by this new revelation.

delicate whale
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I broke mine last year over the 325 thing, but I may have been hestitant to do so if I knew it were an upgradable item.. and to my recollection the announcement of that plan for vault items was -after- RW

shrewd plover
sacred viper
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can you make a certificate that gives you +1 year, up to the current, and sell it? then no other maker with breaking or chaos, just upgrade. Actually it should be oil for the gears, but that idea?

lilac condor
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There's a minor typo here too, but there were bear rollers inside the original machine.

l in machi
Compact and sturdy, the machine features twin side cylinders, one crafted to hold fruit and the other designed to house honey. Centrally positioned, a channel is designed to guide the combined liquids from each cylinder to the melting basin, which has a pour spout over** a series of a bear-cut pink gold rollers**. A long crank handle extends from the side, ensuring smooth operation, while a wide footer provides stability. Affixed to the frame, a small plaque bears the inscription: "The Candy Press of 5125, a Fryc and Shives Invention."
There is nothing in the tray.

Someone just opened a vault and took out the new machine, and there are bear rollers in here too by default:

l in machi
Compact and sturdy, the machine features twin side cylinders, one crafted to hold fruit and the other designed to house honey. Centrally positioned, a channel is designed to guide the combined liquids from each cylinder to the melting basin, which has a pour spout over a series of a bear-cut pink gold rollers. A long crank handle extends from the side, ensuring smooth operation, while a wide footer provides stability. Affixed to the frame, a small plaque bears the inscription: "The Candy Press of 5125, a Fryc and Shives Invention."
There is nothing in the tray.

add other machi to my machi
You hold a gnomic candy-making machine against a gnomic candy-making machine and contemplate merging them!
[This will permanently consume a gnomic candy-making machine and cannot be undone. If you are sure, ADD machine to machine again within 30 seconds to confirm.]

They haven't gone through the confirmation step, but it appears that it will definitely eat and delete whatever rollers were stored inside one or the other and end up losing at least one.

Also, if the original machine had the custom mark stamp altered already, can you confirm which stamp will be saved on the combined and upgraded machine?

If the original machine had been altered, is there a way to confirm which machine will be saved as the combined and upgraded machine?

A safer way may have been to have an option to BREAK the machine for the orb OR use another verb to break the new machine into a character-attuned unlock certificate that can only be applied to a machine attuned to the same character. Things being altered/customized or stored on the original device seems dangerous, especially when considering the EG spider box being upgraded with spiders stored inside.

I wanted to check on these things before proceeding and causing further issues that need assist help. Thank you!

Alterations
You may alter your device but the LOOK is hard-coded, so please make sure your short and/or long description make sense. Additionally, you may customize your seal. The seal can be no more than 45 characters and will always be preceded by "stamped with."
[Dual-mode is not unlocked. To unlock it, simply ADD another candy-making machine to it.

lilac condor
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Just checking if there's any info on this. Thank you!

balmy raven
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it is on my task list for tonight.

balmy raven
lilac condor
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Thank you for checking, but do you get to keep any candy rollers stored in the candy machine when combined or do you lose one or both sets?

balmy raven
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It should block you if there is a roller in it. I believe it tells you it has to be empty. I'd just remove the roller to be safe.

lilac condor
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The rollers were removed from both first before combining in case, and it correctly saved the altered seal. Thank you so much for looking into this.

jade cypress
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Any news about the possibility of letting people catch up if they didn't acquire a candy roller last year due to lack of information?

sharp dome
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Yes, please, more info!

rancid zenith
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This won't be a popular response, but for now we are going to stick with the plan of release schedule. Allowing another one breaks the spirit of what we're trying to do with vaults. We also haven't designed these for excess to be out there beyond the current year. There will be ways to catch up each year that are part of my original plan that I announced well before RW. It just won't be available right away.

jade cypress
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...so now the players are being punished for Simu's lack of communication. Wonderful.

gusty salmon
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yea lack of information is very frustrating

jade cypress
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A catch up year would be fine if we hadn't been kept in the dark until after the opportunity to acquire that the vaults were being made into an upgraded thing instead of standalone.

radiant sequoia
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This is both exceptionally disappointing and frustrating.

I agree with Vyrshkana that it feels like players are being punished simply because information was not available to them when it should have been.

The announcement that vault special items were going to become multi-run upgradable special items was made on 10/10/25 (<#event-announcements message>), just in time for Ebon Gate's reunion vault special item. That's over five months after Rumor Woods 2025 concluded and the opportunity to get its tourney vault special item ended - the basis for this run's upgrade. In between Rumor Woods and that announcement, Duskruin had a non-upgradable battle vault special item in August 2025 (Fizwixit's Wonderful Widget). Duskruin's upgradable special item was not introduced until after that announcement.

I took the statement that something was going to be done to allow those of us who would have purchased differently last year to "catch up" in good faith. I purchased a vault this year based on that statement. It was a good faith purchase that was made with the understanding that I would be able to "catch up" on this item in a manner that would be determined as the "least impactful" to those who had (unknowingly) purchased the initial unlockable item last year. It feels very bad to know that I wasted Simucoins this run based on the assurance of something that is no longer happening.

I've typed out and deleted this several times over to make sure that I can adequately express how I feel about this in a way that doesn't violate policy.

rancid zenith
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Like I said, you'll have the ability to catch up, it just won't be right this moment. Right now we don't have a catch up system built in. Every script is a separated, closed system that we have to build processes or call into other systems. It's not plug and play by any means, and just because it exists in one script, doesn't mean it can be tapped into by another script. A good example is the BREAK code to make the exp orb, it took over a year to build something that everything can use now. But for the first items that were doing it, they were building out that code each time. Sometimes a copy/paste can do the trick, but most times it cannot.

Each of the new vault items will have a catch up mechanic added, but the candy maker doesn't have one right now. Nor does the urnon shard I did. Once those exist, you'll see an ability to have a catch up. It won't be a way to get ahead, which has to be separated out from the current way to add the unlock.

radiant sequoia
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I see; I'm sorry, I misunderstood your intent. Thank you, Wyrom. While I can't speak for others impacted, I'm fine waiting a year or two to catch up, so long as that remains an option.

sharp dome
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Thank you for the clarification, Wyrom. I'm also frustrated, like Shan, that we're not going to have a method to catch up like we were told we would. But I can more easily accept a technical reason for the delay. So long as we're given the opportunity, I can wait.

ivory oxide
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Bad response, and the item being made multi-year with no prior announcement is a bad precedent, as is saying we'll figure it out in a year or two.

rancid zenith
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But no one ever said there wasn't a catch up method OR that it would take a year or two, so that is a very weird take on it. Regardless, we have plans, and simply adding a second vault just won't cut it, as it is against the nature of why we offer the vaults. It's a lot of extra content at no cost at roughly the median spend at our events.

ivory oxide
sharp dome
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Question about the actual vault item this year. Can the resin pieces be dyed, especially the beads?

balmy raven
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Yes, and no. It replaces certain words.

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Give mea moment and I can show you what I mean.

balmy raven
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Okay, looks like they cannot be dyed. I just tried a bunch of different things. But I do believe they can go in the spider box to become weaving charms.

sharp dome
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Gotcha. Thank you for trying!