Alyxia
12-03-2002, 04:22 PM
originally posted by Somaa Dirtnapper (slightly formatted for readability)
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Hey all, this is kinda a work in progress, but since I've just done 2 runs of 200 combines on this wonderful food (skill 176 to start, 8 skill ups, 56 total picnics made) And being one of low inventory space, I thought I'd make a guide on how better to juggle your bags, as well as speed up the process.
Ok, I'll try and make this as consise as possible with all the pertinant information
OK what you're gonna wanna do first is procure the following items:
Sewing Kit, Mixing Bowl, 3 10-slots bag, at least 1 large slot open on another bag, a file, a dairy spoon, and a cake round. the later three are all make via blacksmithing (which you're gonna need at least some skill in anyway)
Recommended Levels for Tradeskills
Brewing: 160+ (although the Jumjum spiced beer isn't trivial at this skill, I noticed very few failures)
Baking: 170+ (this will trivial and more the Jumjum spiced cake, which is not only the hardest component (other than the picnic itself) it requires the hardest to GET component)
Smithing: 50+ (you only really need to make steel boning, and the three tools)
Tailoring: 76+ (this is the trivial level for the picnic baskets, as the fastest way to get here is to make them, you might just wanna do that and save stuff... though it will take a lot of space)
Required Forages:
Vegtables
Fruit (in a far fewer quantity than the vegtables)
Uncommon Vendor items:
Jumjum Stalk (I got it from the short vendor in SH, first building on the right in the short quater)
Lettuce (same vendor)
Rennet - Granger Kenforth (in unlabelled building next to a smithy shop/forge, near the alchemy vendors in SH)
Looted Components:
Brownie Parts (drops from... brownies, Lfay and steamfont)
Alchemy components:
Eucalyptus
Fennel
Mandrake Root
Everything else should be easy to find at standard vendors.
OK, before we can get organized we have to do some prep work:
Note: I'm an iksar, so I got all my common stuff from Cabilis and the rest from the moon. I have forage, and veggies and fruit are common. Also this guide is based on doing 200 combines at a time, as I couldnt do more with my limited space
1) Ok first, buy 40 mandrake root, and combine 2 mandrake root in a tailoring kit until you have a stack of woven mandrake
2) Then buy a stack of water flasks, and 20 small bricks of ore, combine one of each and a file in a forge until you get a stack of steel boning
3) Combine 1 forged fruit and 3 frosting in an oven to make marmalade, repeat this until you have 18 marmalade (3 times)
4) Combie 1 brownie part and 2 frosting in a mixing bowl to make winter chocolate. do this twice (you'll have 2 winter chocolate)
5) Combine any egg but a snake egg (repeat twice for a snake egg) 1 flour, and 1 milk in a mixing bowl for clump of dough. You need 2 clumps of dough.
6) Combine 1 clump of dough, 1 winter chocolate, 1 frosting, 1 jumjum stalk, and your cake round in an oven. This will give you 20 cakes, you need 40, so repeat this once.
OK that will get all the prep work out of the way (you'll do many more combines as you go) its time to set up your bags. (I hope this comes out right)
Bag 1:
20..Barley...................20..Bottles
20..Hops.....................20..Jumjum Stalks
20..Spices...................20..Water Flasks
20..Jumjum Stalks.........20..Foraged Vegtables
20..Lettuce.................20..Fennel
Bag 2:
20..Milk.......................20..Rennet
20..Milk.......................01..Dairy Spoon
18..Apricot Marmalade...18..Loaf of Bread
20..Eucalyptus.............20..Frosting
20..Woven Mandrake.....20..Steel Boning
Bag 3:
20..Jumjum Cake...........20..Jumjum Cake
rest of this bag is open
You will have 8 slots open in bag 3, these slots are for the final components for Misty Picnics, as you need to put all those components in an oven, and the only other thing you use the oven for is slicing the Cake (/boggle) its best to keep them in the same container.
Basically you will start at the top of bag 1 and make all of the parts of the picnic in order:
Preparation for Final Combines:
Bag 1:
1) Combine first six components (barley, hops, bottle, jumjum stalk, spices, water flask) in a BREW BARREL for the jumjum spiced beer (or rum, I disremember which) Yield 10, repeat and stash in Bag 3.
2) Combine next four components (Jumjum stalk, foraged vegtables, lettuce, fennel) in a MIXING BOWL for the jumjum salad yield 10, repeat and stash in Bag 3.
Bag 2:
3) Combine first 4 components (2 milk, 1 rennet, dairy spoon) in a MIXING BOWL for the mature cheese yield 10, repeat and stash in Bag 3.
4) Combine next 2 components (1 apricot marmalade, 1 loaf of bread) in a MIXING BOWL for the marmalade sandwiches yield 12, repeat as necessary for at least a stack in bag three (keep track of the rest of course and use when you could)
5) Combine next 2 components (1 eucalyptus, 1 frosting) in a MIXING BOWL for the royal mints yield 10, repeat and stash in bag 3.
6) Combine next 2 components (1 woven mandrake and 1 steel boning) in a SEWING KIT for picnic baskets yield 10, repeat and stash in Bag 3.
Final Combines:
7) Next open bag 3 (at this point you should have the 2 cakes, and 6 of the misty picnic items in full stacks in there)
8 ) Combine 1 cake in an oven by itself for Slice of jumjum spiced cape yield 10, you need 2 stacks of these, so repeat 3 times (for 2 full stacks of slices)
9) Combine all 8 items (bottom 8 slots in the 3rd bag) in an oven.
When you've exhausted the picnic parts, repeat the entire process, you'll (at the end) attempted 200 picnics (assuming no failure, at baking skill 175, part failure was rare, I also have 200 blacksmithing, 99 tailoring, and 159 brewing failing anything other than the picnic itself was uncommon, like maybe once per 200 tries (actually only 40 tries of component making)
Now of course, the important thing: cost. Approximate cost, if you can get the forages and dropped components for free, is 230 plat (for all 200 combines total). That's at best prices.
Enjoy!
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Poster's Note:
There are a lot of good guides for MTPs out there, stating the locations of where items are found. And those guides are very good as well. However, being an avid traderskiller myself, I can pretty much source out products on my own.
This guide, with the great bag suggestions, make this guide a very worthwhile read. It takes a while to prepare the ingredients, but I found that it has increased my efficiency immensely.
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Hey all, this is kinda a work in progress, but since I've just done 2 runs of 200 combines on this wonderful food (skill 176 to start, 8 skill ups, 56 total picnics made) And being one of low inventory space, I thought I'd make a guide on how better to juggle your bags, as well as speed up the process.
Ok, I'll try and make this as consise as possible with all the pertinant information
OK what you're gonna wanna do first is procure the following items:
Sewing Kit, Mixing Bowl, 3 10-slots bag, at least 1 large slot open on another bag, a file, a dairy spoon, and a cake round. the later three are all make via blacksmithing (which you're gonna need at least some skill in anyway)
Recommended Levels for Tradeskills
Brewing: 160+ (although the Jumjum spiced beer isn't trivial at this skill, I noticed very few failures)
Baking: 170+ (this will trivial and more the Jumjum spiced cake, which is not only the hardest component (other than the picnic itself) it requires the hardest to GET component)
Smithing: 50+ (you only really need to make steel boning, and the three tools)
Tailoring: 76+ (this is the trivial level for the picnic baskets, as the fastest way to get here is to make them, you might just wanna do that and save stuff... though it will take a lot of space)
Required Forages:
Vegtables
Fruit (in a far fewer quantity than the vegtables)
Uncommon Vendor items:
Jumjum Stalk (I got it from the short vendor in SH, first building on the right in the short quater)
Lettuce (same vendor)
Rennet - Granger Kenforth (in unlabelled building next to a smithy shop/forge, near the alchemy vendors in SH)
Looted Components:
Brownie Parts (drops from... brownies, Lfay and steamfont)
Alchemy components:
Eucalyptus
Fennel
Mandrake Root
Everything else should be easy to find at standard vendors.
OK, before we can get organized we have to do some prep work:
Note: I'm an iksar, so I got all my common stuff from Cabilis and the rest from the moon. I have forage, and veggies and fruit are common. Also this guide is based on doing 200 combines at a time, as I couldnt do more with my limited space
1) Ok first, buy 40 mandrake root, and combine 2 mandrake root in a tailoring kit until you have a stack of woven mandrake
2) Then buy a stack of water flasks, and 20 small bricks of ore, combine one of each and a file in a forge until you get a stack of steel boning
3) Combine 1 forged fruit and 3 frosting in an oven to make marmalade, repeat this until you have 18 marmalade (3 times)
4) Combie 1 brownie part and 2 frosting in a mixing bowl to make winter chocolate. do this twice (you'll have 2 winter chocolate)
5) Combine any egg but a snake egg (repeat twice for a snake egg) 1 flour, and 1 milk in a mixing bowl for clump of dough. You need 2 clumps of dough.
6) Combine 1 clump of dough, 1 winter chocolate, 1 frosting, 1 jumjum stalk, and your cake round in an oven. This will give you 20 cakes, you need 40, so repeat this once.
OK that will get all the prep work out of the way (you'll do many more combines as you go) its time to set up your bags. (I hope this comes out right)
Bag 1:
20..Barley...................20..Bottles
20..Hops.....................20..Jumjum Stalks
20..Spices...................20..Water Flasks
20..Jumjum Stalks.........20..Foraged Vegtables
20..Lettuce.................20..Fennel
Bag 2:
20..Milk.......................20..Rennet
20..Milk.......................01..Dairy Spoon
18..Apricot Marmalade...18..Loaf of Bread
20..Eucalyptus.............20..Frosting
20..Woven Mandrake.....20..Steel Boning
Bag 3:
20..Jumjum Cake...........20..Jumjum Cake
rest of this bag is open
You will have 8 slots open in bag 3, these slots are for the final components for Misty Picnics, as you need to put all those components in an oven, and the only other thing you use the oven for is slicing the Cake (/boggle) its best to keep them in the same container.
Basically you will start at the top of bag 1 and make all of the parts of the picnic in order:
Preparation for Final Combines:
Bag 1:
1) Combine first six components (barley, hops, bottle, jumjum stalk, spices, water flask) in a BREW BARREL for the jumjum spiced beer (or rum, I disremember which) Yield 10, repeat and stash in Bag 3.
2) Combine next four components (Jumjum stalk, foraged vegtables, lettuce, fennel) in a MIXING BOWL for the jumjum salad yield 10, repeat and stash in Bag 3.
Bag 2:
3) Combine first 4 components (2 milk, 1 rennet, dairy spoon) in a MIXING BOWL for the mature cheese yield 10, repeat and stash in Bag 3.
4) Combine next 2 components (1 apricot marmalade, 1 loaf of bread) in a MIXING BOWL for the marmalade sandwiches yield 12, repeat as necessary for at least a stack in bag three (keep track of the rest of course and use when you could)
5) Combine next 2 components (1 eucalyptus, 1 frosting) in a MIXING BOWL for the royal mints yield 10, repeat and stash in bag 3.
6) Combine next 2 components (1 woven mandrake and 1 steel boning) in a SEWING KIT for picnic baskets yield 10, repeat and stash in Bag 3.
Final Combines:
7) Next open bag 3 (at this point you should have the 2 cakes, and 6 of the misty picnic items in full stacks in there)
8 ) Combine 1 cake in an oven by itself for Slice of jumjum spiced cape yield 10, you need 2 stacks of these, so repeat 3 times (for 2 full stacks of slices)
9) Combine all 8 items (bottom 8 slots in the 3rd bag) in an oven.
When you've exhausted the picnic parts, repeat the entire process, you'll (at the end) attempted 200 picnics (assuming no failure, at baking skill 175, part failure was rare, I also have 200 blacksmithing, 99 tailoring, and 159 brewing failing anything other than the picnic itself was uncommon, like maybe once per 200 tries (actually only 40 tries of component making)
Now of course, the important thing: cost. Approximate cost, if you can get the forages and dropped components for free, is 230 plat (for all 200 combines total). That's at best prices.
Enjoy!
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Poster's Note:
There are a lot of good guides for MTPs out there, stating the locations of where items are found. And those guides are very good as well. However, being an avid traderskiller myself, I can pretty much source out products on my own.
This guide, with the great bag suggestions, make this guide a very worthwhile read. It takes a while to prepare the ingredients, but I found that it has increased my efficiency immensely.