Ate my file?

[MareeTP]

I made smith ceramic clay and it ate my file

Is it supposed to do that? The recipe says it gives the file back on failure.

I didnt fail.

Shouldnt it give the file back anyway? Other recipes do

EDIT: nm... read it. What a sucky thing to do. What on earth is the point of that?

[Ursawraith]

I believe the idea is that the "Essence" of the file is used to imbue the clay wich makes it sensitive to smithing skill. Something like the old GM Trophies, I know the old GM Baking trophy would expend your dairy spoon.

The upshot is that with such a high smithing skill making a new file is a minor inconvienance at worst.

[Ngreth Thergn]

And is a file REALLY that difficult to replace? But yes... it is used to help empower the clay to work with smithing.

[MareeTP]

Its not I was just momentarily perturbed. Smithing will do that.

I just grabbed a stack of metal bits and did the combines right there at the file mold merchant. I was actually rather pleased to find the ceramic clay combine right around now. Piles of gravel drop rate though.. thats truly evil

[tnexus]

Clear the bottom of the Hole for a bit. You should come up with a couple in no time.

[Atnusen]

I don't think it's so much that it's hard to make a file, but if you're using it as a skillup method, carrying around an extra 100 files to do the combines gets annoying. How about just adding 2 metal bits to the recipe or something, and giving us back our file?

[MareeTP]

I clear the bottom of the Hole. I get one per hour. Have been doing when I can for weeks now. Unfortunately I dont have 8 hours of time free for just farming very often.

[gggrant]

I clear the bottom of the Hole. I get one per hour. Have been doing when I can for weeks now. Unfortunately I dont have 8 hours of time free for just farming very often.

Master Armor isn't a viable skillup path for all races. Since you are attempting to farm Piles of gravel for skillups, I would have to guess you are human, ogre, drakkin, dwarven or barbarian.

I as a human quickly abandoned Ancestral armor on my push to 300 in smithing. My skillup path was a mishmash of many different recipes. Master Armor, Master Symbols, MCS, Black Acrylia weapons, Yttrium steel sheets.

[MareeTP]

Mine was a mishmash of human cultural and tae ew shields/chain leggings and mistletoe cutting sickles.

This morning I dinged 300... finally!

[natefu]

I believe the idea is that the "Essence" of the file is used to imbue the clay wich makes it sensitive to smithing skill. Something like the old GM Trophies, I know the old GM Baking trophy would expend your dairy spoon.

The upshot is that with such a high smithing skill making a new file is a minor inconvienance at worst.

Smithing Essence? It should just take my soul and innocence.

Why do you hate me so Mistletoe Cuttling Sickles?!

But, I guess files are easier to code in.