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[Suggestion] Allow Glass Bottles to hold and interact with essentia #411

Open oddlots opened 6 years ago

oddlots commented 6 years ago

The creation of the first phials in the basic alchemy research felt a little jarring. I would have liked to experiment with using glass bottles and found them to be insufficient first.

My suggestions would be:

  1. Allow the player to fumble for a way to get essentia out of the crucible until they attempt to do so with a glass bottle which would allow them to scoop out some quantity of essentia.
  2. Emptying the bottle out would be complicated:
    1. There is a good chance of some essentia being stuck in the bottle like a jam jar. The player could attempt again to empty it but there is a timer like the crucible that determines when the contents will evaporate into flux.
    2. Throwing them into the crucible would yield the essentia contents but also pollute the brew with the vitreas and vacuos of the bottle itself.
    3. Perhaps there is also a half life for essentia stored in this way and it slowly evaporates into flux simply by being stored.
    4. Glass bottles would have their same typical drinkable quality and drinking essentia might be a great introduction to warp.

Some number of faulty attempts to use the glass bottles could then prompt opening the research path for phials and then jars and all things about handling essentia in it's liquid form. I feel this would continue the initial roleplay of discovery and draw out the experimentation stage.

oddlots commented 6 years ago

P.S. This might also open the door to a add-on mod that utilized the essentia in bottles as components in potions.