Well, here goes. I hope this helps someone!
1. Make sure you have the following: (per attempt)
- Copper Wire
- 10 Rubies
- 10 Emeralds
- 20 Ingots in whichever colour you want the Farspeaker to be. In this example, for Sargatanza's benefit, these are gold.
2. Attempt to create it. Repeat until you run out of ingredients, or succeed in making at least two!
3. Name your farspeakers, unless you like the default names.
For public broadcasts, like the ones we've been talking about for the council meetings, set Listen mode to Public, and Volume to Loud.
I'll cover the other settings further down.
Now, click link on your sender/microphone/whatever you choose to call it.
4. Click the receiver that you want to link to your sender.
5. You can select up to ten receivers per sender.
6. So, I've linked one receiver to my sender. Now to test it.
7. That works. Now to try various options.
First, personal mode. This means only my voice will be transmitted.
8. Next, spy mode. Put the sender into your backpack, or a nearby container, and it works while out of sight.
9. Set to private mode, only you can hear it.
10. Lastly, dual mode means that you and everyone around you can hear it, even if it's in your backpack!
As I said, I hope this helps someone.
A word of warning to anyone having public meetings (outside of a house) : These will decay if just left on the ground. It's easy to forget that, with a busy meeting going on. It's probably a good idea to assign someone to keep prodding it - or experiment with keeping it in a pack animal.
Let me know if you have any questions - I'll try to answer them!
My only question is - what should these sell for?
(if there's even a market for them!)