[Gardening] Returning after another long UO Break

[DHMagicMan_1]

Since SA just came out I decided to come back and see some new stuff. I'm really happy about seed stacking and I've collected about 700 plant cuttings and 200 or so reeds... Now I need to get busy.

I've never seen the silver serpants that you milk for venom... I understand you need to make your own vials for that purpose and I know about the glassblowing and sand mining books so that will be taken care of. I saw that baskets need "Softened" reeds or something like that?

Can anyone give me a basic guide to making dyes or basic basketmaking description?

I know I'll need cooking skill but don't know how high it needs to be.

If anyone plays on Lake Austin, I'd really appreciate a little show and tell if you have time.

Thanks.

 

[Hyssmaye]

Hi!

Here's the page Petra put together on making the dyes (stains): New Dyes

And here is the uo playguide page on basket weaving.

For dyes, you can use an alchemist instead of a cook to mix the pigments, fixative and dye, if you have one. Basically you create pigment from clippings and a bottle, fixative from venom and wine, then you mix fixative and pigment to get dye. You can also mix pigments before you add the fixative to get a new set of colors (greys/silvers, ice & dark colors). The link above has a pic at the bottom of all the colors.

I haven't tried basket weaving yet so I am not much help there.

Silver serpents are most plentiful in the new SA territory - hopefully someone from Lake Austin will post and help you get there. In the meanwhile, you can find some sporadically south of Papua. You need to charm them with a new flute (carpenter w/music can make out of wood and 2 Blight) before you milk them. You can get a vial of venom on the dead corpse 1 out of 5 times. Also you boost your milking returns if you have GM poisoning.

 

[DHMagicMan_1]

Thanks for the links and info... I have a GM Alchy since I garden and go through so many potions... I'll use him to mix the dyes.

I'll look at whether to get poisoning on my main or poisoning on a Soulstone on that account so I can use it when needed, or just kill the things.

If I grind the plant parts I'll get pigments and those also stack and can be mixed, all without the serpant venom, right? Venom is the last step to make it "Usable"?

 

[kittykat]

right, you can make your pigments before you ever get the serpent venom. They do stack, but don't automatically stack, so you have to stack them afterwards.

btw on snake charming - you target a silver serpent, and then it gives you another targeting cursor - click somewhere (i pick close to me since you have to be close to 'milk' it) - then use your venom vials on it. You can only get 2 vials off the serp before it's all milked out, at which point you can kill it and potentially pick up another vial off it's body (the gold ain't bad either *laughs*).

 

[kittykat]

also, here's another link on basketweaving: http://uo.stratics.com/php-bin/show_content.php?content=31021

the toxic sliths spawn east of the royal city and randomly will have the venom sacs on their body. something i forgot to take into account when i made my first baskets was that you need several reeds per basket you make - 2 reeds per softened reed and then 1,2, or 3 softened reed per basket (i messed up and only got one softened reed per color when i was working on this and so i ended up making picnic baskets *laughs*)

as I recall, it was mostly my tinker that I used in basketweaving