Artifact Caches (AKA "Booty call")

[Tiernan]

Announcing a new feature in the 17 Feb 2014 release, which adds artifact caches to the world.

Want to bury your spice stash before entering Allanak?   Yes, you can!

Want to seek your fortune scavenging the wastes for profit?   Yes, you can!

Want to find a use for that antiquated 'search' skill?   Yes, well... okay that one's mostly on us.  But you get to enjoy the benefit!



Key aspects of this feature:

• PCs can bury items in a room, creating / adding to an artifact cache.  This is of course based on sector type, as you cannot bury things inside buildings and city streets, etc.
• PCs can discover artifact caches using the 'search' skill.
• PCs using 'forage artifact' will use the cache first before auto-generating code kicks in (where allowed).
• Corpses will decay and deposit their contents into an artifact cache in certain sectors.

Associated helpfiles:

• http://www.armageddon.org/help/view/bury
• http://www.armageddon.org/help/view/forage
• http://www.armageddon.org/help/view/search

Notes:

• Buried items are only retrievable through the use of the 'forage artifact' skill.
• Buried items do not persist over reboots, with the exception of anything buried in a room identified as a 'Save' room.
• Bury items at your own risk! There are no guarantees against discovery by real or virtual characters of your artifact cache.
• Do not taunt Happy, Fun Cache. *
• If Happy Fun Cache begins to smoke, seek shelter and cover head. *

* Still legal outside both city-states.   Accept no substitutes.   Facetious comments apply where required by common sense.

[Barsook]

OMG.  Thank you!

[manonfire]

WHAT

YES

THIS IS AMAZING

[Pale Horse]

I was trying for a poetic reply to this, but instead I'll just put on my silt-hat, grab my skimmer and say:

"YAAAAARRRRR!!!"

[Cutthroat]

This is an unexpected surprise. Very awesome!

[Desertman]

I've wanted this forever. Thank you very much.

[Desertman]

Also, can you bury corpses?

[manonfire]

Can you bury containers with items in them?

[Nathvaan]

Can you bury containers with items in them?

Yes you can!

[Tiernan]

Also, can you bury corpses?

Yes, you can!

Can you bury containers with items in them?

Yes, you can!

[Nathvaan]

Also, can you bury corpses?

Yes you can (if you can pick it up)!

Update: Tiernan totally beat me to it!

[Brytta Léofa]

This is completely glorious.


Won't them pesky elves attempt to grief artifact-foragers by burying hundreds of pebbles? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Saellyn]

Will there be more save rooms added to allow the burying of artifacts and neat stuff for people to find?

[Tiernan]

Will there be more save rooms added to allow the burying of artifacts and neat stuff for people to find?

No additional building is planned to retrofit the world.

[slvrmoontiger]

Wow thank you, this is amazing.

[slvrmoontiger]

One other note, is this going to allow search skill to be part of more guilds/sub/extended subguilds? For instance with this new feature I can think of a few of those that would naturally have the search skill.

[Tiernan]

One other note, is this going to allow search skill to be part of more guilds/sub/extended subguilds? For instance with this new feature I can think of a few of those that would naturally have the search skill.

No, we're not adding it to Ranger, Outdoorsman or any other guild/subguild.   I think it's fine being part of the Scavenger subguild for anyone who wants to take up a career scavenging the wastes for booty.

[Kismetic]

Could it possibly be added to the Ext Subguild Grebber?  Unless it already is.

Wow, this is the best code addition ...  Ever.  I always thought it was a cool idea on the forums, but I never thought I'd see it!

[valeria]

Wow, this is a really cool concept that I have been kind of secretly hoping for forever.  Thanks staff who worked on this!

[Irulan]

Very neat! Thanks for the hard work!

- Irulan

[JustAnotherGuy]

Really love this concept but sorta sad that it doesn't exist through reboots.  Is there any way for us to put requests to get something more permanent with a cache?

Also, what happens if I bury a chest with a ton of stuff in it that I can't lift?  Does the item show up on the ground or go into my inventory? 

[Pale Horse]

Really love this concept but sorta sad that it doesn't exist through reboots.  Is there any way for us to put requests to get something more permanent with a cache?

Also, what happens if I bury a chest with a ton of stuff in it that I can't lift?  Does the item show up on the ground or go into my inventory? 

From what was posted earlier, it seems to me that if you can't lift it, you can't bury it.

And things do persist through reboots..but, like everything else, only in save rooms.

[mattrious]

This is so amazing!!! This code addition opens up so many doors.

Damn it. I love this game. Great job guys!!

[Sephiroto]

Fuck.Yes

[ShaLeah]

This is completely GLORIOUS!