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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Geoni on August 17, 2009, 05:08:14 pm
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I have been playing for three months and am starting to wonder what Cinnabar is and what it does???? I find that i'm not able to melt it using the furnace and even some of the more experienced players cant melt it. Ive heard from other players that Cinnabar is a crystal which makes sense except that i can sell it as raw material to the npc's. I would love to know what this is and what it is used for, cause the name sounds tasty and this kran is getting hungry!!! :whistling:
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IRL cinnabar is the primary source of commercial mercury. The cinnabar is crushed, I think, to recover the mercury.
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Cinnabar is a rather new mineral in game as far as I know. It's probably that its uses just haven't been implemented yet. So just because you can't do anything with it now, doesn't mean it will stay that way.
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It it pretty much the same story as lumium, I don't think it can be smelted either. Zinc can be smelted but is otherwise useless unless things have changed recently.
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A kran can eat it to increase stats. :sorcerer:
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A kran can eat it to increase stats. :sorcerer:
And anyone else can eat it to get Mercury Poisoning. ;D
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All that (except ditiloff's joke) is mostly real-life knowledge or guesswork ... If I am not wrong, there is not yet any crafting implemented (or publicly available via crafting techniques) on the game servers which would use cinnabar (or lumium). But it is an easy guess that they will probably get important "soon (tm)" with the development of alchemy.
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But it is an easy guess that they will probably get important "soon (tm)" with the development of alchemy.
And of kran cooking :thumbup:
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You just can't beat a lumium pie with cinnabar icing for fancy occasions.
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You just can't beat a lumium pie with cinnabar icing for fancy occasions.
Mmmmhh. And the ruby on the cake : some diamond powder on it !!! :thumbup:
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They will ruin their teeth. Diamond is harder than silicate-organics. Kran-caries!
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Kran would not eat diamonds, sillies. Diamonds are just carbon, and there are cheaper, easier to obtain, and much easier to chew forms of carbon available. Like Enki.
Don't know if they would eat mercury, though. It might make sense, as mercury readily combines with most other metals (except iron).
Other than that, mercury is used for many things. One of its uses in PS, I believe, is to purify Lumium. But, first they will need to set up evaporators and collectors for the mercury.
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Kran would not eat diamonds, sillies.
Someone doesn't seem to have done all the quests as a couple of them indicate that Kran do indeed eat diamonds. Unless maybe we shifted out of the plane of diamond eating Kran or the quests have changed.
It may be they are the Kran equivalent of "Lucky Charms," ... "Magically Delicious"
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Shine.... shine on.. you crazy diamond.
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cinnabar, cinnabar... cinibar...
for the creation of stonehead tavern kran cinnabons?
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Then whoever wrote those quests was wrong. I never edited them, or it would have been changed. :)
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why, because magically created creatures defying real world physics somehow makes them less plausible? Who says Kran have teeth in the first place? I don't see any in their maw...
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Diamonds the Kran gobstopper, not meant for chewing but will last for ages if sucked ;)
Not everything is eaten because its easier or a more efficient form of energy intake.
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well rhetorical question here, where does diamond dust come from in the game?
Then again I seem to recall having this argument before sometime and it isn't worth repeating. I probably ended up on the wrong side the last time too :)
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Didn't I read in one of the library books somewhere that luminum is a gift from .. one of those gods... Laanx? Talad?...
RR
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I cannot help but laugh at all of the kran dining choices that i have. Now i know diamond is not the best thing to be eating! but hey there is nothing better than rock candy to a kran :thumbup:. About mercury, i dont advise anyone who is not a kran to consume it, :-X unless they want a leaky stomach. I dont really understand what tool you would use to crush up the cinnabar into mercury, and i dont understand what lumium is. Do you use lumium to make weapons or armor with? I could always test mercury and lumium in alchemy and potion making (i know its not implemented, i am just roleplaying here :detective:) anyways, the cinnabar sounds awfully delicious, but i have come to the conclusion that i should wait to see further testing of the substance before consuming it. Maybe someday we can think of kran food recipies, and all of the delicious things that i have read on this post!!!
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Lumium may be an exotic raw material for jewelry. That would be my guess.
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My guess is that it might be a required ingredient for weapons planned to become enchanted...
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If that is the case it wouldn't preclude the possibility that rings, pendants and such made from it would be similarly suitable for enchantment.
Clearly if it will be a required component of magic items then it is possible that it might be reclaimed from something like a sword that is melted down.