Can you post what GLD says your task is?

You can either WRITE in your tome immediately after being taught a formula, or after you complete a formula. If that window has passed you can't go back, but there are lists on krakiipedia and virilneus that you can reference. Just WRITE the formula down after you complete the item next time.

~Becca

This is for General Alchemy?

Right, if you don't write them down you have to make the item or copy the formula out of someone else's book.

~Becca

And you're using your own cauldron, not the Guild cauldrons?

If you've just begun alchemy, I imagine you're still within the rank range for acantha to be a tough task.

Maybe someone else has any ideas, but without a log I can't see anything wrong.

~Becca

Yes, using my own ingredients/cauldron. I'm at rank 1. It's not that I'm not learning from making the potion, it's that I can't get the potion made to begin with. I fail EVERY time...and I've done it at least 60-75 times already. Log below of a typical attempt.


get mort
You remove a mortar from in your spidersilk backpack.

get ac leaf
You remove some acantha leaf from in your spidersilk backpack.

put leaf in my mort
You put some acantha leaf in your mortar.

get pest
You remove a pestle from in your spidersilk backpack.

grind leaf in my mort
You grind the acantha leaf with your pestle, moving the pestle with deliberate, methodical motions.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
grind leaf in my mort
You grind the acantha leaf with your pestle, moving the pestle with deliberate, methodical motions.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
grind leaf in my mort
You grind the acantha leaf with your pestle, moving the pestle with deliberate, methodical motions.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
grind leaf in my mort
You grind the acantha leaf with your pestle, moving the pestle with deliberate, methodical motions.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
R>grind leaf in my mort
You grind the acantha leaf with your pestle, moving the pestle with deliberate, methodical motions.

The ground acantha appears to be as ground as its going to get.
Roundtime: 5 sec.

put pest in my back
You put a pestle in your spidersilk backpack.

get ac
You remove some ground acantha from in your mortar.

put mort in my back
You put a mortar in your spidersilk backpack.

open sat
You open a dark spidersilk satchel secured with invar rune-etched buckles.

get water
You remove a flask of clear water from in your spidersilk satchel.

light cauld
You focus on the iron cauldron and pulse a small amount of mana into it. A small flickering flame appears beneath it.

pour water in cauld
You pour the clear water into the iron cauldron, keeping the empty flask that remains.

put ac in cauld
You place some ground acantha into a black iron cauldron.

alchemy boil
You focus on the iron cauldron and push mana into it. The flame beneath it quickly flares up wildly, bringing the contents to a rolling boil.
Roundtime: 20 sec.

alchemy seal
You hold your hands over the iron cauldron and murmur the incantation for sealing the solution. As you do so, an aquamarine haze begins to seep out of the cauldron, dissipating as it reaches the ground.
Roundtime: 10 sec.

Gradually, you pulse mana into the cauldron, settling the turbulent essences contained within.
Roundtime: 8 sec.

As you soothe the solution, you can see the liquid ripple and contort slightly as it starts to condense.
Roundtime: 8 sec.

You sense something amiss with the solution in the cauldron and quickly dismiss the flame and stop the sealing process.

The contents of the cauldron swirl suddenly, turning an unpleasant shade of brown and casting a foul odor into the air. The solution is clearly ruined.

With a sigh, you empty the cauldron of its failed concoction.

Also, get used to typing LOOK CAULDRON right before you seal. You can work it into your scripts if you're using them. It makes it much easier to figure out what's wrong at a glance, especially later on when there are like 12 steps.

~Becca

For future reference, if you fail to make something in alchemy it is for one of four reasons:

1) You aren't skilled enough to make that alchemy item yet.
2) You aren't a class that can make that alchemy item (some recipes can only be done successfully by certain classes even if you know the chants and do everything else correctly).
3) The recipe you are following is not correct.
4) NAOS hates you and is actively thwarting your efforts. :p

There is no skill check at the end where you might fail or succeed based on your current ranks. You can either make it perfectly or you can't make it at all. Knowing this will save you from trying to make something 50 time on the assumption that you are unlucky with some sort of endroll.

-- Faulkil

with herbs always use "bundle remove" to make sure you are only using 1 of the herb. Most will work with the entire bundle but you can sure waste a lot of herbs if you don't. This also applies with grinding them.

Lots of luck.

Saazz

<< 4) NAOS hates you and is actively thwarting your efforts. :p >>

I felt this needed to be repeated.

--
Naos

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I am of the opinion that alchemy distill water tasks are direct evidence of this.

-- Faulkil

>Alchemy on the whole is direct evidence of this.

grandmaster alchemists cant even make moonshine. thats bad

~Moredin