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Crafting Mounts
reverend_146
Member, Alpha Two
I posted an idea on Ashes' Instagram and was referred to this forum - I hope I'm in the right spot!
I thought it would be interesting to have mounts that can be crafted with a high profession skill which need multiple interaction with players to bring to life. For example, a player with a high skip-building profession crafting a tree-like mount that was built with wood, metal, and various other components. This mount is inactive until you hire a player with a high enchantment skill to cast a spell on the mount, giving it life and allowing the player to ride it. Items and events like this would help bolster the ideology of community reliance.
I thought it would be interesting to have mounts that can be crafted with a high profession skill which need multiple interaction with players to bring to life. For example, a player with a high skip-building profession crafting a tree-like mount that was built with wood, metal, and various other components. This mount is inactive until you hire a player with a high enchantment skill to cast a spell on the mount, giving it life and allowing the player to ride it. Items and events like this would help bolster the ideology of community reliance.
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You're in the right spot.
Is the 'enchantment skill' part of this important to your model?
Since ShipBuilding skill is a thing, but I don't think 'Enchantment Skill' is...
Combining multiple professions into building a ship is pretty likely, but you said 'mounts', and I am not sure you mean 'Caravans'.
"For what...?"
"Just about everything, really."
My main thought is that it would be interesting to rely on multiple professions to create a mount. Let me be a bit more detailed.
A character is proficient in lumberjacking, and he finds a recipe for a husk of a wooden mount. He builds it, but in order to fill the mount with energy to make it move/bring it to life, it requires a special herb mixture or a special jewel, and the only players who can make it are those who are proficient in alchemy or jewel crafting. Once all the pieces are combined/the ritual is completed, the wooden husk becomes a ridable mount.
This would help (in a small way) bolster the in-game economy as well as player interaction.
Sorry, I was just using enchanting as an example.
My main thought is that it would be interesting to rely on multiple professions to create a mount. Let me be a bit more detailed.
A character is proficient in lumberjacking, and he finds a recipe for a husk of a wooden mount. He builds it, but in order to fill the mount with energy to make it move/bring it to life, it requires a special herb mixture or a special jewel, and the only players who can make it are those who are proficient in alchemy or jewel crafting. Once all the pieces are combined/the ritual is completed, the wooden husk becomes a ridable mount.
This would help (in a small way) bolster the in-game economy as well as player interaction.
Well, I'm on board. You've made me realize that I don't actually remember ever seeing any indication that mounts will have gear slots, so people making 'armor or saddles or similar for them' isn't assured. I'll check the wiki later.
If not, then I could also see this being part of how it works. Alchemy, Blacksmithing, and things like that, being part of the requirement to get 'Armored Stallion' or 'War Rhino' because you need other stuff for them. Sometimes Animal Husbandry and breeding would still be involved, but other professions come in too.
"For what...?"
"Just about everything, really."
Also @Azherae Mount barding will be a thing so that overlap between professions is definitely planned to be included. https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Mount_barding
There it was, thank you. I felt like I'd seen it but the wiki is large and I brainfailed on the word for it, which is ironic given that I make mount armor in BDO...
Ah, the top tier content of 'waiting 45 minutes for a hired worker to do something with a pile of materials I left in storage while I went to do something else'. Riveting.
"For what...?"
"Just about everything, really."
I'd love to see it implemented as a kind of "hidden rewards" or any kind of rare specific feature.
So that animal husbandry would remain the main profession used to get new mounts, but that through some special quests other professions would be able to work together in order to create the crafted mounts you're describing !!
It could even be something specificaly used to create several-places mounts (idk if this has been discussed already ?).
Imagine you're just reaching a new town, and there you run into a giant wooden turtle -or whatever- leaving the town with a whole guild party inside in order to do some dungeon
Any extrapolation aside, again that's a good idea
That being said, anything that helps promote the community aspect is welcomed by me. Ship builders building mounts for the sea and not just building ships. Make it so an enchanter can bring this wooden seahorse to life and be useable as a mount on sea? Where the hell do I sign up!?
Given how the flinstones car works, wouldn’t that mean you’re the real mount?
mounts, mounts, and more mounts. lol