Alright, I just looked at the pictures again, and the altar is too far away from the ritual. The ritual needs to be as close as physically possible to the altar to function. Specifically, the Master Ritual Stone needs to be closer.
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Alright, I just looked at the pictures again, and the altar is too far away from the ritual. The ritual needs to be as close as physically possible to the altar to function. Specifically, the Master Ritual Stone needs to be closer.
So I was watching some videos today, and noticed @Vaygrim's Blood Magic video. It's a good visual guide to the first two tiers of Blood Magic, and covers all the items that are unlocked within those tiers. For those who need / want a more visual guide, go check it out.
Just be careful walking too close to your BigReactor reactor if you use fluids in there
Don't worry, I turn on the inhibitor around there, and also around my pond, for fishing and pearl oysters. Now I just need to figure out how to activate the bound fishing rod, from Mariculture, it puts it in when Blood Magic is installed.Just be careful walking too close to your BigReactor reactor if you use fluids in there
Edit: I got the ritual working! I just placed an altar directly on top of the master ritual stone, and it worked, but it put the LP in my T5 altar, which is even better.
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^ It's done in the ritual of binding with a titanium rod.
For normal fishing with it, you can use rotten flesh/blood shards.
For 'Bound Mode'. You need blood shards. Weak blood shards will catch up to 8 things at once, while a demon will catch up to 64. Though why you would waste a demon blood shard on fish/loot, is beyond me. Those numbers are configurable though, since I wasn't sure how 'decent' they are. The Bound Fishing Rod also can catch some alchemy ingredients/slates as well, aka Blood Magic loot, though it can of course catch Bound Boots too .
For normal fishing with it, you can use rotten flesh/blood shards.
For 'Bound Mode'. You need blood shards. Weak blood shards will catch up to 8 things at once, while a demon will catch up to 64. Though why you would waste a demon blood shard on fish/loot, is beyond me. Those numbers are configurable though, since I wasn't sure how 'decent' they are. The Bound Fishing Rod also can catch some alchemy ingredients/slates as well, aka Blood Magic loot
, though it can of course catch Bound Boots too .I can't wait to catch 64 things at once. (Yes, I'm crazy enough to do that)^ It's done in the ritual of binding with a titanium rod.
For normal fishing with it, you can use rotten flesh/blood shards.
For 'Bound Mode'. You need blood shards. Weak blood shards will catch up to 8 things at once, while a demon will catch up to 64. Though why you would waste a demon blood shard on fish/loot, is beyond me. Those numbers are configurable though, since I wasn't sure how 'decent' they are. The Bound Fishing Rod also can catch some alchemy ingredients/slates as well, aka Blood Magic loot
^ It's done in the ritual of binding with a titanium rod.
For normal fishing with it, you can use rotten flesh/blood shards.
For 'Bound Mode'. You need blood shards. Weak blood shards will catch up to 8 things at once, while a demon will catch up to 64. Though why you would waste a demon blood shard on fish/loot, is beyond me. Those numbers are configurable though, since I wasn't sure how 'decent' they are. The Bound Fishing Rod also can catch some alchemy ingredients/slates as well, aka Blood Magic loot
WAIT WHAT?
is that even implemented yet?
It sure sounds like it. I know what I'm going to be playing with here in a few minutes.
My problem was, I couldn't get it working.^ It's done in the ritual of binding with a titanium rod.
For normal fishing with it, you can use rotten flesh/blood shards.
For 'Bound Mode'. You need blood shards. Weak blood shards will catch up to 8 things at once, while a demon will catch up to 64. Though why you would waste a demon blood shard on fish/loot, is beyond me. Those numbers are configurable though, since I wasn't sure how 'decent' they are. The Bound Fishing Rod also can catch some alchemy ingredients/slates as well, aka Blood Magic loot
I've just started Blood Magic and am really enjoying it so far, but I'm having trouble sacrificing anything other than myself. My understanding from the Wiki is that the dagger of sacrifice should allow me to get LP from killing mobs out in the world, away from my altar, and the advantage of using it by my altar if just that I can instant-kill mobs. My problem is that whenever I kill anything out in the world, I get no LP at all from it.
Am I doing something wrong, or have I just misunderstood and you can only ever use the dagger to get LP if you kill things by the altar? If that's the case, do you just need to make mob farms right by the altar? Mine is in the crater of a volcano (it seemed appropriate...) - a big farm might spoil the atmosphere!
Am I doing something wrong, or have I just misunderstood and you can only ever use the dagger to get LP if you kill things by the altar? If that's the case, do you just need to make mob farms right by the altar? Mine is in the crater of a volcano (it seemed appropriate...) - a big farm might spoil the atmosphere!
Mobs need to be within a couple of blocks of the altar to be sacrificed.
Which wiki did you read that on? If it was the official I need to fix that.
It was, but reading it again I think I just misinterpreted it. It says: "Unlike the Sacrificial Knife, it is used to sacrifice animals and monsters instead of the sacrificing player. When used in close proximity to a Blood Altar, the dagger will kill the sacrifice in one hit. When out of range, it will deal only 1 heart of damage." I had read that as implying that it can always sacrifice animals and monsters, but it doesn't do the one-hit kill in range of the altar. Might be worth spelling it out explicitly?
Thanks for clarifying it' I think I'll make a nice happy farm and bury a secret altar underneath it...
Has anyone else encountered the apparent incompatibility between Bound Armor and Ars Magica 2 damage types? Fire is easy to avoid entirely, but I've found that Lightning, Frost, and likely other damage types such as Magic don't seem to register against the Life Essence pool when struck. Where I could normally shrug such off an attack with Battlemage armor, it eats through most of my health bar in 1-2 shots, even if the armor itself is forcibly enchanted with Magic Resist V.
Of course, Bound Armor has more overall uses (and is better against AM2 bosses in some respects), but this does seem to be a bit of a crippling flaw for otherwise nigh invulnerability.
As a funny side note, I later found that the friend who accidentally nuked me did not share my Bound Armor's immunity to High Explosive TNT in a heavily enchanted full Battlemage set.
Of course, Bound Armor has more overall uses (and is better against AM2 bosses in some respects), but this does seem to be a bit of a crippling flaw for otherwise nigh invulnerability.
As a funny side note, I later found that the friend who accidentally nuked me did not share my Bound Armor's immunity to High Explosive TNT in a heavily enchanted full Battlemage set.
Yeah, that's not the official wiki, so I can't do anything about that. I made sure I clarified it a bit on the official wiki though.
So when trying to rebuild my mob farm into just something to gather LP with away from my main altar, I've built a tier 2 altar, got well of suffering going, it's working just fine.
My problem I'm getting now is that the LP isn't going from the altar into my network, no matter which orb I put in it. (I'm up to master blood orb level)
My problem I'm getting now is that the LP isn't going from the altar into my network, no matter which orb I put in it. (I'm up to master blood orb level)
Since it's only a T2 altar, you need, at most, the T2 orb. If your network is already full to the storage capacity of that orb, it won't accept any more LP.