Bone Market Recipes 12/08 Menacing Arachnids, Dreary Midnighter, Fishy Diplomat

Bone Market Recipes 12/08 Menacing Arachnids, Dreary Midnighter, Fishy Diplomat

I just wrote half the post, then copy pasted something from Excel and broke it. :( This is a stinky, stinky bad week for bones. I shall let you know why. Going to try to be brief though.

So Arachnids, all legs, menace, no legs. It's hard to build a skeleton that takes advantage of the week in that situation. Arachnids are fantastic for one build, always, below, but we just had two arachnid weeks so I imagine those in the know will have used up most of the supply of materials.

Holy *hi* is that Glim

1 Glim Encrusted Carapace (From the stacks, the price in the market is terrible)

1 Carved Ball of Stygion Ivory (Removes the head, get it from the bone market)

8 Holy Relics of the Thighbone of St Fiacre

Payout:

79 Preserved Surface Blooms(approx, they have no bulk use, keep a few and sell the rest for Echos, not Scrip)

40 Rumours of the Upper River (Good for lots of things, paying down debt, buying prismatic frames)

Profit EPA for 12 assembly, declaration and selling actions: 11.2

I went into more details, giving my working in the lost post but those numbers are correct, or close enough.

The Dreary Midnighter

I'm afraid to say that this is the worst random buyer available. He pays in Surface Currency, which is not really useful in bulk. He only has a 100 penny bonus, not very generous at all. His secondary reward is Vienna Openings, which multiply off, nothing, you get one, that's it.

He does pay zoomania so if you have a deep need for surface currency, 8 Ivory Femurs, that you don't have a better use for(You do have a better use!) and don't mind the secondary reward being trash. You can do the same recipie as above but swap the legs. You will get 15% more than the bones value, which is a decent return on those bones, as they are all valuable but all of them are better used on other things.

Why not 3 Segmented Ribcages?

3 segmented ribcages produces a perfect arachnid. No head, 8 legs and a tail. The problem is Holy Relics pay out is based on the ribcage you use and the payout for segmented is not good. Also it costs currency to assemble the 3 ribcages in the first place, so you have to out profit that.

Why not 4 extra limbs on a Thorned, Mammoth, whatever?

Adding 4 limbs, to a ribcage with 4 limbs costs 52.5 echos. So unless you have a good plan for mega profit. Avoid like the plague!

Fishy Diplomat

Ideally for the diplomat, you want 24 in secondary stats, as he pays 1/3 of the combined secondary stats squared in Comprimising Documents. Which helps to pay for the assembly actions. That is a bit of a struggle this week. The best I have come up with, so far, is:

1 Flourishing Ribcage(Rubbery favours)

1 Sabre Toothed Skull (Ealing Butcher, bone market looks cheaper, but isn't, it's technical, it especially isn't if you want scrip.)

1 Carved Ball (Cap the head)

6 Amber Encrusted Fin (Helicon House)

1 Jet Black Stinger

Declare a fish

12 actions to assemble, declare and sell(Not including travel, but you are going anyway, right?)

18 Secondary Stats

Frame Value: 168E

Crackling Trade Profit, assuming 1.12 in the rat market: 12.92E

Secondary Reward: 36 Comprimising Documents: 18 Echos

Total Profit: 30.92E

Assembly EPA: 2.58 Skip! (He is a lot better on any week you can do a bird or chimera)

If anyone has any other suggestions for anything this week. Pop it in the comments.

What will I do! No Bones?!?

If you are still in estival, hunt laws! I am getting over 8 EPA on them, which is comparable with the a lot of good bone farms. That's without counting the Rat Markup!

Profitability Order:

Ontological - Oneiromantic Revelations convert up to Parabolan Parables, Can be made into Oneiropompic Staves for the strict best in slot glasswork item and can be converted down into Vitreous Almanacs, which are needed for making cartographer's hoards, the smart way. So they cover 2 different weeks of the rat market, compared to the others, which only cover 1. On top of that, you get an Uncanny Inculambum, which covers another rat week!

Causal - Mortys don't really have a fantastic source in the game. They have rat markup. So just good.

Spacial - Hah, bet you didn't expect that! Searing Enigmas are difficult to get at a decent EPA normally. They are the most awkward matierial in turning little birds into stupidly profitable birds in Helicon House though.

Temporal - Night Whispers are a rat market item but they are also one of the easiest rat market items to get. Canals, Tribute, hell, if you have a lot of wounds, you can do one in the lab and because it is a KT research project, you can use the KT card to heal yourself as you go.(Probably not optimal, but it is hilarious) With so many great sources already it's not really something worth stockpiling.

Get ready for future bones!

Publish Bone Papers for Surveys, Holy relics and various little bits. Surveys are best spend on Helical Thighs and Fossilised Forelimbs and best spent in Ealing.

Get your bone fragments replenished Pop 8 Bright Brass skulls into a Ribcage with a Bouquet of 8 Spines, Equip a Woesel, Dismantle the skeleton. There is no profit from the actions but it does get you a huge chunk of bone for the butcher or for Orange-Apples(If you didn't get the Augmented Electrostatic Machine in Estival)

Punt some skulls! You should be swimming in sworn statements from all the law hunting, well, combine those with a load of Memories of Distant Shores, in Jericho Locks and you can take a lovely boat trip to a large stock of bright brass skulls.

Moonlit Rendezvous Head over to Balmoral, into the moonlit woods and farm yourself up some Mammoth ribcages, bird ribcages and doubled skulls! Mammoths are the most universally valuable but birds are insane when they are in season and one of the best ways to convert echos to scrip. Birds and Doubled Skulls are also great for the diplomat, when he is in the mood…

I am sure there are other good bone farms I do but I can't remember. You have a week off, go play the rest of the game. :)

If I have got anything wrong, let me know. If you have any alternative recipes, slam them in the comments.

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