Cooking and other object transformations

[Dalvyn]

I'm looking to add small programs to food items.

The older amongst you might remember the Ultima games, in which you could, for example, mix a "piece of wood" with "a piece of cloth" and "a flask of oil" to produce a torch; or where you could use "some flour" with "a flask of water" to produce a lump of dough, that you could then "cook" in an oven to get "a loaf of bread". If you had a rolling pin, you could flatten it, add apple slices, and cook it into an apple pie.

What I am looking for is similar processes that would transform one or more objects into other objects. They wouldn't give any special benefit, but would just produce echoes and hopefully add to the roleplay.

To make it easier, I would like the suggestions to follow this format:

Object(s) required: (some objects will be junked, others will remain)
Keyword: (the keyword to trigger the action)
Echoes: (what is shown to the character, and to those in the same room)
Product: (the result of the action)

For example:

Objects required: flask of water (junked), bag of flour (junked)
Keyword: mix
Echoes: You pour some water on the flour and mix it into a lump of dough. $N mixes water with flour and obtains some dough.
Product: a lump of dough

Objects required: a lump of dough (junked), fire (not junked)
Keyword: cook
Echoes: You place a lump of dough near the fire. $N places a lump of dough near the fire. (after some time) The dough turns darker. (after some time) The bread is ready!
Product: a loaf of bread

Feel free to rewrite those two examples with better English and more interesting echoes, of course.

Thanks for the help.

Note: Just to make sure ... I am not looking into recipe for powerful objects (e.g., no sword + piece of adamantium + ettercap blood to produce +5 vorpal sword of killing-everything-that-moves-and-breathes), just for mundane transformation of objects.

[Gwain]

Boot Stew
Required: Muddy boots(junked) , a large carrot(junked), (junked)a wild onion, iron pot and (junked)flask of water
Keyword: boil
Echoes: You pour some water into a large pot and throw in a carrot, and an onion and some muddy boots...you must really be hungry.
product: pot of boot stew

Stone soup
Required: smooth round stone(junked), bowl of chicken broth(junked), some salt(junked).
keyword: boil
Echoes you drop the stone into a bowl of chicken broth and add some salt...watch your teeth and remember it's not the stones that create the flavour but what was one the stones.
product: bowl of Stone Soup

Wilderwane Pipeweed
Required: Mortar and pestel, (junked)tabacco, flask of oil, (junked)some fur
Keyword: Rolling
Echoes: You roll the tobacco in your palms and grind it together with some oil and a little fur
product: Wilderwane Pipeweed

Chewing Tabacco
Required (junked)Brine, (junked)some salt, (junked)an orange and (junked)tabacco
Keyword: Drying
Echoes You gingerly dip the tabacco in the jar of brine and remove it and quickly cover it with salt, gently peeling the orange and squeezing the juice on the individual leaves.
Product: Chewing Tobacco

Headache Powder
Required: Mortar and Pestle, (junked)Talcum powder, (junked)Chalk, (junked)Dried Rhubarb
Keyword Powder
Echoes: Taking the mortar and pestle you grind the talcum powder, chalk and dried rhubarb into a handy powder.
Product: Headache Powder

Really Bad Coffee
Required Sunny-side up egg, Frying pan, (junked)flask of Water, (junked)some salt, (junked)cup of coffee, rusty shortsword.
Keyword: Blech
Echoe: You fry up the egg and add the excess grease to the flask of wanter, shaking carefully you add the coffee then the salt, as a final touch you scrape the skin of the rusted blade.
Product: Really Bad Coffee.
(and for fun) Description: Dear Gods this is the kind of coffee where when you drink it you are most happy when you see the bottom of the cup, it's so bad that it feels like a rusty saw being drawn across your tongue or a molten lead weight being tied to your tonsils.

Chilled Monkey Brains
Required: (junked)Piece of ice, (junked)Monkey corpse, (junked)powdered Rhubarb (junked)chocolate, Scoop
Keyword: Scoop
Echoe taking the monkey buy the head you quickly remove the head from the body then open the top and add ice, adding chocolate and rhubarb where needed
Product Monkey Head bowl of Chilled Monkey brains.

[Zach]

Objects required: Blackberries (junked), lump of dough(junked), rolling pin (not junked), fire (not junked)
Keyword: Bake Blackberrie pie
Echos: You roll the dough with the rolling pin and cut it accordingly adding the blackberries and cook over the fire tell golden brown. (or burnt depending on if you fell asleep)
Product: A Fresh Blackberry pie

[Timaeus]

Objects Required: jewelers hammer, anvil, mortar and pestle, player mined ruby(junked)
keyword: crushruby
Echoes: You place a gem on an anvil, after much pounding with a hammer and grinding with a mortar and pestle you are left with a fine dust. $N places a ruby on an anvil, breaking the ruby into smaller pieces before grinding the pieces into a fine dust with a mortar and pestle.
Product: some ruby dust

Objects Required: jewelers hammer, anvil, mortar and pestle, player mined gems(junked)
Keyword: grindgem
Echoes: You place a gem on an anvil, after much pounding with a hammer and grinding with a mortar and pestle you are left with a fine powder. $N places a gem on an anvil, breaking the gem into smaller pieces before grinding the pieces into a powder with a mortar and pestle.
Product: some gem powder

Objects Required: charcoal(junked), mortar and pestle
Keyword: crush
Echoes: Using a mortar and pestle you crush some charcoal into soot. $N crushes some charcoal into dust with a mortal and pestle.
Product: some black soot

Objects Required: player mined silver** (smelted) (junked), whetstone, mortal and pestle
Keyword: shavesilver
Echoes: You use a whetstone to gather shavings of silver into a mortar, after much grinding with a pestle a fine powder remains. $N uses a whetstone gather some silver shavings into a mortar then grinds them into a powder with a pestle.
Product: a small sprinkling of powdered silver (vairable number 1-4)
**alternately player mined silver ore

A pinch of powdered iron
Objects Required: player mined steel**(smelted) (junked), whetstone, mortal and pestle
Keyword: shaveiron
Echoes: You use a whetstone to gather shavings of steel into a mortar, after much grinding with a pestle a fine powder remains. $N uses a whetstone to gather some steel shavings into a mortar then grinds them into a powder with a pestle.
Product: a pinch of powdered silver (variable number 1-4)
**alternately player mined iron ore

Objects Required: piece of wood(junked), an iron nail(junked), a piece of fine silver wire, a carpenters hammer
Keyword: makebox
Echoes: You make a crude box with a wire screen bottom. $N makes a crude wooden box with a wire screen bottom.
Product: a crude sifting box

Objects Required: sifting box, standing in desert sector
Keyword: siftsand
Echoes: You scoop some sand into a sifting box shaking it until you gather some fine clean sand. $N scoops sand into a wooden box sifting out the impurities.
Product: a pile of sand

Objects Required: untanned skin from slice skill(junked), skinning knife
Keyword: scrape
Echoes: You carefully scrape the fat from the skin of *** . (Whatever code for id'ing the actual item used). $N uses a skinning knife to scrape the fatty layer from the skin of ***. (Whatever code for id'ing the actual item used)
Product: some animal fat (variable number 1-4)

Objects Required: some animal fat(junked), an iron pot, fire
Keyword: render
Echoes: You render some animal fat over a fire. $N places some animal fat into a pot then puts the pot over a fire to cook down.
Product: tallow

Objects Required: tallow(junked),a piece of string(junked) ,piece of wood, an iron pot, fire, dye**(junked)
Keyword: makecandles
Echoes: You tie string to a piece of wood dipping them into a pot of melted tallow repeatedly until you have four useable candles. $N ties four lengths of string to a piece of wood dipping them into a pot of melted tallow repeatedly cooling the tallow each time.
Product: a candle X 4
** optional makes the candles the color of the dye

[Raona]

Keyword: makepasta
Objects required: bag of flour (junked), eggs (junked), a sharp knife, a cutting board
Skills/abilities required: STR 12 or greater, cooking skill amateur or better
(takes about 1 hour)
Echoes: $N combines some flour and eggs, then stretches and works the combination to form a ball of pasta dough. $N's face reddens as (s)he kneads the pasta until it is smooth. Tongue slightly extruding, $N concentrates as (s)he cuts the pasta into fine strips.
Product: Pasta

Keyword: cookpasta
Objects required: A cast-iron pot, filled with water; pasta (made above; junked), a fire
Skills/abilities required: cooking skill novice or better
(takes 20 minutes)
Echoes: $N heats a pot of water to a boil over the fire. $N breaks the pasta and throws it into the pot. $N boils the pasta until it's pefectly aldente.

Keyword: makesoup $I
Objects required: A cast-iron pot, filled with water; item $I (junked), a fire
Skills/abilities required: cooking skill novice or better
(takes 20 minutes)
Echoes: $N heats a pot of water to a boil over the fire. $N adds $I to the pot, along with some carefully chosen spices. $N serves up some $I soup.
Example: makesoup fish
Result: fish soup
(I could see people having a lot of fun with this, especially orcs who have mastered the requisite cooking skills!)

Keyword: maketart $F
Objects required: a fruit $F (junked), a fire, a bag of flour (junked), a bag of sugar (junked), eggs (junked)
Skills/abilities required: cooking skill journeyman or better
(takes 20 minutes)
Echoes: $N kneads some flour, sugar, and water into a dough. $N flattens the dough and fills it with $F. $N pinches the dough around the fruit, cooks it over the fire, and produces a warm, toasty $F pastry tart!
Example: maketart cherry
Result: cherry pastry tart
[I suppose SOME people will make poison tarts...curse ye, Talonians!]

These last two are not food, but the suggestions above wandered from that and nobody complained, so I offer them up here:

Keyword: cutquill
Objects: a feather (or, to make it harder, a swan feather; junked); a sharp knife
Skills/abilities required: penmanship? (should we have a skill like this?)
Echoes: $N cuts the tip off of a feather. $N carefully shapes the tip of the feather to make a quill.

Keyword: makedoll $T (name of a character or object, if possible)
Objects: a piece of wood (junked); silk thread (junked); a needle; silk cloth (junked), a sharp knife
Skills/abilities required: DEX> 12, INT>9, sewing?
Echoes: Working playfully, $N whittles a piece of wood and then sews to create a passable $T doll
Example: makedoll Raona Corbin
Result: A Raona Corbin doll

Similarly, but for puppets
Example: makepuppet squirrel
Result: A squirrel puppet

[Raona]

This is actually a slight aside, but might it be possible to use the note engine for making things like this? (That DO nothing, but look as the creator might like?) That is, allow the creator to make, for example, a toy of their own design, where they write the description with CREATE WRITE and and the adjective with CREATE SUBJECT and the name of the object with CREATE TO, if you take my meaning? This might also reduce clamour for object renames, and give people the creativity to sort of code their own cool stuff, which could be copied and promulgated throughout the realms if it was a great idea.

(The baby items just put into the game come to mind as great examples of neat, RP-only items that might be made this way, had not some coder had the idea for them first! They are great, by the way. Nice to give as gifts to the expecting, hint hint!)

[Isolrem]

Snowball Fight!
Object required : a pile of snow (not junked)
Keyword : (make) snowball
Product : A snowball (lasting time 5 game min)

Throw Snowball - makes a normal ranged attack roll
Isolrem throws a snowball at you, he misses!
Isolrem throws a snowball at you, SPLAT!

[Mele]

Snowballs are already in game? :3 I thought so, anyhow.

Danica

[Zach]

Objects required: vial of water (junked)
Keyword: Cast bless vile
Echo: $n Blesses a vial of water
Product: A vial of Holy Water

[Cret]

BLESS WATER
===========
Transmutation [Good]
Range: Touch
Target: Inventory
Syntax: cast 'bless water'

This transmutation imbues a flask of water with divine energy,
turning it into (un)holy water.

[Zach]

i see... then nevermind

[Maybel]

When in search for a quill... i thought this could be handy to have a collection of different color feathers as quills... i know there are different quills out there... but i thought this would be quite nice


Objects required: feather (any color), bottle of ink
Keyword: dip
Echo: $n dips the feather in the ink
Product: a quill with the colors of the feather

[Kregor]

When in search for a quill... i thought this could be handy to have a collection of different color feathers as quills... i know there are different quills out there... but i thought this would be quite nice


Objects required: feather (any color), bottle of ink
Keyword: dip
Echo: $n dips the feather in the ink
Product: a quill with the colors of the feather

Working on a place in Calimport where you will be able to buy quills of different colors, as well as possibly special ink to refill with.

[Maybel]

but what about a ALL the different colors of feathers that are out there... i figured it would be better then just red, blue, yellow, orange and what not... but i will wait with bated breath for it to open

[Amalia]

BUMP!

I have recently had occasion to begin cooking a good deal, and something occurred to me. We have peppers in the game, and though I haven't seen beans, we've got plenty of cheese-- how about some chili?

I imagine it'd use the cooking pot, and be a sort of soup, perhaps requiring any or all of the three ingredients listed above-- or it could require beans and pepper, and then it could be made into one variety or another of cheesy chili by adding one of the Realms' assorted cheeses.

Edit: OO! and cheesy bread. Everybody loves cheesy bread!

Chili
Ingredients: pepper (junked), beans (junked), cheese (optional, junked)
Keyword: BOIL chili, SPREAD cheese
Echoes: A pungent aroma fills the air as you cook some chili.
You sprinkle cheese over the chili and it begins to melt.
Product: A bowl of chili, A bowl of chili with (type of cheese)

Cheesy Bread
Ingredients: A lump of dough (junked), cheese (junked)
Keywords: SPREAD cheese, BAKE bread
Echoes: You sprinkle cheese liberally over the dough.
The dough darkens and the cheese melts as you place it by the fire.
Product: A loaf of (type of cheese) bread

I suspect similar recipes could be used for fruit breads (if they don't already exist), or cinnamon bread if cinnamon were to make its way into game-- perhaps when and if Calimshan is given a greater presence?

[Dalvyn]

The problem with that is actually that we have plenty of cheese types.

For this to work, I would have to add a program to each cheese item in the game (as well as to all new cheese items coming with future areas).

The chili part is most likely possible though. Send a mail to fkbuilders and I'll put it in my TODO box.

[Rhianon]

This is a really nice idea, your only limited by your imagination, and Dalvyns ability to code it........ !

[Glim]

*raises a hand and calls out*

Waiter! I ordered my tortilla chips to go with my chilli about half an hour ago!

What? What do you mean you cant make it?!?

You dont know the KEYWORD?!? It hasnt been coded yet?!?

...

Ill just have water then.

[Amalia]

I'd just like to say, in light of my last couple days, cooking rocks.

That is all. Thank you imm-types for coding it. <3 cooking.