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Guilds/Flavored Bacon Conspiracy

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Purpose

The Flavored Bacon Conspiracy is dedicated to finding Favored Beacon Activities (FBAs) for the purposes of passing the Test of Beacons. As such, membership is generally open to players who have signed up for the Test of Beacons.

The Favored Beacon activity changes roughly once an Egyptian week, but not at the same time as other "weekly" activities, such as thistle requests and ant leaves. The actual time alternates between two settings: 7 Egyptian days (2 days 14hours 40 minutes (or so) 'realtime') and 8 Egyptian days (2 days 22 hours 45 minutes (or so) 'realtime'). This allows us to predict when we can expect FBAs to change and focus efforts on longer 'weeks'.

Favored Beacon Activities

Because Guild chat scrolls as quickly as it does, to minimize redundant testing of possible FBA's, what follows is a checklist of things to try, organized by type. Please note this is not all-inclusive and please feel free to try whatever isn't on the list. Likewise, activities will likely be listed that will never generate a beacon, but since we have so little data to actually go on, it is impossible to eliminate specific entries. When adding activities, please also ensure that the blank template is updated as well, so next week we can test the activity again!

On Testing

You can test anywhere, but if you have access to an unconfirmed number of non-public buildings in the general vicinity (thought to be 30% or more in a 64-coord radius, based on previous Tale data. This may be wild speculation.), you will not attract a beacon, but you should get a message in main with something to the affect of A beacon altar was almost attracted to you, because you did the favored activity in the last hour. However, you own too many of the buildings in this area. You are at home.

Potential FBAs

Tested for week ending 09/25 17:11 (or so) GMT
Agriculture, Flowers Tested
Crossbred X
Fertilized X
Planted X
Removed X
Agriculture, Grew Tested
Cabbage
Carrots
Cucumbers
Eggplants
Flax
Garlic
Herbs
Leeks
Onions
Agriculture, Other Tested
Beehive, checked X
Citrus tree, Mulched X
Citrus tree, Gathered honey X
Citrus tree, Gathered fruit X
Fertilized a date tree X
Nicked a tree X
Gathered Tested
Cactus Sap X
Chicken X
Clay X
Coconuts X
Dates X
Egg X
Flint X
Limestone X
Moss X
Mud X
Mushrooms X
Palm Frond
Papyrus
Red Sand
Resin X
Sand X
Sheep, wild X
Silt X
Soda X
Sulfurous Water X
Tadpoles X
Thorns X
Water X
White Sand
Wood X
Livestock, fed Tested
Beetles X
Camels, straw X
Camels, honey X
Chickens
Rabbits
Sheep X
Snakes
Livestock, killed Tested
Beetles X
Chickens
Camels X
Sheep in a pen X
Sheep, Wild (successfully) X
Sheep, Wild (failed) X
Snakes
Rabbits
Skill-based Tested
Carved X
Dowsed X
Fished X
Foraged an herb (successfully) X
Foraged an herb (failed) X
Lit a firepit X
Made a stone blade X
Mechanics X
Mined X
Prospected for marble X
Skill-based, Ecology Tested
Acidity, tested for
Heavy metals, tested for X
Phosphorous, tested for X
Soot, tested for
Structures, Used: General Tested
Acid Bath X
Anvil X
Beer Kettle
Brick rack X
Carpentry shop X
Casting Box X
Charcoal Hearth/Oven
Chest X
Forge
Glazier's Bench X
Kettle
Kiln X
Mason's Bench
Pottery Wheel X
Quarry X
Raeli Oven X
Reactory X
Rock Saw X
Star Rack X
Tub X
Watermine X
Wood Plane X
Structures, Kitchen Activities Tested
Ate a meal X
Cooked a meal X
Cracked a coconut X
Crushed a cabbage X
Crushed seeds into oil X
Made fertilizer
Shredded a carrot X
Structures, Miscellaneous Tested
Drank from an Aqueduct X
Maintained a structure X
Salvaged a structure X
Judged a(n)... Tested
Artwork X
Beetle Garden
Empty Hand Puzzle X
Pathmaker
Raeli Gliderport (heh)
Venery
Test-Related Tested
Acro, taught facet
Mushroom, eaten from the earth X
Shrine, tithed at X
Travel Tested
Chariot, Free travel X
Chariot, Regular X
Expedition Travel X
Navigated to a waypoint X
Spousewarped X
Wings of Horus X
Vintner's Craft Tested
Tended grapes X
Crushed grapes
Bottled wine
Drank wine X
Miscellaneous Other Tested
belly danced X
poked another player with a sharpened stick X
ate an herb off the ground X
lit a firework X
lit a ritual torch X
registered as a watcher at a star lab X
bought Kartal and Sefet some tacos
goosed Sefet X

Blank Template for next week