Test of the Pathmaker

Overview

Design a miniature system of aqueduct towers, and challenge other to connect them in a loop. Living mossy towers (green) require the pipe to pass straight through, but turn adjacent. Dead (black) towers require the pipe to turn in place, but extend straight.

Principles

The Test and Principles can be started from a University of Thought at level 6.

Principles of the Pathmaker will lead you through making one of each type of item needed to build a Pathmaker. Of course, you may trade for the materials, bypassing all of those steps.

• Dig a Cuttable Stone at a Hole
• Cut a Stone on a Rock Saw
• Cut a Hexas Plate Amethyst
• Cut a Looking Glass Jade
• Cut a Symmetry Turquoise
• Cut a Dragyn's Eye Citrine
• Mine a Huge Diamond
• Mine a Medium Topaz
• Mine Silver
• Build a Pathmaker
• Open your design for Judging
• Tear down your Pathmaker, OR do the following:
  • Have 7 Judges solve and rate your Pathmaker
  • Design rated Good by most judges
• All of the above, OR solve three recent winning Pathmakers

Don't Panic!

All steps regarding cutting a gem and mining gems do not need to be resolved. Once a Pathmaker has been built and Opened for judging, all Construction related steps are automatically completed if not already!

Demonstrate the Principle

• 2 Hexas Plate cut Amethyst
• 2 Dragyn's Eye cut Citrine
• 2 Huge Diamond
• 10 Medium Topaz
• 100 Silver Wire

Demonstrated by McArine in Shabbat Ab on 09-03-22.

Designing a Puzzle

Cost to build a Pathmaker is:

• 300 Cut Stone
• 3 Hexas Plate cut Amethyst
• 3 Looking Glass cut Jade
• 2 Symmetry cut Turquoise
• 1 Dragyn's Eye cut Citrine
• 2 Huge Diamond
• 12 Medium Topaz
• 60 Silver Wire

Solving a Puzzle

The test description isn't very clear about the rules. Here's some clarification.

A Pathmaker puzzle is played on a two-dimensional grid. Initially, each square either contains a black tower, green tower, or is empty.

You may place pipe segments on a square, including squares containing a tower, by clicking on the square. Clicking on a square again cycles through the possible pipe options for that square:

• Straight pipe, top-to-bottom.
• Straight pipe, left-to-right.
• Pipe with a 90 degree bend (4 possible orientations).

The object of the puzzle is to join all towers into a single closed loop, while obeying these rules:

• All pipes must connect up correctly to adjacent squares
• You may only have one pipe segment per square, i.e. you cannot have a "cross" pipe.
• Pipes on a square with a green tower must be straight.
• Pipes on a square with a black tower must be a 90 degree bend.
• One of the pipes connected immediately adjacent to a green tower must be a 90 degree bend. (Note: the rules only require one of the two to be a bend, but both can be bends if you like).
• The two pipes connected immediately adjacent to a black tower must be straight.

The Pathmaker will not let you place pipes that violate these rules.

Pathmaker Locations

• Green for recognized (passed) puzzles (use "Gr" prefix on pin)
• Red for unrecognized (unpassed) puzzles (use "Rd" prefix on pin)
  
  

Region	Coordinates	Designer	Passed	Remarks
Adn	1047, 6959	bortox	No	Close to Chariot
Shabbat Ab	1472, 1998	McArine	No	Close to UArch
Meroe	846, -3645	Malard	No	30 coords northeast of CS (Next to Essence of Harmony)
Meroe	821, -3624	Oni	No	30 coords north of cs
Meroe	811, -3653	Katezinha	No	West of CS
Stillwater	1703, 3690	Tokiryu	No	Just south of cs
Stillwater	1712, 3711	Keko	No	Just east of cs
Saqqarah	785, -757	Fryoj	Yes	East of CS(by Essence of Harmony)
Saqqarah	784, -755	Brucette	No	East of CS(by Essence of Harmony)
Queen's Retreat	583, -6152	Traak	No	Just north of CS
Queen's Retreat	578, -6154	Shazza	No	Just north of CS
Falcon Bay	4297, -647	Xaxyx	No	Just south of CS
Falcon Bay	4307, -584	Ariella	No	50 coords north of CS
Falcon Bay	4305, -587	Pascalito	No	50 coords north of CS
Queen's Retreat	578, -6151	Wampak	No	Just north of CS
...	..., ...	...	Yes/No	.....