Test of the Pathmaker

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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 Numaris in Alcyone on 10-10-04.

Designing a Puzzle

Cost to build

• 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

Built in a Small Construction Site Under Test Menu

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 red tower, blue 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 blue tower must be straight.
• Pipes on a square with a red tower must be a 90 degree bend.
• One of the pipes connected immediately adjacent to a blue 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 red 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	RL Date Opened
Alcyone	1599, 2285	Asnath	Yes		Oct 5 ,2010
Taygete	880, 6100	Krae	Yes	Not Easy	Oct 5 ,2010
Sinai	2720, 5010	Solmyr	Yes		Oct 9 ,2010
Sinai	2728, 5003	Asheara	Yes		Oct 12 ,2010
Alcyone	1601, 2284	Kastou	Yes		Oct 12 ,2010
Sterope	2012, -2014	Udjai	Yes		Oct 13 ,2010
Sterope	1995, -2025	Qwu	Yes		Oct 13 ,2010
Sterope	1995, -2023	Lizzi	Yes		Oct 13 ,2010
Sterope	1980, -2000	Oni	Yes		Oct 14, 2010
Alcyone	1750, 2315	Licinia	Yes	Next to CS	Oct 24, 2010
Alcyone	1739, 2273	Numaris	Yes		Oct 24, 2010
Alcyone	1684, 2277	Lill	Yes	Near the CS	Nov 02, 2010
Alcyone	1686, 2278	Sabuli	Yes	Near the CS	Nov 21, 2010
Alcyone	17827, -2300	Robare	No	Not the best, but not the worst!	Dec. 27, 2010
Maia	970, -5575	Milythael	No	Just north of the CS	Jan 4, 2010
Alcyone	1728, 2310	Antilia	No	Near the CS	Jan 4, 2010
Alcyone	1774, 2329	Blueshift	No	Near the CS	Jan 16, 2010

Only Pathmakers that have actually passed the test can count as "recent winning Pathmakers".
See the Passed column above or the Test Pass History. --Numaris

Passes (including "recently passed" puzzles)

See Test Pass History.