Oh Prop, Where Art Thou?

Somewhere in this build are lost light orbs. Rebellion, Scree, NE of spire.

Ever lost a prop in a build?  Have you been using a white orb to light your working surface, added a few more voxels and, voila, your light source has disappeared?  You know it’s still there, shining away, you just can’t reach it without deleting your work.  This happens to me all the time.  I started building my ‘Landmarks of Landmark’ competition entry with the white light orbs x 10 and finished with only 4 left.  I used 4 in the build and, somewhere, a white light orb or two still shine on hidden beneath the voxels.

The prop attrition rate is only going to rise as more props become available.  We need a way to find our props and recover them.  We need a prop management system.

Glowing Orb Frequency Or My Epic Isn’t

There are seven glowing orbs available from the Little Black Book puzzle.

I’ve been puzzling about the frequency of coloured glowing orbs dropping from the Little Black Book puzzle.  The orbs come in common, uncommon, rare and epic, except the epic seems more frequent than the rare glowing orbs.  I decided to test this by solving the puzzle 102 times and recording the frequency of each coloured orb.  This is what I came up with:

Solving The Little Black Book Puzzle

This lake spawns strangely mutated fish pools for two hours after the Volan event.

I have finally completed the Little Black Book puzzle and am churning out glowing orbs by the truckload.  While the details were still fresh in in my mind I thought I’d better write a more detailed guide.

The first step in solving the Little Black Book puzzle is completing the artifact collection, Little Black Book.  The artifacts for this collection drop from fishing and artifact-collecting in Morban.  I resorted to the auction house for many of mine as collecting my own was a long, arduous grind.  Once the artifact collection is complete, take it to the artifact collector and hand in.  He’ll give you a collection of missing pages.  Take these pages to Omi, along with seven mutated fish, and trade them in for a completed book.  Omi can be found in the canal near the Manufactory in Tempest Bay (10558, 10617).  Read the book and add it to your book collection.   That book is the key that allows you access to the puzzle.  Without having collected the book, the puzzle will remain inert.

Sweet Valentine: A Radish Dimension

Soft and romantic, Sweet Valentine is lit by candles, the air perfumed by flowers.

My Valentine dimension is finished (Sweet Valentine by Toefluff@Greybriar).   It’s themed around a Valentine’s Day date with music and dancing, dining and wining, dipping – skinny or otherwise – and a large, well padded couch.  Built in Dolcega Valley, Sweet Valentine takes advantage of the pool to create water gardens, a boating pool and a hot tub.

In Synchronicity and the Clock, I said it was about time to learn Dimension Toolbox.  Major parts of this dimension were built using Toolbox.  Dimension Dude’s Sobek Clock video was that vital clue in figuring out some of the power locked away in Toolbox.  The windows of Sweet Valentine would have been impossible without it.

Puzzle Rewards for Dimensions

Omi, Mistress of Puzzles, lives in the canal by the Manufactory.

Storm Legion continues the tradition of zone puzzles.  The rewards from completing some puzzles are interesting and useful dimension items, like coloured orbs from the puzzle ‘Little Black Book’.  All Storm Legion puzzles require collecting an artifact set (with the same name as the puzzle) as the first step to solving the puzzle.

The search for the artifact sets to begin the puzzles is the hardest part of the task.  Purchasing the artifacts from the auction house will deplete a small fortune.  The best suggestion is to hunt and fish for artifacts in the puzzle zone.  For instance, A Knight’s Tour is located in City Core, try fishing and artifact hunting there for artifacts to complete the Knight’s Tour artifact set.