Unlocking the Sea-Caves

[luxtizer]

I'm trying to unlock the submerged sea-caves, and I have no idea what to use. It requires a "circumstance" with either 3 moon or 3 scale. I can't recall having encountered a single circumstance card in the game. Where should I be looking?

[Wintermute]

I think I've seen in some other posts that there are pumps somewhere nearby, to drain the water. I assume those pumps will produce the said circumstance card. Don't quoute me on that though, I'm not there yet myself.

[cswiger]

There are two pumps in rooms on the far right side of the caves.
Fixing them produces a card which unlocks flooded room sections.

[luxtizer]

Thank you very much. Now I have a new problem: the pump requires two metal items to work. I've run out. The only crafting recipe I've found that produces metal is the 10 forge recipe which requires metal as an ingredient, so that doesn't help. I haven't found any metal items gathering at the beach or the moor. Is there any renewable source of metal?

[Wintermute]

There should be a recipe to transmute glass into metal, and glass can be made by pretty much any 5 knock craft.

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by luxtizer:

Is there any renewable source of metal?

Yes, there is. Try experimenting with Knock skills in the Foundry.

Specifically, the skills "Glassblowing & Vesselcrafting" and "Lockworks & Clockworks" both produce Amethyst Ampoules at Prentice level. Those can then be used with the same skills to produce metal with a Scholar recipe.

[luxtizer]

Thank you very much!

[AloneOnG]

Only the skill ‘ Lockworks & Clockworks’ with Amethyst Ampoules can produce metal without metal. Besides there’s actually a reel of wire in a painters’ room and another in the room below the kitchen in cucurbit prison.

[Prester Fred]

Originally posted by luxtizer:

Is there any renewable source of metal?

By now, you should have two order forms. The one from Cater & Hero, filled out at a desk using Mettle and any Ink will let you order Copper Wire. It won't use up your Ink.

Take the completed form to the Post Office with...I'm pretty sure it's two shillings, but if you overpay you get change back. Three days later you'll get a package and a new blank form. You can do this as often as you can afford.

[Fishlover299]

Originally posted by Prester Fred:

Originally posted by luxtizer:

Is there any renewable source of metal?

By now, you should have two order forms. The one from Cater & Hero, filled out at a desk using Mettle and any Ink will let you order Copper Wire. It won't use up your Ink.

Take the completed form to the Post Office with...I'm pretty sure it's two shillings, but if you overpay you get change back. Three days later you'll get a package and a new blank form. You can do this as often as you can afford.

Other important stuff to note about the order forms. You don't need any soul element when filling out forms, just a normal ink. You can also add to to the form multiple times before sending it off making it more efficient for large orders. The games keeps track of what you've ordered and the cost in the aspects at the bottom. The cost of items is listed to the right by pounds and then pence. So (1/6) is one pound, six pence. The D is from denarius which the British used for pence so 12D is really 12 pence.
If you make a mistake there is no real cost to starting over except the time used in filling it out again.