How to craft with awakened feather?

[SkyDragon]

I tried using this feather with sky aspect skill, and the only workstation that I found with sky aspect that can also use feather now tells me to use light with it. Did I miss a station that can use sky, feathers aspects and light? I checked the house manually for each station (imho one of the worst gameplay decisions - no workstation highlight), then I went to guides, and still couldn't find it.

[Rithrin]

I don't believe any workstation takes both Light and an can accept an Awakened Feather. Haven't found feathers to be particularly useful, but you can use them in places like the Gullscry Workbench to help craft your Mazarine Fife. For recipes needing Light you'll want to use one of the shrines, and you can also have an animal with the Sky aspect help out.

[SkyDragon]

Well that is something weird, an oversight by the Dev? One of the guides tell that the feather can be used to make a Ichor Auroral, plus there is a hint for it. I did all other 10 aspect recipes. I was curious if a feather has something unique.

[Stim The One]

I found the awakened feather more useful for being a remains than for its sky aspect, though do note that not all skills are equal.... but some are. Some might want you to use an instrument, for which there is a tool-instrument of sky. The gullscry workbench and hermit's workbench both take remains and tools for that idea.

For the light + feather thing, note that the hint is not exactly correct. The 10 aspect recipe in this case only requires a light, not necessarily the awakened feather (but it can help). Another thing to note is that you might not NEED to have the workbench accept sky... and instead can be clever with the use of the other aspect. As an example, the alchemist glassware does not take edge, but you can slot disciplines of the scar in there because it has lantern, and mettle or ereb because they have forge and grail, making the rest of edge through ingredients to make perinculate there despite it not allowing edge (though it's harder to put memories in). So I think there is no place to take both light AND remains (or materials) that is attuned to sky. The condignator takes fuel (which candles also are) and remains but is not attuned to sky... but if the other element is edge, forge, knock or lantern you might be able to use it like that. Same with the dispensary, and even the glassware.

But a final conclusion is "you don't need to use both the feather AND a light for the 10 aspect recipe, just a light"

[Rithrin]

Interestingly enough, candles lost the "Fuel" attribute some number of patches ago, so while you used to be able to be able to sneaky by sticking scented candles into workstations like the Condignator, you can't do that anymore sadly.

I wonder what the book text hint was that mentioned feathers and Ichor Auroral. It may be outdated.

[Pandorian]

It's a confusing sentence. I'll try to explain.

Craft: Awakened Feather

Align an abandoned feather to the currents of light. (Or for a Scholar-level recipe: brush a Light with the feather, and see dawn-essence drip from the air.)

OK so since this creates an awakened feather we can assume that it is creating the awakened feather by aligning the "abandoned feather" to the currents of light. When we look at the Scholar hint, the feather it is referring to is still the "abandoned feather". So brush a light source with the abandoned feather for the Scholar recipe or in other words add light.
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Originally posted by Stim The One:

The condignator takes fuel (which candles also are)

Candles being fuel will be gone as soon as the Beta gets pushed to main branch. Since Engineer was lantern people were giving them candles to boost lantern aspect. Now you can only give candles to Timothy to boost lantern aspect

[SkyDragon]

Originally posted by Pandorian:

It's a confusing sentence. I'll try to explain.

Craft: Awakened Feather

Align an abandoned feather to the currents of light. (Or for a Scholar-level recipe: brush a Light with the feather, and see dawn-essence drip from the air.)

OK so since this creates an awakened feather we can assume that it is creating the awakened feather by aligning the "abandoned feather" to the currents of light. When we look at the Scholar hint, the feather it is referring to is still the "abandoned feather". So brush a light source with the abandoned feather for the Scholar recipe or in other words add light.
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Thank you. Now I understand, since English is my second language, it is sometimes hard for me to get the full meaning when reading a text. One of the reasons I couldn't play Fallen London - a lot of text with a very small font, it was very hard to read through it.

[Rithrin]

Originally posted by Pandorian:

It's a confusing sentence. I'll try to explain.

Craft: Awakened Feather

Align an abandoned feather to the currents of light. (Or for a Scholar-level recipe: brush a Light with the feather, and see dawn-essence drip from the air.)

OK so since this creates an awakened feather we can assume that it is creating the awakened feather by aligning the "abandoned feather" to the currents of light. When we look at the Scholar hint, the feather it is referring to is still the "abandoned feather". So brush a light source with the abandoned feather for the Scholar recipe or in other words add light.

Ah, I see. Yeah, there are several such confusing statements on the workbench notes. They seem to be speaking "thematically" rather than mechanically. There are other similar ones such as "I'll create a tangle of roots which may attract the attention of certain entities. (Or for a Scholar-level recipe: if I nestle an Egg into the roots it will hatch a strange being.)" It's referring to creating a Tanglebrag at prentice level, and hatching something at scholar-level, but you only need an Egg for the scholar recipe, not actually a Tanglebrag despite it implying that.

In the sentence about the feather, "thematically", your character is creating the Feather and then immediately using it within the same action when creating the Scholar-level recipe, so you don't need to bring your own.

[Eaton Sumida]

Originally posted by SkyDragon:

Originally posted by Pandorian:

It's a confusing sentence. I'll try to explain.


OK so since this creates an awakened feather we can assume that it is creating the awakened feather by aligning the "abandoned feather" to the currents of light. When we look at the Scholar hint, the feather it is referring to is still the "abandoned feather". So brush a light source with the abandoned feather for the Scholar recipe or in other words add light.
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Thank you. Now I understand, since English is my second language, it is sometimes hard for me to get the full meaning when reading a text. One of the reasons I couldn't play Fallen London - a lot of text with a very small font, it was very hard to read through it.

It's not your fault, English is my first language so I can definitively state: The sentence is ambiguously worded and both interpretations are perfectly valid readings. The problem is that only one of those readings is mechanically relevant and it is not the more obvious one.

[SK RaZoR]

Yeah that feather light craft is just a jebait, you only need candle, likely an oversight, i havent even found a proper workstation for it. I use the mirrors with absurd amount of high memories.