irradiant gruel bug?!

[Kampfhamster]

hey guys,
is "irradiant gruel" bugged? there should only be a 35% to fail, but it fails EVERY SINGLE TIME. i wasted 8 prisoners on 99% and they all mutated. after this mess i tried it with 10 low-level prisoners and they still mutate every single time...with 18 of 18 it is very hard to believe i am just unlucky.

[Xero]

I got one from 80% to 98%, so it doesn't happen every time. It's all by chance. It's best to find one in the 95%-99% range. Before, this wasn't implemented into the game, so it's nice to have when you find one in that range for a chance to bring them to 100%

[BlackDragon]

Originally posted by Xero:

I got one from 80% to 98% so it doesn't happen every time. It's all by chance. It's best to find one in the 95%-99% range.

I've had every prisoner I tried it on mutate on the first exposure too... though, with my luck, that's just par for the course. Out of curiosity, did you do this 80-to-98 feat recently, or was it, say, before some recent patch that might have bugged the calculations?

[Xero]

It was about halfway through the game. So maybe a few patches / hotfixes ago.

[Ryvucz]

More like 95% chance to fail.

[Xero]

I'm currently at Adam The First Born and Dracula and I've been trying to get a scholar blood type and the irradiant gruel has been failing a lot. I feel your frustrations.

[BlackDragon]

If I wasn't so perpetually short on Mutant Grease, I'd try to run a proper test, with a large sample-size. Just catch a ton of whatever-percentage humans, feed 'em each a portion of gruel, and see what percentage survive the first exposure. It honestly feels like the odds are wonky at the moment - but you can't really say anything for *sure* without a decently large-scale experiment.

[Xero]

If your like me and hoard while out of the castle, plant seeds and send your servants out all the time, you'll have plenty of ingredients. I never have to worry about not having enough ingredients. I always keep 18 / 24 Gruels on me at all times and still have plenty to make more. I first started out not having anything.

And I keep 10 of the Dusk Caller stones on me and 6 available Jail Cells. I only have a 100% warrior blood type thrall. And as said above, trying to get a scholar. If I could have a choice it would be scholar and worker blood types. I always wondered what a worker blood type does and someone mentioned in discussions it increases mining attributes.

[Nooberix]

Originally posted by Xero:

I always wondered what a worker blood type does and someone mentioned in discussions it increases mining attributes.

You could just drink any worker blood to check the stats. Even if it's 5%, you can see what you'll get with higher percentages. Afterwards you can drink your usual blood potion to continue your game.

[Xero]

Yeah, I know. Really didn't give it a look. The only time I see a worker is in Brighthaven at Silverlight Hills while I'm gathering fish and gold jewelry. Thank you. =)

[BlackDragon]

Also, the wiki has a list of what they all provide. Worker-blood is non-combat focused, helps you gather more resources faster, but it's not great at it - the final 'ability' it provides is just silly, providing you a speed-boost after you break a resource-block, but only for a couple of seconds.

[ᗩSᕼᑘᐺᗩ᙭]

Any tips on finding humans with 95% or higher?

[RdRStar]

Originally posted by AshuVax:

Any tips on finding humans with 95% or higher?

keep killing people, so they respawn. most people seem to have better luck in the higher lvl areas.

[fefnir3284]

i swear it is NOT 35% and more like 99% failure rate with bloods above 95%. I have MAX cells and blew through 15 FULL PRISONERS and got ZERO to 100%. This is total BS and ruins the fun of the game. For christ's sake I already have MAX gear and now I jsut do not care about farm for anything and jsut console command me all the gruel and any other mats I need be F this gruel system.

[RdRStar]

Originally posted by fefnir3284:

i swear it is NOT 35% and more like 99% failure rate with bloods above 95%. I have MAX cells and blew through 15 FULL PRISONERS and got ZERO to 100%. This is total BS and ruins the fun of the game. For christ's sake I already have MAX gear and now I jsut do not care about farm for anything and jsut console command me all the gruel and any other mats I need be F this gruel system.

MUAHAHA... i never had a single prisoner mutate!

[lord-of-misrule]

Originally posted by fefnir3284:

i swear it is NOT 35% and more like 99% failure rate with bloods above 95%. I have MAX cells and blew through 15 FULL PRISONERS and got ZERO to 100%. This is total BS and ruins the fun of the game. For christ's sake I already have MAX gear and now I jsut do not care about farm for anything and jsut console command me all the gruel and any other mats I need be F this gruel system.

Certainly feels that way. Perfect Test Subject is proving to be a very elusive Achievement.