#entry item

The Alchemiter: The Alchemiter is an important part of any session of Sburb, and you should familiarize yourself with it as soon as possible. The Alchemiter is what lets you create items, and use combined Punch Cards to create new items out of fused cards using totems. We’ll talk about how to create and re-punch cards in a minute. The totem is placed on the small pad to the right, which is then scanned, and the item the totem is made to represent appears on the large pad for an amount of grist specific to each item.

The Totem Lathe: The Totem Lathe is what you’ll be using to carve Totems to represent different items to create with the Alchemiter, as well as what you’ll be using to create your Entry Item, which we’ll talk about later. In order to use this, you’ll need to captchalogue a Cruxite Dowel, which you can aquire from the Cruxtruder, which I will also be talking about in a minute. After you captchalogue the dowel, you can then read the number on the back of the card, and put in that numbered code into the the Punch Designix with a blank card to duplicate it. From there, just keep re-carving the Dowel however you’d like to create different items!

The Cruxtruder:

This big machine will be the source of many shenanigans at the beginning of your game. Upon opening it, a few things will happen. First, an unprototyped Sprite will pop out (we’ll talk about sprites later) and a timer will start on the screens. This timer varies from player to player, so keep an eye on it, and don’t lose track of time. I would suggest not activating it until you are ready and all of you equipment has been deployed. After the sprite pops out, you will also recieve a Cruxite dowel that can be used to create your Entry Item. This is key, and I will make a separate post explaining exactly the order to do all this in a timely fashion later. For now, I’m just explaining what it does.

The Punch Designix: Another useful tool, this allows you to put in blank captcha cards as well as a code so you can duplicate items. You can insert a blank card into the slot, type in a code for an item on the keyboard, and then it will punch the card to have the appropriate holes puched to create a Cruxite Totem in the Lathe for that item. You can also double punch codes by overlapping cards, creating cards for combined items that can then later be created with the Alchemiter.

The Jumper Block Extension: This is a machine that you use with the Punch Card Shunt which I will talk about in a moment. You attach the shunt to this in order for it to be used

Punch Card Shunt: You attach this to the blocks on the Jumper Block Extension, and put cards in the hole. The cards you insert (ex: lets say you insert a card with a code for a blender punched on it) will effect what the alchemiter does to the items. So, with the blender card inserted, it would blend up the totem rather than creating a new item. 

Intellibeam Laserstation: This rather expensive piece of machinery is used to read otherwise unreadable captcha cards. An example would be the sburd discs, which are othewise unreadable and cannot be copied.

Holopad: This addon to the alchemiter allows you to preview the item you’d be creating with your punch card. A rather nifty trick for people who want to conserve grist and not risk creating the wrong item.

The Cloning Pad: This is a mid-game item that you won’t find use for until later, but I will explain it here nonetheless. The Cloning pad is used to create Paradox Clones of the players. We won’t get into this too much now, if you want to find out more, wait for my post on Ectobiology.

Gristtorrent: The final item on the list for this post is a program called Gristtorrent. Players can use Gristtorrent to siphon grist from each other at varying rates. This is useful if one player has a lot of grist when another player needs some. I’d get permission from your fellow players before using it though.

That’s a lot for all of you to take in, I’m sure. So for now I’ll leave off here. This should give you a basic understanding of the tools you’ll have access to as a client player, and what exactly you’ll be using to help your co-players while you’re their server player.