Woodes Rogers Part 2 - (01) Alchemy Start

Alchemy Start (top)

• Go to the Shipyard and down the stairs to the shipyard shore.
• You are ambushed and left badly hurt. Your officers are killed.
• You have two items hidden away. The robbers have missed them.
• Examine the Long Johns and the Bandana to find Hornigolds’s Map and the Gold Key.
• Continue to the Prison Ships, the Boat Shore and Woodes Rogers port.

The Farm (top)

• Entering the Farm you see it has expanded. The two doors to the new part are locked though.<
• In Woodes Rogers bedroom open the counter with the Gold Key.
• You find Bandages & trousers and three newspaper collections.
• Examine the trousers and you find a new Key. It unlocks the new part.
• Read Rogers’ newspapers notes here. You can’t take them with you. Valuable information in the questbook.
• Unlock the two doors to the new part. Minerva arrives to guide you with your alchemical experiments.

Work stations (top)

1 - Mixing tables (top)

• In the old lab there are now two places for mixing ingredients. One for small and the other one for big bottles.
• For both: Right hand items F3 + F3. Left hand items F3 + fire pistol.
• You will know which bottles to use.

2 - Distillery (top)

• Works as earlier. Open/close the grating with the lever.
• Fill up the retort and place an empty small bottle on the stool.
• Increase the heat with the foot plank. Warning: not more than twice or it vill explode.

3 - Crucible (top)

• The Crucible is on the upper floor of the new lab.
• With the wheel on the side you can tilt the cauldron.
• Place a small empty bottle and a funnel as a receiver on the floor.
• With wood you can increase the heat. Three levels.
• When everything is going well “this will take time…” you have to leave the room and return for the process to finish.

4 - Grinder (top)

• Also on the upper floor is the Grinder. Fill it up at the middle of the container.
• Place an empty small bottle on the floor as a receiver.
• The crank makes the actual grinding and the rope empties the grinder.

5 - Filtration (top)

• On the bottom floor of the new lab is the filtration station.
• Place a clean piece of cloth before each new filtration.
• The filtrated powder can be picked up into a small empty bottle.

Resources (top)

1 - Water tank (top)

• The water tank as earlier in the storeroom next to the kitchen.
• You need an empty small bottle.

2 - Sulphuric acid tank (top)

• The sulphuric acid tank is on the bottom floor of the new lab. Use the ladder.
• You need an empty small bottle. Warning: without a bottle the acid is dangerous.

3 - Wood supply (top)

• The wood supply is on the bottom floor of the new lab.
• You can only carry one “wood item”.

Equipment (top)

• You find retorts, tops, glasstubes and small bottles in the storeroom as usual.
• Now also big bottles there.
• A funnel and more small bottles in the chest very close to the crucible.
• Clean cloth filters in a chest on the bottom floor of the new lab.

Ingredients (top)

• Ingredients are found in the storeroom, the old lab, the new lab, Minerva’s room and in the kitchen. Later on also in the new storeroom. (locked from start)

Recipe (top)

• In a wall cupboard in the new lab, bottom floor you find Rogers’ alchemy book.
• The symbols in the book are explained on the big wall charts.

Alchemy phases (top)

• page 2 - Mix 2 Salt + Sulphuric Acid. Heat 3 in the crucible.
• page 3 - Mix Mixture2 + Calcium Carbonate + 2 Coal. Heat 3 in the crucible.
• page 4 - Mix Mixture4 + Water. Filtrate.
• page 5 - Mix Sulphuric Acid + Nitre. Distill.
• The postman delivers a book. Read all marked places to get more important information in the questbook.
• page 6 - Grind Limestone. Heat 2 in the crucible.
• page 7 - Horse Dung heat 1 in the crucible.
• page 8 - Mix Sulphur + Sal Ammoniac + Calcium Oxide + Water. Distill.
• page 9 - Mix Mixture8 + 2 Wax/Fat.
• The rest of Rogers’ alchemy book is burned. Defoe and Claire are waiting outside.
• Minerva takes care of your succesful experiments. The sloop is repaired and equipment ready for you in the cabin.
• You have information about four possible places to visit in the archipelago. They are the start of four paths which you can follow in any order. (well almost)

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