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The Stranger's Challenge Cheese Recipe

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The event

Visit a Conflict Shrine and pay a 1 Malardium fee to enter the conflict arena and begin the challenge.

 Send your spirit to The Stranger's Construction Challenge

The Rewards

Complete the Challenge within two hours to receive one of the following cheese recipes:

  • Shanklish : Sheep pen "protection"
  • Areesh : Quality Value increase
  • Baramily : Silences Cicada Cages
  • Domiati : End + Con

These recipes can be completed in a creamery. Creameries can also be set for them in the same way a kettle can be set for salt.

Challenge Criteria

  • Challenge may be started at any conflict shrine, at any time.
  • You can continue after the 2 hour limit but you will not get a recipe.
  • You can exit at any time.
  • You will have to pay another malardium ore as a fee for every attempt.
  • One recipe given per avatar on success.

What do you have to do?

The event will take you back in time for a trip down memory lane and your first visit to Egypt on Welcome Island. It also combines features of WI (Welcome Island) with Principles of Architecture building your first compound.

You will be transported to a special event area with items similar to what exists on WI. You will not carry any materials from the main game into the area. You will be given a few things to start with.

The arena has some trees around the outside and a fountain with water in the middle. There is sand on the outer edge and grass in between. There is mud next to the fountain. Slate is scattered around the water area. There are plants, shrubs and thorns.

  • You will need to build a compound from scratch of size 20.
  • You will be given 1 Old Egypt Flax seed.
This is weed 2 times and harvest.
If you plant and harvest your only seed you will have failed the challenge.
  • You will have to build and expand a compound to the stated size.

Elementary Compound Construction

After the start of tale, the rigors of building a compound fade away. This challenge is a re-enactment of all the issues of building a compound before there are any large machines to help. It's Doing It The Old Fashioned Way.

Things to remember about early construction.

The Compound

You need to build a compound with 20 sectors. Since the one you create has 6 sectors (3x2), you will need to edit the blueprints, chose "Add a Sector" under the "Building Shape" tab, and click 14 times so your planned building will have a total of 20 sectors.

The most compact 20-sector compound has a footprint of 4 by 5 sectors. This diagram assumes you have the door on the north face

A	B	B	B	A
A	B	B	B	A	B = 6 initial sectors
A	A	A	A       A       A = add these
A	A	A	A	A	20 sector total (14 added)

The Cost

100 boards & 200 bricks for the initial compound. Expansion to the shape above will cost an additional:

140 boards
35 straw
35 flax
70 wood
106 bricks
36 tow
140 mud

This does not include the cost of the flax comb nor the flimsy brick racks.

How will I know if I won?

When you load the last item into the materials list for the correct size compound you get the following message

 Congratulations, Exit the challenge to claim your prize

The recipe is randomly selected. The challenge can be re-run once a week.