Skill/Ecology

Ecology
(Skill - The Human Body)

Benefits

Level	Requirements	Unlocks
Level 0	20 Dried Flax	Allows testing for ground water level using Dried Flax
Level 1	5 Flax 10 Tadpoles 1 Fertile Papyrus	Allows testing for Heavy Metal using Tadpoles
Level 2	20 Cabbage Juice	Allows testing for Soil acidity using Cabbage Juice
Level 3	10 Sulphurous Water 20 Charcoal	Allows testing for nitrogen level using a Golden Asp and Charcoal, Allows testing for potassium level using Sulphurous Water and Charcoal
Level 4	5 Copper Wire 20 Salt Water	Allows testing for salinity using Salt Water and Copper Wire
Level 5	50 Buttermilk	Allows testing for phosphorus level using Buttermilk and Dirt
Level 6	10 Papyrus Paper 20 Cactus Sap	Allows testing for soot level using Papyrus Paper and Cactus Sap
Level 7	10 Cabbage 10 Onions 10 Carrot 10 Peppers 10 Garlic 10 Eggplant 10 Watermelon 10 Leeks 10 Cucumbers	Use an Ecology Survey Kit to test the impact of certain plants

Use

There are two ways to use the Ecology skills:

• Single point sample tests
• Ecology Survey Kits.

Ecology factors can be adjusted by hand-planting vegetables: https://atitd.wiki/tale10/Vegetable

Single Point Tests

Degree	Test for	Using	Baseline	Notes
0	Ground water level	1 Dried Flax ✓	50%
1	Heavy metal pollution	1+ Tadpoles ✓	0%	The more tadpoles die, the more heavy metals there are in the soil. If more tadpoles are used, the reading becomes more precise.
2	Soil acidity	1 Cabbage Juice ✓	7.0000	Standard pH scale. (Below 7 is acidic. Above 7 is alkaline.)
3	Potassium Level	1 Sulphurous Water ✓, 2 Charcoal ✓	25%
3	Nitrogen Level	1 Horned Hookworm ✓, 2 Charcoal ✓	25%
4	Salinity	1 Salt Water ✓, 1 Copper Wire ✓	0%
5	Phosphorus level	1 Buttermilk ✓, 1 Dirt ✓	25%
6	Soot level	1 Papyrus Paper ✓, 1 Cactus Sap ✓	0%

Ecology Survey Kits

Ecology Survey Kits are made on a chemistry lab, requiring Ecology 6 (Skill). Five kits are made at a time.

• Select the Ecology type you want and see a colored grid for 2 minutes.
• Colors on 500' x 500' grid represent levels.

Cost

• 10 Cactus Sap ✓
• 10 Charcoal ✓
• 2 Sulphurous Water ✓
• 10 Dried Flax ✓
• 10 Copper Wire ✓
• 4 Cabbage Juice ✓
• 10 Buttermilk ✓
• 4 Salt Water ✓
• 10 Boards ✓
• 5 Glass Jars ✓

Affecting Ecology

Ecology effects cover a radius of roughly 60 co-ords from the point where the player is standing when the action is complete.

Further information: Vegetable and Flax

Material	Increases	Decreases	Required Action
Sulphurous Water	Ground Water +0.0153/jug	pH -0.002/jug	Empty Jugs
Salt Water	pH +0.002/jug, Ground Water +0.0153/jug		Empty Jugs
Jugs of Water	Ground Water +0.0153/jug	?	Empty Jugs

Each action has a small chance (maybe 5-10%) of having it's effect, calculated separately for each factor it might modify. When a stack of items is used, it will apply either the full stack or nothing - emptying 100 jugs of salt water at once could change the pH by +0.2, or the ground water by +1.53, or both or neither, but it wouldn't raise the pH by only 0.1.