Path of the Pilgrim

This building becomes available after you have learned the Pilgrim Shrine Construction skill from a School of Worship

Pilgrim Shrines

Pilgrim Shrines are built by players for Path of the Pilgrim. Each shrine has a tithe associated with it, set by the builder. This tithe may be any quantity of any single item.

A shrine costs seven marble to construct, plus seven times the tithe. The type of marble required will vary with the type of the tithe (you are informed of the type needed when you attempt to construct the shrine using a small construction site). There is a list of Pilgrim shrine requirements.

It is not possible to transfer ownership of a shrine to a guild or other player. The builder must have the Pilgrim Shrine Construction skill, available at a School of Worship for 1 piece each of Oyster Shell Marble, Mud Granite, and Yellow Alabaster marbles and have started the test.

Tithes made to a shrine are collectible (instantly) by the builder of the shrine, so a well placed and priced shrine may collect a significant amount of tithes.

Pilgrims may only tithe at a shrine if it is holy and is at least 600 coords from any other shrine the group has tithed at.

A shrine is holy if:

• It is owned by an active account.
• It is the only shrine owned by that character.
• It is the most expensive shrine of its type in its region.

For example: If Akhetaton builds a shrine with a tithe of 5 iron, and there are no other shrines with an iron tithe in his region, his shrine will be holy. If Tutankhamen then builds a shrine with a tithe of 6 iron in the same region, his shrine will be holy—and Akh's shrine will stop being holy. If Tut's shrine had required 5 iron or less, it would not have been holy, and Akh's would have remained holy. On the other hand, if Tut were to build a shrine with a tithe of 2 copper, both his shrine and Akh's 5 iron shrine would be holy, since they require tithes of different types.

For the purposes of this Test, Egypt is divided into 8 regions.

It is usually best to build a pilgrim shrine at least 600 coordinates from any other shrine. If you build within 600 coords of another shrine, a pilgrimage can only visit one of the shrines (so you potentially deprive yourself or the other person of some shrine income, and the pilgrimage of the chance to tithe at two shrines instead of one). It is also unwise to use the same resource for a tithe as someone else in the region since this will make their shrine non-holy and useless - this has caused expensive shrine wars in the past.

Tool for measuring the distance between sets of coordinates: 2D Distance Calculator

Note: If you salvage your Pilgrim shrine, you get nothing back.

University Text

First, join someone else's pilgrimage by clicking on them, or form a new one by clicking on the University. Next, visit as many holy pilgrim shrines as possible, making the requested donation to each. Shrines must be at least 10 minutes apart, but a given shrine can be visited repeatedly. About once per 7 realtime days, the group with the longest pilgrimage is promoted.

Overview

This is the second test in the discipline of Worship. All seven members of the pilgrimage must tithe within two minutes of each other—otherwise the points are not counted. See locations and items to tithe below.

Passing the Principle

You're required to form a group with seven other people. Each of you must tithe at two different shrines. You'll need to accumulate 700 points in order to pass. Make sure the Pilgrim Shrines you tithe at are holy. (see below)

Forming a Group

A pilgrimage consists of exactly seven people. The leader should visit a University of Worship to form a group. The other six members must also visit a University to begin the test; once they have done so, they may select an option from the leader's menu to join the group.

Once formed, a pilgrimage may not change its membership. If any member dissolves the group (self->Tests menu), all points are lost and the members will need to start the test over from the beginning. Points are not lost if a member quits the game, but no more may be gained unless all seven members are available (quit players can pass this Test).

Tithing

Once formed, the pilgrimage must tithe at Pilgrim Shrines. The amount and type of the tithe is set by the builder of the shrine. In order to successfully tithe:

The shrine must be holy (see #Pilgrim Shrines, below). All seven members of the pilgrimage must tithe within two minutes of each other—otherwise the points are not counted. Each Shrine can only be tithed once before you have to tithe at a different shrine. Attempting to do the same shrine a second time produces a dialog box "You have already tithed on this shrine. You must tithe at another shrine before returning here."

Logging off one character and onto a spouse/other does not affect the tithing, as long as both tithe within the timer.

The shrine must be at least 600 coordinates (measured, not region based) from any other shrine this group has tithed at. 600 coordinates takes 10 minutes to run, at 0 dex, offroad.

Scoring

The pilgrimage will receive 100 points for successfully tithing at a new shrine. It is possible to tithe multiple times at the same shrine, provided you visit another shrine between each additional tithe, however the points received will halve with each successive tithe. The following chart shows how many points per tithe.

# Tithes	Points	Total
1	100	100
2	50	150
3	25	175
4	12	187
5	6	193
6	3	196
7	2	198
8	1	199
9	1	200
10	>0<	200

NOTE: The points for each shrine and the total number of points are all actually floats, which are rounded to ints for display. The number of points obtained for each tithe is exactly half of the preceding one. At one point our pilgrimage had 200 points for two different shrines but our total was 399.

Pilgrims may check their progress from their Tests menu, which will report the current total score of the pilgrimage, as well as what shrines have been tithed at and how many points were received from each.

Passing the Test

Every week, the pilgrimage with the largest number of points will pass the test. Pilgrimages that do not pass in a given week retain their points, and may either continue visiting new shrines to increase their score or wait and hope their existing total will be enough in an upcoming week.

Pilgrim Shrines

Please also update the map at the bottom with your location.

Tithe	Coords	Region
2 Iron Medium Gear	2311, 2278	Naqada
20 Gravel	2314, 2965	Naqada
30 Flax	1013, 7043	Meshwesh Delta
20 Leeks	420, 7160	Meshwesh Delta
11 Brass	1677, 7139	Bitter Lakes
3 Cuttable Sunstone	1620, 6460	Suez
3 Sulfuric Acid	2125, 5900	Arsinoe
1 Sulphurous Water	2253, 5295	Arsinoe
1 Carrot	3016, 5477	S. Sinai
1 Palm Frond	2675, 4900	S. Sinai
2 Rotten Fish	3155, 4415	S. Sinai
12 Bronze	958, 6436	Giza
20 Cabbage	352, 6311	Faiyum
20 Watermelons	1017, 5834	Giza
2 Glass Pipe	900, 5200	Herakleopolis
10 Butter	1587, 5196	Herakleopolis
50 Flower Fertilizer	400, 5700	Lahun
10 Rope	300, 5100	Herakleopolis
3 Ash	-90, -7042 (West of CS)	Blue Nile
50 Cabbage	24, -6220	Napata
50 Fertile Papyrus	692, -6574	Blue Nile
20 Jugs of Buttermilk	700, -3160	Elephantine
20 Leather	790, -3820	West Kush
50 Flax	888, -5934	Blue Nile
50 Dried Flax	666, -2360	Philae
50 Gravel	834, -1728	Philae
50 Gravel	213, -7650	Blue Nile
50 Cabbage	221, -5733	Blue Nile
50 Cabbage	3712, -5632	Axum
50 Barley (Raw)	1819, 2024	Asyut
10 Soda	3094, -5965	White Nile
3 Fine Glass Rods	674, -7208	Blue Nile
20 Sterile Papyrus	1348,1648	Asyut
20 Tow	1434, 2825	Abydos

Shrine Locations

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Demonstration

Demonstrated Year 1, Peret II-11 by kirie.

Needs:

• 7 Oyster Shell Marble
• 7 Yellow Alabaster
• 7 Mud Granite
• 7 White Travertine
• 7 Canary Granite
• 7 Night Granite
• 7 Grey Star Marble