Blood Magic: Alchemical Wizardry – Developer Commentary #2

Hello world wave time here bringing to you another episode of blood magic dev com whatever the heck this is you’ll probably find the title of this in the well the title of the video so let’s actually start with the thing that we’re actually going to show today this is the

Blood altar we only need one of them so obviously I designed this texture myself this will not be the final thing because honestly this blood altar does not look all turi enough for my tastes and these sheep things etc are really getting on my nerves anyway so what are what does

This blood alter do well there’s a few things that it’s going to need it’s going to need your life essence and that’s actually what we’re going to be using for this and it’s going to need a single solitaire diamond obviously I have more than one diamond because I was

Doing a bit of testing but uh well them’s the rules them’s the breaks is there anywhere that does not have some ain’t offering candidates oh well so no we’re not going to offer anything else currently but that is a possibility anyway so what you’re going to need is

The altar for one you’re going to need a diamond right here and you’re also going to need a sacrificial dagger you’re not actually sacrificing this dagger because frankly that just be weird but anyways so all you need to do oh and by the way i will add a tooltip to this which will

Say you only need to prick your finger for this to work it doesn’t really need anything else so let’s actually throw diamond in here and right click let’s just right click over here with our sacrificial dagger red particles yay so now your finger is bleeding and you have

No idea what to do with it it just went into the aether or ether or what ever the heck you call it the unseeable things shush okay hi apologize i’m just going to need a quick thing here all better now okay so we can right click

Here do i have the diamond and no i do not ok so lets you can see that obviously this doesn’t really do anything because well your fingers bleeding but you don’t know where it’s going to go and it’s going to heal up quickly so there’s no point rushing over

To this altar and pouring your blood in but if you put a diamond in here you can notice that the diamond is consumed and if we get a stack of diamonds we can’t put any more in but if you right-click you can get the diamond back out put it

Back in put it back out you can’t but more can’t put anything else in there but you can put any sort of item in here so if you want some sort of secret item you can go ahead and do that it’s not necessarily going to be a good thing to

Do but away anyway so diamond in and right click with the sacrificial dagger and you can see these particles are spewing out showing that they’re activated but however you see this smoke and pretty much it’s saying it’s something bad is happening you better get here ASAP and now the smoke is gone

So what does each of those represent so what the red swirls the very dark red swirls represent is that the diamond is getting powered up it’s getting imbued with the life essence used by pricking your finger and shoving your hand in the blood altar I really don’t recommend

Doing that normally but oh well you better do it suck it up bucko it’s not like you’re going to need a band-aid or anything you regenerate so quickly anyways so right-click and you see it’s activating its swirling and it’s imbuing the diamond however this smoke says that something’s wrong and it’ll actually

Lose progress if you don’t have enough of the life essence in the altar and obviously nothing happened to the diamond so making the weak blood orb because this is how you make a weak blood orb requires the diamond and it requires a lot of your life force so

Here we go that’s nine hearts in and it’s going to obviously take a while for it to work but anyways you’re probably interested about some of the mechanics here probably I’m not too sure but anyways one of the balancing points that I had to put in was the fact that you

Need to be able to constantly regenerate for this work I put nine in let’s put an even 10 so now ten hearts in here every item that is craftable will eventually require some usage of this blood altar at least to get into the things that require your life essence to be able to

Use so the void sigil the water schedule lava xochitl they’ll all require a weak blood orb to be crafted let’s okay you may have counted that’s 11 hearts so now 11 hurts let’s put 12 13 14 let’s put 14 in so now it can continue so one of the

Crafting recipes is a diamond goes to a weak blood or but it requires a certain amount of life essence for it to work and if we look one more should do it and now you may see that it’s actually a pinky swirl so it changed from a deep

Blood red haha see what I did that note no okay it changed from a deep blood red into that pink swirl and that indicates you got blood orb so here we now have a weak blood orb and we are going to now he to eat because that really drained it

From us and this blood orb you may notice has 152 LP on it currently and that LP represents what the life points life essence whatever frappa derp ah papa derp gone and pompadour back okay it represents the life essence that you put in it so there’s two methods to

Currently two methods sim view this one right click usual method adds 100 LP each or you can throw it into the blood altar and have it work on it automagically so the blood altar allows it to be automatic so you can take any sort of blood orb and throw it in and it

Will imbue it and that will allow automation in the future because this does implement i sided inventory behavior this last part will probably change in the future because I’m not too sure if I want to have some sort of blood penalty or some sort of bonus for

Being able to automate this but anyways it has a ten bucket tank on it which is able to store what 10,000 LP on it so that definitely be enough to half a faux pas fulfill any sort of items so it works retro actively so we can just

Place another Blood altar here fill it up with a lot of blood potions of regeneration are strongly required and it does still kill you if you do too much but oh well and you do have to be rather close to it for it to work sometimes it just won’t work you best be

On top of it or directly at the sides it does technically work in a five by five well circle but it’s best to be extra careful and we can just throw it in and it’ll start working this blood orb we can get it’s rather filled but we can

Put it for more so now you can go out adventuring and tell your blood orb is empty in which case you’re going to have to hold on to it and think really hard well that’s all the time we have for this episode of our developer commentary

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