Cooking up the Crafting Caravan -- #Blaugust2021 Day 27

Project Gorgon has delayed their August update, and I was SO looking forward to blogging about it this month during Blaugust!  Well, don't worry. I'll still post about it in September (or whenever).

Instead, the developers of Project Gorgon are dropping a big weekend event on us called The Crafting Caravan! I've posted a bit about it before, but it's kind of in the middle of a post where I'm catching people up on me watching the Dragon Prince and playing World of Warcraft. (I'm still in awe of that Donner Party-esque cooking quest reward)

Dang . . . I actually ate this . . .

Here's the thing about the Crafting Caravan. As much as a pain as it is, it's also very worth it. Crafting at the high end of Project Gorgon can be a battle of inches as you creep toward a goal line where new recipes open up. It's time consuming, fills your inventory with random ingredients, and typically requires you run all over the world. It is a game unto itself. Some people love it, some people hate it. For me, it's always been a necessary evil. 

Crafting NPCs lining the walls of the Casino during the Crafting Caravan

The crafting caravan allows you to take big leaps forward with repeatable quests that give you solid experience in exchange for crafting. They also give you Crafting Caravan Tokens, which you can then turn in for rare items and dyes -- specifically Black Dye, which you really can't get anywhere else. There's a few other carrots as well, like a cosmetic pet and a special in-game title.

Keep in mind that Project Gorgon at some point is going to officially launch and then all of our money will be gone as they reset the game. Luckily, they assure us that what will remain are our characters and their skill points that we've earned up to this point, so it's not as bad. The more skills you have, the better off you'll be when they actually launch the game.

So, I've got my shopping list for the day:

• 50 string
• Rough Leather Shirt
• Decent Leather shirt
• 10 Simple Armor Stakes
• 10 Gur Horta potions
• 20 Chicken and Broccoli
• 10 Chicken Casserole
• 10 Venison Jerky
• 1000 Basic Arrows
• 25 Expert Metal Slabs
• 10 Blood Mushroom Smoothies
• 30 Disastrous spore bombs
• 10 Boletus mushroom smoothies
• 10 Shoddy Chairs
• 10 Crude storage crates

It'd be a larger shopping list if I had more crafting skills where I could contribute, but MY WORD, it's large enough as it is. Consider that, if I am to craft all of those items, each of them have multiple ingredients, steps, and require time to craft. It's a solid weekend of crafting.

Since it's Project Gorgon, I'm honestly not sure if I want to know what they use string for.

Of all those listed, probably the ones that are most important to me are the cooking items. My dislike for cooking in Project Gorgon is legendary (it's my number one gripe about Project Gorgon of all time), but let me tell you why cooking is an absolutely essential skill to own. There's a complimentary skill to cooking called "Gourmand." I had to look the word up because, although it looked familiar, I wanted to double check -- The word itself shares the same word root as gourmet and basically means one who really enjoys food . . . probably too much. 

You level Gourmand in Project Gorgon by eating food. The higher your Gourmand skill is, the better stat food you can eat. This means you should EAT ALL THE THINGS, and I mean ALL . . . THE THINGS! Re-eating the same food will only give you 1 experience point in Gourmand, whereas the first-time bonus for eating something new is around 200-500 exp.

So, anyway, if the only thing I get done on that big list is making 20 Chicken and Broccoli, 10 Chicken Casserole, and 10 Venison Jerky, that'll truly be enough for me and I will call it a successful Crafting Caravan.

Wish me luck!

Happy Dueling!