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I recently stumbled across the cooler chest and its have an item like ice inside to keep things from decaying as fast as normal. I vaguely recall a nevermelting ice from an old dnd based pc game (think it was icewind dale) but the closest I can see in pathfinder is Siccatite - cold. I'd prefer something not as rare/expensive but do you think you could stick a lump of this in a cooler chest to create a permanent fridge/frezer for travel in a hot desert?
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I recently stumbled across the cooler chest and its have an item like ice inside to keep things from decaying as fast as normal. I vaguely recall a nevermelting ice from an old dnd based pc game (think it was icewind dale) but the closest I can see in pathfinder is Siccatite - cold. I'd prefer something not as rare/expensive but do you think you could stick a lump of this in a cooler chest to create a permanent fridge/frezer for travel in a hot desert?
Yeah seems pretty reasonable to me. You're in danger of taking that 1 cold damage every time you grab an ice cold beer from the cooler though!
Without a means of turning the cold down or off you're limited to a freezer. A constant but lesser amount of chill will sometimes be enough to freeze, sometimes not and very few things you'd keep in a fridge like repeated freeze/thaw cycles.
True but a freezer sort of works. You could perhaps modify it with insulation around the siccarite to regulate the cold somewhat. Of course freezing things with a few exceptions is generally better for long term storage than a fridge. Even if your waiting awhile for the beer to thaw.
If you are open to non-first party sources there are a few more options. Back in a dragon magazine from the 3.5 era there was an alchemical item called an ice crystal that, when placed in a liquid, turned as cold as ice, basically an eternal ice cube. It was extremely cheap, like one silver piece each. If you are not willing to have small quartz crystals in all of your liquid items, but are willing to go third party, there is a first level druid spell called constant heat that does fire damage based on contact, but also heats up an area the specific effect. Using the Energy substitution meta-magic would increase the level to two but could change it to cold from fire and have radiating cold effects. You could probably pay a druid about of sixty gold to get it done. It’s a second level wizard spell, so that would require one-hundred-fifty or so. Third option is something even further far afield, but a mongoose publishing book for 3.5, the Quintessential Elf. It lists a non-magical wood that items can be made out of that increase lifespan. I can’t remember the price, but I put it similar to the wizard price on a guess.
Last but not least, if spoilage is a concern, is having a magic item made that casts purify food and water once a day. Probably two hundred gold.
I recently stumbled across the cooler chest and its have an item like ice inside to keep things from decaying as fast as normal. I vaguely recall a nevermelting ice from an old dnd based pc game (think it was icewind dale) but the closest I can see in pathfinder is Siccatite - cold. I'd prefer something not as rare/expensive but do you think you could stick a lump of this in a cooler chest to create a permanent fridge/frezer for travel in a hot desert?Yeah seems pretty reasonable to me. You're in danger of taking that 1 cold damage every time you grab an ice cold beer from the cooler though!
That could be a feature rather than a bug if you are a divine caster who wants to keep 1st level commoners out of your fridge. Be sure that you have the Virtue cantrip prepared. Cast it before you reach into the chest and be sure to be out of it before you take a 2nd hp of damage; repeat as necessary.
Ah I never saw that crate of preservation because I never got the villain codex. I thought it was a bunch of villain NPC's. I may need to take another look at the codex's if they have such things in them.
Villain Codex added so much cool stuff for players, despite the name.
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What about the opposite i.e using a box lined with hot siccatite as an oven?
What about the opposite i.e using a box lined with hot siccatite as an oven?
An easier way to do that would be to just make an actual stone oven since it's much easier to heat things up than cool them down.
Man the list of things for the vigilante most legendary chef in the world keeps getting better and better. Shikigami style adamantite frying pan combat style go!
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The Siccatite isn't enslaved and won't break free and try to kill you.There is that. I would think you'd get more exacting temperature control, though.
You would from the Siccatite, it's basically equipment and the heat is constant (it isn't mentioned that it fluctuates), whereas the Elemental isn't mindless and has to be forced to give the correct temps, brokered with, or you force its power through some sort of device and then we're no different than the Siccatite approach in outcome.
If the stove was essentially a hot plate, then you could get temperature control by moving the siccatite towards/away from the surface, and you could probably do something similar with an oven though it'd be more complex. With a bound fire elemental either it does what you tell it to or you break out the (probably metaphorical) whips which seems to me to be more failure-prone.
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That seems an odd trait. A small art object worth 100GP made out of the skymetal of your choice . . .
Adamantium = 60 GP per missle then rockets up to 3,000 for a weapon.
Inubrix = increase weapons cost by 5,000.
Horaculcum = Weapon cost goes up by 6,000 and for heavy armour 60,000.
Djezet = 200 gp per does.
An adamantium sculpture would make some sense at that price but some of others. For that matter Djezet is specfically noted as being liquid at ALL temperatures even absolute zero . . . I'd pay a lot more than 100GP if you managed to make a sculpture out of that. Which isn't even considering the weird effects of a lot of skymetals.
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What about the opposite i.e using a box lined with hot siccatite as an oven?
In my headcanon, Snowcaster elves use ear cuffs of bone that have buried deep within them a *tiny* sliver of hot siccatite, suspended in fatty oils. It's just enough to keep their ears from freezing off in the arctic cold, but the surrounding material doesn't conduct heat as well as say, a metal mounting would, so it doesn't burn their flesh. They also insert tiny slivers into their boots and gloves, to protect against frostbite (again, buried deep within not-terribly-heat-conductive materials, that don't catch on fire or burn from contact with the siccatite).
They also know a unique alchemical process to change the polarity of siccatite from cold to hot, as they majority of siccatite they find is *cold* siccatite, which is worse than useless to them, but after this process, it is switched to hot siccatite, which is vital to their survival in the harsh Crown of the World. Technically, a modification of that same process could change hot siccatite to cold siccatite, but they've never bothered working that process out, so it remains theoretical. :)
Man the list of things for the vigilante most legendary chef in the world keeps getting better and better. Shikigami style adamantite frying pan combat style go!
Don't forget your mithral waffle iron backup.
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Siccatite and the other starmetals aren't native to Galorian. All of them appeared during Starfall when the space ship crash landed in Numeria 10,000 years ago.
The most common starmetal is Glaucite (the hull and decks are made of this stuff). The next most common is Adamantine. All of the other starmetals are much, much more rare than Adamantine.
So according to the story of Iron Gods there shouldn't be any deposits of siccatite in the Crown of the World unless a fragment of the ship crashed there, and in that case it would be concentrated in the crash site, burred among tons of Glaucite.
I don't know damaged plane do shed parts of htemselves before the main crash don't they? I can see a damaged ship passing over the crown of the world shedding Siciate and other materials before impacting in Numeria.
It's also easy to say the metals exist on Golarion as well just in small/unprocessed forms without damaging the lore to badly.
Siccatite does sound like something you'd try to eject before crashing.
It's also easy to say the metals exist on Golarion as well just in small/unprocessed forms without damaging the lore to badly.
I had assumed a decent amount of starmetals, especially adamantine, were deposits caused by meteorites and such.
Man the list of things for the vigilante most legendary chef in the world keeps getting better and better. Shikigami style adamantite frying pan combat style go!Don't forget your mithral waffle iron backup.
I don't do breakfast, brunch customers are the worst.