Player Dungeon Spider Rooms (Testing Feedback)

I'll do some real testing later and post more but wanted to post a couple things right away.

1) When I checked someone's spawned dungeon room a couple days ago (but after 1295 came out) the spiders didn't move and my pet would not enter the room, so hopefully for the next release the nav mesh issues will be fixed.

2) I just tried going to hilt to kill spiders but was not able to get through the doorway from the entryway into the rotunda. There are some missing textures on the doorway (probably not related) and I can't walk into the next room. Hopefully this will also be working for the next patch.

edit: ok I got through the door- I lured a kobold to see if he could get through, he seemed stuck for a second but then came through and after I killed him I could go through the doorway too. odd

another edit: figure out the doorway issue- there is a door there that is closed at first, but it is invisible so I can see through it. if I double click on it I can open it and go through the doorway. No blueprints from the spiders so far, but i assume it is a pretty low drop rate so will probably take multiple people looking for them

 

• Tested the conversion to/from spawn, no-spawn, pristine and they all work.
• The pristine room is missing the expansion blue X on all the connectors. Additional rooms cannot be added
• Spider Totem does not appear in the Totem category on the smelting table

 

I created a spider room for my dungeon with a level 3 totem. Cleared it a couple of times, no blueprint drops yet. You mentioned the spider eggs in your post. There are spiders there but the eggs do not pop. Not sure if they are suppose to or not.

I see that you added an additional spider boss in the egg room. Since higher tier spiders seem to have no additional loot, I wonder if there is ever going to be a reason to go into this room except for the first time to check it out. Possible ways to entice a player to go there:

• Create a connector to this room. Allowing us to add additional rooms would enable us to create a dungeon that requires the player to transit the egg room.
• Allow the floor to accept a container so we can leave loot as part of a player written quest. (This room needs dead body public containers in it)
• Increase the amount of essence dropped in this room.

 

I've made a few attempts to obtain blueprints in The Hilt and have not had any success. Can I get a verification on what is suppose to drop the spider room blueprint because it's not making much sense to me.

Most of the spiders in the spider room are low level brown spiders and large brown spiders, neither of which yield any essence. It seems unreasonable that these will drop a blueprint.

Currently the blueprints from the Hilt (Rotunda and Deco Spider Room) only drop in the crypt off the Lich boss and the two skeleton bosses. It may take days to obtain a blueprint from these mobs so I want to make sure I'm testing correctly. Are weak brown spiders suppose to drop such valuable loot?

 

BTW If anyone would care to help test, I've setup all three spider rooms in a dungeon in Harvest. The spawning room it a level 3 totem so it's manageable. The lot is labeled Spider Room Test Dungeon. It is a well dungeon entrance near the cemetery on a village lot.

 

UPDATE: I've spent most of Sunday night in The Hilt (well over 4 hours) trying to obtain blueprints and recipes. So far, no luck. I've cleared the spider room and the crypt a dozen times (full spawn each time) and I have received no blueprints or recipes from spiders. I did get three rotunda conversion recipes from the archmage in the crypt (one Rotunda to spawns and two Rotunda remove spawns) but that's it, nothing spider room related. I popped all the spider eggs and killed brown spiders, large brown spiders, ferocious wolf spiders, and black arachnids. I also looted all the containers. Still wondering why a blueprint would ever drop as loot from something with only 180 hit points?

BTW for all the spiders I killed I got a total of 18 spider essence. It's impossible to get more than 3 essence from a single spawn in the Hilt. Spider essence is not a 100% drop even on the ferocious wolf spiders and doesn't drop on any of the brown spiders that constitute the majority of the spawn. Ironically the spider room is one of the worst places to farm spider essence.

 

There might possibly be some confusion as to WHICH map these drops were adjusted in? The Hilt Fortress scene has 2 different Maps:

• Map Name: (Used for the Reassemble and Use the Vermillion Lens quest): Novia_R3_Hills02_Hilt_Interior/Quest
• Map Name: (Default scene): Novia_R3_Hills02_Hilt_Interior/Default

People are not posting which specific map they are actually in . No idea how loot drops are set up in this game, but I did want to possibly point that out, if this helps any.

 

I have been killing spiders in the default/ non-quest version. I would certainly hope that would be the map the blueprints were added to if they were not added to both versions. Still no blueprints from them so far. Might be nice to know what the drop rate is supposed to be but I'm sure it is low so unfortunately NOT getting them doesn't confirm anything. But hopefully Ravalox can do a query to see how many of the appropriate mob have been killed on QA since the loot tables were adjusted and compare that to the drop rate.

 

This thought cross my mind too. I’ve been in the regular scene. I doubt that anyone on the lens quest is in QA testing.

As far as drop rate, historically, the recipes have a higher drop rate. Not getting any spider room recipes in 4 hours indicates to me something is wrong somewhere.

 

Admittedly, it's good to be testing whether or not things are dropping. But, in the past, haven't they put things like this in a chest in Fishing Expedition so people could actually get them to test?

 

1296 feedback (not sure what was or wasn't supposed to change in this patch)

I was able to craft the deco version of the room with a blueprint I already had and convert it to each of the other types of rooms with ancient essences.

I was able to place deco in both of the deco rooms. Prior to this patch I could not deco the regular deco room but I could place items in the pristine room.

The spiders in the spawning room are still stuck in place and pets will not enter the room, so the nav mesh has not been resolved.

I still have not looted any recipes or blueprints from the spiders, though I have not killed all that many in this new patch.

 

I just checked the spawning spider room. Spiders are now swarming and pets can enter. Looking good.

I also checked the ballroom and the Ravensmoor crypt room. The ballroom is also fixed (pets can enter and the old fashion camera now works there, thanks) But the Ravensmoor room still will not allow pets.

 

Just tested again (build 03/26/22), Ravensmoor room still will not allow pets.