Suncatcher

Skill · Druid level 23 · (important)

(28% per practice)

Requires: petroglyph

(Profession)

Usage

• carve suncatcher - create a sunlight catcher
• hide <suncatcher> - hide a suncatcher nearby
• gather suncatcher - retrieve a previously placed suncatcher
• gather suncatcher list - reminder of where you put suncatchers
• gather suncatcher help - other suncatcher options

A suncatcher is a powerful magical artifact carved by druids to store light. Stored sunlight can be used in a number of different ways, from lighting rooms to destroying undead and burning opponents.

After carving your suncatcher, you must 'hide' it so that it can gather sunlight. Suncatchers don't disappear across reboots or leak light at night, so you can hide or gather them at any time.

Suncatchers cost a small amount of gold to initially create.

Skill tree

• carve runes
  • petroglyph
    • suncatcher
      • mooncatcher
      • release sunlight
        • solar flare
        • sunblind
      • starcatcher
        • fury of the heavens

Group: Druid rune magic

Suncatchers are one type of lightcatcher — magical light-storing bottles carved by druids. See also Starcatcher and Mooncatcher.

How to make and fill light catchers

This example is for a suncatcher:

1. First you need the bottle. This costs 150 gold for a suncatcher and 300 for a starcatcher, and can be bought from anywhere on the mud with carve suncatcher create. This makes the lowest-level bottle.
2. Carve it to the desired level with carve suncatcher. Each carve has a chance to shatter the bottle and lose it forever; a higher skill level reduces that chance.
3. Find a suitable spot to leave it charging, then hide suncatcher. Location matters — desert is the best terrain.
4. Once daylight has passed, collect it with gather suncatcher.

You carve the opening runes...
You now have a suncatcher bottle.
(You'll have to 'carve suncatcher bottle' on it to make it usable.)

Item: 'suncatcher bottle'
Weight: 1  Size: 0'7"  Level: 3
Type: MAGIC   Composition: ROCK
Object is:
A suncatcher bottle is empty.

You make a mistake carving on a suncatcher bottle, shattering it!

Charging

Lightcatchers charge quicker if actively managed. You can charge up to 9 suncatchers and 9 starcatchers at any one time.

You have too many other bottles already in the field.  Either gather or
abandon one of them to hide another.
(Use 'gather lightcatcher help' for list/abandon commands.)

Suncatcher spells

Suncatchers can be used for the following druid spells:

• Liveoak – creates a druid minion out of an acorn
• Release Sunlight – slow release of sunlight
• Solar Flare – fast release of sunlight in a ray
• Sunblind

Changes

• May 2016: lightcatcher costs were raised from 100 gold per bottle to 150 gold for suncatchers and 300 gold for starcatchers.