Optimal pellet recipe
4 years ago
Scotland

The online The Path of the Shell category requires runners to drop a pellet in the Pellet Bahro Cave in order to get the K'veer imager combination. This of course means that the runner will have to bake a batch of pellets during each run.

Luckily, from what I can tell by looking at the relevant Python scripts, it would appear that 'orange glow' pellets are also capable of illuminating the imager combination (though not for nearly as long as 'white glow' pellets). This is extremely fortunate, given that white pellets take over two and a half hours to bake, while the lowest tier of orange glow pellets can be baked in several minutes.

I did some research, and so, if anyone is looking to run PotS online: There are 749 oven setting combinations (if you use the same settings on all four ovens) that will produce "orange glow - LOW" pellets in 9 minutes. A particularly simple one is 1.5 / 50.0 / 50.0 (1.5 units/lines of time, and maximum values of amount and temperature). There are no combinations that can produce orange pellets in 3 or 6 minutes, even if you use differing settings on all four ovens. Low-orange pellets will illuminate the symbols in the Bahro Cave for 3 seconds (compared to white pellets' 18 seconds), so taking a screenshot of the combination will likely be easier than trying to write it down. For reference, medium-orange pellets illuminate the symbols for 6 seconds, and high-orange for 9.