In Project:Gorgon phases of the Moon have a special significance. Most players (with a character cursed with lycanthropy in particular) know about the full moon effects, but there is more.
Spoiler:
* In Eltibule, strange statues open the way to the Dark Chapel, a difficult level 50 dungeon. There are 8 statues, and only one will send you to the dungeon when you insert a Gulagra's Key. Which one depends on the current phase of the Moon.
* When growing mushrooms in boxes, they grow differently depending on the Moon phase. For each mushroom type, there are two preferred phases when they grow robustly. When this happens, the box returns more mushroom, and therefore gives more XP.
* Some teleportation recipes can send you from a mushroom circle to another, but they usually have a long refresh time. Except if you use the right recipe for the current Moon phase, in which case the refresh time is dramatically reduced.
To know which phase of the Moon is current, there is a low level recipe called "Moon Phase Check" that can be found in the wolf cave in Kur Moutains. This recipe will also tell you the remaining time before full moon. However, it doesn't tell you the time remaining before the next phase, or where the statue leading to the Dark Chapel is located. The time to the next phase is particularly useful because some mushrooms can take a long time to grow -sometimes a full day, and you might want to plan ahead to obtain the best results.
To help with this, I've created a small Windows app, that goes on the taskbar, and displays all kind of info related to the Moon phases. You can find it at this link.
A full explanation of what it does, with screenshots, and the source code, is available here.
For Window 10 users, if the app icon doesn't appear on the taskbar when you run the app, it's because you have many such icons, and it has been grouped with others outside the notification area. You can force it to show up in the taskbar settings (right-click the taskbar, choose "Settings", "Select which icons appear on the taskbar").
A note regarding the formula for calculating the current phase: as far as I can tell, it changes from one phase to the next at midnight EST, and this made it difficult for me to figure out the correct forumla to use, because it doesn't really follow the IRL moon pattern. For example, it could be GMT-4 instead and I can only know that when winter comes (and being euro I'm not familiar with US time zone seasonal changes). So, my result could be easily off by one day sometimes. But I hope to get it right eventually.
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Moon phases
In Project:Gorgon phases of the Moon have a special significance. Most players (with a character cursed with lycanthropy in particular) know about the full moon effects, but there is more.
Spoiler:
Last edited by Niph; 09-17-2018 at 01:01 PM. Reason: Updated link to an official release.
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