Test of Life

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	Test of
	Life
Discipline
Architecture
Requirements
Level 13 Principles of Architecture
Principles
Build an Aqueduct Tower Raise the height of any Aqueduct Tower Pump an Aqueduct Use an Aqueduct to fill Jugs Use an Aqueduct to grow Vegetables Assist in growing 1000 Vegetables
Demonstration
Demonstrated by ?? in ?? on ??.

Overview

Create a system of aqueducts, starting with a pumping station in deep water. Areas around some aqueduct towers will be hospitable to growing vegetables. Accumulate points based on which towers are most used for such agriculture, and which towers supply those with water.

In the Test of Life, the seventh test in the Discipline of Architecture, you (and other participants) will build an aqueduct system. These aqueducts will assist everybody in growing vegetables, among other things. Each week, the owners of the towers that have assisted in growing the most vegetables will pass the test.

Aqueducts

Aqueducts are large-scale projects consisting of a series of linked buildings. An Aqueduct Pumping Station is constructed next to a source of deep water. Water is then manually pumped and raised to a specified altitude. Gravity then sends the water flowing through a chain of Aqueduct Towers, which stand 20 coords apart and are connected by pipes. At each tower, some of the water flows down to a ground-level basin where it is accessible to Egyptians and plants.

An aqueduct tower supplied with fresh, pure water offers a number of advantages to passers-by:

• Jugs can be filled there.
• Taking a drink straight from the basin provides a temporary +3 boost to a random attribute (the attribute boosted is randomly set when the tower is built).
• Growing vegetables nearby provides improved yields. Some towers boost the yield of certain vegetable types, randomly determined when the tower is built. This bonus is active for a radius of 3 coordinates from the dead center of a tower.
• Moss grows in the basin, which can be harvested for scientific and agricultural purposes.
• With Herbiculture tech, herb seeds can be cultivated at certain towers.
• Ecology-wise, Aqueducts dramatically increase the groundwater near towers, up to a groundwater of 200 or more.

Because gravity is used to pipe water from tower to tower, each tower must be at least 5 feet shorter than the one "upstream" that feeds it.

Passing the Principle

• To pump the aqueduct, you must be at the first tower near the Aqueduct Pumping Station.
• Assist in growing 1000 Vegetables (Updated Weekly)
  • This should say assist in growing 1000 vegetable HARVESTS! (very different!) - Tzalaa-
  • I understand this to be 1000 "harvests" not the number of vegetables grown. -WaggPhysh-
  • Also, this is not the number of harvests you have grown at towers,
    but the the number of harvests grown at or after you tower on the aquaduct line. -Amenuk

Scoring

When vegetables are grown at a tower, that tower and all towers upstream (toward the pump) accrue points. Points are per harvest, not per deben. (Matk)

Here's another way of looking at it. Let's say you built a tower at the end of the line. Anyone growing veggies at your tower will help you and anyone down the line on "Assisting on harvesting 1k veggies". If someone builds a tower after yours and grows veggies, it will count towards the 1k for them and you (and everyone down the line). If people grow veggies at any tower down the line, it will only count on that aqueduct and those towards the beginning. So if you want to help the aqueduct line, try to always grow all your veggies on the end of the line (to help everyone down the line before yours) on the "Assist in growing 1k harvests". Let's say everyone grows veggies at every tower except yours (last on the line) and below. Then you would not get any credit towards the 1k veggies. Any credit you wanted, towards the 1k harvests, would need to be done by your tower. So that's why you should always find the last aqueduct on the line, and grow veggies there, if possible. (Cegaiel)

Passing the Test

The top 4 scores pass every week.

See Test Pass History or http://julianatdeltona.com/atitd/PassedTests.aspx

Dedicated Life Guilds

Active pumps:

Regions:

• Desert of Shades
  • unknwon
• Eastern Grounds
  • unknwon
• Midland Valley
  • unknwon
• River Plains

http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Guilds/ZAQ

• Seven Lakes
  • http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Guilds/7L_Aqueduct
  • http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/7L_Aqua_aqua
• South Egypt

http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale7/Guilds/SEARCH

• Valley of Kings
  • unknown

Demonstration Required

1 Steel Wire
1 Copper Wire
1 Moon Steel Sheeting
1 White Raeli Tiles
1 Greenish Raeli Tiles
1 Yellowish Raeli Tiles
1 Pinkish Raeli Tiles
1 Black Raeli Tiles
1 Rotproof, Rigid, Nontoxic Boards
1 Concrete
1 Oyster Shell Marble
1 Night Granite
1 Grey Star Marble