Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks problems making gunpowder

OK, so I've gotten the sulfur, salt, and coal. I'm all ready to combine them and blow some stuff up, but there's a problem: when I try to combine the coal and the barrel of salt, they both disappear without giving me a new mixture. I've tried combining them in my inventory and on the ground, and in both cases, both items simply vanish and leave nothing behind. It happens with combine lvl. 1 and 2- am I doing something wrong, do I need some other item, or is this a bug? Thanks.

You should be able to combine them in your inventory. If you have a lot of stuff in your inventory try moving some of it around ad see if the Coal+Salt mixture is hidden under other stuff. If that does not work try going back to a previous saved game and playing back to that point (I had a problem with CTD's that was cleared up when I went back to a previous saved game).

btw, when you combine the items they will disappear, but a new item will appear in your inventory after the combinations.

DO I need a point In Alchemy cause I'm having the same problem. I can't get the stuff to combine, but I don't lose it? It just stays seperate item's?? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

Make sure I have the right Items'
1- Coal- Looks like a Barral Of black podwer
2- Salt- Looks like a salt shaker
3- Sulphur- loos like mixing bowl with a spoon In it I think

I didn't use a salt shaker. I used a barrel of salt. ANd, no you do not need a point in any skill to combine the ingredients.

WHere can I find the Barrel of salt please? Thank you once again. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I'm pretty sure there's one in the kitchen. Where you got the quest to go find that imp, who then asks you to kill the rats.

I had this same problem at first. When you combine the Salt and Coal, they disappear and a new object is created. For me, this object appeared in the center of my inventory, and is a barrel topped with black "powder". When you combine this with the Sulfer, both of those objects disappear, and you get a new object ("Explosive Powder" I think). This object is smaller and light-colored, and appeared on the very left-hand side of my inventory. In fact, it was kind of in the area of the icons (for armor, misc., etc.), and really blended in with the border/icons. Search your inventory screen fully, and it should be there.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Michael

Thanx for info Fain, I was able to find the salt and make the Bomb Baby.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I was having the same problem... the DK was holding the ingredients, but when they were combined, they went into Ego's inventory. A little bug <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

Where exactly do I find the order to create the gunpowder and out of what I should make it? And wherefor I should use it? I've been already at the lava but didn't entered yet.

Oh, dear, there was a note from Nikodemus (mage in Ultima?) in the guard room right in the starting level - under a stack of books in the SW corner of the room.

Sequence => drag salt over coal => coal/salt mix => then drag sulfur over it => explosives. It has to be done IN your inventory. If the DK has the stuff => the mix goes over to the char's inventory. this happens to a lot of crucial item mixtures and nearly all quest rewards.

This explosives must be put into the lava forge where you fought the smith - topmost level of the Citadel. You enter Act 2 then.

Coal barrel => Fergus room
Sulfur => a bowl on the table of the Infirmary, where the gay medic was (as you have killed him <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> )
Salt barrel => one level higher than the Infirmary, in the kitchen.

Some of these items require drag%drop others can be clicked on and wander into your inventory.

Sorry Kiya, what room are exactly referring to. Just went through all rooms but didn't find any bookpile

If you're patient enough - I can make a screenie as soon as I'm home? Remember the guard room, where you had a large group of guards after your hide? And one ranger was fat? This is the room. It's the starting lvl - and there is a book pile in the SW corner, near the wall - and under it a note.

http://beyond.divinedivinity.net/help/act1_citadel01.htm

Maybe Hellie's map will do => see the 13? The room east to it => look on the floor in the SW corner.

FYI, you can make gunpowder without the book; the description just gives hints on where to look for the ingredients.

Dunkman - just checked EV 1.4 => the book is where I described it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> want a screenie as proof?
Kiya

http://www.kiya1.de/beyond/act1screens/Nikoms0.png

here you are - the screenie, book is marked with mouse. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

Reviving an old thread here, but this is just not working for me.

I have patch 1.44 installed, and absolutely nothing whatsoever happens when I try to combine salt and coal in the hero's inventory (or anywhere else). I mean nothing--I might as well be trying to combine rope and fruit.

Added on edit: this aside from my annoyance that the forula for gunpowder is wring--it reuire sodium nitrate, not sodium chloride--or perhaps it works differently in an alterantive universe? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

http://www.kiya1.de/beyond/act1screens/Act1explosivmix10.png

Try this, Tiffin - explanation is in screenie. Sequence is important.

http://www.kiya1.de/beyond/act1screens/Act1explosivmix20.png
Part 2 of the procedure

http://www.kiya1.de/beyond/act1screens/Act1explosives30.png
the result <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Sorry, but I think there is a bug here. Dragging salt over coal in hero's inventory is the step where I might where I might as well be dragging fruit over rope (To make ropey fruit?). Just absolutely nothing happens no matter how many times I try it or relaod from earlier saved games.

Tanks for the clear instructions though.

Could you send me your save, please, Tiffin? If it is not too much trouble? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" />

Just pack it with Winrar or Winzip and send it to
kiya1@t-online.de - I'm very curious. Thank you in advance. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

Kiya