What is Poison Conversion?

[LuigiDOTexe]

Hi! I was playing around in creative mode and learned about the squash item. I was curious when I saw you couldn't grow purple squash normally. When I looked through JEI, it says purple squash and a variety of other items are obtainable through something called "poison conversion," but I have no idea what this is and there is zero documentation on it.

I've tried:

• Right-clicking items with a poison bucket.
• Throwing items in poison.
• Pouring poison on blocks.
• Putting poison bucket and item in the crafting grid.
• Filling a cauldron with poison and right-clicking with the item.
• Using the combiner (which also has zero documentation besides it being added and given a crafting recipe).
• Putting a poison bucket and the item in a furnace and altar.

One problem I've genuinely had with this mod is the fact that a lot of stuff is undocumented, and this is just one example. The fact that an entire system is completely absent on the wiki and I can't find anything by looking it up is a serious problem.

Anyway, how do you use poison conversion?

[darksonic300]

Poison Conversion is essentially a way to revert the Altar Enchanting and handle some items unique to it.

When you throw compatible items for recipes into a poison source, they will start bubbling. Being patient the items will eventually convert applying the recipe.

So usually the way to go is place a single poison source and throw stuff in there to convert it.

About the documentation, you're perfectly right. This mod is incredibly undocumented and we should really do something about it, while the problem remains always the same: we don't have people to do it.
We work on this in our free time and when we feel like it, so we can't really find the opportunity to stay there and write all the wiki docs- we just code/draw/brainstorm stuff.

We do have a dedicated space in the Official Aether Project Wiki, so if anyone reads this and feels like contributing- you're very much welcome. The Aether itself could use some help.

[darksonic300]

For us this goes without saying, but we're also open to answering questions about the mod here or on Discord. We might not answer immediately but we try to be fast.

[LuigiDOTexe]

Thank you for the quick response!

Ahh, I think I figured out why throwing it into the poison wasn't working. While I was testing the squash, I had my tickspeed set to 3000. However, setting it back to 3 fixed it and I was able to instantly convert my test squash.

I understand not having the people to write documentation. I'm part of a volunteer game dev project myself and we only recently got volunteers that had the time and skill to write documentation on systems that really needed it.