Bug Creating Talisman o' Nam results in an error

[digitrev]

I've come across this before. Near as I can tell, this is what's happening:

• Use gaudy key - obtain 1 snakehead charm
• Use second gaudy key - obtain 1 snakehead charm
• Mafia observes that we now have 2 snakehead charms in our inventory
• Snakehead charms are only good for making Talisman O' Nams
• Thus, just go ahead and paste those bad-boys

So if you just use the snakehead charms as you get them, the game will automatically create the talisman for you. But, if you type acquire man o' nam after getting the keys, it will go through the whole process above, but then it will keep trying to meatpaste the two charms. Essentially, typing "acquire man o' nam" tells Mafia to "use 2 gaudy key" then "meatpaste snakehead charm with snakehead charm". But after getting two snakehead charms, the last step of the above process occurs.

 

[Bale]

Yeah, the cause of the bug is well described in previous posts of this thread. The devs know exactly what is happening. It's just not worth anyone's time to fix it since it does work.

 

[Veracity]

Correct. If you do things the way it was expected you would, every time you find a gaudy key, you use it and get the snakehead charm. Upon finding and using the second one, KoLmafia auto-creates the Talisman.

That's the way it has worked for me, every time, reliably, no fuss, no muss.

 

[syrinxlui]

Talisman o' Nam

I think mafia tries to use a second gaudy key whenever you use the first one, but doesn't check to see if it already made the Talisman o' Nam in the previous step.


> create tal nam

Verifying ingredients for Talisman o' Nam (1)...
Creating 1 meat paste...
You acquire an item: meat paste
You lose 10 Meat
Successfully created meat paste (1)
Verifying ingredients for snakehead charrrm (2)...
Creating snakehead charrrm (1 of 2)...
You acquire an item: snakehead charrrm
Successfully created snakehead charrrm (1)
You acquire an item: snakehead charrrm
Verifying ingredients for Talisman o' Nam (1)...
Creating Talisman o' Nam (1)...
You acquire an item: Talisman o' Nam
Successfully created Talisman o' Nam (1)
Successfully created snakehead charrrm (-1)
Creation failed, no results detected.
Creating snakehead charrrm (2 of 2)...
Creation failed, no results detected.

 

[lostcalpolydude]

Merged

 

[Theraze]

I think mafia tries to use a second gaudy key whenever you use the first one, but doesn't check to see if it already made the Talisman o' Nam in the previous step.


> create tal nam

Verifying ingredients for Talisman o' Nam (1)...
Creating 1 meat paste...
You acquire an item: meat paste
You lose 10 Meat
Successfully created meat paste (1)
Verifying ingredients for snakehead charrrm (2)...
Creating snakehead charrrm (1 of 2)...
You acquire an item: snakehead charrrm
Successfully created snakehead charrrm (1)
You acquire an item: snakehead charrrm
Verifying ingredients for Talisman o' Nam (1)...
Creating Talisman o' Nam (1)...
You acquire an item: Talisman o' Nam
Successfully created Talisman o' Nam (1)
Successfully created snakehead charrrm (-1)
Creation failed, no results detected.
Creating snakehead charrrm (2 of 2)...
Creation failed, no results detected.

Could I just point out that the bug as reported here was somewhat the opposite of what was reported - Rather than mafia using a second gaudy key when you use the first one by itself without checking if it's made the Talisman, the bug is when you try to create the Talisman without using the gaudy keys. I love accurate bug reports.