L. B. Industries (Guide)

Early-Game Content

L. B. Industries is a carousel in The Blind Helmsman, released with Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out. It has a grind similar to Brawling with Dockers, and uses Foreman's Favour as a progress quality. Each point of Foreman's Favour has an assumed value of 0.1 Echoes, as well as a bonus of 1.5 for turning them in. Turning in your points takes 3 additional actions on top of the actions spent gaining Foreman's Favour. Any surplus points of Foreman's Favour you may have are exchanged for a secondary reward. The activity uses all the main attributes.

The carousel is notable for being a good source of Ratty Reliquary as well as one of very few sources of Fourth-City Echoes and Crackling Devices. Both can be spent in The Rat Market, and the latter also has some high level uses (though has better sources once players reach that point).

Ratterbox serves as a randomizer, similar to The Airs of London.

Progress

Option	Challenge	Min for 100%		Success	Rare Success	Failure
Work the bellows to produce steam	50	84		+ 5	+ 15
Make bobbins	50	84		+ 5	+ 15
Take over from the spinners	125	209		+ 15	+ 34	- 19
Assist with assembly	178	297		+ 32	+ 34	- 2
Contribute – and install – a hard tip for the driller	88	147		+ 29  - 1	+ 30  - 1	- 1
Put out a fire by the smelters	125	209	51-75	+ 15	+ 34	- 19
Test the latest batch of weapons	125	209	76-100	+ 15	+ 34	- 19

Strategy

Note that the calculator currently assumes all rare successes are 0%.

Once accurate data is available, edit the grind page (how?).

template = GrindAnalyse
name = 
form = form-progress
result = result-progress
param = 1||Grind:L. B. Industries Progress|hidden
param = Template||#RPA# per action:<p>#OPTIMAL#</p>|hidden
param = Resource|Optimise for:||select|Foreman's Favour;Nothing
param = RPA||per action|hidden
param = maingroup|Main stats||group|Watchful,Shadowy,Dangerous,Persuasive
param = Dangerous|Dangerous|100|int|0-500
param = Shadowy|Shadowy|100|int|0-500
param = Watchful|Watchful|100|int|0-500
param = Persuasive|Persuasive|100|int|0-500
param = materialgroup|Material costs (in actions per point)||group|Material:Ostentatious Diamond
param = Material:Ostentatious Diamond|Ostentatious Diamond|0.2|float|0-

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Rewards

For every additional point of Foreman's Favour you have beyond the cost of the reward you choose, you will be given a secondary reward of Bone Fragments. The current conversion rate is: 10 x  Bone Fragments per extra 1 x  Foreman's Favour.

Option	Cost	Reward	Secondary reward	/	/
Receive your pay in biscuits	10	1 x  Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits	Bone Fragments	0.25	None
Request Bessemer Steel Ingots as pay	60	8 x  Bessemer Steel Ingot 7 x  Hinterland Scrip	Bone Fragments	0.125	None
Accept a reverent thanks for your labour	110	1 x  Ratty Reliquary	Bone Fragments	~0.1136	~1.81
Accept old coins as a reward	235	2 x  Fourth-City Echo	Bone Fragments	None	~1.06
Ask for a Crackling Device as payment	610	1 x  Crackling Device	Bone Fragments	~0.1	~1.39