Luminosity Grinding (Guide)
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Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax[edit]
- 51-150 for A lovely thought at
Watchful 100, average 100.5; requires 
PoSI
- 0.4*
Modified Dangerous+30 for Light a candle, and wait; requires 2 actions of set-up.
- 380 per action at Watchful 297 for Seek out spy-holes while Seeking Documents in the Sunken Embassy, eventually paid out with Send a binder of documents to Mount Palmerston; requires 4 actions of set-up. See The Sunken Embassy (Guide) for more information.
- Up to 300 per action at Dangerous 292, or higher with advanced stats and/or airs options, for Claim the crates destined for Iron and Misery with ~4 actions setup for Intervene in a Dockers' Brawl; requires
Involved in a Railway Venture. See Brawling with Dockers (Guide) for more information.
- 3000 for An Ode to the Elder Continent; with
Inspired... sourced from Seek inspiration from your Prismatic Squidling, this takes 22 actions and averages 136 per action. See Carving out a Reputation at Court (Guide) for more information. - 1700 for A Political Anthem! with Inspired... sourced from The lead or Seek inspiration from your Prismatic Squidling, this takes 13 actions and averages 131 per action, not taking into account the
+10 CP Scandal it gives. With Inspired... sourced from Composition: the high path, this becomes 11.6 actions and 146 per action, if you can reliably get 125 
honey per action from the lab. See Carving out a Reputation at Court (Guide) for more information.
Other
- Can be purchased from Merrigans Exchange for 0.02
Phosphorescent Scarab[edit]
- Buy from Merry Gun's Exchange for 1
(at value)
- 35 for Explore its lair thoroughly before it returns when hunting a Worryingly Large Rat.
- An average of 440 for Breed the Plated Seal via Toadstools and a Stick; takes 15 actions and a
Plated Seal. See Breeding Monsters (Guide) for more information. - An average of 270 for Breed the Tomb-Lion via A Firm Hand; takes 15 actions and a
Tomb-Lion
- 450 for an alternative success on Sponsor a trading voyage to the farthest reaches of the zee; costs x 2000 Drop of Prisoner's Honey, 10 and 5 actions.
Other
- Upconverting Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax; with Beeswax sourced from the Sunken Embassy, this works out to 28.9 per action (ignoring the 4 action spelunking tax). Increases
Advancing the Liberation of Night:. - Can be purchased for 0.25 from Merrigans Exchange
Memory of Light[edit]
Follow this flowchart to find the optimal grind based on your circumstances and the current world qualities. The flowchart was created on November 14th, 2022 and as such, it will not reflect any changes made to Fallen London since that date
- 1-5 per action for Promenade (Season 2) and A flavour of Dahut from Mrs Chapman's Boarding House for Those Who Temporarily Have Nowhere Else To Go storylet, depending on base
Persuasive; requires 
The Season in Soup at either 2 (for promenading) or 3 (for soup) (currently available).
- Scaling rewards from Sterling's Solar Hearth; requires PoSI and yields ~3 memories per action for late game characters.
- Selling a skeleton to an Investment-Minded Ambassador or an Antique skeleton to the Colourful Phantasist (who is an
Occasional Buyer:) pay out in Memory of Light. See Assembling a Skeleton (Guide) for more information.
- 6 per action from succeeding at the
Winds of Fortune check of The Efficient Commissioner (Irem) and allowing the 
Fingerking Scales to convert into MoLs when leaving. - Usually 5 per action from grinding other Iremic resources likewise. (See Irem (Guide) for more information.)
- 1-10 per action (average 5 rather than 5.5) for Take a stroll along the waterfront from Explore the Copper Quarter storylet.
An Oasis within the White City
- 18 per action in exchange for 10 Scraps of Incendiary Gossip from Share news of London.
Other
- Side-converting from Newspaper-sourced
Journal of Infamy; this gives 3.73 per action. - Upconverting en-masse from x 500 Phosphorescent Scarabs will yield x 105 Memory of Light. With Scarabs upconverted from Sunken Embassy beeswax, this works out to 5.7 per action.
- Buy Phosphorescent Scarab in The Rat Market, then upconvert once. Depending on the efficiency of your source of
Rat-Shillings, this gives the following overall efficiency:
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5.94 | 7.78 | 9.55 | 11.25 |
Mourning Candle[edit]
- 8 when you Send your report to certain bandaged gentlemen at the end of A Boxful of Intrigue carousel (which requires
A Survivor of the Affair of the Box 12). This option also requires Empire's Kingmaker 40, which means it is unavailable the first 6 times the carousel is run. Averages 0.57 per action, see A Boxful of Intrigue (Guide) for more information.
- 5 when you Exchange some plunder for five Mourning Candles; costs
1250 x Stashed Treasure, which requires at least 3 actions to obtain. See Piracy (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for a stand-alone action, dependant on your story ending. See The Whisker-Ways (Guide) for more information.
- 1
Memory of Sunlight (which can be sold for a candle) for a failure at Aid in planting trees, or in exchange for 
1 x Ounce of Lily-Balm with Take the day for yourself on the same card, A Good Day for a Stroll in A Brilliant Future. See Irem (Guide) for more information.
Balmoral/London
- 10 for Unveil your Painting (Nostalgic + Luminosity), or 2 for Unveil your Painting (Incendiary + Nostalgic). See Painting in Balmoral (Guide) for more information.
- An amount depending on your monograph's
Tragic (potentially up to 44) when you sell to The Charismatic Tracklayer; requires 
Moulin: Darkness 6, having incorporated a Corrective Narrative and 
Colour at the Chessboard Black. Raises Advancing the Liberation of Night:. See Writing a Monograph (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for Dive into the Lilymire.
Other
- Upconverting from Memory of Light; with memories upconverted from Sunken Embassy beeswax, this averages 1.1 per action. Slightly raises Advancing the Liberation of Night:.
Patent Scrutinizer[edit]
Other
- 5 for Upconverting from Mourning Candle; Costs
1 x Favours: Revolutionaries - Available from Carrow's Steel for 12.80
Memory of Moonlight[edit]
- 1 from completing the 6-action Midnight Trade carousel, along with multiple other rewards. See The Midnight Trade (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for Steal from the Gravensteen itself on the card The Tolling of the Thief-Bells; costs
-36 CP Casing.... Assuming you get your casing from Find the weakness in an opponent's defences at +28 CP Casing... per action, amortising travel costs, this option provides this option provides ~.16 Memory of Moonlight per action for 1 memory per 6.4 actions.
Other
- Can be purchased for 500
from Old Whaler's Unlicensed Imports
Anticandle[edit]
- 10 for both options when you Look for a copy of Le Précipice de la Tombée; With good strategy runs can consistently take to ~20 actions or less. See The Stacks (Guide) for more info on optimising runs. Requires
An Interloper in the Library 4 (that is, four stacks runs completed)
- 1 for successfully Observe them on the card Ontologically Beseiged
Khaganian Lightbulb[edit]
- Can be purchased for
x 20 Moon-Pearl from the Midnight Market - 250 can be purchased for
x 45 Assortment of Khaganian Coinage from Purchase a box of lightbulbs
Tailfeather Brilliant as Flame[edit]
- 1 for selling an Epaulette Mate to the Investment-Minded Ambassador
- 0.8*(
Skeleton: Antiquity)2 for Sell your skeleton to the Ambassador; 0.8*( Skeleton: Antiquity)2.1 on an Antiquity week. See Assembling a Skeleton (Guide) for more information.
Other
- 0.25 on average from Drink it; takes
x 1 Flask of Waswood Wellspring Water. See Moulin Expeditions (Guide) for more information.
Bejewelled Lens[edit]
- The only FATE-less way to create lenses is Order the grinding of a bejewelled lens in the Bazaar Side-Streets. For most players and characters, the limiting ingredient will be
Magnificent Diamonds; consult Contraband Grinding for how best to acquire them.
- Up to 1 for the Mythopoesis carousel, requiring around 10 actions without expending items. See The Whisker-Ways (Guide) for more information.
Mountain-sherd[edit]
- 1 for Send the Unfinished Man to the Khanate; requires at least 23 actions per sherd. See Underclay (Guide) for more information.
The Museum of Prelapsarian History
- 1% chance for 1 from Provenance an artefact. Requires 1 Unprovenanced Artefact and 375 Cryptic Clues.
Eyeless Skull[edit]
- 1 for rare successes on See the sights or Wander the Quarter.
- 1 for a rare success on A Shrine of the Deep Blue Heaven (requires at least
x 20 Crate of Expedition Supplies and 9 actions). See Forgotten Quarter Expeditions (Guide) for more information.
- Can be purchased for 625 when the Rat Season is Lying-Longing, Candle-Canker, or Wink-and-Wane (currently: Wink-and-Wane).
Element of Dawn[edit]
Presently this is only available from events.
Hallowmas
- 3 for Exchange your Spirit of Hallowmas for elements of light; Costs 1500 x Spirit of Hallowmas. See Hallowmas (Guide) for details.
- 1 for Claim a strongbox, illuminated from within; Costs
4 x Officially Recognised Valorous Deed. See Hunting the Beasts of the Zee (Guide) for details.
Ray-Drenched Cinder[edit]
- Can be purchased for 3125 when the Rat Season is Freeze-and-Fall, Lying-Longing, or Candle-Canker (currently: Wink-and-Wane).
- 1 for the Second City conclusion of Study the Prelapsarian history of the Red Science; requires
Laboratory Research 2700, 
Expertise of the Second City 10, and 
Irrigo.
- 1 for finishing the Cats campaign having accepted the offer; see Parabolan War (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for Equip the stove to wander the Neath on its own; costs
x 777 Correspondence Plaque and 
x 1 Cartographer's Hoard, as well as a great many plaques and actions to get to that point.
Other
- Upconverting x 5 Eyeless Skull; also costs x 1 Favours: Revolutionaries and advances the Liberation of Night.
