Decoding the ancient language

[ButterStuffed]

Nevermind.

[RadiantRoma]

There needs to be MORE THAN ONE player around the chest

[Cyberboy2000]

3 minutes ago, Weird Wanderer said:

LockChest(inst)

    local x, y, z = inst.Transform:GetWorldPosition()
    local players = FindPlayersInRange(x, y, z, 20)
    if #players <= 1 then
        UnlockChest(inst, 2, doer)
        return

What does this mean? Its in the lua for the sacred chest and it looks like it's looking for a second person?

I don't know anything about coding so i dunno.

<=  means less than or equal to so it's probably the other way around, that it doesn't work if there are other people around.

[ButterStuffed]

Darn, I thought I was onto something.

[Adrian_Ironsides]

Before anyone can try putting things into the chest, we need to figure out exactly what the "number" symbols mean. So far the theory is that each notch = 1, so four notches = 4 of the corresponding item, BUT there are multiple square symbols with the same number of notches...

[Kamotho]

Maybe the side which has the notches give it a certain value, as an example a notch on top gives +1, while a notch on the left gives +5

[Mr.Mulk]

6 minutes ago, Kamotho said:

Maybe the side which has the notches give it a certain value, as an example a notch on top gives +1, while a notch on the left gives +5

I think a huge part of this is figuring out the number runes first. It doesn't do us any good to know the item but not know the amount!

Also the number runes are probably easier anyways, so it'd make sense to start with them.

[Canal_WP]

I had no luck on trying my combination.

[Tumalu]

The number runes are prettttty simple, unless you want to think that a notch on different sides is different amounts. I think that's awfully unlikely, though. 

 

[Adrian_Ironsides]

Unforunately, we have no basis for which number symbol is "one", or which symbol is "two." The item symbols seem to match up with items on the mural, but we don't have anything like that for the number symbols.

[Mr.Mulk]

If someone could post the simple number rune chart that'd be great!

[Cyberboy2000]

We haven't used the simple number system for anything yet right? I would be surprised if we decoded it and there's nothing to use it for.

[Tumalu]

Simple number system? I mean, the notched blocks in the second phase are "Decoded" already in that each notch probably just means +1. It's theoretically possible they're more complicated but I can't see why they possibly would be.

We do seem to be missing something, but I'm pretty sure that's barking up the wrong tree; these runes aren't listed anywhere else to have a reference for translating them any other way, and there's no difference in notch sizes or anything to suggest one side is counted different than another. Nor is there any variation for amounts of notches; each one with 2 notches, 3, 4, etc, has the EXACT same image. 

I can't see any reason to support that they'd be anything but the obvious +1, but lots of reasons to safely assume they are.

[Mr.Mulk]

4 minutes ago, Tumalu said:

Simple number system? I mean, the notched blocks in the second phase are "Decoded" already in that each notch probably just means +1. It's theoretically possible they're more complicated but I can't see why they possibly would be.

We do seem to be missing something, but I'm pretty sure that's barking up the wrong tree; these runes aren't listed anywhere else to have a reference for translating them any other way, and there's no difference in notch sizes or anything to suggest one side is counted different than another. Nor is there any variation for amounts of notches; each one with 2 notches, 3, 4, etc, has the EXACT same image. 

I can't see any reason to support that they'd be anything but the obvious +1, but lots of reasons to safely assume they are.

There's one problem though...

Using that logic these would be exactly the same, yet they have different runes

There's other examples of this too

[Cyberboy2000]

Simple is maybe the wrong word, but there was a number system on the Metheus puzzle page (I'm not looking through 200 pages for it though) that we figured out was based on powers of three, right side meant addition and left side subtraction. This is not the same though as it has four sides and not two.

[Tumalu]

Oh, so there IS two different images for number 3.

I don't recall seeing a number system anywhere, though. Where's that?

[disies]

8 minutes ago, Cyberboy2000 said:

Simple is maybe the wrong word, but there was a number system on the Metheus puzzle page (I'm not looking through 200 pages for it though) that we figured out was based on powers of three, right side meant addition and left side subtraction. This is not the same though as it has four sides and not two.

Yes, I remember that page. I also think that we need to look on the numbers. For example that one sign that appears to be in everyone's code  after the second step has always the as its counterpart and since many think that it's a non stackable item, I would assume it just means "1".

 

[disies]

I found the post

 

 

[Mineirinho]

29 minutes ago, disies said:

Yes, I remember that page. I also think that we need to look on the numbers. For example that one sign that appears to be in everyone's code  after the second step has always the as its counterpart and since many think that it's a non stackable item, I would assume it just means "1".

 

I think this symbol means the thelelocator focus. it's so similar... Maybe this means the purple staff?

[mcadjo]

57 minutes ago, disies said:

Yes, I remember that page. I also think that we need to look on the numbers. For example that one sign that appears to be in everyone's code  after the second step has always the as its counterpart and since many think that it's a non stackable item, I would assume it just means "1".

 

Well I am sorry but this sign have 2 notches on rune in my solution of second part of puzzle. This item is most likely something stackable if we can trust our numbering system for runes.

and picture proof as requested

[Brolific]

2 minutes ago, mcadjo said:

Well I am sorry but this sign have 2 notches on rune in my solution of second part of puzzle. This item is most likely something stackable if we can trust our numbering system for runes.

 

Add Picture proof

[disies]

9 minutes ago, mcadjo said:

Well I am sorry but this sign have 2 notches on rune in my solution of second part of puzzle. This item is most likely something stackable if we can trust our numbering system for runes.

and picture proof as requested

And where exactly do you see two notches for this sign?

 

[rezecib]

@mcadjo We also need to see the corresponding 3x2 grid for the notch symbols, or the order of the other symbols from your buddy, since the ordering changes between initial display and the submission.

[Brolific]

It seems they changed puzzle website little bit.If u click on torch, it takes u to the other page where u can see wall painting, but before it just opened on a window.Maybe they changed something else too.

[nomnom victory]

Is it possible that this staff thing is actually the shadow thurible?

look at where it is in the mural, the staff also appears to have a hook in the end