A different way to pause Inkblights. Using a new Hermit task

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So apparently we can now have whole Shadow Rift cycles without the Inkblight trio spawning ? I don't like that. If the idea behind this is giving potential longer period of graces to players to avoid encountering them, I'm sure there would be some more engaging methods for it and I'm here to share one of many. Or... if it was to make just in general more varied encounters: I make my deepest apologies but the ones here aren't the best contenders, at least in this state. I hope we can find some better Mimic spawn rules and improve their features (redesign them + drop horror or tatters ??). Anyway... a proposal :

 

I personally grow a wee bit tired of doing pretty much the same share of tasks with the Crabby Hermit, I'm sure we'd agree that it'd be a good time putting aside certain tasks we've always done to try different ones. I do really appreciate that we've got the chair one some time ago and I actually got the Pearl by ending by this one no later than yesterday, it was a nice change of route so I'm making an excuse for a new task + help this weird situation with halted Inkblight spawn.

 

One of the island's Plugged Fissures at random will crack as soon as we approach it, drawing its last horrific breath so that we can really see and hear that it went wrong... the poor thing. But we can now offer to repair it as it'd be a repair site, costing some shells fragments and what other materials to hold them in place like a load of Slurtle Slime, maybe.

As it is repaired, Pearl would comment on our... outstanding plumbing skills or what, and drop + now sell a Blueprint for fissure plugs of the same kinds but a lesser cost (we learned to make them CORRECTLY). They can be placed on top of all fissures, Celestial, Shadow, maybe even Nightmare Lights but while they do come cheap they don't last too many nightmare / moon cycles and will eventually fall apart, dropping most / all of their shell fragments back so they can at least be put back together using slime if we think the time is right.

 

I've been  m a s s i v e l y  thankful when the Embalming Spritz was added so we could have a fair way to finally deal with Deadly Brightshade because I really liked them out there and in farms but oh dear they sure were a problem for builders... it was a huge thorn getting removed even if it took long to happen. Now I don't think there's a problem to begin with for the Trio, but if we wanted less of them... please let it be from us to decide it instead of random rules that aren't favorable at all. I'm scared of the future of the rifts if it goes down the way it is now.