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Questions: Getting back into Bods...

NuSairNuSair Posts: 21
in General Discussions
1. How do you sort your BoDs?
2. How do you determine which BoDs to bribe up?
3. Store your BoDs?

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  • GrimbeardGrimbeard Posts: 2,727
    Friends don't let friends do bods
  • NuSairNuSair Posts: 21
    Grimbeard said:
    Friends don't let friends do bods
    Friends don't let friend pay insane prices for Powders of Fortifying & Runic Tools. 
  • Lord_FrodoLord_Frodo Posts: 2,441
    NuSair said:
    1. How do you sort your BoDs? By skill
    2. How do you determine which BoDs to bribe up? Only bribe bods that rewards are in high demand
    3. Store your BoDs?  Currently I have 80 vendors at my crafting/storage castle full of BODs
  • Petra_FydePetra_Fyde Posts: 1,499
    edited April 13
    I sort mine by which large bod they go in, then use the book's filters to sort by material, quantity and quality. I'm frugal about bribing, I'll only bribe those that can only go one way. So 20 excepts that I want to bribe up in material type, or iron weapon bods that are 15 except or 20 normal.
    I don't keep any bods that won't fit in larges unless they are worth enough to get a useable reward on their own, most often that would be bods for PoF, dull copper or shadow runics. etc.
  • keven2002keven2002 Posts: 2,411
    NuSair said:
    1. How do you sort your BoDs?
    2. How do you determine which BoDs to bribe up?
    3. Store your BoDs?

    My method is probably dated bc I did majority of my BOD collecting pre "other" BODs like alchemy/cooking/tinker/etc but I sort mine by craft (tinker in 1 book etc) and for Tailor I have books for shoes/cloth/bone/leather/spined/horned/barbed and I do a similar thing for blacksmith (all the ingot colors in separate books)
  • TimStTimSt Posts: 1,922
    I keep the small bods in bod books based on the large bod they go with. I use Excel to keep track of the small bods I need.

    Here is my collection of bod books sorted by skill and locked down on the floor of one of my houses.


  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 994
    edited April 15
    TimSt said:
    I use Excel to keep track of the small bods I need.
      "I"; more like.. it.  :#


    PS: anyone legit would tell you stay away from Bods.. Since SA.. things changed.

    Since I already got a mule account with 7 smith/tail.. I was collecting BODS.
    I drop them in the books on the table.. when it reaches 500 I organised them manually (the very boring and loooooong part.. without a name filter.. i'm scanning my 500 bods book for example an easy one.. platemail.. pull them out and transfer them on my platemail "vendor" BODS mule.. a small with a large book.)




    Most bods arn't that easy to organise when you are scanning a book with 500 BODS in it.. before u had a few "harder"/ longer to scan with your eyes.. like Tailor footwear (different name.. not as easy to scan 500 BODS with "platemail" in the name.. but most of those new BODS.. are design, considering you are cheating to organise them.. like our Excel friend)

    PS: as u can see on the table I got 2x smith & 2x tailor.. since i'm legit (no one legit after scanning those bods manually would take the time to organise a legit excel sheet) and the dev did not give us a name by filter.. I'm getting discourage of wasting HOURSSSS to organize them (like scanning a 500 BODS book with your eyes, many time over, platemail, chainmail, ringmail, weapons ,etc, etc)

    If you are legit and need to train your profession.. stay away from BODS.. just buy what u need.
    (some stuff like high end heartwood runic.. market is completely F by the bots farming the heartwood 24/7.. I got multiple carpenter/bowcraft collecting BODS.. and I still ended up buying those heartwood runics.. the recipe (larger bods) is insane work.. compared to the price the bots user are asking.. without considering the woods.. only the ingredient; gems/pearl resell value is almost higher than what the runic selling for)
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    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?

    Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.

    -UO official forums, brought to you by BoardSword studio
  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 994
    edited April 15
    I got a bit too excited by the last reply "I".. as for the bribe.. it really depends.

    The first question would be.. what shard are you playing on?

    In my case.. Legends is mostly dead.. u can mark rune to every single NPC to bribe at a fairly low price (do not forget places like Lost Lands Felucca side_2x city; Papua and Delucia, I believe... or even the mage city; the "ant mountain".. forgot the name a couple NPC to bribe in there too, mostly scribe from memory like 5 of them..)


    I bribe almost everything to a certain point.. like the first valuable (to resell) or things I could need.
    Once the NPC prices gets too insane.. just stop.. wait ~48-72 hours and do another run.

    You stop bribing when you get enough stuff, too many bods or when the NPC fee getting too insane.. even when u get enough stuff.. could worth it to do a weekly bribe run, for a low fee.. instead of bribing only during your next crafting session at a higher price.



    PS: bribe the large first (cheaper for the most expensive)
    and sometimes it worth saving money.. or not.. like if u get a 10x large/small that give good stuff.. do not bribe it for something better, knowing bribing a good color 10x is cheap.. those 10x large exceptional.. when u can fill them.. huge monetary gain.. if u got good 10x exceptional.. that gives good stuff.. don't waste them for better stuff (like a val hammer) until u got many similar one

    Do not bribe good color 10x exceptional cuz it's cheap.. until u can afford it (like losing good money) for something big, like a val hammer.. like stop bribing those small/large when they 10x exceptional giving something decent.. only bribe them later on for something even better if u HAVE to.. like a val hammer.. missing a platemail part.. type of stuff.
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    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?

    Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.

    -UO official forums, brought to you by BoardSword studio
  • KroDuKKroDuK Posts: 994
    As to organise the BoD's.. I try other stuff in the past.. like filling my backpack of BoD's from the full book.. with lock down book for different type of larger bods (taken from my mule vendors)
    You read the first BoD's in the backpack to drop it in the correct book lock in front of you.. was taking even longer, than doing it in series.
    So rather than recognise the effort the botters went to, to set all that up - for the benefit of the players, to help get certain items, something you could never be bothered to do, you would rather drag people backwards to your neanderthal world?

    Leave attended paying accounts alone, these people go thru a lot of trouble to play/automate the game.

    -UO official forums, brought to you by BoardSword studio
  • TheoTheo Posts: 237
    Can I link to stratics from here?  I wrote a pretty extensive expose on how I track my blacksmith bods and sort them. 
     https://community.stratics.com/threads/guide-managing-blacksmith-bods.420084/
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