Ancient Machines

Ancient Machines
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Information
Costs: Mist

Ancient Machines are a type of Timebending craftable furniture that can be used to assist with and automate tasks. They use Mist to function. More efficient Machines can be crafted as the Hourglass is upgraded.

They can be crafted and collected using a Timebending Table. They are tracked in the Eternity Isle Timebending Collection.

They can be positioned and placed using the Furniture menu inside the Inventory. Once one is placed in the world, the Player can Use with the object, and then a window will appear to select additional details about the task, depending on the type of Machine.

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Ancient Machines are used to automate activities - e.g. Gardening, Foraging, and Cooking - and to provide a method of mass production and collection in exchange for Mist.

Image Name Hourglass Level
Required
Related Activity Capacity/Capability Mist Cost
Advanced Ancient Cooker   Level 3   Cooking 30 Meals   25 per Meal
Advanced Ancient Gardener   Level 3   Collection 35 Gardening Spots   10 per hole dug
Advanced Ancient Vacuum   Level 3   Foraging "Collects all activity items."   10 per item
Basic Ancient Cooker   Level 1   Cooking 10 Meals   25 per Meal
Basic Ancient Gardener   Level 1   Collection 15 Gardening Spots   10 per hole dug
Basic Ancient Vacuum   Level 1   Foraging "Collects Ephemerals.", i.e. Night Thorns or Splinters of Fate.   10 per item
Regular Ancient Cooker   Level 2   Cooking 20 Meals   25 per Meal
Regular Ancient Gardener   Level 2   Collection 24 Gardening Spots   10 per hole dug
Regular Ancient Vacuum   Level 2   Foraging "Collects Ephemerals, wild crops and flowers."   10 per item

Ancient Machines by Type

Icon Type Items Can produce
Memory Shards?
Counts towards
Dreamlight Duties
Counts towards
Dreamlight Achievements
  Auto-Cooker   Basic Ancient Cooker
  Regular Ancient Cooker
  Advanced Ancient Cooker
  Cooking TBA
  Gardener   Basic Ancient Gardener
  Regular Ancient Gardener
  Advanced Ancient Gardener
  Digging   Plant 5 Vegetables (  150)   Plant <<XXX>> Vegetables on Eternity Isle
  Vacuum   Basic Ancient Vacuum
  Regular Ancient Vacuum
  Advanced Ancient Vacuum
  Night Thorns TBA TBA

Additional Machine-Specific Notes

Ancient Cookers

  • TBA

Ancient Gardeners

  • Ancient Gardeners will automatically dig holes and yield digging artifacts appropriate to the Biome (e.g. Soil), but will not exhaust any uses of Miracle Shovel Varnish Bonus, if currently active.
  • In order to change the seed type that a Gardener is utilizing, the Player must have it in their Inventory. However, to subsequently replant the Gardening Spots with the same type of seed, the Gardener will pull from Storage.

Ancient Vacuums

  • Ancient Vacuums will only collect items within the same region (or Biome, when in Dreamlight Valley) and on the same elevation. Some regions (for example, The Promenade) have multiple elevations, so in order to collect all resources in that region, one Vacuum must be placed on each elevation. The current region is indicated in the upper right corner when checking the Vacuum, but the elevation is not.

History

  • "A Rift In Time" (Act I): Added
  • 1.9: Vacuums no longer indicate current area in upper right corner of UI. Bugs introduced: "Collect All" button removed from Vacuums. Mist cost indicator removed from Vacuums.