Walkingastro Settings

Description

Trains Astrology for Moon Mages in the background while you do other things. Every few minutes, when it's safe to, it takes out your telescope, observes the sun or a constellation, and predicts from the prediction pools it builds up.

For a full Astrology session instead, see astrology.

Moon Mages only. For anyone else it stops straight away, without a message.

You need a telescope (see Telescope below).

Settings

YAML Settings

Options

walkingastro:
  startup_delay:
  use_tools: false
  use_partial_pools: false
  predict_regardless_of_mindstate: false
  analyze_divination_tool: false

All of these go under walkingastro:. Left blank, each one is off.

Setting	Default	Purpose
startup_delay		Seconds to wait after starting before doing anything.
use_tools	off	Predict with your divination bones or tool instead of PREDICT FUTURE (see Divination).
use_partial_pools	off	Predict after every successful observation, aligned to the pool that the sun or constellation it observed feeds (see What it observes). When this is off, it only predicts when a pool is full.
predict_regardless_of_mindstate	off	Predict even when Astrology is above 25 mindstates. This is meant for passively bonding with a divination tool; if you're doing that, leave use_partial_pools off.
analyze_divination_tool	off	ANALYZE your divination tool after each use. This is for logging only and gives no in-game benefit.

Telescope

telescope_name: telescope
telescope_storage:
  container: backpack

Setting	Default	Purpose
telescope_name	telescope	Its noun.
telescope_storage		Where it's kept: container: <container>, or tied: <item it's tied to>. With neither, it's fetched and stowed normally.

These are the same settings astrology uses.

If both your hands are full when it goes to get the telescope, it says so and tries again as soon as they're empty. If it can't get the telescope for any other reason, for example because it isn't where telescope_storage says, it tells you and tries again at the next observation. If it can't put the telescope away, it tells you, and it won't observe again until your hands are empty.

When it observes

walkingastro_no_use_scripts:
  - alchemy
  - astrology
  - athletics
  - bescort
  - burgle
  - buff
  - carve
  - combat-trainer
  - craft
  - enchant
  - faskinner
  - first-aid
  - forge
  - go2
  - hunting-buddy
  - mech-lore
  - performance
  - pick
  - remedy
  - safe-room
  - sew
  - shape
  - smelt
  - smith
  - steal
  - study-art
  - tinker
  - workorders

It tries to observe about every 3.5 minutes, or sooner when the game says "You feel you have sufficiently pondered your latest observation". It only observes when all of these are true:

• None of the scripts in walkingastro_no_use_scripts is running.
• Both your hands are empty.
• You can see the sky. It checks this once each time you move to a new room.

Its first try, straight after it starts (and after any startup_delay), doesn't wait for these.

This list comes with useful defaults. If you set your own, yours replaces the default list completely, so start from the list above and add to it.

While it observes, your other scripts are paused. It runs ;buff walkingastro first, so you can keep spells such as Piercing Gaze up with a walkingastro waggle set.

What it observes

From dawn to dusk it centers your telescope on the Elanthian sun. From sunset until almost dawn it picks one of these constellations at random, depending on your circle:

Circle	Constellations
1	Heart
2-3	Heart, Wolf
4-11	Heart, Wolf, Raven
12	Heart, Wolf, Raven, Cat
13-17	Wolf, Raven, Cat, Ram
18-39	Wolf, Raven, Cat, Ram, Magpie
40	Wolf, Raven, Spider, Ram, Magpie
41-43	Wolf, Raven, Spider, Ram, Giant
44+	Toad, Raven, Spider, Ram, Magpie

Each one feeds a single pool, and that's the pool use_partial_pools aligns to:

Pool	Fed by
Survival	The sun, Heart, Ram
Magic	Wolf, Toad
Lore	Raven
Offense	Cat, Spider
Defense	Magpie, Giant

It doesn't check first whether the constellation it picked is in the sky. If it isn't, that attempt is wasted and it tries again at the next chance.

If it can't see the sky, or observing hurts ("The pain is too much" or "Your vision is too fuzzy"), it puts the telescope away and waits for the next chance.

Predicting

• It only predicts while Astrology is at 25 mindstates or below, unless predict_regardless_of_mindstate is on.
• Without use_partial_pools, it predicts when the game says a pool is full, aligning to that pool. If it isn't sure which, it checks with PREDICT STATE ALL first.
• If a creature closes to melee or pole range during a prediction, it retreats.

Divination

divination_bones_storage:
  container: bag
divination_tool:
  name: mirror
  container: bag

With use_tools on, it rolls your bones if divination_bones_storage is set, otherwise it uses your divination_tool if that's set, otherwise PREDICT FUTURE. With use_tools off, it always uses PREDICT FUTURE.

These settings work the same way as for astrology; see that page for their formats.

Argument Settings

Argument	Purpose
debug	Show detailed messages about each observation and prediction.

You can also turn on debug output with ;e UserVars.walkingastro_debug = true.

Usage

;walkingastro

;walkingastro debug

Leave it running. When it stops, it puts away your telescope and divination tool if they're in your hands.