Miscellaneous: Ant's Potion shouldn't be craftable until Feb 2000 alchemy revamp

[Dolalin]

Shrink is currently not in the game (was added in summer of 1999) so it makes no sense to have Ant's Potions be craftable.

I checked when these were added and it seems they weren't in game until the Feb 2000 alchemy revamp patch.

Here's a post from Dec 1999 suggesting shamans should get the ability to craft a shrink potion:

12/9/99

It would be nice if Shamans could make a shrink potion with the soon to be
fixed alchemy skill, or perhaps be able to buy such a potion from vendors at
a reasonable price (although I think player made would be much better).

Getting around in dungeons with an ogre or troll in your party is just painful in every way unless they are shrunk.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....c/s-dWJgQk38QJ

And here are people talking in Jan 2000 about an upcoming addition of a shrink item to replace the nerfed Guise (this is why it was added btw):

1/20/00

Elod <Ro...@bleat.com> wrote

> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:23:02 -0800, "Dorian Brytestar"
> <ri...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >Hehe, I am just waiting for the posts saying that they have nerfed
shamans because of
> >the shrink item..
>
>
> If they make the shrink item work anywhere, but leave the spell as is,
> then they have nerfed us...

Don't worry.

Latest word is that the Shrink Potion is a Shaman Alchemy product, the herb
will cost 250pp to make it and it will require a high skill level to
succeed.

So, basically, they may as well not have bothered.

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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....U/9KV5I1syi6oJ

Here is the patch that revamped alchemy one month later:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Patch_N...pell_Changes_4

And here are people talking about making Shrink potions afterwards:

4/7/00

> 3) Is Alchemy (now that it is ACTIVE) turning into a big waste of time?

not really. i've made a sizable amount of money after the initial investment
selling spirit of wolf potions. i wish i had the plat to dump into getting my
skill enough for invis undead and shrink, those two are high sellers.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....w/JZmS-BwCpFEJ

Additionally, Ant's Potions shouldn't be usable indoors until July 2000 and this patch:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Patch_Notes#General_Crafts

Don't forget to disable 3 recipes: single Ants Potion, 5 dose, and 10 dose.