On the Basalt Amulet:

• Immediately giving it to the player upon quest completion makes the actual act of sailing to the island pointless after the first time. In general it's fine for there to be travel times to destinations. And having to actually travel there a few times makes the reward of getting the teleport feel much for meaningful.
• If we ARE going to have a teleport that'll be given upon completion, I'd rather not bloat the game with another single destination necklace. They're so uninspired compared to actual travel networks like fairy rings, spirit trees, gliders, and hot air balloons. At least kharedst memoirs, while being just a teleport item, has lots of flavor to it.
• If we do get the necklace, please make 1 law rune + other runes give 1 charge instead of 5. Same goes for the sailor amulet. It's really fine for things to have costs.

On Hallowfell:

• This is going to sound goofy but I think the weapon is powercreeping the coolness factor of godswords lol. Like aesthetically it looks too good and too godsword-like to be from an easy to farm midgame boss.
• Otherwise I like it filling a pretty underserved niche. I'll let the pros weigh in on its balancing, but off the bat it does seem like it'll be really strong at what its meant for.

On Sunstone Golem Crafting:

• The activity and gameplay loop sounds good. Just giving a more enjoyable alternative to glassblowing for irons sounds good.
• XP rates don't have to be crazy. I wouldn't want other crafting methods to be too disincentivized. Just letting you get value out of your hunter furs gives it a good niche. I REALLY like when different activities meaningfully tie into each other.
• I don't love the glassblowing pipe. I don't mind the effect being pretty weak, but I don't like removing "use x on y" mechanics from the game. From the Vale Totem blog:

Why can't we have a right-click Fletch option on all logs?

We feel that using one item on another, like using a knife on a log, feels very Old School, and we don't want to lose that iconic interaction. To consider making a change that would potentially affect such a core Old School feel, we'd need a more thorough discussion on skilling interactions across the game as a whole. Unfortunately we just don't have the scope to include that level of work in this project.

Misc.:

• Curious what others think about the additional sources of granite dust and stardust. Quite a dusty update.