Are the materials used confirmed? --[[User:Ketza|Ketza]] 10:56, 27 June 2006 (CDT)
: Past confirmed. Made an 8.1QL compass using 1.9W olive oil (incidentally the amount a pottery jar holds), a pottery jar, and a needle. --[[User:Joshu|Joshu]] 06:36, 28 June 2006 (CDT)
This was at the end of the page:<br> Thunderstruck :D note:Sry its fucked up it was late at night and cant be F***ed fixing it == Olive Oil Amount == Someone please doublecheck the amount of oil a compass uses - I used 1.9kg, it may just use all available oil above a certain weight, in which case a decanting method to minimize oil overusage should be outlined somewhere on this page. heh. I used 0.1 --[[User:Uzetaab|Uzetaab]] 10:01, 28 June 2006 (CDT) It seems that the amount of oil used has been changed. No matter how much oil you activate, it only uses 0.06kg of it. [[User:Discon|Discon]] 06:05, 13 March 2007 (CDT) If you put one potato and one corn in a Pottery Flask and add oil it will give you exactly 0.06kg of oil. Usefull to minimize waste if you ruin oil with low ql experiments. -- [[user:Schwanke|Schwanke]] ==skills involved?== Anyone know what skills are involved in making the compass? I doubt it purely depends on the ql of the needle and the unfinished compass. [[User:Mallaboro|Mallaboro]] 17:06, 18 August 2010 (GMT) Uses misc skill. --[[User:Bisu|Bisu]] 13:09, 22 March 2011 (UTC) ==Notes to add== I used 24 50 ql jars and varying olive oil and needle ql and came to the following conclusions: *Unfinished compasses come out at different weights.*Olive oil affect the initial creation percent as well as the unfinished compass ql.*An unfinished compass will never come out more than double the ql of the olive oil and never higher than the jar ql.*Adding a needle will add a random amount of needle ql to the compass. So it seems that olive oil and jar ql has the biggest impact on creating a compass. However, I did have a compass just 20 ql from adding a 68ql needle so having all components be high ql is important. Can anyone else confirm or deny any of this as well? I will do further testing as well. --[[User:Bisu|Bisu]] 13:09, 22 March 2011 (UTC)