Grimrock

Hello! I'm playing with Hard mode, but no other options. I have wandered about the island and dungeons for quite a time. I've noticed that some of the healing crystals are recharging very slowly. To be more precise, the first one in Shipwreck Beach seems to be dead since a long time.

Is that a bug, or sooner or later it'll come back to like? Are they recharging more slowly use after use? There are still plenty for me available, just curious to know if I might run out of them.

Did you tick/check the "single use" crystals option when starting the new game?

What seems to happen is that healing crystals only recharge when you're on the same map as them. Go sleep next to one and you'll see.

Unless you did choose "Single Use Crystal" all crystals will recharge after it's cooldown period of a few minutes has passed. This is true as long as you are on the area of the recharging crystal. Note that this cooldown happens in real time so sleeping beside it won't speed up the recharge.

Now time passes differently throughout the game. When you are in one area less time will pass on other areas. To stay with your crystal: when you are in a close area i.e. Twigroot forest time is slowed on Shipwreck Beach. When you are even further away i.e in Forgotten River time on Shipwreck Beach actually stops.

So in case you used the crystal on Shipwreck Beach and then headed out to an area further away it's totally normal for the crystal recharge to be halted.

Dr.Disaster wrote: Note that this cooldown happens in real time so sleeping beside it won't speed up the recharge.

Have you tested this?

When I test this I find that resting recharges the crystal in 10 seconds. You can see this happen if you remove the fade-to-black; but it happens ~fade or no fade.
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Seems i recalled that one badly; thx for questioning it. I just retested and it does have an effect. Resting does speed up the recharge cooldown by a factor of 10 so either stand there for 2 minutes or rest 12 seconds beside the fade-out/-in for a crystal to recharge.

Yet resting 12 seconds is a rather long period, usually enough to regenerate a character to full health and energy when no special condition applies. Resting that long also uses up food and advances in-game time about three quarters of a day which is why i never bothered to rest that long.

Resting speeds up time by a factor of 10, period (assuming your computer can handle it).

Dr.Disaster wrote:When you are even further away i.e in Forgotten River time on Shipwreck Beach actually stops.

This is wrong. Far away levels slow down a lot, but NEVER stop updating entirely. If you are in Forgotten River, then Shipwreck Beach will update once for every 238 times that Forgotten River updates.

minmay wrote:

Dr.Disaster wrote:When you are even further away i.e in Forgotten River time on Shipwreck Beach actually stops.

This is wrong. Far away levels slow down a lot, but NEVER stop updating entirely. If you are in Forgotten River, then Shipwreck Beach will update once for every 238 times that Forgotten River updates.

Technically you are correct but for a player it makes no difference if time is really stopped or just slowed down 238 times. Nobody waits out a 2 minute cooldown that gets extended to almost 8 hours.

Thanks everyone! That solves my doubt.