Crafting The Celestial Observatory

I decided that since I crafted Watch Tower Hall for my balance wizard, I would try to craft the Celestial Observatory for my ice wizard. It definitely looks challenging, but I haven't decided if it looks more challenging than Watch Tower Hall or not.

Celestial Observatory

 I have promised myself that I won't be buying any of the reagents this time (except for those that cannot be farmed). I am going to farm for everything I can.  So it will probably take me a lot longer to craft than the other one took.

I am going to blog about my progress crafting this place, so that those who wish to try it can see what it entails.  Also, if anyone has already crafted it and has any tips, please feel free to post in the comments.  Any help I can get is more than welcome!

The first thing I had to do was buy all the recipes.  There are 5 recipes you need to buy for this house, as follows.

Celestial Observatoy Recipe

75,000 gold

Grizzleheim Crafting Station

12hr cooldown time

Purchased from Buxley Turtleton 

in Celestia Base Camp

 Crystal Streetlamp Recipe

16,950 gold

Housing Crafting Station

12hr cooldown time

Purchased from Gearwise

in Celestia Base Camp

 Celestian Sconce Recipe

13,005 gold

Housing Crafting Station

12hr cooldown time
Purchased from Gearwise
in Celestia Base Camp

Star Chalice Recipe

14,430 gold

Housing Crafting Station

12hr cooldown time
Purchased from Gearwise
in Celestia Base Camp

Celestial Tree Sprig Recipe

9,690 gold

Housing Crafting Station

12hr cooldown time

Purchased from Gearwise

 In Celestia Base Camp

 Total spent on recipes =  129,075 gold

Once I had all the recipes, I decided to buy all the reagents that needed to be bought and all the treasure cards I needed.  I purchased the reagents from in Archytas Celestia Base Camp and the treasure cards from The Archivist in District of the Stars.

Purchased Reagents

4-Crystal Vial x 330 = 1,320

14-Glass Vial x 125 = 1,750

3-Perfect Amethyst x 100 = 300 gold

5-Perfect Onyx x 100 = 500 gold

14-Perfect Peridot x 100 = 1,400 gold

4-Perfect Sapphire x 100 = 400 gold

11-Pristine Vial x 500 = 5,500 gold

11-Shadow Oil x 20 = 220 gold

Total spent on reagents = 11,390 gold

Treasure Cards

7-Gargantuan x 500 = 3,500 gold

8-Monstrous x 250 = 2,000 gold

14-Polymorph Ninja x 1,500 = 21,000 gold

5-Unstoppable x 250 = 1,250 gold

Total spent on treasure cards = 27,750

So I should be able to craft this house for 168,215 gold.  Wow, that's a lot! 

*Note* You can get some of these reagents from gardening and treasure cards as drops from fighting.  Doing that would increase the time it takes to finish crafting, but would also make the process cheaper.

The only other things I may have to buy are a few transmutes I don't already have.  If you aren't familiar with transmutes, watch for my post on them coming next week.  Here is a list of items I have to farm for.

Reagents to farm for

80-Acorns

24-Aether

28-Black Pearls

2-Celestian Shields (from Charmtooth in District of the Stars)

21-Diamonds

80-Fire Blossoms

103-Fish Fins

23-Golden Pearls

118-Pearls

15-Sandstones

52-Sunstones

I will update on this as I make progress.  Wish me luck and thanks for reading!