Quote Originally Posted by Beau View Post
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1. The game does not tell you the exact conditions for getting your items back, that's true. However, it doesn't say anything about getting your items back in the first place, so I have no idea why you think you're suppoed to.

2. If you could do preparations without any risk of losing your materials, people would abuse that by simply restarting the crafting until all random factors played out in their favor, increasing success chance significantly at 0 risk.

3. In the crafting window, it tells you what step you are currently on. The step counter goes up every time you use a skill, no matter what skill it is. Anything from a simple Inner Quiet to a mighty Byregot's Blessing counts as a step.


And as others have said: This is the "bug report" forum, not the "game doesn't work the way I thought it did" forum. Bugs are stuff like getting stuck in terrain, skills with unintended behaviour, graphical glitches, and other such things. Do not assume that certain features work certain ways unless the game makes it clear they work that way.