I did a post on Tuesday about this unlock plot from the new agent being bugged. I emailed bug reports at failbetter about it a day after.

I have not heard back from failbetter yet but the plot now seems to be working. This is my agent on round 2 of the plot:

https://preview.redd.it/cwml3jdum7fh1.png?width=1480&format=png&auto=webp&s=699ac4754dd63e146719d8182604df27804f187c

I am going to be spending some fate to do a catchup on my stack of exceptional stories, so I will let you know what I get. I have 13 combined SA and MA, which is the highest possible, in the game, at the moment, so I will keep going until the roll to continue drops under 100%

I have done the 300 actions twice now, I assumed the first time was an aberration but if you attempt to extend the plot you get a confirmation and then it ends and it shows as unavailable until you complete another surgery plot! You are just throwing 300 actions down the drain till it gets fixed.

https://preview.redd.it/exyr1e3fbleh1.png?width=1550&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a32599f3d86ea5b399c9492ad5e197ab4630bdf

Here is a picture of my lack of plot. For all that helps.

I have been blasting through fate for 24 hours to get info on the plots for the bone post, which is bad but realistically it's wasting the same money as a night out clubbing and a taxi home. If you are free to play, 300 actions is over 2 days worth of agents you are wasting!

Edit 2: I have added some recipes to use with 7 necks and 8 spines that do not require you to have access to endgame areas and the foresight to get things from the rat market 5 weeks ago!

Edit: Added some more recipes and discovered a bone market mechanic I was totally unaware of! See below.

When I said I would edit this weeks post I didn't realise it was one of the slacker posts that wasn't even written by me!

Here is the link to u/Sobrique 's post on antique birds. This post will start a little bare bones, pun always intended, but I will expand it into a fully detailed post over the course of the week. So check back.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/wpz758/bone_market_recipes_antique_birds/

Just as I was running low on amber and it's so rare you get to do this, here is a little teaser:

A Zailer with Particular Interests

Primary: Nodules of Warm Amber

Secondary: Knob of Scintillak

Freebie: 2.5 Echos of amber

In Amber Clad (Yeah, it's the ship from Halo. ;))

Ribcage with a Bouquet of 8 Spines - 1 Amalgamy, 2 Menace

1 Bright Brass Skull

7 Panoptical Skull - 2 Antiquity, each

2 Wings of a young terror bird - 1 Menace, 1 Antiquity, each

2 Jurassic Femurs - 1 Antiquity, each

1 Tomb Lion Tail - 1 antiquity

Declare a Bird

Sell to the Zailer

Frame Value: 811 echos

Primary Profit: 81 echos

Secondary: 19 Antiquity * 1(.5) Amalgamy = 28.5, rounded to 29 Knobs of Scintillak

29*2.5=72.5 echos of secondary, all profit

The ribcage has 13 slots add 3 for the ribcage, declaring a bird and selling and you have 16 actions.

9.75 EPA for assembly and sale (I even remembered to add in the 2.5 echo freebie for the first time in my life!)

https://preview.redd.it/arlwygtjokeh1.png?width=1494&format=png&auto=webp&s=0942cc156e220b4c2678765227bba05a47a0fd5b

Hmm, apparently 28.5 rounds down on this occasion. How weird. Primary profit was higher than I anticipated too. Well, bones are an art, not a science, I still have 85 Panoptical Skulls left, so expect to hear from me...

For you Stuvier Heads:

An Enthusiast of the Ancient World

Primary: Bessemer Steel Ingots (Convert to stuvier in the sous)

Secondary: Unprovenanced Artifact = Antiquity +1

Freebie: 0 Stingy %^*er

Who needs a carapace with 7 necks?!?

Skeleton with 7 necks

2 Bright Brass Skull (300 Shadowy to 100%)

5 Panoptical Skulls

2 Wings of a Terror Bird

Declare a Bird

Sell

Frame Value: 497.5 Echos

Primary Profit: 49.5 echos(ish)

Secondary Profit: 13 Unprovenaced Artifacts = 32.5 echos

9 slot frame so 12 actions.

9.11 EPA like a Porsche

That should be around 1095 steel or 10950 Stuvier, that's 1% of your carapace done...

https://preview.redd.it/dav5un6gqkeh1.png?width=1468&format=png&auto=webp&s=587ff094782c336ae3aaeb8847f5cf9e7787dd3b

ok, rounding hates me today, still, not bad. Added to this it is better:

https://preview.redd.it/idt850epqkeh1.png?width=266&format=png&auto=webp&s=17560fa644de6cf52c5b496c1e541de9cd0e3e5a

https://preview.redd.it/twzwpgg4qkeh1.png?width=764&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee445b7fd39f53e02ee83f0806a7a9f03b01b1b5

Cheeky Exhauster:

An Investment Minded Diplomat

Primary: Memories of Light

Secondary: Tailfeather as useless as flame (it is scrippable)

Mammoth Ribcage

Sabre Toothed Skull

2 Wings of Terror Birds

2 Jurassic Femur

1 Plaster Tail bone

https://preview.redd.it/x9tdhpsgskeh1.png?width=1460&format=png&auto=webp&s=93e391741e3d3bf0e459eb125f377f443635b32f

Tailfeathers are worth 2.5 echos or 5 scrip, so that is 120 in secondary. Ok, now I am actually really going to sleep, I just didn't want to leave people with TTH today out on a limb. Also, dayum! I was low on Memories of Light! Upconverting into candles for burgundy and side converting into Zee stories is pretty nice. Of course after making candles I go to Jericho and make Vash the Stampede style speeches on love and peace till the revolution is cancelled!

Little People

u/RedKing36 was kind to point out that I am obsessed with Panoptical skulls and I do not care for the common folk! Which, while true, is not something I want said in polite society! So while I wait for the gloomy guttersnipe to spot him, here are some recipes that do not involve skulls that you need to be endgame to aquire! (You may need a weasel of woe though, I'm a bone man, not a miracle worker!)

Skeleton with 7 necks

Note: This recipe is both a pain in the backside and requires you to pivot if things go wrong! You are aiming for 6 Antiquity and 3 Menace. Check your skeleton in the myself tab, type skeleton in the search box. It should tell you the current stats.

2 Bright Brass Skulls(You need 300 shadowy to sell 100%, if that is not you, drop one and add another sabre toothed to the next step)

Equip, THE WEASEL OF WOE!

The next part requires some explanation. With the weasel of woe equipped, you have a 10% chance to succeed in applying a Sabre Toothed Skull. If you succeed, it adds 1 antiquity and 1 menace. If you fail, it just adds 1 antiquity. You want to fail! To get to 6 antiquity there are two options. 5 sabre toothed skulls and 1 Wing of the young terror bird or 4 sabre toothed skulls and 1 doubled skull. There is however THE DANGER!

The danger is ending up with more than 3 menace before you are done. This is unlikely but in fallen london, unlikely sends you to the boatman! or at least gives you an inefficient bird skeleton.

If you are using a wing of a terror bird for the last point of antiquity, you cannot get to more than 3 Menace from the skulls and you will need to use a bat wing to bring it back down, after the wing of the terror bird.

If you are using a doubled skull to finish off your antiquity you can cope with up to 5 menace after the skulls. Use however many bat wings you need to get you to 3. Then if you still need any wings, add an albatross wing to finish.

Another thing to keep in mind! You do actually need to get enough menace! so if you are not using any wings of a terror bird, remove the woesel once the number of remaining sabre toothed skulls you have to add is equal to the amount of menace you need!

Can you see why we are exited about Panoptical Skulls!

Quick Breakdown for reference:

Sabre Toothed Skull 1 antiquity 1 Menace
on a fail: 1 antiquity

Doubled Skull 2 antiquity
on a fail: 1 antiquity

Bat wing -1 Menace

Wing of a young terror bird 1 Menace 1 Antiquity
Albatross Wing No relevant stats

If you are still reading, sell to An Author of Gothic Tales for 100% scrip saleable rewards

A much easier but pays in Amber option is:

Skeleton with 7 necks

2 bright brass skull
5 Sabre Toothed Skulls
1 Wing of a young terror bird
1 Albatross Wing

Sell to the Zailer with Particular Interests

If you want to modify these for a Ribcage with 8 spines there are a few things to note. 7 necks starts with 2 amalgamy and 1 menace. 8 Spines has the opposite, 2 menace and 1 amalgamy, so adjust your parts appropriately. 8 spines is also a lot more lenient with getting extra menace because you can not only use bat wings to reduce it back down, you have 2 spaces for legs, so if you need to remove more you can use a femur of a surface deer, which also removes 1 point of menace. You also have the luxury of a tail, which means that you have the option of adding a withered tentacle(as a tail, you need the 4 limbs to make a proper bird!), which removes one point of antiquity.

SCRIP!

Threading the needle to get 19*1, 9*2 or 6*3 for An Author of Gothic Tales is a pain in the backside with 8 skulls, I will do one but in the mean time. Amalgamy week adds a total of 5 scrip to the rewards from the tentacled servant, so just do it on any bird week!

Tentacled Servant

Primary and Secondary, who cares, it's pure scrip. Also, you can use it when you have bone market exhaustion.

Skeleton with 8 spines

2 Bright Brass Skulls

Any combination of 6 Doubled or Skulls in coral.

2 Albatross wings

2 helical thighs

1 withered tentacle as a tail.

Shoot, I used up all my helicals doing agent stuff in the amalgous humanoid week, entertain yourselves while I take a brief interlude to the Magistracy of the Evenlode!

https://preview.redd.it/7pqjmdem3leh1.png?width=1516&format=png&auto=webp&s=b81ece47760f5af350e7a4ff038c79781e211890

I used skulls in coral, doubled are slightly more profitable but on the week this was written, the diplomat was skulls, so doubled skulls are more useful letting you sell Prismatic Frames there. 145th of a hellworm right there though. :)

Rats with wings!

That's enough about the big birds, those are easy to extract value from, true mastery is utilising the garbage birds, clean up all your rubbish and make money from the stuff you have lying around.

Nelson's Hat

Thorned Ribcage

Panoptical skull

2 wings of a terror bird

2 jurassic femur

1 plaster tail bone

declare a bird

sell to the author of gothic tales

86 frame value, 8.6 primary profit. 52.5 Secondary profit, 9 actions

6.8 EPA not bad for a pigeon!

(Red) Science

There are more trash recipes to come but I needed to perform some science first. On Amalgamy and menace bird weeks flourishing ribcages can be valuable, since you can exploit the two necks and take the limb total down to 4 with tentacles. However, each tentacle reduces the skeleton Antiquity by 1. I needed to work out if it remembered the penalty even if your Antiquity was 0 when the tentacle is added so I took at flourishing ribcage, added two skulls in coral, added 2 tentacles, then 2 wings of a terror bird. There was no shenanigans, as long as the tentacles are on before the Antiquity bones your antiquity is intact! I have a few ideas for this, they might all end up being rubbish EPA but the foundation mechanics work. :)

Tax Evasion Crow

Flourishing Ribcage

2 Bright Brass Skull

2 withered tentacles

2 wings of a terror bird

2 helical thighbones

1 tail of a tomb lion

Frame 161

6.5 * 3 rounds to 50 echos secondary so 66.1 echos profit, in 12 actions

5.5 EPA

You can also look at that another way, those tentacles and wings will never be liquidated without skeletons like this, probably the ribcage as well. Therefore, logically you can add their value to the profit. Doing so brings it to a 'actually our business is based in Luxembourg' 7.4 EPA!

edit, far to excitable, I forgot to say it sells to the zailer with particular interests.

Edit 6: I have added some recipes, to the bird post, to use with 7 necks and 8 spines that do not require you to have access to endgame areas and the foresight to get things from the rat market 5 weeks ago!

Edit 5: I have added some more recipes to the guide page. I had an idea I was not sure would work. I didn't know the bone market mechanic for it but I have tested it and it does work! Revolutionary recipes, that are also suitable for the duchess!

Edit 4: One of the new plots is bugged, you spend 300 actions and it vanishes, post about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1v2jkd8/do_not_do_the_shapeling_arts_monstrous_anatomy/

Edit 3: Added Scrip, Stuvier, Amber and exhaust options to the new post, now sleep!

Edit 2: Just for fun:

https://preview.redd.it/oyw9kkfzykeh1.png?width=1112&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0a3e91eedd511127added328f03e4673e48e191

Edit 1: removed the link to u/sobrique s guide and added one to my version, which only has 2 recipes for now but I will add to it as the week goes on. The new post has a link to the sobrique post but with Panoptical skulls being made good, the post needed rewritten.

Gladiolus and phalanges Bone Brothers and Scaphoid Sisters, the time has come when the Zoomania and Fashion of the bone market have changed. That intro was fun when I first added it to the template but after 20 weeks it's wearing a little thin, like your skeleton if you don't maintain muscle mass as you age!

One week I copied and pasted the wrong link and then didn't check Reddit again until the Monday evening! If that ever happens again, all of the possible weeks are available on the Bonedex so you can always find options there!

There have been a few commments about uses for Panoptical Skulls over the past few weeks… Today is the day you get to use them all! Birds are always fantastic, Antique birds are now outrageous! I have not slept in 72 hours and am having minor hallucinations, so I will have a nap and then update the linked post with options. It is not rocket science though, take bird, add panoptical skulls, reduce the menace to 1 with bat wings or deer legs, if needed, win...

Skulls diplomat is perfect, use doubled skulls to get your prismatic frames up to the needed 5.

Malacologist is much like a tentacle, weak, flacid and slighty gross.

Bone Market

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1v2g46s/antique_birds_not_the_main_bone_post_for_the/

Updates

I am mid sleep deprived hyperfocus so get strapped in for some reading… hopefully it is interesting/useful.

A few quality of life improvements but mainly new agents! So I spent fate in a deeply unjustified and profligate manner yesterday and this is what I learned:

3 Plots

Monstrous Anatomy + Dangerous

This rewards 2200 Curator's Gratitude

Shapeling Arts + Persuasive

Costs 3 nodules of warm amber and has 3 completion options:

the SA and MA one, is your combined stat, you do not need 7 of each, which is good because that is impossible, 12 was plenty for the first phase. Unfortunately I pressed to continue, it agreed, I had 100% success rate, then it vanished, I got no reward, my agent was booted back out and the plot no longer shows on my list! After doing another surgical plot the combined one reappeared so I have put the maximum possible, with existing items, 13. This plot is like the actuarial option with the spies. You can stay in as long as you can keep passing the checks. Unlike the infiltrating plot, there is no test to leave, so you can go when you are no comfortable you will pass the check to continue. It is a 300 action rotation, which is a lot nicer than 500 and will presumably have simelar modulo escalating reward values, and will also presumably be the clear best plot to always have running, like infiltration. So I guess Enhanced Exceptional people will be working around 2 plots again and everyone else will basically have 0. Just a chunky payout every now and again.

Low Zees Piracy

I did a lot of things in my 1000 actions to get plot data but one of the major ones was trying to test to see if I could work out the unterzee rare sucess rates. Since the wiki doesn't seem to know. Apparently there are a few things the wiki has wrong, based on my data tracking. Bear in mind I have severe ADHD so my data tracking is to be taken with a giant pinch of salt, apparently ADHD people need more salt that neurotypicals.

Incorrect Hunting Numbers

I noticed that, particularly cards that don't use advanced skills, like the rats and non troubling options like the light ship have the wrong numbers, they seem to be 15 or 17 rare CP in the snares, and similar in other zones.

I also realised if you are tracking the progress properly, it is a lot easier to target the zone you want your ship to arrive in. I was just zailing from the Khanate to London and back ferrying crates, and detouring for buried treasure. Normally all my ships seem to hit in home waters but almost none did this time.

I also had the tabernacle active, my friend told me that I had stopped too early and a story develops if you go back several times, unfortunately I have not had space in my plots to reactivate it. It really helps with the ZPA in home waters and the Khanate though and can be occasionally helpful in the snares. I was trying to use the peckish card to eat lumps in home waters as much as possible too as it has a flat 4.3 EPA in all zones and once you are peckish it has no further effect. My TTH was yesterday so the chestnuts card can sit there till Sunday if needed.

No Salvaging if it is a hate crime?

During my testing I also sunk 8 ships, possibly more, did I mention the ADHD, and for no sinking wrecks. This may be a case of a human not seeing random as random but I think it may be because I always choose polythreme boats. I figure if they are screaming it's a mercy. I am wondering if you cannot get wrecks from them. I also only got one in a substantial amount of hunting last week. You are occasionally forced to not choose polythreme, I normally go for hell, and that may be where I got my wreck last time. It is a small sample size so it might just be like my hellworm EPA. It is also possible there is some rule about not getting a wreck from the same faction twice in a row.

New Zailing Range

I only tracked this a little but I saw numbers from 56 to 60 for a fast zail. Since the target numbers are 160 or 80, these make slow zail cards more playable, which is a welcome change. I ride a zubmersible so the base speed is 55.

Best Boat still zub at endgame?

I did an analysis of the unique options for the 3 boats a long long time ago and amusingly the speedboat had the best results. However, the cards it improves are in zones you never zail in. The Zub was the clear choice as it made more bad cards good, where the Lux liner, which is what I had till FotZ last year, just makes good cards better. I might be getting turned around on that though, aside from the wreck cards I used almost none of the zub exclusive options and I was forced to play the Lux ones, sometimes with a second chance, fairly often. I have not really looked at it that closely, I did notice that one of the lux cards gives hedonism, which is rather lovely but I am not sure of the cap on it.

This is the dumb table from my spreadsheet:

I have a feeling that Zoom is better than that though, I could be wrong, it's just the cards it buffs are in the pillars and the stormbones and there is no reason to ever go there, aside from treasure in Port Cecil, or trafficking explosives in the seasonal event.

Hunting Crocks

I just did this a little as it is a bit boring but I worked out at a monster hunter with endgame gear I can down a crock in 5 actions 65% of the time and 6 actions in 34%. Considering the reward is 37 echos, that is pretty nice. There are two home waters zailing actions on top of that, so it will vary with your ZPA. I have 80% success rate on take a risk and those numbers are not using second chances.

Quick Data Read

So, shoddy data collection is possible but I recorded 93 actions with possible rare procs and noticed, of those, 19 were rare procs. It is an assumption that they all have the same proc rate and that the proc rate does not vary zone to zone but it looks like around 20%. The way Fallen London reports CP makes it a pain, as you need to keep a running record of your current levels of Troubled Waters, Hunting your Target and Nightmares(for tabernacle) or you cannot tell if it is a rare version or not. I was not sure how to record the 15s or 17s when I was expecting 16s or 18s as well, so I recorded them as non rare, unless it was otherwise obvious.

A Firkin Good Time

I realised yesterday that not only do I have enough Stuvier for my carapace, if I liquidated everything, I could buy my Firkin! I am not going to though, imagine having to build up your strong backed labour and honey stockpiles! It should just be a month or two at most though, as soon as it is selling everything replacable and not just selling everything. :)

Occasional Buyer

Here is the guide to the occasional buyers. Don't get too excited, they are niche at best!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1rttwkl/tamelikipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Diplomat

Is it a good week, is it a bad week, find out here in the diplomat guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1o1j4vg/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Sky Market

This is always good, once you can, do it weekly! Guide to it is here, it just covers the demands and the rewards since almost any info would be a spoiler! If you want it, do more firmament, you will unlock it as part of a cool bit of story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1t75em8/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Bonedex

The Bonedex is where I store all of the bone posts and some guides on how to get going with the bone market yourself. If you need to know something paleontological it is your one stop shop(except for the wiki, and other guides, and learning things for yourself. ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1pcoda0/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath_the/

As always, if you see any mistakes, have any suggestions, spot something I might have missed or just want to say hello, leave a comment on here, or on the guide or post in question! Feel free to ask femur information if anything is confusing, by asking you help the guides improve and the whole community.

Have a humerus week! Bone Person out!

Tamalekipoo

Edit: I was talking about the angler crabs on another page and thought of something that won't be in the guide. If you are after Stuvier, you can put a Panoptical Skull on a headless skeleton to let you sell to the Enthusiast of the Ancient World. This only gives 11.25 echos of profit for your 4 actions, and you get the skull for a 5 echo loss but the primary reward is in bessemer steel, which can be converted to Stuvier in the Sous. It's inefficient but not horrible. Also, better than a bright brass to the theologian, you can do a Skull in coral on a headless skeleton and sell to the tentacled servant. You will get 5 echos less scrip in primary but 7.5 echos more in secondary, in pure scrip! (None of these are super efficient, mostly for converting Rat Coins, Canal Favours or Echos into other currencies)

Gladiolus and phalanges Bone Brothers and Scaphoid Sisters, the time has come when the Zoomania and Fashion of the bone market have changed.

One week I copied and pasted the wrong link and then didn't check Reddit again until the Monday evening! If that ever happens again, all of the possible weeks are available on the Bonedex so you can always find options there!

Lovely week, time to dump all those Knotted Humeri. The diplomat is useless, which is a bummer if you need him as it is Crackling fortnight at the rat market! I think I am on over 60 so I should manage. ;) Colourful Phantacist is ok but probably not worth it. Skymarket is nice and easy 2 Night Whiper, 15 Aeolian Screams, 10 Extraordinary Implications and 5 Storm Threnodies. It's in the sous, hence the dumb joke.

I did look at recipes using Panoptical skull last week but every time I thought I had found a good one, there was a better way of doing it without. Don't worry, they are good. Even just for the easy chimera on menace and antiquity weeks(not this week).

If you are going for scrip, a human ribcage with a bright brass and either 4 knotted or 2 knotted and 2 Helical thighs sells well to the tentacled servant, even if you are exhausted. It is not as profitable as 4 knotted, bright brass to the Tentacled Entrepreneur but it is in pure scrip. I really have a glut of knotted humeri and human ribcages so I think I will just be doing the latter all week.

Oh and after dumping my 30 leviathan frames, I now have the currency for my knighthood. The wiki says it's on 429 so I have a little over a month to wait for the number I am targeting, with the world qualities down it is throwing a dart blindfolded. In an informed way, so I may just end up with a random number.

Bone Market

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1n1iusa/bone_market_recipes_268_amalgous_primates/

Updates

Nothing this week. I did test the duchess <-> queen gift giving, it's ok but too much hassle for items that are easier to get elsewhere. Also it means you cannot stack casing for Burgundy. I was also right about the Plated Seals, even with endgame stats the rewards do not outpace the increase in the number of actions to kill one. You are just spending extra actions for a reward diluted by Rostygold.

Occasional Buyer

Here is the guide to the occasional buyers. Don't get too excited, they are niche at best!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1rttwkl/tamelikipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Diplomat

Is it a good week, is it a bad week, find out here in the diplomat guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1o1j4vg/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Sky Market

This is always good, once you can, do it weekly! Guide to it is here, it just covers the demands and the rewards since almost any info would be a spoiler! If you want it, do more firmament, you will unlock it as part of a cool bit of story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1t75em8/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Bonedex

The Bonedex is where I store all of the bone posts and some guides on how to get going with the bone market yourself. If you need to know something paleontological it is your one stop shop(except for the wiki, and other guides, and learning things for yourself. ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1pcoda0/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath_the/

As always, if you see any mistakes, have any suggestions, spot something I might have missed or just want to say hello, leave a comment on here, or on the guide or post in question! Feel free to ask femur information if anything is confusing, by asking you help the guides improve and the whole community.

Have a humerus week! Bone Person out!

Tamalekipoo

I know I said I would update the guides with Panoptical Skull options however, the crabs are here, I am a monster hunting pirate and dayum they are great for bone heads!

Once I had Zailed to the target area it was 2 zailing action and 2 hunting actions, both 100% success rate! Add one to start and that is 5 actions, plus whatever EPA you get for your Zailing actions! (Note, I am a monster hunter with absurd stats, your results may vary…)

https://preview.redd.it/tk7zazbn38ch1.png?width=1442&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a35004ca250bde11e103cd01e9b4583dcbd472e

That is 21.55 Echos! Also, crustacean pincer, no efficient source, Deep zee catch, likewise, glim, likewise, Fin bones Collected, likewise, headless skeleton… Yeah you guessed it! Screw my carapace, this is what I am doing with every action till the event ends!

This is just like Dreadful Surmise from the cristmas tree! Farm enough for a year! In fact, it didn't happen last year so farm enough for two!

Also, don't look at my item totals if you are a pearl clutcher. ;p

Edit: I have spent 100 actions hunting now, with a brief detour to get some buried treasure at Hunter's Keep(33 echos :)), some updates, the glim and pearls seem to be random, between 400 and 700. The fin bones are either 2 or 4. The Rostygold is either 25 or 26.

I am managing to maintain my troubled waters by diving on the killing wind and wax wind(Need Zub), curing the ignorance on the drownies card(needs Fotz item), getting intel from a light ship(0 troubled waters), Firing at the Angler Crab on that card, Eating rubbery lumps(it gives you Unaccountably Peckish but it is capped at 1, so 1 action when you get back to London, no matter how many times you do it, and gives 0 troubled waters. I also have the - TW hat from Fotz on.

Also, looting a shipwreck gives 0. I am not maintaining my TW, I can just get it to 0. Also, Using Blackpelt or the Monster Hunter action on rats in the hold both give 0.

lol, 3 of my assertions were wrong.

https://preview.redd.it/8kptjyb6c8ch1.png?width=1430&format=png&auto=webp&s=4b83cb19f00d4448f784913e9c7cf287d9e93e90

Over 700, under 500 and 3 fin bones.

Edit: I realise this week's guide is going to need some love, Panoptical Skull should, theoretically be a big deal for this week. I will try to have a think about new fish options with it and update the guide asap.

Gladiolus and phalanges Bone Brothers and Scaphoid Sisters, the time has come when the Zoomania and Fashion of the bone market have changed.

One week I copied and pasted the wrong link and then didn't check Reddit again until the Monday evening! If that ever happens again, all of the possible weeks are available on the Bonedex so you can always find options there!

Antique Fish is payday! It is the best Fish week since you can easily stack Menace or Amalgamy to the level you want with fins and use the head tail and ribcage to get the Antiquity to go with it. It's time to dump those Leviathan Frames and for me personally, to use my 24 frames to get the rest of the stuvier I need to become a Knight of the Golden Carapace!

A Dreary Midnighter sucks. Reptillian Diplomat is decent but not the best. Burgundian Sky Market is a little annoying to farm, compared to Queeneaters and the Sous but not as annoying as Zenith. :)

Bone Market

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1ptztj7/bone_market_recipes_antique_fish_a_colourful/

Updates

Changes to the University! I went through almost all of the options and made a Guide to endgame here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1up3kdp/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Occasional Buyer

Here is the guide to the occasional buyers. Don't get too excited, they are niche at best!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1rttwkl/tamelikipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Diplomat

Is it a good week, is it a bad week, find out here in the diplomat guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1o1j4vg/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Sky Market

This is always good, once you can, do it weekly! Guide to it is here, it just covers the demands and the rewards since almost any info would be a spoiler! If you want it, do more firmament, you will unlock it as part of a cool bit of story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1t75em8/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Bonedex

The Bonedex is where I store all of the bone posts and some guides on how to get going with the bone market yourself. If you need to know something paleontological it is your one stop shop(except for the wiki, and other guides, and learning things for yourself. ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1pcoda0/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath_the/

As always, if you see any mistakes, have any suggestions, spot something I might have missed or just want to say hello, leave a comment on here, or on the guide or post in question! Feel free to ask femur information if anything is confusing, by asking you help the guides improve and the whole community.

Have a humerus week! Bone Person out!

Tamalekipoo

Hey there,

Just making a post as I went well over the promised 24 hours, the bone post is updated with links and info for the week. I should be back to a more dependable service from next Tuesday.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1ujnhhf/bone_market_recipes_300626_menacing_amphibians/

Hi there, just a placeholder post again while I am out for the day. It’s one of the worst bone weeks, the buyer and diplomat are bad as well. It’s a good week for any week skeletons, see the guide on them. Also a good Exhauster is impossible so use the universal menace options from that guide. I will return within 24 hours with links and whatnot.

It is a good week for getting leviathan frames from the carpenter’s granddaughter. There’s a guide for that too.

If you want to get 7 exhaustion at once go for a bird, 7 necks, 6 menacing or horned skulls, 1 non menace skull, 1 wing of a terror bird, 1 albatross wing. Sell to the teller of terrors. Even if you use the granddaughter to remove the three extra exhaust at 65 echos each, this is still 21 EPA profit for the 15 actions.

I made this:

https://preview.redd.it/0cmdk0yj0v9h1.png?width=1356&format=png&auto=webp&s=7be725ce4e75b7aca1e04d8a379c3f688904412a

Unfortunately making use of it means updating at least 3 guides and multiple of the weekly posts so… I will just leave it here for now for those that are able to interpret. ;)

How on earth do you target a number? With the world events bot non functional is it not like throwing a dart with a blindfold on? I am not quite sure I will make my number as I was hoping for a fish or a bird week to hit for massive Stuvier payouts from the bone market but if I do make it in time any advice on nailing that target number would be much appreciated.

Also, for bone post appreciators, I have updated it.

Also, shouldn't it be Knights of the Orange carapace? Dangerous ground in Scotland. ;p (I am in scotland, I am not saying Burgundy is. Technically most carrots are a protestant celebration too, don't tell the catholics, it will ruin their night vision. (Carrots being good for your eyesight was propaganda to hide the fact that sonar had been invented, I believe, possibly radar) ;))

https://preview.redd.it/5gfztyudl98h1.jpg?width=1472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc9bd2a6d8369701e7960281147ea569af2234ef

https://preview.redd.it/u12ku1lfl98h1.jpg?width=1472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=836f6443882af6caa2856fe9500482d5d297813e

Play the top right spike, 002, smart, then the wizard, 010, 011, 021 Then the other spike 000, Wizard to 024, Spike 2 to 230, Wizard to 025, First spike to 025, Alch 420, Spike 250, Ice 420, Village x00 win

I used the Spike ability on tough waves but I am not sure it was ever really needed. 99 and 100 didn't even reach the pile.

Gladiolus and phalanges Bone Brothers and Scaphoid Sisters, the time has come when the Zoomania and Fashion of the bone market have changed.

Antique arachnids is ok, not the best, not the worst. All arachnid weeks are great for dumping your Holy legs and not really for much else. Amalgamy weeks you can do a funky scrip spider. Malacologist sucks and is worse on a spider week. Menacing Diplomat is one of the good ones and with Crackles in the Rat Market for the second week it's a good time to turn those bones into rat coins. :)

Bone Market

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1rpx1gh/antique_reptiles_boot_salesman_amphibious_diplomat/

Occasional Buyer

Here is the guide to the occasional buyers. Don't get too excited, they are niche at best!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1rttwkl/tamelikipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Diplomat

Is it a good week, is it a bad week, find out here in the diplomat guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1o1j4vg/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Bonedex

The Bonedex is where I store all of the bone posts and some guides on how to get going with the bone market yourself. If you need to know something paleontological it is your one stop shop(except for the wiki, and other guides, and learning things for yourself. ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1pcoda0/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath_the/

As always, if you see any mistakes, have any suggestions, spot something I might have missed or just want to say hello, leave a comment on here, or on the guide or post in question! Feel free to ask femur information if anything is confusing, by asking you help the guides improve and the whole community.

Have a humerus week! Bone Person out!

Tamalekipoo

Edit 4: Since AI was mentioned in the patch notes. I added a note on AI and lore in there. Dangerous, powerful, use at your own risk!

Edit 3: Added a section on recent updates!

Edit 2: Apologies for being absent for the week, my Lore Bard hit Level 6 in my DnD 2014 game, which is the most mechanically complicated level up in any version of DnD! Thank goodness it is fixed in the 5.5 rules! Also I had a government job application to do and in Britain that means 3x the paperwork of any other application, if not more. I got the priorities right though. ;p

EDIT: Sky Market guide updated. Also I have decided to call it the Sky Market forever, since the real name will never not be a spoiler. Please respect those that are not as far progressed as you and do the same. :)

Gladiolus and phalanges Bone Brothers and Scaphoid Sisters, the time has come when the Zoomania and Fashion of the bone market have changed.

Rubbery Reptiles! It's a nice week to dump off those Thorned ribcages, stock up on some Leviathan Frames and if you really can't hold out for a fish week, spend some! Phantacist is the best occasional buyer but still meh. Spidery diplomat is a week off so I hope you took advantage of the past few brilliant diplomat weeks because it is CRACKLING WEEK AT THE RAT MARKET :) Get those low effort big profits. I am currently sitting on 61 Crackling devices so I have my 28 for this week and next week already. :)

Sorry for the delay this week, I only woke up an hour or two ago and there was a lot to write about this week!

Zee Tree!

There is a seasonal event where a tree is growing out of the untezee! A fluke, I think not! ;) I think as an endgame Monster Hunter it takes me 2 Zee actions 1 start, 1 end, 1 bold approach, 3 Take a risk(or the other one if the first two succeed) it can take 9 actions if I fail more than 1 take a risk but that is unlikely. Technically a non monster hunter can do the same but that adds another take a risk, I think with my stats it is 85% or something like that succeeding 2/3 of those is very likely. Succeeding 3/4 is much less so!

So 8 actions total with another 2 every 20 runs or so to dock in London. The rewards are range based but eyeball extimation = 10 echos silk, 10 echos Whisper Silk, 3 echos tale of terrors, 10 echos extraordinary imps, 5 echos Bone Fragments. Plus admiralty award worth 20 echos. That makes 58 echos with some variance, which is about right for parity with the lorn fluke. Back of a fag packet EPA. Not giving full ZPA because it is home waters and there are added bad cards, so just 2.5 echos flat.

Sick Stats MH = 8 actions = 7.5625 EPA

Sick Stats = 9 actions = 6.7222 EPA

MH no take a risk = 9 actions = 6.7222 EPA

Pleb, no take a risk = 10 actions = 6.05 EPA

Sky Market Finally gets imaginative!

This week the Sky Market is in the Sous. I flew up there to check what it needs from us, will update the guide later: 5 Storm Threnodies, 10 Extraordinry Implications, 15 Aolean Screams and 2 Night Whispers!

This is fantastic news because these are all things I generate faster than I can spend them in the rat market. Also I have been saying getting bone fragments and converting railway brass to stuvier in the Sous was free but it was kind of a lie because you have to fly there, with most places, discounting the travel is fine, because you will be going there at some point but once you finish the Sous story there is no reason to ever go back. Now there is, so you can just let the items for conversion pile up and wait for the market. :)

Bone Market

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1mk8tr7/bone_market_recipes_0508_rubbery_reptiles/

Occasional Buyer

Here is the guide to the occasional buyers. Don't get too excited, they are niche at best!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1rttwkl/tamelikipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Diplomat

Is it a good week, is it a bad week, find out here in the diplomat guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1o1j4vg/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Bonedex

The Bonedex is where I store all of the bone posts and some guides on how to get going with the bone market yourself. If you need to know something paleontological it is your one stop shop(except for the wiki, and other guides, and learning things for yourself. ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1pcoda0/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath_the/

Game Updates

I checked the game updates tab and there are 3 since I last checked, It looks like it is weekly at the moment and they drop Friday, I will add a regular section. My comments in Bold.

Week Ending 5th June 2026

• Deliveries: Added the ability to reroll unwanted delivery requests.
• Deliveries: The Duchess and the Queen now request Searing Enigmas and Night-Whispers in place of False-Hagiotoponoym's and Queen's Mates.

I have no idea what these deliveries are! Anyone enlighten me?

Week Ending 29th May 2026

• Firmament: Added some missing signposting to the 'Boots on Bone' storylet in the Sous.

Good I guess :)

Week Ending 22nd May 2026

• You can now get struck by lightning in the Upper River as well as London.

Not if you stand on a rubber man!

• Fixed an issue with the Crystalline Fecundity quality's visibility.

Good!

• Players with an Enhanced Exceptional Friendship may also unlock past Exceptional Stories via the Account menu, under Subscription.

I will have to investigate this. Does that mean with your monthy token? Without a token(seems a little too generous), Is it just a move? because you could always see them on the fate page. I think.

• Our statement on AI has been moved to a more prominent location.

Bleep Bleep Bloop Bloop, Engine Almost Complete, Beware Stars! (This is a huge lore deep dive, hopefully ambiguous enough to be funny to those in the know and confusing to those yet to know.) ;)

Also, on the topic of AI. Be very very careful asking Google search AI about Fallen London Lore. FBG drops lore in snippets and hints which is a very satisfying thing for a lot of people to piece together. If you ask Google AI a lore question, it will flat out tell you the answer! Remember what cheating in games does to that game, you have fun for an hour or two then never play it again. On the other hand, for those of us with ADHD this is a godsend, I have done a huge amount of the games content but I don't always take it in, so going back and getting reminders and clarifications is brilliant. Bear in mind that there is also a lore wiki for the game that does not hallucinate.

• Players looking for someone to participate in Social Acts with them are now directed to those places where players tend to congregate online.

That is fantastic, I wonder if it does reddit and the wiki as well as the FBG forums.

As always, if you see any mistakes, have any suggestions, spot something I might have missed or just want to say hello, leave a comment on here, or on the guide or post in question! Feel free to ask femur information if anything is confusing, by asking you help the guides improve and the whole community.

Have a humerus week! Bone Person out!

Tamalekipoo

I just finished doing this:

https://preview.redd.it/83nqew2bwj5h1.png?width=1496&format=png&auto=webp&s=65f087ff7801bcbba861768a1ffcb4039b0aa7c6

It inspired this guide, which isn't really a guide, it is a gift! A gift from the reddit community, angels to some, demons to others:

https://preview.redd.it/nkagj7ktwj5h1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=a42147f6ee37f9f5675d34bbe165b01f7824edab

A gift for Failbetter Games:

Check out his coat. Modern tools are so cool. :)

It's a suggestion box ok, I keep thinking of things that could be improved or things that are a little irritating in Fallen London, little hiccups in an otherwise sublime experience. I think, I really should write that down and send it to FBG, then I forgot. Anyway, I thought a living suggestion document might be more fun and the community can discuss options and make suggestions. I am pretty sure Failbetter watches this reddit but I can always submit it from time to time, just to be safe.

So to start us off I have one normal suggestion and two spender suggestions:

Quality of Life

Please add an option to buy 5 eyeless skulls and an option to douse 5 eyeless skulls! I just bought and doused 37 and it was painful. :) technically it helps the bottom line as well because I was going to buy some actions and clear the high sancta while I am here but I am tired now so I will just overnight in burgundy. Bonus points if we get a bulk discount. :p

Content Requests

From u/gummy_dragon

"My only bone related request to FailBetter would be for some menacing legs, because every time Menacing Insect/Spider week rolls around I start seriously considering those occasional buyers."

Bugs

Filthy Spender Suggestions(Thank you, it is filth like you that keep the game running! ;) )

Auto Story Choice for Exceptional Friends

A couple of months ago I forgot to buy a story before my sub renewed. I had assumed that the reason for a featured story was that you would get that by default if you forgot(not that that was my plan, I really just forgot). Why not just set it up so that if your sub renews while you have an unspent credit, you get the featured story or a random one from the list if you have the featured one. It was a bad feeling wasting the credit and I know you would probably sort it, if I got in touch but why not just have a system to save yourself the admin.

Bundles of Fun!

I was looking at ES bundles earlier and I realised that there were only 3 of the 5 available to me. I didn't realise that if you got a bundle story from your sub, that bundle disappeared for you. Would it be possible to set it up so it just reduces the bundle, like a steam deal when you already own some of the stuff. So instead of 120 fate for 3 stories it would drop to 80 if you have one or 40 if you have 2. I realise it's a pretty niche situation but it would be a nice change and realistically if someone is shopping story bundles and has a sub, they are probably a decent spender already. :)

Right, that is it, that is all. I leave it to the Reddit for more suggestions. At least until I remember one of the 100 I have forgotten over the past year and a half. :)

Gladiolus and phalanges Bone Brothers and Scaphoid Sisters, the time has come when the Zoomania and Fashion of the bone market have changed.

Menacing insects again. Occasional buyer sucks. Skull Diplomat is good

Bone Market

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1n6hs4j/bone_market_recipes_0209_menacing_insects/

Occasional Buyer

Here is the guide to the occasional buyers. Don't get too excited, they are niche at best!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1rttwkl/tamelikipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Diplomat

Is it a good week, is it a bad week, find out here in the diplomat guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1o1j4vg/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Bonedex

The Bonedex is where I store all of the bone posts and some guides on how to get going with the bone market yourself. If you need to know something paleontological it is your one stop shop(except for the wiki, and other guides, and learning things for yourself. ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1pcoda0/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath_the/

As always, if you see any mistakes, have any suggestions, spot something I might have missed or just want to say hello, leave a comment on here, or on the guide or post in question! Feel free to ask femur information if anything is confusing, by asking you help the guides improve and the whole community.

Have a humerus week! Bone Person out!

Tamalekipoo

Just in case anyone didn't notice, this is your last chance to get a False Star Catalogue, or a spare for agents before the rat season rotates to summer next week. Get it this weekend or you can't for 9 months.

Edit: I always forget something. This week it was that I reassessed how to use your exhaustion, I had made a mistake in my previous assessment. Details added below.

Gladiolus and phalanges Bone Brothers and Scaphoid Sisters, the time has come when the Zoomania and Fashion of the bone market have changed.

Apologies for the delay, I had a work thing that was stressing me out all day and I forgot to play the game nevermind that it was Tuesday. I think it should be resolved now, so I am just waiting to hear from my boss.

Every bird week is fantastic, the value from skeletons comes from ribcages and skulls and Birds can have unlimited skulls. The diplomat being birds is another great week. Then there is the red headed stepchild, the enterprising boot salesman, fine if you need what he has but he is the wrong person on the wrong week.(also prone to sunburn, needs high doses of anaesthetic and he's great but it's not the same as having a child of your own. ;p Sorry gingers and fellow stepchildren, stay awesome!)

Big news! I got my Hellworm saddled and bridled. I know I said I would retire when that happened but I am going to keep going for a bit as it would be an awkward time for someone else to take over. Even if I do retire from the weekly posts I will still pop in guides for the Bonedex, when the urge to break something down and explain it is as silly way as possible takes me. 😄 I have a rat market one bubbling away in the back of my mind as well as the sourcing bones one but they are both big and require a lot of time/work that I don't have the space for right now.

Skymarket

The skymarket is back in Queeneaters. So it's 2 Mortification of a Great Power(Mortys) and 2 False Hagioponyms(False Hags). Nothing to update the guide with as the info for there is in already. I assume it is not just two locations and it goes back and forth. It is likly like the bone market, where it cannot be the same thing two weeks in a row but it is random. I am guessing every location where 'the boss' conducts their business. It's still quite new so I am trying to keep it as spoiler free as possible.

Bone Market

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1ou76lx/bone_market_recipes_11112025_amalgous_birds/

I probably won't get a chance to review this post this week. One thing I have probably missed is I had forgotten that the Tentacled Servant is pure scrip so if you are working towards a worm it's an excellent option! it's 2.5 echos or 5 scrip for each point of Amalgamy so a skull in coral, a bright brass and a sabre toothed are all worth about the same to him. Doubled Skulls are worth a little more, if you have a load of spare skulls or moonlight.

Exhaustion Update

I had worked out that by far the most efficient way to handle exhaustion is to make a 7 stat power skeleton. You get 120 in secondary which, per point of exhaustion, outstrips every other option by a country mile!

Well I was wrong, and dumb and also incorrect. I forgot that the first 50 echos of the profit are the freebie you get with every skeleton. This excel sheet has not been made fit for public consumption but:

https://preview.redd.it/ohr8dufe3j3h1.png?width=870&format=png&auto=webp&s=66bc9d5b4ffee7615f28721650a494cea06019f5

Hopefully it is clear enough to see that the profit is fairly comparable. Since you can get it in far fewer actions by using fewer skeletons Your best option is to use a 7 exhaust skeleton, if you are on 0, right before TTH, on weeks where you can make a 14 fashion skeleton. On the weeks where you are on 3 just make the usual 7 fashion option.

Quick list:

1 exhaust 7 Fashion Stat

2 exhaust bad

3 exhaust bad

4 exhaust 11 Fashion Stat

5 exhaust 12 Fashion Stat

6 exhaust 13 Fashion Stat (Not sure why I didn't put it on the spreadsheet, it's 64.5 profit per exhaust, after the 50)

7 exhaust 14 Fashion Stat

If you want to bomb the market, feel free to do the sums yourself. 😉

It's 65 echos and 1 action to heal 1 exhaustion on "A Public Lecture" so you can make a decent bomb then heal yourself to do some conversion to scrip at a respectable rate.

Occasional Buyer

Here is the guide to the occasional buyers. Don't get too excited, they are niche at best!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1rttwkl/tamelikipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

Diplomat

Is it a good week, is it a bad week, find out here in the diplomat guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1o1j4vg/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath/

The Bonedex

The Bonedex is where I store all of the bone posts and some guides on how to get going with the bone market yourself. If you need to know something paleontological it is your one stop shop(except for the wiki, and other guides, and learning things for yourself. 😉

https://www.reddit.com/r/fallenlondon/comments/1pcoda0/tamalekipoos_boneheaded_guide_to_the_neath_the/

As always, if you see any mistakes, have any suggestions, spot something I might have missed or just want to say hello, leave a comment on here, or on the guide or post in question! Feel free to ask femur information if anything is confusing, by asking you help the guides improve and the whole community.

Have a humerus week! Bone Person out!

Tamalekipoo