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Standard Obelisk

Ah, the Test of the Obelisk! What a glorious waste of resources!

What you get from this is...the satisfaction of having built a mucking huge, perhaps decorative (but otherwise useless) monument to the excess of effort. Oh, and you might well pass a Test of Architecture.

Find out more about the details on the page about the test itself. What you're here for is the answer to "what does it take to build one?"

To build:

Construction costs:

• Bricks
• Boards
• Sulfur
• Canvas
• leather
• cactus sap
• small emeralds

Amounts vary with size - see below

Built: in a small construction site

Skill/Tech required: Must be signed up for the Test of the Obelisk

Resource requirements by size

size	bricks	boards	sulphur	canvas	leather	sap	emeralds
7	231	23	0	1	4	15	0
10	390	40	2	3	7	22	1
20	1180	120	9	8	28	48	2
40	3960	400	34	24	106	115	7
80	14320	1440	132	80	413	302	20
100	21900	2200	205	120	641	422	30
110	26290	2640	248	143	774	488	35
120	31080	3120	294	168	920	560	40
130	36270	3640	344	195	1077	635	46
170	61030	6120	587	323	1834	982	75
200	83800	8400	810	440	2533	1288	100
300	185700	18600	1815	960	5676	2600	210

(data collected by Sabt-Pestnu)

I have fitted the data in MATLAB using the Curve Fitting Tool, and obtained the following equations. The resource requirements seem to follow quadratic polynomials, simply with different coefficients, all intersecting at 0. The equations all obtained an adjusted R^2 of ~ 1. The numbers might be very slightly off due to rounding. The equation for sulphur seemed to have the widest possible bounds, perhaps more data is needed. These equations should give a fairly good idea. - Gamaruset

Resource	Equation (x is cubits)	Equation in fractions
bricks	2 (x2) + 19 x	2 x2 + 19 x
boards	0.2 (x2) + 2 x	(1/5) x2 + 2 x
canvas	0.01 (x2) + 0.2 x	(1/100) x2 + (1/5) x
emeralds	0.002 (x2) + 0.1 x	(1/500) x2 + (1/10) x
leather	0.0625 (x2) + 0.1625 x	(1/16) x2 + (13/80) x
sap	0.0222 (x2) + 2 x	(111/5000) x2 + 2 x
sulphur	0.02 (x2) + 0.05 x	(1/50) x2 + (1/20) x