I have been training my mechanical lore by braiding vines and my learning rate has slowed drastically. It is 106 and I still can't turn the vines into rope. Any suggestions on a better way to train or at what level you can actually turn vines into rope?

>>I have been training my mechanical lore by braiding vines and my learning rate has slowed drastically. It is 106 and I still can't turn the vines into rope. Any suggestions on a better way to train or at what level you can actually turn vines into rope?

Yes, grass and armorless hands to make a rope. I usually use grass because I amuse myself with the fantasy notion that my bundling ropes are lighter because vines would be heavier.

However, more importantly, to train mech lore you don't need to make ropes. You just need to braid. My script (stolen from here and there) basically just braids until you fail so horribly that it falls apart and then start over again until eventually you mindlock and stop. Which is the goal, really. Unless you need a bundling rope, then use grass because it's magic. IIRC the script doesn't work smoothly at <50 mech ranks or so because of a few things so you just need to pull rope manually now and then.

#braid
echo Usage is '.braid grass' or '.braid vine' or whatever other material you wish to braid. Unicorn hair and fairy wings, etc.
forage:
put forage %1
match braid You manage to find
match forage Roundtime:
matchwait

braid:
put braid my %1
match exp You need to have more material
match reboot wasted effort
match braid seconds.
matchwait

reboot:
put pull my %1
match braid but you think you can still work with what you have left
match forage curse you throw away the ruined pieces.
matchwait

exp:
put exp mechanical lore
match end enthralled
match end nearly locked
match end mind lock
match forage Exp help
matchwait

end:
echo done.

I didnt have pulling in my script. Once I got the "wasted effort" message I would just drop it and start over. I also removed my gloves and my RT has dropped substantially. Thank you for the responses.