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| − | In IVAN there are only two types of true traps: bear traps and landmines.
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| − | If a trap is active, it is hidden from view, unless placed by your character. However, you can detect these hidden traps by [[Search]]ing and thus can avoid them.
| + | '''Body armor''' is a piece of [[armor]] that covers the torso of the [[player]]. It is one of the most important pieces of armor, as most of the enemy attacks will end up damaging your torso. |
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| − | Note that planting any trap inside a city ([[Attnam]] or [[New Attnam]]) will instantly make the entire city hostile.
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| − | ==Bear Trap== | + | == Types of Body Armor == |
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| − | One of the most effective means of removing limbs, these traps are usually found in the [[Underwater Tunnels]] levels, but can also be found in lesser quantities in the [[Gloomy Caves]]. The further into the game you are, the stronger the [[Materials|material]] the traps are made out of. The ones found in the [[Secret Rooms]] generally tend to be made of [[Adamant]].
| + | === Chain Mail === |
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| − | The bear trap's main purpose is to clamp onto your leg, damaging it and prevent you from moving, however if it is made of a strong enough material, it can simply sever your limb.<br>
| + | '''Chain mail''' is the lighter, more flexible armor. With comparable [[materials]], it will have slightly lower AV than plate mail, but will also weight less and have lesser penalties to [[Dex]] and [[Agi]]. However, as chain mail only generates made of metals, you can frequently find much lighter "plate mail" made of flexible materials such as [[leather]] - though the AV of such light armor will be very low. |
| − | Sometimes when planting a bear trap for your own use, you can get caught in it by accident. The chance of this happening increases if you are [[Character|burdened, stressed]], [[exhausted]] or fainting.<br>
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| − | Other bodyparts can also get caught whilst trying to escape from the beartrap, and occasionally trying to free yourself will damage one of your trapped bodyparts. Be warned that getting your head stuck in a bear trap is one of the easiest ways to die, as the amount of damage necessary to sever your head is very, ''very'' small.<br>
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| − | If all of your trapped limbs are removed by a bear trap, it will snap shut and become inactive once more. You can then safely retrieve your limbs in order to try to reattach them if you so please.
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| − | You can deactivate bear traps by kicking them, picking them up whilst levitating, or breaking them somehow (e.g. an explosion.)<br>
| + | === Plate Mail === |
| − | However, be warned that attempting to pick up an active bear trap has a chance of trapping a limb instead.
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| − | ==Landmine==
| + | '''Plate mail''' can actually either be called "plate mail" if made of any metal, or simply "armor" if made of a different material (eg. "leather armor" is still "plate mail"-type armor). |
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| − | Landmines are generally found live in the Gloomy Caves, but inactive ones can sometimes be found in the Tunnels. Mines are deadly to any IVAN character lacking fire resistance, and stepping on one during the early stages of the game usually results in death.<br>
| + | Plate mail is stronger, heavier and less flexible than chain mail, giving it higher AV but also higher penalties to [[Dex]] and [[Agi]]. Plate mails made of metal will have very high AV, but will probably burden any character without massive [[LStr]]. On the other hand, plate mails are also frequently found made of light flexible materials and such armors will be even lighter than chain mails, though their AV will be also considerably lower than of any metal armor. |
| − | To be safe, a [[Rings|ring]] or [[Cloaks|cloak]] of fire resistance is recommended as it will reduce the damage caused by the explosion. Resistances stack, so the more fire resistance items you have equipped the less damage you will take from explosions.<br>
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| − | A ring of searching can also help, as it will detect the mine and alert you before you step on it.
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| − | Currently there is no known way to deactivate mines, but you can destroy them. Praying to [[Silva]], zapping a [[Wands|wand]] of fireballs, using the [[Holy Banana of Oily Orpiv|Holy Banana]] or getting a [[Monsters|monster]] to step on it are a few ways to destroy mines whilst keeping safely out of range of the explosion.<br>
| + | However, if you can obtain a plate mail made of one of the better flexible materials (eg. [[Angel Hair]] or [[Spider Silk]]), those have the best qualities of any normal armor found in the game - they have high AV, low weight and next to no [[attribute]] penalties. |
| − | Attempting to pick up an active mine (i.e. while levitating above it) is strongly discouraged.
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| − | Mines also come in two variants, a regular ''landmine'' and a ''big mine''. The big ones are much more deadly than the standard mines and have a larger blast radius, but do not differ mechanically.
| + | == Magical Body Armor == |
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| − | Due to the fact that they explode, a mine can cause any flammable item on your person to catch fire and burn.
| + | * [[Armor of Great Health]] |
| | + | * [[Shirt with a Decos Banana Co. ad]] |
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| − | ==Gas Trap== | + | === Artifact Body Armor === |
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| + | * [[Filthy tunic of martyr Bessica]] grants Disease Immunity, Fasting and Fearless [[status effect]]s. |
| | + | * [[Ommel bristler armor]] has high AV and is completely indestructible. |
| | + | * [[Shirt of the Golden Eagle]] has one of the highest AV available in the game, plus is required for one of the [[quests]]. |
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| − | ==Non-Traps== | + | == Variants == |
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| − | There are other items which can be considered traps, but cannot be activated and are not hidden from view.
| + | === CLIVAN === |
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| − | ===Banana Peel===
| + | The [[CLIVAN]] [[variant]] of the game adds several new body armors: |
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| − | These can be dropped on the ground and can cause anything that walks over them to slip over and fall down like in all those old cartoons. They are reasonably useful earlier in the game, and can be used to kill all the [[Banana Grower]]s in [[New Attnam]], and are also very useful for killing those annoying [[Hedgehog]]s in the Tunnels.
| + | * '''[[Dragon Cuirass]]''' is essentially a thicker, heavier, stronger and indestructible body armor with spiked shoulders. |
| − | | + | * '''[[Shirt of the Golden Jaguar]]''' gives the wearer TeleControl, PolyControl and Haste along with AV 14, and can be found in the Vault in [[Kharaz-Arad]]. |
| − | ===Bottle of Sulfuric Acid===
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| − | Acid is one of the quickest ways to die in IVAN for those unprepared. As such, a bottle of acid can be used as a trap with careful planning, or can be turned against you with little warning.
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| − | A broken bottle of sulfuric acid will immediately dump its contents on the floor, leaving a large puddle of acid that will melt anything and everything that comes into contact with it - especially an adventurer's legs, and if they lose those legs, their torso.
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| − | Deploying a bottle of sulfuric acid as a trap requires careful planning, as bottles do not break by themselves.
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| − | Explosions are the most reliable way to break a bottle, so placing them on top of an active mine can add extra punch to finish off any creature that survives the initial explosion.
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| − | Throwing a bottle against a wall will (probably) shatter it and spill acid all over the walls and floor, creating an impromptu trap (and probably destroying the wall in the process). Handy for fleeing from enemies.
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| − | As mentioned though, bottles of sulfuric acid can be turned against you if you are not careful - any nearby explosion or strong sound wave can shatter it inside your inventory, instantly spilling it all over you and melting all your limbs and equipment in short order.
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| − | ===Broken Bottle===
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| − | Similar to the banana peel, these have a chance of damaging whatever walks over them. However, unlike the banana peel which can hurt any part of the body, the broken bottle damages the legs first or any other body part that touches the ground.
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| − | === Backpack Full of Gunpowder ===
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| − | See [[Backpack full of gun powder|here]] for more details.
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| − | Not a trap but [[Tools|tool]] really, they have many uses nonetheless. For one, if you place a few on top of a mine that you planted yourself, they will almost certainly kill anything that stands upon the mine because of the united explosion. This is even better with big mines. Also, sometime when you throw a backpack full of gunpowder at an enemy, they will pick it up, which makes them easy prey for the wielder of a wand of fireballs. If placed on the ground, a nearby explosion will set them off, causing a chain reaction. This is very useful for clearing out hoards of enemies, and is VERY useful in the Big Room floor in Caves.
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| − | ===Mirrored Chest===
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| − | Hardly a trap at all, there are sometimes [[chests]] placed in the dungeons which contain extremely rare and precious loot (think an amulet of life saving, [[Valpurium]] [[flaming sword]] +3 and a cloak of invisibility in a single chest). You could consider yourself lucky as hell, but these items are nothing but a mirrored copies, placed there to tease you. They will vanish soon, so make out of them as much as you can.
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| − | ===Trapped Door===
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| − | Arguably could be also categorized as a normal trap, trapped doors will detonate if you try to open them. The explosion triggered will be exactly the same as that of a landmine - albeit much weaker - so all information on mines applies to trapped doors as well. That means that they can shatter bottles or lanterns and burn flammable items in your inventory.
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| − | Also of note is a glitch in calculation of the damage done by an explosion: The damage done is decreased the farther you are from the explosion. However, the distance is calculated orthogonally and thus standing diagonally to any door while opening them will decrease the damage done if they are trapped, as the game will think you are two tiles away from the explosion rather than one.
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Spoiler Warning: This page contains spoilers which may affect your IVAN experience negatively
Body armor is a piece of armor that covers the torso of the player. It is one of the most important pieces of armor, as most of the enemy attacks will end up damaging your torso.
Types of Body Armor
Chain Mail
Chain mail is the lighter, more flexible armor. With comparable materials, it will have slightly lower AV than plate mail, but will also weight less and have lesser penalties to Dex and Agi. However, as chain mail only generates made of metals, you can frequently find much lighter "plate mail" made of flexible materials such as leather - though the AV of such light armor will be very low.
Plate Mail
Plate mail can actually either be called "plate mail" if made of any metal, or simply "armor" if made of a different material (eg. "leather armor" is still "plate mail"-type armor).
Plate mail is stronger, heavier and less flexible than chain mail, giving it higher AV but also higher penalties to Dex and Agi. Plate mails made of metal will have very high AV, but will probably burden any character without massive LStr. On the other hand, plate mails are also frequently found made of light flexible materials and such armors will be even lighter than chain mails, though their AV will be also considerably lower than of any metal armor.
However, if you can obtain a plate mail made of one of the better flexible materials (eg. Angel Hair or Spider Silk), those have the best qualities of any normal armor found in the game - they have high AV, low weight and next to no attribute penalties.
Magical Body Armor
Artifact Body Armor
Variants
CLIVAN
The CLIVAN variant of the game adds several new body armors:
