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There are usually two '''Chest Rooms''' found randomly in the [[Gloomy Caves]]. These are large square shaped rooms with two layers. The outer layer is easily accessible, but the inner layer has walls made of meteoric steel and contains a large treasure chest, containing 1 or 2 special items.
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'''Wishing''' is an opportunity to gain any single [[item]] of the [[player]]'s choosing.  
  
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''Hmm... how do I get in?''
 
  
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== Finding the Room ==
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== Getting a wish ==
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* '''Scrolls''' - Use a scroll of detect material and detect Mithril, which will reveal the large chest inside the room.
 
  
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* '''Exploration''' - Sometimes the chest room will be connected to part of the main dungeon level, such as shown in the above picture. Keep walking around until you have explored the entire level map and you might get lucky.
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There are several ways to obtain a wish, including:
  
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* '''Mining''' - A pickaxe can be used to dig through walls, allowing you to explore parts of the level which aren't normally walkable. Be warned that mining will rapidly make you hungry!
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* Reading a [[Scrolls|scroll of wishing]].
  
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* '''Ethereal''' - Polymorph into a ghost via a Ring of Polymorph or zapping yourself with a Wand of Polymorph and you will be able to 'walk' (float) through walls and see in a 1-square radius around you. This is a much faster way to 'scout' for Chest Rooms.
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* Rubbing an [[Light source|oil lamp]].
  
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* Drinking from a [[Fountains|fountain]].
  
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== Accessing the Room ==
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* Using the (X) command in wizmode, through which you will gain 5 scrolls of wishing.
  
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Once you've found the room there are several ways you can access the inner chamber concealing the chest.
 
  
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* '''Acid''' - A bottle full of [[Sulphuric acid]] or a Wand of Acid Rain will corrode the walls to rubble. These are fairly common items and a good way for a beginning player to gain access the chests. Just throw the bottle or zap the wand at the wall and after a couple dozen turns it will dissolve. Make sure to have strong acid protection before you walk through the puddle or the acid will melt your feet off! A poor man's version of this is to vomit on the wall. This obviously will not dissolve the wall, but will eventually cause the wall to rust which makes it easier to dig through.
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== What to wish for ==
  
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* '''Teleporation''' - With a scroll (or wand) of teleportation and with [[TeleControl]], you can land right on top of the chest. Pick up the chest, teleport yourself back out, and drop it. Be sure that you try to teleport in the exact middle of the inner chamber and be sure that you have a 'return ticket' (ie; 2 scrolls) to teleport out before you go in!
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[[IVAN]] has many useful items, but the following are good and rare enough to be prime candidates for wishing.
  
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* '''Tunneling''' - While very difficult it is not impossible to tunnel right through the meteoric steel walls. Use a [[Mithril]] or stronger pick axe.
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* '''Wand of Door Creation''' - The wand will create a row of doors in the wall. You can then unlock them if you have the key of appropriate shape or you can just kick/explode them open.
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=== Equipment ===
  
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* '''Explosions''' - A powerful enough explosion will destroy the walls outright. Be careful though, as this can damage the contents of the chest inside. Make use of [[backpack full of gun powder|backpacks full of gun powder]], [[trap#landmines|mines]] and [[wands]] of fireballs to get the job done.
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* A magical [[weapon]]: Way more powerful than normal weapons. Some grant [[Status Effects]], other have special effects on hitting a foe. It is sometimes wiser to wish for a broken weapon instead of an intact one, since the game often generates better [[materials]] for broken items to compensate the need of repairing.
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** Note that since [[Release 0.50.9]], [[artifact]]s are no longer wishable. You can still wish for a number of magical weapons, though.
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** Good candidates for wishing are: [[Axe of Sharpness]], [[Banshee sickle]], [[Chilling axe]], [[Flaming sword]], [[Rune sword]], [[Scythe of terror]], [[Taiaha]], [[Thunder hammer]], [[Whip of thievery]]
  
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* '''Ethereal''' - Polymorph into a ghost as mentioned above, then wait inside the room until you turn back into a human. A Ring of Polymorph is recommended for this purpose.
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* [[Beast claw]]: A rare weapon using [[Unarmed Combat]] skill, you might want to wish for it if you plan to use unarmed for the whole game.
  
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* '''Kicking''' - You can kick the walls to rubble if you have truly insane leg strength.
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* A good [[helmet]]: Helmet of brilliance, helmet of piercing perception, or helmet of telepathy are probably the best picks.
  
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* [[Acid Shield]]
  
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== Opening the Chest ==
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* [[Cloak]] or [[Ring]] of [[Invisibility]]: Invisibility is a great tactical advantage, but it also causes much more dangerous monsters to be generated.
  
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Once you get access to the chest, it's now a matter of opening it.
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* [[Ring]] of [[Infravision]]
  
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* '''Lock''' - These chests require special keys that are very hard to get a hold of. If you somehow have the key, use it!
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* [[Ring]] of [[Polymorph|Polymorph Control]]: Very useful if you happen to have a way of [[polymorph]]ing. Note that being very powerful may cause tough monsters like [[Dark Mage]]s to spawn, which is not nice if you encounter them after you have returned to your original form.
  
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* '''Kicking''' - It's much easier to kick the chest. Make sure it is set against a wall. If it's inside the inner room still, that will be fine. If you use the scrolls method to get it, make sure you drop it next to a wall. Then kick it into the wall until the lock breaks. You will need very strong legs and tough boots for this. Note that this may shatter fragile items inside, which is all the worse since it usually contains extremely valuable items.
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* [[Ring]] of [[Teleport|Teleport Control]]
  
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* '''Change Material''' - You can always change the material into something softer. You will still need to kick it if you don't have the key, but it won't require as much leg strength. An easy way to do this is to get Loraticus angry at you and wield the chest as a weapon. Pray to Loraticus and he will most likely change it into banana flesh. This is much more useful than wasting a scroll of change material.
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* Ring of Detection: Randomly prompts you to pick a [[material]] to detect. Very handy.
  
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* '''Wand of Polymorph''' - Polymorphing the chest will work on the chest itself, revealing its content without altering it.
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* Ring of Unchanging: If you acquired a powerful polymorph form (eg. from prayer to [[Scabies]]), this ring allows you to retain it indefinitely.
  
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* '''Wand of Striking''' - One zap is usually enough to break the lock, at the severe risk of damaging the contents.
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* [[Amulets|Amulet of Life Saving]]: Basically gives you a second life. That's a *lot*.
  
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* '''Explosions''' - as above, a powerful enough explosion with obliterate the lock, at the risk of damaging the contents.
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* [[Amulets|Amulet of Elemental Protection]]: Grants resistance to all [[damage|elements]]. As you can be easily obliterated by any [[Trap#Landmine|mine]] in the [[Gloomy Caves]], this may save your life.
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* [[Amulets|Amulet of Magic Breath]]: Immunity to gases *and* swimming!
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* [[Amulets|Amulet of Phasing]]: Walk through walls freely! Note however that this amulet is temporary and will eventually disappear. Thus it should only be wished if you really need to be able to outrun and outmaneuver any monster for a while.
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* [[Amulets|Amulet of Disease Immunity]]: [[Leprosy]] shall scare you no more!
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* [[Body armor|Armor of Great Health]]: If you have scrolls of enchant armor, this gives a huge boost to your [[HP]]s. Again, a broken one may have a better material, but usually you want to use a scroll of change material for this one, anyway.
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* [[Belts|Belt of Levitation]] or [[Cloaks|Cloak of Flying]]: You're flying as long as you have this equipped. Makes you tougher to hit and nearly immune to [[Trap|bear traps and mines]]. Make sure something doesn't step on a mine if you're near one, though; you can still be hit by the blast.
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* [[Tools#Pickaxes|Pickaxe]]: Your source of unlimited digging. [[Polypiling]] for one may be better, though.
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* [[Holy Handgrenade of Antioch]]: Obliterates almost any foe in a single *KABOOM*.
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=== Magic Items ===
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* [[Scroll of Change Material]]: This is a great way of improving your gear and limbs. Which [[materials]] you can wish for depends on your [[intelligence]]; thus you may wish to [[polymorph]] to a more intelligent [[Monsters|monster]] before using this. Good materials include eg. [[Phoenix Feather]], [[Mithril]] and [[Octiron]].
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* [[Scrolls|Scroll of Body Switch]]: Switch bodies with a powerful monster and get all their abilities!
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* [[Scrolls|Scroll of Taming]]: There is nothing like good [[pets]] but do not try to use this on any quest monster.
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* [[Scrolls|Scroll of Immolation]]: You will be able to send a fireball even through walls with this scroll. Sadly, it only works once per scroll, so it's best paired with a [[Wand of Cloning]].
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* [[Scrolls|Scroll of Charging]]: If you have a good [[wand]] and want it recharged for further use.
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* [[Wand of Cloning]]: These by themselves are not useful, but if you do have some other useful item to clone, this is worth its weight in gold. With one charge you can clone a pile of five items. Note that certain items like wands of cloning, scrolls of wishing or scrolls of charging cannot be cloned because this could be abused. It is therefore sometimes wise to drop more than five items in pile in case the game doesn't allow some to be cloned. If you have a powerful pet like [[Ivan]] or a [[mammoth]], you may lure it above the items so it will be cloned, too. You can also stand on the item pile and zap yourself, in which case you will be copied along with the stack. Note that when cloning a pet or yourself, the clone will be born without any equipment and only four items under it will be copied.
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* [[Wand of Polymorph]]: Especially early in a game, you can use this wand for [[polypiling]] to quickly gather resources.
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* [[Wand of Resurrection]]: If you have managed to get a unique monster as a pet, this may be extremely useful. It may also be used to quickly replace lost limbs.
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* [[Holy Banana of Oily Orpiv]]: Has terrific explosive power which can aid you in boss battles. Also trains all [[attributes]] when eaten. Be sure to store this in a hard container like [[Container|strongbox]], because if it explodes in your inventory, you're in BIG trouble.
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* [[Musical Instrument|Magical Whistle]]: Handling more than two pets is almost impossible without this.
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* [[Musical Instrument|Lyre of Charm]]:
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* A magical [[horn]]: Either horn of healing, or horn of plenty.
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* [[Sol Stone]]
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* [[Large and Mysterious Saga of the Pantheon]]
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* [[Celestial Monograph of Solicitus]]
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== What not to wish for ==
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* Money: You get [[Valuables|50 million roubles]] which sells for just 2 gold pieces.
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* [[Banana|Gun]] or [[Carrot|Bazooka]]
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* skeleton key: You just get a fish skeleton.
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Latest revision as of 15:32, 14 April 2020

Spoiler Warning: This page contains spoilers which may affect your IVAN experience negatively


Wishing is an opportunity to gain any single item of the player's choosing.


Getting a wish

There are several ways to obtain a wish, including:

  • Using the (X) command in wizmode, through which you will gain 5 scrolls of wishing.


What to wish for

IVAN has many useful items, but the following are good and rare enough to be prime candidates for wishing.

WIP!

Equipment

  • Beast claw: A rare weapon using Unarmed Combat skill, you might want to wish for it if you plan to use unarmed for the whole game.
  • A good helmet: Helmet of brilliance, helmet of piercing perception, or helmet of telepathy are probably the best picks.
  • Cloak or Ring of Invisibility: Invisibility is a great tactical advantage, but it also causes much more dangerous monsters to be generated.
  • Ring of Polymorph Control: Very useful if you happen to have a way of polymorphing. Note that being very powerful may cause tough monsters like Dark Mages to spawn, which is not nice if you encounter them after you have returned to your original form.
  • Ring of Detection: Randomly prompts you to pick a material to detect. Very handy.
  • Ring of Unchanging: If you acquired a powerful polymorph form (eg. from prayer to Scabies), this ring allows you to retain it indefinitely.
  • Amulet of Phasing: Walk through walls freely! Note however that this amulet is temporary and will eventually disappear. Thus it should only be wished if you really need to be able to outrun and outmaneuver any monster for a while.
  • Armor of Great Health: If you have scrolls of enchant armor, this gives a huge boost to your HPs. Again, a broken one may have a better material, but usually you want to use a scroll of change material for this one, anyway.

Magic Items

  • Scroll of Immolation: You will be able to send a fireball even through walls with this scroll. Sadly, it only works once per scroll, so it's best paired with a Wand of Cloning.
  • Wand of Cloning: These by themselves are not useful, but if you do have some other useful item to clone, this is worth its weight in gold. With one charge you can clone a pile of five items. Note that certain items like wands of cloning, scrolls of wishing or scrolls of charging cannot be cloned because this could be abused. It is therefore sometimes wise to drop more than five items in pile in case the game doesn't allow some to be cloned. If you have a powerful pet like Ivan or a mammoth, you may lure it above the items so it will be cloned, too. You can also stand on the item pile and zap yourself, in which case you will be copied along with the stack. Note that when cloning a pet or yourself, the clone will be born without any equipment and only four items under it will be copied.
  • Wand of Resurrection: If you have managed to get a unique monster as a pet, this may be extremely useful. It may also be used to quickly replace lost limbs.
  • Holy Banana of Oily Orpiv: Has terrific explosive power which can aid you in boss battles. Also trains all attributes when eaten. Be sure to store this in a hard container like strongbox, because if it explodes in your inventory, you're in BIG trouble.
  • Magical Whistle: Handling more than two pets is almost impossible without this.
  • A magical horn: Either horn of healing, or horn of plenty.

What not to wish for

  • skeleton key: You just get a fish skeleton.
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