All About Chests

Dec 14, 2007, 10:44 pm

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The Imperialist

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Some from the old forum:

Kick bear traps to disable them harmlessly (does NOT work with mines

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Wait with the 's'earch command when enemies are approaching. This takes less time than hitting '.' so that you always get the first hit in a fight

With those meteoric steel chests, if you don't have strong enough legs to break the locks, you can use a wand of striking. (Just hope there are no bottles in it or they will shatter)

Dec 15, 2007, 4:20 am

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Ex-Tyrant of the IVANers

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You can also SoCM them into, say, beef, and then eat them. (The chests that is. Not so effective for mine disabling.)

"Put more stuff in the... thing where... more stuff goes in."

Feb 16, 2011, 8:21 pm

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kobold lord

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Kenny just said "meow." and then he said "Can't you understand I can't speek?"

also...

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there was an amulet of life saving and scroll of teleport in the small one though.

Feb 18, 2011, 6:16 am

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Chest in a chest? Nice!

Feb 18, 2011, 9:37 am

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Mage Prophet

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It's not as rare as you'd think. I've seen several myself. Question is, does a chest within a chest grant additional protection for items within?

Uchuudonge wrote

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sewing order into the chaos
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Feb 18, 2011, 3:21 pm

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gibberling

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Yo Dawg, I've heard You like chests, so I've put a chest inside your chest so you can protect stuff while protecting stuff. But seriously, I just tested it and it seems that storing box in box can help protecting agains wand of fireballs or mines, but not from kicking and throwing.

Feb 18, 2011, 4:29 pm

#7

kobold lord

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I thought stuff that was in a box could not go off no matter what!

Feb 18, 2011, 4:49 pm

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Atavus

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Strongboxes are my personal favourite when it comes to security and peace of mind

System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.

Feb 18, 2011, 9:09 pm

#9

Mage Prophet

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Nice. How'd you test that one Zulox?

Uchuudonge wrote

creating stable chaos
making patterns where there should be none
sewing order into the chaos
you spit in the face of random numbers, of chaos

Feb 19, 2011, 2:59 am

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The Imperialist

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cowofdoom78963 wrote

I thought stuff that was in a box could not go off no matter what!

I think Elpuri and/or the mystic dark frogs can explode stuff even when it's in a chest.

Feb 19, 2011, 4:36 am

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gibberling

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Took one box/chest of each type and size and placed a granade in each one and then put box to small chest, this two to normal chest and contained that inside large. After that I went for some mine-stomping, added a little wandzapping followed by chest-kicking and box-throwing. After each mine/spell/kick I've been checking how many granades there are left in the chest matryoshka.

Feb 19, 2011, 6:28 am

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Nicely done Zulox.

And yes, Elpuri can blow up things inside chests. Haathbar warns you of that.

Uchuudonge wrote

creating stable chaos
making patterns where there should be none
sewing order into the chaos
you spit in the face of random numbers, of chaos

Feb 19, 2011, 8:56 am

#13

kobold lord

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I think that chests don't protect against strikes from a wand of striking, or casted by elder dark mages/Ischaldirh and Elpuri's attacks. Besides that, a chest can protect from anything else I believe.

Feb 19, 2011, 11:50 am

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It's also worth checking if material's strenght makes a diference. Whenever I get good char with lots of SoCMs I change one big chest to GEF, just to make it lighter and easier to spot if it happens to get 'potred away, and it seems to me like it is helping a little.

Feb 19, 2011, 1:35 pm

#15

kobold lord

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In my last win I used a strongbox made of cloth and it didn't get blown by anything. I dont know if elpuri or a mystic frog tried but there's what happened.

Feb 19, 2011, 8:34 pm

#16

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Azhael wrote

I think that chests don't protect against strikes from a wand of striking, or casted by elder dark mages/Ischaldirh and Elpuri's attacks. Besides that, a chest can protect from anything else I believe.

Wrong. Explosions can do it too. People tend to get protection against fire though, which helps.

Uchuudonge wrote

creating stable chaos
making patterns where there should be none
sewing order into the chaos
you spit in the face of random numbers, of chaos

Feb 19, 2011, 8:45 pm

#17

The Imperialist

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are you saying that fire protection also protects items in your inventory?

Feb 19, 2011, 9:31 pm

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Yes. Then there's this

Uchuudonge wrote

creating stable chaos
making patterns where there should be none
sewing order into the chaos
you spit in the face of random numbers, of chaos

Feb 20, 2011, 4:39 pm

#19

kobold lord

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capristo wrote

are you saying that fire protection also protects items in your inventory?

I have noticed that things in your inventory dont tend to break unless take dammage from the blast, but Im probably wrong.though.

Speaking of that, does acid resistance protect your equipment as well?

Feb 21, 2011, 10:47 pm

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in my experience yes.