Help test 0.53 pre-release

Any suggestions for better colors?


The thing is, accuracy is based on weapon weight and material flexibility, so light enough mace will be accurate. Restricting maces to only inaccurate would have to be done by preventing the spawning of light materials.

Hm, is there any way we could get a graphic of all the materials and their colors? I wouldn't mind going through that.

For blood-red iron specifically, maybe a darker, slightly browner shade?

Hope I don't come across as complaining too much. I love the additions, but one of the nice things about vanilla IVAN is being able to see an item and instantly know what material it is without having to read the text or inspect it. Or in some cases, for example, white, you might not know exactly what material, but if it's white then it's definitely something valuable (mithril, ommel bone, etc). So if we have varieties of iron that are all the same shade as gray, that's fine with me (as long as they all have the same/very close properties) but when we have two completely different materials having the same color that's where it gets a little frustrating

In wizmode, you can press "*" and select material properties. It will show you all materials in color.


I understand that. I tried to give the new materials distinct colors, too, but I probably wasn't 100% successful.

Oh perfect, thanks. I'll look through them then.

Also re: maces, I think I'd be ok with restricting them to heavy materials. Kind of makes sense anyway, it's that type of weapon

Incredible work here guys. I haven't been able to figure out the smithing rooms yet, do anvils and furnaces serve any function? I saw an item underneath an anvil in my last game and couldn't retrieve it, I tried kicking it out but i only kicked the anvil

Amazed by this release.

Currently you can only crack it with a sturdy pick-axe, or resolve it with acid. Maybe you can also try to teleport the scroll away?

Ah thanks for the anvil tips.


I'm also having autosave problems, though I think it worked at least once in the past. I have save files but IVAN crashes every time I try to continue them. I hope there's a way to salvage them, I'm finally strong enough to survive the onslaught of golems. I only LOST MY ARM TO A MAN MADE OF BREAD.

Also having trouble compiling the linux version, cmake says it is unable to find a cxx compiler but I'm sure that's a problem on my end. So I'm using Windows version through Wine.

Well I somehow managed to accidentally delete my strong guy autosaves, dangit. I figured out how to compile though. C++ support is not included in GCC by default, G++ must also be installed. This wasn't terribly clear from the INSTALL instructions. So far it looks like the golem problem has already been resolved in the source, nice.

Another Kiwi makes three! Or do you grow them instead? Good to have another veteran player back Stihdjia.

Could somebody help me out with an alternative download link to Github? Github will not let me download the full file no matter what I try, it starts at 20 kb/s then steadily drops to 0 and fails over about 2 megabytes every single time.

It's a huge bummer as I'm pretty eager to play the new version, especially considering oldschool roguelikes are one of the few things that work on my current Potato of a PC.

Here you go

Thank you!

The fir chest with a broken lock seems to be locked.

I think my character might need new glasses.

Already fixed in the upcoming release.

Sorry, should've used the search function!