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Nov 6, 2019, 11:03 pm

#976

Mage Prophet

Joined: Dec 3, 2007
Occupation: Chaos Weaver
Location: Standing between all life and death
Posts: 2,922

Chests rarely have anything fragile in them, I just kick them against walls until the lock breaks.

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

Nov 7, 2019, 2:34 am

#977

wolf

Joined: Dec 14, 2017
Location: Finland
Posts: 230

red_kangaroo wrote

If you go to the bottom of Attnamese Catacombs, you might find someone carrying a hexagonal/octagonal key, too.

Is that random? I only got hexagonal keys, while all the meteoric steel chests had octagonal locks

Nov 7, 2019, 3:10 am

#978

archangel

Joined: Apr 2, 2014
Occupation: Navastating
Location: Aslona
Posts: 854

badbeaver wrote

Is that random? I only got hexagonal keys, while all the meteoric steel chests had octagonal locks

Yeah, the key is random. Sometimes the streaks of bad luck are incredible.

The Library of Attnam

Nov 18, 2019, 8:56 am

#979

Caped Crusader

Joined: Dec 17, 2007
Occupation: Taking Names, Formerly Kicking Ass
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 995

Found a bottle of warp fluid, what does it do? I am doing to well to try to drink it this game, and i am too busy to try and wish one up in wizmode to see what it does.

Booooooooooo!

Nov 18, 2019, 9:16 am

#980

wolf

Joined: Dec 14, 2017
Location: Finland
Posts: 230

Batman? wrote

Found a bottle of warp fluid, what does it do? I am doing to well to try to drink it this game, and i am too busy to try and wish one up in wizmode to see what it does.

SPOILER ALERT. Click here to see text.

Teleports you to a random spot

Nov 19, 2019, 7:00 pm

#981

zombie

Joined: Oct 9, 2016
Posts: 42

Any tips on how to survive the crystal caves? Do I need any specific armor, weapons or items that would be of any help?

Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties!

Nov 19, 2019, 9:12 pm

#982

zombie

Joined: Jul 9, 2019
Occupation: Studio Art: sculpting major, and photography minor
Location: Cliping through the floor.
Interests: Photography, sculpting, games, anthropologie, the Copper Age to Medieval history, and Ivan. (Of course.)
Posts: 39

stoovan wrote

Any tips on how to survive the crystal caves? Do I need any specific armor, weapons or items that would be of any help?

Make sure you have a weapon that your character is good at blocking/parrying with and have strong chest armor, around ten points should work. And don't be burned, but I think you know that.

Nov 20, 2019, 2:04 am

#983

archangel

Joined: Apr 2, 2014
Occupation: Navastating
Location: Aslona
Posts: 854

stoovan wrote

Any tips on how to survive the crystal caves? Do I need any specific armor, weapons or items that would be of any help?

Also invisibility is good, because the crystal golems cannot see invisible and you can just run around them.

If you can pray to Nefas, wait until you have a mistress or two and let them handle the majority of the enemies.

The Library of Attnam

Mar 4, 2020, 12:48 pm

#984

mutant ass

Joined: Jun 29, 2017
Occupation: Professional Amateur Wizard
Location: Spider nest, caught in a web
Interests: Rattling bones
Posts: 61

Loricatus can harden ANY item in your hands - this means you can cleverly (with some luck) use Loricatus to act as free harden material for your armors too, not just weapons.

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"I think my associates were turned into monkeys." ~Shitty Bill

Mar 4, 2020, 11:46 pm

#985

wolf

Joined: Dec 14, 2017
Location: Finland
Posts: 230

He can harden only the materials that are related to him, if I remember correcty

Mar 6, 2020, 6:29 pm

#986

The Imperialist

Joined: Dec 2, 2007
Location: New Attnam
Interests: bananas
Posts: 2,317

MrMagolor wrote

Loricatus can harden ANY item in your hands - this means you can cleverly (with some luck) use Loricatus to act as free harden material for your armors too, not just weapons.

No luck needed

SPOILER ALERT. Click here to see text.

if you just strip everything off except for the 1 item that you want hardened, as long as he chooses to bless you with harden material, that item will be chosen

Mar 24, 2020, 11:57 am

#987

skunk

Joined: Aug 11, 2016
Location: Hell
Posts: 1

Tried to wish for a wand of polymorph but the genie told me to be more specific. I remember this was possible in the past, can you not wish for a wand of polymorph anymore? I even tried different spellings and capitalization of the words.

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bruh

Apr 10, 2020, 8:58 am

#988

wolf

Joined: Dec 14, 2017
Location: Finland
Posts: 230

If one uses a weapon with two hands, if one is artificial and has obscene dex, and the other one isn't, then does one attack with the speed of the natural arm?

Apr 10, 2020, 12:54 pm

#989

The Imperialist

Joined: Dec 2, 2007
Location: New Attnam
Interests: bananas
Posts: 2,317

If it's a one handed weapon it definitely checks which hand it is in. Not sure about two-handed though.

Apr 10, 2020, 5:14 pm

#990

Ex-Tyrant of the IVANers

Joined: Dec 8, 2007
Occupation: Junior Scientist
Location: Not California
Interests: Physics and Astronomy, Exoplanets, Singing praise to Valpurus while smashing skulls with a bloody warhammer, Jogging
Posts: 2,920

My naive assumption is that for a weapon wielded in both hands, it would use your displayed (that is, average) dexterity and strength for all calculations. Anyone with source access and time to kill want to check?

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

Apr 16, 2020, 3:46 pm

#991

gibberling

Joined: Dec 19, 2018
Occupation: Pharmacy Tech
Location: USA
Interests: ZZT, Roleplaying,
Posts: 84

I abused half a dozen wands of teleport to get a meteoric steel chest to a dungeon vendor while Overloaded! and sell it for an obscene amount of money. Sadly after all these years that's the first time the idea has ever occurred to me.

Energizer - you are invincible
ZZT @narchists unite! Turn off the dark, get free money, defeat death itself!

Apr 16, 2020, 6:29 pm

#992

The Imperialist

Joined: Dec 2, 2007
Location: New Attnam
Interests: bananas
Posts: 2,317

Nice! Never thought of that and never stopped to think how valuable those are either

Aug 7, 2020, 9:46 pm

#993

wolf

Joined: Dec 14, 2017
Location: Finland
Posts: 230

So, it turns out, that if you sever a skeleton's limb when there is a dog/jackal nearby, the animal is going to eat it and become tame, didn't know it worked that way.

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Aug 10, 2020, 8:24 am

#994

Caped Crusader

Joined: Dec 17, 2007
Occupation: Taking Names, Formerly Kicking Ass
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 995

That is one of the coolest things I have heard in a while.

Booooooooooo!

Feb 4, 1:53 pm

#995

gibberling

Joined: Dec 19, 2018
Occupation: Pharmacy Tech
Location: USA
Interests: ZZT, Roleplaying,
Posts: 84

The new Black Market can be semi-abused by buying up all the oil lanterns and trying for genies, then selling them all back. Any hostile ones are quickly dispatched by the proprietor.

Energizer - you are invincible
ZZT @narchists unite! Turn off the dark, get free money, defeat death itself!