I lol'd. Gratz. Pure level-one-nuke awesomeness. And some quite creative thinking, both of You guys

That's damn good! Makes me wanna actually touch some IVAN beyond version 0.50!

Guides are fun. "Cheap bastard's guide" makes it sound like Paladin Press.

Yeah, the belt of levitation. There are several 100% guaranteed-to-work ways of beating the sumo, that's the best part (gaining 30+ Dex, kicking...). I was lucky enough to get it from a fountain about 10 times, so it makes me think that perhaps it's one of the more probable "perma" things to get from them.

Ey,Izzy - got a problem with that?

Some people are just not Slob and don't have the habit to get to the point quickly, when writing IVAN advice (if You're insisting I swing my e-peen all around).

Using the 'dip' command ('!' key) You can for example make two "half-full" bottles of healing liquid by dipping a bottle of healing liquid in an empty bottle. Before late game, You don't need the full, 1150g, ones anyway, and drinking a 650g one will result in a full heal anyway.

Praying to Mellis may help You make use of the empty bottles, too

I always found the arcanite plate mail from Atavus lightweight, cool. But after developing some leg strength or gaining perma levitation (so I can wear a belt of carrying), I prefer to switch to an adamantine plate mail.

How do I do it as early as on GC1?

It's simple. I stick to my buddy gods - the neutral gods. As You know, Loricatus can harden any iron-family material of any piece of armor that You have, provided You "wield" it. He is almost guaranteed to harden the material if it meets the intelligence requirements as if You were hardening it.

But if You happen to share a flat, be in a frat, hang out on raves, pub-crawl, drag race, sing karaoke, play scrabble or just pray regularly to Loricatus, these limitations apparently do not apply.

Note : In the steps below, I assume You also know Silva (so You can have free munchies and improving relations with Loricatus), and Mellis (for all the extra stuff, and improving relations with Loricatus). I suppose it's best to be used in town.

!!!:
1. Wield the copper/bronze/iron/steel/meteoric steel item You want to harden.
2. Pray to Loricatus and the other gods.
3. Leave town, run around, or wait 3 hours otherwise.
4. Back to step 2, continue until the item of Your choice is hardened enough times to be solid adamantium.

Of course, it may take You a lot of time - the chance of getting an upgrade "beyond intelligence" is small already and favor seems to only slightly increase the probability. Sometimes I had it happen by surprise, sometimes it took me a couple of days to have an adamantine plate mail. But oh, was it all worth it !

Other fun stuff:
- Pray to different gods, running around and praying is a sure way to make good relations even with "conflicting" gods (I for example like having Nefas + Seges)
- This method is GREAT if You happen to have a goblin in UT4 drop a bronze short sword + 9 or stumble upon an iron plate mail +4!
- Running around while NOT encumbered or bloated will train Agility, the opposite will train Leg Strength
- This post is long and unnatractive.

Ding dong hi thar, dood.

I think the most important use of Wisdom is... increasing Your intelligence. Which is very important because, as Capristo noted - it is helpful with changing materials. And teleporting.

If You sci-talk ('C'hat with for example hunters and spawn some overcomplicated, sophisticated topics), Your Intelligence is trained (as is Wisdom, actually). Certain beings have certain requirements of BOTH Int and Wis.

Apart from sci-talk, reading some more "rare" scrolls trains Int very good (it's more benefitable to read a scroll of enchant weapon then for example even 3 scrolls of teleportation).

If You want a good way to train Wisdom, I suggest that as soon as You get to know some gods and decide which You want to have the best reations with (for starters You could choose one alignment of gods, like for example pray ONLY to Silva, Loricatus and Mellis), You just pray every now and then. Even when You don't need their assistance - the gods in IVAN are benelovent and luv prayers'n'shit. After some prayers, to either of them, You should notice Your Wisdom stat rising.

Cheers

Congratulations dood!


The biggest abuser is being stressed and satiated at the same time (get bloated for extra abuse)... I don't know about the boots, but I did some code-diving and it confirms the things I mentioned above. But probably any material of high density (i.e.metal and stone) can abuse it...

Meh, I'd rather see an instakilling tonberry than just no tonberry.