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Or with a meteoric steel (or harder) pick axe. Unfortunately this will only net you blue and purple stones if you use meteoric steel, as meteoric steel has exactly the same hardness as green light crystal -- thus it can't dig through it. Fortunately however as far as light sources are concerned the three colors are functionally identical; they only vary in the color of the light produced.

You can always go back and look around, find that sort of thing, buff up some before you go face him. Probably a good idea to enter the level and make him spawn beforehand though.

Good call. Of all the releases 050 is probably the most balanced. It's also the only one I've had the patience to beat.

I think he was referring to whips' immunity to acid (due to the inability to break).

Speaking of that sort of thing, in addition to the arcanite chain being powerful, they're dangerous to an acid-shield user in another way: the acid gets on the weapon. Then you're getting hit with an acid-coated powerful weapon, which is a quick road to a violent death.

Possibly... but if your opponent is attacking you with an arcanite/mithril/octiron weapon you're probably in a fair bit of trouble anyways.

I'll leave that for someone more versed in forum-combing. However I will point out that, assuming you're playing CVS (or one of it's variants) and not 050, finding an acid shield would be a good argument for playing a S&S game. Just don't bank on getting your opponent's weapon. Like, ever.

It was an accurate geuss; as your skill with a weapon rises, so does your accuracy. Accuracy determines blocking ability. Shields probably have some modifier that affects this, but a wooden shield is still better than a metal one (generally) because the wooden shield is lighter and more accurate. Unfortunately it also breaks faster.

However as far as I know, most people play dual-wield, or two-hander. S&S isn't too common in IVAN because your damage output is generally lower, and it doesn't train AStr as efficiently, which tends to limit your ability to use larger weapons (as well as your damage).

isn't there a force-move command?

That's different. That's actually an event in the game, where it spawns a *mirrored* flaming valpurium sword +10.