That is a low price to pay for being able to kill Sherry in melle or outrun her when you don't feel like it. As for levitation, I never leave for Caves without it, especially since beating Huang Po Wing Some-Thing dude is so easy in CVS. Sturdy non-metal arms and legs armorpieces should also prevent acids from harming PF limbs.

1. Clone scroll until I get 5 of each type (except Tele, MatDet, Golem and Charging), SoCM, cans of ommel cerumen (and only that), carrots.

2. Limbs, but only after I get 20 INT and some SOHM scrolls to get Phoenix Feather

3. Arm, it's more important to fend of creeps thant to carry a lot.

4. SOCM, CLONING WAND, CHARGING SCROLL

5. Light, preferably Angel hair +1 taken from good angels or anything else not affecting DEX and AGI

6. Valpurium two-handed sword and Saal'thul (it's like damage + invisibility).

Losing normal limbs can also be done by leprosy. A very unsafe way is to anger some gods that can teleport limbs away or mages that do the same. The best limb material IMHO is Phoenix Feather, because it grants insane value of 120 DEX and AGI. It gives a good chance of surviving melle with Sherarax and even beating her (I tried this 'bout dozen of times in real game and more than half of my attempts to kill Sherry in melle were succesful).

Cool! I know Mantis well (worked as a beta-tester and QA worker for almost 1,5 years) so I will do as much testing and bugwriting as I will be able to. Let us proceed for the gr8er glory of IVAN!

Readig books can change relations with gods. I would advice you to read all the avaliable books of the gods on the same side of the force that the one we want to champ with is on, then his books and after that give him loads of stuff. The timer shown in praying menu for Valp/Morty resets to 0 each time you get your champing prayer in CVS, so be damn sure to wait 2 days and 3 hours before praying again.

Well, not exacly found, but I've got my hands on two-handed valpurium sword before reaching UT3. As well as Angel Hair armor +1 and some lame mithril arms from angels. But that was thanks to finding 2 HHG.

Well... I intend to kill gods one by one, take their place and rule the square pancake. That should give me more than cheap x5 score multiplier I got for high priest win last time.

So, there is a little bug with HHG. If player pulls out the holy pin, leaves the granade somwhere and then leave the area it will not exsplode after return. Still, it will be unusable beacuse the pin is out already and booming voice counting will nor re-occur.

PS. Sometimes I give HHG to gods, but only after taking out the pin. I always hope to kill them that way.

Well... maybe Hiccups status can be instantly stopped by getting Panicked status?
Any secrets left...propably no, but there are still tricks and wicked techniques to be made & tested.
Anyway, it would be nice to get IVAN to version 1.00 before the world's end.

Yes it does... recently I had a power shortage during playing IVAN and Autosave did messed up my normal save (the game keeps them both for some reason). Heck, that would be another victory for sure