Sorry about this nasty trap as well. I set it to 1, which is the same as normal death. Elpuri victory is worth 2 times the score. You see, I didn't know how difficult the victory would be as compared to the Elpuri or other victories. I know for certain it is easier to complete the mango tree victory. What's your opinion on the difficulty? I'm thinking of setting a score level between 1.25 and 1.5 times for the mango tree victory.

Does that seem reasonable, or does it need to be made more difficult?

Good on you Papa for sticking it out and testing out the new dungeon more or less to the end. It looks like there may be a few too many monsters. I think that may be because of the respawn rate of monsters on that level, they reappear quite soon. I don't really know if it's a bug, perhaps it is a feature. I know that invisibility makes the game quite a lot easier in the forest since most monsters don't notice you.

Hmm. Perhaps there should have been a separate prisoner team after all. I'll see to it that this is fixed in the next release.

Detect Enner Beast Flesh.

Congrats Stihdjia on the high priest victory

Thanks for the encouragement Erno
The tricky part is where to begin with dungeon scripting? I'll read Holybanana's stuff carefully and see if I can keep it in a similar style. I'd like to know what people would like to know about dungeon engineering.

In other news, I updated CLIVAN to fix the sumo crash, I rebalanced spetums, tip swords and knight swords so they are harder to find and are made of straightforward materials. You'll also have a higher chance to find broken versions of those meleeweapons over normal ones. I switched damascus steel and adamant around, and damascus steel sits just above meteoric steel for hardness, so the iron alloy family is now a bit more linear.

Actually, I don't feel particularly qualified to write up a cook book on dungeon scripting. I doscovered something new while trying to do so. And so the word of the day is ``BoundedRandom''.

Just try copying and pasting the Gloomy Caves plugging it into the dragon tower and making changes to that for starters. That will help you learn the what bits do what.
Once you're satisfied with your ability to manipulate the script, then you can script from scratch (still a lot of copy and paste).

While you explore, keep a paper notebook of what you're doing, and write down your ideas. Be open to the possibility it may be a long process. I spent about 6 months sourcediving and squinting at the code before I began compiling :/

Also, if you get stuck, I can help

Start by changing the grassy ground in New_Attnam to sand!

Making a totally new dungeon appear in the worldmap requires a little bit of code to instantiate it in the wordmap. The unfinished dungeons just need scripting only (and maybe a little coding to make it snazzy, but that might come later).

Scripting is tricky and time consuming, because the only feedback is to go into the game and playtest it to see if what is scripted corresponds to the intended design.

Perhaps I'll write an IVAN dungeon building cookbook explaining what goes where.

Dragon Tower was Lampshade's creation, but I never continued with it. If anyone ever manages to find the Tomb of Xinroch, then they will be similarly disappointed. I've found the scripting to be quite time consuming, so if anyone wants to work on either of these worldmap locations (DT or ToX), then they would be very welcome. I'd be happy to lend support with regards to bug or blooper catching.

Scripting doesn't entail coding, so all you need is a nice text editor to make the changes.

Two things:
1) DT is available immediately after UT, so it should follow a similar difficulty scale as Gloomy Cave (GC)
2) ToX SPOILER ALERT. Click here to see text.
So to script ToX, the difficulty level of that dungeon needs to be sufficiently high to challenge a player capable of surviving the Enner, and about three or four days of questing in the game. I imagined ToX to be some kind of ridiculously difficult dungeon, probably more difficult than what exists presently.

So anyone who sticks their hand up and delivers the goods, I'll put it into CLIVAN and you can be an author :D

Darn, sorry Cap. This one's another script fix, but I'll need to put a default value in the code to stop this bug from affecting people who may want to code/script the game in future.

In dungeon.dat, you need to put an extra line in the room script for the Sumo Arena:

Dungeon NEW_ATTNAM;
{
  Levels = 2;

  Level 0;
  {
    ...
  }
  
  Level 1;
  {
    Description = "New Attnam's sumo wrestling arena";
    ShortDescription = "SumoArena";
    ...
    Room
    {
       Pos =
       Size =
       ...
       UseFillSquareWalls =
       Flags =
       [color=#00ff00]GenerateWards = false; /* <-- Add this line */[/color]

       Square ...
    }
  }
}

I hope you can load your game again

Sorry for the radio silence, I was away for 72 hours.


The secondary material configs are a hangover from LIVAN, and I haven't changed them since.
For the more powerful meleeweapons that lampshade introduced (like TIP_SWORDs etc) these could remain slightly more powerful than traditional weapons, but with a higher than normal EnchantmentMinusChance when unbroken and EnchantmentPlusChance = 0; when broken. This would have the effect that the player is forced to make more investments (scroll of enchant weapon, scroll of repair or otherwise) to make those weapons viable.

The ratio of (BrokenPossibility / Possibility) for the canonical meleeweapons is about 0.1 so Lampshade's weapons (and any others for that matter) could be leveled out according to that. Maybe broken KNIGHT_SWORDs should be more prevalent than normal ones?

I agree that more low-power weapons could be added, like stone-aged weapons. Revisiting those outrageous weapon material choices is a good way of controlling things as well.


This bug has been around since LIVAN as well. It stems from the bug where wishing for a flaming long-sword would result in a crash.
You wouldn't believe it, but it is a one-line script file fix. To fix the bug, add the line "IsAbstract = true;" in the following way to item.dat:

...
flamingsword /* meleeweapon-> */
{
  Adjective = "flaming";
  BaseEmitation = rgb24(150, 120, 90);
  [color=#008080]IsAbstract = true;[/color]

  Config LONG_SWORD;
  {
    ...

Have fun looking at the items.

A more puzzling matter is when a dwarven gas grenade filled with whatever, is offered at the altar of Dulcis