BTW, how was your fight with the ghost of Xinroch? Hard enough/too weak?


Maybe we could add a room of mind worms? Or add more dark mages and mystic dark frogs to the tactical level?

Anyone knows where could I find the code that governs naming of golems?

I'm trying to add material softening, including being ablt to zap a golem to soften its material. That works fine, but while I can update thier appearance, I didn't find where to update their name to reflect their new material.

You mean whether blink dogs should summon more of themselves? Yeah, that's intentional. There's a limit, just like with mushrooms.

Wow, that was quick! Good job.

I made that change a while back, and then reverted it when people were concerned about artifacts falling behind in power compared to normal weapons that can be upgraded to eg. adamant. So right now, most artifacts can be material-changed, barring a few that would have some properties broken by having their material changed.

I still think it would be more interesting if artifacts had immutable materials and their powers came more from their special effects, though.

I did.

Also in the first picture, isn't that the remains of the kamikaze dwarf on that island? Maybe something like a gas trap spawned on his island and he died before you even saw him?

Hi dirtydingusmagee and welcome to the forums!

You are more than welcome to contribute in any way you want.


I'd be hesitant to nerf mustard gas, as there are already mutliple ways to counter it. Gas immunity preotects from it completely, you can newly 'T'aste healing liquid to heal only a few hp, effectively countering the DoT of mustard gas with only one or two bottles of healing liquid, searching or levitation makes you not trigger the traps in the first place, plus there's regeneration, polymorph etc.

Acid resistance is also too readily available, IMHO, and the original devs made mustard gas use a non-acid damage for a reason - it should be scary. Think about how dangerous landmines are, and how you can best survive them by not triggering them - that's how you should treat mustard gas.


No, just no. IVAN is awsome and unique in how smoothly and naturally it integrates gaining power to normal gameplay. Level-ups would be completely out of place in IVAN. The same goes for training skills - in DCSS, you can fight with spears, but train axes, because that's what you picked to train... Really?

If you're concerned about grinding, think about it like that - grinding by definition quickly becomes boring, tedious and not worth it in the long run. Let the few players who want to be bored do what they want to do, but the rest will play normally. Thus grinding is not really a problem.


That may work in DCSS, but IVAN is designed around finding valuables (gems, treasure) in the dungeons and selling it for gold. There is no other way to gain gold, so you must be able to sell stuff.


Yeah, that would be great.


But skill already let's you win much more reliably! You probably already can easily get through the UT, and you couldn't do that when you started playing. GC or TX just needs different tactics to reliably plough through, and some poeple on the forums (JoKe or Serin-Delaunay) seem to be able to win nearly any game.

But yeah, it takes some time to get from blind luck wins to pure skill wins. I'm not even close in skill to be able to win the game without some luck.

I think you also need a proof of slaying Petrus, ie. his nut.

I think the check is in place to prevent players from accidentally getting a Chaos ending when they already have both the nut and the shirt required for a High Priest ending, so they are not actually incompatible.


Don't worry, it's gonna be !!!FUN!!!. (And good luck.)

Hm, do you have it in open inventory?