Lot's of folks say hedgehogs are super deadly in the beginning of the game. This is true until you get a pair of gauntlets or boots, once you have either you can kick or punch them much more safely. A trick I always use at the start of the game is to go to new attnam and get some banana peels from Huang Ming Pong. I usually scitalk with the banana growers for a wis/int boost and get at least 6 peels. Then when you meet a hedgehog, run and drop peels behind you. the poor little critter will slip and die.

you shouldn't drink poison, it's bad for you

Over the years I've heard lots of people grumble about magic mushrooms and how they can ruin a game. Even though I did my MSc studying mushrooms IRL I've never shared my IVAN mushroom strategy. But now, for just three easy payments of 88 gold*, these secrets can be yours.

Here is the secret. Mushrooms (magic and giant) will keep spawning unless you destroy their corpses. When you see a magic mushroom kill it right away and eat it (if you have poly control or can summon a strong pet first) or pick up the corpse and carry it out to the world map where you will never see it again once you drop it. I like to gamble and usually just eat them but you can go in and out of the magic clouds until you get poly control. Once you find one magic mushroom scour the whole level (run) for more. If you don;t find any the congrats - you just got rid of them.




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Thank god!

I tried converting some mines to valpurium but it didn;t make them anymore deadly. bummer.

When you have over 100 Int and ESP its not such a big deal. Even when you are weaker it is beneficial because it gives you a chance to take a helaing potion without wasting a teleport zap. But yeah, I know what you mean, sometimes it can be annoying. If I have an enemy to the point where I want to finish them off, I will often just switch weapons; thats why its good to train more than one weapon skill.

that would be called a boner run.....

I make sure I train polearms for when i find Vermis, and Large swords for when I kill petrus, whips are good to train too especially for once you kill Sherarax, last time I got Whip of Thievery +10 and Chameleon whip +12. I also like to train shields, I know you hate them UE but if you have and unbelievably accurate arcanite shield and shield skill over 80 it save you getting one shotted by the named baddies. I always melee all the named badies now, and never use artificial limbs. Wand of slow, wand of haste, bear traps, wand of teleport, vermis, good shield, highly enchanted boots of Agi, and a bunch of healing potions and even Sherarax is not so bad. I used to always blow them up but then you blow up their treasures too. Also if you have an Archangel then killing Ur Khan, Golgor Dhan and Sherry are easy.

Ok, i guess you looked at the code.

100% agree