You uh
just start with it in the main map already enabled nowadays, I thought that was a new feature?

I'm guessing it's a bug though. Shame, I liked having a lot of stuff to explore while still being able to back up to the original one.


I thought the new dungeons were fine, but I can hardly judge because I mostly decided to do them when I was full dieselmode both weapon and armor-wise. I don't remember having any trouble with those particularly, actually I treated them as free loot for the most part. Almost died to a little squirmy friend tapping my ESP in the pyramid's vault because I thought it was a mage trying to knock me unconscious.

I get that, but the thing is I killed all of new attnam, ostrichs included. That's because when I killed decos I wanted to pick up his chain mail, but it was on temple grounds (pic #6)
So by picking up the chain mail I angered ALL of new attnam, palm girls and banana growers included, and did a spot of genocide. Kaethos, and this is why I was surprised, remained neutral to me while I was murdering his friends and gave me his quest to free new attnam hence pic #7 being funny.
Once I wiped out new attnam, I decided to harvest the gold walls of the temple into gold lumps and turn them into gold coins with a wand of alchemy (could have sold them at the market, but this was much quicker).

First and last character for 0.59.

Fairly standard run with a twist. I used every exploit I knew and found some new ones. Turns out that if you dig out the walls of the temple of silva and use a wand of alchemy on the resulting lumps of gold, you get around 100 K to be spent at the black market for literally everything you might ever want with no repercussions, because Kaethos remains neutral while you slaughter his home village. Cloning Neutronium sol stones was a nice touch that let me have around <-1 Ton> of free unweight. Finding both the stones and the cloning and mirroring the sagas to be able to get my int high enough was a non-issue with the black market. That thing is so damn exploitable.

There were a lot of "chardup" bugs that I didn't know how to deal until I read another poster's troubles with it. Basically some items would end up being counted twice when picking them up and crash my game. Until this is fixed, I recommend dropping items by category on the ground and waiting until you don't crash, reloading the autosave each time, and when you find the offending item just drop it in the overmap. That fixes it. Most of the time it was junk like broken bottles or vials. Yeesh.

Game-wise I tried to do the aslona quests for the new content, and I got all the quests done, but the kid got jumped on by a dark frog that had blindsided me and the thing ate his head before I could get to it, so the quest was forever off-limits for me. Carrying the corpse of the kid and seeing "the headless corpse twitch" was a facepalm for me. Even tried putting some other human heads on him since I couldn't find it anywhere (either the frog or someone else had gotten to it by the time I realized the corpse was headless) but at the end I couldn't rez him and I ruined my chances by trying to zombify him. A shame.

Since I was decked out to hell and back I just went the regular oree route after using my old mustard gas trick on petrus to get justifier and skip the fight. Got scared I couldn't make it because I had already become Mortifer's champion, but thankfully I managed to get around that because you don't actually need to pray to Valpurus, just give him some junk at the altar.

Buggy as hell, but fun as always. I did enjoy "bending the game over a fence and having my way with it" as someone artfully put it.

There we go. That's 3 posts since 2016 now.


Edit: I just noticed all my witty filenames got Baleeted when posting, so for your viewing pleasure, here they are again.

>good finds early on
>mirrored traps are still good traps
>come on little girl, go talk to the nice smith!
>oh god what is this
>free mid-game weapons? Don't mind if I do
>I need that chainmail more than you do
>you're pretty chill about the whole genocide situation
>phat market loot
>B L I N G
>Kid you're creeping me out
>oh my god JC a BOMB
>Power of friendship!
>kinda looks like a uh...
>A hell of a high score board

Same issue here on linux mint 20.3.

I was playing the game with Wine, but I've had several game-breaking crashes so I thought it was a wine problem, and that they would disappear when playing natively.
Game compiles properly. Editing any config or starting the game however, segfaults the game.

Attached here is a handy-dandy pic of the crash.

I killed Petrus and took his nut in less than 4000 turns and although I cannot confirm this yet, I am pretty sure that makes this the fastest IVAN run ever recorded.

How? I'll explain.

I usually try to find exploits in games to see how hard I can break the game, but NewIVAN (the github version I found about less than two months ago, great job guys!) stumped me. I managed to kill Oree in .5.3 using the usual tactics, stacking dex&agility and teleporting monsters and myself every odd turn with my wand, blasting him with striking from afar. However, I've had trouble killing Petrus, since he usually gets a hit on me when I talk to him and refuse to give him the shirt, which more than once lead to me dying right at the very end of the game after most of the hard work was done. So I decided to kill him another way!

A few days back I had tried to kill Ikiros, the smith by planting a big mine in front of him, slapping two wands of acid rain on the same tile and getting a silva-summoned wolf or a mistress to jump on it, to get access to early rings of RF, a cloak of RF and those stupendous +4 gloves of dexterity. I wasn't disappointed, even if it took me a few tries. I used a similar trick with the patrolling guard in Attnam (only this time a single big bomb was enough to kill him) to grab his beautiful helm of piercing perception early. Basically with a couple mines and wands, you've got yourself some extremely good gear by day 1/2, in a similar way to the old invisible guard charming trick (which was of course, fixed).

The real trick though, after trying both these things, was to actually make a deathtrap in the cathedral. Everything that could harm him, from dropped wands of polymorph (which won't work on him because justifier gives polycontrol) to mines, disappears immediately without a trace. I couldn't make a trail of mirrored backpacks up to the cathedral to trigger an explosion. Skunk smell wouldn't work, since petrus is poison resistant. Vapourized magic would be useless, either. So I thought of the single item everyone dreads when seeing a dwarf grenadier. The horrible, terrible dwarven grenade of mustard gas. Things changed quickly after that.

The thing with the grenade is that if you throw it, everyone in the city will get mad at you, and for good reason. That thing KILLS. You just cannot resist it, unless you don't have a nose or you're wearing IVAN's mask. So I decided to try it on petrus.

He resisted.

Actually he got STRONGER, because while it did hurt him quite a lot, I can only believe that his endurance was trained by doing that. So after waiting for the cloud to dissipate, you can understand my shock when I saw he had almost doubled his health. That's when I thought to combine TWO grenades together and make them explode at the same time. But of course, the real question here is: "How did you manage to explode a granade in front of the High Priest without eliciting not even a sneeze from everyone in Attnam?"

Dwarves. The answer is always dwarves. Bless those little exploding bastards.

Alright, that's enough for introduction, let's get to the actual juicy part: "How do I do it"?

Basically, you need to kill the armorer first to do it fast (<2000 turns), with the method I explained before. There's several ways, don't just copy my method, think of one yourself! That's part of the fun.

Once you have armor that can resist an explosion, (that is, a RF cloak and a RF ring plus a good body armor), you can start this strategy.

You only need a single scroll of taming, plus two dwarven grenades of mustard gas.

GUIDE
>Read taming next to a dwarven kamikaze group, one will fall under your spell.
>Give the kamikaze the grenades
>Get hasted
>Make the dorf follow you right NEXT to petrus
>get that kamikaze dwarf angry.
Now there's different options
>zap him with slow from afar to make him mad (extremely dangerous because you will get in the gas explosion radius)
>charm a guard or a villager, make him follow you and then when both of your allies are near petrus, hit the guard with slow to make him hostile, to make your allied dwarf attack him (read, explode himself) in front of Petrus [this is the most reliable method] or a wolf [moves too fast to be perfectly sure the dwarf will be one tile away from petrus]

Once you have ignited the dwarf, there will be a double-thick mustard gas cloud surrounding a neutral Petrus. He will die, as seen in the picture, and drop his left nut.

Nobody in attnam is mad at this. Even if you pick up the nut.

There's also a way to grab his loot, too. Simply use another scroll of taming to charm another dwarf, then give him a wand of teleportation. Attack him when he's standing on Petrus' loot pile and hope it lands anywhere but in the cathedral. This is a great way to grab justifier, by the way. You could also grab all the loot, wield justifier and zap yourself into a corner of the map, to escape quickly. Of course, you won't be able to win since you need to drop the nut and you already killed Petrus so you can't go for a regular win, but hey. Free justifier. Don't you want to slice those kobolds with a +16 valpurium sword that gives nearly every buff in the game?

Well, I hope you liked this! Honestly <4000 is not THAT fast when you think about it, I could have always gone faster.

YOU could go faster! Why don't you try it yourself? Be the fastest guy to have ever won IVAN!

Here's the images.

Sanic out.