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- Seriously, '''MassiveMASSIVE''' spoilers ahead. It would in your best interests '''only ''' to read this when you reach a point where '''despite your best efforts, you cannot win'''. I did not spend hours writing this to ruin your IVAN experience before you began, I wrote it to enhance your current one with tips and general knowledge that I hope you might not know. '''Please''', click away if you're new. ----- Still here? Alright, let's begin.
SilverSliver's Guide to Ivan (view source)
Revision as of 21:40, 12 December 2021
, 21:40, 12 December 2021More Spoiler warning, design edit
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Many, many years after the creation IVAN, I have decided as to also add my 2 cents on the topic of how to progress through Ivan. Despite me being generally new around the community, I believe even the best of players can learn something from this. It also will be a compilation of several pages of other work, so if you're ever feeling too lazy to search up a specific page, you can take a look here. This is meant to be a generalist guide detailing my opinions on literally everything and tips/trick for progressing through stages. I will go through each topic with its corresponding subtopics, then add a unhelpful TL;DR for lazy people. This guide doesn't not contain exploits, save scumming and code modification, which I don't bother to link as it completely takes the fun out of the game (I consider exploits are addressed like this: If the devs knew about it, would they allow it?)
Many of these general tips are applicable through all versions. Remember, wiz mode is great for testing out all your odd ideas (note that wiz mode in later version may allow some rules that aren't possible normally, such as wishing negating intelligence requirements for ommel changing materials or cloning certain scrolls, so do be careful).
Enjoy ;p (and mind the humor, I don't mind)
WIP
='''[[Armor]]'''=
Armor in IVAN is
='''Danger Level'''=
As mentioned in the example, polymorphing into other creatures doesn't bode well. If by some chance you end up with a strong monster/golem, you've also artificially boosted your danger level greatly, but once your return to your true form, the danger stays high but your strength goes, leaving you in a lot of trouble. This can destroy runs if you end up spawning named enemies with your high health.
==Artificial Limbs==
Something more dangerous than polymorphing? Yes. With a rare [[scroll Scroll of change materialChange Material]] or a good prayer (see gods), you gain the ability to change a limb into another material. These materials usually have Astr/Lstr multiple times stronger than human flesh, are much harder to damage... and shoot your health sky high. Since the limb is so helpfully hard to remove, and since your life depends on individual body parts rather than your total health, this is a easy way to get screwed. Try not to go with anything stronger than phoenix feather if you want to go the artificial limb route.
==Conclusion==
==Money, [[Merka]], [[Hulbo]], and Murder==
An important factor in the game is being able to sell
==Scars==
==Wish==
