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eat rune undead for instant reborn to skeleton after die. feed minion this rune
equip golem face for perfect armor & HP.
equip orc face on minion for perfect stun, damage, knockback. and equip bow on him
mimic face need for "steel form" ANY enemy after killing
feed all rune for explored.
equip any face & eat identiy rune for race information
orc&golem-atakc&defence best races, troll-regen, vampire-drainHP
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If anyone else finds any bugs, you should report to the developer's twitter: https://twitter.com/st33d (Aaron Steed).
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@Jib, I'm unsure about monsters leveling on their own without the use of a thrown XP rune or the Chaos effect from a weapon/rune. So far I've only ever killed monsters and they've never quickened on me without the above.
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The bug I talked about in my comment just before this one, has corrupted my save. Every time I try to continue all I get is a black screen, with the HP, LVL, and action bars. It shows me as level1, but I was around 15 when the bug happened. It just hangs there, never starting. :'(
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I think there is a bug that freezes the game when using old pocket dungeon portals. I was deep down and used a portal to the surface and then started to descend looking for the underworld portal to revive my minion. I came across an old pocket portal and when I used it the game froze just inside.
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I have strong reason to believe that gear findings are directly related to your level. This also applies to polymorphing. For instance, polymorphing a weapon at level 1 will only result in either a knife or a gauntlet.
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Do enemies have experience they randomly start with? And can they level up when attacking? Or was this just from the chaos effect? I Just died from a Mimic wearing a chaos helm that immediately sprayed quickening after we touched.
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Is there ever a ending in this game ??
Down, down and down on levels
Cursed by the werewolf and all
Weird dreams and some shadow prancing
Yet died in horrible and funnier ways~
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@The_Anonymus: You're right, the lightning weapon doesn't activate a quickening when hitting an enemy. I didn't test this yesterday because I thought I might lose the bolt if I threw it but, today I found that it can be reused as a throwing weapon and it shoots lightning as it flies through the air. It's awesome. :) However now I'm scared for enemies wielding a lightning bolt. lol... :(
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@Toast: The Cog weapon has a built in "?" enchant (chaos enchant). That thing is made up of the same thing as the RNG (Random Number God) altar you use to get random things. So yeah, hitting an enemy with that may randomly cause enemies to experience the same effect as being hit with an XP Rune (quickening, Level Up, Temp. Haste).
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No, no, this is strange. I was running along and I suddenly saw a vamp. So I quickly threw my cog at it and it suddenly got a quickening (saw it float into air, quickening style) and needless to say, I died...
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The Chaos Rune or "?" rune that doesn't change names even when you eat an identify rune is very rare or a secret part of the game. enchanting it to a weapon causes random effects on enemies you hit/attack like quickening, confusion, bleed (poison), stun, teleport, and sometimes when you're lucky, it even causes explosions like the bomb weapon.
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Monsters only quicken when hit with an XP rune. most of the time that kills you. Or if you're lucky you survive but the monster's level is higher and it gets a sudden boost of Haste. The Lightning weapon doesn't cause quicken when hitting enemies unless it's enchanted with the "?" (Chaos) rune.
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@Toast_OfWar: I think you're getting hit with the special effect of the Lightning weapon. The lure says it's special is emitting quickening. I have one put I've yet to see the quickening activate.
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Armor was the first thing I polymorphed. At first I thought it only changed the item's sprite because the item's name doesn't change. You have to check the description to see what it morphs into. I was right about sprites swapping when you're both wearing the "_" invisible armor.
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Anybody have any idea what causes monster quickening? I feeling so confident this run and suddenly got killed by some vampire's quickening...
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If anyone's wondering about "Elbereth" here's the fun special effect from a wiki: http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Elbereth. No it does not cause the "Your Fury Takes Form" effect. The "Fear" rune or enchantment does that to your enemies. It creates a red nightmare form of themselves that attack until dead or for a short period. The effect "He comes..." however creates a nightmare of you that attacks/chases you and can come from the sleep action randomly or with runes and enchantments from enemies.
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if no one's figured out how to get the chest in overworld, level up and quicken, while floating up, hold right and fall onto the chest. So far I've gotten a +Fez, Harpoon, +Cog, and a Gun Leech.
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enchanting a portal rune to a weapon or armor opens a doorway to a small pocket dungeon with certain enchanted items. eating a portal rune opens a portal to overworld that carries over in case you die so you can go back to that level. feeding your minion a portal rune opens a door to the underworld where you can steal death's scythe.
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When you and minion our both wearing invisibility armor, your sprites swap. Is this a bug? It's annoying either way. :)
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@jiiberish. no. you can't give your armor invisibility. There is just AN ACTUAL INVISIBLE ARMOR. There's no such invisibility enchantment in the source code.
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dude... level 20 dungeon level 21 on dogmatic mode, 2 runed-as-all-hell lightnings and CRAZZY armor... so im killing something easily and carefully (cause lord knows with rogue likes you if you face your problems head on you die...) gave my minion undead weaponry so he could heal himself when he gets killed. ANYWAYS so im tapping the move buttons staccato so I dont die somehow... i told myself this is the life I will kill the balrog...
so a quiken comes from somewhere out of the shadows and kills me... in a 64th of a second... please fix that?
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I had recently entered the dungeon... again. I had a hotkey set to some hearts, but I no longer had those hearts. I was fighting, and dying. I panicked and pushed my hotkey. Nothing seemed to happen, but then I soon found out that I had broken the menu. It would not open at all. Controls started becoming unreliable. And the worst part, was that doors no longer worked. TLDR; Don't push hotkeys for items you don't have anymore. :)
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If anyone wants to know exact details about the runes, their effect when enchanted to weapon or armor or even what they do to enemies, PM. I've figured everything out.
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Escaping without the Amulet of Yendor gives you a different ending. Also: The Overworld doesn't preserve the Amulet, the Balrog's Face, or the Death's Scythe across reincarnations. It removes those items AND it looks like it also removes all other items on the same stack. So be careful. (Either that or I hit an item limit. But I doubt it. Will double-check next ascension.)
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I'll need to stockpile and double-check rune effects now that I know the overworld trick. Undead on weapons looks like it might heal your minion through kill/"sacrifices". Not what I'd expect....
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Woo! It's true. Items left on the Overworld carry through reincarnation. Runes stay identified. Time to kill the Balrog again and test with the Amulet of Yendor or Death's Scythe.
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Jiberish001: Looks like Heal Rune does heal enemies on weapons. And Stun/Bleed Rune on armor will stun/bleed you randomly for small amounts. It's very equal magic.
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"New Game+" and the epilogue is a nice touch. Now I just need to test the "Timeless Bubble Overworld" hint I heard of.
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What would be really great is if there was a Lore menu for runes, so you could use Identifying runes on other runes to get the details of their effects.
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Why does closing the menu cause a very small passing of time, in dogmatic mode? Even this brief moment can be devastating in later levels.
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Okay, I need to confirmed, please.
Does enchanting a weapon with a Heal Rune, cause your target to regen HP?
This seems to be the case as far as I can tell. Shouldn't that particular enchantment heal you when you attack with that weapon, instead of healing your target?
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Hey Colorstyle, what is the point of that whole "Your fury will take form", "Elbereth" thing?
Also, is there any way to drop a cursed item? I only lost my cursed knife because a nymph stole it from me. Lucky me.
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This game is amazing. The ways level can be generated are infinite, you will never get the same level! I loved this game. Max depth I went so far was 8.
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...I never had a chance to use the scythe. I read the wallsign "Elbereth" and my fury took form and killed the Balrog before I even saw it. I love the RNG. When I don't hate it.
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Awesome. The RNG polymorphed me into a Nymph and I stole Death's Scythe. Thanks for the tip, khfreak. Time to make another run at the Balrog!
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If your minion is wearing the dryad face (or nymph?) and you go to the underworld it can steal Death's Scythe for you. It's a level 20 behemoth.
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A portal to the Underworld lets your minion come back if it dies. Eating runes: Bleed - you take HP damage. Heal - fast HP regen. Light - you light the area for a while. Thorns - ???. Undead - if you are killed shortly after, you gain full HP and your character now looks like a skeleton.