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Tuesday, 30th April 2019, 22:30

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2659495

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

It's only supposed to resist death. Works just as advertised!

Friday, 28th December 2018, 22:37

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Crawl crashes when I modify mini_monsters.des

Replies: 3

Views: 1758

Re: Crawl crashes when I modify mini_monsters.des

Thanks, it looks like that was the problem. Notepad was specifically trying to save mini_monsters as UTF-8, while it saved everything else as ANSI. That fixed it in local 0.22.1, though I have an old, modified version of 0.13.2 (my attempt at a branch long ago) that still crashes when mini_monsters ...

Friday, 28th December 2018, 19:14

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Crawl crashes when I modify mini_monsters.des

Replies: 3

Views: 1758

Crawl crashes when I modify mini_monsters.des

Any time I make the slightest change to dat/des/variable/mini_monsters.des in local Crawl, it causes Crawl to crash, and I have no idea why. I can literally open the file, save it without making any changes, and that's enough to make the game crash. I can edit other .des files without any problems, ...

Thursday, 8th November 2018, 04:54

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Skill titles thread

Replies: 6

Views: 2711

Re: Skill titles thread

I'm down with playing an Axe Murderer of TSO.

Wednesday, 20th June 2018, 21:50

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Does the Monk piety bonus do anything with Xom?

Replies: 0

Views: 1215

Does the Monk piety bonus do anything with Xom?

From my experience, the answer is no, but maybe there's some weird interaction that I'm missing?

Friday, 8th June 2018, 16:29

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2659495

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

Unbranded weapons get a chance for an enchantment bonus that can push them as high as +12.

Friday, 8th June 2018, 01:55

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: what's changing in 0.22?

Replies: 10

Views: 4157

Re: what's changing in 0.22?

This is totally me flaunting my own vault, but there's a new special room in Depths where you'll get dogpiled by casters: commit

Monday, 12th March 2018, 03:25

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Vault and Unrand Idea

Replies: 7

Views: 2571

Re: Vault and Unrand Idea

The sword theme might allow it to work as a bailey, if you tone down the loot. Multiple double and triple swords is way too much loot for one vault, though; both are supposed to be very rare.

Thursday, 1st March 2018, 22:54

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2659495

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

LearnDB wrote:The probability that a randart CPA is +23 (the max possible) is exactly 101/112500.

Almost there!

Wednesday, 21st February 2018, 19:31

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: New vaults in Mantis

Replies: 0

Views: 1420

New vaults in Mantis

Several vault submissions of mine have been sitting in Mantis for months now; the oldest has been there since January 2017, and none of the vaults I have submitted since last July have gotten any feedback at all. I don't know what the procedure is for reviewing vault submissions, but is there someth...

Tuesday, 28th November 2017, 21:19

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Ascension Traditions?

Replies: 4

Views: 1777

Re: Ascension Traditions?

Vanguardan wrote:As soon as I grab the orb, I play this track on repeat while I book it to D:1.

Very disappointed that this wasn't Yakety Sax.

Tuesday, 4th July 2017, 23:25

Forum: Contributions

Topic: Made some vaults, have some questions

Replies: 10

Views: 6996

Re: Made some vaults, have some questions

Regarding different statue tiles, it's not possible. Actually, this can be done: TILE: G = dngn_statue_elephant This will make all "G"s use the elephant statue tile. Replace "dngn_statue_elephant" with whatever tile you want to use. I don't know the other statue tile names off t...

Friday, 13th January 2017, 23:07

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Which Build Was Your First Win?

Replies: 51

Views: 18925

Re: Which Build Was Your First Win?

HOFi of TSO, offline. I'm pretty sure it was in 0.12, but I don't have the morgue anymore. Shortly before my first win, I had made it to the orb run with a HOBe, only to be killed by a Hell Sentinel + Pan Lord w/ Fire Storm combo. That death was the closest I've come to giving up on the game entirely!

Monday, 26th December 2016, 06:18

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I love it when...

Replies: 1478

Views: 2686226

Re: I love it when...

The crimson imp shouts, "Remove thy stench, thou grime-gilt elf-skinned mendicant!"

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s - the +7 eveningstar of Foul Odors (weapon) {flame, rElec rF+ rC+}

Friday, 30th September 2016, 02:01

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I don't love it when...

Replies: 726

Views: 318712

Re: I don't love it when...

Turns out there's an orc-filled room nearby.

Saturday, 10th September 2016, 20:31

Forum: Contributions

Topic: New trove, can this be improved w/ Lua?

Replies: 3

Views: 3833

Re: New trove, can this be improved w/ Lua?

Yeah, throwing a book in there with a flame cloud on it would be a simple matter. Would probably want the book to just contain Magic Dart or something, so the player isn't rewarded with useful spells in a Trog trove. As for manuals, off the top of my head I'm not sure if "acquire:trog book"...

Friday, 24th June 2016, 23:03

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Dynast's strength meter for Gods.

Replies: 29

Views: 8824

Re: Dynast's strength meter for Gods.

Oka's gifts ("Improve") are better than Trog's? Antimagic on a good weapon beats just about anything Oka will gift, short of an extremely lucky artifact.

Thursday, 28th April 2016, 22:15

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Got my +9qb chaos branded... What now?

Replies: 13

Views: 3198

Re: Got my +9qb chaos branded... What now?

100% in agreement with Sar. Chaos on a good base type is super rare outside of Xom and a hell of a lot of fun.

Tuesday, 5th April 2016, 02:13

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: AF:PULL

Replies: 4

Views: 1637

Re: AF:PULL

HardboiledGargoyle wrote:alligator
crocodile

Someone mentioned in another thread that alligators/crocodiles should try to drag players into shallow water. Gameplay impact aside, the flavor is awesome.

Monday, 4th April 2016, 16:30

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Dungeon floors with green walls?

Replies: 1

Views: 1138

Re: Dungeon floors with green walls?

I think those only appear if the layout is tagged to use cave tiles, and then only rarely. I was able to get a level to generate that way in current trunk by messing with weights, so it's definitely still possible.

Sunday, 27th March 2016, 02:11

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: FR: eVoke Giant Clubs to knock back

Replies: 24

Views: 6060

Re: FR: eVoke Giant Clubs to knock back

Since there seems to be a desire to give the weapon types different "placement based" abilities (reaching, cleaving,) I'm surprised all M&F haven't been given evocable trample. Could have a success rate based on damage dealt, so a spriggan with a club wouldn't be pushing things around ...

Tuesday, 15th March 2016, 20:51

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: The Fairyland

Replies: 30

Views: 7210

Re: The Fairyland

Did nothing come of attempts to repurpose the Forest layout generator for use elsewhere? I see it's still in trunk, earmarked for D and Crypt, but disabled.

Wednesday, 9th March 2016, 18:40

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Trove reporting

Replies: 514

Views: 1737215

Re: Trove reporting

ldf wrote:Identified the +10 plate armour "Taco" {rPois rC+}

That's worth wearing just for the name.

Friday, 12th February 2016, 03:30

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Ru Says: Typo?

Replies: 6

Views: 1694

Re: Ru Says: Typo?

Worth mentioning that variable god speech on startup is supported, but only used by Xom and by Zin when under penance. Why not keep the existing line and incorporate some/all of your new ones? Variety seems like a good thing to me.

Thursday, 28th January 2016, 20:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Name Ely's quokka

Replies: 12

Views: 2895

Re: Name Ely's quokka

HardboiledGargoyle wrote:
Skrybe wrote:"Lunch."

the quokka should have Mesmerize

  Code:
Visions of eating the quokka flood into your mind.

Sunday, 17th January 2016, 19:43

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Name Ely's quokka

Replies: 12

Views: 2895

Re: Name Ely's quokka

"Lunch."

Friday, 8th January 2016, 04:47

Forum: Contributions

Topic: New trove, can this be improved w/ Lua?

Replies: 3

Views: 3833

New trove, can this be improved w/ Lua?

NAME: trove_trog : if trove.weapon_skills() >= trove.spell_skills() and trove.weapon_skills() >= you.skill("Unarmed Combat") then WEIGHT: 15 : else WEIGHT: 5 : end ORIENT: encompass TAGS: no_item_gen no_monster_gen allow_dup no_species_fe ITEM: acquire:trog weapon / any useful weapon good...

Wednesday, 16th December 2015, 02:07

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I love it when...

Replies: 1478

Views: 2686226

Re: I love it when...

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Saint Roka cries, "Beogh give me strength!"
Saint Roka splashes around in the water.

Sunday, 13th December 2015, 22:55

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2659495

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

Identified the +0 large shield of Disappointment {rPois MP+9 Int-3 Stlth-} "Disappointment" is one of the new randart names included in a small patch I submitted earlier. This is the first time I've seen it generate normally, and I'm very happy to see that it's just as appropriate as I ha...

Tuesday, 20th October 2015, 03:51

Forum: Contributions

Topic: Dungeon Branch: The Ant Nest

Replies: 8

Views: 4931

Re: Dungeon Branch: The Ant Nest

I've always thought ants could work as a serial vault. Most serial vaults don't place monsters, though, and I guess there's probably a reason for that that's lost on me.

Monday, 8th June 2015, 01:40

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Are randart base types marked as "seen" for acquirement?

Replies: 3

Views: 1195

Are randart base types marked as "seen" for acquirement?

Just got an artifact amulet of rMut with -Tele via ?acquire. I haven't found a plain amulet of rMut yet. Does this make the amulet of rMut "seen" for purposes of acquirement now, or not?

Tuesday, 31st March 2015, 20:45

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Monster that inflicts -Tele on death

Replies: 15

Views: 3963

Monster that inflicts -Tele on death

I was thinking about the old plague shambler creature, and how restricting player movement/positioning on monster death was a pretty cool idea, if poorly implemented in the case of the plague shambler. It occurred to me, what if instead there was a creature that inflicted Dimension Anchor on death? ...

Wednesday, 18th March 2015, 19:34

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Frequency of antimagic on Trog gifted randarts

Replies: 0

Views: 694

Frequency of antimagic on Trog gifted randarts

Does Trog gift antimagic on randarts as often as on regular weapons? It feels like antimagic shows up far less often on his randarts. Of course, he gifts fewer randarts in general, so it could be a case of small sample size.

Thursday, 12th March 2015, 22:21

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: vault idea: quasit vault

Replies: 3

Views: 1452

Re: vault idea: quasit vault

Like this? NAME: skrybe_berder_quasits DEPTH: D:5- TAGS: transparent KFEAT: _ = altar_makhleb KMONS: ? = quasit KITEM: ? = nothing / any / star_item w:5 MAP xxxxxxxxxxxxx x?x?x?x?x?x?x x=x=x=x=x=x=x @....._.....@ x=x=x=x=x=x=x x?x?x?x?x?x?x xxxxxxxxxxxxx ENDMAP This is a super quick alteration of th...

Wednesday, 4th March 2015, 19:17

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: New randart negative properties

Replies: 69

Views: 18481

Re: New randart negative properties

Sandman25 wrote:*No scrolls
PC cannot use scrolls during some time after removing the item

*No potions
PC cannot use potions during some time after removing the item

I can see these working if the duration was tied to XP gain.

Wednesday, 4th March 2015, 18:29

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: New randart negative properties

Replies: 69

Views: 18481

Re: New randart negative properties

Marbit wrote: Perhaps adding some more of the mutations as artifact properties might be interesting:
- Forlorn

A property that cuts into piety when removed, like the amulet of faith, would work to discourage swapping.

Friday, 27th February 2015, 20:25

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: New randart negative properties

Replies: 69

Views: 18481

Re: New randart negative properties

* Unwieldy: switching to and from this weapon takes longer than normal; to be used with properties that encourage weapon-switching. This is a bit more evil on launchers than melee weapon. This is a good one, in my opinion. It's subtle, compared to something like *Rage, yet would still have an impac...

Friday, 27th February 2015, 19:22

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Screenshots wanted for DCSS website relaunch

Replies: 16

Views: 4756

Re: Screenshots wanted for DCSS website relaunch

That skeleton looks so happy to be in that net!

Wednesday, 25th February 2015, 03:57

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Mo' Dragons Mo' Problems

Replies: 18

Views: 5071

Re: Mo' Dragons Mo' Problems

Yes, but with mutations!

Wednesday, 25th February 2015, 03:41

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Mo' Dragons Mo' Problems

Replies: 18

Views: 5071

Re: Mo' Dragons Mo' Problems

Radium Dragon Breath Attack: Breath attack causes contamination. Peripherally related, I really think there should be a monster that inflicts glow in melee. Would be a unique way to encourage berserker types to try a strategy other than "rush in and beat it to death." Yeah, Mnoleg mutates...

Sunday, 22nd February 2015, 04:34

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: How does weapon delay work on monsters?

Replies: 1

Views: 1015

How does weapon delay work on monsters?

I assume that when a monster attacks with a weapon, the weapon's base delay is taken into account, but is there anything else that influences attack speed on armed monsters?

Friday, 20th February 2015, 02:41

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: SOLUTION TO PF's LAVA SNAKE CHALLENGE

Replies: 7

Views: 2299

Re: SOLUTION TO PF's LAVA SNAKE CHALLENGE

It's a shame that chunks aren't differentiated by creature anymore. There could've been a special message for players who went through the trouble of getting a lava snake corpse on land and eating it. "This raw flesh tastes spicy" or something like that.

Friday, 20th February 2015, 00:48

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: SOLUTION TO PF's LAVA SNAKE CHALLENGE

Replies: 7

Views: 2299

Re: SOLUTION TO PF's LAVA SNAKE CHALLENGE

Or you could just cast Tornado.

Friday, 13th February 2015, 20:29

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: DejaVu fonts in local tiles are out of date

Replies: 0

Views: 857

DejaVu fonts in local tiles are out of date

Thought the devs would want to know that the DejaVu fonts included with local Tiles are an old version. The Crawl archive includes 2.33, the current version is 2.34.

Tuesday, 27th January 2015, 02:43

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I love it when...

Replies: 1478

Views: 2686226

Re: I love it when...

I think I'm going to like the new language option:
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Trog is aware of your butt.

Tuesday, 20th January 2015, 04:33

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2877

Views: 2659495

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

And they're contaminated too.

Wednesday, 17th December 2014, 02:02

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Proposal: elemental armor

Replies: 22

Views: 6204

Re: Proposal: elemental armor

I'm pulling an idea out of the air here, but how would Displacement work as an ego on heavy armor? If it was on, say, plate armor, that would cut into the spell success rates coming from training a lot of tloc, as well as making it harder to raise EV to stupid high levels.

Friday, 12th December 2014, 19:32

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I love it when...

Replies: 1478

Views: 2686226

Re: I love it when...

Pikel and company confused by clouds in a Xom vault:
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Pikel hits the slave with a runed whip.
The slave cries.

Tuesday, 9th December 2014, 19:00

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Crawlin' Wiki

Replies: 11

Views: 2770

Re: Crawlin' Wiki

Also, If we asked nicely, the chaoswiki admins might give us the scripts that they use to automatically update the monster pages, which would be nice. I think this is what you're looking for. without the onerous registration system that the chaosforge wiki uses I don't get why people take issue wit...

Saturday, 6th December 2014, 04:06

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I actually miss Makhleb corpse sacing

Replies: 23

Views: 5307

Re: I actually miss Makhleb corpse sacing

Keep corpse sacrifice for flavor, just don't give piety. The only issues I can see are minor added complexity, and that sacrifice is guaranteed removal of a corpse, including the skeleton (e.g., in the case you don't want an enemy reanimating it.) Otherwise, sacrifice is the same as butchering, minu...
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