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  • taptap
    Knight
    • Jan 2013
    • 677

    I don't mind being distracted by orc scouts - and I like to deal with them - the mold thing really hurts. (Low will, low strength char can have a real problem clearing them out - and often needs some rest in between. Hell I even died to a brown mold before - because I was too confused to leave his influence.)

    Glamdring vs. Orcrist: Orcrist is 450 ft., Glamdring is 650/700 or so. And I often find perception more useful than will - unless I am entranced.
    Last edited by taptap; June 19, 2013, 19:50.

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    • HallucinationMushroom
      Knight
      • Apr 2007
      • 679

      Completely off topic, but why don't molds gradually get larger? I mean, worm masses move and divide. You could just have molds gradually take up adjacent squares. What a terrible idea. Never mind.
      You are on something strange

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      • WildKhaine
        Scout
        • Oct 2012
        • 25

        You can Smith when a mold is in the room, as long as it's not right next to the forge. It'll interrupt you but just resume and it'll finish it.

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        • Starhawk
          Adept
          • Sep 2010
          • 243

          Can you smith in the dark? A risky but possible solution to molds/scouts. Assuming you don't mind the chance of being sneaked up on by something more brutal.

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          • HugoVirtuoso
            Veteran
            • Jan 2012
            • 1132

            I think this can be tested by taking off the Light source and then try to make something in the presence of the Mold?
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            • wobbly
              Prophet
              • May 2012
              • 2575

              Doesn't work, I sometimes do it because I obsess a little over wasting the torch. Curiously they glow in the dark! If you try smithing near one & it disturbs you it'll appear on the screen even though you can't see it. Doesn't work with those orc scouts shouting. I think they need to be close enough?

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              • WaveMotion
                Apprentice
                • Apr 2012
                • 53

                Originally posted by wobbly
                Doesn't work, I sometimes do it because I obsess a little over wasting the torch. Curiously they glow in the dark! If you try smithing near one & it disturbs you it'll appear on the screen even though you can't see it. Doesn't work with those orc scouts shouting. I think they need to be close enough?
                I vaguely remember reading somewhere that forges themselves produce light while you're using them. Can anybody confirm?

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                • debo
                  Veteran
                  • Oct 2011
                  • 2320

                  Originally posted by WaveMotion
                  I vaguely remember reading somewhere that forges themselves produce light while you're using them. Can anybody confirm?
                  Yes it does -- this is why if you e.g. sit on a forge with light radius 1, and there's a mold a couple squares away, you will be interrupted on your first turn of turning on the forge -- the light exposes the mold.

                  I think the light even stays on when the forge is waiting to resume, but I'm fuzzy on that one.
                  Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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                  • HugoVirtuoso
                    Veteran
                    • Jan 2012
                    • 1132

                    Originally posted by debo
                    Yes it does -- this is why if you e.g. sit on a forge with light radius 1, and there's a mold a couple squares away, you will be interrupted on your first turn of turning on the forge -- the light exposes the mold.

                    I think the light even stays on when the forge is waiting to resume, but I'm fuzzy on that one.
                    What happens if the player wears a Greatsword of the Shadows and a Shadow Cloak and has no light source? The forge still illuminates radius 1?

                    Edit - I have some news. I recently started a Feanorian Smithing character that found a Shadow Cloak at 50ft. I went to the first forge at 100ft and there was a Grey mold nearby. I put on the Shadow Cloak and took off the Wooden Torch, and started making my usual Rings of Accuracy (+2)...And voilŕ, I was able to do the Smithing in the dark with that Grey mold nearby. Looking at the character screen, the Light Radius was -1.

                    If the Light Radius is zero or higher in presence of the mold, the Smithing will be interrupted. But, if the Light Radius is -1 or even lower in the presence of the mold, you can Smith without interruption.

                    So, it *is* possible to do Smithing in the *dark.*
                    Last edited by HugoVirtuoso; June 21, 2013, 08:54. Reason: How to Smith in the Dark....
                    My best try at PosChengband 7.0.0's nightmare-mode on Angband.live:
                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAR0WOphUA

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                    As of February 18th, 2022, my YouTube username is MidgardVirtuoso

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                    • debo
                      Veteran
                      • Oct 2011
                      • 2320

                      hahahaah Hugo the Mad Alchemist
                      Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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                      • Patashu
                        Swordsman
                        • Jan 2008
                        • 496

                        Originally posted by HugoTheGreat2011
                        What happens if the player wears a Greatsword of the Shadows and a Shadow Cloak and has no light source? The forge still illuminates radius 1?

                        Edit - I have some news. I recently started a Feanorian Smithing character that found a Shadow Cloak at 50ft. I went to the first forge at 100ft and there was a Grey mold nearby. I put on the Shadow Cloak and took off the Wooden Torch, and started making my usual Rings of Accuracy (+2)...And voilŕ, I was able to do the Smithing in the dark with that Grey mold nearby. Looking at the character screen, the Light Radius was -1.

                        If the Light Radius is zero or higher in presence of the mold, the Smithing will be interrupted. But, if the Light Radius is -1 or even lower in the presence of the mold, you can Smith without interruption.

                        So, it *is* possible to do Smithing in the *dark.*
                        Awesome! Now you're thinking like a glitch hunter
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                        • T-Mick
                          Apprentice
                          • Mar 2012
                          • 98

                          It's nigh impossible to tell which category you've selected on the smithing menu when you're color-blind. The gray and white are way too close. Same thing on every other menu, I might add.

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                          • Patashu
                            Swordsman
                            • Jan 2008
                            • 496

                            Originally posted by T-Mick
                            It's nigh impossible to tell which category you've selected on the smithing menu when you're color-blind. The gray and white are way too close. Same thing on every other menu, I might add.
                            What form of colourblindness makes gray and white look the same?
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                            • T-Mick
                              Apprentice
                              • Mar 2012
                              • 98

                              It's not really grey and white. More like really light blue and white. The same colors are used on the character screen when allocating exp.

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                              • taptap
                                Knight
                                • Jan 2013
                                • 677

                                What I find mildly annoying is when Duruin is the first rauko I meet.

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