Sil: compilation of annoying deaths

[HallucinationMushroom]

Your talk of molds reminded me of this

http://angband.calamarain.net/view.php?date=2009-06-03

[Patashu]

Song of the Trees can give you a good boost to light level (I think it's song/3 or song/4 or song/5 or something like that) and if your song is good enough will help more than inner light.

[half]

Mold interaction rocks. Their only chance to do something.

Yeah, I have to say that I'm impressed by this brown/violet/shadow mold tag-team. Humblest of Morgoth's creations (?) they live for moments like these.

TJS: that is a really unlucky situation. There might have been some things to do to avoid it or escape it, but it is pretty unlucky to be in it in the first place.

[taptap]

I'd just had my constitution drained to 1 by being confused by a brown mould that was right next to a purple one. When I tried to move away from the mould I walked next to the purple one.



The stairs weren't there, I think they must have collapsed or something (I fell into the level). I was just in a single room with every exit corridor blocked by dark moulds. Just one of those unlucky situations I guess.

Mold interaction rocks. Their only chance to do something.

Stairs: Well, that happens and counts as bad luck. Yet, if you use the stairs rarely - they tend to be available when you need them, i.e. they only / more often (?) collapse when you have used them (several times) within a time limit, but I don't know the details.

[debo]

In this case the evasion penalty won't matter, of course.

I think the spores are also a darkness attack, so you get resistance according to the level of light on your square.

I'm pretty sure there's still a bug with shadow mold damage that causes it to do full damage regardless of light level?

[TJS]

If you have decent con and a big weapon, you can often kill shadow molds in a couple of hits. If you get a bad first hit, back off and rest up before trying again. Charge makes this easier - even power will help.

I'd just had my constitution drained to 1 by being confused by a brown mould that was right next to a purple one. When I tried to move away from the mould I walked next to the purple one.

Yes, there always is the stair/shaft you came from.

And try longbows.

The stairs weren't there, I think they must have collapsed or something (I fell into the level). I was just in a single room with every exit corridor blocked by dark moulds. Just one of those unlucky situations I guess.

[kryft]

In this case the evasion penalty won't matter, of course.

I think the spores are also a darkness attack, so you get resistance according to the level of light on your square.

Yes, this is correct. (I looked it up in the source at some point to get it right in fsil. Clearly it's crucial to get shadow mold damage right.)

[Scatha]

In this case the evasion penalty won't matter, of course.

I think the spores are also a darkness attack, so you get resistance according to the level of light on your square.

[half]

Are they weaker under bright light? or is it just a coincidence that they've always seemed to go down easier when I can actually see them.

You are severely penalised when fighting something you can't see (melee and evasion are halved).

[wobbly]

If you have decent con and a big weapon, you can often kill shadow molds in a couple of hits. If you get a bad first hit, back off and rest up before trying again. Charge makes this easier - even power will help.

Are they weaker under bright light? or is it just a coincidence that they've always seemed to go down easier when I can actually see them.

[taptap]

Went down a shaft and found myself in a level where every corridor leading off the room I was in had some darkness thing that released spores. Fired all my arrows into one of them and it didn't budge so had to try to melee it with obvious consequences.

Was there any way out of that situation or just bad luck?

Yes, there always is the stair/shaft you came from.

And try longbows.

[debo]

If you have decent con and a big weapon, you can often kill shadow molds in a couple of hits. If you get a bad first hit, back off and rest up before trying again. Charge makes this easier - even power will help.

[TJS]

Went down a shaft and found myself in a level where every corridor leading off the room I was in had some darkness thing that released spores. Fired all my arrows into one of them and it didn't budge so had to try to melee it with obvious consequences.

Was there any way out of that situation or just bad luck?

[taptap]

I think there is a good point in there. I don't think I have *ever* forged an enchanted weapon. The cost in terms of stats in the timeframe it is useful is just too high.

Agree with bluefish and psi. I am a big fan of diverse slaying spears and swords of final rest, but it never was an option to make one myself. Often you might find restoration or a strength potion relatively early in game but I never identify them until later, especially the first restoration herb I eat usually without identifying it. At that point in the game you are almost guaranteed to find a few slaying weapons anyway.

The only early enchantments I have commonly seen on the ladder are smithing, brilliance (grace -> lembas and grace much easier to survive anyway), sprinting and the "minor improvement enchantments" (protection etc.). I.e. non-stat-draining enchantments with the exception of brilliance.

[Patashu]

Maybe 'running cuts corners' could be a toggleable, like how auto-pickup has a toggle button in the current version?