chancy chasms?

[Raajaton]

debo ... wtb Sil 1.2 videos on your youtube page.

[taptap]

There are already boots of leaping Not sure what this is doing that those don't, other than being more common. Pretty sure you can even forge the latter, although I have no idea what the cost / penalties are.

Edit: Oh, all quarterstaves get it, not just specific ego ones. That seems kinda not-Sil-ish, but it's cute

I found leaping boots to be pretty rare.

[Infinitum]

So, recently had this really powerful early game character and figured I could use a chasm to skip 150'. Ended up in a room whose only exit was blocked by rubble. No digging implements. No staves of Freedom. Not enough xp to get the song. Game over.

..Is this a bug or a feature? Using chasms as ad-hoc downward shafts is one of few upsides of the current implementation, and being cut off from stairways is.. harsh? Makes using them even less of a good idea than it currently is.

[debo]

This can generally happen when stairs collaps, false floors cave in, etc. If you can make noise, you can sometimes convince a monster to show up to unlock a secret door (or to bore into your room), but other times you might just die.

The rubble thing in your case was really unfortunate

[half]

So, recently had this really powerful early game character and figured I could use a chasm to skip 150'. Ended up in a room whose only exit was blocked by rubble. No digging implements. No staves of Freedom. Not enough xp to get the song. Game over.

..Is this a bug or a feature? Using chasms as ad-hoc downward shafts is one of few upsides of the current implementation, and being cut off from stairways is.. harsh? Makes using them even less of a good idea than it currently is.

That isn't very fun. I'd say it is a bug. I'd thought I'd guaranteed full connectivity at early depths in level generation.