oh, i remember i wrote a big paste about poschengband gameplay using my own experience and advice which i read here (macros, basic mechanics, races, classes, list of quests, useful links, even a short walkthrough to the serpent) for one forum... it's a bit spoily, may be sometimes questionable, i'm not a great player after all, killed oberon twice and one of those characters actually is alive somewhere on my hdd and should be tried i think..., actually i would like to change some parts of it, it doesn't emphasize the importance of the device skill enough and also it could use a part about caring for monster breaths, that they depend on their health etc, on top of that i completely forgot to add the link to the official site, lol...
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Press '_' to initialize the auto-destroyer. Unfortunately, you still need to perform this step manually for each character. The default pickup preferences has lines to pick up wanted corpses for you:
Code:wanted corpses#Wanted!k!k!k wanted skeletons#Wanted!k!k!k
Also, how do i edit this to auto-destroy all 'average' items ? and then auto destroy all 'good' items for later in the game? even if they are ID'd? plus id want to auto-destroy all spellbooks my current character can't use. been usng alot of vampire-ninjas so all of them. they have '?' and I dont want to check if its a scroll.
I have some other questions I am having trouble googling. When I google for docs I usually do a search for 'hengband' or chengband'.
1. ok if i kill a guardian I get a stat bonus. I have seen some posts around that tell me where some guardians are. is there a list of all or most of them?
2. I got killed yesterday. I was fighting a guardian in camelot. I teleported and used phase door to get away, but he teleported with me. and i couldnt get away from him. how do i get away?
3. chris made stuff get destroyed alot easier. i found a staff of speed which is invaluable and rare early... it got destroyed. does high resistance reduce chance of stuff getting destroyed? i think fire/acid is the most important? can you add stuff to an item so its resistant to getting destroyed? I know some items come with this already. 'cannot be harmed by elements'.
4. Are there links to popular macros for different classes? I get how to make them, but Im sure othres have some good ones.
5. Is there a cap on how high attributes can go? Do they go above 18/<stuff> I have gotten to 18/150 on strength. not sure if there is a 19, etc...
6. I googled this. is there a damage formula for adding more str? I know I can look at 'weapon effectiveness', but not sure if that includes my strength.
7. what determines how many bonuses I can add to a weapon/armor in a shop? This seems to go up with level. but not sure if its fame ?
8. Been following this guide. post by clouded.
I tend to get in trouble whne i get to the part about going to lower levels of the icky cave and die. Last time i tried going down into camelot and died to a guardian. See #2 for my last death. been mainly playing vampire/ninja.
9. for vampire/ninja been raising str almost exclusively up to about level 30 (tend to die after that). i dual wield. i go up from daggers to the best lighter weapons i can find
10. at heavier armors ninjas lose their speed bonus. does anyone know the calculation on this? It seems to go up as my str goes up, but not sure...
11. what is the best way to grind up attributes? I know kill guardians and level gets them, but things get harder. any specific dungeons more likely to drop attribute potions?Comment
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Also, how do i edit this to auto-destroy all 'average' items ?
Code:######################################### # Destroy Junk #########################################
Code:?:[GEQ $LEVEL 20] !average common weapons !average common armors ?:1
and then auto destroy all 'good' items for later in the game? even if they are ID'd?
Code:?:[GEQ $LEVEL 35] !nameless common armors ?:[GEQ $LEVEL 30] !nameless common weapons
plus id want to auto-destroy all spellbooks my current character can't use.
Code:!unreadable first spellbooks !unreadable second spellbooks
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That said, I'm sure Hengband had a list on its spoiler site and it might be mostly accurate.
2. I got killed yesterday. I was fighting a guardian in camelot. I teleported and used phase door to get away, but he teleported with me. and i couldnt get away from him. how do i get away?
3. chris made stuff get destroyed alot easier. i found a staff of speed which is invaluable and rare early... it got destroyed. does high resistance reduce chance of stuff getting destroyed? i think fire/acid is the most important? can you add stuff to an item so its resistant to getting destroyed? I know some items come with this already. 'cannot be harmed by elements'.
4. Are there links to popular macros for different classes? I get how to make them, but Im sure othres have some good ones.
I can tell you what I macro:
Resting: "\eR&\r" and "\eR333\r". The first version rests until you are fully recovered while the second rests 333 turns and is useful for level feelings or waiting for monsters to come to you.
Destroying: "k-y\s\s"
Shooting: "\e*tf1" with ammo inscribed "@f1=g" (The @f1 part you should understand from before. The =g part means to automatically pick the object up)
That's pretty much it for universal macros for everything I play. But I macro extensively as I play, and it's different for each build.
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6. I googled this. is there a damage formula for adding more str? I know I can look at 'weapon effectiveness', but not sure if that includes my strength.
9. for vampire/ninja been raising str almost exclusively up to about level 30 (tend to die after that). i dual wield. i go up from daggers to the best lighter weapons i can find
7. what determines how many bonuses I can add to a weapon/armor in a shop? This seems to go up with level. but not sure if its fame ?
8. Been following this guide. post by clouded.
I tend to get in trouble whne i get to the part about going to lower levels of the icky cave and die. Last time i tried going down into camelot and died to a guardian. See #2 for my last death. been mainly playing vampire/ninja.
10. at heavier armors ninjas lose their speed bonus. does anyone know the calculation on this? It seems to go up as my str goes up, but not sure...
11. what is the best way to grind up attributes? I know kill guardians and level gets them, but things get harder. any specific dungeons more likely to drop attribute potions?Comment
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8. Been following this guide. post by clouded.
http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=6606Comment
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im lost .why is the auto-destroyer destroying useful corpses? I have not edited the file at all. how do i edit it to get it to not destroy useful corposes. I read your post chris, but i dont get why im destroying wanted corposes?
The document is hard to read and poorly written.
It doesn't come out and say what they mean. It skips it. I think I know what some mean.
! = destroy item on ground
just name of item such as 'weapons' leave on ground
What does leading with:
?
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?~
mean? Its confusing.
I have not edited the file. why is this auto-destroying wanted corposes.
#########################################
# Corpses
#########################################
?:[EQU $RACE Possessor]
~wanted corpses#Wanted!k!k!k
wanted skeletons#Wanted!k!k!k
~corpses more level than 0
?:[NOT [EQU $RACE Possessor]]
wanted corpses#Wanted!k!k!k
wanted skeletons#Wanted!k!k!kLast edited by youtoo; December 27, 2014, 19:17.Comment
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Your going to have to post your savefile and pickup pref for me to look at this.Comment
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I had to rename to .txt to get them to upload. I have edited my pref file since I posted, but I have always auto-destroyed all corposes with any play through.
you also mentioned 'auto-register'. i did a search of the autopickup help and I don't see a reference to 'auto-register' are you referring to something under a different name?Attached FilesComment
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I had to rename to .txt to get them to upload. I have edited my pref file since I posted, but I have always auto-destroyed all corposes with any play through.
you also mentioned 'auto-register'. i did a search of the autopickup help and I don't see a reference to 'auto-register' are you referring to something under a different name?
Code:You have The Corpse of Bloodfang the Wolf {Wanted!k!k!k} (c).
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Your problem is not with your pref file. It works just fine for me:
Code:You have The Corpse of Bloodfang the Wolf {Wanted!k!k!k} (c).
You said two things I have questions about.
1. how do you 'auto-register' ? I searched the autopickup help and dont see that.
2. you said something about 'initializing' the autopickup. what is that? If i didnt do anything at all would this have left it auto-destroying.
3. what doies !
it might be the auto-register thing you mentioned. how does that work?Comment
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You can have encounters with monsters exploring the map, and reasonable chances of meeting a unique
However, the difficulty of the encounter varies, depending if you are on grass, or in the mountains and so on
I am terrified of deep water and will go nowhere near it, because of the possibility of being ambushed by krakens
A berserker of mine was going along nicely, until he got ambushed by 5 or more ancient dragons in the mountainsComment
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