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Quote from: SirAaronIII on June 16, 2011, 01:35:31 am

Who the heck built those houses anyway? I mean a HOUSE in HELL? That's just dumb, especially with the bone serpent attacks every 5 minutes.

Actually if you do it right, you can set it up so Boneservants don't bother you at all.

In fact because of all the mining I did, I have to travel to another side of hell just to fight them proper because they keep falling down my shafts.

Bone SERPENTS, not bone servants. Serpents have the worm AI and aren't affected by walls (or lack of walls).

I set up buildings just above hell all the time, never in it though. It helps when hell-mining.

What's the best way to keep your Level and Fame down, respectively?

For level, some equipment has the ability "Stunts your growth" which drains experience from you at random times. Also, if you start a zombie ranch you can nab some potions of descent.

For fame, take quests - non-delivery/escort only - and fail them. In hunting quests you can walk right out of the encounter, hopefully before you get attacked by anything. For fetch or cooking quests, let the timer run out. In harvest quests you can just eat the fruits right off the floor, and the monsters aren't anything too difficult.

Alternatively, if you don't have or don't mind losing pet arena rank, head to the arena and give up repeatedly.

EoC is possible with full copper and enough shuriken, I've heard. EoW is easy but I don't know how easy, and Skeletron is probably the hardest.

EoC is real easy, so long as you have space to dodge. I've done it with no armor and a harpoon.

I doubt you can kill EoW with Shuriken now, EoW body sections were significantly buffed. The 10 damage the shuriken deals isn't so nice when it's cut to 3.

Of course, if you give yourself hellstone platforms, an obsidian skull, and enough dynamite you could probably do it with a fresh character with 100HP and no armor.

Edit: Derp, misread EoC as EoW.

Either way, musket is superior to the 'shark.

What?

If you're talking about damage per bullet, then I'd agree; but in terms of DPS, the minishark is superior.

In the time it takes to shoot one musket bullet you'd probably be able to fire ~5 minishark bullets.

Skeletron's 6 defense cuts the musket down to 15 per shot, and the minishark gets 6DMG X 5 shots.
If targeting the hands, musket is cut down by 9 to 12, where the minishark is 3 X 5 shots.


Though, the biggest downside is DAT COST. How much does it cost to fire this for 12 seconds?

Flail against bosses. It hits multiple times if you cast it above your head when Skeletron is levitating.

With Blue moons being Dungeon-only and Sunfuries being a rare drop from Bone Serpents, I think he's still getting by with a Ball O' hurt.

Also, has anyone else tried throwing Vile Powder on Skelly?

Merchants don't take much to get. Just make 2 boxes out of stone, 8 tiles wide and 4 tiles tall (not including the walls), stick a chair and table in both (next to each other), add a torch to each, and collect 50 silver.

Shurikens cost 20 copper each, so that starting 50 silver is enough for a full stack of 250 shurikens.

If money is a problem, get sand, turn it into glass, turn the glass into bottles, then sell the bottles. Two full stacks of sand is one gold (100 silver/10,000 copper).

Can you return to a god that you defected from eventually. I'm worshiping Kumiromi so I could get the scythe (It seems to be the best weapon a fairy can use) but now that I have it I want to get some more treasures for me and god weapons for my pets. That said without Kumiromi it is kinda pointless having a farm. So I can return to him once I get what I want, right?

Yep, at any time. When leaving a god, you lose any "Faith points" you've accumulated and get hit with a 10,000 turn curse; but otherwise there's nothing else.

Welp, I stole the kitty bank from Noyel (10k) and I am currently saving up for... Something.

Question, should I get a Ranch, Farm or Museum?

Depends, the ranch is useless without the ability to catch monsters, and the museum is useless without statues/cards. Ranches can make decent amounts of money and corpses for stats, but the museum can make bank with little player interaction aside from placing statues/cards.

Putits can easily be caught with a domination rod and any level of magic device, breed quickly, and give charisma when eaten; where the museum is easily maxed out with lots of Gwen the Innocent statues/cards.

You were expecting something good that's riding the coat tails of a major game release, a game with no storyline whatsoever?

Considering the awesomeness we get from Dwarf Fortress, could you fault him?