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How do you butcher a corpse? I have the butcher skill but see no option to use it.

It's automatic on kill, i.e. a passive ability.

Don't take the second level unless you've got plenty of strength, as it will fill up your inventory with 50x stacks of raw boar meat.

Whoo, beat me to it. EDIT: Except not. Are you running the stuff from the .exe or the .zip, Ozy? Running right off th'zip's XRL.exe doesn't seem to be giving me trouble, so it might help if the .exe's installation method is making something go wonky.

If you're here, unormal, have you considered putting up an announcement/page on roguebasin or dropping a line at the roguetemple forums? Might get some more playtesters on board.

Also, I got this bug doing silly things with a 100+ level character, after gaining a junkload of skills. Dunno if it'll help, but what the error message spat out is in the spoiler.


EDIT: Oz, hit F9. Either that, or scroll down to the bottom of the keybindings (esc->k) and change Explore-somethingZone to whatever's more comfortable. Terribly helpful for finding that bloody glowpod(pad? Bah.) merchant.

Yeah, sorry, only the red-f-head-dude-farmer-thing. Him, th'blue 'w' to the north, and the trader are the only ones you can get water from in Joppa -- tinker dude doesn't keep water on him, so selling to 'im is a bust.

EDIT: Latest abuse trick learned: Burgeoning summoned plants can leave behind corpse-material... such as lover's blossom, which sells for a jack-ton at that point in the game.

EDIT2: Don't try to melee burgeoning summoned pricklers when you're level one. In fact, don't try to melee pricklers at all, if you can avoid it.

E3: Confirmation on thievery, it definitely requires LoS for them to hate you. Just dug a hole into the back of Tam's building and shifted him outta' there, nabbing all his junk immediately thereafter. No one seems to care~

Re: Fliching from the Elder: Push him into the upper right corner of the far left 'square' of his building. He won't have LoS on you when you loot his table and chest, and you can safely walk away with everything Irudad's not wearing.

Re: Selling junk in Joppa -- you can also get a little extra water out of th'w and f dudes. Just leave them a single vinewafer so you can open up trade to sell to them, later. I don't think their water supply refreshes, but that's still around 200 drams of water to be bartered for.

Yeah, the no-give quest items is a known thing, slated for fixin' eventually. Saw it mentioned on the main forum. Once you've got the quest complete, you can go sell the junk to someone. The wire doesn't sell well, but the non-tinker joppa fetch quest does.

As to salt wurms, all things fall before freezing hands. All things*.

*except gamestopping bugs.

EDIT: Shout-out to anyone that's having problems with save-game size -- if you compress (Winzip/rar, 7zip, etc) the save folder while you're not using that character, the HD consumption will freaking plummit. Had a ~200 meg folder compress down to 9.

So... creator, or anyone that's been paying more attention then me, can you tell me how multiple arms interact with dual-wielding and shields? My primary intent is to to be dual-wielding (cudgel and dagger) with my main set of arms, then holding a light (at least until I find another floating gloworb... awesome things.) and a shield (not buckler, but actual shield) in my second pair.

Will holding the shield in the second set mess with blocking/shield skills any? Will it cause any problems with dual-wield skills? How does the (do they at all?) dual-wield skills interact with the second arms?

My current mutant (multi-legs & arms, freezing hands, teleportation) is rocking in a massive way, though I'm going pretty slow -- level 10, just hitting red rock caves. I cleared out a cavern full of drill and scrap bots, both of which freeze-lock surprisingly easy. Being able to stun (hands) and kite (5th level legs) with near impunity (not to mention 5th level freezing hands hits like a truck) is massive boon to general capability. Starting with a three armor/0 dodge piece of armor (recycling suit) didn't hurt, nor does having a carbide hammer and carbide shortsword/dagger offhands. M'slowly building up my tinker skills, and found an awesome datadisk (nuclear cell!) for when I get powered junk.

Also, anyone know when freezing occurs? I think th'folks over at the SA thread mentioned you ignite when you hit like 600, is -600 when you stop moving? Does being particularly cold slow you down? It seems to slow up everything else, heh.

Freezing hands hits them just fine

Most other ranged mutations I've tried seem to, too. For th'non-mutants, I can see how it'd be more trouble, I guess. The jilts seem to be pretty easy to kill in melee, though... I've occasionally had them knock off 15-20 hp, but it's pretty rare. Usually they just die to the first swing, even for critters that haven't been exactly melee spec'd. Heavier armor seems to help, somewhat.

Grenades, maybe?

... past the rusted archway. Buggery.

That would explain what happened to th'best of my runs, so far. I thought the grit gate was somewhere in the rusted archway. Went all the way to the bottom of the thing, too, before running into a flaming snout on the way back up. Fire, fire, everywhere.

Latest run's doing well, so far. Frozen hands + multiple legs = win. Kite, freeze, murddaaaarrrr.

EDIT: Robots seem to be particularly susceptible to freezing, oddly enough. 250-300 xp per kill isn't a thing to scoff at, at level 4.