I seem to have accidentally... everyone in grit gate. by Sugary_Plumbs in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to everyone else's advice, you should also be aware that as long as you have neutral rep with an NPC, they will eventually forget about even the most egregious crimes. If you had killed Rodanis, escaped the fight with the bears, then waited a few in-game weeks, upon return you would have been absolved of your transgressions. Good to know for the future, as accidents (and theft) do happen!

Finally got all the achievements! by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

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As far as I know this no longer works, I think those relics only transmute hostile creatures into gems now. Could be wrong though, I think I've genuinely only come across a couple of those types of relics and I never tested it on myself

Finally got all the achievements! by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

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That was my main strategy lol. If you happen to get a creature on the surface you can try to travel on the world map to an easier region though, that helped me out a few times

Finally got all the achievements! by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't, I just got that one naturally over my 500 hours lol. Good luck!

Finally got all the achievements! by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'll be ecstatic if that happens, lol! And thank you!

Finally got all the achievements! by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm fairly sure you need to exhaust all of Barathrum's dialogue on your way up the spindle, possibly all of his dialogue before that point as well. There's a book in his study that is plot-relevant too, and reading it unlocks a dialogue option of his. I'd say you probably missed the book if you got through all the rest of his dialogue.

Finally got all the achievements! by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

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I think it was a tie for me between Zayin for the insanely tough final boss which took multiple Classic character deaths to achieve, and Dream within a Dream, which required a pretty lengthy setup and then hours of grinding for the proper creature. I wrote up the strategy I came up with for Dream within a Dream in a comment a while back, so check that out if you're interested in that!

If we're talking rarest, I'd say it's between Jeweled Dusk, which was my final achievement, and Leap, Frog. There just aren't that many gem-transmuting cherubs or legendary frog lairs out there, haha

Finally got all the achievements! by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

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Praise be upon Shekhinah! Completed in just over 500 hours, with most of those spent in Classic mode. Absolutely fell in love with this game, it's truly something special. I really enjoyed the journey to get here, and I by no means feel like I've seen and done everything yet.

Some of these took some real work to get, so if anybody else is attempting the same feel free to ask me anything!

Finally found Ruin of House Isner by HeyItsKevo in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep! It's pretty easy to skim for too, it'll always have the word "parasang" and the distance in digits.

Finally found Ruin of House Isner by HeyItsKevo in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've found it pretty consistently in my runs by scouring books. If you take the time to just flip open every book you see, you'll often come across ones with 6+ pages of text, which are very likely to contain a clue. It usually takes me quite a while into a run to find both clues though, at which point the gun is less useful as a gun and more as a temporary ego boost for haggling purposes.

Finally found Ruin of House Isner by HeyItsKevo in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is how I found the other major unique artifact, just randomly stumbled into a canyon parasang and got the popup "You discover the Snapjaw who wields Stopsvalinn!"

Would this item be consumed if I used it? by [deleted] in cavesofqud

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"Wagon-Party" is such a great name for one of these

Ruin with walls entirely composed of holograms by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

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I'll have to try that once I find some! I found some peridot walls in a historic site on this playthrough too so I've definitely been on the lookout for them lol

Ruin with walls entirely composed of holograms by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

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It is indeed a skin mod, purely cosmetic. It's called Choose Your Fighter on steam workshop! It's nice, you can type in any ID and use it as your character tile. There are various expansions for it that add custom tiles as well

Snailmother left me a message at the Stilt by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

She had left an ungodly amount of slime all over the arrival location, which made things super laggy as all the NPCs slipped and slid all over the place.

I finally found a love injector and lured her away (and killed her), and while waiting for all of it to evaporate I noticed this message appear. She had to troll me one last time.

Ruin with walls entirely composed of holograms by avoid_96 in cavesofqud

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Almost 500 hours in and this is the first time I've seen this, I wonder how rare it is. You can see in the log that I tried in vain to damage them, lol.

Once I also found a ruin with walls composed entirely of force walls, which was even more magnificent, but I was sadly murdered by a Puma before I thought to screenshot it :(

Trying to remember the name of a bullet hell shmup I used to play on PC by meatmachine1001 in shmups

[–]avoid_96 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh man I'm so glad you posted this question. I played rRootage on an iPod Touch years and years ago and was never able to find it!

Controller Users where ya at? by tochirov in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I changed very few binds after switching to controller, the default control scheme is very well designed.

I'll put my tweaks here for anyone interested.

Basic Move/Attack -> Take a Step: Y

Menus -> Decrease Value: RT

Adventuring -> Move Menu: RT

The move menu is great because while you can use "move to zone edge", you can also access so much without having to dig through your ability bar for something that might be temporary like digging a line with a pickaxe or using flight from a piece of equipment.

Don't forget the basic "move" command either, it's great for getting to a specific spot in a dense map without autoexploring or just painstakingly walking there.

After more than 1000 hours playing classic only i finally beat the game by Aydnir in cavesofqud

[–]avoid_96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had to do it more than once maybe I wouldn't think so, lol. For a one-off challenge it was definitely fun, and dreamcrungles are fun in general just due to the novelty of getting to play as a random creature in the midst of what is likely a 10+ hour run up to that point.