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Krispy Unregistered user |
I've read that gemology is "exploitable". My question is how and at what skill level? |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4869 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
One way to exploit it, is to use the ants on the second level of the puppy cave. Take some extra food with you, and upon entering the level, just 'w5' for a while. Listen to all of the grinding noises, that comes from the ants. They are digging out the level for you, generating many gems, rocks, and ores for you to collect. Sell the non-useful gems. Use the crystals of darkness to save your life (and inventory) from all vortex explosions. Use BLESSED crystals of knowledge to increase your learning stat. Crystals of fire can be thrown at distant enemies, and they will explode on them. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Molach Registered user Lord of DurisMud Last page view: 5113 days, 22 hours, 30 minutes and 7 seconds ago. |
With gemology you get gems whenever walls are dug. Higher skill means more gems. Also has a chance to ID them if you cannot afford a scroll of ID somehow. Can be combined with: - Ant levels. - Pickaxe + repairing by glod. - Blessed pickaxe + 100 mining skill. - Monk level 13 wall-kick ability. If you have none of the above you might lure dwarves of the town level and wait for them to dig a bit. (Or better yet, die to a monster and yield an axe) The bottom 3 should at least yield infinite number of gems. Only using a pickaxe will generate stone giants, if you were planning to kill and eat them for ST increase. |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4040 days, 17 hours, 17 minutes and 54 seconds ago. |
Hammerhead is an unbreakable pickaxe, so if you get it you can mine forever and ever without ever worrying about paying for repairs. Does a blessed pickaxe never break with 100 Mining skill or is the chance just really, really slim? You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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J. Registered user You'll never get rid of me Last page view: 5636 days, 11 hours, 30 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
You can starve your character so that your learning stat drops down to about half of it's original value. As the crystals of knowledge improve your learning to about 25 or so you can get a learning stat in the 50's using this method. Be very, very careful not to starve to death. If you're feeling happy, don't worry, it'll go away. Originally posted by noob: "I'm everytime amazed how you people know to exploit every single little bug (or not-bug) for elaborated scumming tatics even if the feature seems completely useless or bad." |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4211 days, 16 hours, 35 minutes and 44 seconds ago. |
With ants it's best to close them behind doors to force them to dig around them. Best time I had with ants was when they were generated behind a river, but both stairs were on the other side. When I finally got across they'd mined out practically everything, and I had a giant stack of gems to play with. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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MrNiceguy Registered user Last page view: 5517 days, 10 hours, 24 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
Not quite as useful, but still nice are crystals of Light. You can 'U'se them while holding to light the area around you, or you can throw them and they will light the area where they land. Good against a mob of gremlins. Redundancy is good. And also good. |