Using Items in you inventory AP Bug

[pokey]

I am the drunken master. *Hiccup!*

This is probably an "undocumented feature" (v 0.6.11) which will be removed once light is shed upon it, but it works for now, so try it if it's useful. If it gets removed, it really will be legendary.

During combat, and after your enemy's first turn: If you end your turn in the character menu (ie. consuming food or drink from your inventory, NOT YOUR CHEST with ONLY 5 or 6 AP remaining) rather than on the map, your enemy's turn is completely skipped and your turn starts over with full AP. This lets you easily beat very difficult enemies or groups of enemies at the cost of food, and you only need to survive their first round of attack. The enemy doesn't have to hit you for this to work, they just have to have tried at least once. After their first turn, you strike once or thrice (depending on your weapon), drink a brew (or mushroom or bonemeal potion if you need it) from your inventory and repeat. Since mead, mushrooms and strawberries are the cheapest food to buy, they are the best choice for this. You're not worried about healing here, so their +1 hp doesn't even matter, you just want the cheapest thing you can get. The important thing is that they prevent you from taking damage ANY damage after the first round.

I was able to get to Remgard at level 32, using about 350 or 400 bottles of mead (or mushrooms), but only 40 or 50 bonemeal potions. You could do it with less, but I killed every monster, dungeon and boss along the way and in the areas surrounding the trail, and I had $20,000+ when I got there (not counting loot). The wooly venom spider things and their masters cost me 15 to 35 mead/mushrooms each, but that goes way down with anything over about AC 125%.

400 mead sounds like a lot, but compared to the price of using only bonemeal potion to make the same trip, it's a pittance. The only real downside is that it takes quite a while to buy all that food. Really hard to hit monsters can also take a while, but compared to fighting the same monster at the same level with only bonemeal, it's still a time bargain as well as a financial bargain. Good thing too, because I'm going to need some aspirin for the hangover I'll have tomorrow.

Hiccup!

[Sarumar]

... IMO this one should to move in bug topic... but it is already reported ?

+1 I love the way how you write this

[pokey]

I didn't say "bug." I said "undocumented feature."

*hiccup*

[Sarumar]

I didn't say "bug." I said "undocumented feature."

*hiccup*

..... some intresting posibilities here

[Pyrizzle]

[sorry but this does belong in bugs]

It does work. I used this trick when beating the game at level 1.

[sdevaney]

Hey, lets keep some resemblance of order here...none of this above is about this particular bug. And yes it is a bug or an exploit, not a feature.

[Pyrizzle]

Hey, lets keep some resemblance of order here...none of this above is about this particular bug. And yes it is a bug or an exploit, not a feature.

agree that it is a bug.

And i don't know what chu are talkin' about boss, seems like everything is in order here (was fixing it already)

[pokey]

Hey, lets keep some resemblance of order here...none of this above is about this particular bug.

What are you talking about?

[sdevaney]

Hey, lets keep some resemblance of order here...none of this above is about this particular bug.

What are you talking about?

There were several posts of things that had nothing to do with the topc. Pyro took care of them and moved them to an appropriate off topic area.

[pokey]

Okay. Thank you. I was totally confused for a bit there.