@Malachi, Yeah, my save string ends in equal signs most of the time when I go to copy it into Notepad, but it has them in the save box. That must be the issue if they're not supposed to be equal signs.

This is an old string, but it's one that has had issues keeping certain values and it's still on my clipboard.
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How do you take off curses? I know you have a chance of doing it with the magic berry, but is there another way? And can you ward against them? I kind of hate that status and don't wanna have to deal with it for long periods.

Oh, okay. It just feels like I'm cursed for the entire time I'm in a pyramid probably because it keeps being reapplied, so I miss about three quarters of my attacks and I kinda hate it. I'll have to prepare the lucky pennies and luck equipment I guess, though currently I mostly just wear the highest level eq I have/the best eq that's on the same level if I have multiple choices.

Personally I'd like to see some decursing items, I've sometimes seen curses run to two hundred or so attacks. They're livable with if you have enough potions, but it'd be nice if there was a way to remove them, magic berries sometimes work but not all the time it seems, particularly since if you fight a hard boss whilst cursed you can end up waisting ubatranks.

On the other hand, sicne I've become a monster lately, curses are often the only thing that can actually make life difficult before enemy damage increases enough to prove a challenge.

so, how about including an item which gives people a trade off, say a voodoo needle which could be kept and used if the player became cursed.

If players use the voodoo needle, the curse is removed, however, for every round of attack the curse was supposed to last, the spirits require a toll in blood, say 10 hp per round. This would also make a nice combination with those smashable clay earns, since the player could wait until they have a vodoo needle or two spare before smashing the earns.

There could also be other methods of reducing the curse timer EG maybe splashing with holy walter or finding an alter knocks a bit off the time.
More methods of curse removal would also be a nice way to play with things like cursed weapons as well.

In the same way, some items to deal with poison might be nice as well, and it makes sense that if curative potions are so common, not to mention random mushrooms, there should be antidotes kicking around, indeed I am loving some of the items like the deck of fate with random consequences and would definitely be interested in more.

Btw, hope you had a nice christmas. Since

@The Imaginatrix, I'm afraid I'm not sure I agree that we need a hole new tab for events, since that would be one other thing on the headings list to go through , and it's easy enough to go up to the Hp heading and hit enter. besides, Malachi has already mentioned a settings tab, and depending upon what other mechanics get added to the game in the future we might need several more tabs anyway for new information, EG a pets and followers tab, a character classes Tab, a separate category for showing your characters skills or weapon specialisations etc.

Of course, depending upon how complex effects get, we might
need this sort of information, perhaps if various effects start with different actions required to deal with them, EG hunger and thirst or fatigue rather than the basic energy system we have now, but for the time being i'm happy with the interface as is on this one.

Actually there are several important things you can check by hitting enter on the headings in the various  stat displays.

In particular, I find it useful to check the scene number tab often, since hitting enter on that tells you current area effects.

Hitting the inspect icon, then clicking on a button, stat heading or item will give you information about it. If you are using NVDA you can find the inspect button using G to cycle through graphics (there are only a couple). Using the number 2 key you can cycle through the top tabs (stats, traits, prestige and heirloom), using number 3 you can cycle through the bottom tabs (Event, gear, pack etc). There are access keys set up for almost everything you can do also. Using firefox holding alt+shift you can using the access key shortcuts (other browsers have different key combinations to get to them). Access keys are:

] - explore
[ - fight
" - search
p - potion
; - food
o - run
? - inspect
z - dismiss merchant
< - reload event log

Once the settings tab is finished, you'll be able to view these keys and customize them. The layout is based on the keys that are all grouped together and easily reached and what worked best for me. I actually use the access keys when I play as its way quicker than clicking buttons. On mobile I use the buttons.

As dark mentioned, you can inspect the different stat headings to get this information. Health tells you things that are affecting you negatively, the damage heading tells you about any effects your attacks have, scene tells you environmental effects (though, admittedly, the scene tab could be more helpful with quantities and exact effect amounts).

Hmm this is strange, I'll have to test this. That is not the intended behavior, once you have an achievement it should be there for good.

As for decursing. I like the idea of the voodoo needle, but I would probably call it something culturally/religiously neutral. I hesitate to add non-zone-specific items, as it makes each item inherently more rare. I had considered just having the magic berry remove the curse altogether instead of just reducing the duration. The idea was to just make magic berry better so you didnt just want to eat it to save room or wait to sell it. The problem is that as you progress through a cursed zone, the curses keep getting reapplied, so it's going to feel like its wasted anyway. Maybe I can just dial back the effect of curses to more like 40% chance to miss? Or make luck bonus more effective against curses? Or something I just thought of, making magic berry remove the curse and make you immune to curses for its duration. I might as well make poison work the same way, since berries also cure you of poison.

EDIT: ok quick little hot fix. I made curses and poison become totally cured when you eat a magic berry. Additionally, while the well-fed buff is active, you will be immune to curses and poison similar to the way that invincibility works. Whenever one of those things would happen to you, it'll reduce the duration of well fed by 1 instead of cursing or poisoning you. Also, while I was at it I let some of the winter enemies spill out into the normal zones.

Looks like chrome is just ALT+accesskey, so ALT+] to explore, ALT+[ to fight etc.

The accesskeys are:

] - explore
[ - fight
" - search
p - potion
; - food
o - run
? - inspect
z - dismiss merchant
< - reload event log

Food would be semi colon. Search is quote. So on firefox you would do ALT+SHIFT+; to eat food, ALT+SHIFT+' to search. On chrome it would be ALT+; and ALT+' respectively.

Ok, I think I've fixed the achievements. You may have to get some of them again, but they should stick around this time. I built a cleaner program for the save strings to fix them when they are broken, but then I realized that I could just build that cleaning logic into the main game itself. So if you run into it again, let me know and I'll point you to the cleaner and figure out why its not working in game. This issue was pretty embarrassing, i had been storing the achievement cookie as achievements=achievements=(achievement data here). By some weird quirk of logic, that duplication was causing the achievements to work when testing, but they would get wiped out, however, if your prestige data would earn you those achievements back, they would look like they were already there. So I never noticed that they were being removed, then reinstated automatically. Anyway, that should do it. Let me know if something else pops up.

Okay just finished another run.
I was going to say the game felt easy, then suddenly around scene 220 or so things got hard, especially with area effects reducing my total hp, so I baled out at 251 before I got killed, at the stage standard enemies were doing about 200 hp a pop.

One odd thing I did notice, is that despite going from scene 46 to 251, I only encounterd poison once, and curses not at all. I'm not sure if this was me being unlucky/lucky, or if the frequency of those as area effects have been reduced.

Now there is a way to deal with them, it'd be good to see them, indeed I wondered if you considered giving poisoned/cursed enemies titles to distinguish them,  EG A poisoned evil wizard, or a cursed gorgon, that would also give the player a heads up as to when to use items like incense to stop being hit, or hot tamale to do more damage and KO the enemies quicker, perhaps even suggest to players that running rather than fighting might be advisable (I don't think I've ever used the run button myself) .

This could also be used when even nastier area effects get added to the game, EG vampiric hp leaching, bleeding or scorching for continuous damage.

I also wonder if retribution damage could be increased a bit, or at least based on the enemy's total hp rather than the damage it does, since when I'm doing 100 or so damage a hit, the enemy hits me, does 17 damage and takes 9, it makes the armour a bit useless. Obviously this changes when the enemy is doing more damage, but by that stage it's probably better to go for fire or wind increases anyway.

I also wonder if the ratio of farthest scene reached vs total starting scene should be changed given the availability of prestige bonuses, since at the moment I'm level 17 and starting on scene 50, which means a lot of mooks to slay before things get tough, and quite a long game all told.

Perhaps 5-1 of total starting scenes plus player's starting level? That would also prevent people from doing too many short runs to farm gems endlessly.

I also love the new area tab, indeed now that that is in the game, you might consider adding a few miner crafting elements into the mix, eG have the player collect metal scraps or stone and use it to create or augment weapons, or how about having herbs or fungus in the area tab with which the player could create potions or poisons?

Lastly, as a miner request, once the settings tab is done, any chance of please having the option to change the order of pack items to most recent at the top as it was previously?
It's easy enough to hit ctrl end and then go back through the buttons, but it saved a few extra presses of the b key when the first item in the pack was the one I'd just picked up and wanted to equip.

obviously though since this is something people's preferences vary on, it might be handy to have it customisable.

thanks again for the work you put in on the game, it always makes for a fun hour or so of monster slaying! .