@OneMoreNameless
in craftDB.xml "Gentleman's Dueling Wand" is misspelled "Gentleman's Dualing Wand", which can cause crashes in the crafting menu

@Tachyon @auraneas

This is a problem with the game. It loses the mod data in the save files occasionally. Make a backup copy of your character's save file in documents/Gaslamp Games/Dungeons of Dredmor whenever you stary a new game so you can copy the mod#.dat files over if the game corrupts them

@megaluigi -Fn6-
Check out my edit in this link

https://community.gaslampgames.com/threads/ascii-invasion-playtesters-requested.5419/page-8#post-124503

THis version also fixes the crafting crash

@Saymon
They allow a miniboss to spawn around level 10, which grants a permanent buff if defeated

Why does this terrific mod corrupt my saves? Help! I want to put it back on, but I'm fed up with having to start again from scratch.

HackNet? Yes!!!

Has anyone here played NetHack?

The floating eye, in true roguelike fashion, is a complete and utter ass.

I have no idea what the freed souls do pls halp

Very, very awesome. This mod needs far more love.

For some reason, I tried to load my save, but I couldn't do it because this mod wouldn't load for some reason, despite the fact that I enabled it. Any reason that might've happened?

Please nerf the floating eye

I love the mod and everything it adds, just that ability the Floating Eye monster has (the letter E) that freezes you in place for 10+ turns keeps getting me killed. I know that's the point, but on floor one there's absolutely nothing I have that can keep me alive when I'm surrounded by diggles and the Floating Eye for 10 turns straight

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Enabling this mod gives me a recipe for the N-Dimensional Lathe using: (Burnt-Out Wand) + (Spring-Loaded Power Core) + (Aquamarine) + (Azure Mob-Bonnet) which has no crafting result icon and crashes the game on mouse-over.

I am playing on the latest beta with all DLCs installed properly.

That is no little girl.... THAT IS A DESTRUCTIVE BEAST!
WHY WOULD YOU ADD THAT... THING? At least I wasn't on any level higher that 1

I'm a long-time Nethack fan and as such don't mind the letter monsters on general principle, but they do really look weird alongside all the normal monsters and the player character. If the whole game was like that, I wouldn't mind at all - but as it stands it just feels weird.

Yo! It's me, the thousand taunts guy.
Half a year ago you suggested I incorporate your taunts into my own mod. Now that the holy seal is broken and I am free to revage the surface world, I am willing to do so! Just say the word.

Wand of aetheric bombing causes the game to freeze occasionally.

Why are people hating on the "letter monsters" when it's an invasion of ASCII?
That's the whole point.

@Hazalad
The letter monsters are the entire point of this mod -- it's a tradition from old-school rogue-likes. Check out any number of older rogue-likes, and they use letters to represent the monsters, simply because they were developed before the age of PCs, to run on mainframes commonly using old VT terminals, and the like. The title of the mod 'Ascii Invasion' should give you a hint at that.

Changing that would be to contradict the entire point of the mod.

@onemorenameless
I posted somethig in the thread in the GLG forums concerning a problem I had with this mod possibly spawning a nearly unkillable boss, back on May 27th, but still haven't seen any comment on that. Is that something that you are still looking into, or what?

I cry every time this mod isn't on the front page, I love it so much. Anyone who respects original roguelikes at all will love this mod. Not to mention how much raw stuff was added.

poop

i found this mod a while ago but didnt give a damn because those letter guys set me off

The letter monsters really annoys me. Everything else is very nice overall, but I`m interested if you are gonna actually add other skins for them or they will stay like that.

A Little Girl appears to be causing crashes to desktop. Double check her spells maybe!

will you be adding sprites for the letter monsters

Awesome mod. One of the best mods for DoD. The enemies are great and the status effects are new and interesting. Keep up the good work

Anarchy_Is_For_Fun : Melee combat will eventually 'cure' limb loss by hacking a new limb from a monster. Vengeful Rival (ie. from a Dueling Wand) being able to target the player at all was an oversight / exploit that I've now uploaded a fix for.

So i've had my aword arm cut off and also been cursed by a "vengeful rival". These buff seem to be permanent? Potions of purity and Zodiacal wands don't get rid of them, and in the case of "vengeful rival" I cant even tell what the buff(debuff?) does. Is there a list of these effects and is there supposed to be a way to get rid of them?

PS I'm running a lot of mods, if these buffs arent from your mod i apologize.

Update - One buggy item has been removed (Glorious Bolts). All non-trap items with special effects now clearly indicate their powers alongside their flavour description.

Great mod. No problems with it so far. Gives a retro feel to one of my favorite modern roguelikes.

Due to reported CTDs I've been unable to reproduce to fix (via Steam's workshop), and some controversy over unintended design consequences (via Gaslamp Game's forum), I've updated this mod to remove the Verdant Elf monster.

I did some more testing. Definetly the L (Elf).

I JUST GOT KILLED BY A GIANT PURPLE LETTER S THAT WAS TOTALLY IMMUNE TO ALL OF MY PROMETHEAN MAGIC. WHAT.

I do believe I know what Grimness's problem is. I'm experiencing. I hear a skeletor "MYEH" sound and then it crashes. I encountered it when the capital L casted a spell so I believe THAT entity is the problem.

The glorious Roguelike. My inner child is so happy right now. Now I want to fire up Omega.

Ah, good ol' Rogue and Nethack, back in the days of ASCII and instadeath (Goddamn gnomes with wands of death). Well done!

Grimness : This is the first time I've heard of such a crash, and I honestly can't think what could be causing it. Do you have any other mods (or DoD's next beta) installed that could be causing conflicts or errors themselves? Does the game crash sporadically inside the zoo, or the exact turn the monsters are alerted to your presence?

there is a monster zoo on floor 3 that keeps crashing my game when i enter it.....
would help if you could fix it!
i dont know wich one it is but i hear this kind of high pitched sound that sound like its saying noo! before i crash...

This looks mad cool. Love shoutouts to older roguelikes. I'm going to be trying this out tonight.

Thank you when youve gone halfway through a monster room only to crash you get ticked off.

Isaac : Ah, that would be due to a typo in my last code revision. I've just updated the mod with a fix. Sorry.

i mean the violet fungus on floor 6 not 5

ok i have a problem theres a fungus on floor 5 that it shoots something at me when it hits my game crashes is it just me or does anyone else have this issue

You have to realize that the tradition comes from the fact that Rogue (the orginal rogue-like) started in 1980 on Unix systems, which you'd typically access using non-graphical computer terminals. The creators of the game made do with what they had. (Keep in mind that the IBM PC didn't yet exist). They used ascii graphics for everything -- to represent monsters, walls, doors, etc. I'm not sure when the first graphical roguelike appeared, but the use of ascii characters to represent monsters has a very long tradition.

This is definitely the most game-changing and amusing mod I've ever used.
Previously I could make it down to Lord Dredmor on Dwarvish Moderation, now I can't even get halfway on Elves Just Want To Have Fun.

Oh wow @

Well, thanks for answering and no biggie, i love the mod anyway!

PixelBandit : I 'drew' the new monsters as letters partly as a homage to the many non-commercial roguelikes that (for a few reasons) use or allow text-only displays, but mostly because I am not very good at spriting.

This is one of the best mods in the Workshop, people. Use it. Respect it. It does for monsters what Compleat Essential does for skills and Interior Dredmorating does for rooms. It's AWESOME!

This needs more Elbereth. Maybe as a replacement for Celestial Circle if not an independent skill.

I dont understand. I like your mod but why is every monster added a letter?