ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Currently running a cornac berzerker that reached level 49 while exploring Eruan after completing 2 of the 4 Orc Prides, i am running into a problem :

-Reaching Eruan (3) i noticed that specific part was basically a huge fortress full of thieves and bandits (easily hundred of them) and that one zone (the south eastern one) of the fortress has some of them inside (i can see number indicating either damage or regeneration in the black unexplored zone) but can't be reached because there's no door anywhere leading to it).
I tried using my teleportation rune hundred of time, hoping to go there by luck, but maybe i'm unlucky but i never could land there.
And pickaxes can't seem to dig walls in there, tried at several places with nothing happening.

-Clearing Eruan (4) i found the way to Eruan (5) and so went there.
There's a loading bar appearing, that is loading without any end, the bar just go left to right to left etc... indefinitively.
But if i press escape -> Graphic Mode and change from Shockbolt to ASCII, it will load Eruan (5).


-when adventuring in the south desert of the East continent, i noticed that everytime i go to the exit of an instance (Orc party battle, Shadow Crypt, Briargh lair ...) that is located there, the game will crash after having loaded the worldmap, the crash occur just before the game is saving again (for the usual zone saving).
I noticed it happens even out of the desert, as long as i can see on my screen the desert mountains, the game will crash once i exit an instance back into the worldmap.

But this is happening only if i use the nice Shockbolt tileset (i use it at 32x32) , if before going back to the world map, i press escape then Graphic Mode and change Shockbolt to ASCII, the crash will never happen, i can exit the instance and once on the world map the game is saving without crashing.

If it can be of any hint, i am playing offline not using an online profile and play on window XP SP3.

I can then change back to Shockbolt tileset.

Which version are you using? There were some issues with Shockbolt a few betas back.

Oops sorry, i thought i mentionned it, it was beta 33.
just edited the thread title for it.

Desert crash was fixed in b34 I think.

EDIT: Possibly spoily. **Spoiler Warning**




















Ok, I got this area (Eruan) opened and I was asked to explore.
I checked first lvl but how do I enter the weird construction surrounded by lava?
By using an orb?
Im scared to waste something important.

Its a vault, and you need either ways to walk through walls, to teleport into unknown areas, dig spells, anomaly that removes walls ( if it still exists ) ooooor, for characters that possess none of all these, the spellblaze amulet, as it can destroy walls.
Im not sure if it also destroys the item inside the vault though, I think I didnt get any item when I tried it with the spellblaze amulet, and as vault it shouldnt have despawned while I waited for the amulet to drop?

Dekar wrote:Its a vault, and you need either ways to walk through walls, to teleport into unknown areas, dig spells, anomaly that removes walls ( if it still exists ) ooooor, for characters that possess none of all these, the spellblaze amulet, as it can destroy walls.
Im not sure if it also destroys the item inside the vault though, I think I didnt get any item when I tried it with the spellblaze amulet, and as vault it shouldnt have despawned while I waited for the amulet to drop?

Eh?
I do have that amulet.
But if I use it I risk losing an item I need to complete the game or just an item that is useful?

Is there a way to dig with a pickaxe?
Or does lava always interrupt digging?

There is no item of game winning importance inside, only a normal one that may be useful.