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Hello everyone,

This tutorial hold covers all elements in DROD 3.0, including custom scripting like cut scenes, changing the player role, using global variables, or user-made monsters.

Note there are no challenge scripts however, because that is a 5.0 element specifically.

The "Advanced Elements and Techniques" level is extra long and complicated compared to the first two versions, owing to the sheer amount of elements TCB has and the sheer amount of interactions between them.

All the things I revised in the AE Tutorial I made sure to carry over to this one as well as the JtRH one.

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[Last edited by azb at 10-20-2024 09:55 PM : Fixed various annoyances]

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The GatEB tutorial will cover all the 4.0 elements, including going over how GatEB gave more scripting features than TCB did like the ability to generate monsters on the go, but there won't be a 5.0 version of this because Elementary Dungeon already is the tutorial hold I made for all DROD elements up to 5.0.

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Unfortunately I haven't gotten a response on publishing the JtRH tutorial, but I made some changes to this tutorial and the GatEB tutorial as well which I will show as soon as the JtRH tutorial is on the Holds board, mostly just fixing the things I fixed in the JtRH tutorial like the wrong info about brained seep or the trivial room that introduces decoys and so on.

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I have re-posted a new version with various fixes for accuracy and to reduce frustration just today.

Note because it re-uses the same rooms as the AE tutorial just like the JtRH tutorial does, I will not publish this to the Holds board.

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Advanced Elements and Techniques

3S: Scroll says that adders are stabbable at the side of the head; this might confuse new players into thinking they can only be stabbed orthogonally. I would just say "the head".

7S4W: Since it doesn't matter whether the trapdoor is dropped or not, the player can just keep their sword. Not a big problem though.

8S2W: Typo: "pheonix" for "phoenix"

8S2E: You can ignore this room's lesson and kill both roaches by backswiping.

10S2W: Dialogue tooltip is inaccurate. Some non-Beethro roles don't have stealth (namely clone, decoy, Gunthro, soldier and stalwart). Unarmed monsters and citizens will not drop trapdoors even after a power token.

10S: Waterskipper nests spawn every 10 turns, not 5.

10S2E, 10S4E: Both can be solved without using the room's lessons, by pushing mirrors onto the pressure plates.

10S3E: Here I couldn't find a way to use the lesson about paralysing aumtlich at all; the room is much easier to solve without.

11S1W: "If" should be "unless".

12S: Ceiling darkness on the trapdoor is maybe too dark; it's hard to tell that it's a trapdoor.

12S1E: Difficult room; I couldn't find a way to get past the giants without killing a golem on the scroll, so I was unable to read it until after clearing and re-entering the room.

12S2E: Not true that aumtlich beams ignore cracked orbs; in fact they break them, taking two turns to fully remove them.

Brain Drain

9S3W: Scroll describes persistent citizen movement tokens but there isn't one in the room, so the new player will have no idea what one looks like.

9S5W: Room contains (and scroll mentions) a soldier, which is not a TCB element.

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Awesome feedback as always! Will fix the stuff needed as usual.

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8S2E: I can't solve it without needing to step on the oremites first before backswiping, and it's intended this room requires backswiping.

10S3E: I can't find a way to solve the room without using the deflecting the beam technique; can you show me how you did it?

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8S2E: Face north, step on the middle tile of the pressure plate, step south.

10S3E: This is just standard aumtlich manipulation. Face towards the aumtlich until it's two tiles away from you and on a dark square, then let it sidestep, then dance around it so it only moves diagonally until it reaches the pressure plate. Then step on the door -- it doesn't matter if the aumtlich comes off the plate now.

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Awesome help as always.

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Do you know a good room that would require me to paralyze the Aumtlich with the sword? I can't seem to figure it out myself, but I know it's an important detail for learning how to deal with them.

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Will this do?

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Yes indeed. It works beautifully!

Now I have all the fixes implemented in my latest version of the tutorial.