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What happens to your pack if you die when falling? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
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I made a mistake trying to use a wand of blast wave to trigger a plant effect (not sure if that works anyway) and knocked myself off a ledge, and then got resurrected with a non-blessed ankh. Looked around the level and eventually died, and when it then shows the full map I could see the backpack anywhere.

Is it possible it was hidden under another object, or does it appears on the level you fell from?

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[–] 4 points 5 days ago* (7 children)

It should be exactly where you died. There should have been an explosion of loot. That's the floor where you'll find your grave on a future run.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    When I said die I meant in the sense of being resurrected with the ankh, so there is a backpack hidden in the floor somewhere, but I couldn't see it when I finally (properly) died and you can see the whole map

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Ah, I see. I haven't died with an unblessed ankh in a long time. The backpack shouldn't be hidden. It should be exactly where you died, right?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    The complication is I died* by falling, so there is no way to know where the first spawn point was, before respawning somewhere else

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

    Totally talking out of my ass here, but everything else that falls down into the abyss is randomly placed on a level below.

    If we follow the same logic, the death backpack should be randomly anywhere on a level below the one you fell from.

    PS: sometimes objects do hide other objects beneath them, if you use the magnifier lens you should see the whole stack.

    PPS: if it fell on a tombstone, you have to defeat the tombstone first to get it from under the tombstone. I would check this possibility last, although wraiths can be easy to surprise attack in the doorways and around the corners. I would just assume the best at first.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah, after getting a full view is the level after properly dying it wasn't possible to check object stacks etc, but I guess that is the most likely explanation that it was under something

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago*

    I just tested the stacks, and I was wrong. It can only show a mob and one item as a list of two. This happens often, so I assumed that list functionality covered everything. My bad. If there are multiple items on the same square, the magnifier only shows the top item.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago*

    Other than what we're talking about here, only two other options remain, that I can think of: read and understand the source code that's relevant to your issue, or ask a dev who is well familiar with the source code. I haven't looked at the source at all and just approach it strictly as a fan/player.

    Good luck! I hope you find your backpack safe and sound.

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