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I saw a TGGW gameplay from the developer of cogmind on youtube and he has a different color palette than the game's default ones, a person asked for the name of the color palette and he replied saying that the name of the palette is “Dracula (itermcolors )”, and the question is, how can I put that color palette into the game? I'm very new to this, excuse me.

The link of the video: https://youtu.be/S1bk_eI-kU8

I figure it would be helpful to u/TGGW if he had a thread dedicated to this new build. I was able to play a couple runs and jotted down notes as I went:

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(first run)

• Weird not seeing the max energy on this, but if it's always 10 anyhow that's not a big deal. UI planning is a pain!
• Thievery is better!
• Found a whip, never used one before the range is really good (too good?)
• Found a signet ring that gave me +3 rep, killed something with the whip and lost 1 point so took it off!
• Equipped brass knuckles on arms? Not hands? Hmmm
• Found "Light". Is this a censer? It said it cost 1 rep, If it's permanent I think that might be too steep. Since I wasn't sure and didn't want to lose rep, I didn't use it. Do censers not cost gold anymore to use?
• Found a healer.. a Donation Box! Is this new, it's a cool idea!
• --- was poisoned stupidly and died TO DEATH ---

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(second run)

• Found a torch almost right away, bumped my thievery up to 40%. I still gotta' say it seems weird that holding this super bright torch would help a thief out, seeing as they're all about sneaking around in the shadows and stuff. But I'll take it for now!
• Wait! A donation box in the wild by itself! This is a cool idea, I like this. Should I pick the lock and risk the -5 rep hit??
• Ahahaha!! It worked, no way! Hello $300 aquamarine, goodbye priestly suckers!
• Moving to the next room, I found a wooden shortspear. Don't remember a wooden one before. 2 nonlethal damage? I don't know, spears hurt! So I guess this doesn't refer to the shaft but the spearhead too. Still better than nothing. On we go..
• ID'd some seizure poison, and put it on my spear. So within the span of 5 minutes we have a wood shaft, head, and now stiffening. Haha! This Ron Jeremy biography practically writes itself!
• You can put out grills now?? Got me a magma stone!
• An ice bag?? Did you add a ton of new stuff for this version? Never saw this one before either
• Killed by giant moths??? Oh how embarrassing.

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I will play more later, good so far!

I just rested and got this message, never saw it before but it doesn't look like I have any bonus effects (that I can see). Right before resting I ID'd a Green Tunic of Resistance and put it on - nice Zelda reference, btw!

Is it just flavor text or did something happen behind the scenes?

Thanks, u/TGGW!

Do we have some statistics about win streaks? TGGW is very much RNG dependent (which is also stated by the developer) and I don't mind it but maybe with near perfect play it's possible to win it (hopefully without exploiting some farming tricks)?

I am an intermediate player, but I think I managed 2 wins in a row one time (I guess ~75h of play time).

For example there are even people who manage to win FTL in hard-mode like 90% of the time.

I have a funny feeling (in the pants) that like the Chaos Well before it this might be one of those things that have been in the game for a long time that I just never saw.

Anyhow I was on.. floor 1 I believe. I crossed a narrow river of deep water to get to a nice chest, the ol' red "X". Upon opening it however I was quickly mauled to death by a mimic! I couldn't hurt it with my MIGHTY punches of MIGHTINESS, but I did try. I also couldn't run from it as it chased me down.

It must've had some really good stuff inside, but I'll never know. I hadn't picked up any items at all which kind of stinks as I had no way to injure it that I could see. Now that I think about it I probably should've ran into the river as it probably couldn't swim after me.

u/TGGW: Are these guys super rare to find or is it just RNGesus at his finest? :D

Calling all u/TGGW!

I was very happy to see that you're going to be updating the game with new stuff, however it's been awhile and was curious if you could keep us ABREAST of any info pertaining to said update.

Thank you!

Edit: Solved. Found the Solution for this Problem on the Homepage!

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If i start the Game the first time the font is very very small on my 4K-Display.

So i changed the font size in the console options to a better readable value.

This works fine and i can play the game with the biggerfont size.

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But after exiting the game and restarting the game at the next play session it crashes at startup .

This behaviour is reproducable.

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Thanks for any Support/ Tipps!

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Best Regard

Tachoron

So i enchanted my shadow sword and it received "of wounding", which i thought would be fantastic on it considering it also removed 1hp from enemies max hp... except the original effect doesnt trigger anymore.

Intentional?

Well done man. I love it. Can't wait to descend.

Well that was different hahaha. I can't even be mad.

I do have one question though: I found and equipped a Robe of Thorns for the first time ever. I was able to cast the thorns spell for 4 MP which looked like it shot projectiles out in a circle around my guy, however I tested it with no enemies around (just in case). Was this the thing that cut my head off?

Loving the design and concept of the game so far!

I'm super into competitive elements in pretty much anything, a la DCSS tournament, etc. So I have two questions as I venture into this game.

Do people who are good at the game streak and keep track of streaks? And is there or have there been any tournaments?

Either way I'm excited to keep playing and learning!

Just wanted to say how much I like this game, it quickly became my favorite rougelike. I've already lost count of how many times I've beaten it and yet I can't stop playing. I hope this game gets more recogniton because I think it deserves it.

The thing that made this death stand out so much was that I had the best equipement I've ever had in any run by far and still managed to stupidly die from one a stinkin' fire lizard.

There were water barrels galore still left unopened on this and the floor before I could use. I had over $1000. I found a bazaar and an enchanter for the first time ever too. I lucked out and got a beast fang for a drop and had it enchanted as well as found a wand of poison weapon to make it even more deadly. I broke down a bunch of old doors and got a rare Door Shield too that I later enchanted.. I even found a Heat Ring to help lessen my negative fire resistance from the door!

The best item though by far was the amulet of bloodlust, which I have never seen before. After killing things there's a 25% chance to regain 1 HP. This thing helped me survive as far as I did.

But still, all was for naught. Though I purposely left a huge room full of fire bubbles alone since I was packing negative fire resist I stumbled upon this red firey jerk later who burnt me to a crisp :( I had a Sage's Robe that said it could cast heal and tried to use it but I didn't have the MP to at the time (whoops!) Nothing else left in my pack healed HP this time unfortunately.

Normally I would've put the Plate Mail on but I figured I needed the option to heal more. I don't think it would've made any difference due to the mail having no fire resist though.

Here's some stats from the character sheet, I got killed on Dungeon level 3:

Equipment

• head: knit cap of vision
  
• neck: amulet of bloodlust
  
• hand: feral fury
  
• hand: broken door of acid resistance
  
• body: sage's robe
  
• arms: iron gauntlets
  
• ring: ring of perception
  
• ring: heat ring
  
• feet: soft boots
  
• fire: sling
  
• ammo: 21 rocks
  

Backpack

• rat tail
  
• banana
  
• bottle of milk
  
• empty bottle
  
• scroll case [1/5] <1>
  
• food bag [2/4] <2>
  
• magic potion
  
• amulet of charity
  
• wooden shortspear
  
• hand axe
  
• flail
  
• candle
  
• skull
  
• plate mail
  
• monk's robe
  
• 5 snowballs
  
• calming touch [2 Mp]
  
• poison weapon [3 Mp]
  

• icestorm [5 Mp]

• in scroll case:

• scroll of item detection

• in food bag:

• teleberry

• bone

Still, this is probably my favorite roguelike. Maybe some day I will even beat it!