The Main Server crash, levels, and items...

Everyone on the server is talking about the main server crash. Tonight much of the server was restored, but I still ended up losing 2 levels, some coal, a diamond, a pirate's striped bandana, and the Infantry helm Zoix gave me the other day.

Ah... but the TMW community is wonderful, Sugar helped me out again with an Infantry helm. Thanks Sugar!

I made up one of the levels tonight. I also collected a lot of roots, so I might be able to buy back some of the coal.

This time I'm keeping the items I want to keep on my person. Freeyorp had a backup of the server minus the items in the stash. My thought is that if the server crashes again someone may have a backup (again minus the stash).

Just to set the record straight the server didn't "crash," though I keep saying it did. The story as I understand it is that someone at the hosting centre accidentally reboot the wrong server (the tmw server) and when they did that there was a write error with the database.

It's a good lesson for backups...

Zoix, Stacking, and the Infantry Helm

Big thanks to Zoix for stacking with me in the Hurnscald mines and for the Infantry Helm (+15 defense). Previously I was using the silk bandana (+10 defense). We fought off spiders, black scorpions, and red slimes for a significant amount of time, enough to get me within 12% of leveling. Garnah and another player whose name begins with T, but I forget (sorry) helped me to the next level (we killed yellow slimes and various skulls). I actually hit the skulls a few times and both players would heal me.

After I spent quite a bit of time in the Moggun mines securing only 3 Coals despite killing something like 50 Mogguns, and that was with one player giving me a coal (again I've forgotten the name, but I promise to edit next time we meet). This is the second time the player (wearing a skirt) has helped me with Mogguns and Coal. So Thanks to everyone!

The value of getting "slimed"

This morning I was hunting yellow slimes in the mines north of Hurnscald when one dropped a Jack'o soul. Normally Jack'o souls are only dropped by Jack'o, and killing Jack'o at level 52 is virtually impossible, so it's a nice find. The nice thing about slimes is that they pick up items that get left around by other players, you never know what you're going to pick up.

In a comment on a previous post I mentioned that I'm still working on my steel shield. In storage I have quite a few Iron Ore (over 50), and a bit of coal, but not nearly enough for the shield. My strategy is to buy the coal. I managed to get 6 coal for around 1000gp, 5 roots for every coal, not a bad price, but Tradebot is now asking 3,500gp each. At this point I'm almost tempted to go back in and try to divide and conquer the mogguns.

I think one of the things that makes TMW so much fun is that some things require patience. True, you can buy/beg for things (though begging is not recommended, it can get you banned, and it's annoying), but sometimes it's just good old fashioned leg work (killing monsters) that gets you what you need.

In the comment follow up I also mentioned "stacking," something I talk about in much earlier 2009 posts. Stacking is the fastest way I know to level, but you need to group up with characters that are more powerful, but still low enough that you get a hit or two in.

A common place to stack is in the spider area of the Hurnscald mines (where people stack to get Infantry Helmets and keys).