Too Much loot, Q's, first impressions

Yeah, with my character I end up hoarding loot in piles on floor one (there's SO MUCH STUFFFFFF! D:!) but it gives me a lot of potential for crafting stuff (running a smith/tinkerer atm). Tbh I don't give much thought to lutefisking these days because I use burglary with every character I make, which gives me unlimited lockpicks (I have yet to ever put a single point past the starting skill in this and it is amazingly useful). according to the wiki each lutefisk gives a .2% chance of getting an artifact from the lutefisk god and each 125 guarantees an additional enchantment.

Tbh I'm curious about the levers as well, most of the time I can't tell, sometimes it opens a small opening in the wall with one piece of loot, sometimes it generates traps (which I like since I'm a heavy tinkerer ) and sometimes (allegedly) it unlocks uberchests... but I pull every lever I find and many uberchests can't be opened, so I got no idea...

I have actually found that situation before, especially when it's an acid bolt trap, those sting! I generally just don't go through and maybe come back later when I can disarm it reliably.

I also enjoy roguelikes! Coincidentally I'd been listening to an Etrian Odyssey vgm less than half an hour before I read this post.

 

If you pull a lever and get the message, "you hear the sounds of machinery," that means that an UberChest™ somewhere just got unlocked. In older versions, loading a save would sometimes re-lock UberChests™ and then you had to ignore them or go lever-hunting again. For the current version they supposedly maintain their locked/unlocked status even if you save and reload.

 

If that's true then half the uberchests I've found don't have levers : /

Current char was made after the recent patch and yet I still can't open a bunch of uberchests, despite having pulled every lever I find.

 

I've heard rumours that some UberChests™ are opened by Levers on other Floors. I'm pretty sure this must be true because, like you, I've had Floors where I've yanked every lever and still had locked UberChests™ laying around. I personally don't think it's worth the hassle of trying to unlock UberChests™ by going up and down a Floor, looking for more levers, and then doubling back, but if you're a crazy completionist you could give it a whirl, I suppose.

 

Or possibly in unconnected rooms? Dunno if any of those are still floating around.

 

After I've totally explored level one on my current character, and hit every lever I could see, there's still one uberchest that I cannot open. I'll have to make it a point to go back there after I'm done with level 2 to test the theory.

 

I'm on level 5 and couldn't manage to open some chests on 2, 3, and 4. I suppose I can go back too. I have archaeology for once, I suppose I could at least send items to the museum now

 

I found that there was a couple of UberChests that I could only open once I complete all the quests on that dungeon level.

 

Maybe some chests are just glitched, and don't work until you come back to that game/level later?
I've run across a few chests that don't want to open ever...though.

I was happy the one time I found a really good item from them though. 2 Absorb on a ring. Oooh.

 

I found 3 Uberchests in a row once.

I was like 'Oooh I hope there is a fancy axe in there.'
1st Chest: Fancy Sword
2nd Chest: Fancy Staff
3rd Chest: Fancy Mace

Ugh I'd have rather had them be monsters and got the XP from it.

 

I think you're thinking about Evil Chests. Uberchests are opened with levers and have artifacts of all types, Evil Chests are unlocked but have either a weapon or a monster.

 

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