April Spelunky Daily Challenge Tournament (Steam) - FINAL

[fastbilly1]

Everything in the game can be killed, even the Ghost. Giant Spider, Giant Frog, Mammoths, they all can be killed with a couple shotty blasts, or alot of whipping. Giant Spider has 10 hp so 10 whips/jumps, or 1 perfect shotgun blasts. Each whip or standard jump does 1 damage, each pellet does 4. Each shotgun blast is 6 pellets in a fairly wide pattern. The shotgun does give you a wide area of illumination on dark maps, so you can kinda get through dark maps without a torch, but it is tricky.

For those who care, the Ghost as 9999 hp and can only be hurt by UFO shots or Lava. It takes something like 35 minutes to kill him. It is possible to have three ghosts at once, but it is super unlikely.

My wife wanted to know how the game worked after I did my run so I did a couple more, killed Old Bitey and saved the Viking, but still no restless dead. I need to get back to the Castle and unlock Van Helsing again.

[Stark]

My wife wanted to know how the game worked after I did my run so I did a couple more, killed Old Bitey and saved the Viking, but still no restless dead. I need to get back to the Castle and unlock Van Helsing again.

I love that I've put a ton of time in this game and I have no idea what any of this means. Plus, did you ever say what the "worm" is?

Also, what happens with that Skull you can take to the exit?

[noiseredux]

I love that I've put a ton of time in this game and I have no idea what any of this means.

word. One of my favorite things about Spelunky is that at the 30 hour mark I'm still learning things and seeing things I've never seen before on a daily basis.

[fastbilly1]

My wife wanted to know how the game worked after I did my run so I did a couple more, killed Old Bitey and saved the Viking, but still no restless dead. I need to get back to the Castle and unlock Van Helsing again.

I love that I've put a ton of time in this game and I have no idea what any of this means. Plus, did you ever say what the "worm" is?

Also, what happens with that Skull you can take to the exit?

In order:
Old Bitey is a giant fish in the Jungle "I hear rushing water" stage. At the bottom of the stage there is a big lake full of piranhas and one "big ass fish." He looks like this:

He is a loot pinata when he dies, but he is surrounded by piranhas, has alot of HP, and when he dies the ghost appears instantly even if there is another ghost on the map (hence the statement that you can get three ghosts).

The Viking is a character you can unlock from a coffin in the jungle. He spawns on a Restless Dead Or Running Water map, he just happened to be underwater on my run:


On Restless Dead maps of the Jungle, everyone knows about the Shotty under Ash's tombstone, but if you see the Kings Grave:

You can bomb under it and get to the Haunted Castle Level. At the end of the castle you fight the Black Knight, who has the shield weapon, and can save Van Helsing who looks kinda like an Amish train conductor:

The reason the Castle is awesome is that there is a Kali shrine at the end, and most enemies leave corpses, so you can rockout your Kapala there (on one run I got the black knight on it stunned and ended up 32 favor meaning I got the Kapala, a couple items, and the 8 hp hit).

The Worm is a hidden side map from Jungle. If you see one of these things:

You have to throw a body onto it, then the Worm eats you - Should have walked without rhythm.

It is a difficult side level, but if you get through it you get the crysknife, which is the only item that replaces your whip. It changes your timing, destroys corpses, and is much slower than the whip and kinda sucks because of that - I have never stopped a dart trap with the knife. BUT it one shots any enemy in the game but Olmec, Magma Men, and the Teleporting Crocodile jerks. [edit - and the ghost obviously]

Crystal Skull to exit = 15k. It is the same as the Gold Idol in the Dungeon, just instantly spawns a ghost.

I love that I've put a ton of time in this game and I have no idea what any of this means.

word. One of my favorite things about Spelunky is that at the 30 hour mark I'm still learning things and seeing things I've never seen before on a daily basis.

I have seen pretty much everything in the game, except Yama. I have made the Eggplant appear, but I am not good enough to carry it through the maps, heck I have a hard enough time with the Goldkey...

Do note, that Spelunky on Steam does not have cloud saving. So if you uninstall (or reinstall the OS), BACK UP YOUR FILES. I had almost all of the characters unlocked, but lost it all when I swapped out HDD and OS's.

[noiseredux]

wow, great info.

I did find the Haunted Castle by myself recently. I was pleased. But I haven't beaten it proper. Just exited out of it so far. Been there twice. Exited once, killed once.

I love when I get a tombstone level... it's like a free shotgun.

And of course been to the Black Market.

fast, what about the hidden stuff on the snow levels? Can't you get inside the alien ship somehow? And isn't there something you can do w/ the big stone heads?

[Stark]

wow, great info.

I did find the Haunted Castle by myself recently. I was pleased. But I haven't beaten it proper. Just exited out of it so far. Been there twice. Exited once, killed once.

I love when I get a tombstone level... it's like a free shotgun.

And of course been to the Black Market.

fast, what about the hidden stuff on the snow levels? Can't you get inside the alien ship somehow? And isn't there something you can do w/ the big stone heads?

If you go to the Black Market and buy (or steal) an Ankh from the merchant there, you can use that on the giant stone heads.

[fastbilly1]

And of course been to the Black Market.

Its the best place to kill 12 shopkeepers for the achievement

fast, what about the hidden stuff on the snow levels? Can't you get inside the alien ship somehow? And isn't there something you can do w/ the big stone heads?

There are two types of alienships:
1. If you get the level feeling of "I sense a psychic presence..." there is a crashed UFO with a fat alien that shoots rings that go through walls:

Behind him is a jetpack, but he has forcefields and those rings chain and do massive damage - like you are a giant enemy crab. One bomb or good shotty blast will kill him, but it is tough to get him sometimes.

2. Mothership always spawns on one side of 3-4. You need a jetpack, climbing gloves, or alot of ropes to get into it - large vertical slope. It is common for the little aliens in ships to spawn at the top and shoot down at you as you go up.

I wont say too much about whats in the ship, but if you defeat the Alien queen you get this bad boy:

Which shoots super bombs. Once you get this, if you are careful, the rest of the game is a breeze. It destroys everything: walls, enemies, you, etc.

The Moai spawns on 3-2 or 3-3, I think, and looks like this:


If you have the Ankh from the black market and die on that stage, you will respawn in front of the Moai without your held item - shotty, and with 4hp. When you go into the Moai you get the Hedjet, which with the Ankh, the Udjat (chest from caves), and the Scepter that Anubis has on 4-1, you can open the gold door on 4-2 to go to the City of Gold. City of Gold is important because it is a temple stage where everything is made of Gold, so each bomb nets a good chunk of change. But more importantly it is where the Book of the Dead is, which is needed to get to the Hell stages and to fight Yama. I think it takes three dozen sticky bombs to clear the map of all its blocks, and you end up with something like 3mil off that map alone. But remember, it is an active temple map, so temple traps and enemies are everywhere. I have never attempted fully clearing it.

[Stark]

Of course I had a great run! AFTER I had already run the daily, Over 100k.

[mjmjr25]

What do I do with Elkin after I buy him?

What do I do with that monkey that climbs on me in the jungles?

When I eat the Chanterelle and go double size - how do I shrink back down and get out of the level? I got ghosted when I couldn't get out.

[noiseredux]

56,750 - noiseredux - 4/8

Decent score but the run felt sloppy the whole time.