Skull Cavern mine floor level colors?

[Shattered Seraph]

so i'm in the skull cavern and i notice that as i go down in floors the color of the floor number changes sometimes. is there a reason for this?

[Hammertone]

Seems like a random to me. You've notice that unlike the mine, skull caves didn't have any check point, that means if you implement a drastic change every xx levels, there's a good chance lower level won't be explored that much. Think this like the lava theme in the mine, that theme at 80. I didn't think many of us gonna reach that spot

[KatherineOfSky]

The levels really don't change that much -- they seem to revolve around the rocky areas to the egyptian areas, (plus green "infested" areas). I've been to level 87, and there's no significant change in atmosphere.

I too have wondered what the colors on levels mean. I'll try to figure it out next time I go.

[Li Shengshun/Bk-201]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

The levels really don't change that much -- they seem to revolve around the rocky areas to the egyptian areas, (plus green "infested" areas). I've been to level 87, and there's no significant change in atmosphere.

I too have wondered what the colors on levels mean. I'll try to figure it out next time I go.

How the hell did you get that deep , at 38 i usually run out of time.

[Hammertone]

Originally posted by Li Shengshun/Bk-201:

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

The levels really don't change that much -- they seem to revolve around the rocky areas to the egyptian areas, (plus green "infested" areas). I've been to level 87, and there's no significant change in atmosphere.

I too have wondered what the colors on levels mean. I'll try to figure it out next time I go.

How the hell did you get that deep , at 38 i usually run out of time.

Jump through the hole. Entirely possible, but depends on luck a lot. Too deep means damage, too shallow means never reach 80.

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Li Shengshun/Bk-201:

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

The levels really don't change that much -- they seem to revolve around the rocky areas to the egyptian areas, (plus green "infested" areas). I've been to level 87, and there's no significant change in atmosphere.

I too have wondered what the colors on levels mean. I'll try to figure it out next time I go.

How the hell did you get that deep , at 38 i usually run out of time.

Tips:
- Go on a Lucky Day
- Eat Spicy Eel, or other luck food, like pumpkin soup
- bring LOTS of bombs. (around 50 cherry bombs if you are buying from the Dwarf) Mega bombs are easy to craft with all that useless gold ore you have lying around ;-)
- Spicy Eel gives a run boost. If you are using Pumpkin Soup, bring Coffee to run faster
- as soon as you see a ladder/hole, go down.
- The thing is -- don't bother with the pickaxe to break rocks -- use bombs. (Remember to keep out of their range).
- Holes > ladders. Holes are at least a 3 level drop, sometimes up to 10. Ladders only go down 1 floor.
- bring full stacks of stone to build staircases. Always use staircases on Infested levels, or those spirally ones that take forever. I use them on the egyptian ones as well.

There was a guy who claimed to get to 237 legit, (without using any cheats). Like I said, my max was 87... but I regularly get down to 50/60.

[Dark]

There are only 40 consistant dungeon maps. There are 4-5 tile sets (cave, ice, lava, green/infested, egyption). Monster and rock/ore spawns are randomized.

The cave does these maps in a set order, the skull cavern just draws them up randomly every time.

[Shattered Seraph]

i was talking about the color of the floor number gage not the color of the cavern. in the normal cavern the color shifts with what section your in but with the cavern it changes randomly only thing about it i've noticed is consistantly white numbers mean less monsters

[Tesserat]

I've noticed this myself - GREEN floor numbers seem to indicate INFESTED areas where you'll probably encounter the slime tileset area (slimy walls, slimy floors, slimy slimes). Additionally, RED floor numbers seem to indicate an AMBUSH area, where the screen will go red and gassy and flying creatures will attack often. Surviving the encounter so many times seems "clear" the ambush flag and the floor grouping (either 5 or 10 floors) will be "clear". For how long? I have no idea.

EDIT: Forget what I said - the color just seems to be a standard biome indicator. Deeper into the biome you are, the more "colorful" it gets.

[Shattered Seraph]

that's a lot more info then i had. i'll keep an eye out and let you know if i notice any thing else. cuz there's still purple. idk if it indicated there beeing iridim on the floor or if it just indicated another biome. the cavern's scare me lol.

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Shattered Seraph:

that's a lot more info then i had. i'll keep an eye out and let you know if i notice any thing else. cuz there's still purple. idk if it indicated there beeing iridim on the floor or if it just indicated another biome. the cavern's scare me lol.

You'll become accustomed to them. Once you get your Galaxy Sword , there's nothing realy scary -- just take a lot of food to heal, and RUN through the caverns.

As a side note -- the speed boost from coffee now stacks with Spicy Eel! You can go three times as fast! (I think this changed with the latest patch).

[No]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

Originally posted by Li Shengshun/Bk-201:

How the hell did you get that deep , at 38 i usually run out of time.

Tips:
- Go on a Lucky Day
- Eat Spicy Eel, or other luck food, like pumpkin soup
- bring LOTS of bombs. (around 50 cherry bombs if you are buying from the Dwarf) Mega bombs are easy to craft with all that useless gold ore you have lying around ;-)
- Spicy Eel gives a run boost. If you are using Pumpkin Soup, bring Coffee to run faster
- as soon as you see a ladder/hole, go down.
- The thing is -- don't bother with the pickaxe to break rocks -- use bombs. (Remember to keep out of their range).
- Holes > ladders. Holes are at least a 3 level drop, sometimes up to 10. Ladders only go down 1 floor.
- bring full stacks of stone to build staircases. Always use staircases on Infested levels, or those spirally ones that take forever. I use them on the egyptian ones as well.

There was a guy who claimed to get to 237 legit, (without using any cheats). Like I said, my max was 87... but I regularly get down to 50/60.

Another point to note, eating/drinking stops damage from bombs if you can't escape, also pressing the journal button can be used to stay awake past 2am, but thats kinda scrubby

[No]

I think i got it, purple number = slime, white = mummies