I made a mistake trying to use a wand of blast wave to trigger a plant effect (not sure if that works anyway) and knocked myself off a ledge, and then got resurrected with a non-blessed ankh. Looked around the level and eventually died, and when it then shows the full map I could see the backpack anywhere.

Is it possible it was hidden under another object, or does it appears on the level you fell from?

  • QuibblekrustEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    Ah, I see. I haven’t died with an unblessed ankh in a long time. The backpack shouldn’t be hidden. It should be exactly where you died, right?

    • eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      The complication is I died* by falling, so there is no way to know where the first spawn point was, before respawning somewhere else

      • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Totally talking out of my ass here, but everything else that falls down into the abyss is randomly placed on a level below.

        If we follow the same logic, the death backpack should be randomly anywhere on a level below the one you fell from.

        PS: sometimes objects do hide other objects beneath them, if you use the magnifier lens you should see the whole stack.

        PPS: if it fell on a tombstone, you have to defeat the tombstone first to get it from under the tombstone. I would check this possibility last, although wraiths can be easy to surprise attack in the doorways and around the corners. I would just assume the best at first.

        • eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          Yeah, after getting a full view is the level after properly dying it wasn’t possible to check object stacks etc, but I guess that is the most likely explanation that it was under something

          • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            I just tested the stacks, and I was wrong. It can only show a mob and one item as a list of two. This happens often, so I assumed that list functionality covered everything. My bad. If there are multiple items on the same square, the magnifier only shows the top item.

          • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            Other than what we’re talking about here, only two other options remain, that I can think of: read and understand the source code that’s relevant to your issue, or ask a dev who is well familiar with the source code. I haven’t looked at the source at all and just approach it strictly as a fan/player.

            Good luck! I hope you find your backpack safe and sound.