Treasure Chests

[4matsy]

...Cool.

[Dark Nation]

There are 6 new combo types.
- Chest (Normal) is standard chest. It opens when you touch it from below (you can't open a chest from the side or top). It changes to the next combo in the combo list.
- Chest (Normal, Copycat) changes when a chest is activated. These can't be activated by touching them, only by being triggered from a regular chest.
- Chest (Locked) works like Chest (Normal), except it removes a key from your inventory when you open it. If you don't have any normal keys or the magic key, it won't open.
- Chest (Locked, Copycat) works like Chest (Normal, Copycat) except that it triggers when a Chest (Locked) is triggered.
- Chest (Boss) works like Chest (Normal), except it only opens if you have a Boss Key in your inventory.
- Chest (Boss, Copycat) works like Chest (Normal, Copycat) except that it triggers when a Chest (Boss) is triggered.

All chests of the same class (Normal, Locked, Boss), along with their Copycat counterparts, will open at the same time if one of them is opened. You only get the special item if Link is touching an Armos->Item flag when a chest type is triggered. So, you can have empty chests and Link has to pick the right one to get the prize. And he would only have one shot in the entire game, since chest states save, just like door states.

A large chest (at least, in the screen shots above) is composed of 4 combos. The top 2 are Chest (Boss, Copycat) types and the bottom 2 combos are Chest (Boss) types. The bottom 2 each have an Armos->Item flag on them.

And since many people are using the default theme, they aren't going to see your comment about the warp system, Snort, as it is white text on a white background. I almost missed it (and was wondering why Praethus thought that '<3' had anything to do with warps).

[ShadowTiger]

So, you can have empty chests and Link has to pick the right one to get the prize. And he would only have one shot in the entire game, since chest states save, just like door states.

Oh, my, that's a bloody good idea. O_O ...

We still have to find a system in which if you touch a combo like that, it'll turn into the next one, but all the others on the screen WON'T. That should be very important for puzzles, and things like footprints in the snow, dirt, or sand, in the case of walkable combos.

[Praethus]

You only get the special item if Link is touching an Armos->Item flag when a chest type is triggered.

So does the flag go on the chest itself or on the tile below the chest?

Also, I think I see the answer in your (nams) just, but I just want to be sure. If you have the chest set to appear upon killing all enemies, then you open the chest. When you come back in and kill the enemies again, will it be the open chest that appears?

[{DSG}DarkRaven]

First question to DN: What does "nam" mean?

Second question to DN: Now that we have functional chests, would it be possible to have a chest game, similar to LTTP? Obviously we couldn't have a room full of 12 chests, but something like... enter the room, pay the guy, guy disappears, and a handful of chests appear within the room, say, eight, in a square configuration, so that the center space, where the guy disappeared from (and where the player is standing), would remain empty? Another room type we could potentially make would be like the pay for info room, only it'd be a pay for item room. Three chests, with values set by the quest maker, containing specific items. A player could choose from a 10, 30, or 60 rupee chest, only to find a heart, heart container, or perhaps an exploding bomb. Additionally, the room would be one time only, or there would have to be a specific item which would remove the room, or thirdly, the chests would only be purchaseable once, so a player couldn't continually buy a pair of flippers or what have you. Sort of like a shop, only you can't see what you're getting, which could potentially be a lot of useless crap.

Third question to DN: You mentioned magical keys opening chests, and that got me thinking, are we any closer to having dungeon specific keys, or dungeon specific magical keys (hereafter referred to as master keys, different from Boss Keys)?

[bigjoe]

So, you can have empty chests and Link has to pick the right one to get the prize. And he would only have one shot in the entire game, since chest states save, just like door states.

Could there be like a screen flag or something to negate the saving of states until an item is collected? This way, you could have a game that works but with more than one chance to get the item.

First question to DN: What does "nam" mean?

I think its to signify that he fought in Vietnam..

..just kidding :p It means "Not a Mockup"

[*b*]

so, the armos-item is still required? that's kinda funky, if you ask me... but, you didn't, so I'll just have to joygasam everytime I set one of these little guys off

[Jigglysaint]

Wow, that's totally awesome! Now the next thing to do is have it so that when you get an item in a chest, it will display the text string for the screen. Think about it, you walk up to open the chest and you take the item, and a descrption goes from accross the screen describing it.

[Sephiroth]

Wow, that's totally awesome! Now the next thing to do is have it so that when you get an item in a chest, it will display the text string for the screen. Think about it, you walk up to open the chest and you take the item, and a descrption goes from accross the screen describing it.

That's awesome if that could happen. It could be like a room type. chest -> string. XD Open the chest and the string is displayed. :)

[bigjoe]

so, the armos-item is still required? that's kinda funky, if you ask me...

Maybe "Armos->Item" flag should have it's name changed to "Item Activator" to more properly reflect it's function, since it is now used for more than just Armos combos.