Shattered exploits

ShatteredPD

Hello adventurers,

I recently read through the patch notes of the most recent update and noticed one of Shattered's exploits have been fixed. Reclaimed pitfall traps no longer affect shop items and contents of chests, so you can't use them to "steal" items without paying or using a key. So I decided to commemorate other infamous exploits that are no longer with us.

Trap deletion - Item stealing wasn't the only exploit possible with reclaim trap spell. Before 0.9.0 you could drop a reclaimed trap spell to make it "forger" the last stored trap so it could be used again. This would let you remove unlimited number of traps with just a single spell.

Healing potion farming - Now one probably every vanilla player knows. Attacking swarms unarmed and making them split as many times as possible, you could obtain a LOT of PoHs. This one was nerfed in 0.2.3 by reducing the drop chance and basically killed in 0.6.4 by introducing drop cap.

Seed farming - Another common farming scheme was one involving a wand of regrowth. With just a few upgrades, it could sustain you indefinitely while also providing limitless amount of seeds. As seeds became even more useful in 0.7.0, this exploit was finally tackled by adding a cap to how much useful grass the wand can create. Infinite farming is still possible, just harder to pull off.

Extra upgrades - Do you feel like 15 scrolls just isn't enough. There was a way to get more between 0.7.3 and 0.7.3b. By using a curse infusion spell on the spirit bow, you would trick the game into thinking it was legitimately upgraded and since it isn't supposed to be, it would give you a SoU back. There were a few other instances of extra upgrades, like most recently an armor upgrade dupe which also took advantage of curse infusion.

Lock picking - Even Shattered PD had a trick which required a frame-perfect input. Tapping on a locked door during a certain frame would for whatever reason open the door without a key. Before 0.8.0, this could skip any boss except Tengu and thus, it was very useful for speedruns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wInG57_vd-0&t=139s).

Floor skip - However, none of those exploits was as broken as this one, which existed since vanilla until 0.6.4a. It would let the player skip a floor while descending, so it could potentially be abused to go straight to the amulet without any game. I found it mentioned in a bug report, steps to reproduce are missing, so people wouldn't try abusing it (https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/issues/237).

If you know any other significant exploit I didn't mention, let me know in the comments.

Posted Mar 30, 2021, 12:01 AM UTC

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There was a version where Succubi would drop Scrolls of Upgrade as frequently as any other scroll. I got myself a +30 ring of furor that way...

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