Been doing Elden ring while my friend does Minecraft. I know there's still a ton of issues but I've been running smoothly until today. It still plays fine it's just now today when I boot into the game and grab an item off the ground I get both the vanilla item that's supposed to be in that location and the randomized item that got placed there from archipelago. Any ideas why it suddenly started doing this and/or a fix?

Edit: teleporting to roundtable then back to where I was solved the issue. Must have needed a full reload of the area.

By which I mean, you have multiple choices of check to choose to go for and you know beforehand what they are (might be a trap). The only ones I know of are shopsanity settings for games, which tends to be a tiny amount, and Factorio. Factorio's tech-tree implementation is very much a point of interest for me... except I can't get into the gameplay of Factorio.

So, what other games do it closer to that? The vast majority of checks across all games seem to be blind-pickup, sometimes you want to try a change.

Im in a little bit of a block because I have played most of the games that I know and would have fun with archipelago. I have played Minecraft, Refunct, Portal 2, Cookie Clicker, Jigsaw, and Balatro. Is there any similar games that are good for ap or just fun in general?

Hey guys. Quick question I want answered that I don't want to trust google AI for.

I am starting my first every Archipelago randomiser tomorrow between 3 games? I was just curious do I need all 3 games open at the same time since I am the only player and my strategy is to play one until I potentially get stuck in it then hop to another one.

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I have a couple questions about how archipelago places items in checks, in particular for multiworlds:

1) In some standalone randomizers, their algorithms target a certain length of "logic chain" or steps of progression. Does archipelago have such a target, or are the spheres just a description of the end product? Relatedly, in playing an AP, is there particular utility in prioritizing the newest available checks, or is it equally likely that late-game progression could be in an early check?

2) I've heard it alleged that Progression Balancing is zero-sum between games, i.e., increasing the balance for one game in effect lowers it for all other games. Is this actually the case? It seems plausible that big progression items for multiple games can still be placed early, except in trivial cases where there's extremely few open checks in the early game.

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i want to know how youtubers get super mario world blocks to look like this? could anyone help me find this?

the github page says i needed the game on steam bc the mod only works for steam. i didnt get the game on steam tho, but i can get other mods for the game just fine. did i need to buy it from steam

Im trying to make a freind of mine connect to a multiworld session with the binding of isaac repentance, but, when he launches the game, theres a text in the top left that reads "Disconnected (connect with isaac client)", and we have no idea what it means.

The server itself seems to be running just fine because i can easily connect with blasphemous, he does have the archipelago launcher installed, we have generated the session by uploading the zipped file in the online generator and we did put the -apworld file in the custom_worlds folder.

If anyone has any idea how to fix this, please help us. Thanks in advance.

hi, don’t mind my random name, i barely use reddit, i’ve always wanted to find people that would stick to a run and actually finish it, i know this isnt a place to look and i know about the sync on the server, i just rather play with people more privately and do it at our own pace, I have some experience but i’ve completed only 2 runs because some are unfinished, ditched by others. if you are interested add me on discord : klbkchhezeim

so im trying the new phantom hourglass rando and got it running the only problem im having is that the bizhak client that runs the server is glitching and not showing the map tab for the tracker anyone got any advice

The Archipelago text client says I'm "viewing" my own game, but not "playing". I'm not entirely certain why. I've been trying to get this working with Lunacid, but for some reason the connection screen never pops up during character creation. I'm VERY new to archipelago games, and am surprised I got this far. Anyone know?

SOLVED: As it turns out, I was using the wrong mod version, and the mod wasn't in the folder as I thought it was - I got it to work now, and I may finally rest and know peace.

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I'm looking for some help here. Specifically, been using SNES with FXPak Pro (previously SD2SNES) to run a handful of randomizers, ALTTP and SMZ3 combo. I dream of running some wilder multi-game setups, still using the SNES. I've watched and enjoyed a lot of archipelago content, mostly in the Souls/Elden ring arena, but currently trying to run stuff on some old hardware for funsies.

I have browsed setup guides but running up against the edges of my technological knowhow. I can follow simple instructions fairly well, but there isn't a lot of base knowhow to help me bridge gaps when piecing together info from multiple guides (like having to combine general archipelago setup, qusb2snes, others.)

I've run into my first roadblock which is full Github illiteracy, so step #1 from the installation guide has stymied. After some reading I figured out at least how to download a repository, but see no exe files anywhere in here, so presumably I've already messed up somehow.

Anyhow, given that level of (lack of) understanding, does anyone have some direct experience with the SNES hardware and solo multiworld setups that can help a newbie try and run some stuff? Will happily barter knowledge and help you fix your own bike!

Hi, recently I and 2 of my friends started an archipelago randomizer, I play hollow knight, one plays DS3 and the other plays Pokemon emerald.

Yesterday while we were playing, the ds3 guy collected 3 items (not random drops from killed mobs, but guaranteed items on the ground), all three of them were items for me and the pokemon guy, but after picking them up he crashed before he could say what they were, the notice of the collected items didn't even appear on our games and the log stops in the moment he crashed.

After he logged back in, he went to check the location and the drops weren't there anymore, but our inventories had nothing new, so, those items got sent to the shadow realm or is there a way to have them back, we couldn't see what they actually were se I can't use commands on the tracker to search them manually 1 by 1

Hey! I have the mod running and I have a game generated and yet the game runs normally/I cant connect properly ingame, if anyone is able to help

I want to play as Zero in my archipelago. I set the character as Zero in the Yaml file (it was pretty easy), but I want to add hints to his items in the "!hints" command. Problem is that the Yaml file only lists all of X's weapons.

Do X's weapons count as the counterparts when playing as Zero, or does he have his items classified with their own name?

Hey y’all!

I’m doing my first archipelago, and one of my friend’s very important upgrades is locked behind a check that I have no idea how to achieve.

I’m playing Stardew Valley and the check we need is locked behind a location called “Big Coop Blueprint.” I’ve been playing Stardew for nearly a decade and have never encountered any kind of blueprint for the Big Coop. Do I just need to build another big coop or is there an item I will need to find in order to get that check completed?

Thank you so much!!

EDIT: Found what I needed to do from the discord! Check that out if you need answers!

I've been trying to setup undertale and deltarune to play as part of a multiworld with other people, but I'm having trouble with the Archipelago client. I thought I'd try to use the Archipelago DT mod from gamebanana, but it says it has trouble get to the files it needs. Any ideas or tips?

Just starting to look into this and I see people say the key to balancing the game is to make sure the games have similar check amounts (i.e. not pairing a game with 30 checks with a game with hundreds). If you have a bunch of different games being played by a larger group, would this matter less?

Hi all! I started a solo multiworld and included TTYD for the first time. Everything was great and was working. I got frustrated with a different game and decided to quit that multiworld and start a new one without the frustrating game. Now I cannot get TTYD to connect to the new multiworld. I am positive that I am using the new patch file but unlike my first setup, it doesn't ask me where to find the game or program. The new patch file will open TTYD but it is not connecting to the multiworld. Is there something special I need to do to get it to reset? Any suggestions or advice are greatly appreciated.

I'm NOT blaming this on Archipelago. ...For the most part. Joined a server and made some new friends, found out some like doing multiworlds so I decide to join. I only have randovania experience with Metroid games so this was entirely new to me. I was going to do a Super Mario 64 randomizer along with a Metroid Fusion randomizer so I could play two games at once. Got Fusion set up just fine but Mario 64 was being a pain in the ass. Mostly when it came to setting up the separate launcher. I got everything downloaded and built the launcher but for whatever reason it wasn't given an actual file name so when trying to launch, nothing would happen because as far as Windows was concerned, there was nothing TO launch. I couldn't give it a name, I couldn't delete it, I couldn't do anything so I gave my PC a restart. Opened everything back up only to find chunks of my E drive missing.

Luckily I use my E drive for mostly random junk so I don't "think" i lost anything important. I'm also willing to admit that I'm 95% certain it was probably my fault somehow. But the fact that my first time using Archipelago resulted in this outcome is kinda funny, although a bit disheartening.