Creature changer discovery

[SkelApe]

On my path of self-enlightenment (i consider getting the rhino by someone elses means cheating, so to get it myself i found out how to do it myself manually), i discovered exactly how the creature changer works. Basically, a single digit determines the type of creature you have, and each creature has a different digit to define it from the last. For example:

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The  is the digit that makes the creature a rhino. It is the fifth digit along, always. (note, this is an extract of computer text from a .erc mind file) To preserve the encoding of the file, which is all the settings to preserve the computer text, you need to open the file with a hexadecimal editor. Finding this out was pretty damn complicated indeed. I couldn't contact wally or cache, as their names are kinda withdrawn, so i had to take a number of approaches to find out.

And thats how i solved the age old question of "Is getting the rhino cheating?" I just did it myself, which made it feel right inside

 

[Kays]

That is interesting. I can see the actual number value which corresponds to the creature numbers in the mapping list.

Do they still loose knowledge if you do it this way?

 

[SkelApe]

Yeah, unfortunately the creature that is changed via this process still loses knowledge, just as with the creature changer. Although i have also found that if you want to change a creature without loss of knowledge, change it to the leopard first and then change the resulting leopard into the desired creature. A small hinderance, but at the price of knowledge preservation, you cant lose