I always found the arcanite plate mail from Atavus lightweight, cool. But after developing some leg strength or gaining perma levitation (so I can wear a belt of carrying), I prefer to switch to an adamantine plate mail.

How do I do it as early as on GC1?

It's simple. I stick to my buddy gods - the neutral gods. As You know, Loricatus can harden any iron-family material of any piece of armor that You have, provided You "wield" it. He is almost guaranteed to harden the material if it meets the intelligence requirements as if You were hardening it.

But if You happen to share a flat, be in a frat, hang out on raves, pub-crawl, drag race, sing karaoke, play scrabble or just pray regularly to Loricatus, these limitations apparently do not apply.

Note : In the steps below, I assume You also know Silva (so You can have free munchies and improving relations with Loricatus), and Mellis (for all the extra stuff, and improving relations with Loricatus). I suppose it's best to be used in town.

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1. Wield the copper/bronze/iron/steel/meteoric steel item You want to harden.
2. Pray to Loricatus and the other gods.
3. Leave town, run around, or wait 3 hours otherwise.
4. Back to step 2, continue until the item of Your choice is hardened enough times to be solid adamantium.

Of course, it may take You a lot of time - the chance of getting an upgrade "beyond intelligence" is small already and favor seems to only slightly increase the probability. Sometimes I had it happen by surprise, sometimes it took me a couple of days to have an adamantine plate mail. But oh, was it all worth it !

Other fun stuff:
- Pray to different gods, running around and praying is a sure way to make good relations even with "conflicting" gods (I for example like having Nefas + Seges)
- This method is GREAT if You happen to have a goblin in UT4 drop a bronze short sword + 9 or stumble upon an iron plate mail +4!
- Running around while NOT encumbered or bloated will train Agility, the opposite will train Leg Strength
- This post is long and unnatractive.

Ey,Izzy - got a problem with that?

Some people are just not Slob and don't have the habit to get to the point quickly, when writing IVAN advice (if You're insisting I swing my e-peen all around).

Oh god no, nothing like that. I'm just fixing your post to what my immature mental state insists it should have read to make it more amusing, because I spent more time thinking about that line than any other part of the post.

How do you get perma levitation?

Oh god we're going to get a warning from Capristo soon. This isn't even spam...

Plausible partial solution: Make a new topic for this sort of thing in Spam, move derailing posts there from here.

heheh, it's up to you Erno. I just have a problem with disgusting images and videos and stuff like that.

I though so, that was a joke. I'm fine with some form of images too, as long as they stay in Spam!

Yeah Al, I've used loricatus many times to harden gear to Adamantine. I went through a phase in my early IVAN days when and Adamantine Turox was my weapon of choice. Of course I always ended up kiling myself with Turox explosion side effects not to mention all the wonderful scrolls I've burned. In a game where you find no Artifact weapons an adamantine flaming sword is pretty decent. Adamantine beartraps are also quite usefull for dismembering named baddies.

I have never worn adamantine platemail, just too damn heavy. If you find an SoCM or an ommel bone or bone platemail plus SoHM, an ommel tooth platemail is even better than adamantine, light and stronger (375 vs 350), zap it a few times with those numerous wands of slow that pollute the game and it will last a long time. If you have spare SoCM's and highly enchant your ommel tooth armour and it has too many flies you can always change it to another material and then back to ommel tooth.

Hmm. Maybe I should go play an all ommel tooth game of IVAN.

Hmm I never thought of changing to a material and back to ommel so that it doesn't rot.
I love adamantine bear traps, always try to carry 4 of them with me when I get enough strength.

yeah its only worthwhile if you have highly enchanted the item otherwise its easier to just use one SoCM make a new ommel tooth armour.