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[HeroOfFire]

With the 1.0 release of Randomizer Returns, this quest project thread is now dead.

WRONG!

I already have been making progress on the first expansion for Randomizer Returns, the BS Expansion.

BS Zelda was an interesting game, shame about the whole one time in Japan deal. Good thing I recreated it a few years back in a randomizer. And now, that world and those dungeons are coming to Randomizer Returns.

This expansion will change a few things. Having the BS Overworld show up 33% of the time is unique. The two BS dungeon sets are pretty simple, aside from having no good spot to place the second item in a few of them. And as promised, for every dungeon set another scripted item will be added that can appear in the quest randomly. We are up to 9!

A few other changes are also in progress. I've made an effort to make the 3 stair warps only appear on screens that have stairs, and Door Repairs should be a little more limited to screens you have to bomb or burn something. Remote Bombs can show up in the Curiosity Shop as a variation of the Red Bombs.

Upcoming features planned includes changing the text of some NPCs based on situation (mainly door repair, but also the hint for Lost Hills is useless in the BS Overworld), an Option to Randomize NPC text (part shuffle, part random new lines), and options to limit randomized features to the Classic or BS content as well as the current mix of both.

Look forward to a demo of this expansion soon with 2 BS dungeon sets.

As for future stuff, there are 3 more dungeon sets planned for the BS expansion still to make. I also have some other ideas to try regarding the randomizer.

Something to note, due to how the cave/dungeon randomizer works, dungeon sets work best in groups of 7. Obviously the 1.0 release had 7 dungeon sets, but right now BS only has 5 planned. And as for the later Outlands expansion, that only has 4 planned. 16 dungeon sets to pool from sounds great, but it would be more efficient code-wise to have closer to 21. I have an idea on how to get 3 more dungeon sets in Outlands, but that still leaves BS short 2. I do have a few ideas for this, but any suggestions would be nice. Obviously any dungeon set from a quest I did not make would need permission, and I think 3rd quest outlived its welcome in Randomizer Alpha.

[Mani Kanina]

If you want to implement either of the two dungeon sets from Legend of Lana DX then you're more than welcome to. Send me a PM about it and I'll set you up with the quest password and anything else you might need. Of course, a couple of those are multi-map dungeons so I'm not sure how well that would work. (Not to mention detail level is a bit higher than standard classic stuff).

Anyway, looking forward to playing/streaming this quest when I have a bit more time on my hands.

[Deedee]

Will the extra dungeons/overworld from BS return? Those were some of the best parts of BS.