Quote from: Proxima on October 23, 2026, 06:50:36 PMThat name works for me!

and so me!

it doesn't sounds bad... it sounds good

That name works for me!

Quote from: Silken Healer on October 23, 2026, 02:16:52 PMShould this thread be renamed to "lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs", seeing as "X-tralems" seems like it's the name of a specific level pack, and then Simon designated this thread to be a lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs thread, should we rename this thread to that for the sake of clarity as the thread is no longer just for the "X-tralems" pack any more?

i don't really know, i think i should re-name it to

X-tralems previews and random levels... is this name better?

Congratulations on your new pack, @LemFan - thoroughly enjoyed this! Having played all of your previous packs, I would say this is your best to date, imo. From the Gold rank onwards, there is some really clever, elegant level design going on here. I may have backrouted some, but others, where there were no skills leftover, it seems like it was intended, and maybe the only possible solution. I'm probably in the minority here, but I really like packs that start off with x-of-everything levels in the first couple of ranks and get gradually harder. I like the open-endedness of that, and you tend to set yourself the goal of saving as many lems as you can every time, or doing them in the most efficient way you can find.

The hardest levels come in the final, Chocolate rank, as it should be. I want to pick out 8 - The Body of the Desert, 15 - Wasted Opportunities, and 29 - A Lesson in the Branches as being the ones with the longest solve times; I often came up a skill or two short before finally hitting on a solution. But special mention to 27 - Triple Layer Metal as the hardest of the entire pack, at least for me. It seemed impossible at first. Extremely tricky, despite having so few skills to play with.

Replays attached

QuoteThank you MASTER-88 for playing our pack!

Yeah this pack seems interesting and especially heck cool looking level design. Finally done all Step 1 Incipio levels and talismans. Perfect completion list in youtube

Incipio all 20 levels & talismans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S12BzzxwIZQ

That not was pushover completed 1st difficult. Few hard levels here. Few might are backroute. But most might are intention ones.

Level 8 as not easy as it doesn´t look

Might are backroute, a lot skills remain and extra save, its might possible save all lemmings here, used build block with starting, my solution let much builder remains.

Level 9 Brace yourself fall is coming

I got this gold talisman really easily save 10 exrtas

Levels 6, 14 & 15 seems hardest levels to figured out. Especially 15, but like Pieuw told me i make it little bit different than intented.

Level 20 Graph Theory

This level might hardest level to executed here, its not my favorite level, but thanks its quite short one, its take me some pen & papers testing routes which lead to finnish and which goes to trap

Let post few random replays.

Impero 20 Horus Reaching Hand. Sure one my favorite levels ever.

Proficio 18 Dual Flavored Swirls. I just look some short level before goes sleeping. That was perfect choice. Another very interesting level.

Okay i´ll put seperate replays also Incipio 8 & 9 & 11 because i think those are more or less backroutes. Let quite much skill remain level 8 & 9.

Bridges in sky

Climber remain, but its migth are intention or close it otherwise

Hey Vexar,

Thanks for the pack! Nothing easy here, every level gave me pause for thought, but it's not mind-meltingly brutal either (although I probably backrouted quite a few of these if they weren't intended to be open-ended), which is nice. I'd say getting the silver talisman on the final level of original probably gave me the biggest challenge!

Spoiler

I like the way you have to combine both climber and floater compression techniques to do it, assuming I did it correctly.

Replays for V 3.1 attached.

Should this thread be renamed to "lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs", seeing as "X-tralems" seems like it's the name of a specific level pack, and then Simon designated this thread to be a lemmkeev20's levels/nominal packs thread, should we rename this thread to that for the sake of clarity as the thread is no longer just for the "X-tralems" pack any more?

Thank you MASTER-88 for playing our pack!

Ranks are suposed to get harder as you go, but indeed Incipio gets tougher fairly quick as we lacked easy levels. Been There, Done That was not supposed to be this hard and you used a least one very precise miner placement that is not needed in the intended solution. Regardless, you did well. If Dodochacalo comes around here at some point he may be able to give further insight about this one.

All your other replays are spot on. Your solution to Smells Like Team Spirit seemed very efficient. Pizza Party and Satanorium are both "little" puzzles to start off the last rank smoothly and I guess their perceived difficulty may vary greatly from one player to another. Things will get very serious quite fast with the following levels.

You seemed to enjoy Fiat Lem! so far which is great! Don't hesitate to send replays and give feedback if you feel like it. Have fun

I looked through the Allegro sources. Still no MIDI support in Allegro 5.

Allegro 3 and 4 supported it in the 90's and early 2000s. It looks like it was dropped for A5 around 2010-2015 and hasn't ever come back.

-- Simon

Quote from: Forestidia86 on October 22, 2026, 06:16:08 PMAny Way You Want

Hmm, Lovely/anyway.txt ships with LF, and Lovely/escapethepit.txt ships with CRLF. This kind of mish-mash has been in all Lix releases (current is 0.10.36) for all operating systems. That's annoying. I'm going to normalize this in git independently of what we're eventually going to ship in the releases.

Quote from: Silken Healer on October 22, 2026, 05:01:49 PMjust work too on the default text editor

Quote from: Forestidia86 on October 22, 2026, 06:16:08 PMNotepad on systems older than Win10 usually doesn't understand the LF line ending. This means that the text in the file appears to be in one line without line breaks

Right, Windows Notepad in Windows 8/7/earlier ignores lone LF characters, and instead shows all LF-separated lines text together as a single long line. I consider this an outright bug in Notepad.

One idea is to automatically convert all levels/docs/... to CRLF when I create the Windows release. I.e.: Keep LF in git, ship LF for Linux, and ship CRLF for Windows. Then the files will look different on different systems, have different sizes, different checksums, ... but it's probably the strongest contender to shipping LF everywhere.

Still I'd prefer to ship LF everywhere. Everybody will get the same files, everybody will see shared semantically-identical levels as file-identical, all regardless of tooling. Among only the Windows users (global OS share, not specific to Lix users), the ratio of Win 8/7/earlier dropped from 3 % in January 2025 to 1 % in October 2026, source. I expect this downward trend to continue. And in that small ratio, you're only hit if you use the broken default text editor. I am willing to work around some bugs, that's why I've shipped the documentation in CRLF for years, but the benefit is getting too low.

Quote from: Silken Healer on October 22, 2026, 05:01:49 PMWould there be any way for Windows 7 users still edit Lix levels on Notepad and it would just be trickier

On Windows 7, mass-convert everything manually to CRLF, then edit in Notepad. A common way to convert on Linux is unix2dos. I don't know about the easiest way in Windows. Stack overflow question: Anything like dos2unix for Windows? says: Install Notepad++ and use its mass conversion feature. Or use a Powershell one-liner.

-- Simon