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There is nothing else underneath, Karkadann, most probably there was something planned by Lontahv initially,
but when you think of in what a short span of time those ages were created from scratch back then I think
they're quite complex ... I don't hang down there btw ...

This was one of the guidelines from the RAD contests

Rapid Age Development (RAD) is a competition in which various Writers try to produce an Age within a very
short space of time to demonstrate what can be created with the currently available tools. The Ages do not
have to be finished, and can be completed after the contest ends.

Here you can see the contest winners from the RAD November 2008 with Tre'bivdil as the winning age ...

Karkadann wrote:I keep on getting stuck at the bottom of the stairs over at Tre'bivdil, am I missing something, I thought their was a cavern or something underneath also I cant find the light down their.
Or is that for the next update?

There is nothing down there but a dark empty room (janaba already clarified this). The stairway was to add texture to that block and add the possibility of extending the age if I worked on it beyond the RAD competition. I also wanted to leave people curious.

The age may seem skimpy on volume of content but that was intentional. I was going for the haute cuisine appeal.

I have a question regarding existing fan ages, as I haven't played nearly all of them I'm hoping someone else will know:

Which ages have working puzzles in them? Most of the ones I've seen have been tech demos, art showcases, or mood-and-space exhibits.

Turtle isle has a very difficult journey with hints where to find the clothes on several places, with a new area as a reward when solved .
And it has a nice professionaly designed " no left turn" maze.

Deledrius wrote:I have a question regarding existing fan ages, as I haven't played nearly all of them I'm hoping someone else will know:

Which ages have working puzzles in them? Most of the ones I've seen have been tech demos, art showcases, or mood-and-space exhibits.

I have counted 31 ages with puzzles of one type or another

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Ahrkane
Ashream
Backgammon Age
Checkers Age
Chess Age
Crater Concept
DRA Office & Adrael
Dragon's Tooth
Enobmort
Hayal

Janga
Jo'nae
Jo'nae Hood
Kinnekulle
Lohdehvis
Neolbah
Oolbahnneea
Prad
Rahsoo B'ahrotan
R'Oshanhnin Korvahkhn

Rell-too
Shinelight Manor
Sonavio
Takla Ma'kan
The Maze
Torilacha
Turtle Isle
Walking Maze
Wianeroy
Wind River

Zefora

Thanks for the answers. I've only see a couple of those (I really wish there was a definitive easy-to-browse listing, with screenies and categories).

If you had some time available, Deledrius, you'd just had to click through this list and you could
tell from the extent, the breadth of the greenish covered walkthrough section if or if not there might
be something to explore ... The pictures are partially very old (just see the Tre'bivdil one, might be
wrong as well) and sometimes even wrong or misleading like e.g. 'Serene' by Andy where this age
is presented with a picture of an 'Ahra Pahts' shell containing a link to Serene and thus missing out
on a real impression of the age ... The awesome 'R'Oshanhnin Korvahkhn' age isn't on that list at all ...

Yeah, I just thought, you could independently of any other means just sit for a few minutes and
just get a glimpse of what's available and might be considered useful for future implementation ...

Sorry for a double post, but the situation is more worse than I realized before ...
On the UAM Wiki ages and also the gallery page, mentioned above, there are so
many pictures completely mixed up ...

I am very glad that I saved that website at the beginning of this year as a PDF ...
If anybody would be interested, maybe also someone maintaining the GoW Wiki,
I am uploading that file as I write ... Please, download it here (7.35 MB) ...

This is just the picture gallery with all the ages incl. names, but maybe useful
as a start, to tell one from the other ... I have all ages installed and have many
pictures already available and could even take more of the ones needed or
desired, if anyone would need them for whatever ... Yeah, just so you all know ...

Here is a list on which you can see at one glance which Ages are worth to visit:
Uru Glossary Fan created Ages

Edit:
Of course, all fan made Ages are worth to visit! There are differences in regard to puzzles and graphics quality, though.

OMG, Norfren completed his Uru Fan Age Glossary ... I am very impressed, this is so awesome ...

Thanks, for the pointer, Jogi ... Now you have something very comfortable and convenient at
hand, Deledrius, or anybody interested to comfortably preview all available ages in one place
at the same time and having a small description at hand or even further links if needed plus
those most enchanting perfect images, this is an awesome service and gift and a precious
resource and convenience to have ... Many Kudos and thanks to our Norfren for those
immense efforts and dedication ...