Getting a seeded value from a list

[frednotbob at hotmail.ca]

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> 	Are you generating the entire level on entry, or as each room is
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> "opened" (if, "as opened", you have the complication that going down a
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> level and back up will result in different random numbers vs going
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> straight to the room).
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> 	Generating on entry only needs the seed for the initial generation
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> point (as mentioned, first time you could use the system clock and save
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> the value).

I'm generating the room on entry -- the 'stairs' object calls 'make_map()' which creates the floor and lays out monsters and treasure.

What I'm trying to do is set a persistent state for the levels generated by make_map(), so the player can move between floors without generating a totally new randomized floor each time.
 
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> 	But for a dungeon -- you may be best served by generating the entire
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> level (all rooms, doors, static encounters [traps, treasure]) when
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> entering the level, and saving the entire dungeon (after all, after a
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> treasure is collected, it shouldn't re-appear the next time you start
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> that same level -- if you only save the starting seed, then all
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> encounters will also be regenerated). In this scenario, where you save
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> the entire dungeon, you don't even need to worry about the seed --
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> you'll never really want to recreate the same dungeon for another party
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> [unless running a competition in which case you seed every computer the
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> same so every participant is running the identical dungeon].


That actually sounds close to what I'd like to ?do.  How would I go about saving the dungeon?  I'm guessing I'd need to define how many levels to generate, first of all....