~Magic Carpet

Collection of various tips.

~A few tips.

Civilians have Mana, so cast Possess Spells on their buildings to
gain control of the Mana.  Be careful though, not to kill them.

If you're getting infested by slow movinng creatures in their
large numbers, then try destroying your castle using SHIFT L and
then cast a Castle Spell on top of them, until you have squashed
them all.  Then use the Possess Spell to collect their Mana.

On later levels you can use nearby monsters to destroy rival 
castle's.  To do this simply lure them nearby the rival castle and
fly away, they should then concentrate on the destruction of this
new target.

When your health is getting low, hightail out of a battle to gain a
little back.


~More Tips, uploaded to Cheet Sheets BBS by Kevin Gorasia.


If you want to tackle this game yourself don't read the tips for this 
great game.


Flying Tips

Slip sliding away.
Learn to use the left and right strafing keys propely,as when used 
in conjusction with the backward and foward keys you can raelly 
pull off some amazing moves during play.For example,when attacking 
a castle use the left and right arrow keys to fly sideways around it 
while shooting spells.This will make it harder for the archers to hit 
you.


Skid-age

If you are in a tight spot and don't have enough mana to cast 
accelerate, quickly turn yourself left to a 45-degree angle away 
from the direction in which you want to fly,and hold down the 
forward key and right strafe key.You will actually fly there 
quicker than if you flew in a straight line!


Hand brake turns

For extremely quick left turning use the right arrow key and the 
backwards arrow key together.For turning right,press left arrow 
key and the backwards.This gives you a big advantage.


Emergency Stop

If you have someone on your tail,shooting you in the back don't turn 
around and face them directly.It's better to reverse as quickly as 
possible,and pop up behind them.If you have the Accelerate backwards 
spell.all the better!


The Rachman Manoeuve

If you find yourself short of mana,fly around the level possessing 
all the buildings you can.  This can sometimes yield huge amounts on 
mana to play with as most wizards tend to ignore buildings.



~Level 32 (or something) tips, obtained via NetMail.


~Problem

I wonder if you could help me. I am on a level in magic carpet where
there is really only one main island with walled of compartments on 
it.  I can get in and collect spells as you go, each time triggering 
more monsters and the exit to the next walled off compartment, but 
now I am stuck.  There are at least two areas I can not get into, 
one contains another spell.  I cannot cast my castle spell anywhere 
so I have no safety. 

~Answer

You CAN cast the castle spell! Its in the upper right area on the map 
(in one of the corners), the corner with the masses of creatures in 
it, i.e the rock throwers and the worms, you can just get one tower 
right in the middle.


~Problem

The Last compartment contains soilders and a dragon. I can't 
seriously be expected to kill a dragon with just fireball spells.

~Answer

Thats exactly what you have to do! I know it sounds impossible but 
if you hammering away at it and make good use of the teleporters to 
get out of the way you should have it within 5 minutes! Trust me:)
        
When the wyvern dies I think this triggers off the opening of the
door, from here on you can teleport back outside the island and 
build a massive castle (7) after destroying the internal one with 
SHIFT-L.


~Problem
 
So how do you, 
 
     a) build your castle.
     b) get to the compartment with the spell and exit already in it.
and  c) kill them all slowly.


~Answer

If all else fails use maphack to create a level land! This will all 
access to all the spells from the start. I'm on the last level now! 
Played level 48 for about 1.5 hrs then it crashed out to dos !! (This
has happened twice now, and on a friends pentium).


~Level 33

I just completed level 33 in magic carpet. Either this is by far the
weirdest level till now, or I exploited a bug to finish it. To find 
out, I'll describe how I did it, and would like to know, if you did 
it in another way...

Level 33 : Jahrrsomething is a labyrinth island with rooms connected 
by magic portals. In the beginning, I find it impossible to find any 
place to build any castle. After killing the wyvern appearing in the 
third-last room, and the crabs in the first room, I flew around for 
a LONG time, without knowing what to do. Finally, I found a few 
places, where it was possible to build a level 1 castle. It was also 
possible to break down some walls with the castle spell, but I was 
not allowed to go through the hole - that is - after traversing the 
series of rooms once more, I was suddenly allowed to pass a broken 
barrier, and I could extend it to lead me to the outside.  Outside, 
I could build a big castle, and thereby restore equilibrium. There 
was still two rooms, which I did not enter. I did not find enough 
space to break down the walls to these roome from the inside, and 
did not try from the outside. At the top of the wall adjacent to 
one of the rooms, there was a spell, which I never got close 
enough to get.   (Anton Norup Sorensen - norup@obs.aau.dk)