I've been noticing lots of repeat seeds lately, (and I swear it feels like they cycle through in an order or something, I think I've recently gone through every seed and looped back around)

So, in the long term, devilition speedrunning might become nonsense.

(I just now got a PB of 7:25 on a seed I know for a fact I already completed most of)

Very late reply, but to what extent does the seed apply? Just devil/villager placement, or the bomb pool as well?

Recently started running Devilition, and your runs inspire me so much - they're really clean!

I think it applies to everything. A few times I got the same day 1 and completed it the exact same way I did previously. You might get different bombs if you complete days differently though.

Also, thank you! Good luck on your runs

hi! me and stnfwds did a quick test for duplicate seeds by me taking screenshots of 239 and checking if any of them are identical. the fact that we found 0 duplicates suggests that a) theres more than ~1000 seeds (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem ), which would make memorizing specific seeds and waiting for them to show up to execute them impractical or more likely b) the rng is completely normal, theres just a bug similar to the nostring bug where the game fails to pick a new seed at the start of a new round and runs with the same one / something predictable

btw could you send some footage of you getting identical seeds? would help out a ton

I have no footage unfortunately, I'll try to get some though.

One thing to note is going through 239 seeds could show nothing if there is an order to the seeds being shown. Which is kinda how it feels.

Of course this could all be a hallucination, but my plan is to screenshot the first bunch of seeds I get and reset until I maybe get a duplicate of one of them.

I found a duplicate, the whole process (mercifully) only took about an hour.

I screenshotted the first ~20 seeds and just reset until I got a duplicate. Though this only shows a duplicate starting position my experience is if you do the same placements, you get the same results.

Footage is here, duplicate at 10:30 and at the end of the video.

Given that this only took an hour it would be pretty easy to just memorize seeds and reset for them.