Fava Beans
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| Fava Beans | |
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 Starting area of E1M2
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| Authors | Sean Birkel and Ben Gates |
| Port | Vanilla Doom |
| IWAD | Doom |
| Year | 1995 |
| Link | Doomworld/idgames |
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This mod was one of the ten 1995 mods to feature in the Top 100 WADs of All Time on Doomworld! |
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Fava Beans is a nine-level episode replacement for Doom, created by Sean Birkel with one level contributed by Ben Gates. It was originally released on August 29, 1995. Fava Beans took approximately a year to create and was named after a crank call episode by The Jerky Boys.[1] As part of their 10 Years of Doom feature, Doomworld named it one of the ten best WADs of 1995.
Contents
Levels[edit]
All levels designed by Sean Birkel, except where noted otherwise.
- E1M1: Gaspra Armory
- E1M2: Hangar 18
- E1M3: Impalement Station
- E1M4: Triton Lunar Base
- E1M5: Charon's Lab by Ben Gates
- E1M6: Shadows of Darkness
- E1M7: Titan's Anomaly
- E1M8: Orion Outpost
- E1M9: Creeping Death
Demo files[edit]
The release includes two separate demo files which require Doom v1.9 to be viewed. They show multiplayer action on the first level of the episode, and on the separate CRAP115.WAD level, which is an excerpt of E1M7: Titan's Anomaly.
| PWAD | Demo | Level | Skill | Tics | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAVA.WAD | FAVA.LMP | E1M1: Gaspra Armory | 2-player deathmatch | 13740 | 6:32.57 |
| CRAP115.WAD | CRAP115.LMP | E1M1 | 2; 2-player coop | 16380 | 7:48.01 |
Speedrunning[edit]
Routes and tricks[edit]
Current records[edit]
The DSDA episode records for Fava Beans are:
| Run | Time | Player | Date | File | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UV speed episode | 03:54 | Kyle McAwesome | 2021-05-07 | fbe1-354.zip | |
| NM speed episode | 09:30 | vdgg | 2013-05-18 | fbe1n930.zip | |
| UV max episode | 22:54 | Kyle McAwesome | 2011-12-22 | fbe1-2254.zip | |
| UV Tyson episode | 40:42 | Kyle McAwesome | 2023-09-30 | fb1t4042.zip |
The data was last verified in its entirety on October 5, 2023.
Trivia[edit]
- All of Sean Birkel's maps were developed on his Am486DX2-80, which had 5Mb of RAM. The development began with the DEU v5.21 editor and then moved to a DEU port called DETH. The nodes were built with BSP v1.2X. However, due to an issue using BSP on Impalement Station, the DeePBSP node builder was used instead.[1]
- The only remaining map, Charon's Lab, was developed by Ben Gates on his Am386DX-40 with 4Mb of RAM. The map was created with a shareware version of DeeP and the nodes were built with DeePBSP.[1]
- Fava Beans was developed from a previous release named The Madness of Mergatroid.[2] Interestingly, this was named after a saying Birkel's science teacher used, which he references as "heavens to mergatroid" - this likely references the saying "Heavens to Murgatroyd". The main updates to create Fava Beans were related to changing some graphic elements and subtle tweaks in the levels that the author wanted to address. Additionally, the COMPSTA1 texture was changed as well as the status bar used during deathmatch.[1]
- Following positive feedback on Fava Beans the author released a mini-episode of Fava Beans purely for deathmatch, called Deathmatch Fava. This included remastered versions of four maps from Fava Beans, namely: Gaspra Armory, Hangar 18, Impalement Station, and Charon's Lab. These were created with DETH v3.92 and ZenNode was used for node building.[3]
External links[edit]
- Fava Beans at Doomworld/idgames
- Deathmatch Fava at Doomworld/idgames
- Fava Beans at the Doom Speed Demo Archive
- Review at ONEMANDOOM: WAD Reviews
- Review (4/5) at Doom Underground
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sean Birkel (29 August 1995). Fava Beans Text File. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
- ↑ Sean Birkel (13 August 1995). The Madness of Mergatroid. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
- ↑ Sean Birkel (3 February 2001). Deathmatch Fava Text File. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
