Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccrdan From: ccrdan@ucdavis.UUCP (Dan Gold) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: Of wands and spells (* SPOILER *) Message-ID: <363@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 14:24:39 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.363 Posted: Tue Jul 16 14:24:39 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 04:23:39 EDT References: <3204@dartvax.UUCP> <342@ucdavis.UUCP> <1607@orca.UUCP> Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 26 > >> No doubt everyone knows that you can use a wand of digging to dig holes > >> in the floor. And a wand of polymorph can be used to polymorph corpses > >> into food rations. A wand of polymorph doesn't seem to polymorph inanimate > >> objects like rings and potions, however. Is this true? > > > The wand of polymorph doesn't seem to have much effect on things like gold > > (I haven't peeked at the code yet though). However... > > If you ever had a hankering for NINE long swords whilst staring at a common > > pile of nine rocks. I hope I don't have to say any more. > > Please don't. When you polymorph a pile of rocks, you get a pile of > gems. Not swords. For any object other than a rock or boulder, > polymorphing will turn it into a random object with the same symbol > (the character that you see on the floor), so you can polymorph a pile > of arrows into swords. Or a potion into a random potion. Of course, > the "random" object may be the same as the original. Whoops. Sorry about that. You are correct about the pile of rocks. One more note, and this one I am fairly sure about. For those who do get greedy and start polymorphing rocks, and weapons and the such, just beware: if you start polymorphing the object like crazy you may end up with a low- value object like a whistle or worthless gems. Once the item reaches this state you cannot turn it to something else. It seems the game will only let you change the object to something that can be found normally in the dungeon, and not something like a pick-axe. Again, I don't get a cheap thrill out of reading the source, so I have just surmised this through experiment.