Wand of secret door detection

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Name secret door detection
Appearance random
Base price 150 zm
Weight 7
Type non-directional
Maximum charges 15
Monster use Will not be used by monsters.

A wand of secret door detection detects all undiscovered secret doors, mimics, and traps in a radius upon zapping/engraving.

Engraving with the wand only identifies it if these things are present; otherwise it gives no message.

The wand of secret door detection is most often used for finding the hidden entrance to the temple in Moloch's Sanctum.

Generation

Wands comprise 4% of all randomly-generated items in the main dungeon, 6% in containers, 5% on the Rogue level, and 8% in hell. There is a 5% chance that a randomly-generated wand will be a wand of secret door detection.