Luckstone - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: /* UnNetHack */ snip

2026-01-22T15:19:05Z

‎UnNetHack: snip

JASON10668: Add languages template.

2026-01-22T11:25:12Z

Add languages template.

Umbire the Phantom: /* Variants */ spacing, move this bit to luck items later (and evil eyes for sure)

2025-07-28T07:23:01Z

‎Variants: spacing, move this bit to luck items later (and evil eyes for sure)

Umbire the Phantom: variant stuff, earmark for later

2025-07-28T07:20:09Z

variant stuff, earmark for later

Umbire the Phantom: /* Description */ a---

2025-07-14T08:29:29Z

‎Description: a---

Umbire the Phantom: /* Description */ pothole

2025-07-14T08:29:18Z

‎Description: pothole

Furey: /* dNetHack */ Neutral Quest (dNethack) -> Neutral Quest (dNetHack). Fixes a redlink.

2024-06-16T14:58:34Z

‎dNetHack: Neutral Quest (dNethack) -> Neutral Quest (dNetHack). Fixes a redlink.

Umbire the Phantom: chance to:opportunity::chance of:probability + word choice + potholes

2023-10-29T08:16:12Z

chance to:opportunity::chance of:probability + word choice + potholes

Umbire the Phantom: pothole, correct strategy, etc.

2023-06-20T20:56:19Z

pothole, correct strategy, etc.

Hexcoder: /* Maximizing Luck */ typo

2023-05-14T20:53:21Z

‎Maximizing Luck: typo

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 ===UnNetHack===
-In [[UnNetHack]], a luckstone slows luck timeout dependent on its beatitude, and which beatitude affects the timeout of good and/or bad Luck is unchanged from vanilla ''NetHack''.
+In [[UnNetHack]], a luckstone slows luck timeout dependent on its beatitude rather than fully stopping it, with the effect of the luckstone's beatitude operating as it does for vanilla ''NetHack''.
 ===dNetHack===

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 In [[UnNetHack]], a luckstone slows luck timeout dependent on its beatitude, and which beatitude affects the timeout of good and/or bad Luck is unchanged from vanilla ''NetHack''.
-[[Evil eye]]s have a luck-stealing [[gaze]] that can be resisted {{frac|3|4}} of the time if the hero is carrying a blessed luckstone, and can be resisted completely by wielding a non-cursed luck item (i.e., [[Luck Blade (UnNetHack)|Luck Blade]] or [[The Tsurugi of Muramasa]]). Evil eyes are also instantly killed if they are hit by a blessed luckstone, but are healed for 4d6 HP if hit with a cursed one.
+[[Evil eye]]s have a luck-stealing [[gaze]] that can be resisted {{frac|3|4}} of the time if the hero is carrying a blessed luckstone. Evil eyes are also instantly killed if they are hit by a blessed luckstone, but are healed for 4d6 HP if hit with a cursed one.
 ===dNetHack===
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 Either a luckstone or the bonus Luck from a full moon is required for crowning.
 ===SpliceHack===

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 ===UnNetHack===
-In [[UnNetHack]], [[evil eye]]s have a Luck-stealing gaze that can be resisted {{frac|3|4}} of the time with a blessed luckstone, or else resisted completely if you are wielding a non-cursed weapon that acts as a luckstone (i.e., [[Luck Blade]] or [[The Tsurugi of Muramasa]]). Evil eyes are also instantly killed if hit with a blessed luckstone, but healed if hit with a cursed one.
+In [[UnNetHack]], a luckstone slows luck timeout dependent on its beatitude, and which beatitude affects the timeout of good and/or bad Luck is unchanged from vanilla ''NetHack''.
 ===dNetHack===
-In [[dNetHack]], a luckstone can be found at the head of the Lethe river in the [[Neutral Quest (dNetHack)|Neutral Quest]]. The Heart of Ahriman's base item type is now a [[ruby]] instead of a luckstone.
+In [[dNetHack]], a luckstone can be found at the head of the Lethe river in the [[Neutral Quest (dNetHack)|Neutral Quest]].
 ===SpliceHack===
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 ===EvilHack===
-In [[EvilHack]], a luckstone no longer prevents Luck from timing out, but instead heavily slows Luck timeout dependent on its beatitude; which beatitude affects the timeout of good and/or bad Luck is unchanged from vanilla ''NetHack''.
+In [[EvilHack]], a luckstone slows luck timeout dependent on its beatitude similar to UnNetHack.
 Items with the "excellence" [[object property]] act as luckstones when worn or wielded.

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 A [[noncursed]] luckstone adds 3 Luck, and can exceed the ordinary maximum of 10 in this way; and a cursed luckstone subtracts 3 Luck. Luckstones carried in containers (e.g. bags) have no effect on Luck. A cursed luckstone prevents the timeout of negative Luck, blessed ones prevent the timeout of positive Luck and uncursed ones prevent both. For example, if you have a blessed luckstone and [[jump]] a lot in [[Sokoban]], your total Luck will eventually time out to three. While carrying the [[Amulet of Yendor]], Luck times out more rapidly unless it is prevented from timing out by a luckstone.
-A handful of other objects in the game, typically artifacts, can also [[Luck items|function as luckstones]] (e.g. [[The Tsurugi of Muramasa]] and the [[The Orb of Fate]]). Multiple luckstones and/or luck items have no ''cumulative'' effect: you will get the blessed luckstone effect if you have strictly more blessed than cursed luck items in your open inventory, you get the cursed effect if you have more cursed luck items, and you get the uncursed effect if you have an equal amount of blessed and cursed luck items or all of them are uncursed.
+A handful of other objects in the game, typically artifacts, can also [[Luck item|function as luckstones]] (e.g. [[The Tsurugi of Muramasa]] and the [[The Orb of Fate]]). Multiple luckstones and/or luck items have no ''cumulative'' effect: you will get the blessed luckstone effect if you have strictly more blessed than cursed luck items in your open inventory, you get the cursed effect if you have more cursed luck items, and you get the uncursed effect if you have an equal amount of blessed and cursed luck items or all of them are uncursed.
 ==Strategy==

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 ===dNetHack===
-In [[dNetHack]], a luckstone can be found at the head of the Lethe river in the [[Neutral Quest (dNethack)|Neutral Quest]]. The Heart of Ahriman's base item type is now a [[ruby]] instead of a luckstone.
+In [[dNetHack]], a luckstone can be found at the head of the Lethe river in the [[Neutral Quest (dNetHack)|Neutral Quest]]. The Heart of Ahriman's base item type is now a [[ruby]] instead of a luckstone.
 Either a luckstone or the bonus Luck from a full moon is required for crowning. [[Convict]]s have a cap on Luck benifits from luckstones, and carrying more luckstones raises that cap - they also only get +1 Luck per luckstone, up to a maximum of +3.

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 A '''luckstone''' is a type of [[gem]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. It is a [[magical item]] that modifies a player's base [[Luck]] and Luck timeout while carried, and appears as a '''[[gray stone]]''' when unidentified.
-The luckstone is the [[base item]] for [[The Heart of Ahriman]], the [[Barbarian]] [[quest artifact]].
+[[The Heart of Ahriman]], the [[Barbarian]] [[quest artifact]], is an [[artifact]] luckstone.
 Luckstones are the subject of a few [[rumor]]s.
 ==Generation==
-Luckstones can be rarely found randomly within the walls of the dungeon and its branches, and are always generated [[uncursed]] with the exception of [[bones]] files. There is a guaranteed luckstone in each of the three variants of [[Mines' End]].
+Luckstones can be rarely found randomly within the walls of the dungeon and its branches, and are always generated [[uncursed]] with the exception of [[bones]] files. There is a guaranteed luckstone in [[Mines' End]].
-[[Player monster]]s generated on the [[Astral Plane]] have a {{frac|15}} chance to be generated carrying a luckstone.{{refsrc|src/mplayer.c|283|version=NetHack 3.6.6}}
+[[Player monster]]s generated on the [[Astral Plane]] have a {{frac|15}} chance of [[Monster starting inventory|being generated with]] a luckstone.{{refsrc|src/mplayer.c|283|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 ==Description==
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 For non-Archaeologists, the second test is to rub it on an iron item: a [[touchstone]] will produce a "scritch, scritch" noise. Non-Archaeologists will want to keep a touchstone, as a blessed one is useful for identifying gems.
-If both tests are negative, the gray stone is either a luckstone or [[flint stone]]. You should pick it up and type-#name it until you get two different kinds or have a chance to [[price-id]] it: luckstones cost 60 zm, while flint doesn't interest shopkeepers. If a monster with the attribute "likes magic" picked it up, it's not flint.
+If both tests are negative, the gray stone is either a luckstone or [[flint stone]]. You should pick it up and type-#name it until you get two different kinds or have a chance to [[price-identify]] it: luckstones cost 60 zm, while flint doesn't interest shopkeepers. If a monster with the attribute "likes magic" picked it up, it's not flint.
 As long as you don't know whether it is a luckstone or flint stone, treat it as a luckstone. Luckstones are generated uncursed, so unless you have bad Luck or found it in a bones file, they are safe to carry around.

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 ==Description==
-A [[noncursed]] luckstone adds 3 Luck, and can exceed the ordinary maximum of 10 in this way; and a cursed luckstone subtracts 3 Luck. Luckstones carried in containers (e.g. bags) have no effect on Luck. A cursed luckstone prevents the timeout of negative Luck, blessed ones prevent the timeout of positive Luck and uncursed ones prevent both. For example, if you have a blessed luckstone and [[jump]] a lot in [[Sokoban]], your total Luck will eventually time out to three. While carrying the Amulet of Yendor, Luck times out more rapidly unless it is prevented from timing out by a luckstone.
+A [[noncursed]] luckstone adds 3 Luck, and can exceed the ordinary maximum of 10 in this way; and a cursed luckstone subtracts 3 Luck. Luckstones carried in containers (e.g. bags) have no effect on Luck. A cursed luckstone prevents the timeout of negative Luck, blessed ones prevent the timeout of positive Luck and uncursed ones prevent both. For example, if you have a blessed luckstone and [[jump]] a lot in [[Sokoban]], your total Luck will eventually time out to three. While carrying the [[Amulet of Yendor]], Luck times out more rapidly unless it is prevented from timing out by a luckstone.
 A handful of other objects in the game, typically artifacts, can also [[:Category:Luck items|function as luckstones]] (e.g. [[The Tsurugi of Muramasa]] and the [[The Orb of Fate]]). Multiple luckstones and/or luck items have no ''cumulative'' effect: you will get the blessed luckstone effect if you have strictly more blessed than cursed luck items in your open inventory, you get the cursed effect if you have more cursed luck items, and you get the uncursed effect if you have an equal amount of blessed and cursed luck items or all of them are uncursed.
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 * Altar work requires Luck of at most 9 to avoid getting [[crowned]] when [[pray]]ing, so that it can remain readily available; this is typically the most significant Luck-based scenario for many players. Crowning significantly lengthens prayer timeout, though it does provide several benefits in return (e.g. most of the core [[resistance]]s and an [[artifact weapon]]).
 * An ''uncursed'' luckstone in Sokoban may be worth putting away temporarily in order to allow Luck penalties from any "illegal" moves you make to time out.
 For those seeking to avoid premature crowning or manage their Luck for other reasons, the easiest method is to keep your luckstone out and max out your Luck, then lower it by:
-** Breaking [[mirror]]s
+* Breaking [[mirror]]s
-** Squeezing through boulders or jumping in Sokoban
+* Squeezing through boulders or jumping in Sokoban
-** Breaking [[egg]]s [[Sit|laid by you]]
+* Breaking [[egg]]s [[Sit|laid by you]]
-** Kicking a cross-aligned altar.
+* Kicking a cross-aligned altar
-* If you don't mind the tedium and are very conscientious, it is somewhat safer to bag it and take it out only when it prevents Luck timeout: this is on turns divisible by 600, or by 300 if your god is angry OR if you are carrying the [[Amulet of Yendor]] (although you could just drop the Amulet).
+* If you don't mind the tedium and are very conscientious, it is somewhat safer to bag it and take it out only on the specific turns that Luck timeout occurs:
 ** Alternately, if your Luck is below its baseline value,<ref name="base"/> drop or bag all non-blessed luckstones until you can either fix it or wait it out; the conservative-yet-tedious option is to do so specifically on each 300th or 600th turn, as above.
 ==History==
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 ==Variants==
 ===SLASH'EM===
-In [[SLASH'EM]], [[upgrading]] a flint stone has a 50% chance of turning it into a luckstone.
+In [[SLASH'EM]], [[upgrading]] a flint stone has a {{frac|2}} chance of turning it into a luckstone.
 ===ZAPM===