Gem

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Gems are simple, lightweight items you find in the dungeon. They come in three varieties: valuable gems, worthless glass which looks similar, and gray stones. Valuable gems may be sold for relatively large amounts of money at most general stores, which makes them valuable as a compact form of money. More commonly, since money is overabundant later in the game, players save all of the valuable gems they find, stashing them away so that they can be added to the player's score upon the completion of the game (which hopefully is an ascension!) Glass and rocks are quite simply worthless, though they can be used for throwing if you should wish to conserve your other attacks.

Gray stones are a catchall for four different objects until they are identified.

  • Touchstones may be used to identify glass from gems, and even the variety of gem if it is a blessed touchstone.
  • Luckstones will augment your luck rather impressively; if you have a blessed luckstone and no other luckitems, your good luck will not timeout, bad luck will, and you'll get +3 extra luck.
  • Loadstones are a pun by the devteam: they weigh 50 times as much as the other stones and autocurse so they can not be dropped.
  • Flint stones have no particular purpose, but they do slightly better as sling ammo.

Table of gems

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Note: some gems' appearances can change; the following table does not yet take these into account.
* Name Description Cost Weight Hardness Material
* dilithium crystal white gem 4500 zm 1 soft gemstone
* diamond white gem 4000 zm 1 HARD gemstone
* ruby red gem 3500 zm 1 HARD gemstone
* jacinth stone orange gem 3250 zm 1 HARD gemstone
* sapphire blue gem 3000 zm 1 HARD gemstone
* black opal black gem 2500 zm 1 HARD gemstone
* emerald green gem 2500 zm 1 HARD gemstone
* turquoise stone green gem 2000 zm 1 soft gemstone
* citrine stone yellow gem 1500 zm 1 soft gemstone
* aquamarine stone green gem 1500 zm 1 HARD gemstone
* amber stone yellowish brown gem 1000 zm 1 soft gemstone
* topaz stone yellowish brown gem 900 zm 1 HARD gemstone
* jet stone black gem 850 zm 1 soft gemstone
* opal white gem 800 zm 1 soft gemstone
* chrysoberyl stone yellow gem 700 zm 1 soft gemstone
* garnet stone red gem 700 zm 1 soft gemstone
* amethyst stone violet gem 600 zm 1 soft gemstone
* jasper stone red gem 500 zm 1 soft gemstone
* fluorite stone violet gem 400 zm 1 soft gemstone
* obsidian stone black gem 200 zm 1 soft gemstone
* agate stone orange gem 200 zm 1 soft gemstone
* jade stone green gem 300 zm 1 soft gemstone
* worthless piece of white glass white gem 0 zm 1 soft glass
* worthless piece of blue glass blue gem 0 zm 1 soft glass
* worthless piece of red glass red gem 0 zm 1 soft glass
* worthless piece of yellowish brown glass yellowish brown gem 0 zm 1 soft glass
* worthless piece of orange glass orange gem 0 zm 1 soft glass
* worthless piece of yellow glass yellow gem 0 zm 1 soft glass
* worthless piece of black glass black gem 0 zm 1 soft glass
* worthless piece of green glass green gem 0 zm 1 soft glass
* worthless piece of violet glass violet gem 0 zm 1 soft glass
* luckstone gray stone 60 zm 10 soft mineral
* loadstone gray stone 1 zm 500 soft mineral
* touchstone gray stone 45 zm 10 soft mineral
* flint stone gray stone 1 zm 10 soft mineral
* rock rock 0 zm 10 soft mineral