Gem

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. 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.