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You can use enlightenment to determine whether you are carrying a luckstone. | You can use enlightenment to determine whether you are carrying a luckstone. | ||
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Once you have distinguished one of the gray stones, you can type-[[name]] it to distinguish subsequent gray stones. | Once you have distinguished one of the gray stones, you can type-[[name]] it to distinguish subsequent gray stones. | ||
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Contents
Types
A gray stone is one of:
SLASH'EM
Sporkhack
- lump of salt
Identification
The loadstone can be distinguished by attempting to kick it when it is on the ground; unless your character is very strong, polymorphed in to a sasquatch or very strong monster, or wearing kicking boots, the loadstone will not move and produce a "Thump!" instead. If you accidentally pick up a loadstone, #name it so that you'll recognize another one when you see it.
Rubbing an iron item on a touchstone produces its signature "scritch, scritch" and can be indirectly identified through this. If you rub a gem on a blessed touchstone, both the gem and the touchstone will automatically be identified. Gray stones count as gems in this context.
If you can kick the gray stone and it does not produce the message "scritch, scritch" when an iron item is rubbed on it, you have either a flintstone or a luckstone.
You can use enlightenment to determine whether you are carrying a luckstone.
If a monster picks it up who isn't carrying a sling, it very likely is not flint, since most monsters only like magic objects.
Once you have distinguished one of the gray stones, you can type-name it to distinguish subsequent gray stones.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, a cursed gray stone that isn't a loadstone must be a healthstone, unless it came from a bones pile.
Sporkhack
In Sporkhack, rubbing a flint stone with a metal object will strike sparks, scaring some monsters, and identifying the stone.
Price Identification
Gray stones can be distinguished by price identification: the base price of a luckstone is 60 zorkmids, a touchstone is 45 zorkmids, and a flint stone or loadstone is 1 zorkmid. In SLASH'EM, a whetstone is priced at 45 zorkmids and a healthstone is 60 zorkmids.
Exploit
A somewhat dubious way of distinguishing the difference between flintstones from luckstones is to use the artifact naming trick by attempting to name (not call) them "The Heart of Ahriman". If the stone is a luckstone your hand will slip as it is not possible to name the base item of an artifact after its artifact. This behavior is sometimes viewed as cheating and can be frowned upon in some circles.
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