Horn of plenty
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| Name | horn of plenty |
| Appearance | horn |
| Base price | 50 zm |
| Weight | 18 |
| Material | [[{{{material}}}]] |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
A horn of plenty is one of the magical horns, but unlike the other horns, it cannot be used as a musical instrument.[1] It is created with 1 to 20 charges and it may contain up to 50 charges. When applied, it produces food (including royal jelly) or a potion of water, fruit juice, booze, acid, sickness or oil.[2][3][4][5] The BUC of the item produced is the same as the blessed/uncursed/cursed status of the horn.
1 in 13 applications (7.7%) will produce a potion, in the following ratios:
| Potion | Class Probability | Overall Probability |
|---|---|---|
| potion of booze | 18.6% | 1.4% |
| potion of sickness | 4.2% | 0.3% |
| potion of fruit juice | 18.6% | 1.4% |
| potion of acid | 4.4% | 0.3% |
| potion of oil | 13.3% | 1% |
| potion of water | 40.8% | 3.1% |
The remaining 92% of applications will produce food, in the following ratios (multiples may be created if the food code permits):
| Item | Class Probability | Overall Probability |
|---|---|---|
| tripe ration | 14% | 12.9% |
| random egg | 8.5% | 7.8% |
| eucalyptus leaf | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| apple | 1.5% | 1.4% |
| orange | 1% | 0.9% |
| pear | 1% | 0.9% |
| melon | 1% | 0.9% |
| banana | 1% | 0.9% |
| carrot | 1.5% | 1.4% |
| sprig of wolfsbane | 0.7% | 0.6% |
| clove of garlic | 0.7% | 0.6% |
| slime mold | 7.5% | 6.9% |
| lump of royal jelly | 5.4% | 5% |
| cream pie | 2.5% | 2.3% |
| candy bar | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| fortune cookie | 5.5% | 5.1% |
| pancake | 2.5% | 2.3% |
| lembas wafer | 2% | 1.8% |
| cram ration | 2% | 1.8% |
| food ration | 32.6% | 30.1% |
| random tin, including spinach | 7.5% | 6.9% |
In the tables above class probability is chance within class (potion or food), and overall probability is the chance relative to all possible items.
For Tourists
A blessed horn of plenty is a great item for a tourist since it can be recharged indefinitely with The Platinum Yendorian Express Card. While in a normal game one doesn't generally need the extra food, the ability to produce an indefinite amount of potions and food has several non-trivial uses:
- The unlimited food and potion source can be essential in multi-conduct games. In particular, it makes the tourist a viable candidate for a liquid diet: a foodless atheist true polyselfless survivor (see the link below).
- The potions can be used to provide an indefinite supply of holy water, or can be used for polypiling or alchemy.
- Those attempting stupid ascension tricks such as death farming might prefer a horn of plenty to prayer as a food source, though prayer is easier to automate.
- If smoky potions are one of sickness, fruit juice, or booze, acid, or oil, the horn can be used as a (slow) wish engine.
External Links
- Liquid diet tourist using a horn of plenty
References
- ↑ apply.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 2958: case for HORN_OF_PLENTY in doapply
- ↑ mkobj.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 106: make the object
- ↑ objects.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 722: potion probabilities
- ↑ objects.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 668: food probabilities
- ↑ objnam.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 2721: rnd_class renames object using base probabilities
