Potion of holy water
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| Name | holy water |
| Appearance | blessed clear potion |
| Base price | 100 zm |
| Weight | 20 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
A potion of holy water (unidentified, a "blessed clear potion") is the blessed version of a potion of water. You can use it with the #dip command to remove curses or bless objects. Objects dipped into a potion of holy water do not become wet.
- Dip a cursed object into holy water to make it uncursed.
- Dip an uncursed object into holy water to make it blessed.
NetHack provides a few other ways to remove curse, but holy water is the main way to provide the "blessed" status to objects.
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How does one obtain holy water?
Prayer
A Priest(ess) starts with 4 potions of holy water, and a Wizard sometimes starts with holy water; otherwise it is a good idea to find a potion of holy water from somewhere. As holy water is blessed water, you normally need holy water to make holy water, however NetHack allows you to make a "water prayer":
- Obtain some potions of water (cursed or uncursed, it doesn't matter).
- You might find potions of water in the dungeon somewhere.
- You can convert other potions into water. Cancellation of potions makes water or fruit juice; you can also wet potions by dipping them into bodies of water. Also, dipping a unicorn horn into a potion of blindness, confusion, or hallucination will produce a potion of water.
- Go to an altar which matches your own alignment.
- Drop the potions of water onto the altar.
- Now #pray.
Provided that you can #pray safely, all of the water dropped on the altar should become holy water; you can test this by taking the water and dropping it again to check for the flash.
Confused remove curse
An uncursed scroll of remove curse read while confused has a 25% chance of cursing or blessing each uncursed worn, wielded, or quivered item plus applied leashes and loadstones. A confused blessed scroll of remove curse has a 25% chance of cursing or blessing all uncursed items in inventory.
Shops
Sometimes a potion of holy water will be randomly generated. In particular, an expensive potion of water in a shop must be either holy or unholy, and if your pet steals it, it's holy.
Self-replication
Once you have holy water, you can easily convert uncursed potions of water into holy water. The potions of uncursed water should be stacked in your inventory. If they are not (for example, if you were diluting them), then use the extended command #adjust to adjust any one of the potions to its own inventory slot -- this will make them stack onto that slot. Now #dip the uncursed water into holy water. The entire stack of uncursed water will become holy water, and you will only lose the one potion of holy water.
Note that using that method with unholy water will only change it to uncursed water, so you will need to use two potions of holy water to turn a stack of unholy water into a stack of holy water. However, unholy water does have some uses, so it might be beneficial to keep them.
