Potion of water
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| Name | water |
| Appearance | clear potion |
| Base price | varies |
| Weight | 20 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
A potion of water is, as one would expect, water. The Guidebook states that every clear potion is a potion of water. Thus water is the one type of potion that you can identify by appearance. (No one expects water to be red or smoky.)
By itself, a potion of water is not very useful. However, praying at an altar transforms it into either holy water or unholy water, which you can use to adjust the BUC status of objects.
Uncursed potions of water have a base price of 0; they are commonly sold for about 5 Zorkmid. Noncursed potions of water have a base price of 100.
Dipping into water
If you dip an object into an uncursed potion of water, it will become wet. (Metal objects rust, potions of acid explode, scrolls become blank...) This is almost useless, because you can just dip into a different source of water such as a fountain or pool. It is far more useful to change uncursed water into blessed or cursed water.
When identified, a blessed clear potion lists as a potion of holy water, while a cursed clear potion lists as a potion of unholy water. Dipping an object into either potion does not make the object wet. In brief, holy water will uncurse or bless an object, while unholy water will debless or curse an object; then the potion is used up and disappears (or you have one less potion in your stack). You can dip an entire stack of objects each time.
In short, if you want to uncurse or bless some objects, you should obtain holy water. The easiest way to do this is to drop some uncursed water onto an altar of your alignment, then #pray; the water will become holy water. If you already have holy water, dip a stack of uncursed water into the potion of holy water to make much more holy water.
More information
- effects of an object becoming wet
- potion of holy water (blessed clear potion)
- potion of unholy water (cursed clear potion)
