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* Creatures that can petrify others: [[chickatrice]]s, [[cockatrice]]s, and [[Medusa]] (but Medusa can be stoned by her own reflection) | * Creatures that can petrify others: [[chickatrice]]s, [[cockatrice]]s, and [[Medusa]] (but Medusa can be stoned by her own reflection) | ||
| − | * Creatures already made of stone or earth: [[gargoyle]]s, [[winged gargoyle]]s, [[stone golem]]s, [[earth elemental]]s | + | * Creatures already made of stone or earth: [[gargoyle]]s, [[winged gargoyle]]s, [[stone golem]]s, [[earth elemental]]s, [[xorn]]s |
* Creatures that are acidic: [[acid blob]]s, [[black naga hatchling]]s, [[black naga]]s, [[gelatinous cube]]s, [[green mold]]s, [[Juiblex]], [[ochre jelly|ochre jellies]], [[spotted jelly|spotted jellies]], [[baby yellow dragon]]s, [[yellow dragon]]s, all [[P]] | * Creatures that are acidic: [[acid blob]]s, [[black naga hatchling]]s, [[black naga]]s, [[gelatinous cube]]s, [[green mold]]s, [[Juiblex]], [[ochre jelly|ochre jellies]], [[spotted jelly|spotted jellies]], [[baby yellow dragon]]s, [[yellow dragon]]s, all [[P]] | ||
| − | * Immaterial creatures: [[air elemental]]s, [[djinni|djinn]], [[fire elemental]]s, [[ghost]]s, [[shade]]s, [[water elemental]]s, [[wraith]]s, all [[v]], all [[y]] | + | * Immaterial creatures: [[air elemental]]s, [[djinni|djinn]], [[sandestin]]s, [[mail daemon]]s, [[fire elemental]]s, [[ghost]]s, [[shade]]s, [[water elemental]]s, [[wraith]]s, all [[v]], all [[y]] |
* Important enemies: [[Death (monster)|Death]], [[Famine]], [[Pestilence]], and all [[quest nemesis|quest nemeses]] | * Important enemies: [[Death (monster)|Death]], [[Famine]], [[Pestilence]], and all [[quest nemesis|quest nemeses]] | ||
* [[Lizard]]s (logically enough, since they cure stoning when eaten) | * [[Lizard]]s (logically enough, since they cure stoning when eaten) | ||
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* [[Skeleton]]s (presumably fossilization doesn't slow them down much) | * [[Skeleton]]s (presumably fossilization doesn't slow them down much) | ||
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If you try to stone [[golem]]s (other than stone golems), they turn to [[stone golem]]s instead. | If you try to stone [[golem]]s (other than stone golems), they turn to [[stone golem]]s instead. | ||
Revision as of 02:13, 25 September 2009
Stoning or petrification is the process of a character turning to stone. This usually happens due to an encounter with a cockatrice but the gaze of Medusa also turns you to stone.
Stoning resistance can not be gained by external means but only by polymorphing into an intrinsically stoning resistant monster. You are only resistant for the duration you are such a monster.
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Stoning resistant monsters
A variety of monsters are stoning-resistant, typically for fairly straightforward reasons:[1]
- Creatures that can petrify others: chickatrices, cockatrices, and Medusa (but Medusa can be stoned by her own reflection)
- Creatures already made of stone or earth: gargoyles, winged gargoyles, stone golems, earth elementals, xorns
- Creatures that are acidic: acid blobs, black naga hatchlings, black nagas, gelatinous cubes, green molds, Juiblex, ochre jellies, spotted jellies, baby yellow dragons, yellow dragons, all P
- Immaterial creatures: air elementals, djinn, sandestins, mail daemons, fire elementals, ghosts, shades, water elementals, wraiths, all v, all y
- Important enemies: Death, Famine, Pestilence, and all quest nemeses
- Lizards (logically enough, since they cure stoning when eaten)
- Skeletons (presumably fossilization doesn't slow them down much)
If you try to stone golems (other than stone golems), they turn to stone golems instead.
Stiffening vs Instadeath
The gaze of Medusa, and touching a cockatrice or chickatrice is instantly fatal for a character without stoning resistance. Attacking barehanded or barefooted, picking up the corpse barehanded, and kicking barefooted are considered ways of touching. Throwing a cockatrice egg up ([<]) and being hit by it is an instadeath, but being hit by one thrown by a monster starts the stiffening process, as does eating the egg, or hearing the cockatrice's hissing attack. The process technically takes 5 turns, but after 2, your limbs turn to stone and you can't do anything else but proceed to die.
Messages
| Message | Turns to live |
|---|---|
| "You are slowing down" | 2 |
| "Your limbs are stiffening" | 1 |
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0 |
Stopping stiffening
If you hear the hissing of a cockatrice and start turning to stone – stiffening – you still have several ways, albeit not several turns, to save yourself. Eating a lizard or certain monsters stops the process. The monster corpses that can stop stiffening are as follows:
- lizard
- (baby) yellow dragon
- black naga (hatchling)
- acid blob
- gelatinous cube
- spotted jelly
- ochre jelly
- green mold
- gray ooze
- brown pudding
- black pudding
- green slime
The standard method is to eat a lizard corpse. Since they never rot, you should always carry one along. See eat.c, line 490 and eat.c, line 510 for further information.
However, if you do not have a lizard corpse with you, you may quaff a potion of acid. The stone to flesh spell will also save you if you cast it on yourself, but it will also turn your items made of stone into meat, including rocks, rings and wands, unless they are in a container.
If your god is happy with you and you are not in Gehennom, prayer works as well.
Being slimed does not save you from petrification, unless it is by eating a green slime corpse (and even then only because the corpse is acidic). This is not usually recommended because this will induce sliming which will kill you unless you can cure that too.
An amulet of unchanging will not protect you from stoning, but an amulet of life saving will save your life. Reflection protects you from turning to stone by the gaze of Medusa, as will being blind. Wearing gloves is strongly recommended while handling cockatrices.
Polymorphing into a stoning-resistant monster will also stop the petrification process, as will polymorphing into any type of golem (as they turn into stone golems rather than dying).
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, there are two additional monsters that cause stoning: The thick-hided basilisk, and the asphynx, which can hide under objects and stone an unexpecting player.
SLASH'EM also introduces the amulet versus stone, which works just like the amulet on life saving, except that it only works with turning into a statue.
- ↑ See Monst.c#line94 and on; look for MR_STONE in the seventh field (not the eighth, that's resistances it grants).
