Talk:Stoning

Does casting stone to flesh to self turn stone items in a container into meat? --ZeroOne 23:20, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

No, they're safe. Article updated. --Jayt 09:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

The article says that the resistance can only be gained by polymorph, but doesnt YDSM protect you?Thefifthsetpin 02:53, September 28, 2009 (UTC)

Resistance duration

It was a dumb mistake, but I just picked up a chickatrice, thinking that the fact that I had previously polymorphed into a yellow dragon gave me resistance. I added the sentence to make it explicit that resistance is only in effect while polymorphed into a resistant monster. --Jrogers 17:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Reversing the stoning process

Eating a lizard or any acidic monster stops the process. They are the ones represented by letters :, b, j, D, F, N and P.

This statement is false, but I can't prove it yet. My guess is that only monsters that confer acid resistance (MR_ACID) will undo the stoning process but I haven't convinced myself of that yet with source code. - Addps4cat

Actually it is all the monsters with the property M1_ACID and as a special case, the lizard. Addps4cat 13:23, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I was a jabberwocky, and was attacked by a cockatrice. I started slowing down. I had no lizard corpses or any other remedies. Thinking maybe if I ran out of HP as a jabberwocky, I might revert to a non-stoned-human, I zapped myself with an unidentified wand. It turned out to be a /oPoly. It turned me in to a "new woman", and lo, un-stoned. Bug? dpk 6:36, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Probably not; the line "Stoned = 0;" at polyself.c, line 191 looks perfectly intentional to me. Great save by the way! Reverting to human form (rehumanize in polyself.c) doesn't appear to halt stoning, and regular poly only does so if you become stoning resistant or a golem.--Ray Chason 01:36, 8 February 2008 (UTC)