User:Bluescreenofdeath/Materials

This page lists the various item materials in SLASH'EM Extended. Some of them can rust, corrode, burn or rot, and certain materials are subject to specific erosion types only if the game is played in evilvariant mode.

Players can change the base material of an item by using a material kit, which will affect all instances of that base item. Example: using a glass material kit on a dagger means that from now on all "dagger" items will be made of glass (including ones that were generated before the kit was used), but e.g. "orcish dagger" or "elven dagger" will be unaffected since they're different base items.

Turning on the "materialglyph" option will show abbreviations for items' materials in inventory and also in some messages.

Material	Type	Rustable	Corrodeable	Burnable	Rottable	Additional info
Mysterious	Inedible	?	?	?	?
Liquid	?	n	n	n	n
Wax	Organic	n	n	y	y
Veggy	Organic	n	n	y	y
Flesh	Organic	n	n	y	y
Paper	Organic	n	n	y	y
Cloth	Organic	n	n	y	y
Leather	Organic	n	n	y	y
Wood	Organic	n	n	y	y
Bone	Lithic	n	n	n	evil	Has a chance to resist item-stealing attempts
Dragonhide	Organic	n	n	evil	evil
Iron	Metallic	y	y	n	n
Metal	Metallic	n	evil	n	n
Copper	Metallic	n	y	n	n	Armor provides partial sickness resistance, weapons deal extra damage to fungi
Silver	Metallic	n	evil	n	n	Weapons deal extra damage to demons, vampires and werefoo
Gold	Metallic	n	n	n	n	Resists curse items effects
Platinum	Metallic	n	evil	n	n	Provides partial contamination resistance, weapons deal extra damage to monsters with contamination attacks
Mithril	Metallic	n	n	n	n
Plastic	Inedible	n	n	y	n
Glass	Lithic	n	n	n	n	Can break when thrown or dropped from a height
Gemstone	Lithic	n	n	n	n
Mineral	Lithic	n	n	n	n	Protects against sanity-increasing effects and makes sanity time out faster
Viva	Metallic	n	y	y	n	More effective when eroded; wands lose charges 50% of the time only
Inka	Organic	y	n	evil	y	Accessories are hard to take off, weapons deal extra damage to animals, resistance to bad effects; wands train devices skill faster
Tar	Lithic	n	y	n	n
Silk	Organic	n	n	y	n	Makes inertia time out faster
Arcanium	Inedible	y	y	y	y	Monsters may fail to cast spells more often the more arcanium items a player wears
Secree	Organic	n	y	n	y
Pourpoor	Metallic	y	y	y	n
Compost	Organic	n	n	evil	y	Rottedness doesn't negatively impact the item's performance, negatively enchanted compost weapons and armor may regain enchantment points after a while
Eternium	Metallic	y	y	n	n	Resists most forms of item destruction
Ether	Metallic	y	n	y	n	Speeds up contamination, especially when equipped; every equipped ether item slightly increases speed
Brick	Lithic	y	y	y	y	Resists withering
Sand	Lithic	evil	evil	n	y	Makes player resistant to sandstorms
Shadowstuff	Inedible	n	n	evil	evil	Makes darkness effects less likely to occur
Obsidian	Lithic	n	evil	evil	n	Grants resistance to cursed unicorn horn and forgotten spell effects; can break when thrown or dropped from a height
Lead	Metallic	n	evil	evil	n	Partial contamination resistance (higher than platinum) and resistance to really bad effects
Chrome	Metallic	n	y	evil	n	Partial resistance to poison
Ceramic	Lithic	n	n	evil	n	Weapons and armor are more effective, but also dull more quickly
Nanomachine	Inedible	evil	evil	y	y	Slowly repairs itself over time when in the player's open inventory

Material-changing scrolls

There are scrolls of inferior, regular and superior material, which can be used to change the material of a base item to another randomized type. Doing this will notably affect all copies of the item in question, both ones that exist at that time and all that get generated in future, for that current game. So if the player e.g. turns a dagger (which is made of iron by default) into one made of chrome, then all daggers are made of chrome, but orcish, elven etc. daggers won't be affected because they're a different base item.

The list of possible materials are as follows:

inferior: liquid wax veggy flesh paper cloth leather iron plastic tar secree pourpoor sand ceramic

regular: mysterious wood bone metal copper glass gemstone mineral silk compost brick shadowstuff obsidian lead chrome

superior: dragonhide silver gold platinum mithril viva inka arcanium eternium ether nanomachine

Every material in the respective list for a scroll has the same chance of being picked. If the player is trying to get a specific material, the material kit item will be more useful (but is also very rare), alternately having a good supply of the respective type of scroll (and maybe a magic marker to write more of them) may be necessary along with some favorable RNG.