User:Red kangaroo/YANIs/Crafting
DISCLAIMER: NetHack is not Minecraft. NetHack should not be Minecraft. I'm not even playing Minecraft myself. Why am I talking about Minecraft?
Anyway, I was thinking about a way to let the player improvise some items from other items at his or her disposal. Some of the recipes below should allow the player to offset a malicious RNG or to access an item of comparable value and/or use. Some are more for fun. Some are rather useless, but hey, we have wands of nothing!
Contents
Use
Crafting is performed through #combine extended command. It prompts to select two items either in the player's inventory, or under his or her feet. Using these two items, a new item is then crafted. This takes between 50 and 500 turns, decreased by high Dex, but the player always gives up after 200 turns. If the two items selected cannot be combined, the crafting always fails and the items are not used up.
Most recipes use two items to create a third one, but some do not use up one of the items - it is used only as a tool. The BUC of the resulting item is a combination of the component items.
If some of the recipes are considered too powerful to be accessed freely, a blueprint scroll may be required to learn the recipe. For example, a blueprint of magic lamp (unidentified same as any other scroll) would allow the player to craft a magic lamp using the recipe below, but without reading it, combining the two items would fail with no effect.
Some of the recipes are not entirely realistic. A wizard did it, apparently.
Recipes
Recipes are written as follows:
ingredient #1 + ingredient #2
- product
Weapons
- knife is not used up
- wooden stake
quarterstaff + any knife
- knife is not used up
- javelin
- axe is not used up
- two clubs
- magic marker is drained of 2d5 charges
- runesword
either arrow, dagger, spear, long sword, mace or bullet + silver ring or wand
- corresponding silver weapon
leather armor + any knife
- knife is not used up
- several slings
- whetstone is not used up
- scalpel
- war hammer is not used up
- several frag grenades
frag grenade + potion of sickness
Armor
helmet + amulet of drain resistance
plate mail + dilithium crystal
- scissors are not used up
- leather armor
- war hammer is not used up
- studded leather armor
leather cloak + ring of magic resistance
leather cloak + ring of protection
leather cloak + ring of invisibility
large shield + amulet of reflection
small shield + any dragon scales
- <color> dragon shield
- these grant same resistance as the dragon scales
leather gloves + ring of gain strength
leather gloves + ring of gain dexterity
leather gloves + ring of magic resistance
low boots + ring of levitation
low boots + wand of speed monster
Rings
All ring recipes are based on randomized appearance of the rings in every game.
silver ring + diamond
- diamond ring
silver ring + jade
- jade ring
silver ring + topaz
- topaz ring
silver ring + emerald
- emerald ring
silver ring + sapphire
- sapphire ring
gold ring + ruby
- ruby ring
gold ring + agate
- agate ring
gold ring + opal
- opal ring
iron ring + war hammer
- war hammer is not used up
- twisted ring
iron ring + rock
- granite ring
iron ring + tiger corpse
- tiger eye ring
BTW, I am aware that tiger eye is a kind of gem. :)
Potions
potion of water + wraith corpse
potion of water + nurse corpse
potion of water + scroll of light
potion of fruit juice + acid blob corpse
potion of fruit juice + glob of green slime
Books
blank scroll + blank scroll
Wands
wand of nothing + scroll of light
wand of nothing + potion of full healing
wand of nothing + vampire (lord) corpse
Some wand recipes are also based on randomized appearance of the wands.
long wand + axe
- axe is not used up
- short wand
balsa, oak, pine or maple wand + axe
- axe is not used up
- forked wand
iron wand + war hammer
- war hammer is not used up
- curved wand
iron wand + iron spike
- spiked wand
silver wand + any precious gem
- jeweled wand
marble wand + magic marker
- magic marker is drained of 2d5 charges
- runed wand
wand of nothing + dilithium crystal
- crystal wand
Tools
beeswax + beeswax
- two wax candles
meat stick + meatstick
- two tallow candles
- scissors are not used up
- sack
- scissors are not used up
- oilskin sack
- scissors are not used up
- blindfold
- war hammer is not used up
- lock pick
wooden flute + amulet of restful sleep
wooden harp + scroll of taming
leather drum + wand of digging
- tinning kit is drained of 1 charge
- oil lamp
Comestibles
- knife is not used up
- several meatballs
- several fortune cookies
Other
any magical item + wand of cancellation
- wand of cancellation is drained of 1 charge
- non-magical counterpart of the item
- boulder can be under feet
- war hammer is not used up
- random statue
