Potion of midas
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| Name | midas |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 900 zm |
| Weight | 20 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
A potion of midas is a type of magical potion that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack, and notnotdNetHack. It will always appear as an "aureate potion" when unidentified.
Generation
Potions of midas do not randomly generate but may be wished for or found in bones.
Croesus is always generated with 2 potions of midas.
Description
Quaffing a potion of midas is fatal and will turn the hero into a gold statue in 8 turns if they have free action, or in just 6 if they do not. Throwing the potion at a monster or hitting them with it stones struck monsters that do not have stoning resistance, similar to a thrown potion of blood from a monster with petrifying blood, and will instantly kill them by transforming them into a gold statue, even if they would normally not leave a corpse. Golems aren't killed by the potion and instead turn into gold golems, an effect that extends to the hero if they are affected by the potion while polymorphed into one. Aurumach Rilmani and radiant pyramid are also immune to the potion of midas' stoning effect, despite not possessing stoning resistance.
The potion's most notable property comes from its interaction with dipping: when any item is dipped into a potion of midas, it has its base-material changed to gold, fixing all levels of erosion it previously had, if any.
Mercurial items that are dipped into a midas potion revert to their base material after 8–64 turns. The mercurial artifacts The Skies Reflected and The Amalgamated Skies amalgamate metals they have been temporarily turned into, retaining the metal's beneficial properties even after they return to their original material. While a mercurial artifact is temporarily made of gold the Silver Flame's material-changing boons may be applied to it, though only the last material it was remade into is amalgamated when reverting to their mercurial form. Only gold, iron, green-steel, silver, platinum, mithril, copper and lead can be amalgamated, though currently not all of these materials can feasibly be obtained.
Inhaling the vapors from a potion of midas has no effect.
Base item conversion
In a few notable instances, changing an item's material also changes its base item:
- When dipped into a potion of midas, spellbooks are transformed into a gold spellbook of a type with the "gold" appearance.
- When dipped into a potion of midas, wands are transformed into a gold wand of a type not tied to any material, which can be any of the following: hexagonal, short, runed, long, curved, forked, or spiked wand.
- gems, worthless pieces of glass, and gray stones turn into gold rocks when dipped into a potion of midas.
- silver slingstones turn into gold rocks when dipped into a potion of midas.
- crystal swords turn into gold long swords when dipped into a potion of midas.
- white vibrospears turn into gold-bladed vibrospears when dipped into a potion of midas.
- white vibroswords turn into gold-bladed vibroswords when dipped into a potion of midas.
- white vibrozanbatos turn into gold-bladed vibrozanbatos when dipped into a potion of midas.
- arrows and silver arrows turn into golden arrows when dipped into a potion of midas.
- crysknives turn into gold knives when dipped into a potion of midas.
- elven helms turn into gold high-elven helms when dipped into a potion of midas.
- droven helms turn into gold helmets when dipped into a potion of midas.
- crystal gauntlets, gloves, plasteel gauntlets, and orihalcyon gauntlets turn into gold gauntlets when dipped into a potion of midas.
- crystal boots, high boots, and plasteel boots turn into gold armored boots when dipped into a potion of midas.
- low boots turn into gold shoes when dipped into a potion of midas.
- droven chain mail, dwarvish mithril-coats, and elvish mithril-coats turn into gold chain mail when dipped into a potion of midas.
- leather armor and studded leather armor turn into gold scale mail when dipped into a potion of midas.
- crystal plate mail, droven plate mail, and plasteel armor turn into gold plate mail when dipped into a potion of midas.
Strategy
Potions of midas are exceptionally rare and best reserved for items you are certain will benefit from the gold base material, or which you intend to use with the Silver Flame.
Messages
- You are turning to gold!
- You quaffed a potion of midas and are turning into a gold statue, leaving you with 8 turns to live.
- You are slowing down.
- You are turning into a gold statue and have 4 turns left to live.
- Your limbs are stiffening.
- You are turning into a gold statue and have 3 turns left to live. If the hero doesn't have free action, they will be paralyzed on their next turn and immediately die.
- Your limbs have turned to gold.
- You are turning into a gold statue and have 2 turns left to live.
- You have turned to gold.
- You will turn into a gold statue on the next turn.
- You are a gold statue.
- You died after being transmuted into gold.
- You feel shiny inside.
- You quaffed a potion of midas while polymorphed into a gold golem.
- You taste gold flakes.
- You inhaled the vapors from a potion of midas.
- The <item> turns into gold.
- You dipped an item into a potion of midas.
