User:Red kangaroo/YANIs/Items/Duct tape
Duct tape would be a new charged tool that allows 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!
Tourists may sometimes start with a duct tape.
Use
Duct tape can be applied like any other tool.
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. The BUC of the resulting item is a combination of the component items. Both successful and failed use of duct tape uses charges.
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. Alternatively, more powerful recipes may require more charges from the duct tape.
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
either arrow, dagger, spear, long sword, mace or bullet + silver ring or wand
- corresponding silver weapon
frag grenade + potion of sickness
Armor
helmet + amulet of drain resistance
helmet + any dragon scales
- <color> dragon helmet
scale mail + any dragon scales
- <color> dragon scale mail
plate mail + dilithium crystal
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
leather gloves + ring of gain strength
leather gloves + ring of gain dexterity
leather gloves + ring of magic resistance
leather gloves + any dragon scales
- <color> dragonhide gauntlets
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 + rock
- granite ring
iron ring + tiger corpse
- tiger eye ring
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.
iron wand + iron spike
- spiked wand
silver wand + any precious gem
- jeweled wand
wand of nothing + dilithium crystal
- crystal wand
Tools
wooden flute + amulet of restful sleep
wooden harp + scroll of taming
