I'm in need of a cloak of MR, and have amassed a large collection of elven cloaks and boots as well as a couple of robes. Being magical armor, I know that I have a shot at getting magical armor by polypiling. The wiki says that items stay within class– "potions beget potions, wands beget wands, etc", but doesn't really say "cloaks beget cloaks." Am I right in thinking that I may well end up with a bunch of non=magical gloves, shields, helms, and armor instead of any cloaks at all? Does the material cloth, leather metal)have any bearing?
If I polypile a bunch of elven cloaks (boots, etc), will I get just cloaks (boots, etc)
nethack
Best Answer
An object's class is its symbol. Cloaks, gloves, shields, helms, and armor are all displayed in text mode as
[, so they're all the same class. As a result, polymorphing a stack of cloaks will produce a mix of shirts, cloaks, armor, gloves, shields, helms, and boots.The game makes a reasonable effort to match the magical/non-magical status of the result of polymorphing an object. Because your elven cloaks and boots are considered magical, there will be a decided bias towards producing gloves, cloaks, boots, and helms.