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Re: sacrificing and artifacts         


Author: Doug Freyburger
Date: Dec 24, 2008 15:47

Jistan Idiot gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So lets say I know a person who might be pudding farming near an
> alter.  If he #offers all the pudding corpses will he eventually get
> the artifact he wants?

Depends on what you mean by eventually. Recent
discussion mentions that the chances of getting an
artifact from a death drop starts about 1-in-9610
corpses and drops as the number of existing
artifacts increases. On the one hand there's no
restriction on which artifacts get created. On the
other hand it takes an enormous and growing
number of corpses before you might get any one
specific artifact.
> What's the chances of an artifact being given
> every time he #offers.  Does it decrease as more artifacts are
> created?
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Re: sacrificing and artifacts         


Author: G-Mon
Date: Dec 24, 2008 18:52

On 24 Dec 2008, Doug Freyburger yahoo.com> wrote in
news:31bf2e21-6b94-4301-8441-f4a11ff6457e@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com:
> It would take so much pudding farming there's risk of
> running out of memory or disk space from the death
> drop items not artifacts. Folks already report page
> after page of items.

Easily fixed with a spare sack/chest/box and a wand of polymorph.
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Re: sacrificing and artifacts         


Author: Matt Frisch
Date: Dec 25, 2008 03:07

On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:52:53 GMT, "G-Mon" noemail.net>
scribed into the ether:
>On 24 Dec 2008, Doug Freyburger yahoo.com> wrote in
>news:31bf2e21-6b94-4301-8441-f4a11ff6457e@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com:
>
>> It would take so much pudding farming there's risk of
>> running out of memory or disk space from the death
>> drop items not artifacts. Folks already report page
>> after page of items.
>
>Easily fixed with a spare sack/chest/box and a wand of polymorph.

Or a gelatinous cube and a rust monster.
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