Mythical substance

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An adventurer about to eat a healing glob.
Art by Rumrusher.

Mythical substances are procedurally-generated liquids and globs with magical properties. Each world has a number of differently-named substances, such as "odd jelly" or "peculiar broth," though currently all of them carry the same syndrome.

Healing potion

A mysterious dungeon's guardian carries a waterskin filled with a restorative substance that they can consume in combat. Ingesting it grants a powerful syndrome that cures nearly all wounds, even regrowing limbs and healing nerve damage. It does not heal blood loss. However, it can allow you to live through Titan fire long enough to stop you from melting.

Creatures that are immune to poison (not GENERAL_POISON) do not benefit from this substance.

See also

• Weather#Evil_weather

Script

mythical_healing_adjectives={ "curious", "weird", "odd", "strange", "unusual", "peculiar" } mythical_healing_liquids={ "liquid", "fluid", "broth", "juice", "goo", "liquor", "solution" } mythical_healing_alcohols={ liquor=true } mythical_healing_globs={ "jelly", "pulp", "wax", "jam", "dough" } materials.mythical_healing.default=function() local name_str = pick_random(mythical_healing_adjectives) local noun="" local lines={} if one_in(2) then noun=pick_random(mythical_healing_liquids) name_str=name_str.." "..noun lines[#lines+1]="[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:"..name_str.."]" lines[#lines+1]="[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:frozen ]"..name_str.."]" lines[#lines+1]="[MELTING_POINT:9900]" else noun=pick_random(mythical_healing_globs) name_str=name_str.." "..noun lines[#lines+1]="[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:molten "..name_str.."]" lines[#lines+1]="[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:]"..name_str.."]" lines[#lines+1]="[MELTING_POINT:10200]" end lines[#lines+1]="[STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling "..name_str.."]" lines[#lines+1]="[BOILING_POINT:12000]" populate_monotone_color_pattern() local col_pat=pick_random(monotone_color_pattern) if col_pat then local col = world.descriptor.color[col_pat.color] lines[#lines+1]="[STATE_COLOR:ALL:"..col.token.."]" lines[#lines+1]="[DISPLAY_COLOR:"..col.col_f..":0:"..col.col_br else lines[#lines+1]="[DISPLAY_COLOR:1:0:1]" end lines[#lines+1]="[MATERIAL_VALUE:1]" lines[#lines+1]="[SPEC_HEAT:4181]" lines[#lines+1]="[IGNITE_POINT:NONE]" lines[#lines+1]="[HEATDAM_POINT:NONE]" lines[#lines+1]="[COLDDAM_POINT:NONE]" lines[#lines+1]="[MAT_FIXED_TEMP:NONE]" lines[#lines+1]="[MOLAR_MASS:1]" lines[#lines+1]="[EDIBLE_VERMIN]" lines[#lines+1]="[EDIBLE_RAW]" lines[#lines+1]="[EDIBLE_COOKED]" lines[#lines+1]="[DO_NOT_CLEAN_GLOB]" if mythical_healing_alcohols[noun] then -- i'm sure you can think of some alcoholic globs if you want lines[#lines+1]="[ALCOHOL]" end lines[#lines+1]="[ENTERS_BLOOD]" lines[#lines+1]=" [SYNDROME]" lines[#lines+1]=" [SYN_NAME:"..name_str.." effect]" lines[#lines+1]=" [SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]" lines[#lines+1]=" [SYN_INGESTED]" --[[ all of this was in a for loop with individual creature effects listed out but (I *think*) the design purpose for that is fulfilled by having it all out in Lua anyway, so I'm just going to hardcode it here and if users wanna mod it they can add their own function]] lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_REGROW_PARTS:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_CLOSE_OPEN_WOUNDS:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_HEAL_TISSUES:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_HEAL_NERVES:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_STOP_BLEEDING:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_REDUCE_PAIN:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_REDUCE_DIZZINESS:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_REDUCE_NAUSEA:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_REDUCE_SWELLING:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_CURE_INFECTION:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_REDUCE_PARALYSIS:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL]" lines[#lines+1]=" [CE_REDUCE_FEVER:SEV:100:PROB:100:START:0:PEAK:0:END:12:ABRUPT]" return {mat=lines,weight=1} end

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