Draft:Stimtab
| % | |
| Type | Food |
|---|---|
| Base value (Au) | 50 |
| Item level | 3 |
| Weight | 1 |
| Unidentified appearance | Small gray tablet |
| Cursed name | Stimtab |
A stimtab is a stimulant tablet, used with Eat. It applies a speed effect and adds 3 current Strength at the cost of 1 current Constitution. Despite belonging to the food category, it supplies no nourishment.[1]
Generation and identification
Stimtabs occur as item-level-3 random food, including possible pawn-shop stock, and can be selected through blessed acquirement. Ordinary food generation produces an unblessed copy. Its appearance is shared with powtab, nutritab and immunotab. Eating a noncursed stimtab identifies the stimtab type; eating a cursed one does not provide that identification.[2]
Description
Every stimtab changes current Strength and Constitution, regardless of blessing. It does not raise their recorded maxima. Repeated tablets repeat those changes; the attribute changes are not automatically undone when haste ends.[3]
| Tablet state | Speed effect |
|---|---|
| Unblessed | Clears slowing and adds 0–249 haste counts |
| Blessed with strength B | Clears slowing and adds 100B through 100B + 249 haste counts |
| Cursed, already hasted | Does not cancel haste or add slowing |
| Cursed, not hasted | Adds 250–499 slowing counts |
Haste normally reduces the action interval, while slowing increases it. The final interval also depends on agility, load, other effects and riding; a tablet does not guarantee that every action becomes twice as fast. Haste and slowing counts below 1000 decrease at minute-status updates, normally once a game minute on local maps with extra checks at ten-minute or hourly updates. Counts at or above 1000 do not undergo that ordinary countdown, and repeated tablets can cross the threshold.[4]
The Strength gain affects carrying capacity and ordinary damage calculations. The Constitution loss is real even when the speed outcome is unhelpful. Noncursed restoration can repair Constitution below its normal maximum; the tablet itself does not include that recovery.[5]
Strategy
Use a known noncursed stimtab when both acceleration and extra Strength are useful, with a plan to repair Constitution. A speed potion offers acceleration without the tablet's attribute tradeoff. An unblessed tablet can roll no new haste, and riding can override the resulting movement interval, so judge the result rather than assuming a fixed benefit.
Repeated use stacks the Constitution cost as well as the Strength gain. It is not a substitute for food or a permanent increase in maximum attributes. Identify gray tablets before using them as emergency nourishment.
References
- ↑ iinit.h in Omega 0.90.4, line 62; command2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 130–158; itemf1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 402–410.
- ↑ item.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 7–60; iinit.h in Omega 0.90.4, lines 62–68; site1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 1043–1052; effect1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 747–784; itemf1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 236–242; itemf1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 402–410.
- ↑ itemf1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 402–410; aux2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 190–199.
- ↑ effect2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 432–449; aux1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 281–313; aux2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 190–199; aux2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 247–256; time.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 19–23; aux3.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 11–47.
- ↑ aux1.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 281–305; effect2.c in Omega 0.90.4, lines 451–474.