👉 A diluted potion is a weaker version of a standard potion, often resulting from dipping a potion into water. Diluted potions generally have a 50% chance of failing or producing reduced effects, and provide half the nutrition of regular potions.
Overview
In GnollHack, a potion can acquire the diluted property, which represents it being watered down. This makes its effects significantly less potent and reliable.
Effects of Dilution
When you use or interact with a diluted potion, several mechanics are altered compared to an undiluted potion:
- Unreliable Effects: For a wide variety of magical effects (including healing, stat gains, levitation, and more), there is a 50% chance that a diluted potion's primary effect will either be completely negated or noticeably reduced.
- Halved Nutrition: When consumed, a diluted potion provides exactly half the satiety (nutrition) of its undiluted counterpart.
- Speed Potion Downgrade: The effect of speed potions is stepped down by one tier. For example, quaffing a diluted potion of lightning speed grants the same buff as an undiluted potion of greater speed.
- Safer Herbal Drinks: Quaffing a diluted herbal drink will refresh you without causing confusion, whereas an undiluted herbal drink typically confuses the player.
Other Uses
- Refilling Lamps: If you use a diluted potion of oil to refill a light source, it provides significantly less fuel to the lamp than an undiluted potion.
- Dipping Items: Dipping an item into a diluted potion will result in a much weaker (often the minimum possible) magical effect upon the dipped item.
- Dipping in Water: Dipping an already diluted potion into water or a fountain usually washes it out completely, turning it into a potion of water. Dipping a standard potion into water usually makes it diluted.