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Polypiling is the action of polymorphing a pile of objects in hopes of getting some useful objects as a result. The pile is often referred to as polyfodder. The polyfodder often consists of junk. The polymorph spell is a ray with a random range between 3 and 6 so you can work on several piles at once but keep the things you want morphed closest. Golem creation can help identify glass: polypiling for gems can produce glass golems, which are guaranteed to drop worthless glass when they die. This is usually still a net loss of material.

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rdfs:comment	Polypiling is the action of polymorphing a pile of objects in hopes of getting some useful objects as a result. The pile is often referred to as polyfodder. The polyfodder often consists of junk. The polymorph spell is a ray with a random range between 3 and 6 so you can work on several piles at once but keep the things you want morphed closest. Golem creation can help identify glass: polypiling for gems can produce glass golems, which are guaranteed to drop worthless glass when they die. This is usually still a net loss of material.
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abstract	Polypiling is the action of polymorphing a pile of objects in hopes of getting some useful objects as a result. The pile is often referred to as polyfodder. The polyfodder often consists of junk. The polymorph spell is a ray with a random range between 3 and 6 so you can work on several piles at once but keep the things you want morphed closest. Polymorphing potions will always yield potions, scrolls will polymorph into scrolls, etc. Unicorn horns are especially popular polyfodder because they may polymorph into other magical tools. Another useful thing to do if you gain polymorph in the early game is to polypile spellbooks. Polypiling has its drawbacks. Trying to polypile stacks of too many identical objects at once, such as many scrolls, will cause the items to merge and creates a golem. Thus it is best to separate stacks and limit the amount of objects made from the same material in a single pile, and to distribute your polyfodder into separate piles in a line that can still be polymorphed with just one zap. Golem creation can help identify glass: polypiling for gems can produce glass golems, which are guaranteed to drop worthless glass when they die. This is usually still a net loss of material. Polymorphing may also randomly cause a system shock that makes some objects vanish. You will see a message about "shuddering" when this happens. This is more likely when there are more than four objects in each individual stack that makes up the pile, and when a golem is created. That is another reason not to make the piles too big. The system shock is less likely to happen to blessed polyfodder, and more likely to cursed items. When polymorphing wands and spellbooks, their quality degrades. A spellbook will act as if it had been read once more. If the book's combined read/polymorph-count is four or more and it is a spell you already know, you will be told that the book is too faint to read anymore; if you do not know the spell, you can read it once to learn the spell but it will become "too faint" immedately thereafter. The only way to "cure" spellbooks too faint to be read anymore is to write a new spell on them with a magic marker. Likewise, a wand will count as if it had been recharged, increasing the chance of an explosion if you attempt to recharge it; thus, it is not generally worthwhile to polypile empty wands.

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