Category:Unrecognized Plurals: Difference between revisions

A plural is the text the game displays for an item in certain situations, for instance:

You acquire 2 alpha-mail pantses, preciousss

This category lists items whose plural forms are not known.

The following methods can be used to determine the plural form of an item, by classification of item properties:

• Tradeable items:
  • Buy 2 at once from The Mall of Loathing
  • Have at least one in your inventory, then attempt to put more than you have into your Mall store
  • Insert or remove 2 at once into/from your Clan Stash
  • Receive 2 of the item at once via a single K-mail (from another player or from yourself)
  • Example: nearly every item in the game
• Sellable items:
  • Autosell 2 of the item at once
  • Example: misshapen animal skeleton
• Spleen items (sometimes):
  • Use one when your spleen is full. Only valid if the message begins with "Too many".
  • Example: enchanted leopard-print barbell
• Equippable items (not from Mr. Store):
  • Pulverize 2 of the item at once
  • Example: Boss Bat britches
• Joke Items:
  • Pull 2 of the item at once for free from Hagnk's Ancestral Mini-Storage
  • Example: brick
• Items which can be made in bulk via recipes (meat paste, cooking, cocktailcrafting, supertinkering, etc.):
  • Combine ingredients to create 2 of the item at once
  • Example: badass belt, grue egg omelette
• Items which can be combined using meat paste into a new item:
  • Combine the ingredients into 2 of the result item, then untinker all of them at once
  • Example: batskin belt, dragonbone belt buckle
• Untradeable items in NPC stores:
  • Buy 2 of the item at once
  • Example: Medicinal Herb's medicinal herbs, magical mystery juice, Mr. Exploiter
• Any item:
  • Get a non-combat adventure that drops 2 (or more) of the item in a single line
  • Obtain two of the item at once by some other means
  • Example: astronaut ice-cream (by stargazing 200 or more adventures before they were implemented)
• Any item which has been marked "public" (i.e. nearly every item):
  • Let epeterso2 look it up in his Display Case Database item table dump.

The following methods can not be used to determine the plural form of an item:

• Remove 2 or more of the item from Hagnk's Ancestral Mini-Storage as a non-free item pull
• Move 2 or more of the item between your Display Case and your inventory
• Move 2 or more of the item between Your Colossal Closet and your inventory

When inserting the plural form of an item into a metadata page, make sure it is capitalized exactly as you saw it in-game!

If an item's plural form cannot possibly be determined by normal means, set its plural form to an exclamation point (!) in the metadata page - it will still be listed below, but underneath "!" to signify that it may be safely ignored.