Zapping

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Zapping is an art that changes certain items into items that are related to them. To zap items, players must acquire a wand.
1. The player must first adventure at the Dungeons Of Doom until Izchak's Lighting Store shows up.
2. The player must then purchase the item priced at 5000 meat
3. The player must then defeat the Mimic they have to fight upon purchasing the cloak thingy
4. The player must then use the item dropped by the Mimic

From the looks of it, you can only get one wand per ascension (if anyone has found otherwise, please say so), and after you acquire the wand, the Izchak's Lighting Store adventure will stop showing up. The wand will break after 2 - 5 succesful zaps, so use them wisely!

There are various types of wands, but so far they all appear to do the same thing, which one you get seems to be completely random. (See aluminum wand, ebony wand, hexagonal wand, marble wand, pine wand)

What Can Be Zapped?

It is a group system, and when you zap something you get any other random item from that group (apart from in groups of just two items, when you always get the other item)
The following are some probable groups:
Consumables

  • chow meins (tofu, pr0n, knob sausage, bat wing, rat appendix)
  • high tier fruit (cherry, lime,jumbo olive)
  • base booze (gin, whisky, vodka, rum, tequila, boxed wine)
  • evil food (4 items)
  • insanely spicy burritos (bean, enchanted bean, jumping bean)
  • presumably burritos and spicy burritos also
  • TPS drinks (6 items)
  • Tier 1 drinks (eg. salty dog, screwdriver) (12 items)
  • Tier 2 (disco bandit) drinks (eg. roll in the hay, slap and tickle) (12 items)
  • reagent-noodle dishes (hell ramen, spaghetti with Skullheads, fettucini Inconnu, gnocchetti di Nietzsche)
  • cookies (white chocolate chip, carob chunk, trollhouse)
  • brownies (herb, carob, chorizo)
  • spleen items, presumably 3 groups of 3 items
  • mushrooms (spooky, knob, knoll)
  • 3rd gen mushrooms (flaming, stinky, frozen)
  • presumably 2nd gen mushrooms also (cool, warm, pointy)

Equipment

Misc

  • You zap the cog with your marble wand.
You acquire an item: spring

Things that need testing

  • reagent potions? (probably not zappable but maybe)
  • ice cold beer -> ice cold fotie works, but is there more to the group? Imp ale?
  • catgut -> batgut, but what about ratgut, rat appendix, bat wing?
  • Quest Items - probably no Quest items can be zapped.
  • car parts, I remember someone saying that some car parts can be zapped, but which ones? (spring, sprocket, cog perhaps?)

"You zap the batgut with your ebony wand. You acquire an item: catgut"

What Can't Be Zapped?

This list needs massive input at this point, but can probably be removed once everything has been tested.

All Mr. Items
All familiar equpiment
All familiars
All epic weapons
All epic hats
Items from Nearby Plains bosses (eg. Badass belt, Cape of the Knob Goblin King)
Pathed ascension rewards (Canned Air etc.)
stainless steel equipment
plexiglass equipment
smithed ore weapons (eg. linoleum staff)
ultra-rares (eg. Talisman of Baio)
crafting equipment (eg. tenderizing hammer)
64067 scroll
668 scroll
1337 7r0uZ0RZ
abominable snowcone
Acoustic guitarrr
amulet of extreme plot significance
annoying pitchfork
anti-anti-antidote
anticheese
arrrgyle socks
asshat
awful poetry journal
bartender-skull-in-the-box
bitchin' meatcar
box
Cobb's Knob Lab key
charrrm
Crimbo stocking
disembodied brain
disturbing fanfic
drywall axe
enchanted toothpick
Fat stacks of cash
flaming crutch
flange
giant discarded plastic fork
giant needle
hellion cube
imitation nice watch
incredibly dense meat gem
kneecapping stick
Knob Goblin superseltzer
lead necklace
lihc face
linoleum crossbow
locked Orcish meat locker
Lucky Surprise Egg
mafia aria
Meat maid body
magical mystery juice
maple syrup
Mick's IcyVapoHotness Rub
mind flayer corpse
Mob Penguin cellular phone
moxie magnet
Mr. Container
NG
oyster basket
pail
Penultimate fantasy chest
Pine-Fresh air freshener
pirate pelvis
potion of temporary gr8tness
pretty flower
pr0n legs
probability potion
procrastination potion
purple pixel pie
Richard's star key
ridiculously huge sword
roll of drink tickets
royal jelly
rusty L-shaped piece of metal
safarrri hat
scroll of drastic healing
scrumptious reagent
skeleton key
small leather glove
smart skull
special sauce glove
stone banjo
stone of eXtreme power
strange leaflet
support cummerbund
Time Juice
vinegar
wang
warm subject gift certificate
wooden axe
wussiness potion
yeti fur
Yeti Protest Sign
Yummy Tummy bean

Zap Groups Table and Zap Alpha Item Data

Here's the same data from above, but put into tabular format. The Zap Groups listed here are cross-referenced in the Zap Alpha Item Data pages that are linked below. Because of the large number of items, the items are split into a set of sub-pages. It seems that we still have almost 800 items to test!!!


Alpha list of all items along with their zapping information
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I-K | L | M | N-O | P | Q-R | S | T | U-V | W | X-Z | other


Category Zap Group Qty Comment
Food Brownies 3  
Food Chow Meins 5  
Food Cookies 3  
Food Evil Food 4  
Food Insanely Spicy Burritos 3  
Food Reagent Noodle Dishes 4  
Food Spicy Burritos 3 Speculation
Booze Basic Booze 6  
Booze Tier 1 (DB Base) Drinks 12  
Booze Tier 2 (DB Final) Drinks 12  
Booze TPS Drinks 6  
Spleen Tier 1 Substat Boosters 3 Speculation
Spleen Tier 2 Substat Boosters 3 Speculation
Spleen Tier 3 Substat Boosters 3 Speculation
Outfits 8-Bit Finery 3 Speculation
Outfits Bow Tux 3 Speculation
Outfits Bugbear Costume 2 Speculation
Outfits Clockwork Apparatus 3  
Outfits Crimbo Duds 3  
Outfits eXtreme Cold-Weather Gear 3 Speculation
Outfits Filthy Hippy Disguise 2  
Outfits Frat Boy Ensemble 3 Speculation
Outfits Furry Suit 2  
Outfits Gnauga Hides 3 Speculation
Outfits Hot and Cold Running Ninja Suit 3 Speculation
Outfits Knob Goblin Elite Guard Uniform 3 Speculation
Outfits Knob Goblin Harem Girl Disguise 2 Speculation
Outfits Mining Gear 3 Speculation
Outfits OK Lumberjack 3 Speculation
Outfits Radio Free Regalia 3  
Outfits Star Garb 3 Speculation
Outfits Swashbuckling Getup 3 Speculation
Outfits Yendorian Finery 3  
Misc ! Potions 9  
Misc 1st Gen Mushrooms 3  
Misc 2nd Gen Mushrooms 3 Speculation
Misc 3rd Gen Mushrooms 3 Speculation
Misc Beans 3  
Misc DD Room 10 Items 6  
Misc Drink Garnishes 3  
Misc Fences 2  
Misc Feng Shui Items 3  
Misc Gourd Quest Items 3  
Misc High Tier Fruit 3  
Misc Letters 5  
Misc Orc Chasm Basic Scrolls 3  
Misc Ores 3  
Misc Oyster Eggs 32  
Misc Pixels 5  
Misc Pork Elf Gems 3  
Misc Sewer Items 12  
Misc Sneaky Pete Day Beads 3  
Misc South of the Border Gums 4  
Misc Trader Skins 3  
Misc Worthless ttems 3  


Final Use

When your Wand explodes:

You zap the mariachi pants with your marble wand. You acquire an item: helmet turtle

The marble wand abruptly explodes, burning your hand pretty badly in the process. You lose 25 hit points.

And when you go to zap something after you have no wand:

Zap Something

You don't have a marble wand anymore... How sad.

References

  • This is most likely a reference to "polypiling" in NetHack where a player would drop unneeded items onto the floor and zap them with a wand (or spell) of polymorph in hopes that the useless items will turn into similar (and less useless) items.
  • The various names of the wands is also a reference to NetHack, where items that aren't yet identified are given these type of names.
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