Draft:Shiren 1 DS:Fusion

This Shiren 1 DS:Fusion page is about Weapon and Armor melding and seals. For the sealed status, see Shiren 1 DS:Sealed.

Shiren 1 DS - Example of all valuable seals.

Seals (Japanese: ???), also known as marks or melds are valuable upgrades that can be added to Weapons and Shields in Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer. They give those items unique abilities. The player is able to add every seal with their weapon or shield with the exception of the unbreakable pickaxe and breakable pickaxe being mutually exclusive. Later games in the series implemented a limit to the number of seals each item can use and some games allow for armbands to be melded. The Nintendo DS remake features several new seals and no longer has the Echo Seal from the Super Famicom release.

Seals can be removed by the ability of Grey Slime and Red Slimes, which will remove any gold-plated seals first before others, but a certain type of weapon will always carry its inherent seal, which cannot be removed. Eg. a Sickle Slayer will always have the [Holy] File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Ghost.png seal.

When an item is cursed, its seals have no effect.

Melding Jars - How to Add and Combine Seals

A Plating Scroll is the only item that can create a seal from nowhere, all other seals are inherent in certain types of equipment.

Once the Melding Jar has been unlocked by completing the Gaibara's Pottery quest, this Jar can be bought from the Shops in Mountaintop Town. Melding Jars are used to combine Weapons, and Shields together, adding multiple seals to one item.

Weapons and Shields, separately: The first item placed into the jar will absorb all others inserted subsequently, absorbing their upgrade power and any seals.

Limitations

• Placing items other than these into a Melding Jar will have no effect, but will consume one of the jar's slots.
• Items can still be combined even if they are Unidentified.
• Items from a shop that have not been paid for will not combine with other items.
• One Melding Jar can be used to combine multiple types of items together, as long as there are enough slots within the jar.
• If an item with a seal is combined with another item that already contains that seal, there will be no effect and the seal will be wasted.

Removing Items

Items cannot be retrieved from a Melding Jar unless the jar is thrown and breaks, or an Extraction Scroll is used on the jar. Using an Extraction Scroll is considered a waste as it will only conserve a slot in the jar for every item that is removed. E.g. after 5 weapons are combined into one, and it is removed with an Extraction Scroll, there will only be one empty slot for use in the jar.

Weapon and Shield Seals

Weapon SealsShield Seals

Positive Weapon Seals
Sprite	English	Japanese	Icon		Effect
	Golden Blade	金の剣	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Gold.png		Won't lose power from Rusty Traps or Green Slime Family abilities.
	Dragonkiller	ドラゴンキラー	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Dragon.png		Inflicts 200% damage to Dragon-Type Monsters.
	Minotaur's Axe	ミノタウロスの斧	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Critical.png		Will score a Critical Hit ~26%[Data needed] of the time.
	Sickle Slayer	成仏の鎌	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Ghost.png		Inflicts 200% damage to Ghost-Type monsters.
	Homing Blade	必中の剣	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Homing.png		Never misses.
	Razor Wind	妖刀かまいたち	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal 3x.png		Simultaneously strikes the three directions in front of you.
	Cyclops Killer	一ツ目殺し	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Cyclops.png		Inflicts 200% damage to Cyclops-Type monsters
	Drain Buster	ドレインバスター	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Drain.png		Inflicts 200% damage to Drain-Type monsters.
	Bufu's Cleaver	ブフーの包丁	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Meat.png		Can sometimes carve Meat From the monsters you defeat.
	Crescent Arm	三日月刀	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Star.png		Inflicts 200% damage to Exploding-Type monsters.
	Air Slayer	斬空剣	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Air.png		Inflicts 200% damage to Floating-Type monsters.
	Kigny Axe	キグニキングの斧	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Kigny.png		If current HP ≤ 10% of maximum then attacks will score a Critical Hit.
	Pickaxe (Modified by a Blacksmith)	つるはし	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Dig.png		Can dig through walls and won't break.
Negative Weapon Seals
Sprite	Weapon	Japanese	Seal		Effect
	Fragile Edge	使い捨ての剣	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Fragile.png		Weapon power will decrease with every hit dealt. Eg. base weapon power is 10, max decrease to -10
	Pickaxe (Unmodified)	つるはし	File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Pickaxe.png		Can dig through walls by striking them, but has a chance to break.

Positive Shield Seals
Sprite	Shield	Japanese	Seals		Effect
	Gold Shield	金の盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Gold.png		Won't rust from Rusty Traps or Green Slime Family abilities.
	Dragonward	ドラゴンシールド	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Dragon.png		Halves the fixed damage of fire from Dragon-Type Monsters.
	Hide Shield	皮甲の盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Hunger.png		Halves the rate in which Fullness decreases. 1 every 10 turns to 20 with no other items.
	Spiked Ward	バトルカウンター	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Spiked.png		30% of damage taken from physical attacks from next to Shiren will be inflicted on the attacker.
	Evasive Shield	見切りの盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Evasive.png		Enemy attacks will miss ~45% of the time instead of ~20%.
	Blast Shield	地雷ナバリの盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Star.png		Reduces damage done from exploding Traps and explosions from Exploding-Type monsters.
	Walrus Shield	トドの盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Thief.png		Protects your items and money from Thief-Type Monsters.
	Prism Shield	プリズムの盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Prism.png		Negates Skull Mage Family and Fog Hermit Family staff magic to 10 fixed damage.
	Gaze Shield	ゲイズの盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Gaze.png		Prevents you from being Hypnotized] by Gaze Family Monsters.
	Kigny Shield	キグニキングの盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Kigny.png		Will sometimes deflect an attack onto an adjacent entity.
Negative Shield Seals
Sprite	Shield	Japanese	Seal		Effect
	Fragile Shield	使い捨ての盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Fragile.png		Shield power will decrease with every attack taken. Eg. base shield power is 5, max decrease to -5
	Armor Ward	重装の盾	File:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Heavy.png		Doubles the rate in which fullness decreases. 1 every 5 turns with no other items.

Examples

For purposes of illustration here are some examples:

Base	Additions	End Result
Katana +1	Polearm +4, Razor WindFile:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal 3x.png	KatanaFile:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal 3x.png + 5
Armor WardFile:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Heavy.png	Hide ShieldFile:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Hunger.png, Hide ShieldFile:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Hunger.png +3, Wood Shield + 5	1Armor WardFile:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Hunger.png + 8
Polearm	Wood Shield, Armor Ward, Homing BladeFile:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Homing.png	PolearmFile:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Homing.png, Wood ShieldFile:Shiren 1 DS - Shield Seal Heavy.png
Knockback Staff [4]	Knockback Staff [3]	Knockback Staff [7]
Switching Staff [6]	Knockback Staff [5]	Switching Staff [6], Knockback Staff [5]

¹Melding a Hide Shield into an Armor Ward will not give the Armor Ward Slow Hunger - it will only remove the Armor Ward's Increased Hunger effect. You must meld a second Hide Shield into the Armor Ward to give it Slow Hunger.

Accidentally melded a breakable Pickaxe?

Combining the weapon with an unbreakable Pickaxe with the File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Dig.png seal will remove the File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Pickaxe.png seal. Adding another unbreakable Pickaxe to the weapon will add the unbreakable seal File:Shiren 1 DS - Weapon Seal Dig.png.