Draft:Shiren 5 2020:Item

Overview

• • Importance of Items
  • Main Inventory & Pots
  • Taking items into and out of dungeons / The Dungeon Barrier
  • Using, throwing, dropping, selling
  • Good and bad are reversible in most cases

Getting Items

• • Completing Item Book / See Item Lists
  • Primarily In Dungeons
    • Pre-placed
    • Monster drops (some of which can be special)
    • Monster Houses
    • Stores (3 types)
    • Sparkly Ground
    • Wandering NPCs
    • Other Special Cases

(Presto Pot, Floramorph Pot, open-type pots, dirt)

• • Primarily At Home
    • Shops and NPCs at home
    • Lots Game
    • Special Cases at Home
    • Crafting / New Items (see below)
    • Anyone ever tried making a Monster House at home??
  • Any I've missed?

Item Attributes

• • Durable vs. Consumable
  • Equipment vs. Non-equipment (and methods of use in general)
  • Projectiles / Stackables
  • Category
  • Type (Name)
  • Modifiers (blessing/curse/seal/none, charges, spaces, etc.)
  • Runes
  • Price

Non-Items

Shiren 5 occasionally refers to "items" such as "the dice of fate" or "mom's special onigiri". These are not actually items per the game mechanics and they do not show up in your Item Book. Some of these are tracked as game state within your game diary, and others are just for color. See Goals for more info.

Oddly, some items such as Dirt and flowers are tracked as real items in your Item Book, but they can never exist outside of Pots.

Item Book

• • Categories vs. Types vs.
  • Column for category, in Item Book order, which is link to page for that time
  • Column for very short description