Draft:Shiren 5 Vita:Pot

Pots (Japanese: 壺) are usable items that appears in Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate. There are thirty-four variants of them in total.

Summary

This item category exists in all Shiren games, but it was often called "Jars" in earlier games. Prior game "equivalent" items are virtually identical, but they may or may not behave exactly the same in Shiren 5 as they did in prior games in the series For example, a Jar of Change in Shiren 1 could create a new jar inside it, but a Presto Pot in Shiren 5 cannot. Regardless of the name of the category, pots/jars are the only items that can contain other items in any Shiren game.

There are two sub-types of pots: insert-type pots and open-type pots. You can tell them apart because they have either "insert" or "open" as menu options for the item even if the type is not yet identified. Insert-type pots allow you to insert any non-pot items into them so long as there is still free space. There are no concepts of bulk, weight, or shape; except for a handful of special cases, any non-pot item can be inserted into any insert-type pot. Many insert-type pots either affect the inserted item in some magical way or destroy it. Inserting an item is almost always a one-way trip; even if the pot doesn't destroy the item, you usually have to break the pot by throwing it against a wall to get the contents out, or worse, you can't break the pot and the only way to get the contents out is via an Extraction Scroll. But the common Preservation Pot allows you to store and retrieve items freely without affecting them. Items cannot be inserted into open-type pots. Instead, something magical is in these pots already, and you can open them to let one of these "unknown" items out, which usually shrinks the pot. A small number of open-type pots can be refilled under certain circumstances .

Pots have a capacity range of 0-5 spaces or spots, and all newly generated pots have 2-5 spaces. A pot's capacity is always known and is a clue as to the pot's type even if it's not identified. For example, Synthesis Pots are always 5 spaces by default, and they're fairly common on early floors in most dungeons, so if you find a 5-space pot on an early floor there's a decent chance it's a Synthesis Pot. Fever Pots are always 3 spaces by default but they are much more rare, and every type of pot has a chance to have 3 spaces, so it's much harder to use capacity to help identify a Fever Pot. Aside from Synthesis and Fever, all other pot types either have a default capacity of 2-4, or a default capacity of 3-5, though the specific capacities documented for each type below may be inaccurate. A pot's capacity can be increased via a Pot God Scroll. Certain types of pots reduce their capacity as you use them. There is only one known way to reduce the capacity of an arbitrary type of pot without using it, which is by letting a Gyandora peck at your inventory. It may digest the pot, removing all capacity and destroying any contents. While this is a bit extreme and dangerous, being able to create a Fever Pot of any capacity could be very useful for crafting .

Pots cannot be cursed , but they can be blessed or sealed. A blessing doesn't positively affect the magic of the pot or any of its contents, but at least a blessed pot has a high chance to resist being sealed or turned into an Onigiri by a monster or trap. The effects of sealing a pot have not been fully tested and documented. The player cannot insert items into a sealed pot, so deliberately sealing a pot may protect it from monsters throwing items such as Dirt into it as well. It's also possible a sealed pot no longer has its normal magic effect, so sealing a 4-2-8 Pot or Unbreakable Pot might let you break the pot and safely retrieve the contents.

As a convenience, the base buy and sell prices shown below also show how much the price increases for each empty space. See the pricing section of the Items page for details.

Pots

Here are all the items in this category, in Item Book order:

Pots		Shops		Sub-type	Starting Capacity	In-Game Description
English	Japanese	Cost	Value
Preservation Pot	保存の壺	600 +30	210 +10	Insert	3 - 5
Ordinary Pot	ただの壺	600 +30	210 +10	Insert	3 - 5
Synthesis Pot	合成の壺	6000 +300	2100 +150	Insert	5
Sale Pot	換金の壺	1000 +50	350 +17	Insert	3 - 5
Presto Pot	変化の壺	1000 +50	350 +17	Insert	3 - 5
Identify Pot	識別の壺	600 +30	210 +10	Insert	3 - 5
Exorcism Pot	おはらいの壺	1600 +80	560 +28	Insert	2 - 4
Blessing Pot	祝福の壺	1600 +80	560 +28	Insert	2 - 4
Curse Pot	たたりの壺	1600 +80	560 +28	Insert	2 - 4
Black Hole Pot	底抜けの壺	1000 +50	350 +17	Insert	2 - 4
Fever Pot	フィーバーの壺	1000 +50	350 +17	Insert	3
Sticky Pot	手封じの壺	1000 +50	350 +17	Insert	3 - 5
Hide Pot	やりすごしの壺	600 +30	210 +10	Insert	3 - 5
Unbreakable Pot	割れない壺	1000 +50	350 +17	Insert	3 - 5
Heal Pot	背中の壺	3500 +175	1225 +61	Open	3 - 5
Hilarious Pot	笑いの壺	3500 +175	1225 +61	Open	2 - 4
Zalokleft Pot	トドの壺	3500 +175	1225 +61	Open	3 - 5
Klein Pot	クラインの壺	3500 +175	1225 +61	Open	3 - 5
Monster Pot	魔物の壺	3500 +175	1225 +61	Open	3 - 5
Upgrade Pot	強化の壺	10000 +500	3500 +175	Insert	2 - 4
Degrade Pot	弱化の壺	10000 +500	3500 +175	Insert	2 - 4
Lucky Pot	福寄せの壺	10000 +500	3500 +175	Insert	2 - 4
Unlucky Pot	厄寄せの壺	10000 +500	3500 +175	Insert	2 - 4
4-2-8 Pot	四二鉢	600 +30	210 +10	Insert	3 - 5
Zen Pot	冷えびえ香の壺	2500 +125	875 +43	Insert	2 - 4
Dodger Pot	身かわし香の壺	2500 +125	875 +43	Insert	2 - 4
Perceptive Pot	目配り香の壺	2500 +125	875 +43	Insert	2 - 4
Reflection Pot	山彦香の壺	2500 +125	875 +43	Insert	2 - 4
Water Pot	水がめ	2000 +100	700 +35	Open	3 - 5
Modder's Pot	合城の壺	6000 +300	2100 +150	Insert	3 - 5
Floramorph Pot	変花の壺	1000 +50	350 +17	Insert	3 - 5
Grilling Pot	強イヒの壺	10000 +500	3500 +175	Insert	3 - 5
Shrine Maid Pot	乙女の祈りの壺	3500 +175	1225 +61	Open	3 - 5
Heavenly Pot	天上の器	2000 +100	700 +35	Open	3 - 5

Trivia

• The name used for 4-2-8 Pot is a reference to 428: Shibuya Scramble, a visual novel adventure video game also developed by Spike Chunsoft.

References

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