Shopkeeper | |
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Type | Standard |
Spawn | Shops |
Gives | Sellable items |
Walk speed | 0 tiles per turn |
Attack details | |
Health | 1 HP |
Dodge | 0 |
Accuracy | 0 |
Armor | 0 |
On Damage | Flees |
The Shopkeeper is a Standard NPC.
Description[]
Shopkeeper | ||
This stout guy looks more appropriate for a trade district in some large city than for a dungeon. His prices explain why he prefers to do business here. | ||
Info[]
The Shopkeeper can be found in the Shop, on Depths 6, 11, 16, & 21 (the depth directly after each boss depth). The Shop will always be in a room adjacent to the staircase that brought you down to that depth. They will sell overpriced items; and will buy items from the Hero, for a significantly lower gold return rate. The purchase price will be five times higher than the sell price of an item.
On Depth 6, he will buy your items for about 10% of their selling price. The price for each item rises by about 50% in each subsequent Shop. Unidentified items are less expensive than identified items, and less useful potions and scrolls (such as Scroll of Challenge) are less expensive than more useful ones (such as Scroll of Terror).
If any damage, or any (de)buff, is applied to the Shopkeeper, he and his goods will immediately disappear, leaving an empty room. It means that, in addition to damage (directly by the Hero, an enemy, or indirectly from a Skeleton’s explosion), harmful potions, aggressive scrolls, and some wands (Amok) will make the Shopkeeper flee, so don't test out scrolls while in the line of sight of the Shopkeeper. If you use a Wand of Teleportation on the Shopkeeper, he will be teleported outside of his Shop, but you can still buy & sell items from him.
Information on what the Shopkeeper offers for sale is on the Special room page, under Shop.
Tips
- Using the Scroll of Wipe Out will make the Shopkeeper disappear and leave all of his stock free for the taking.
- Don’t fight in the shop.
- If the Shopkeeper gets hurt, he’ll disappear along with his merchandise.
- Don’t read scrolls, or use potions, that apply a debuff/buff, in the Shop: If any debuff/buff is applied to the shopkeeper, he’ll disappear along with his merchandise.
- The only potions that are safe to use in the Shop are: Potion of Experience, Potion of Strength, Potion of Healing, Potion of Invisibility, Potion of Levitation, Potion of Mind Vision, Potion of Might, and Potion of Purification (when drank only).
- The only scrolls that are safe to use in the Shop are: Scroll of Identify, Scroll of Remove Curse, Scroll of Teleportation, Scroll of Mirror Image, Scroll of Upgrade, Scroll of Recharging, Scroll of Magic Mapping, and Scroll of Enchantment.
- When using an unidentified scroll or potion, make sure you use it outside of the Shop, to prevent any risks.
- Don’t bother wasting your gold on the overpriced food ration that is offered in the Shop (unless you need to stay sated on your way back up to the Surface, after obtaining the Amulet of Yendor, or you're going for the "40 Food Eaten" badge and have more than 500 Gold to burn).
- Never sell your food to the Shopkeeper, as the selling price is too low and not worth it.
You should keep even the mystery meat for yourself, as it can be frozen and eaten in times of starvation. - Keep in mind that the price of the items you’re selling depends on their attributes.
While a degraded item has a lower price, an upgraded, or enchanted, item has a higher price. - Once you have a bunch of weapons that you don't need from Skeletons, drop them if you need to, but once you reach the Caves Shop, sell all the weapons to the Shopkeeper.
Trivia
- In versions before Update 1.6.2, if the enemy you’re fighting in the shop drops an item, it will automatically become part of the merchandise; and then the only way to get it is to buy it.
- Items that are being sold in the Shop cannot be stolen with the Wand of Reach.
History
Update | Change |
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1.6.2 | Changed: Items dropped (by the Hero) on top of the Shopkeeper's goods, can be picked up for free |
1.6.2a | Changed: The Shopkeeper's animation has changed |