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Rat Hide
The Rat Hide is a common item in Remixed Dungeon that serves as a basic crafting material.
Item Overview
- Type: Crafting Material
- Rarity: Common
- Special Effect: Used in various crafting recipes and alchemy
- Usage: Crafting, quest item, alchemy ingredient
Description
A small, filthy piece of flesh and fur from a rat. While seemingly useless at first glance, it can actually be of use to someone with the right knowledge. The item is stackable and always identified from the start.
Mechanics
- Stackable: Yes (max stack size: 20)
- Identified: Always identified (isIdentified() returns true)
- Upgradable: No (isUpgradable() returns false)
- Image: ItemSpriteSheet.RAT_HIDE (items/artifacts.png, index 23)
Usage
- Alchemy Recipes:
- 1 Dreamweed Seed + 1 Rat Hide = Potion of Invisibility
- 1 Sorrowmoss + 1 Rat Hide = Potion of Toxic Gas (via alchemy_recipes.lua)
- Crafting/Transmutation:
- Used in DemoTransmute trap (Rat Hide + Cloth Armor = Rat Armor)
- Used by Plague Doctor NPC in various interactions
- Trap/Spawner Loot: Can appear in Spawner traps as loot
Obtaining
- Primary Source: Dropped by rat-type enemies (Rat, Black Rat, Fetid Rat, etc.)
- Secondary Sources: Containers, special rooms, Spawner traps
- Shops: Available for purchase (always identified)
Technical Details
- Java Class: com.nyrds.pixeldungeon.items.common.RatHide
- Entity Kind: RatHide
- String Resources: RatHide_Name (“rat hide”), RatHide_Info (“A small, filthy piece of flesh and fur. Can these actually be of use to someone?”)
- Lua Scripts: alchemy_recipes.lua (Potion of Invisibility, Potion of Toxic Gas), traps/DemoTransmute.lua, traps/Spawner.lua
Related Items
- Rats - The enemies that drop rat hides
- Black Rat - A rat variant that drops rat hides
- Plague Doctor - NPC that uses rat hides in interactions
- Potion of Invisibility - Crafted using Rat Hide
- Potion of Toxic Gas - Crafted using Rat Hide
- Rat Armor - Crafted using Rat Hide (via DemoTransmute)