
If the altar is co-aligned and your alignment record is greater than - rn2(4), you lose one point of wisdom and one point of alignment record otherwise, you lose 0-2 points of Luck, if your Luck is greater than -5. If you # sit on, engrave on, or kick an altar, you will experience negative effects depending on the altar alignment and your alignment record. You cannot detect whether an item is blessed or cursed if you are hallucinating, as you will not be able to distinguish between amber flashes and black flashes you can, however, identify uncursed items, as there will not be a flash at all. You cannot detect an item's beatitude if you are blind. A black flash marks a cursed item, and an amber flash marks a blessed one. This is done by dropping the item onto the altar. Orcish Town, the variant of Minetown that has been overrun by orcs, has an unaligned altar.Īltars can be used to detect the beatitude of items.

Minetown has a randomly aligned altar and unaligned altars can be found in the Valley of the Dead (in the temple of Moloch), Orcus-town and Moloch's Sanctum unless they were destroyed in a bones file. Unaligned altars appear only in Gehennom, one variant of Minetown and some quests (except as mimics).Īltars are scattered randomly throughout the dungeons. To determine if an altar is co-aligned, either use far look or stand on it and use close look. Temples contain an altar and an aligned priest.Īltars are co-aligned if they are of the same alignment as you and cross-aligned if they are of a different alignment.

An altar, represented by an underscore ( _), is a place where you may worship gods.
