Chains

	Chains
	“it's so dark.”
Quality	(unknown)[citation needed]
Mechanic upgrade
	⨯1 →⨯1 (8h)
	I don't really like working with this stuff... but I trust that you know what you're doing.

Chains is an upgraded item.

Effects

Makes your curse incurable, but drastically increases rescue luck while you have it. Use at your own risk!

— In-game description

Converts the current curse into a Shackled Curse, making it incurable. Curses received from quests can overwrite Shackled Curses as normal.^[1]

Upon rescuing, if the player has a luck of 2 or higher, a Shackled Curse removes 1 point of luck.^[2] Afterwards, it adds 3 points of luck, or 2 points if it's weakened.^[3]^[4]

History

Zoo Bot
v1.1.0	Added Chains.^[5]
v1.6.3	Unweakened shackled curses now add 3 points of luck instead of 4.^[4]

References

↑ 14 March 2023. Reply to @viviampersand by Colon [@colon] in the #zoo-bugs channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.
@viviampersand: shackled curses can be overridden by a quest reward. no idea if this is intentional
@colon: yeah this was something i was considering and decided to leave in
if you shackled your curse it usually means you dont want to overwrite it, which makes getting a curse from a quest "bad" like it should be
↑
26 April 2023. Code snippet by Colon [@colon] in the #zoo-talk channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.
@colon: also i was wrong about chains
it loses 1 luck if your luck is already > 1 […]
```
else if (curseCure.id == "inescapable") {
	if (luck > 1) luck -= 1
	luck += curseCure.luckUp[c]
}
```
↑ 25 April 2023. Reply to @firefly256 by Colon [@colon] in the #zoo-talk channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.
@firefly256: @colon how much luck does chains give
@colon: 4/2
@firefly256: […] Is it 4 when you use Chains on a normal curse, and 2 if you used Chains on a weakened curse?
@colon: ye
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Zoo changelog, v1.6.3 (released 30 July 2024):
“Nerfed unweakened shackled curses to give one less bonus luck”
↑ Zoo changelog, v1.1.0 (released 28 February 2023):
“Added 5 new items to the mechanic”

[1] 14 March 2023. Reply to @viviampersand by Colon [@colon] in the #zoo-bugs channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.
@viviampersand: shackled curses can be overridden by a quest reward. no idea if this is intentional
@colon: yeah this was something i was considering and decided to leave in
if you shackled your curse it usually means you dont want to overwrite it, which makes getting a curse from a quest "bad" like it should be

[2] 26 April 2023. Code snippet by Colon [@colon] in the #zoo-talk channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.
@colon: also i was wrong about chains
it loses 1 luck if your luck is already > 1 […]
else if (curseCure.id == "inescapable") { if (luck > 1) luck -= 1 luck += curseCure.luckUp[c] }

[3] 25 April 2023. Reply to @firefly256 by Colon [@colon] in the #zoo-talk channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.
@firefly256: @colon how much luck does chains give
@colon: 4/2
@firefly256: […] Is it 4 when you use Chains on a normal curse, and 2 if you used Chains on a weakened curse?
@colon: ye

[1.6.3nerf-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Zoo changelog, v1.6.3 (released 30 July 2024):
“Nerfed unweakened shackled curses to give one less bonus luck”

[5] Zoo changelog, v1.1.0 (released 28 February 2023):
“Added 5 new items to the mechanic”

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