Cursed Dice

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Cursed Dice is a relic obtained normally from quests.

Cursed Dice
“Anything that follows is entirely RNG's fault.”

Effects

50% chance to find a pair when rescuing, 50% chance to find nothing.

— In-game description


The chance to rescue a pair is set to 50%. This overrides the increased pair chance from the Duality leader XP upgrade[1] and—in part— Twin Cherry[2].

The pair chance increases by 6% for each point of luck, maxing out at 80% with 5 luck.[3]

Luck Pair chance
0 50%
1 56%
2 62%
3 68%
4 74%
5 80%

Rescues that don't grant a pair will “fail” and grant no animal. Flavor text is displayed in this format:

🎲 You were about to rescue a [animal], but [reason]. [reaction]

As of April 7, 2024, the following flavor text is possible:

Reason Reaction
apparently it didn't ask. Blame the RNG.
I realized it would be funnier if you didn't. Golly!
it ascended to a higher plane of existence. Hate it when that happens.
it got lost in another wipe. How inconvenient!
it pearled away whoops. It be like that sometimes.
it politely declined. Maybe next time?
it took one look at your face and ran off. Oh well!
it turned out to just be another furry. Problem?
it was actually just made out of cake. Skill issue.
my database crashed so it didn't register. Too bad!
someone else used the command and got them first. Welp!
the RNG had other plans. What a pity.
then you remembered that your ice cream was getting cold. What a shame.
you got a mosquito bite and decided to call it off. Whoopsie!
you got your socks wet and retreated. Zoinks!
you looked away for a second and it despawned.
you tripped on an inconveniently located branch.

Failing a rescue while a Curse of Blindness is active or the Blindfold cosmetic is equipped will grant Visible Confusion.

Strategy

Using Cursed Dice on its own is not recommended. A rescue grants exactly 1 animal on average, compared to the usual 1.05 (from the base pair chance). Methods to consistently increase your luck, like Virtual Machine or a shackled curse, can offset this.

The high pair chance means Kraken's ability will trigger very often.

History

RoboTop
v80.0 Cursed Dice is introduced. It is called "Relic"[4] and has no effect.
June 1–28, 2021 "Relic" is renamed to "Cursed Dice".[5]
v84.0 Cursed Dice is given a use.
Zoo Bot
v1.5.0 Added Visible Confusion, which requires Cursed Dice to be obtained.

References

  1. 22 March 2024. Message by Colon [@colon] in the #zoo-talk channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server:

    “you know whats funny is that the leader xp upgrade doesnt even affect the cursed dice pair chance”

  2. 10 December 2023. Reply to @ny.an by Colon [@colon] in the #zoo-talk channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.

    @ny.an: anyone know how twin cherry and cursed dice work together
    @colon: dice overrides the extra pair chance
    but cherry can still reroll items into pairs

  3. 4 January 2024. Message by Colon [@colon] in the #zoo-talk channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server:

    “for example, cursed dice's success chance goes up by 6 for each point of luck you have (50% -> 56% -> 62%, etc) but it maxes out at 80% (5 luck)”

  4. 1 June 2021. Message by RoboTop in the #bots channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.
  5. 28 June 2021. Message by RoboTop in the #bots channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.