# Scroll of magic mapping

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Name

magic mapping

Appearance

random

Base price

100 zm

Weight

5

Ink to write

4-7

Monster use

Will not be used by monsters.

The scroll of magic mapping maps the entire current level, providing the scroll is not cursed, the level is mappable, and you are not confused.
A Tourist will start with four of these scrolls.

Contents

1 Reading effects

1.1 Non-mappable levels

2 Identification
3 Messages
4 Strategy
5 Variants

5.1 UnNetHack
5.2 SLASH'EM

6 See also

Reading effects

Case
Effect

blessed
The whole level is mapped, and secret doors revealed

uncursed
The whole level is mapped

cursed or confused
1/7 of the level's squares are mapped

non-mappable level
You are confused for 1 to 30 (more) turns

Non-mappable levels
Some levels are non-mappable, which will make you confused when you read the scroll of magic mapping on the level and not let you map it. The list is as follows:

One of the mines' end level variants.
The Valley of the Dead
Moloch's Sanctum
The Astral Plane
Identification
This scroll self-identifies when read.

Messages
Your mind is filled with crazy lines!
The level is non-mappable
Your 

<head> spins in bewilderment.
The level is non-mappable, and you are not hallucinating
Wow!  Modern art.
The level is non-mappable, and you are hallucinating
A map coalesces in your mind!
The scroll was non-cursed
A map coalesces in your mind! Unfortunately, you can't grasp the details.
The scroll was cursed
Strategy
Early in the game, these scrolls can be used to navigate dark levels in the Gnomish Mines more easily. They can also be used to find vaults, though a potion of object detection or scroll of gold detection would also work for this purpose.
Later in the game, these scrolls can be used to find the stairs in otherwise time-consuming maze levels, such as the levels beneath Medusa's Island or Gehennom. Since the cost of writing them with a magic marker is low, players often write many scrolls of magic mapping to avoid the tedium of fully exploring each level.

Variants
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack, uncursed scrolls of magic mapping also reveal secret doors. Additionally, blessed scrolls detect objects on the level like uncursed potions of object detection, similar to their effect in SLASH'EM.

SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, reading a blessed scroll of magic mapping will reveal the presence of objects on the level as well, with the same effect as an uncursed potion of object detection.

See also
spellbook of magic mapping

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