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{{flavour|It deals increased damage compared to normal ammo and substantially increased damage to chaotic and magically transformed beings. It also inflicts extra damage against mutated beings, according to how mutated they are.}}
'''Silver''' is a [[brand]] which does the following:
*Deals an average of +16.6% untyped damage (100% - 133%) to any creature.
*Deals up to +75% untyped damage against [[shapeshifter|shapeshifting]], [[mutation|mutated]], and [[chaotic]] creatures, including players. Against players, the damage scales with how mutated you are - see below for details.

If you are struck by a silver projectile and are especially vulnerable to silver, you will see the message:
{{crawlquote|The silver sears you!}}

Silver can appear on [[javelin]]s and the [[unrand]] [[lajatang of Order]].

==Silver Damage Calculation==
===Chaotic monsters and shapeshifted characters===
If the target is chaotic or shapeshifted, the damage is:
(normal_damage * 7) / 4 [rounded down]
or roughly 175% damage. Unlike most other brands, there's no random component. Although the player can never be chaotic, they do count as shapeshifted while in any [[transformation]].

===Mutated Players===
For non-shapeshifted players who have [[mutation]]s, the damage varies by how much you are mutated. All external sources of mutation count, and for [[demonspawn]], all [[demonspawn mutation]]s count. Otherwise, mutations innate to species (e.g. Octopode tentacles) don't count. The amount of mutations is tallied and converted to damage (max. 15 mutations):

normal_damage * ( 5 * mutations + 100 ) / 100 [rounded down]

The silver damage thus varies from 105% to 175%, for 1 to 15+ mutations. All mutated monsters are considered chaotic, so they'll always get max damage from silver.

===Final Calculation===
Any extra silver damage is then compared to a [[vorpal|random multiplier]] from 100% to 133%. The higher result is applied.

==See Also==
[[:Category:Silver vulnerability|List of silver vulnerable monsters]]

==History==
*Prior to [[0.31]], silver could be found on [[boomerang]]s.
*Prior to [[0.24]], silver only did extra damage to chaotic and mutated creatures, with [[steel]] dealing extra to all monsters.
*Prior to [[0.18]], [[sling bullet]]s and [[bolt]]s could have brands, one of which was silver.
*Prior to [[0.15]], you could find silver [[dart]]s. Additionally, silver ammunition weighed twice as much as regular ammunition.
*The [[lajatang of Order]] was introduced in [[0.14]].
*Prior to [[0.9]], this brand also improved damage vs. corporeal undead monsters.

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