Loot

You may find items in a dungeon that have special names such as in picture to the right.

There are many magical properties in Hack/Mine. Each property has both a suffix and a prefix tied to it, though only one is selected when applying it to an item.

Magical Items
Magical items are the most common loot to drop in Hack/Mine, their names displayed in green. The game picks one or two magical properties, then applies them to the given item, along with their corresponding name components. Magical properties may be bonuses to stats, resistances, damage, and even curses (displayed in red).

Unique Items
Unique items are the rarest type of drop, their names having a golden hue, and are each customly created by the developers. Some Uniques feature their own texture (the "Brony Maker" being a prime example), and most have a hue unassociated with any elemental properties attached to it. Unique items are substantially better than any magical item of the same level. Some have especially odd properties, aiming to introduce an interesting mechanic for the user to experiment with.

Rare items (see above) can be and are often confused for being unique ones. Below is a comparison of a rare item and the unique Little Bow Peep.



Note that the rare item has a gold coloration to its name, while Little Bow Peep has a less saturated gold, almost tan color. Also, Little Bow Peep has grey flavor text below the magic powers, while rare items lack this. (Not all unique items have flavor text, but most do, so this is a good way to pick them out.)

Loot Dropping Mechanics
At the moment, the only change in mob drops contingent on the player is a chance to drop arrows when the mob is slain by someone currently wielding a bow. Incidentally, you can beat the arrows out of a mob with your bow, though it might take you forever.

Note that this applies to using abilities as well, and that certain abilities such as a warrior's whirlwind ignore the fact that bows and wands normally deal 1 damage as melee. This results in warriors with high dexterity levels wielding a bow being able to use whirlwind and receive arrows, as well as warriors with high intelligence being able to whirlwind with a wand for extreme glass-cannon damage.

Weapon bonuses
Put the prefixes and suffixes that you find on the Magical Items page.

Don't forget to add their bonuses!

Multi-Stat Enhancement
Some properties add a certain amount of points to all five stats, but are treated as a single property. For example at max tier, this would mean +8 to all, as compared to +12 in a single category. This results in the highest possible tier at legendary level defensive items often having +20 to three stats and +8 to the other two, as one of the four stats is one of these omni-buffs.

Coins
Main Page Currency 

Monsters also have a chance to drop coins which can then be traded with villagers as of v0.6. Items get better the higher the level the village is in, and costs more.