Conservation

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The conservation intrinsic reduces the chance of losing your scrolls, potions, or food to special enemy attacks by 90%. There are three sources of conservation:

• Amulet of conservation
• Cloak of preservation
• Maxwell's Patent Armour

There are also two sources of item protection that are similar to conservation, but function separately. Both stack with conservation.

• Followers of Jiyva gain an alternative version of conservation that has a success rate based on piety and protects against attacks that normal conservation does not affect.
• Demonspawn can gain a demonspawn mutation that protects their scrolls or their potions 90% of the time. Lava orcs start with the version that protects scrolls.

Warning

Note that standard conservation does not affect a harpy's food-destroying attacks. Only Jiyva can help you there.