Additionally, they can occasionally be polymorphed into more valuable gems if included in a polypile, though it's not worth wasting a wand charge on them. Glass and rocks are relatively worthless, though they can be used for throwing if you should wish to conserve your other attacks. Valuable gems also give score, but as score does not normally matter, this is typically of low importance. Throwing any valuable or worthless gem to a unicorn will pacify them, and will variably raise or lower luck in certain cases.
Valuable gems may also be thrown to a co-aligned unicorn to get a large Luck increase.
However, shopkeepers will always buy unidentified gems as if they are worthless glass, and will always sell unidentified gems as if they are valuable, possibly subject to a further 33% surcharge for being unidentified. Valuable identified gems may be sold for relatively large amounts of money at most general stores, which makes them valuable as a compact form of money. Another type of item that uses the same glyph is the rock, which is handled differently. They come in three varieties: valuable gems, worthless pieces of glass which look similar, and gray stones. In NetHack, gems are simple and typically lightweight items found in the dungeon.
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