Dungeon Thieving

Dungeon Thieving (also called Monster Stealing or Creature Stealing) is a high-level use of the Stealing skill. A trained thief can lift a single special item directly off a living creature in a Felucca dungeon, in a Champion Spawn region, or off an Exodus Zealot anywhere.

• Stealing skill of at least 100.0.
• Standard Stealing prerequisites still apply: both hands free, a backpack, line of sight to the target, and so on. These are checked before the dungeon-thieving branch runs.

• The target must be a creature.
• The creature must not already have been stolen from. If it has, you see: “That creature has already been stolen from. There is nothing left to steal.” (cliloc 1094948).
• Tamed and summoned creatures cannot be stolen from. Attempting it returns “You can't steal from this.” (cliloc 502708).

At least one of the following must be true:

• You are in Felucca and standing inside a dungeon region, or
• You are inside a Champion Spawn region, or
• The target is an Exodus Zealot (location does not matter in this case).

If none of these conditions hold, the attempt silently fails: no message is sent and the creature is not marked as stolen from, so you can try again elsewhere or on a valid target.

When all eligibility checks pass, the game rolls a percentage chance (1-100) against the sum of two bonuses: one from your Stealing skill and one from the creature's fame.

The creature's fame is clamped to the range [1, 30000], then converted to a “level” via the formula:

level = (int)(40.0 / 29999.0 * fame - 40.0 / 29999.0)

The resulting level grants:

The chance is the sum of the skill bonus and the fame bonus. With maximum skill (120.0) and maximum fame (30000), the cap is 15 percent per attempt. A creature with fame below the threshold for any level bonus contributes nothing.

On a successful roll you see: “You successfully steal a special item from the creature!” (cliloc 1094947) and an item appears in your backpack.

If the target is an Exodus Zealot, the item is rolled uniformly from this table:

For all other valid creatures, the item is rolled uniformly from this table:

On a failed roll no message is sent and no item is granted. Either way - success or failure - the creature is permanently marked as stolen from for the rest of its life, so you only get one shot per creature instance. There is no stat loss, no guard call, no criminal flag, and no reveal penalty beyond the standard Stealing reveal that occurs before the roll.

• Required skill: 100.0 Stealing minimum; 120.0 Stealing gives the maximum bonus.
• Per-attempt cap: 15% (at 120 Stealing against a maximum-fame creature).
• Each creature can be stolen from exactly once.
• Valid locations: Felucca dungeons, Champion Spawn regions, or any Exodus Zealot.
• Tamed and summoned creatures are excluded.