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* Normally the player must spend [[reputation]], cook with expensive and rare {{favilink|psychal gland paste}}, or just get lucky to find secrets. Trash Divining significantly increases the player's opportunities to find secrets with minimal effort. | * Normally the player must spend [[reputation]], cook with expensive and rare {{favilink|psychal gland paste}}, or just get lucky to find secrets. Trash Divining significantly increases the player's opportunities to find secrets with minimal effort. | ||
* Trash Divining can find high-value secrets like {{favilink|historic sites}}, {{favilink|Stopsvalinn}}, or the location of {{favilink|The Ruin of House Isner}}. | * Trash Divining can find high-value secrets like {{favilink|historic sites}}, {{favilink|Stopsvalinn}}, or the location of {{favilink|The Ruin of House Isner}}. | ||
* Rifling in bulk offsets the low percentage chance. Discover a lot of secrets (and scrap) at places with a lot of trash, like a {{favilink|rusty biome|}} or {{favilink|Golgotha}}. | * Rifling in bulk offsets the low percentage chance. Discover a lot of secrets (and, with Scavenging, scrap) at places with a lot of trash, like a {{favilink|rusty biome|}} or {{favilink|Golgotha}}. | ||
=== Disadvantages === | === Disadvantages === | ||
* The Intelligence requirement (21) is relatively high, so only some builds will have access to it in the early to midgame. | * The Intelligence requirement (21) is relatively high, so only some builds will have access to it in the early to midgame. | ||
* The majority of secrets in the game are of dubious use to the player. Trash Divining is just as likely to reveal the location of a Historic Site as it is to reveal random gossip. | * The majority of secrets in the game are of dubious use to the player. Trash Divining is just as likely to reveal the location of a Historic Site as it is to reveal random gossip. |