How is the inventory of a spouse's shop determined?

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Since I married Mjoll the Lioness recently she's set up shop in my home and it seems like the merchandise she sells varies greatly depending her current location/actual inventory. I traded her things like dragon scales/materials and checked her shop to find those materials listed there as well.

If this is the case, I guess my real question is are the items that are listed in her store my items? and will they ever be sold or "disappear" somehow without my consent or knowledge? I really don't want to find out that valuable items/weapons/armor I spent a long time acquiring ended up being the "deal of the week."

TL;DR Are items in my spouse's shop mine and will they ever be sold against my will?

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If your spouse was a merchant before you married them, they will sell the same goods they would normally. If not, they will sell pawnbroker-type goods and (reportedly) loose items you leave in their inventory. They will not sell items you leave around the house.

Their inventory "refreshes" like other shopkeeper inventories, so don't sell them something you are planning to buy back later.

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Which treasure items can I sell to unlock more items and how do I obtain them?

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In Grace's accepted answer here it's mentioned that selling certain Treasure items will unlock new items in both shops. Since I want to make sure that I have the best equipment available before I try to complete both the game's story and the survival dungeon, I'm curious: which Treasure items can I sell to unlock more stuff to buy, and how do I obtain them?

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There is a small handful of items that you can only acquire if you sell the right Treasure. These are sold in the small shop at the Familiar Forest. You only need to sell them to either shop, and it'll be available. I'm not sure about the need to sell more than one version of any particular item. If the name is in quotation marks, I haven't quite gotten it in the English version so I don't know the English name.

• Poison Crystal - Requires a King Insect's Shell, Toothpicks, and Honey. It's a Crystal that adds poison to your attacks.
• Blazing Charm - Requires Gunpowder and a Water Mushroom. It gives magic defense like an Amulet, but it also reduces Fire damage even further.
• "Earth Shield" - Requires a King Insect's Shell, Slime Liver, and a Shark Fin. It's similar to the Blazing Charm, except its a defense shield and it applies to Earth damage.
• "Dragon Buster" - Requires a "King Insect's Shell", a Wyvern Horn, and a Broken Seal. It's a 70 ATK gauntlet item with a fancy name!
• "Some Manner of Music Device" - Requires the Gold Wyvern Horn. It unlocks the section of the Jukebox Mode pertaining to the last level and the ending.

All of these treasure are drops from monsters. Unless stated otherwise, it will drop like any other kind of treasure and you need to pick it up.

• King Insect's Shell - may drop from the King Insects in the "Insect King's Nest" stage. Automatically gotten on kill, you don't need to pick it up.
• Honey - may drop from a Beehive. Automatically gotten on kill, you don't need to pick it up.
• Wyvern Horn - may drop from the Aeolian Wyvern. You'll be making a lot of attempts to get this one. The Golden Version is acquired at the end of the Survival Dungeon.
• Toothpicks - may drop from Hedgehogs
• Broken Seal - may drop from Ghosts, large or otherwise
• Slime Liver - may drop from Slimes, large or otherwise
• Shark Fin - may drop from Fish enemies
• Gunpowder - may drop from Bombs
• Water Mushroom - may drop from Mushrooms

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Turning off new shop in heroes of newerth

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When I use setsave cg_usenewshop2 false, the old shop comes back, but the new shop is still there as well. The result is an abomination where the old shop overlays the new shop. It's pretty annoying. How can I turn off the new shop?

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Put the line "cg_usenewshop2" in the appropriate .cfg file, it should be located in My Documents/Heroes of Newerth.

setsave should do exactly this, but it's possible that you have your .cfg file in read-only mode which would prevent it from being edited. You might have to change this (right click-->properties-->uncheck Read-Only) to edit the file, too.

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