Editing Final Descent Manipulation (section)

===Stone Manipulation===
Manipulating Stone is significantly easier than manipulating List, as Stone is set at only three points throughout the game: Squats, the Shinra Elevator, and digging at Bone Village.

====via Bone Village====
When the game fades out and loads the digging version of Bone Village, Stone is set based on the current [[In-Game Time]]. Using this, Stone can be set relatively easily and relatively quickly to any value without resetting the game.

More specifically, Stone is set to <code>16 * (s mod 16) + 1</code> where <code>s</code> is the current IGT seconds value (out of the current minute, from 0-59).
{| class="wikitable"
|+Stone by IGT Second on fadeout
!1
!17
!33
!49
!65
!81
!97
!113
!127
!143
!161
!177
!193
!209
!225
!241

|-
|0
|1
|2
|3
|4
|5
|6
|7
|8
|9
|10
|11
|12
|13
|14
|15
|-
|16
|17
|18
|19
|20
|21
|22
|23
|24
|25
|26
|27
|28
|29
|30
|31
|-
|32
|33
|34
|35
|36
|37
|38
|39
|40
|41
|42
|43
|44
|45
|46
|47
|-
|48
|49
|50
|51
|52
|53
|54
|55
|56
|57
|58
|59
| colspan="4" |
|}
This method is used to set Stone to 49 in [[Any%]] and [[Any% No Slots|No Slots]], and 177 in [[No Major Skips]]. 

====via Hard Reset====
Hard Resetting the game (with the Power Button on PSX or by closing and re-opening the game on PC or HD) will set the Stone value to 1. This is good since you can consistently set the game to a known stone value (and List is also set), however hard resetting takes significant time (especially on PSX). Stone 1 is also mediocre, as despite it having a low maximum number of encounters at 6, it cannot produce a 0-encounter descent.