Point Swap

Point Swap
The Thousand-Year Door description	Swaps your partner's HP and FP. (Cannot exceed max.) (GCN) Swaps a party member's HP and FP. (Cannot exceed max.) (Switch)

Point Swaps are items found in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. They are commonly sold at the Glitzville souvenir shop for five coins each. When used, this item will allow Mario or his partner to switch their HP and FP. This does not allow either stat to exceed its normal maximum; any points in excess of the maximum are simply lost. Using a Point Swap when FP is 0 will successfully reduce the target's HP to 0, and apply whatever consequences normally occur.

Cooking a Point Swap with another item has various results. For restoration items, an HP-restoring item will usually turn into an FP-restoring item of the same amount and vice versa. For attack and status items, the result is often an item that is conceptually the reverse or opposite of the first item, and again is usually reversible. Point Swap recipes are not recorded in the Recipes journal except for those that create Poison Mushrooms.

A list of reversible Point Swap recipes is as follows:

Item 1	↔	Item 2
Mushroom		Honey Syrup
Super Mushroom		Maple Syrup
Ultra Mushroom		Jammin' Jelly
Fire Flower		Ice Storm
Tasty Tonic		Sleepy Sheep
Earth Quake		Thunder Bolt
Power Punch		Mini Mr. Mini
Mr. Softener		Courage Shell
Repel Cape		Boo's Sheet
Spite Pouch		Ruin Powder
Thunder Rage		Shooting Star

A list of non-reversible Point Swap recipes is as follows:

Original item	→	Resulting item
Volt Mushroom	→	Super Mushroom
Life Mushroom	→	Super Mushroom
Slow Mushroom	→	Poison Mushroom
Dried Mushroom	→	Mushroom
Poison Mushroom	→	Mushroom (International) Ultra Mushroom (Japan)
Gold Bar	→	Mushroom
Gold Bar x3	→	Gold Bar
Gradual Syrup	→	Honey Syrup

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	イレカエール[?] Irekaēru	Stylization of「入れ替える」(irekaeru, "to replace")
Chinese (simplified)	调换[?] Diàohuàn	Swap
Chinese (traditional)	調換[?] Diàohuàn	Swap
French	Échange[?]	Exchange
German	Punktetausch[?]	Point Exchange
Italian	Permutante[?]	Pun on permutate which is a verb word for exchange
Korean	포인트스왑[?] Pointeu Seuwap	Point Swap
Spanish	Cambiapuntos[?]	Point Swapper

Trivia

• Point Swap recipes mentioned in the "Special Final Issue!" section of the final RDM email were removed from the original English version of the game.