Caveman

The caveman is one of the player roles in NetHack. Cavemen can be either lawful or neutral, and can be humans, dwarves or gnomes.

Their special spell is dig. Default starting pet is a little dog called Slasher. Cavemen do not suffer consequences from cannibalism.

Starting inventory

Each caveman starts with the following:

• a +1 club
• a +2 sling
• 10 to 20 flint stones
• 18 to 33 rocks
• a +0 leather armor

Intrinsics

Cavemen gain intrinsics at these experience levels:

• Level 7: speed
• Level 15: warning

Skills

Caveman skills
Max	Skills
Basic	Weapons: dagger, pick-axe, morning star, unicorn horn Spells: attack
Skilled	Weapons: knife, axe, flail, hammer, polearms, trident, bow Spells: matter
Expert	Weapons: club, mace, quarterstaff, spear, sling, boomerang
Master	Combat: bare hands

Quest

Main article: Caveman quest

Strategy

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Encyclopedia entry

Now it was light enough to leave.  Moon-Watcher picked up
the shriveled corpse and dragged it after him as he bent
under the low overhang of the cave.  Once outside, he
threw the body over his shoulder and stood upright - the
only animal in all this world able to do so.
Among his kind, Moon-Watcher was almost a giant.  He was
nearly five feet high, and though badly undernourished
weighed over a hundred pounds.  His hairy, muscular body
was halfway between ape and man, but his head was already
much nearer to man than ape.  The forehead was low, and
there were ridges over the eye sockets, yet he unmistakably
held in his genes the promise of humanity.
        [ 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke ]