Dwarvish spear
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| Name | dwarvish spear |
| Appearance | stout spear |
| Damage vs. small | 1d8 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d8 |
| To-hit bonus | +0 |
| Weapon skill | spear |
| Size | one-handed |
| Base price | 3 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Weight | 35 |
| Material | iron |
A dwarvish spear is a type of weapon that appears in NetHack. It is a one-handed weapon that uses the spear skill and is made of iron, and appears as a stout spear when unidentified.
Contents
Generation
Dwarven characters start the game with knowledge of the dwarvish spear. Any dwarven character that would start the game with a spear will start with a dwarvish spear instead - currently, there are no applicable roles where this substitution occurs.[1]
Dwarvish spears make up about 1.2% of randomly generated weapons. In addition to random generation, weapon shops and general stores can stock dwarvish spears.
Live dwarves that are generated with a dwarvish short sword have an effective 1⁄4 chance of generating with a dwarvish spear.[2]
Player monsters, including those generated on the Astral Plane, have a 3⁄290 chance (just above 1%) of being generated with a stack of 1-5 dwarvish spears as their initial weapon before role-based replacements.[3]
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that it is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate this information.
Dwarven Valkyries start the game with a +1 dwarvish spear, making use of the existing racial substitution.Strategy
The dwarvish spear is the strongest among spear weapons, dealing damage on par with a scimitar, elven short sword or a silver saber against non-silver haters - it is slightly heavier than a regular spear. Cavepeople that happen upon a dwarvish spear can use it as a solid melee weapon, and can collect more to use as a multishot-compatible projectile, though a stack of dwarvish spears can become heavy quickly.
History
The dwarvish spear first appears in NetHack 3.0.0.
Variants
SporkHack
In SporkHack, the base item of Dragonbane is changed from a broadsword to a dwarvish spear. It has +d5 to-hit and +d4 damage, confers all dragon-based resistances while wielded, and has a 1⁄2 chance of instantly slaying any dragon it hits.
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack, Dragonbane is a dwarvish spear as in SporkHack and behaves mostly the same, except that its instakill chance is reduced to 1⁄5, and wielding it also grants warning of dragons.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, the dwarvish spear deals d10 damage to all monsters and can be thrown without any to-hit penalty.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, a dwarvish spear can be created at a forge by combining a spear and 2 arrows; a dwarvish spear can be combined with a short sword to create a dwarvish short sword.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, upgrading a dwarvish spear will produce an orcish spear, and upgrading an elven spear will produce a dwarven spear.
In addition to EvilHack forging recipes, a dwarvish spear can be combined with a flail to create an akyls.
References
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 224: Race-based substitutions for initial dwarf inventory
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 378: 1⁄2 chance not to generate with a dwarvish mattock, followed by 1⁄2 chance at a spear
- ↑ src/mplayer.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 155: 1⁄2 to get a random weapon - the designated range of objects covers weapons from the spear to the bullwhip inclusively in objects.c, and uses normal generation odds
