Fire helmet
| [ fire helmet | |
|---|---|
| Appearance | red shiny helmet |
| Slot | helm |
| AC | 1 |
| Special | fire resistance |
| Base price | 50 zm |
| Weight | 50 |
| Material | iron |
A fire helmet is part of the starting inventory for the Firefighter role in SLASHTHEM. An early item with this description appears in SLASH 6, although the Firefighter role is not present.
It has the unidentified appearance "red shiny helmet" and is made of iron. When worn, it confers fire resistance.
Strategy
The Firefighter's starting fire helmet is probably not worth keeping for the entire game, as it has a base AC of just 1 and the extrinsic it confers isn't even necessary to Firefighters, who already have intrinsic fire resistance. Other roles who do not have innate fire resistance probably won't need it either, since the intrinsic is easy to obtain by eating corpses or getting crowned. Players attempting a foodless, crownless run might want to hold on to any fire helmets they find, if they have not found any other sources of fire resistance, but most of the time they will probably want to wear a helm of brilliance or helm of telepathy instead, if they can find one of those.
As a hard hat, though, the helmet offers good protection from falling rocks and piercers, so Firefighters may want to hold on to it until they find a better choice of helms, like a dwarvish iron helm from the Mines.
The extrinsics provided by the SLASHTHEM quest artifact, the Fire Chief Helmet, possibly compensate for the weakness of its base item.
References
- SLASH 6 objects.c line 252
- SLASHTHEM u_init.c line 265
