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Revision as of 20:40, 13 December 2022
Gold is a material that appears in NetHack. It is an inherently erosion-proofed type of metal.
There are few items made of gold in the game outside of the gold pieces used as currency for zorkmids - rings with the randomized appearance of "gold ring" are made of gold, as is the Candelabrum of Invocation; spellbooks with the randomized appearance of "gold spellbook" are still made of paper like most others. Metallivores can eat any gold item minus the Candelabrum, and polypiling enough gold items may create a gold golem.
A noncursed scroll of gold detection will reveal all gold pieces and gold golems on the level; a blessed scroll will additionally detect other items made of gold.
Strategy
Eating gold tends to occur in the form of rock moles eating any gold they encounter while tunneling through the dungeon, and later xorns doing the same while phasing; while eating gold coins has no real application, eating gold rings can be a factor in eating jewelry while polymorphed into a metallivore.
Variants
Variants often add other items made of gold, and the object materials system used in many variants incorporates gold as a potential material for metallic objects.
Monster interactions with gold are also altered depending on the variant:
- Leprechauns and other monsters with gold-based attacks can target items made of gold as well as the player's money.
- Croesus is often given a set of gold armor, sometimes with a gold weapon to boot.
- Gold golems may drop other items made of gold alongside gold coins upon death.
GruntHack
In GruntHack, iron objects including those of dwarvish make have a very rare chance to be made of gold, as do elven weapons and shields. Gold is a heavy material and tends to be impractical as armor - gold armor has 2 less AC compared to its iron counterparts (minimum 0).
xNetHack
In xNetHack, gold is similarly heavy, with 50% more weight compared to iron, and gives 2 less AC as armor - however, blunt weapons made of gold gain a +2 damage bonus. Itlachiayaque, the Archeologist quest artifact for the variant, is a gold shield of reflection; Sunsword has its base material changed to gold. Two new randomized appearances for wands, the "gold wand" and the "gilded wand", are composed of gold.
Leprechauns are capable of stealing any item that is made of gold in addition to your money. Croesus will always generate with a gold two-handed sword and gold body armor - the armor has a 1⁄8 to be plate mail, and will otherwise be chain mail.[1]
Blessed thiefstones are capable of "stealing" gold coins and other items made of gold and teleporting them to a "stash" square if you apply or rub one against them. They can also teleport gold golems to their keyed square if you hit them with a blessed thiefstone in melee or by throwing one at them - this includes you if you rub it on your hand while in the form of a gold golem.
SlashTHEM
In SlashTHEM, goldbugs can eat any gold objects in your inventory using their bite attack.
