Golem
' Golems are a class of monsters in NetHack. As they are inanimate objects given life, their corpses are sometimes useful or valuable objects, especially in the case of paper and gold golems. Because they are artificial constructs, golems cannot be genocided.
Contents
List of golems
| Symbol | Monster | Corpse[1] | Hit points[2][3] |
|---|---|---|---|
| ' | clay golem | rocks | 50 |
| ' | glass golem | pieces of worthless glass | 60 |
| ' | iron golem | iron chains | 80 |
| ' | leather golem | leather armors | 40 |
| ' | paper golem | scrolls of blank paper | 20 |
| ' | rope golem | (none) | 30 |
| ' | stone golem | statue of a stone golem | 60 |
| ' | straw golem | (none) | 20 |
| ' | wood golem | quarterstaffs | 50 |
| ' | gold golem | gold | 40 |
| ' | flesh golem | flesh golem corpse (edible) | 40 |
Generation
Golems are randomly generated, and an appropriate golem can also arise when trying to polymorph large piles of objects at once. For example, a pile containing many scrolls may become a paper golem, and a pile of rocks may become a clay golem. (Polypiling many bone objects, such as unicorn horns, can produce a skeleton, which is not a golem.)
Stone golems can be created by stoning any of the other golems (e.g. with a cockatrice corpse). Stone golems themselves are stoning resistant, since it would be rather odd if stoning could kill them.
Casting stone to flesh at a stone golem or a statue of any golem will turn it into a flesh golem. Flesh golems are weaker in combat than stone golems, and their corpses can give almost any resistance in the game.
Mythology
Golems are creatures from ancient Jewish folklore. They are not derived from Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. The legendary golem was made of clay, but the word has also been used to describe similar creatures made from other materials.
Although the encyclopedia entry for gold golem describes their mythological counterparts as female, the NetHack monster is neuter.
Variants
SLASH'EM
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SLASH'EM features the following new golems:
| Symbol | Monster | Corpse | Hit points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ' | wax golem | wax candles | 40 |
| ' | plastic golem | credit cards; cheap plastic imitations of the Amulet of Yendor in older versions | 60 |
| ' | ruby golem | rubies | 250 |
| ' | diamond golem | diamonds | 270 |
| ' | sapphire golem | sapphires | 280 |
| ' | steel golem | iron chains | 290 |
| ' | crystal golem | random gems | 300 |
UnNetHack
UnNetHack includes wax golems, as described above.
In addition, the Sheol branch contains two new golem types, the ice golem and the crystal ice golem.
References
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