Human mummy

M human mummy
Difficulty	7
Attacks	Claw 2d4, Claw 2d4

M human mummy
Difficulty	7
Attacks	Claw 2d4, Claw 2d4
Base level	6
Base experience	73
Speed	12
Base AC	4
Base MR	30
Alignment	−5 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	200
Size	Medium
Resistances	Cold, Sleep, Poison
Resistances conveyed	None
A human mummy: does not breathe. is mindless. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is undead. is normally generated hostile. has infravision. can leave an old human corpse.
Reference	monst.c#line1703

A human mummy, M, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. It is a mummified human that is among the faster mummies you can encounter.

A human mummy has two claw attacks.

Generation

Randomly-generated human mummies are always hostile.

Human mummies are the sole quest monster for Archeologists, and makes up ²⁴⁄₁₇₅ of the monsters that are randomly generated on the Archeologist quest. Several human mummies are also generated on floors below the home level of the Archeologist quest branch at level creation: one is generated on each of the filler levels, seven are placed randomly on the locate level, and eight are placed randomly on the goal level. Human mummies may also appear among the mummies that are part of the second quest monster class, and makes up ⁶⁄₁₇₅ of the monsters that are randomly generated there.

Human mummies have a ⁶⁄₇ chance of being generated with a mummy wrapping.

A human mummy leaves behind an aged human corpse upon death.

History

The human mummy first appears in NetHack 3.0.0, where most of the various mummies are introduced.

Variants

SLASH'EM

In SLASH'EM, the human mummy is also the first quest monster for Undead Slayers, and makes up ⁹⁶⁄₁₇₅ of the monsters that are randomly generated on the Undead Slayer quest. Human mummies are also generated on some of the floors of the quest branch at level creation: four are randomly generated on the upper filler level, three are randomly generated on the lower filler level(s), and six are randomly generated on the goal level. Human mummies may also appear among the mummies that are part of the first quest monster class and make up ²⁴⁄₁₇₅ of the monsters that are randomly generated there.

dNetHack

In dNetHack, human mummies are stronger and can inflict mummy curses on whoever kills them.

xNetHack

In xNetHack, human mummies can inflict withering with their melee attacks.

EvilHack

In EvilHack, human mummies can also inflict withering with their melee attacks.

Encyclopedia entry

But for an account of the manner in which the body was
bandaged, and a list of the unguents and other materials
employed in the process, and the words of power which were
spoken as each bandage was laid in its place, we must have
recourse to a very interesting papyrus which has been edited
and translated by M. Maspero under the title of Le Rituel de
l'Embaumement. ...
Everything that could be done to preserve the body was now
done, and every member of it was, by means of the words of
power which changed perishable substances into imperishable,
protected to all eternity; when the final covering of purple
or white linen had been fastened upon it, the body was ready
for the tomb.

[ Egyptian Magic, by E.A. Wallis Budge ]