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==SLASH'EM==
 
==SLASH'EM==
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In [[SLASH'EM]], your god may give you minions as servants, from [[prayer]], if you are lawful,{{refsrc|pray.c|1203|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}} or [[sacrifice]], for any alignment. Lawfuls may receive [[angelic being]]s or [[tengu]], neutrals may get [[elemental]]s or [[djinni|djinn]], chaotics may get [[demon|major or minor demons]], and any player may receive a [[unicorn]] of his or her alignment. These behave much like [[pet]]s, except that they do not [[eat]] your precious [[corpse]]s, and cannot pick up items, although they will use any in their initial inventory. As minions, they cannot be re-[[tame]]d should they go feral.
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In [[SLASH'EM]], your god may give you minions as servants, from [[prayer]], if you are lawful,{{refsrc|pray.c|1203|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}} or [[sacrifice]], for any alignment. Lawfuls may receive [[angelic being]]s or [[tengu]], neutrals may get [[elemental]]s or [[djinni|djinn]], chaotics may get [[demon|major or minor demons]], and any player may receive a [[unicorn]] of his or her alignment. These behave much like [[pet]]s, except that they do not [[eat]] [[corpse]]s, cannot pick up items (although they will use any in their initial inventory), cannot be [[leash]]ed or [[saddle]]d, and do not turn traitorous. Also, they cannot be re-[[tame]]d should they go feral.
  
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Receiving minions does not increase prayer timeout or reduce the odds of getting artifact gifts. High level lawfuls may receive a minion with a [[Sunsword|guaranteed]] [[Demonbane|artifact weapon]], which will count only as a generated artifact, not a gifted one. Below is a list of possible minions for each alignment at a given level:
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Receiving minions does not increase prayer timeout or reduce the odds of getting artifact gifts. High level lawfuls may receive a minion with [[Sunsword]] or [[Demonbane]], which will count only as a generated [[artifact]], not a gifted one, for future [[sacrifice]] purposes. The minion you receive is a function of your level and the RNG. The following are the probabilities of obtaining each type of minion at each experience level:
  
 
=== Lawful ===
 
=== Lawful ===
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The minion you receive is a function of your level and the RNG. The following are the probabilities of obtaining each type of minion at each experience level:
 
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{|class="prettytable"
 
{|class="prettytable"
 
! Experience level
 
! Experience level
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! [[Tengu]]
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! Minions and probability
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! [[Couatl]]
 
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! [[White unicorn]]
 
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! [[Movanic deva]]
 
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! [[Monadic deva]]
 
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! [[Ki-rin]]
 
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! [[Astral deva]]
 
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! [[Archon]]
 
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! [[Planetar]]
 
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! [[Solar]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
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|1 || 80% || 20% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|1 || [[Tengu]] (80%) or [[couatl]] (20%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|2 || 60% || 40% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|2 || [[Tengu]] (60%) or [[couatl]] (40%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|3 || 40% || 60% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|3 || [[Tengu]] (40%) or [[couatl]] (60%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|4 || 20% || 60% || 20% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|4 || [[Tengu]] (20%), [[couatl]] (60%), or [[white unicorn]] (20%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|5 || nil || 60% || 40% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|5 || [[Couatl]] (60%) or [[white unicorn]] (40%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|6 || nil || 40% || 60% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|6 || [[Couatl]] (40%) or [[white unicorn]] (60%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|7 || nil || 20% || 60% || 20% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|7 || [[Couatl]] (20%), [[white unicorn]] (60%), or [[movanic deva]] (20%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|8 || nil || nil || 60% || 40% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|8 || [[White unicorn]] (60%) or [[movanic deva]] (40%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|9 || nil || nil || 40% || 60% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|9 || [[White unicorn]] (40%) or [[movanic deva]] (60%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|10 || nil || nil || 20% || 60% || 20% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|10 || [[White unicorn]] (20%) or [[movanic deva]] (60%), [[monadic deva]] (20%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|11 || nil || nil || nil || 60% || 40% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|11 || [[Movanic deva]] (60%) or [[monadic deva]] (40%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|12 || nil || nil || nil || 40% || 60% || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|12 || [[Movanic deva]] (40%) or [[monadic deva]] (60%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|13 || nil || nil || nil || 20% || 60% || 20% || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|13 || [[Movanic deva]] (20%), [[monadic deva]] (60%), or [[ki-rin]] (20%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|14 || nil || nil || nil || nil || 60% || 40% || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|14 || [[Monadic deva]] (60%) or [[ki-rin]] (40%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|15 || nil || nil || nil || nil || 40% || 60% || nil || nil || nil || nil
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|15 || [[Monadic deva]] (40%) or [[ki-rin]] (60%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|16 || nil || nil || nil || nil || 20% || 60% || 20% || nil || nil || nil
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|16 || [[Monadic deva]] (20%), [[ki-rin]] (60%), or [[astral deva]] (20%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|17 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 60% || 40% || nil || nil || nil
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|17 || [[Ki-rin]] (60%) or [[astral deva]] (40%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|18 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 40% || 60% || nil || nil || nil
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|18 || [[Ki-rin]] (40%) or [[astral deva]] (60%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|19 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 20% || 60% || 20% || nil || nil
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|19 || [[Ki-rin]] (20%), [[astral deva]] (60%), or [[archon]] (20%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|20 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 60% || 40% || nil || nil
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|20 || [[Astral deva]] (60%) or [[archon]] (40%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|21 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 40% || 60% || nil || nil
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|21 || [[Astral deva]] (40%) or [[archon]] (60%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|22 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 20% || 60% || 20% || nil
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|22 || [[Astral deva]] (20%), [[archon]] (60%), or [[planetar]] (20%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|23 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 60% || 40% || nil
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|23 || [[Archon]] (60%) or [[planetar]] (40%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|24 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 40% || 60%l || nil
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|24 || [[Archon]] (40%) or [[planetar]] (60%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|25 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 20% || 60% || 20%
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|25 || [[Archon]] (20%), [[planetar]] (60%), or [[solar]] (20%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|26 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 60% || 40%
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|26 || [[Planetar]] (60%) or [[solar]] (40%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|27 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 40% || 60%
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|27 || [[Planetar]] (40%) or [[solar]] (60%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|28 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 20% || 80%
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|28 || [[Planetar]] (20%) or [[solar]] (80%)
 
|-
 
|-
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|29-30 || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || nil || 100%
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|29-30 [[Solar]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
  
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Note than minions cannot be ridden, won't wear or use magic items, and won't pick up or equip weapons or armor they are not generated with.
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Lawfuls have an overwhelming advantage in terms of minions, as they have much easier access to minions (through prayer) and gain significantly stronger minions. A level 1 lawful character can deliberately wound himself by throwing a weapon up, praying after turn 300, and have a 13% chance of getting a tame couatl - a monster with a poisonous bite and +1 enchantment resistance. At level 11 there is a 100% chance of getting a Deva, with a 1 in 4 chance of carrying a [[shield of reflection]] (the Deva can be easily killed by bringing it near the [[Oracle]]). Playing as a lawful thus makes a pacifist game much easier, as you have easy access to tame tengu (which are about as damaging as dogs) and possibly a couatl, and by the endgame can have a retinue of [[Archon]]s, [[Planetar]]s, and [[Solar]]s which will make the [[Astral plane]] a breeze.
  
 
=== Neutral ===
 
=== Neutral ===
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A Djinni will not grant a wish, but will increase the djinni count,{{fact}} lowering the chance of a djinni appearing from a smoky potion. Djinn are capable of using weapons but are not created with weapons,{{fact}} and cannot pick up weapons themselves.
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At early levels, an elemental minion can be a significant boon, but by the mid-game, neutral minions tend to be too weak to bother keeping around. Unfortunately, getting a djinni as a minion will not give you a chance at a wish, but will increase the djinni count, lowering the chance of a djinni appearing from a [[smoky potion]]. Since minions cannot pickup weapons, and djinni are not created with weapons, your djinni will be limited in combat compared to one obtained through other means.
  
 
=== Chaotic ===
 
=== Chaotic ===
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Note: random [[i]] gives an equal probability of: [[Dretch]], [[Imp]], [[Lemure]], [[Quasit]], [[rutterkin]]
 
Note: random [[i]] gives an equal probability of: [[Dretch]], [[Imp]], [[Lemure]], [[Quasit]], [[rutterkin]]
  
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Most of the demons can be obtained through demon gating instead. The only advantage to having a minion is that it will not turn traitor, as almost all of the chaotic minions could potentially do (especially as most are inediate). They're available sooner this way; a pet marilith can be obtained by a doppelganger by level 7 using demon gating and #youpoly. It'll also be able to pick up and wield weapons. Most of the chaotic minions are not useful by the time you are high enough level to obtain them as a gift.
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Chaotic minions don't tend to be useful past the early game, where a [[black unicorn]], [[quasit]], or [[shadow wolf]] is an advantage in melee for weaker fighting roles. Most of the demons can be obtained through demon gating instead. They're available sooner this way; a pet marilith can be obtained by a doppelganger by level 7 using demon gating and #youpoly. It'll also be able to pick up and wield weapons. Most of the chaotic minions are not useful by the time you are high enough level to obtain them as a gift. The only advantage to having a minion is that it will not turn traitor, as almost all of the chaotic minions could potentially do (especially as most are inediate).
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Lawfuls clearly have an overwhelming advantage in terms of minions, as they have much easier access to minions (through prayer) and gain significantly stronger minions. A level 1 lawful character can deliberately wound himself by throwing a weapon up, praying after turn 300, and have a 13% chance of getting a tame couatl - a monster with a poisonous bite and +1 enchantment resistance. At level 11 there is a 100% chance of getting a Deva, with a 1 in 4 chance of carrying a [[shield of reflection]] (The Deva can be easily killed by bringing it near the [[Oracle]]. Movanic devas are nearly useless against fire resistant enemies, so killing them for the shield may be the best use for them if you don't have reflection.) Playing as a lawful is thus surprisingly useful for a potential pacifist game, as you have easy access to tame tengu (which are about as damaging as dogs) and possibly a couatl. By the time you encounter [[gypsy|gypsies]], you may use the Lovers card to get a large number of [[foocubus|foocubi]] to gain levels, which is good as the prayer reward of hitting level 29 (66% chance of receiving a Solar if below 1/7 hp) is extremely useful for clearing out hostiles - just raise hp past 700 through alchemy (being level 29/30 will certainly help) and dance with a minotaur. A minotaur does up to 76 damage per turn, so it should always be safe to drop below 100.
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 14:10, 7 June 2013

A minion is a monster serving some god:

A minion only appears in certain situations, most of which involve you and an altar. The source code in minion.c controls the generation of minions.

A hostile minion can appear in these situations:

  • If you try to convert an altar (regardless if you succeed) and your experience level is at least 7 and also your alignment record close to its maximum, then there is a chance that "The voice of (altar's god before conversion) booms: "Thou shalt pay for thy indescretion!"" and a minion appears.[1][2]
  • If the god is annoyed with you (easiest to cause by using #pray too much or with the wrong god), then one of the possible responses is "Thou durst scorn (or call upon) me? Then, die mortal (or creature)!" at which point the god summons one minion against you. The god must be very angry to do this, and this is just short of the most severe penalty of lightning and disintegration.[3]
  • At and only at the sanctum or Astral Plane, if the god is so angry as to zap you with lightning, then hit you with the wide-angle disintegration beam, and yet you still live (and are not still swallowed by some monster), then the god will summon three minions against you.[4] One way to trigger this is to attempt to convert a high altar.[5]

The tame guardian angel you can get on the Astral Plane counts as a minion.

SLASH'EM

In SLASH'EM, your god may give you minions as servants, from prayer, if you are lawful,[6] or sacrifice, for any alignment. Lawfuls may receive angelic beings or tengu, neutrals may get elementals or djinn, chaotics may get major or minor demons, and any player may receive a unicorn of his or her alignment. These behave much like pets, except that they do not eat corpses, cannot pick up items (although they will use any in their initial inventory), cannot be leashed or saddled, and do not turn traitorous. Also, they cannot be re-tamed should they go feral.

Receiving minions does not increase prayer timeout or reduce the odds of getting artifact gifts. High level lawfuls may receive a minion with Sunsword or Demonbane, which will count only as a generated artifact, not a gifted one, for future sacrifice purposes. The minion you receive is a function of your level and the RNG. The following are the probabilities of obtaining each type of minion at each experience level:

Lawful

Experience level Minions and probability
1 Tengu (80%) or couatl (20%)
2 Tengu (60%) or couatl (40%)
3 Tengu (40%) or couatl (60%)
4 Tengu (20%), couatl (60%), or white unicorn (20%)
5 Couatl (60%) or white unicorn (40%)
6 Couatl (40%) or white unicorn (60%)
7 Couatl (20%), white unicorn (60%), or movanic deva (20%)
8 White unicorn (60%) or movanic deva (40%)
9 White unicorn (40%) or movanic deva (60%)
10 White unicorn (20%) or movanic deva (60%), monadic deva (20%)
11 Movanic deva (60%) or monadic deva (40%)
12 Movanic deva (40%) or monadic deva (60%)
13 Movanic deva (20%), monadic deva (60%), or ki-rin (20%)
14 Monadic deva (60%) or ki-rin (40%)
15 Monadic deva (40%) or ki-rin (60%)
16 Monadic deva (20%), ki-rin (60%), or astral deva (20%)
17 Ki-rin (60%) or astral deva (40%)
18 Ki-rin (40%) or astral deva (60%)
19 Ki-rin (20%), astral deva (60%), or archon (20%)
20 Astral deva (60%) or archon (40%)
21 Astral deva (40%) or archon (60%)
22 Astral deva (20%), archon (60%), or planetar (20%)
23 Archon (60%) or planetar (40%)
24 Archon (40%) or planetar (60%)
25 Archon (20%), planetar (60%), or solar (20%)
26 Planetar (60%) or solar (40%)
27 Planetar (40%) or solar (60%)
28 Planetar (20%) or solar (80%)
29-30 Solar

Lawfuls have an overwhelming advantage in terms of minions, as they have much easier access to minions (through prayer) and gain significantly stronger minions. A level 1 lawful character can deliberately wound himself by throwing a weapon up, praying after turn 300, and have a 13% chance of getting a tame couatl - a monster with a poisonous bite and +1 enchantment resistance. At level 11 there is a 100% chance of getting a Deva, with a 1 in 4 chance of carrying a shield of reflection (the Deva can be easily killed by bringing it near the Oracle). Playing as a lawful thus makes a pacifist game much easier, as you have easy access to tame tengu (which are about as damaging as dogs) and possibly a couatl, and by the endgame can have a retinue of Archons, Planetars, and Solars which will make the Astral plane a breeze.

Neutral

The following are the probabilities of each type of minion by experience level:

Experience level Gray unicorn Random elemental Djinni
1-2 100% nil nil
3 89% 11% nil
4 78% 22% nil
5 67% 33% nil
6 56% 44% nil
7 44% 56% nil
8 33% 67% nil
9 22% 78% nil
10 11% 89% nil
11 nil 89% 11%
12 78% 78% 22%
13 78% 67% 33%
14 78% 56% 44%
15 78% 44% 56%
16 78% 33% 67%
17 nil 22% 78%
18 nil 11% 89%
19-30 nil nil 100%

At early levels, an elemental minion can be a significant boon, but by the mid-game, neutral minions tend to be too weak to bother keeping around. Unfortunately, getting a djinni as a minion will not give you a chance at a wish, but will increase the djinni count, lowering the chance of a djinni appearing from a smoky potion. Since minions cannot pickup weapons, and djinni are not created with weapons, your djinni will be limited in combat compared to one obtained through other means.

Chaotic

A chaotic minion will be chosen according to the probabilities given below:

Experience level Minions and probability
0 Gremlin (60%) or random i* (40%)
1 Gremlin (40%) or random i* (60%)
2 Gremlin (20%), random i* (60%), or black unicorn (20%)
4 random i* (60%), black unicorn (20%) or blood imp (20%)
5 random i* (40%), black unicorn (20%), or blood imp (40%)
6 random i* (20%), black unicorn (20%), blood imp (40%), or spined devil (20%)
7 black unicorn (20%), blood imp (40%), spined devil (20%), or shadow wolf (20%)
8 blood imp (40%), spined devil (20%), or shadow wolf (40%)
9 blood imp (20%), spined devil (20%), or shadow wolf (40%), hell hound (20%)
10 spined devil (20%), shadow wolf (40%), hell hound (20%), or horned devil (20%)
11 shadow wolf (40%), hell hound (20%), or horned devil (40%)
12 shadow wolf (20%), hell hound (20%), horned devil (40%), or bearded devil (20%)
13 hell hound (20%), horned devil (40%), bearded devil (20%), or bar-lgura (20%)
14 horned devil (40%), bearded devil (20%), or bar-lgura (40%)
15 horned devil (20%), bearded devil (20%), bar-lgura (40%), or chasme (20%)
16 bearded devil (20%), bar-lgura (40%), chasme (20%), or barbed devil (20%)
17 bar-lgura (40%), chasme (20%), or barbed devil (40%)
18 bar-lgura (20%), chasme (20%), barbed devil (40%), or vrock (20%)
19 chasme (20%), barbed devil (40%), vrock (20%), or babau (20%)
20 barbed devil (40%), vrock (20%), or babau (40%)
21 barbed devil (20%), vrock (20%), babau (40%), or nalfeshnee (20%)
22 vrock (20%), babau (40%), nalfeshnee (20%), or marilith (20%)
23 babau (40%), nalfeshnee (20%), or marilith (40%)
24 babau (20%), nalfeshnee (20%), marilith (40%), or nabassu (20%)
25 nalfeshnee (20%), marilith (40%), nabassu (20%), or bone devil (20%)
26 marilith (40%), nabassu (20%), or bone devil (40%)
27 marilith (20%), nabassu (20%), bone devil (40%), or ice devil (20%)
28 nabassu (20%), bone devil (40%), ice devil (20%), or pit fiend (20%)
29 bone devil (40%), ice devil (20%), or pit fiend (40%)
30 bone devil (20%), ice devil (20%), or pit fiend (60%)

Note: random i gives an equal probability of: Dretch, Imp, Lemure, Quasit, rutterkin

Chaotic minions don't tend to be useful past the early game, where a black unicorn, quasit, or shadow wolf is an advantage in melee for weaker fighting roles. Most of the demons can be obtained through demon gating instead. They're available sooner this way; a pet marilith can be obtained by a doppelganger by level 7 using demon gating and #youpoly. It'll also be able to pick up and wield weapons. Most of the chaotic minions are not useful by the time you are high enough level to obtain them as a gift. The only advantage to having a minion is that it will not turn traitor, as almost all of the chaotic minions could potentially do (especially as most are inediate).

References

  1. ↑ pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1396
  2. ↑ pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1408
  3. ↑ pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 599
  4. ↑ god_zaps_you in pray.c
  5. ↑ pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1324
  6. ↑ pray.c in SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2, line 1203
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