Short sword
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| Name | short sword |
| Appearance | short sword |
| Damage vs. small | 1d6 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d8 |
| To-hit bonus | +0 |
| Weapon skill | short sword |
| Size | one-handed |
| Base price | 10 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Weight | 30 |
| Material | iron |
A short sword is a type of weapon that appears in NetHack. It is made of iron, and Samurai know the weapon as a wakizashi.
Contents
Generation
Human Barbarians have a 1⁄2 chance of starting the game with a short sword as their one-handed weapon.[1] Rogues start the game with a short sword as their primary weapon, and Samurai start the game with a short sword as their offhand weapon.[2][3]
The short sword makes up about 0.8% of randomly generated weapons.
- Watchmen and Yendorian army soldiers in the [4] and skeletons[5] may be generated with a short sword.
- Ninja (on the Samurai quest) have a chance of getting a wakizashi.[6]
- Player monster rogues, such as Pug on the Wizard quest, may be generated with a short sword.[7]
Short sword skill
| Short sword | |
|---|---|
| Max | Role |
| Basic | |
| Skilled | |
| Expert | |
The following weapons use the short sword skill:
- short sword
- dwarvish short sword
- elven short sword
- orcish short sword
All short swords weigh 30 aum and have a base price of 10 zorkmids. There are no artifact short swords.
History
The short sword first appears in NetHack 1.3d, which introduces the Samurai, Elf and Ninja roles. From this version to NetHack 2.3e, all Elves start the game with a short sword - from NetHack 3.0.0 to NetHack 3.2.3, the Elf instead starts with an elven short sword if the TOLKIEN compile-time option is enabled.
The Samurai's starting short sword first appears in NetHack 2.2a, while the Rogue's starting short sword is introduced in NetHack 3.0.0 (where it replaces the Ninja role).
Variants
SLASH'EM
SLASH'EM adds the silver short sword and dark elven short sword as weapons that use the short sword skill.
Four artifact weapons use the skill:
- Quick Blade (elven short sword)
- Luckblade (short sword)
- The Sword of Balance (silver short sword)
- Doomblade (orcish short sword)
SporkHack
SporkHack adds the silver short sword as a weapon that uses the short sword skill.
xNetHack
In xNetHack, Fire and Frost Brand are short swords instead of long swords.
Encyclopedia entry
Wazikashi
A wakizashi was used as a samurai's weapon when the katana
was unavailable. When entering a building, a samurai would
leave his katana on a rack near the entrance. However, the
wakizashi would be worn at all times, and therefore, it made
a sidearm for the samurai (similar to a soldier's use of a
pistol). The samurai would have worn it from the time they
awoke to the time they went to sleep. In earlier periods,
and especially during times of civil wars, a tanto was worn
in place of a wakizashi.
References
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 43
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 124
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 135
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.0, line 199: short swords on watchmen and soldiers
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.0, line 431: short swords on skeletons
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.0, line 272: Ninja wakizashi
- ↑ src/mplayer.c in NetHack 3.6.0, line 229: player monster short swords
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