Ice vortex
v ice vortex 
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| Difficulty | 7 |
| Attacks |
Engulf 1d6 cold |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | 74 |
| Speed | 20 |
| Base AC | 2 |
| Base MR | 30 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 0 |
| Nutritional value | 0 |
| Size | Huge |
| Resistances | Cold, Sleep, Poison, Stoning |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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An ice vortex:
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| Reference | monst.c#line870 |
An ice vortex, v, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. The ice vortex is a type of vortex with an affinity to cold—it is one of two vortices that are not unsolid, and can be seen via infravision.
An ice vortex has an engulfing attack that deals cold damage, which is replaced with a touch attack that deals cold damage and can destroy potions in the target's inventory if the attack hits the hero during the grace period where they were expelled and cannot be re-engulfed.[1] Ice vortices possess cold resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, and stoning resistance.
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Generation
Randomly generated ice vortices are always created hostile, and will not be generated in Gehennom.
Ice vortices do not leave a corpse upon death.
Description
Ice vortices can be troublesome for early heroes: they move at the same high speed of 20 as the dust vortex, and their attacks inflict cold damage that can jeopardize potions in the open inventory. Fortunately, the damage dealt is generally survivable for a hero that has decent AC and/or a means to deal damage quickly, especially with guaranteed hits from being engulfed—a hero with cold resistance such as a Valkyrie is completely immune to an ice vortex's attacks and can easily handle them.
History
The ice vortex first appears in NetHack 3.0.0.
Messages
- You are freezing to death!
- You were engulfed by an ice vortex.
- You feel mildly chilly.
- As above, but you have cold resistance.
- You get expelled from <the ice vortex> in a blast of frost!
- The ice vortex released you from its engulfing.
Variants
dNetHack
In dNetHack, the ice vortex and almost all other vortices (except for the yochlol's stinking cloud form) take halved damage from blunt, piercing and slashing weapons.
Ice vortices can generate as minions of Kos.
Ice vortices can generate randomly in the Law Quest if Oona is alive and her elemental affinity is cold.
Invoking Ehecailacocozcatl can summon a tame ice vortex.
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, two hostile ice vortices are generated on the Plane of Ice at level creation.
Zapping a wand of water while engulfed by an ice vortex will result in an instadeath from the water turning the hero into a block of ice.
notdNetHack
In notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, in addition to dNetHack details, ice vortices can often be encountered in the Ice Caves adventure branch.
SlashTHEM
In SlashTHEM, invoking The Storm Whistle has a 3⁄4 chance of generating a tame ice vortex.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, invoking The Storm Whistle has a 1⁄10 chance of generating a tame ice vortex.
Zapping a wand of water while engulfed by an ice vortex causes the hero to take 6d6 damage and be immediately expelled from the vortex.
Encyclopedia entry
- See the encyclopedia entry for vortex.
