Boots - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: establish variants, add evil

2025-12-16T17:21:43Z

establish variants, add evil

A1: adding _ungreased_ to the kicking boot rust comment

2024-11-17T20:16:31Z

adding _ungreased_ to the kicking boot rust comment

Umbire the Phantom: languages

2024-06-07T09:43:36Z

languages

Furey: Upgrade from nethack-360 to nethack-367. Verified facts against 3.6.7 source. No notable changes found in doc/fixes.36{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.

2024-06-01T20:25:24Z

Upgrade from nethack-360 to nethack-367. Verified facts against 3.6.7 source. No notable changes found in doc/fixes.36{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.

Ion frigate: better phrasing

2023-08-18T06:28:55Z

better phrasing

Ion frigate: mention whisperfeet and artifact naming bug

2023-08-18T06:19:42Z

mention whisperfeet and artifact naming bug

Ion frigate: rewrite section; note about association in the source code isn't really important

2023-08-18T05:52:05Z

rewrite section; note about association in the source code isn't really important

Ion frigate: trouble

2023-08-18T05:38:51Z

trouble

Phol ende wodan: Update to 3.6.0, fix tables and edit Identification

2016-12-20T23:20:02Z

Update to 3.6.0, fix tables and edit Identification

Duke Anax: /* List of boots */

2016-04-14T00:40:23Z

‎List of boots

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 If you have some boots with a base price of 50 zm, and they grant neither speed nor jumping, then they must be water walking boots.
-==SLASH'EM==
+==Variants==
+===SLASH'EM===
 SLASH'EM uses ''steel boots'' as a randomized appearance for magical boots in place of ''buckled boots''. This change is purely cosmetic: SLASH'EM does not introduce any new types of randomized boots.  Despite the name, steel boots are not inherently metallic, as an object's material is dependent on its base type, not its randomized appearance (thus, steel boots will be metallic if they are kicking boots, as is true for any other randomized appearance).
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 While SLASH'EM does not introduce any new types of boots, it does introduce an [[artifact]] set of boots: [[Whisperfeet]].  These are neutral speed boots that are the guaranteed first sacrifice gift for [[tourist]]s, and in addition to their usual effect act as a [[luckstone]] when carried and provide [[stealth]] when worn.  The presence of Whisperfeet means that the [[artifact naming bug]] (which still works in SLASH'EM) can be used to distinguish speed boots.  Conversely, a player who finds Whisperfeet will informally learn the appearance of speed boots.
 ==Encyclopaedia entry==

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 Kicking boots are the only magic boots to be metallic, and can therefore be identified by wearing them and seeing whether your spell failure rates increase, or by testing for "scritch, scritch" by rubbing them on a [[touchstone]]. You will also always succeed in kicking down doors while wearing kicking boots, although [[monk]]s and [[samurai]] may find that difficult to test.
-Water walking boots are tricky to identify, because walking on water to see whether you sink is dangerous! The danger can be reduced by dropping anything which is vulnerable to water damage (keep in mind that kicking boots tested in this way will rust). They can also be identified by zapping a [[wand of enlightenment]].
+Water walking boots are tricky to identify, because walking on water to see whether you sink is dangerous! The danger can be reduced by dropping anything which is vulnerable to water damage (keep in mind that ungreased kicking boots tested in this way will rust). They can also be identified by zapping a [[wand of enlightenment]].
 If you have some boots with a base price of 50 zm, and they grant neither speed nor jumping, then they must be water walking boots.

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	'''Boots''' are a form of [[armor]] worn on the [[feet]].		'''Boots''' are a form of [[armor]] worn on the [[feet]].

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 SLASH'EM also regularizes the weights of the randomized boots, albeit not completely: speed, water walking, jumping, and fumble boots all weigh 20 aum, while kicking, levitation, and elven boots weigh 15.
-While SLASH'EM does not introduce any new types of boots, it does introduce an [[artifact]] set of boots: [[Whisperfeet]].  These are neutral speed boots that are the guaranteed first sacrifice gift for [[tourist]]s, and in addition to their usual effect act as a [[luckstone]] when carried and provide [[stealth]] when worn.  The presence of Whisperfeet means that the [[artifact naming bug]] (which still works in SLASH'EM) can be used to distinguish speed boots.  Conversely, a player who finds Whisperfeet will informally know the appearance of speed boots.
+While SLASH'EM does not introduce any new types of boots, it does introduce an [[artifact]] set of boots: [[Whisperfeet]].  These are neutral speed boots that are the guaranteed first sacrifice gift for [[tourist]]s, and in addition to their usual effect act as a [[luckstone]] when carried and provide [[stealth]] when worn.  The presence of Whisperfeet means that the [[artifact naming bug]] (which still works in SLASH'EM) can be used to distinguish speed boots.  Conversely, a player who finds Whisperfeet will informally learn the appearance of speed boots.
 ==Encyclopaedia entry==

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	SLASH'EM also regularizes the weights of the randomized boots, albeit not completely: speed, water walking, jumping, and fumble boots all weigh 20 aum, while kicking, levitation, and elven boots weigh 15.		SLASH'EM also regularizes the weights of the randomized boots, albeit not completely: speed, water walking, jumping, and fumble boots all weigh 20 aum, while kicking, levitation, and elven boots weigh 15.
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		+	While SLASH'EM does not introduce any new types of boots, it does introduce an [[artifact]] set of boots: [[Whisperfeet]]. These are neutral speed boots that are the guaranteed first sacrifice gift for [[tourist]]s, and in addition to their usual effect act as a [[luckstone]] when carried and provide [[stealth]] when worn. The presence of Whisperfeet means that the [[artifact naming bug]] (which still works in SLASH'EM) can be used to distinguish speed boots. Conversely, a player who finds Whisperfeet will informally know the appearance of speed boots.

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 Elven, levitation, and water walking boots weigh 15, kicking boots weigh 50, and the other randomized boots weigh 20. While this might be useful in some cases, it is somewhat tedious to attempt and cannot rule out the two pairs of boots which are likely to be cursed.
-Do not wear boots without [[curse-testing]] them first. Cursed magic boots are very likely to be levitation boots or fumble boots, which have very annoying magical effects as well as possibly increasing your AC. You can still weight test, especially to distinguish levitation from fumble boots.
+Do not wear boots without [[curse-testing]] them first. Cursed magic boots are very likely to be levitation boots or fumble boots, which have very annoying magical effects as well as possibly increasing your AC. You can still weight test, especially to distinguish levitation from fumble boots.  Note that your god will consider cursed levitation boots to be a [[major trouble]], but cursed fumble boots to only be a [[minor trouble]].  This means that any successful prayer will almost certainly uncurse levitation boots, but you will need a co-aligned [[altar]] to uncurse fumble boots through prayer.
 Any boots you find in the [[statue of Perseus]] are guaranteed to be cursed levitation boots.

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 | [[iron shoes]] || 16 || 50 || 2 || iron ||  || hard shoes
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-| [[elven boots]] || 8 || 15 || 1 || leather || stealth || **
+| [[elven boots]] || 8 || 15 || 1 || leather || stealth || ''randomized''
 |-
-| [[kicking boots]] || 8 || 50 || 1 || iron || enhanced kicking || **
+| [[kicking boots]] || 8 || 50 || 1 || iron || enhanced kicking || ''randomized''
 |-
-| [[fumble boots]] || 30 || 20 || 1 || leather || fumbling || **
+| [[fumble boots]] || 30 || 20 || 1 || leather || fumbling || ''randomized''
 |-
-| [[levitation boots]] || 30 || 15 || 1 || leather || levitation || **
+| [[levitation boots]] || 30 || 15 || 1 || leather || levitation || ''randomized''
 |-
-| [[jumping boots]] || 50 || 20 || 1 || leather || jumping || **
+| [[jumping boots]] || 50 || 20 || 1 || leather || jumping || ''randomized''
 |-
-| [[speed boots]] || 50 || 20 || 1 || leather || speed || **
+| [[speed boots]] || 50 || 20 || 1 || leather || speed || ''randomized''
 |-
-| [[water walking boots]] || 50 || 20 || 1 || leather || water walking || **
+| [[water walking boots]] || 50 || 15 || 1 || leather || water walking || ''randomized''
 |}
-Kicking boots had their weight increased in [[NetHack 3.6.0]] from 15 to 50. Water walking boots had their weight reduced from 20 to 15. There may be more changes.
+The [[Randomized_appearance#Boots|randomized boots']] unidentified descriptions are shuffled each game from the following list:
+  buckled boots
-<nowiki>**</nowiki> The appearance of these pairs of boots is [[Randomized_appearance#Boots|randomized]] each game from the following descriptions:
+ combat boots
-  buckled       combat       hiking     jungle
+ hiking boots
-    riding        snow         mud
+ jungle boots
 In addition to whatever magical effect they provide, riding boots give a bonus for [[saddle|saddling]] steeds, and snow boots give a bonus for walking on [[ice]].
-== Identifying boots ==
+== Identification ==
 Speed boots, jumping boots and water walking boots have a base price of 50 zm; fumble boots and levitation boots have a base price of 30 zm; elven boots and kicking boots have a base price of 8 zm. (The most useful boots are also the most expensive ones.) Be aware, enchantment can confuse the issue.
-Elven boots and levitation weigh 15, kicking boots weigh 50, and the other randomized boots weigh 20. While this might be useful in some cases (for example to identify base-cost 30 boots), it is somewhat tedious to use and cannot rule out the two pairs of boots which are likely to be cursed.
+Elven, levitation, and water walking boots weigh 15, kicking boots weigh 50, and the other randomized boots weigh 20. While this might be useful in some cases, it is somewhat tedious to attempt and cannot rule out the two pairs of boots which are likely to be cursed.
-Do not wear unidentified magic boots without [[curse-testing]] them first. Cursed boots are very likely to be levitation boots or fumble boots, which have very annoying magical effects as well as possibly increasing your AC. You can still weight test, especially to distinguish levitation from fumble boots (both 30 zm).
+Any boots you find in the [[statue of Perseus]] are guaranteed to be cursed levitation boots.
 Speed boots and levitation boots will auto-identify when worn, except in the unusual case where you are already very fast or levitating. Elven boots will auto-identify when worn if you are not already [[stealth]]y (be aware that an [[elven cloak]] also grants stealth). You can deduce the appearance of elven boots by taking note of which boots are dropped by various [[elves (monster attribute)|elves]] throughout the dungeon.
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+{{nethack-360}}