Disintegration - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: potholes

2025-12-03T12:37:28Z

potholes

Umbire the Phantom: follow-up

2025-08-21T16:34:17Z

follow-up

Nethacker: /* Description */ made the description more clear

2025-08-21T16:25:52Z

‎Description: made the description more clear

Umbire the Phantom: /* EvilHack */ 0.9

2025-01-28T04:59:47Z

‎EvilHack: 0.9

Umbire the Phantom: /* dNetHack */ finally detail mechanics

2025-01-16T18:12:10Z

‎dNetHack: finally detail mechanics

Umbire the Phantom: comment

2025-01-16T13:05:34Z

comment

Umbire the Phantom: /* Description */ word choice

2025-01-16T11:56:47Z

‎Description: word choice

Umbire the Phantom: evil

2025-01-15T20:11:57Z

evil

Umbire the Phantom: /* dNetHack */ cap

2025-01-15T16:40:12Z

‎dNetHack: cap

Umbire the Phantom: branch into hack'em, leave that there for the moment as well

2025-01-15T13:33:52Z

branch into hack'em, leave that there for the moment as well

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 Several monsters in dNetHack have disintegrating abilities:
-* [[Aspects of The Silence]] have disintegrating tentacle attacks.
+* [[Aspects of The Silence]] have a disintegrating [[tentacle attack]].
 * The [[Grue (dNetHack)|Grue]] has an engulfing disintegration attack.
-* The [[Adamach]] has a disintegration touch attack.
+* The [[Adamach]] has a disintegrating touch attack.
 * The [[flux slime]] has a random breath attack that can fire disintegration rays.
 * [[Sword Archon]]s and [[harrowers of Zariel]] have rending disintegration attacks.
-* [[Binah sephiroth]] have disintegration beam attacks.
+* [[Binah sephiroth]] have disintegrating beam attacks.
 [[Raygun]]s can fire disintegration rays when set to "disintegrate", and [[invoking]] [[The Annulus]] in its [[BFG]] mode can also fire disintegration rays.

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 Disintegration functions slightly differently depending on the source. If a hero or monster is subject to disintegration, it will check for and destroy the following in order of priority:{{refsrc|src/zap.c|3678|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/zap.c|3821|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-# The victim's [[worn]] [[shield]], if present.
+# The victim's [[worn]] [[shield]], if one is present;
-# The victim's worn [[body armor]], if present. If the victim also wears a cloak, it is destroyed along with their body armor.
+# The victim's worn [[body armor]] and/or [[cloak]], if either or both pieces of armor are present;
 # The victim themselves, along with their cloak and [[shirt]].

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 Disintegration functions slightly differently depending on the source. If a hero or monster is subject to disintegration, it will check for and destroy the following in order of priority:{{refsrc|src/zap.c|3678|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/zap.c|3821|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-# The victim's [[worn]] [[shield]], if present;
+# The victim's [[worn]] [[shield]], if present.
-# The victim's worn [[body armor]], along with their [[cloak]], if present;
+# The victim's worn [[body armor]], if present. If the victim also wears a cloak, it is destroyed along with their body armor.
 # The victim themselves, along with their cloak and [[shirt]].

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 [[Black dragon scales|Black]] [[dragon-scaled armor]] grants the wearer a passive attack that can disintegrate attackers. [[The Sword of Annihilation]] grants its wielder a change of completely disintegrating monsters that they attack unless the target has disintegration resistance. [[Crystal plate mail]] is immune to disintegration, though a hero or monster wearing the armor will still take significant damage, and any extrinsic source of disintegration resistance will protect worn armor.
-Disintegration by gaze attack is not an instadeath for a hero with at least 5% ({{frac|20}}) [[Partial intrinsic|partial disintegration resistance]], while disintegration by other means is not instadeath for a hero with at least 50% ({{frac|2}}) disintegration resistance&mdash;worn armor is protected in both cases, though the hero still takes significant damage.<!--former is consistent with latter in 0.9--> Similarly, [[reflection]] will protect a hero or monster from disintegration rays, but without disintegration resistance they will also take significant damage.
+Disintegration is not an instadeath for a hero with at least 50% ({{frac|2}}) [[Partial intrinsic|partial disintegration resistance]]&mdash;while worn armor is protected in this case, the hero still takes significant damage. Similarly, [[reflection]] will protect a hero or monster from disintegration rays, but without disintegration resistance they will also take significant damage.
 All artifacts now have a {{frac|19|20}} chance of resisting disintegration, and [[Dragonbane (EvilHack)|Dragonbane]] is also completely immune to disintegration from the breath or passive of a black dragon. The Sword of Annihilation and worn [[The Hand of Vecna (EvilHack)|Hand of Vecna]] are immune to disintegration, and any items required to complete the game (e.g. [[the Idol of Moloch]] for [[Infidel]]s) are also immune.

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 ===dNetHack===
-In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], several monsters have disintegrating abilities:
+In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], all types of disintegration except wide-angle disintegration beams will instead disenchant armor before destroying it: disintegration resistance protects armor from being disenchanted by disintegration rays, but not from disenchantment by beams or melee attacks that inflict disintegration.
 * [[Aspects of The Silence]] have disintegrating tentacle attacks.

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 # The victim themselves, along with their cloak and [[shirt]].
-A hero that is killed by disintegration is not given a death message: a worn [[amulet of life saving]] activates as normal, and otherwise the player will proceed to the [[Do you want your possessions identified?|death screen]]. Victims of disintegration will never leave [[corpse]]s, unless a hero hit them with a disintegrating ray while they were [[engulfing]] the hero.{{refsrc|src/zap.c|3852|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/zap.c|4022|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/zap.c|4074|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/mon.c|2286|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+A hero killed by disintegration is not given a death message: a worn [[amulet of life saving]] activates as normal, and otherwise the player will proceed to the [[Do you want your possessions identified?|death screen]]. Victims of disintegration will never leave [[corpse]]s, unless a hero hit them with a disintegrating ray while they were [[engulfing]] the hero.{{refsrc|src/zap.c|3852|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/zap.c|4022|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/zap.c|4074|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/mon.c|2286|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 For monsters that are disintegrated and killed, each of their former inventory items has a chance of being destroyed as well:{{refsrc|src/zap.c|3996|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} the chance is {{frac|19|20}} for mundane objects and {{frac|2}} for most [[artifact]]s, and the [[quest artifact]] of the hero's role and any [[unique items]] are completely immune&mdash;an amulet of life saving worn by a monster that is not [[nonliving]] will always revive them before at this stage if they are disintegrated.

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 * [[Tiamat (EvilHack)|Tiamat]] has a random breath attack that can fire disintegration rays.
-[[Black dragon scales|Black]] [[dragon-scaled armor]] grants the wearer a passive attack that can disintegrate attackers. [[The Sword of Annihilation]] grants its wielder a change of completely disintegrating monsters that they attack unless the target has disintegration resistance.
+[[Black dragon scales|Black]] [[dragon-scaled armor]] grants the wearer a passive attack that can disintegrate attackers. [[The Sword of Annihilation]] grants its wielder a change of completely disintegrating monsters that they attack unless the target has disintegration resistance. [[Crystal plate mail]] is immune to disintegration, though a hero or monster wearing the armor will still take significant damage, and any extrinsic source of disintegration resistance will protect worn armor.
-Disintegration by gaze is not an instadeath for a hero with at least 5% ({{frac|20}}) [[Partial intrinsic|partial disintegration resistance]], while disintegration by other means is not instadeath for a hero with at least 50% ({{frac|2}}) disintegration resistance&mdash;in both cases, they still take significant damage. Similarly, [[reflection]] will protect a hero or monster from disintegration rays, but without disintegration resistance they will also take significant damage.
+Disintegration by gaze attack is not an instadeath for a hero with at least 5% ({{frac|20}}) [[Partial intrinsic|partial disintegration resistance]], while disintegration by other means is not instadeath for a hero with at least 50% ({{frac|2}}) disintegration resistance&mdash;worn armor is protected in both cases, though the hero still takes significant damage. Similarly, [[reflection]] will protect a hero or monster from disintegration rays, but without disintegration resistance they will also take significant damage.
-All artifacts now have a {{frac|19|20}} chance of resisting disintegration, and [[Dragonbane (EvilHack)|Dragonbane]] is also completely immune to disintegration from the breath or passive of a black dragon.
+All artifacts now have a {{frac|19|20}} chance of resisting disintegration, and [[Dragonbane (EvilHack)|Dragonbane]] is also completely immune to disintegration from the breath or passive of a black dragon. The Sword of Annihilation and worn [[The Hand of Vecna (EvilHack)|Hand of Vecna]] are immune to disintegration, and any items required to complete the game (e.g. [[the Idol of Moloch]] for [[Infidel]]s) are also immune.
 ===Hack'EM===