Hobbit - Revision history

Ray Chason: Include the female tile

2026-05-10T19:58:47Z

Include the female tile

Umbire the Phantom: /* EvilHack */ re-phrase

2026-02-04T15:24:46Z

‎EvilHack: re-phrase

Netzhack: /* Encyclopedia entry */ line breaks

2026-02-04T12:57:09Z

‎Encyclopedia entry: line breaks

Umbire the Phantom: may as well mention gehennom

2026-02-03T14:08:26Z

may as well mention gehennom

Umbire the Phantom: copyedit

2026-02-03T10:59:01Z

copyedit

Umbire the Phantom: lede

2025-04-23T06:34:38Z

lede

Umbire the Phantom: /* Generation */ ditto + word choice

2025-04-23T06:34:14Z

‎Generation: ditto + word choice

Umbire the Phantom: /* Messages */ upcoming

2024-04-23T16:46:28Z

‎Messages: upcoming

Umbire the Phantom: /* Generation */ upcoming

2024-04-23T16:46:13Z

‎Generation: upcoming

Umbire the Phantom: /* Variants */ some sprucing up here actually

2024-01-10T05:33:34Z

‎Variants: some sprucing up here actually

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 {{monster
   |difficulty=2
   |level=1

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 ===EvilHack===
-In [[EvilHack]], hobbits are added as a playable race. EvilHack also adds [[hobbit pickpocket]]s and [[hobbit mummies]], and hobbits can also appear as [[Player monster (EvilHack)|player monsters]] and [[Zombie (EvilHack)|zombies]].
+In [[EvilHack]], hobbits are added as a playable race. EvilHack also adds [[hobbit pickpocket]]s, [[hobbit zombie]]s and [[hobbit mummies]], and hobbits can also appear as [[Player monster (EvilHack)|player monsters]].
 Standard hobbits generate with the same items as in vanilla ''NetHack'', using the same probabilities&mdash;hobbits that generate with slings are given [[sling bullet]]s, as are hobbit pickpockets.

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 ==Encyclopedia entry==
-{{encyclopedia|
+{{encyclopedia|Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth:  a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.  They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a handloom, although they were skillful with tools.  Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of "the Big Folk", as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.|[ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
 }}

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 ==Generation==
-Randomly generated hobbits are often [[peaceful]] towards [[lawful]] [[heroes]], and are always peaceful towards [[Dwarf (starting race)|dwarven]] heroes.
+Randomly generated hobbits are often [[peaceful]] towards [[lawful]] [[heroes]], and are always peaceful towards [[Dwarf (starting race)|dwarven]] heroes. Hobbits do not appear in [[Gehennom]] due to being lawful.
 Hobbits can appear among the random {{white|h}} that are part of the first quest [[monster class]] for [[Cavepeople]] and make up {{frac|24|175}} of the monsters randomly generated on the [[Caveman quest]].

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   |frequency=2
   |genocidable=Yes
-  |attacks=Weapon 1d6
+  |attacks=[[Weapon]] 1d6 [[Physical damage|physical]]
   |weight=500
   |nutr=200
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   |resistances conveyed=None
   |attributes={{attributes|A hobbit|humanoid=1|omnivore=1|collect=1|infravisible=1|infravision=1}}
-  |reference=[[monst.c#line439]]
+  |reference=[https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-3.6.7_Released/src/monst.c#L416 NetHack 3.6.7 - src/monst.c, line 416]
 }}
+A '''hobbit''', {{monsym|hobbit}}, also known as a '''halfling''', is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The hobbit is a small and [[lawful]] [[humanoid]] being that is the weakest of the [[Humanoid (monster class)|humanoid]] [[monster class]]: hobbits are [[omnivore]]s that have [[infravision]], can be seen via infravision and will pick up weapons, food and other items that they come across.
 A hobbit has a single weapon attack.
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 Randomly generated hobbits are often [[peaceful]] towards [[lawful]] [[heroes]], and are always peaceful towards [[Dwarf (starting race)|dwarven]] heroes.
-Hobbits can appear among the random {{white|h}} that are part of the first quest [[monster class]] for [[Cavepeople]] and make up {{frac|24|175}} of monsters that are randomly generated on the [[Caveman quest]].
+Hobbits can appear among the random {{white|h}} that are part of the first quest [[monster class]] for [[Cavepeople]] and make up {{frac|24|175}} of the monsters randomly generated on the [[Caveman quest]].
-A hobbit can be [[generated with]] the following: a weapon that has an equal probability of being a [[dagger]], an [[elven dagger]], or a [[sling]], a separate {{frac|10}} chance of generating with an [[elven mithril-coat]], and a separate {{frac|10}} chance of generating with a [[dwarvish cloak]].{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|350|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|363|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+A hobbit is [[generated with]] a weapon that has an equal probability of being a [[dagger]], an [[elven dagger]] or a [[sling]], as well as a {{frac|10}} chance of an [[elven mithril-coat]] and a separate {{frac|10}} chance of a [[dwarvish cloak]].{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|350|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|363|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 {{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|51a5550a5186310b0ea08c8b0a17ee1085bef062}}, hobbits generated with a sling will also receive a stack of [[flint stone]]s.}}
 ==Strategy==
-While a hobbit is not dangerous on their own, a weaker early character should approach them with some caution - a hobbit with an enchanted dagger or any form of attack wand can be an unwelcome [[YASD|and possibly lethal]] surprise. Hobbits have a tendency to throw their daggers at you when you are in range, making disarming them trivial, and they can usually be felled easily with your own [[ranged attack]]s.
+While a hobbit is not dangerous on their own, a weaker hero in the early stages should approach them with some caution: a hobbit with an enchanted dagger or any form of attack wand can be an unwelcome [[YASD|and possibly lethal]] surprise. Hobbits have a tendency to throw their daggers at you when you are in range, making disarming them trivial, and they can usually be felled easily with your own [[ranged attack]]s.
-Hobbits are useful as potential early sources of a mithril-coat, daggers to fill your quiver, and/or an elven dagger to [[name]] and turn into [[Sting]]. Lawful characters will want their pets to handle peaceful hobbits if they plan to avoid [[alignment record]] penalties.
+Hobbits are useful as potential early sources of a mithril-coat, daggers to fill your quiver, and/or an elven dagger to [[name]] and turn into [[Sting]]. Lawful heroes will want their pets to handle peaceful hobbits if they plan to avoid [[alignment record]] penalties.
 ==History==
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 ==Origin==
 {{wikipedia|Hobbit}}
-Hobbits are a fictional race of people that appear in [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s novels set in Middle-Earth, and have since appeared in the works of other fantasy authors including Terry Brooks, [[Jack Vance]], and Clifford D. Simak. Occasionally known as '''halflings''' in Tolkien's writings, hobbits are humanoids that are closely related to humans, if not an offshoot of humanity - they stand at anywhere between two and four feet, with the average height of a hobbit being roughly half the average human height. Hobbits have feet with naturally tough leathery soles and curly hair on the top, and tend to live barefoot; they traditionally make their home in underground "hobbit holes" with windows built into the sides of hills on pastoral countrysides, while some also live in cottage houses on the surface. Hard-working, orderly and peaceful, hobbits enjoy many "creature comforts" and have a particular love of food and drink - but they are also naturally curious and enthusiastic collectors, and sometimes prefer a bit of trouble to a lot of boredom.
+Hobbits are a fictional race of people that appear in [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s novels set in Middle-Earth, and have since appeared in the works of other fantasy authors including Terry Brooks, [[Jack Vance]], and Clifford D. Simak. Occasionally known as halflings in Tolkien's writings, hobbits are humanoids that are closely related to humans, if not an offshoot of humanity&mdash;they stand at anywhere between two and four feet, with the average height of a hobbit being roughly half the average human height. Hobbits have feet with naturally-tough leathery soles and curly hair on the top, and tend to live barefoot. They traditionally make their home in underground "hobbit holes" with windows built into the sides of hills on pastoral countrysides, though some also live in cottage houses on the surface. Hard-working, orderly and peaceful, hobbits enjoy many "creature comforts" and have a particular love of food and drink, but they are also naturally curious and enthusiastic collectors, and sometimes prefer a bit of trouble to a lot of boredom.
-Hobbits debut in 1937 children's novel ''[[wikipedia:The Hobbit|The Hobbit]]'', where the titular protagonist Bilbo Baggins is thrown into an unexpected adventure when the wizard Gandalf arrives at his doorstep in the small town of Hobbiton. In the sequel to ''The Hobbit'', ''[[wikipedia:The Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings]]'', Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee, Pippin Took, and Merry Brandybuck are a group of hobbits who all play key roles in fighting to save their world of Middle-earth from evil. ''The Lord of the Rings'' identifies Hobbiton as part of the homeland of the Hobbits: a larger rural region in the northwest of Middle-earth called the Shire. Another hobbit village named Bree is found east of the Shire, where they co-exist with regular humans. Tolkien hints that there may be other hobbit settlements, though they are never visited within the story.
+Hobbits debut in the 1937 children's novel ''[[wikipedia:The Hobbit|The Hobbit]]'', where the protagonist Bilbo Baggins is thrown into an unexpected adventure when the wizard Gandalf arrives at his doorstep in the small town of Hobbiton. In the sequel to ''The Hobbit'', ''[[wikipedia:The Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings]]'', Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee, Pippin Took, and Merry Brandybuck are a group of hobbits who all play key roles in fighting to save their world of Middle-earth from evil. ''The Lord of the Rings'' identifies Hobbiton as part of the hobbit's homeland, a larger rural region in the northwest of Middle-earth called the Shire; another hobbit village named Bree is found east of the Shire, where they co-exist with regular humans. Tolkien hints that there may be other hobbit settlements, though they are never visited within the story.
-The origins of the name and idea are subject to debate, with the most likely antecedents including 1922 [[wikipedia:Sinclair Lewis|Sinclair Lewis]] novel ''Babbitt'' and 1927 Edward Wyke Smith children's book ''The Marvellous Land of Snergs''. Many of Tolkien's British reviewers imagined hobbits to be rabbit-like in appearance; though Tolkien emphatically rejected any relationship between hobbits and rabbits and emphasized hobbits' humanity, scholars have noted several lines of evidence to the contrary. As with many other beings and creatures from the setting, hobbits also appear in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', where they are referred to as halflings for legal reasons.
+The origins of the name and idea are subject to debate, with the most likely antecedents including the 1922 [[wikipedia:Sinclair Lewis|Sinclair Lewis]] novel ''Babbitt'' and the 1927 Edward Wyke Smith children's book ''The Marvellous Land of Snergs''. Many of Tolkien's British reviewers imagined hobbits to be rabbit-like in appearance; though Tolkien emphatically rejected any relationship between hobbits and rabbits and emphasized hobbits' humanity, scholars have still noted several lines of evidence to the contrary. As with many other beings and creatures from the setting, hobbits also appear in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', where they are referred to as halflings for legal reasons.
 ==Messages==
-{{message|<The hobbit> asks you about the One Ring.|You chatted to a peaceful or tame hobbit.}}
+{{message|<The hobbit> asks you about the One Ring.|You are [[chatting]] to a peaceful or tame hobbit.}}
 {{message|<The hobbit> complains about unpleasant dungeon conditions.|As above, but the hobbit is at least 10 HP down from its maximum; as hobbits rarely generate with more than 10 HP total, this message does not occur often in practice.}}
-{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|5902acef642c829c67de9a546b2a1585ae74937f|commit 5902ace}}, hobbits now complain about any damage if they have less than 11 max HP.}}
+{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|5902acef642c829c67de9a546b2a1585ae74937f}}, hobbits now complain about any damage if they have less than 11 max HP.}}
 ==Variants==
 {{main|Hobbit (starting race)}}
-Several variants include the hobbit as a playable race, and many incorporate Nephi's [[grudge]] patch to include the mutual grudge between hobbits and [[Nazgul]].
+Several ''NetHack'' [[variant]]s include the hobbit as a playable race, and many incorporate Nephi's [[grudge]] patch to include the mutual grudge between hobbits and [[Nazgul]].
 ===SLASH'EM===
-In [[SLASH'EM]], hobbits are a playable race.
+In [[SLASH'EM]], hobbits are a playable race. SLASH'EM also has a significant amount of [[Defunct features (SLASH'EM)|deferred data]] related to the [[Hobbit quest]] from [[SLASH 6]], which has the hobbit as one of many playable roles prior to the implementation of player races.
 ===UnNetHack===
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 ===EvilHack===
-In [[EvilHack]], hobbits are added as a playable race. EvilHack also adds [[hobbit pickpocket]]s, and hobbits can also appear as [[Player monster (EvilHack)|player monsters]] and undead such as [[Zombie (EvilHack)|zombies]] and [[Mummy (EvilHack)|mummies]].
+In [[EvilHack]], hobbits are added as a playable race. EvilHack also adds [[hobbit pickpocket]]s and [[hobbit mummies]], and hobbits can also appear as [[Player monster (EvilHack)|player monsters]] and [[Zombie (EvilHack)|zombies]].
-Standard hobbits generate with the same items as in vanilla ''NetHack'', using the same probabilities - hobbits that generate with slings are given [[sling bullet]]s, as are hobbit pickpockets.
+Standard hobbits generate with the same items as in vanilla ''NetHack'', using the same probabilities&mdash;hobbits that generate with slings are given [[sling bullet]]s, as are hobbit pickpockets.
 ===SlashTHEM===
-In addition to SLASH'EM details, the [[Geek quest]] in [[SlashTHEM]] uses a pair of hobbits to spell out "May the force be with you" on the home level, rather than a random humanoid as with most of the other letters; this is done to prevent the generation of [[Dwarf (monster)|dwarves]] that may dig through the walls of the level prematurely.
+In addition to SLASH'EM details, the [[Geek quest]] in [[SlashTHEM]] uses a pair of hobbits to spell out "May the force be with you" with the glyphs of monsters on the home level, rather than a random humanoid as with most of the other letters&mdash;this is done to prevent the generation of [[Dwarf (monster)|dwarves]] that may dig through the walls of the level prematurely.
 ===Hack'EM===
-In [[Hack'EM]], in addition to including playable hobbits as in SLASH'EM, Hack'EM adds the other hobbit monsters from EvilHack, including undead hobbits and hobbit player monsters.
+[[Hack'EM]] adds hobbits as a playable race from EvilHack, and also adds the other hobbit monsters from EvilHack, including undead hobbits and hobbit player monsters.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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 }}
-A '''hobbit''', {{monsym|hobbit}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The hobbit is the most basic [[Humanoid (monster class)|humanoid]] monster, and is a small [[omnivore]] that has [[infravision]] and will pick up items. A hobbit has a single weapon attack.
+A '''hobbit''', {{monsym|hobbit}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The hobbit is the most basic type of [[Humanoid (monster class)|humanoid]] monster, and is a small [[omnivore]] that has [[infravision]], can be seen via infravision and will pick up items.
 ==Generation==

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 A hobbit is [[monster starting inventory|generated with]] one of three possible weapons, with an equal chance of each weapon: a [[dagger]], an [[elven dagger]], or a [[sling]].{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|350|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} A hobbit also has a {{frac|10}} chance of generating with an [[elven mithril-coat]], and a separate {{frac|10}} chance of generating with a [[dwarvish cloak]].{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|363|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|As of {{commit|51a5550a5186310b0ea08c8b0a17ee1085bef062|commit 51a5550}}, hobbits generated with a sling will also receive a stack of [[flint stone]]s.}}
+{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|51a5550a5186310b0ea08c8b0a17ee1085bef062|commit 51a5550}}, hobbits generated with a sling will also receive a stack of [[flint stone]]s.}}
 ==Strategy==