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 [[Invoking]] [[The Annulus]] in BFG form can create 3&ndash;8 rockets of the same beatitude as the artifact.
-Only Undead Hunters can create a rocket by manual [[Smith (dNetHack)|smithing]] if they know the item's appearance.
+Only [[Undead Hunter]]s can create a rocket by manual [[Smith (dNetHack)|smithing]] if they know the item's appearance.
 ==Description==

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 {{for|the ammunition in SLASH'EM and its derivatives|rocket (SLASH'EM)}}
-A '''rocket''' is a type of [[weapon]] that appears in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]], and [[notnotdNetHack]]. The rocket is a [[Item size (dNetHack)|small]] [[Future tech|futuristic]] [[projectile]] that uses the [[firearms]] [[skill]], and is designed as ammunition for [[Rocket launcher (dNetHack)|rocket launchers]] and the [[BFG]]. It has a [[Object materials (dNetHack)|default material]] of [[silver]], and appears as a '''firework''' when [[Identification|unidentified]].
+A '''rocket''' is a type of [[weapon]] that appears in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]], and [[notnotdNetHack]]. The rocket is a [[Item size (dNetHack)|small]] [[Future tech|futuristic]] [[projectile]] that uses the [[firearms]] [[skill]], and is designed as ammunition for [[Rocket launcher (dNetHack)|rocket launchers]] and the [[BFG]]. It has a [[Object materials (dNetHack)|default material]] of [[silver]], and appears as a "firework" when [[Identification|unidentified]] (not to be confused with [[Firework cart|the contents of explosive carts]]).
 ==Generation==

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 [[Anachrononaut]]s (including [[Android]]s) start each game with knowledge of the rocket's unidentified appearance.
-Rockets are not randomly generated, though they can be found in [[bones]] and can only be [[wish]]ed for by [[Tourist/dNetHack|Tourists]]. They cannot be created through manual [[Smith (dNetHack)|smithing]] unless the [[hero]] is an [[Undead Hunter]] that knows their appearance.
+Rockets are not randomly generated, though they can be found in [[bones]] and can only be [[wish]]ed for by [[Tourist/dNetHack|Tourists]].
 Three stacks of rockets are randomly placed on the locate level of the [[Anachrononaut quest]] and [[Android quest]] at level creation, and another stack of rockets is randomly placed on the goal level for each quest.
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 An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert [[loadstone]]s and stacks of 10 or more [[Silver bullet (dNetHack)|silver bullets]] into rockets by [[applying]] a [[bullet fabber]] and feeding them into the device, with one rocket produced per 10 silver bullets&mdash;[[object properties]] on the silver bullets or loadstones are lost in the process, though [[enchantment]] and [[beatitude]] for silver bullets are retained.
-[[Invoking]] [[The Annulus]] in BFG form can create 3&ndash;8 rockets that are of the same beatitude as the artifact.
+[[Invoking]] [[The Annulus]] in BFG form can create 3&ndash;8 rockets of the same beatitude as the artifact.
 ==Description==
-As firearms ammunition, rockets must be [[fired]] or "[[thrown]]" from an appropriate [[launcher]] (i.e. a rocket launcher or BFG) to deal their actual base damage of 2d12+4 blunt damage against small monsters and 2d20+4 blunt damage against large ones. Properly-fired rockets will always explode whether they hit their target or not, dealing 3d8 base [[Fire (element)|fire]] damage to any monsters caught in the explosion (with larger monsters taking increased explosive damage). A BFG can fire 2 rockets per shot at Basic skill or lower in firearms, which increases to 2&ndash;4 rockets at Expert skill; rocket launchers will always fire only 1 rocket. The range for a fired rocket is 20 squares with a rocket launcher, or 100 squares for a BFG.
+As firearms ammunition, rockets must be [[fired]] or "[[thrown]]" from an appropriate [[launcher]] (i.e. a rocket launcher or BFG) to deal their actual base damage, which is 2d12+4 blunt damage against small monsters and 2d20+4 blunt damage against large ones. Properly-fired rockets will always explode whether they hit their target or not and deal 3d8 base [[Fire (element)|fire]] damage to any monsters caught in the explosion, with larger monsters taking increased explosive damage. A BFG can fire 2 rockets per shot at Basic skill or lower in firearms, which increases to 2&ndash;4 rockets at Expert skill, while rocket launchers will always fire only 1 rocket. The range of a fired rocket is 20 squares for a rocket launcher, or 100 squares for a BFG.
 An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert rockets into stacks of 10 silver bullets by applying a bullet fabber and feeding them into the device: object properties on the rockets are lost in the process, though enchantment and beatitude are retained.
 ==Strategy==
-Rockets deal a respectable amount of damage, but are a lot more limited in both range and rate of fire when fired from rocket launchers. They are best utilized with the BFG form of The Annulus fro Anachrononauts and Androids, while Tourists can wish for a regular BFG to shoot them with.
+Rockets deal a respectable amount of damage, but are a lot more limited in both range and rate of fire when fired from rocket launchers. They are best utilized with the BFG form of The Annulus for Anachrononauts and Androids, while Tourists can wish for a regular BFG to shoot them with.
 The biggest drawback of using rockets is their relatively high [[weight]] of 20 aum adding up, limiting the amount that most character builds will likely be able to carry without becoming encumbered: a good method for dealing with the weight of rockets is to carry a stack of silver bullets (''not'' regular [[Bullet (dNetHack)|bullets]] made of [[silver]]) along with a bullet fabber to convert them into rockets as necessary. For heroes that want to maximize weight efficiency, they can smelt a stack of rockets into [[mithril]] via [[The Silver Flame]], then feed them into the bullet fabber&mdash;this will produce silver bullets made of mithril and further decrease their weight to 1 aum per two bullets, which can then be converted via fabber into rockets of the default material. Smelting silver bullets directly will not work for this, since they will become regular bullets made of mithril and cannot be converted into rockets.

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 ==Strategy==
-Rockets deal a respectable amount of damage, but are a lot more limited in both range and rate of fire when fired from rocket launchers. They are best utilized with the BFG form of The Annulus fro Anachrononauts and Androids, while Tourists can wish for a regular BFG to shoot them with. The biggest drawback of using rockets is their relatively high [[weight]] of 20 aum adding up, limiting the amount that most character builds will likely be able to carry without becoming encumbered.
+Rockets deal a respectable amount of damage, but are a lot more limited in both range and rate of fire when fired from rocket launchers. They are best utilized with the BFG form of The Annulus fro Anachrononauts and Androids, while Tourists can wish for a regular BFG to shoot them with.
-A good method for dealing with the weight of rockets is to carry a stack of silver bullets (''not'' regular [[Bullet (dNetHack)|bullets]] made of [[silver]]) along with a bullet fabber to convert them into rockets as necessary. For heroes that want to maximize weight efficiency, they can smelt a stack of rockets into [[mithril]] via [[The Silver Flame]], then feed them into the bullet fabber&mdash;this will produce silver bullets made of mithril and further decrease their weight to 1 aum per two bullets, which can then be converted via fabber into rockets of the default material. Smelting silver bullets directly will not work for this, since they will become regular bullets made of mithril and cannot be converted into rockets.
+The biggest drawback of using rockets is their relatively high [[weight]] of 20 aum adding up, limiting the amount that most character builds will likely be able to carry without becoming encumbered: a good method for dealing with the weight of rockets is to carry a stack of silver bullets (''not'' regular [[Bullet (dNetHack)|bullets]] made of [[silver]]) along with a bullet fabber to convert them into rockets as necessary. For heroes that want to maximize weight efficiency, they can smelt a stack of rockets into [[mithril]] via [[The Silver Flame]], then feed them into the bullet fabber&mdash;this will produce silver bullets made of mithril and further decrease their weight to 1 aum per two bullets, which can then be converted via fabber into rockets of the default material. Smelting silver bullets directly will not work for this, since they will become regular bullets made of mithril and cannot be converted into rockets.
 ==Origin==

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 [[Anachrononaut]]s (including [[Android]]s) start each game with knowledge of the rocket's unidentified appearance.
-Rockets are not randomly generated, though they can be found in [[bones]] and can only be [[wish]]ed for by [[Tourist/dNetHack|Tourists]]. They cannot be created through manual [[Smith (dNetHack)|smithing]] unless the hero is an [[Undead Hunter]] that knows their appearance.
+Rockets are not randomly generated, though they can be found in [[bones]] and can only be [[wish]]ed for by [[Tourist/dNetHack|Tourists]]. They cannot be created through manual [[Smith (dNetHack)|smithing]] unless the [[hero]] is an [[Undead Hunter]] that knows their appearance.
 Three stacks of rockets are randomly placed on the locate level of the [[Anachrononaut quest]] and [[Android quest]] at level creation, and another stack of rockets is randomly placed on the goal level for each quest.
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 [[Deep one (dNetHack)|Deep ones]] and [[Deeper one (dNetHack)|deeper ones]] generated in the future (i.e. the Anachrononaut quest and Android quest) have an effective {{frac|36}} chance of being [[generated with]] a rocket launcher and a stack of rockets as ammo.
-An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert [[loadstone]]s and stacks of 10 or more [[Silver bullet (dNetHack)|silver bullets]] into rockets by [[applying]] a [[bullet fabber]] and feeding them into the device, with one rocket produced per 10 silver bullets&mdash;[[object properties]] are lost in the process, though [[enchantment]] and [[beatitude]] are retained.
+An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert [[loadstone]]s and stacks of 10 or more [[Silver bullet (dNetHack)|silver bullets]] into rockets by [[applying]] a [[bullet fabber]] and feeding them into the device, with one rocket produced per 10 silver bullets&mdash;[[object properties]] on the silver bullets or loadstones are lost in the process, though [[enchantment]] and [[beatitude]] for silver bullets are retained.
 [[Invoking]] [[The Annulus]] in BFG form can create 3&ndash;8 rockets that are of the same beatitude as the artifact.
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 As firearms ammunition, rockets must be [[fired]] or "[[thrown]]" from an appropriate [[launcher]] (i.e. a rocket launcher or BFG) to deal their actual base damage of 2d12+4 blunt damage against small monsters and 2d20+4 blunt damage against large ones. Properly-fired rockets will always explode whether they hit their target or not, dealing 3d8 base [[Fire (element)|fire]] damage to any monsters caught in the explosion (with larger monsters taking increased explosive damage). A BFG can fire 2 rockets per shot at Basic skill or lower in firearms, which increases to 2&ndash;4 rockets at Expert skill; rocket launchers will always fire only 1 rocket. The range for a fired rocket is 20 squares with a rocket launcher, or 100 squares for a BFG.
-An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert rockets into stacks of 10 [[silver bullet]]s by applying a bullet fabber and feeding them into the device: any object properties on the rockets are lost in the process, but enchantment and beatitude of the items are retained.
+An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert rockets into stacks of 10 silver bullets by applying a bullet fabber and feeding them into the device: object properties on the rockets are lost in the process, though enchantment and beatitude are retained.
 ==Strategy==
-Rockets deal a respectable amount of damage, but are a lot more limited in both range and rate of fire when fired from rocket launchers, and are best fired from the Annulus' BFG form, or from a regular BFG for Tourists. Their biggest drawback is their prohibitive weight, and most characters will likely only ever be able to carry a handful in open inventory at a time without becoming encumbered.
+Rockets deal a respectable amount of damage, but are a lot more limited in both range and rate of fire when fired from rocket launchers. They are best utilized with the BFG form of The Annulus fro Anachrononauts and Androids, while Tourists can wish for a regular BFG to shoot them with. The biggest drawback of using rockets is their relatively high [[weight]] of 20 aum adding up, limiting the amount that most character builds will likely be able to carry without becoming encumbered.
-Carrying the unconverted bullets is useful here, since 10 silver bullets weigh only half as much as a rocket. The conversion process also undoes most object material changes&mdash;such as smelting them into [[mithril]] with [[The Silver Flame]]. One workaround is to smelt the rockets into mithril and then convert them into bullets: this will turn them into ''mithril'' silver bullets, weighing only half an aum, or 5 aum per rocket. These can then be re-converted into normal, 20 aum rockets as needed, taking care not to convert all at once. Note that smelting silver bullets directly will not work, as they will instead turn into regular mithril bullets, which can't be converted into rockets.
+A good method for dealing with the weight of rockets is to carry a stack of silver bullets (''not'' regular [[Bullet (dNetHack)|bullets]] made of [[silver]]) along with a bullet fabber to convert them into rockets as necessary. For heroes that want to maximize weight efficiency, they can smelt a stack of rockets into [[mithril]] via [[The Silver Flame]], then feed them into the bullet fabber&mdash;this will produce silver bullets made of mithril and further decrease their weight to 1 aum per two bullets, which can then be converted via fabber into rockets of the default material. Smelting silver bullets directly will not work for this, since they will become regular bullets made of mithril and cannot be converted into rockets.
 ==Origin==

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 [[Anachrononaut]]s (including [[Android]]s) start each game with knowledge of the rocket's unidentified appearance.
-Rockets are not randomly generated, though they can be found in [[bones]] and can only be [[wish]]ed for by [[Tourist/dNetHack|Tourists]]. They cannot be created by manual [[Smith (dNetHack)|smithing]] unless the hero is an [[Undead Hunter]] that knows their appearance.
+Rockets are not randomly generated, though they can be found in [[bones]] and can only be [[wish]]ed for by [[Tourist/dNetHack|Tourists]]. They cannot be created through manual [[Smith (dNetHack)|smithing]] unless the hero is an [[Undead Hunter]] that knows their appearance.
 Three stacks of rockets are randomly placed on the locate level of the [[Anachrononaut quest]] and [[Android quest]] at level creation, and another stack of rockets is randomly placed on the goal level for each quest.
-[[Deep one (dNetHack)|Deep ones]] and [[Deeper one (dNetHack)|deeper ones]] generated in the future (i.e. the Anachrononaut quest and Android quest) have an effective {{frac|36}} chance of bring [[generated with]] a rocket launcher and a stack of rockets as ammo.
+[[Deep one (dNetHack)|Deep ones]] and [[Deeper one (dNetHack)|deeper ones]] generated in the future (i.e. the Anachrononaut quest and Android quest) have an effective {{frac|36}} chance of being [[generated with]] a rocket launcher and a stack of rockets as ammo.
-An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert [[loadstone]]s and stacks of 10 or more [[Silver bullet (dNetHack)|silver bullets]] into rockets by [[applying]] a [[bullet fabber]] and feeding them into the device, with one rocket produced per 10 silver bullets&mdash;[[object properties]] are lost in the process, though [[enchantment]] and [[beatitude]] are retained.
+An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert [[loadstone]]s and stacks of 10 or more [[Silver bullet (dNetHack)|silver bullets]] into rockets by [[applying]] a [[bullet fabber]] and feeding them into the device, with one rocket produced per 10 silver bullets&mdash;[[object properties]] are lost in the process, though [[enchantment]] and [[beatitude]] are retained. The inverse process will always yield silver bullets, never loadstones.
 [[Invoking]] [[The Annulus]] in BFG form can create 3&ndash;8 rockets that are of the same beatitude as the artifact.
 ==Description==
-As firearms ammunition, rockets must be [[fired]] or "[[thrown]]" from an appropriate [[launcher]] (i.e. a rocket launcher or BFG) to deal their actual base damage&ndash;2d12+4 blunt damage against small monsters and 2d20+4 blunt damage against large ones&ndash;and properly-fired rockets will always explode whether they hit their target or not, dealing 3d8 base [[Fire (element)|fire]] damage to any monsters caught in the explosion (with larger monsters taking increased explosive damage). A BFG can fire 2 rockets per shot at Basic skill or lower in firearms, which increases to 2&ndash;4 rockets at Expert skill; rocket launchers will always fire only 1 rocket. The range for a fired rocket is 20 squares with a rocket launcher or 100 squares for a BFG.
+As firearms ammunition, rockets must be [[fired]] or "[[thrown]]" from an appropriate [[launcher]] (i.e. a rocket launcher or BFG) to deal their actual base damage of 2d12+4 blunt damage against small monsters and 2d20+4 blunt damage against large ones. Properly-fired rockets will always explode whether they hit their target or not, dealing 3d8 base [[Fire (element)|fire]] damage to any monsters caught in the explosion (with larger monsters taking increased explosive damage). A BFG can fire 2 rockets per shot at Basic skill or lower in firearms, which increases to 2&ndash;4 rockets at Expert skill; rocket launchers will always fire only 1 rocket. The range for a fired rocket is 20 squares with a rocket launcher, or 100 squares for a BFG.
-An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert rockets into stacks of 10 [[silver bullet]]s and back into rockets by applying a bullet fabber and feeding them into the &mdash;object properties are lost in the process, though enchantment and beatitude are retained.
+An Anachrononaut or Tourist can convert rockets into stacks of 10 [[silver bullet]]s and back into rockets by applying a bullet fabber and feeding them into the device. Object properties are lost in the process, but enchantment and beatitude of the items are retained.
 ==Origin==
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 In military terminology, a rocket is a self-propelled, unguided or guided, weapon-system powered by a rocket engine. Rockets differ from missiles primarily by lacking an active guidance system; early missiles became known as "guided rockets" or "guided missiles". Some rockets were developed as unguided systems and later upgraded to guided versions, like the GMLRS, and these generally retain the term "rocket" instead of becoming "missiles"; many multiple rocket launcher systems fall into the latter category. Rockets or missiles that travel underwater, like the VA-111 Shkval, are known as "torpedoes", whatever their propulsion system.
-Though used primarily as medium- and long-range artillery systems, historically rockets have also seen considerable use as air-to-surface weapons, some use as air-to-air weapons, and even (in a few cases) as surface-to-air devices. Examples of modern surface-to-surface rocket systems include the Soviet BM-27 Uragan and the American M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System.
+Though used primarily as medium and long-range artillery systems, historically rockets have also seen considerable use as air-to-surface weapons, some use as air-to-air weapons, and even (in a few cases) as surface-to-air devices. Examples of modern surface-to-surface rocket systems include the Soviet BM-27 Uragan and the American M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System.
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