Wizard lock - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: all this info can be moved to the spell article after cruft removal

2025-01-05T13:11:41Z

all this info can be moved to the spell article after cruft removal

Tonttu3: typo

2023-01-22T17:18:25Z

typo

Tonttu3: Rogue level behaviour

2023-01-22T10:26:35Z

Rogue level behaviour

Infinigon at 14:36, 10 January 2021

2021-01-10T14:36:01Z

Ardub23: Box-breaking strategy is obsolete with introduction of #tip

2019-08-17T04:21:08Z

Box-breaking strategy is obsolete with introduction of #tip

Qazmlpok: Wand of locking no longer removes trapdoors. Instead, it turns holes into trap doors. (Striking will do the opposite and destroy the door)

2016-01-13T18:45:34Z

Wand of locking no longer removes trapdoors. Instead, it turns holes into trap doors. (Striking will do the opposite and destroy the door)

ChasonBot at 07:42, 22 December 2015

2015-12-22T07:42:48Z

Bcode: /* Uses */ #force will specifically never destroy cursed weapons precisely so you can't use this effect to your advantage, unfortunately

2013-12-31T10:30:00Z

‎Uses: #force will specifically never destroy cursed weapons precisely so you can't use this effect to your advantage, unfortunately

Ais523: /* Uses */ fix typo

2013-12-31T08:24:18Z

‎Uses: fix typo

Ais523: reword the first two paragraphs, to explain why wizard lock is useful

2013-12-31T08:23:41Z

reword the first two paragraphs, to explain why wizard lock is useful

← Older revision		Revision as of 13:11, 5 January 2025
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−	~~'''Wizard lock''' is a magical way to close and lock a [[door]], provided by either a [[wand of locking]] or a [[spellbook of wizard lock]].~~	+	#REDIRECT [[Spellbook of wizard lock]]
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−	The effect will close and lock chests and doors. If the door or the lock is broken, it will be repaired. If the doorway has no door at all, a door will be created. (If there is something in the doorway, the spell will not work.) On [[rogue level\|Rogue level]] where doors are non-existent, a primitive doorway changes to a non-found secret door. When found, this secret door changes back to primitive doorway with no door. [[Drawbridge]]s will be closed.
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−	If you are above a [[hole]] and zap a wand of locking downwards, a [[trap door]] will be created in its place. You will receive one of the following messages:<ref>({{sourcecode\|zap.c\|2710\|nethack=3.6.0}}) Zapping downwards at a hole.</ref>
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−	~~{{message\|A trapdoor appears beneath you.\|You were aware of the hole and are not blind. The wand will be identified as a wand of locking.}}~~
−	~~{{message\|Some dust swirls beneath you.\|You were not aware of the trap or you are currently blind.}}~~
−	~~{{message\|Some frost swirls beneath you.\|You were not aware of the trap, which was on an [[ice]] square.}}~~
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−	~~== Strategy ==~~
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−	~~=== Uses ===~~
−	You can use wizard lock to lock a door if you do not have a key or lock pick. However, given the frequency of keys and lock picks, this is not a common use, since it needs a charge or 10 Power (keys and lock picks are free) and is more effort to use than applying a key. The main advantages of wizard lock over a locking tool are that you need not be adjacent to the door to use it, and that it works on empty doorways and open doors in addition to closed doors. This makes it an action faster in the best case, and considerably faster in the worst case, because sometimes intelligent monsters will open doors before a locking tool can lock them. As such, wizard lock is particularly appropriate when you are being chased, most likely in the early game or on the [[Astral Plane]], as it is guaranteed to close and lock a door in one turn, whereas doing so manually requires at least two (and often more, as you may fail to close or lock the door in one turn). Monsters rarely carry keys, so an immediately locked door is usually safe; [[shopkeepers]], however, have keys, and [[riders]] and enemies with particularly high strength can bypass locked doors.
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−	If you have a wand of locking and a [[wand of opening]], you could theoretically smash a number of monsters in a [[drawbridge]] by zapping them alternately. However, you could only do this a few times before the charges run out, and so this is not a common strategy. It would be slightly more doable if you had the spell versions, {{Spell of\|knock}} and {{Spell of\|wizard lock}}, but it would still cost 15 Power for each open and close, and [[Drawbridge#Strategy\|clearing the castle this way]] can sometimes take nearly a hundred turns (that's 1500 power).
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−	If you need to remove a trapdoor and don't have a boulder handy to fill it, you can use this spell to remove it, provided that you have [[Ring of levitation\|levitation]], [[flying]], or a lot of patience to step on it repeatedly until you escape it. Note that this does not work for holes, so it cannot be used to close holes that monsters have created by zapping [[Wand of digging\|wands of digging]] downwards.
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−	Locking chests is useless in terms of protecting the items inside (monsters do not open boxes), but the ability to repair the lock could be useful in unusual situations. Prior to [[NetHack 3.6.0]], if a box contains an unidentified [[gray stone]], you might wish to destroy the box without taking out the stone, so that you can kick it to see if it is a [[loadstone]]. You can attempt to destroy the box by [[Force\|#forcing]] it with a blunt weapon; if this fails to destroy the chest, you can use wizard lock to repair the lock and try again. (NetHack 3.6.0 introduces the [[tip]] command, which safely removes the stone and makes this strategy obsolete.) Additionally, a locked chest or box can be used to contain a [[~~troll]] corpse and prevent it from reviving; if the only box you have nearby has a broken lock, you can use wizard lock to lock it in.~~
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−	~~If a monster has damaged the walls~~ of ~~your stash, you can use wizard lock to fill them in with doors and give yourself a bit more shelter.~~
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−	~~=== Blocked doorways ===~~
−	~~Any single object can prevent a door from forming or closing. If you want to use~~ wizard lock to create a door on a certain square, then you need to remove any objects from there. This is mostly an issue if you want to lock a door after slaying some monster there, and the monster dropped something. If the monster dropped a heavy [[corpse]] or a [[loadstone]], then you might not be capable of clearing the square manually, although a [[wand of teleportation]] or the [[teleport away]] spell can potentially vacate objects from the doorway.
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−	~~=== Monsters that can pass locked doors ===~~
−	[[Phasing]] monsters can pass through doors. [[Blob]]s, [[pudding]]s, [[mimic]]s, and [[light (monster class)\|lights]] can squeeze or flow themselves underneath doors. Also, [[giant]]s can crash open doors.
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−	~~Other than [[xorn]]s, most of these monsters are slow, so you should still be able to flee them. You might consider fighting one, knowing that the other monsters remain stuck behind the door.~~
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−	~~== References ==~~
−	~~<references/>~~
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−	~~[[Category:Spells~~]]
−	~~{{nethack-343}}~~

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 '''Wizard lock''' is a magical way to close and lock a [[door]], provided by either a [[wand of locking]] or a [[spellbook of wizard lock]].
-The effect will close and lock chests and doors. If the door or the lock is broken, it will be repaired. If the doorway has no door at all, a door will be created. (If there is something in the doorway, the spell will not work.) On [[rogue level|Rogue level]] where doors are non-existent, the primitive doorway changes to a non-found secret door. When found, this secret door changes back to primitive doorway with no door. [[Drawbridge]]s will be closed.
+The effect will close and lock chests and doors. If the door or the lock is broken, it will be repaired. If the doorway has no door at all, a door will be created. (If there is something in the doorway, the spell will not work.) On [[rogue level|Rogue level]] where doors are non-existent, a primitive doorway changes to a non-found secret door. When found, this secret door changes back to primitive doorway with no door. [[Drawbridge]]s will be closed.
 If you are above a [[hole]] and zap a wand of locking downwards, a [[trap door]] will be created in its place. You will receive one of the following messages:<ref>({{sourcecode|zap.c|2710|nethack=3.6.0}}) Zapping downwards at a hole.</ref>

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 '''Wizard lock''' is a magical way to close and lock a [[door]], provided by either a [[wand of locking]] or a [[spellbook of wizard lock]].
-The effect will close and lock chests and doors. If the door or the lock is broken, it will be repaired. If the doorway has no door at all, a door will be created. (If there is something in the doorway, the spell will not work.) [[Drawbridge]]s will be closed.
+The effect will close and lock chests and doors. If the door or the lock is broken, it will be repaired. If the doorway has no door at all, a door will be created. (If there is something in the doorway, the spell will not work.) On [[rogue level|Rogue level]] where doors are non-existent, the primitive doorway changes to a non-found secret door. When found, this secret door changes back to primitive doorway with no door. [[Drawbridge]]s will be closed.
 If you are above a [[hole]] and zap a wand of locking downwards, a [[trap door]] will be created in its place. You will receive one of the following messages:<ref>({{sourcecode|zap.c|2710|nethack=3.6.0}}) Zapping downwards at a hole.</ref>

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 If you are above a [[hole]] and zap a wand of locking downwards, a [[trap door]] will be created in its place. You will receive one of the following messages:<ref>({{sourcecode|zap.c|2710|nethack=3.6.0}}) Zapping downwards at a hole.</ref>
-{| class="prettytable"
+{{message|A trapdoor appears beneath you.|You were aware of the hole and are not blind. The wand will be identified as a wand of locking.}}
-! Message !! Situation
+{{message|Some dust swirls beneath you.|You were not aware of the trap or you are currently blind.}}
-|-
+{{message|Some frost swirls beneath you.|You were not aware of the trap, which was on an [[ice]] square.}}
 == Strategy ==

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 === Uses ===
-You can use wizard lock to lock a door if you do not have a key or lock pick. However, given the frequency of keys and lock picks, this is not a common use, since it needs a charge or 10 Power (keys and lock picks are free) and is more effort to use than applying a key. The main advantages of wizard lock over a locking tool are that you need not be adjacent to the door to use it, and that it works on empty doorways and open doors in addition to closed doors. This makes it an action faster in the best case, and considerably faster in the worst case, because sometimes intelligent monsters will open doors before a locking tool can lock them. As such, wizard lock is particularly appropriate when you are being chased, most likely in the early game or on the [[Astral Plane]], as it is guaranteed to close and lock a door in one turn, whereas doing so manually requires at least two (and often more, as you may fail to close the door and/or lock the door in one turn). Monsters rarely carry keys, however, so an immediately locked door is usually safe; [[shopkeepers]], however, have keys, and [[Riders]] and enemies with particularly high Strength can bypass locked doors.
+You can use wizard lock to lock a door if you do not have a key or lock pick. However, given the frequency of keys and lock picks, this is not a common use, since it needs a charge or 10 Power (keys and lock picks are free) and is more effort to use than applying a key. The main advantages of wizard lock over a locking tool are that you need not be adjacent to the door to use it, and that it works on empty doorways and open doors in addition to closed doors. This makes it an action faster in the best case, and considerably faster in the worst case, because sometimes intelligent monsters will open doors before a locking tool can lock them. As such, wizard lock is particularly appropriate when you are being chased, most likely in the early game or on the [[Astral Plane]], as it is guaranteed to close and lock a door in one turn, whereas doing so manually requires at least two (and often more, as you may fail to close or lock the door in one turn). Monsters rarely carry keys, so an immediately locked door is usually safe; [[shopkeepers]], however, have keys, and [[riders]] and enemies with particularly high strength can bypass locked doors.
-If you have a wand of locking and a [[wand of opening]], you could theoretically smash a number of monsters in the [[drawbridge]] by zapping them alternately. However, you could only do this a few times before the charges ran out, and so this is not a common strategy. It would be slightly more doable if you had the spell versions, {{Spell of|knock}} and {{Spell of|wizard lock}}, but it would still cost 15 Power for each open and close, and [[Drawbridge#Strategy|clearing the castle this way]] can sometimes take nearly a hundred turns (that's 1500 power).
+If you have a wand of locking and a [[wand of opening]], you could theoretically smash a number of monsters in a [[drawbridge]] by zapping them alternately. However, you could only do this a few times before the charges run out, and so this is not a common strategy. It would be slightly more doable if you had the spell versions, {{Spell of|knock}} and {{Spell of|wizard lock}}, but it would still cost 15 Power for each open and close, and [[Drawbridge#Strategy|clearing the castle this way]] can sometimes take nearly a hundred turns (that's 1500 power).
 If you need to remove a trapdoor and don't have a boulder handy to fill it, you can use this spell to remove it, provided that you have [[Ring of levitation|levitation]], [[flying]], or a lot of patience to step on it repeatedly until you escape it. Note that this does not work for holes, so it cannot be used to close holes that monsters have created by zapping [[Wand of digging|wands of digging]] downwards.
-Locking chests is useless in terms of protecting the items inside (monsters do not open boxes), but the ability to repair the lock could be useful in an unusual situation: if you have a stone that might be a loadstone inside a box, you might wish to destroy the box without taking out the stone (so that you can [[loadstone|kick it]] to see if it is a loadstone). You can attempt to destroy the box by [[Force|#forcing]] it with a blunt weapon; if this fails to destroy the chest, you can use wizard lock to repair the lock (and lock the chest again) and try again. Additionally, a locked chest or box can be used to contain a [[troll]] corpse and prevent it from reviving; if the only box you have nearby has a broken lock, you can use wizard lock to lock it in.
+Locking chests is useless in terms of protecting the items inside (monsters do not open boxes), but the ability to repair the lock could be useful in unusual situations. Prior to [[NetHack 3.6.0]], if a box contains an unidentified [[gray stone]], you might wish to destroy the box without taking out the stone, so that you can kick it to see if it is a [[loadstone]]. You can attempt to destroy the box by [[Force|#forcing]] it with a blunt weapon; if this fails to destroy the chest, you can use wizard lock to repair the lock and try again. (NetHack 3.6.0 introduces the [[tip]] command, which safely removes the stone and makes this strategy obsolete.) Additionally, a locked chest or box can be used to contain a [[troll]] corpse and prevent it from reviving; if the only box you have nearby has a broken lock, you can use wizard lock to lock it in.
 If a monster has damaged the walls of your stash, you can use wizard lock to fill them in with doors and give yourself a bit more shelter.
-=== Objects where the door would be ===
+=== Blocked doorways ===
 Any single object can prevent a door from forming or closing. If you want to use wizard lock to create a door on a certain square, then you need to remove any objects from there. This is mostly an issue if you want to lock a door after slaying some monster there, and the monster dropped something. If the monster dropped a heavy [[corpse]] or a [[loadstone]], then you might not be capable of clearing the square manually, although a [[wand of teleportation]] or the [[teleport away]] spell can potentially vacate objects from the doorway.
 === Monsters that can pass locked doors ===
-[[Phasing]] monsters can pass through doors. [[Blob]]s, [[pudding]]s, [[mimic]]s and [[light (monster class)|lights]] can squeeze or flow themselves underneath doors.
+[[Phasing]] monsters can pass through doors. [[Blob]]s, [[pudding]]s, [[mimic]]s, and [[light (monster class)|lights]] can squeeze or flow themselves underneath doors. Also, [[giant]]s can crash open doors.
-Other than [[xorn]]s, most of these monsters are slow, so you should still be able to flee them. You might consider fighting one, knowing that the other monsters remain stuck behind the door. Also, [[giant]]s can crash open doors.
+Other than [[xorn]]s, most of these monsters are slow, so you should still be able to flee them. You might consider fighting one, knowing that the other monsters remain stuck behind the door.
 == References ==

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 The effect will close and lock chests and doors. If the door or the lock is broken, it will be repaired. If the doorway has no door at all, a door will be created. (If there is something in the doorway, the spell will not work.) [[Drawbridge]]s will be closed.
-If you are above a [[trap door]] and zap a wand of locking downwards, the trap door will close up and be removed. (Note that this does ''not'' work with holes.) You will receive one of the following messages:<ref>({{sourcecode|zap.c|2356}}) Zapping downwards at a trap door.</ref>
+If you are above a [[hole]] and zap a wand of locking downwards, a [[trap door]] will be created in its place. You will receive one of the following messages:<ref>({{sourcecode|zap.c|2710|nethack=3.6.0}}) Zapping downwards at a hole.</ref>
 {| class="prettytable"
 ! Message !! Situation
 |-
-| ''You hear a twang followed by a thud.'' || You are blind.
+| ''A trapdoor appears beneath you.'' || You were aware of the hole and are not blind. The wand will be identified as a wand of locking.
 |-
-| ''A trap door beneath you closes up then vanishes.'' || You were aware of the trap. The wand will be identified as a wand of locking.
+| ''Some dust swirls beneath you.'' || You were not aware of the trap or you are currently blind.
 |-
-| ''You see a swirl of dust beneath you.'' || You were not aware of the trap.
+| ''Some frost swirls beneath you.'' || You were not aware of the trap, which was on an [[ice]] square.
 |}

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 === Uses ===
-You can use wizard lock to lock a door if you do not have a key or lock pick. However, given the frequency of keys and lock picks, this is not a common use, since it needs a charge or 10 Power (keys and lock picks are free) and is more effort to use than applying a key. The main advantage of wizard lock over a locking tool is that you need not be adjacent to the door to use it.
+You can use wizard lock to lock a door if you do not have a key or lock pick. However, given the frequency of keys and lock picks, this is not a common use, since it needs a charge or 10 Power (keys and lock picks are free) and is more effort to use than applying a key. The main advantages of wizard lock over a locking tool are that you need not be adjacent to the door to use it, and that it works on empty doorways and open doors in addition to closed doors. This makes it an action faster in the best case, and considerably faster in the worst case, because sometimes intelligent monsters will open doors before a locking tool can lock them. As such, wizard lock is particularly appropriate when you are being chased, most likely in the early game or on the [[Astral Plane]]. as it is guaranteed to close and lock a door in one turn, whereas doing so manually requires at least two (and often more, as you may fail to close the door and/or lock the door in one turn). Monsters rarely carry keys, however, so an immediately locked door is usually safe; [[shopkeepers]], however, have keys, and [[Riders]] and enemies with particularly high Strength can bypass locked doors.
 If you have a wand of locking and a [[wand of opening]], you could theoretically smash a number of monsters in the [[drawbridge]] by zapping them alternately. However, you could only do this a few times before the charges ran out, and so this is not a common strategy. It would be slightly more doable if you had the spell versions, {{Spell of|knock}} and {{Spell of|wizard lock}}, but it would still cost 15 Power for each open and close, and [[Drawbridge#Strategy|clearing the castle this way]] can sometimes take nearly a hundred turns (that's 1500 power).