Elven cloak
[ elven cloak 
| |
|---|---|
| Appearance | faded pall |
| Slot | cloak |
| AC | 1 |
| Special | |
| Base price | 60 zm |
| Weight | 10 |
| Material | cloth |
An elven cloak is a type of magical cloak that appears in NetHack. It is made of cloth, and appears as a faded pall when unidentified.
Contents
Generation
Elven Rangers always start with a +2 elven cloak in place of the cloak of displacement.[1]
Non-undead elves have a 1⁄4 chance of being generated with an elven cloak.[2]
Various shops can sell elven cloaks, including used armor dealerships, antique weapon outlets, and quality apparel and accessories stores. The bottom level of Vlad's Tower contains an elven cloak in one of the many niches surrounding the upstair room.
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that it is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate this information.
Neferet the Green will generate with a +5 elven cloak.Description
When worn, the elven cloak provides 1 point of AC, along with MC1 and stealth. Wearing or removing the cloak will auto-identify it if you do not have any other source of stealth.
Strategy
Elven cloaks can be a useful source of stealth for the Sokoban zoo and other special rooms that the player might encounter. However, another source like a ring of stealth may be preferred if you already have a viable cloak. In the absence of such a cloak, a decently-enchanted elven cloak will suffice for up to the late midgame.
Elven cloaks and elven boots are among the lightest and most common types of magical armor, and can be safely enchanted past +5 to +7 like all elven items - this makes them especially ideal for polypiling.
History
The elven cloak is first seen in Hack for PDP-11, a variant of the original Hack by Jay Fenlason, and is included in Hack 1.0.
From NetHack 3.0.0 to NetHack 3.3.1, Yendorian Army fighters could generate with an elven cloak; the leather cloak was added in 3.4.0 to replace them in the soldiers' starting inventory.
Messages
- You move very quietly.
- You put on an elven cloak and didn't already have stealth; the cloak is auto-identified.
- You sure are noisy.
- You removed your elven cloak and didn't have any other source of stealth; the cloak is auto-identified.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, elven cloaks provide MC3. Upgrading any cloak except for an oilskin cloak has a 1⁄2 chance of producing an elven cloak; upgrading an elven cloak can produce a cloak of protection, cloak of invisibility, cloak of magic resistance, or cloak of displacement, with an equal probability of each.
The ability to upgrade high-enchantment elven cloaks makes is commonly used when replacing equipment or even assembling ascension kits, and can very easily save you a wish in the process.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, wizard driver Amm Kamerel may generate with an elven cloak.
Encyclopaedia entry
The Elves next unwrapped and gave to each of the Company the clothes they had brought. For each they had provided a hood and cloak, made according to his size, of the light but warm silken stuff that the Galadrim wove. It was hard to say of what colour they were: grey with the hue of twilight under the trees they seemed to be; and yet if they were moved, or set in another light, they were green as shadowed leaves, or brown as fallow fields by night, dusk-silver as water under the stars.
References
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 199: Race-based substitutions for initial inventory
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 225
