Shirt
A shirt is a type of armor that appears in NetHack and is generally worn underneath body armor.
Contents
Generation
Shirts make up 1% of all randomly generated armor.
List of shirts
There are two types of shirt in NetHack:
| Name | Cost | Weight | AC | Weight/AC | Material | MC | Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T-shirt | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | cloth | 0 | — |
| Hawaiian shirt | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | cloth | 0 | — |
Strategy
Shirts confer no base AC on their own, but can be enchanted into a lightweight source of extra AC - they are most valuable for this purpose once a character has obtained magic resistance or unchanging to protect them from polymorph traps, since polymorphing into a large form will destroy torso armor. In the early game, it may be better to enchant other armor such as a helm, boots or gloves; in the later stages, they are a somewhat common form of wish used to complete late-game and ascension kits by topping off a character's AC.
Shirts are a popular target for polypiling since they are non-magical, making them fairly easy to obtain by polymorphing a large pile of armor - the Castle and Fort Ludios in particular always guarantee a sufficient amount of armor, and the Castle's armor storeroom has a significant 13.13% chance of containing a shirt. The random general store items in Orcus Town may also have a shirt among them.
The table below contains a breakdown of the probabilities of success for polypiling a shirt:
| Confidence | 25% | 50% | 75% | 95% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polymorphs | 28.62 | 68.97 | 137.94 | 298.07 |
| Armors needed (blessed) | 3.59 | 8.66 | 17.32 | 37.41 |
| Armors needed (uncursed) | 5.51 | 13.29 | 26.58 | 57.42 |
Variants
Variants of NetHack often add new types of shirts.
Variants that incorporate the Convict role add the striped shirt, which all Convicts start the game with.
dNetHack
dNetHack adds several shirts with distinct effects:
- Ruffled shirts, which grant a +1 bonus to charisma
- Victorian underwear, which grant a charisma bonus of +2 and MC3, at the cost of a -2 penalty to AC and reduction of dexterity bonuses
- Bodygloves, which are future tech available to Anachrononauts
- Black dresses, which are worn primarily by female drow Nobles
- Plain dresses, which can be found on certain monsters such as witches
- Ichcahuipilli
- Striped shirts, which Convicts start the game with
SpliceHack
SpliceHack adds a few shirt-type items:
SlashTHEM
SlashTHEM adds the following shirts:
- Ruffled shirts from dNetHack, which behave as ordinary shirts
- Victorian underwear from dNetHack, which still grants MC3 at the cost of an AC penalty
- Expensive suits from the NetHack-- series, which Undertakers start with
- Striped shirts, which Convicts start the game with
