Gold golem
' gold golem 
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| Difficulty | 6 |
| Attacks |
Claw 2d3 physical, claw 2d3 physical |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | 56 |
| Speed | 9 |
| Base AC | 6 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 450 |
| Nutritional value | 0 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | sleep, poison, acid |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A gold golem:
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| Reference | [1] |
A gold golem, ', is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. The gold golem is a type of golem that is thick-skinned compared to its weaker kin.
Gold golems have two claw attacks and possess acid resistance, along with sleep resistance and poison resistance like all golems. A gold golem that is subjected to stoning will become a stone golem.[2] Reading a non-cursed scroll of gold detection will reveal the presence of any gold golems on the level.
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Generation
Randomly-generated rope golems are always created hostile. Gold golems are always generated with 40 HP.[3]
Gold golems can generate as a result of polypiling if there are enough gold objects in a pile of items.[4]
Gold golems drop 200 minus rnl(101) gold pieces upon death instead of a corpse, with an average of 140-160 depending on the hero's luck.[5] They are not a valid target for genocide.
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that it is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate this information.
Per commit a1b76593, gold golems generate with 60 HP.Strategy
Gold golems are a significant step up from the other golems that a hero will usually encounter before them, but are not too much trouble for decently-equipped heroes.
History
The gold golem is introduced in NetHack 3.3.0. From this version to NetHack 3.4.3, including some variants based on those versions, casting stone to flesh at a statue or figurine of a golem produces a single meatball, since any golem other than the flesh golem or leather golem is considered "vegetarian" due to not being composed of normally-edible material - this is fixed in NetHack 3.6.0 via commit d8a0f734 so that doing so produces a live flesh golem.
Origin
The gōlem is an animate, anthropomorphic being that originates from Jewish folklore, and is created entirely from inanimate matter, usually clay or mud. The most famous golem narrative is "The Golem of Prague", which tells of the late 16th century rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel and his creation of a golem using clay from the Vltava River, which he brought to life to defend the Prague ghetto from anti-Semitic attacks and pogroms. In modern popular culture, the word became generalized to refer to any crude anthropomorphic construct that is made of inanimate material and brought to life by some means, with the method of animation and the resulting creation's sapience and/or sentience varying wildly.
The encyclopedia entry for the gold golem is an excerpt from the Iliad of Homer, which describes one of a group of gold automatons made by the classical smithing god Hephaestus. These particular constructs have the form of human women and are gifted with intelligence, speech and strength, and assist Hephaestus while he is walking. Other golden constructs made by Hephaestus included tripods with golden wheels that could move in and out of the gods' dwelling at his will, as well as golden and silver lions and dogs that served to guard the entrance for the palace of Alkinoos.
Messages
- <The gold golem> is heating up!
- A gold golem was hit by a flaming attack.
Variants
In variants with object materials systems, gold golems may drop other objects made of gold upon death in addition to or instead of gold pieces.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, gold golems are always generated with 80 HP.[6]
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, gold golems have one of their claw attacks replaced with a weapon attack, and generate with one of the six following gold weapons (with an equal probability of each): a stiletto, an axe, a sickle, a short sword, a saber, or a war hammer. The treasury golem is a stronger variant of gold golem.
The Plumach village map inclusion has a 1⁄7 chance of including a gold vault with a 1⁄2 chance of a gold golem being generated on each square.
Ara Kamerel that are destroyed can convert any gold golems present on the level into new versions of themselves, minus their special equipment - tame Ara Kamerel will instead reincarnate into any gold golem the hero comes across.
xNetHack
In xNetHack, gold golems generate with 60 HP, and can drop various items with an object material of gold upon death, with a pile of 50-150 gold pieces acting as a fallback to replace invalid items generated this way.
Throwing a blessed thiefstone at a gold golem and hitting it will teleport the golem to the square where the thiefstone's 'stash' is located - this includes heroes polymorphed into gold golems, but will not work on any gold golem or hero carrying the Amulet of Yendor.
Encyclopedia entry
The bellows he set away from the fire, and gathered all the tools
wherewith he wrought into a silver chest; and with a sponge wiped
he his face and his two hands withal, and his mighty neck and
shaggy breast, and put upon him a tunic, and grasped a stout staff,
and went forth halting; but there moved swiftly to support their
lord handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids.
In them is understanding in their hearts, and in them speech and
strength, and they know cunning handiwork by gift of the immortal
gods.
