Glass golem
' glass golem 
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| Difficulty | 18 |
| Attacks |
Claw 2d8, Claw 2d8 |
| Base level | 16 |
| Base experience | 409 |
| Speed | 6 |
| Base AC | 1 |
| Base MR | 50 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1800 |
| Nutritional value | 0 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | sleep, poison, acid |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A glass golem:
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| Reference | monst.c#line2259 |
A glass golem, ', is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. The glass golem is thick-skinned, and is one of the stronger types of golem.
A glass golem has two claw attacks, and possesses acid resistance along with the sleep resistance and poison resistance of all golems. A glass golem that is subjected to stoning will become a stone golem.[1]
Contents
Generation
Randomly generated glass golems are always created hostile. Glass golems are always generated with 60 hit points.[2]
Glass golems can generate as a result of polypiling if there are enough glass objects in a pile of items.[3]
Glass golems leave behind several pieces of worthless glass in varying colors upon death instead of a corpse.[4] They are not a valid target for genocide.
Strategy
Glass golems can be surprisingly hard-hitting when heroes first encounter them normally, but cautious and well-prepared heroes should have no problem with them. The worthless glass that they leave behind can be used to reliably identify any worthless glass in the hero's inventory and stashes via type-naming.
History
The glass golem first appears in NetHack 3.3.0.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, glass golems are always generated with 140 HP.[5]
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, glass golems have one of their claw attacks replaced with a weapon attack, and generate with one of the twelve following glass weapons (with an equal probability of each): a saber, a sickle, an axe, a stiletto, a crystal sword, a broadsword, a scimitar, a rapier, a long sword, a two-handed sword, a partisan, or a glaive.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, glass golems are instantly destroyed by sonic attacks, such as the rays from a wand of noise - a hero in the form of a glass golem that is killed this way returns to normal form, even if they have unchanging.
Encyclopedia entry
"The original story harks back, so they say, to the sixteenth
century. Using long-lost formulas from the Kabbala, a rabbi is
said to have made an artificial man -- the so-called Golem -- to
help ring the bells in the Synagogue and for all kinds of other
menial work.
"But he hadn't made a full man, and it was animated by some sort
of vegetable half-life. What life it had, too, so the story
runs, was only derived from the magic charm placed behind its
teeth each day, that drew down to itself what was known as the
`free sidereal strength of the universe.'
"One evening, before evening prayers, the rabbi forgot to take
the charm out of the Golem's mouth, and it fell into a frenzy.
It raged through the dark streets, smashing everything in its
path, until the rabbi caught up with it, removed the charm, and
destroyed it. Then the Golem collapsed, lifeless. All that was
left of it was a small clay image, which you can still see in
the Old Synagogue." ...
