Leather golem

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A leather golem, ', is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. The leather golem is a type of golem that is slower and stronger than some of the other golems.

Leather golems have two claw attacks, and possess sleep resistance and poison resistance like all golems. A leather golem that is subjected to stoning will become a stone golem.[1] Leather golems that take damage from fire traps, the fire effect of magic traps and the fire effect of container traps can lose maximum HP up to 18 of that maximum plus one;[2] a leather golem that is hit by a decay attack (i.e. from a brown pudding) will instantly rot away and be destroyed.[3][4] A hero polymorphed into a leather golem can lose the same amount of maximum HP from the aforementioned traps, and dying from a decay attack returns them to normal form, even if they are wearing an amulet of unchanging.[5][6]

Generation

Randomly-generated leather golems are always created hostile. Leather golems are always generated with 40 HP.[7]

Leather golems can generate as a result of polypiling if there are enough leather objects in a pile of items.[8]

Leather golems leave behind 2-8 sets of leather armor upon death instead of a corpse.[9] They are not a valid target for genocide.

Strategy

Leather golems have slightly better AC than most of the golems encountered before them, but are not too difficult for a prepared hero.

History

The leather golem first appears in NetHack 3.0.0.

Messages

<The leather golem> falls to pieces!
A leather golem was hit by a rotting attack and killed instantly.[3]
May <pet> rot in peace.
A pet leather golem was killed as above, while out of your range of sight.[10]

Variants

SLASH'EM

In SLASH'EM, leather golems generate with 80 HP, possess death resistance and hit as a +1 weapon.[11]

Encyclopedia entry

Leather golems share the following encyclopedia entry with other golems that lack their own 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." ...

[ The Golem, by Gustav Meyrink ]

References