Armored boots

[   armored boots
Appearance	boots
Slot	boots
Base size	medium
AC	2
DR	4
MC	1
Magical item?	no
Properties	(none)
Base price	16 zm
Default weight	75
Base material	iron

Armored boots are a type of boots that appear in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. They have a base material of iron, and appear simply as "boots" when unidentified.

Generation

Half-dragon Anachrononauts start the game with uncursed +0 copper armored boots. Samurai start the game with non-cursed +0 armored boots.

Armored boots are not randomly generated, though they can be wished for or found in bones. Armored boots can be forged by human smiths, shadowsmiths and Dracae Eladrin.

Locations

A tenuous pair of +3 shadowsteel armored boots is placed in the sack at the center of the Drow Healer quest goal level during level creation, while another pair of armored boots is placed randomly in the immediate outskirts surrounding that area.

Three sets of armored boots are placed randomly on the Knight quest home level during level creation.

A pair of armored boots is generated on the Samurai quest home level, where it is placed among the full complement of samurai equipment within the chest inside the eastern storeroom of the Taro Clan's castle during level creation.

An uncursed +1 pair of iron armored boots is generated within the chest on the Elvish Racial quest goal level during level creation.

In the Mordor variant of the Chaos Quest, one of the chests in the room directly west of the ogre emperor's throne contains specific types of armored boots:

• a black colored +4 pair of iron armored boots with the "unholy weapon" and "unholy armor" object properties
• a blessed and fixed pair of iron armored boots
• a tiny-sized +3 pair of silver armored boots with the "holy weapon" and "holy armor" object properties
• a pair of mithril armored boots

Armored boots can be generated in the magic item vaults that appear within the Avatar of Lolth's lair during level creation if it appears as the second Abyss level.

Monster starting inventory

Many monsters can be generated with armored boots.

• Deepest ones generated in the future (i.e. the Anachrononaut quest and Android quest) are created with huge gold +5 armored boots.
• Legion devil captains are always generated with armored boots.
• The Bastard of the Boreal Valley is always generated with a pair of metal armored boots.
• Corvian knights are always generated with a pair of metal armored boots.
• Parasitized knights generated outside of the future are always generated with a pair of armored boots whose enchantment will be the higher of two values between its initial enchantment and a random value from +2 to +4.
• Doom knights are always generated with a gray pair of armored boots.
• Hedrow blademasters and shadowsmiths are always generated with a pair of shadowsteel armored boots.
• Sir Aljanor is always generated with armored boots that will have a minimum enchantment of +3.
• King Arthur always generates with a blessed +3 pair of iron armored boots.
• Ashikaga Takauji always generates with an erosion-proofed +4 pair of iron armored boots.
• The militant cleric of the rebel party that serves as the collective quest nemeses for the Noble's default quest always generates with a pair of iron armored boots.
• Mercenaries have an effective ¹⁄₁₂ chance of generating with armored boots that count towards their individual target AC value if they are not generated with low boots or high boots.
• Aurumach Rilmani have a ¹⁄₃ chance of being given an armor set that includes a large concordant pair of golden armored boots, and those boots will have a minimum enchantment of +4.
• Justice Archons generated outside of the Drow Healer quest are always generated with a pair of iron armored boots.
• Shield Archons are always generated with a pair of iron armored boots.
• Trumpet Archons are always generated with a pair of silver armored boots.
• Poro Aulons are always generated with a pair of armored boots that has a ²⁄₃ chance of being silver and will otherwise be platinum.
• Surya Devas are always generated with a pair of golden armored boots.
• Lawful angels, neutral angels and chaotic angels that are either generated in Gehennom or slated for endgame equipment, and do not have any other ruleset governing their starting inventory have a ²⁄₃ chance of being given an armor set that includes a pair of silver armored boots.
• Master mind flayers generated in the future are always generated with a cursed large +4 pair of obsidian armored boots.
• Duergar deepkings and duergar stoneguards are always generated with a pair of iron armored boots.
• Deminymphs can generate with armored boots under multiple circumstances:
  • Deminymphs that are generated as cultists of the Black Mother are created with a +2 pair of bone armored boots.
  • Deminymphs that are generated with pseudonatural/anachrononaut kits are created with a pair of bone armored boots that has an enchantment ranging from +1 to +3.
  • Deminymphs that are generated with samurai kits have a roughly ¹⁄₂ chance of being created with an armor set that includes a blessed and erosion-proofed pair of armored boots with an enchantment ranging from +2 to +4.
  • Deminymphs that are generated with Black Web kits are created with an erosion-proofed pair of shadowsteel armored boots with an enchantment ranging from +2 to +4.
• Vampire lords have an effective ¹⁄₈ chance of being generated with armored boots.
• Vlad the Impaler generates with armored boots.
• Bright walkers are always generated with armored boots.
• Undead knights are always generated with a rusty pair of iron armored boots.
• Warriors of sunlight are always generated with a +3 pair of iron armored boots.
• Darkmoon knights are always generated with a +3 pair of copper armored boots.
• Occultists are always generated with a pair of dragonbone armored boots.
• Horned devils and barbed devils that are generated in Gehennom or slated for good equipment are created with armored boots.
• Erinyes that are generated in Gehennom or slated for good equipment have a ¹⁄₅ chance of generating with a pair of iron armored boots.
• Bone devils that are generated in Gehennom or slated for good equipment are created with a pair of bone armored boots.
• Ice devils that are generated in Gehennom or slated for good equipment are created with a pair of metal armored boots.
• Lilitu that are generated in the Convict quest have a ¹⁄₂ chance of generating with an armor set that includes armored boots.
• Fallen angels that are generated in Gehennom or slated for good equipment have a ¹⁄₆ chance each of generating with an armor set that includes either a black-colored pair of iron armored boots or a pair of silver armored boots.
• The Watchdog of the Boreal Valley is always generated with a huge pair of metal armored boots that have the coldproof object property.
• Gray fungal towers that are generated on the Kensei quest for a lawful incantifier Kensei hero will always have an erosion-proofed pair of armored boots placed on their square.
• Dokkalfar eternal matriarchs that are created in the future are generated with a cursed +5 pair of shadowsteel armored boots, while dokkalfar eternal matriarchs created elsewhere are generated with a blessed, erosion-proofed and black-colored +3 pair of mithril armored boots.
• Alrunes has a ¹⁄₂ chance of generating with an armor set that includes armored boots.
• Worms that walk are always generated with armored boots.
• Player monster knights and samurai are always generated with armored boots.
• Player monster madmen, player monster valkyries, awakened valkyries, and transcendent valkyries that are slated for "good" equipment will always be generated with armored boots.
• Shiro generates with uncursed mineral armored boots when summoned by an Illithanachronounbinder.

Description

While worn, a pair of armored boots grants 2 base AC, 4 DR and MC1. Wearing or removing a pair of armored boots takes 1 action.

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