Claw attack

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This article is about the attack type. For the anatomical claw, see body parts.

A claw attack is a melee attack type that appears in NetHack, and is primarily used by monsters. The attack type is defined by the AT_CLAW flag within monattk.h in the source code.[1]

Description

A monster that has a claw attack, including a hero polymorphed into such a monster, performs the attack by attempting to strike the target using their hands, foreclaws or equivalent body parts. Claw attacks account for the attacker's worn gloves and/or any silver rings (or lack thereof) on their hands, and a hero performing a claw attack will also use their wielded weapon(s) and appropriate skills (including bare hands or martial arts for unarmed combat).[2][3][4][5] Performing multiple claw attacks in a round will alternate between the rings on the right and left hands for this check.[6]

Thick-skinned monsters take halved damage (rounded up) from claw attacks.[7] Magic cancellation can block claw attacks if they use damage types that are also blocked by magic cancellation.

If an engulfing attack is landed during the grace period where a hero or monster cannot be re-engulfed, and that engulfing attack does not deal acid, fire, shock, or cold damage, the engulfing attack is converted to a 1d6 claw attack of the same damage type.[8][9]

A claw attack will cause passive attacks from the defender to trigger.[10][11][12][13] Using a claw attack on a cockatrice or chickatrice without wearing gloves (or wielding a weapon, for the hero) will turn the attacker to stone[14][15]—monsters will avoid doing so against such targets when possible, with the exception of a hero in the form of either monster.[16][17]

List of monsters

The following monsters have claw attacks:

History

The claw attack type is formally defined in NetHack 3.0.0.

Messages

Claw attacks generally use the same messages as weapon attacks performed without a wielded weapon.

Variants

Variants of NetHack may add new monsters with claw attacks, as well as different types of claw attacks.

References

  1. ↑ include/monattk.h in NetHack 3.6.7, line 13
  2. ↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 315
  3. ↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2450
  4. ↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2488
  5. ↑ src/mhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1769
  6. ↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2365
  7. ↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1682
  8. ↑ src/mhitu.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 319
  9. ↑ src/mhitu.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 326
  10. ↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2771
  11. ↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2794
  12. ↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2830
  13. ↑ src/uhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2841
  14. ↑ src/mhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 977
  15. ↑ src/mhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 981
  16. ↑ src/mhitm.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 383
  17. ↑ src/mhitu.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 673: monster claw versus hero
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