Gold dragon scale mail
[ gold dragon scale mail 
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|---|---|
| Appearance | gold dragon scale mail |
| Slot | body armor |
| AC | 9 |
| Special | |
| Base price | 1200 zm |
| Weight | 40 |
| Material | dragon hide |
- This article is about the item in NetHack. For the item in variants, see gold dragon scale mail (disambiguation).
- For other dragon mail that is sometimes abbreviated as GDSM, see green dragon scale mail and gray dragon scale mail.
Gold dragon scale mail is a type of body armor that appears in NetHack. It is made of dragon hide like all dragon scale mail.
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Generation
Gold dragon scale mail is not randomly generated. A hero reading a non-cursed scroll of enchant armor that targets worn gold dragon scales will convert them into mail, with a blessed scroll adding a point of enchantment.
Player monsters that are not monks and are generated on the Astral Plane have a 1⁄9 chance of generating with gray dragon scale mail as their initial body armor before role-specific replacements.[1][2]
Description
While worn, gold dragon scale mail grants 9 base AC and hallucination resistance and acts as a light source, with its range dependent on its beatitude:[3] the radius extends to 2 squares if cursed, 3 squares if uncursed, and 4 if blessed[4][5]—a hero reading a blessed or cursed scroll of light while not confused and wearing gold dragon scale mail will bless or curse the armor as though it was dipped in a potion of holy water or unholy water (e.g. uncursed mail becomes cursed after reading a cursed scroll, cursed mail becomes uncursed after reading a blessed scroll, and so on).[6][7][8][9][10]
Uncontrolled polymorph while wearing gold dragon scale mail will revert them to scales and turn the wearer into a gold dragon, with a hero that has polymorph control being able to decline and choose another form if they wish.[11][12][13][14]
Strategy
Gold dragon scale mail is the brightest light source in in the game when blessed, being the only source of light to have a 4-square radius. This may prove valuable for certain builds of hero that are reliant on maximizing visibility for purposes such as firing projectiles or casting targeted spells such as advanced fireball. Late-game heroes that have magic resistance and reflection covered with the body armor slot left free may consider gold dragon scale mail in order to free up any spare magic lamps and use their wishes for other parts of their ascension kit.
History
Gold dragon scale mail first appears in SporkHack, and makes its vanilla NetHack debut in NetHack 5.0.0 alongside the gold dragon, the baby gold dragon and gold dragon scales via commit 5a09a01a: the implementation is not derived from SporkHack or any variants that implement these items and monsters, but is stated to have been planned for a long while and is done from scratch.
Variants
In some NetHack variants, dragon scale mail is phased out in favor of dragon-scaled armor, whose implementation is based on a proposal by dtsund. Instead of being made into mail of its own, dragon scales are treated as a cloak, and reading a scroll of enchant armor melds them onto a worn set of body armor, generally augmenting that armor by adding its AC and conferred extrinsic properties to it. Dragon-scaled armor is implemented in NetHack Fourk, xNetHack, EvilHack, and Hack'EM.
NetHack variants created prior to the development of NetHack 5.0.0 may give gold dragon scale mail or gold dragon-scaled armor different properties while worn (including different secondary properties).
SporkHack
In SporkHack, gold dragon scale mail acts as a light source while worn with no other added effects.
DynaHack
In DynaHack, "gold dragon scale mail" is the name used for glowing dragon scale mail, which is also used in the prior versions of UnNetHack that DynaHack is derived from.
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, gold dragon scale mail acts as a light source and behaves somewhat similarly to how it does in earlier development versions of NetHack 3.7.0 (later changed to NetHack 5.0.0).
EvilHack
In EvilHack, gold dragon scale mail from earlier versions is phased out in favor of gold dragon-scaled armor, which grants infravision, clairvoyance and acts as a light source while worn.
SlashTHEM
In SlashTHEM, golden dragon scale mail behaves notably similar to gold dragon scale mail in other variants.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, gold dragon-scaled armor behaves similarly to how it does in EvilHack: it grants infravision, clairvoyance and acts as a light source while worn, and it gives the wearer a blinding passive attack.
References
- ↑ src/mplayer.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 151: initial body armor for Astral playermons is random DSM, with equal probability
- ↑ src/mplayer.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 200: astral monks will always forego body armor
- ↑ src/light.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 879-L911: arti_light_radius() function is used for weapon and armor-based light sources
- ↑ src/light.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 899: beatitude and light radius
- ↑ src/light.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 907-L908: worn gold dragon mail gives more light than gold scales
- ↑ src/read.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 2243-L2245: calls seffect_light()
- ↑ src/read.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 1742-L1755: standard scroll effects in seffect_light() function; calls litroom()
- ↑ src/read.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 2518-L2524: cursed scroll effects and call to impact_arti_light() in litroom()
- ↑ src/read.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 2543-L2552: blessed scroll effects and call to impact_arti_light() in litroom()
- ↑ src/potion.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 1591-L1621: impact_arti_light() function simulates the effects of (un)holy water, which in turn affects the strength of the light source
- ↑ src/mon.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 5197-L5205
- ↑ src/muse.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 2247-L2261: muse_newcham_mon() function
- ↑ src/polyself.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 640-L655
- ↑ src/polyself.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 2200-L2202
