Orcish short sword
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| Name | orcish short sword |
| Appearance | crude short sword |
| Damage vs. small | 1d5 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d8 |
| To-hit bonus | +0 |
| Weapon skill | short sword |
| Size | one-handed |
| Base price | 10 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Weight | 30 |
| Material | iron |
An orcish short sword is a type of weapon that appears in NetHack. It is a one-handed weapon that uses the short sword skill and is made of iron, and appears as a crude short sword when unidentified.
Contents
Generation
Player orcs start the game with knowledge of the orcish short sword.[1] Orcish Barbarians have a 1⁄2 chance of starting the game with a +0 orcish short sword as their one-handed weapon, and orcish Rogues start the game with an orcish short sword as their primary weapon.[2][3][4]
Orcish short swords make up about 0.3% of randomly generated weapons.
Uruk-hai have a 1⁄3 chance of being generated with an orcish short sword, and orc-captains have an effective 1⁄6 chance of generating with an orcish short sword.[5][6]
Player monsters, including those on the Astral Plane, have a chance lower than 1% of generating with an orcish short sword as their initial weapon before role-based replacements.[7]
Strategy
The orcish short sword is the weakest of the short swords against small monsters.
History
The orcish short sword first appears in NetHack 3.0.0.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, upgrading an orcish short sword will produce a short sword.
Kobolds have a 1⁄4 chance of generating with an orcish short sword.[8]
Doomblade is a chaotic artifact weapon whose base item is an orcish short sword - it deals +10 damage versus all monsters, with a 1⁄4 chance of dealing an extra (1d4)*5 damage every attack.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, an orcish short sword deals 1d5 damage to small monsters and 1d10 to large monsters, with a -1 to-hit penalty.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, an orcish short sword can be created at a forge by combining an orcish dagger and 2 crossbow bolts. Orcish short swords can be used to create a few items:
- An orcish short sword can be combined with a knife to create an orcish scimitar.
- Two orcish short swords can be combined to create an orcish long sword.
- An orcish short sword can be combined with gauntlets to create orcish boots.
SlashTHEM
In SlashTHEM, in addition to SLASH'EM details, the Lunatic starts each game with a +0 orcish short sword, and Doomblade is their guaranteed first sacrifice gift. Slow Blade is an artifact short sword that has +2 to-hit and +9 damage versus all monsters, and is designed to be the 'opposite' of Quick Blade.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, upgrading an orcish short sword will produce a short sword as in SLASH'EM, and upgrading a dwarvish short sword will produce an orcish short sword. Hack'EM also retains Doomblade from SLASH'EM, and forging recipes are the same as in EvilHack.
References
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 854
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 215: Race-based substitutions for initial inventory
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 43
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 124
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 416: armor and weapons for Uruk-Hai
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 400: switch for orc-captains
- ↑ src/mplayer.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 155: 1⁄2 to get a random weapon - the designated range of objects covers weapons from the spear to the bullwhip inclusively in objects.c, and uses normal generation odds
- ↑ makemon.c in SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2, line 851
