Stoning resistance
Stoning resistance is a resistance property that appears in NetHack, and protects against the effects of stoning.
Description
Stoning resistance prevents the hero and monsters that have the property from being affected by the stoning attacks and properties of the following monsters:
- Cockatrices and chickatrices, who can turn victims to stone with their touch attacks and hissing, their eggs, bare-skin contact with their bodies, and bare-skin contact with their corpses or flesh from their tins
- Medusa, who can turn victims to stone with her passive gaze (for the hero only), as well as stoning anyone that consumes her corpse or tin
Sources
Stoning resistance is a property that only occurs intrinsically in the following monsters:
- All quest nemeses
- All acidic monsters
- b acid blobs and b gelatinous cubes
- j spotted jellies and j ochre jellies
- D yellow dragons, D baby yellow dragons and the D Chromatic Dragon
- F green molds
- N black nagas and N black naga hatchlings
- all P
- all monsters capable of stoning:
- c chickatrices and c cockatrices
- @ Medusa, who is special-cased to resist all forms of stoning except her reflected gaze[1]
- g gargoyles and g winged gargoyles
- all v
- all y
- all E
- W wraiths
- X xorns
- Z skeletons
- ghosts and shades
- ' stone golems - other golems that are petrified will turn into stone golems
- & sandestins, & Juiblex, & Death, & Pestilence, & Famine, & mail daemons, and & djinn
- : lizards, whose meat can cure delayed stoning
The hero can only obtain stoning resistance through polymorph into any of the listed monsters that are valid polymorph forms. While many of these monsters are flagged as granting stoning resistance when their corpse or tin is eaten, there is no actual feature implemented that reads this flag.
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
Per commit 071d79dc, temporary intrinsic stoning resistance can be granted by eating the corpse or tin of the following monsters: acid blobs, chickatrices, cockatrices, gargoyles, winged gargoyles, spotted jellies, ochre jellies, yellow dragons and their babies, green molds, black nagas and their hatchlings, green slimes, xorns, Medusa, lizards, and the Chromatic Dragon.
Extrinsic stoning resistance can be obtained by wearing yellow dragon scales or yellow dragon scale mail.Strategy
Turning into a monster with stoning resistance is a viable method to either prevent stoning when dealing with several footrices, or else to abort delayed stoning inflicted on the hero. Stoning-resistant monsters can also wield footrice corpses—beware if a hostile stoning-resistant monster picks one up!
Messages
- This tastes just like chicken!
- You ate a footrice corpse while you had stoning resistance.
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
The following messages are added via commit 071d79dc:
- You feel less concerned about becoming petrified.
- You obtained temporary stoning resistance.
- You no longer feel secure from petrification.
- Your temporary stoning resistance expired.
