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Revision as of 17:27, 1 December 2023
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| Name | axe |
| Appearance | axe |
| Damage vs. small | 1d6 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d4 |
| To-hit bonus | +0 |
| Weapon skill | axe |
| Size | one-handed |
| Base price | 8 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Weight | 60 |
| Material | iron |
An axe is a type of weapon that appears in NetHack. It is a one-handed melee weapon that is made of iron, and can be thrown without a to-hit penalty. An axe can also be applied to chop down doors or trees.
Eating a non-blessed tin while wielding an axe will use the weapon to open it in six turns at most.[1]
Contents
Generation
Barbarians have a 1⁄2 chance of starting the game with an axe as their secondary weapon.[2]
Axes make up about 4% of randomly generated weapons (on the floor, as death drops, or in shops). In addition to random generation, weapon shops and general stores can stock axes.
Ninja have a 1⁄4 chance of being generated with an axe.[3] Live dwarves that are generated with a dwarvish short sword have a 1⁄4 chance of generating with an axe.[4]
Axe skill
| Axe | |
|---|---|
| Max | Role |
| Basic | |
| Skilled | |
| Expert | |
Both the axe and the battle-axe use the axe skill. Cleaver is an artifact weapon battle-axe.
Axe-type weapons deal +d4 damage versus wood golems.[5] Any axe-type weapon can be applied to chop in a specified direction, attacking a monster in that direction or chopping through a door or a tree - the process of chopping with an axe is similar to digging with a pick-axe or dwarvish mattock.
Felling a tree this way has a 1⁄5 chance of generating a fruit comestible, independent of the odds of kicking fruit from a tree.[6] Attempting to chop through a shop door will produce a message and cause you to abort the attempt, though by constantly resuming you will eventually succeed and potentially anger the shopkeeper.[7] Applying an axe to chop into a statue will produce a unique message and may cause up to 2 points of damage.
Strategy
An axe is an unremarkable weapon in terms of damage, but is very useful as a means of breaking through locked doors if you lack an unlocking tool. Applying an axe to a door is a safer way to break one than kicking, since it cannot immediately destroy shop doors and incur a 400-zorkmid bill for damages - the message indicating that you are chopping a shop's door is slightly misleading, but will generally display enough that a player can catch on before it is too late. Do not attempt to chop through any doors and trees in view of a Minetown watchman, or you will instantly anger them.
History
The axe first appears in Hack121 and Hack for PDP-11, which are both based on Jay Fenlason's Hack, and it is included in the initial item list for Hack 1.0.
Messages
- This door seems too hard to chop through.
- You attempted to apply an axe to a shop door.
- Halt, vandal! You're under arrest!
- A watchman saw you chop into a tree with an axe.
- Sparks fly as you whack the statue.
- You attempted to apply an axe to a statue.
- The axe-handle vibrates violently!
- You took some damage from the above attempt.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, Giantkiller is an artifact axe that replaces Giantslayer from NetHack.
Encyclopedia entry
"For ev'ry silver ringing blow,
Cities and palaces shall grow!"
"Bite deep and wide, O Axe, the tree,
Tell wider prophecies to me."
"When rust hath gnaw'd me deep and red,
A nation strong shall lift his head.
"His crown the very Heav'ns shall smite,
Aeons shall build him in his might."
"Bite deep and wide, O Axe, the tree;
Bright Seer, help on thy prophecy!"
References
- ↑ src/eat.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1497
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 43
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 268
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 378
- ↑ src/weapon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 324
- ↑ src/dig.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 401
- ↑ src/dig.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 475: The check occurs after the digging effort has been applied, and if enough effort has been put in, the door will break as usual
