Baby gold dragon
D baby gold dragon ![]() | |
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Difficulty | 13 |
Attacks |
Bite 2d6 physical |
Base level | 12 |
Base experience | ? |
Speed | 9 |
Base AC | 2 |
Base MR | 10 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 1500 |
Nutritional value | 500 |
Size | Huge |
Resistances | Fire resistance |
Resistances conveyed | none |
A baby gold dragon:
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Reference | NetHack 3.7 - commit 837da48, line L1339 |
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Gold dragons and baby gold dragons are added to NetHack. This page describes their 3.7 properties as of December 19, 2024.A baby gold dragon, D, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. It is a juvenile gold dragon that is associated with the element of light. Baby gold dragons emit light from their body in a 3x3 square that is centered on themselves—like all dragons they are strong, carnivorous, thick-skinned, and capable of flight, and will also seek out gold and gems to pick up among other items.
Baby gold dragons have a single bite attack.
Contents
Generation
Randomly generated baby gold dragons are always hostile. A baby gold dragon can grow up into a gold dragon, and gold dragon eggs can hatch into baby gold dragons.
Baby gold dragons are only randomly generated within levels and branches that are biased towards a particular alignment, e.g., the Oracle and Sokoban.
Strategy
While they have decent AC and a somewhat nasty bite, a hero sufficiently prepared for the mid-game should not have much trouble with baby gold dragons. As pets they can be decent fighters and used as flying steeds, but their low speed makes movement while riding and raising them to adulthood time-consuming - making a baby dragon fast raises their speed to a respectable 12, and a magic whistle or blessed eucalyptus leaf may be especially necessary if a character has their own source of speed. Baby dragon corpses can be decently filling for meat-eating pets and heroes.
History
The baby gold dragon is introduced in commit 5a09a01a.
Variants
SporkHack
In SporkHack, the baby gold dragon has fire resistance, and its statistics are close to the baby gold dragon later seen in NetHack (as displayed above), as well as being similar to other dragons in SporkHack.
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, baby gold dragons have the same basic statistics displayed above and the same qualities as other baby dragons in the variant.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, baby gold dragons emit light and possess fire resistance, and behave similarly to other baby dragons in the variant.
SlashTHEM
SlashTHEM adds the similar baby golden dragon, which emits light in a 2-square radius around itself and behaves similarly to other baby dragons in the variant.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, baby gold dragons emit light and possess fire resistance, and behave similarly to other baby dragons in the variant.
Encyclopedia entry
- See the encyclopedia entry for dragon.