Cold

Cold shatters potions and freezes water. It occurs in NetHack in several places:

• Wands of cold
• Spellbooks of cone of cold
• Frost horn
• Cold resistance
• Valkyries begin the game with cold resistance, and their special spell in cone of cold.
• Brown molds, blue jellies, freezing spheres, ice trolls, ice vortices, winter wolf cubs, winter wolves, white dragons, and silver dragons all have cold attacks.

• You can inflict cold attacks in meleé by wielding the artifact weapon Frost Brand.
• Ice is a terrain feature created by freezing water. It can be walked on but with fumbling effects.
• Corpses on ice rot slower. Rotting is reduced to zero in an ice box
• SLASH'EM features the new role of Ice Mage and the artifact athame Deep Freeze, which deals cold damage.
• The following new SLASH'EM monsters have cold attacks: snow ants, shadow wolves, mist wolves, steel golems, crystal golems, shadows, and Vecna.
• When entering the Chaotic Quest, you will get the message, "You feel deathly cold."

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