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Variants that use the [[object materials]] system may give Croesus [[gold (material)|gold]] armor and weapons. | Variants that use the [[object materials]] system may give Croesus [[gold (material)|gold]] armor and weapons. | ||
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| + | In [[SLASH'EM]], Croesus is nearly the same as in vanilla - of note is that hitting him with a [[potion of amnesia]] will produce [[YAFM]], but otherwise has no effect on him. | ||
===EvilHack=== | ===EvilHack=== | ||
Revision as of 08:24, 6 September 2021
@ Croesus 
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| Difficulty | 22 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 4d10 |
| Base level | 20 |
| Base experience | 746 |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 40 |
| Alignment | 15 (lawful) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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Croesus:
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| Reference | monst.c#line2306 |
Croesus, @, is a notable monster in NetHack. He is the rich owner of Fort Ludios and all the vaults seen in the dungeon, and has many guards and Yendorian Army soldiers on his payroll.
If you encounter a guard while inside one of the vaults, you can enter Croesus in the prompt when the guard asks for your name, and you will be left alone until the next one checks in; the name can also be spelled Kroisos or Creosote. This incurs a -1 alignment penalty for lawful player characters, unless it is also their actual name. Answering with this name after killing the real Croesus will instead make the guard hostile. ("Back from the dead, are you? I'll remedy that!")
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Generation
Croesus resides in a throne room on the right half of Fort Ludios, occupying the throne a few squares away from the secret door,[1] and he will always generate with a two-handed sword.[2] While he generates asleep like other throne room monsters, the alarms in Fort Ludios will always wake him up immediately.
Strategy
Characters that are ready for the Castle should be able to deal with him with some caution. While Croesus lacks any resistances and has only one weapon attack, he can deal enough damage to wipe out under-leveled or poorly armored characters in a few swings. Dispatching him at a distance is a good idea for mid-level characters, especially since he has no resistances - a wand of sleep will render him much easier to dispose of, although his 40 MR and decent AC of 0 can make this difficult.
You can freely shoot wands and projectiles at Croesus from across Fort Ludios' moat and chip him down - he can only retaliate if he spawns with his own attack wand or picks one up (usually from another monster killed by the ranged assault), and poses no more danger in this regard than the multiple soldiers you will have dealt with in order to reach him. Using a source of conflict can turn the throne room denizens against each other, which is more than likely to get him killed - at worst, he will be weakened enough that you can mop him and the other survivors up at your leisure.
If you use a boulder (e.g. from a scroll of earth or any giants on the level) or source of cold (e.g. wand of cold or a frost horn), you can cross the moat and take the fight to Croesus, though you must also contend with the throne room monsters; remember that he can see invisible, and like all humans he does not respect Elbereth. Alternately, you can wait for him to step onto newly-created ice, then use a fire-based attack (e.g. wand of fire) to melt it and drown him. Even a low-level character can defeat Croesus this way - however, he has 15 speed and may be able to cross the moat before you can melt the ice.
History
Croesus first appears in NetHack 3.1.0.
Origin
As indicated by the encyclopedia entry, Croesus (Greek Kroisos) is named for a Lydian king renowned for his wealth. Creosote is the the name of a similarly wealthy Discworld character deliberately named after the same figure.
Variants
Variants that use the object materials system may give Croesus gold armor and weapons.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, Croesus is nearly the same as in vanilla - of note is that hitting him with a potion of amnesia will produce YAFM, but otherwise has no effect on him.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, Croesus will always generate with a set of gold body armor, helm and boots, as well as a gold two-handed sword. The body armor will be either plate mail or banded mail, the helm will be either a standard helmet or a dwarvish helm, and the boots will either be kicking boots or dwarvish boots.[3]
xNetHack
In xNetHack, Croesus generates with a gold two-handed sword and gold body armor - the armor has a 1⁄8 to be plate mail, and will otherwise be chain mail.[4]
Encyclopaedia entry
Croesus (in Greek: Kroisos), the wealthy last king of Lydia;
his empire was destroyed when he attacked Cyrus in 549, after
the Oracle of Delphi (q.v.) had told him: "if you attack the
Persians, you will destroy a mighty empire". Herodotus
relates of his legendary conversation with Solon of Athens,
who impressed upon him that being rich does not imply being
happy and that no one should be considered fortunate before
his death.
