Dead tree

A dead tree is a dungeon feature that appears in UnNetHack and EvilHack. Dead trees are based on a similar feature in NetHack brass.

Generation

In addition to being randomly generated, trees will be turned into dead trees if they are hit with fire (e.g. from a wand of fire) or death rays (e.g. from a wand of death).

Description

A dead tree can be cut down by applying any axe, which takes half the time of a regular tree.

Kicking a dead tree has a ¹⁄₅ chance of generating a hostile raven, a ¹⁄₅ chance of knocking down the tree and removing it, ¹⁄₅ chance of hurting your leg, and a ²⁄₅ chance of nothing happening. If the dead tree has already generated a raven, there is instead a ¹⁄₂ chance of nothing happening, a ¹⁄₄ chance of hurting your leg, and a ¹⁄₄ chance of kicking down the tree.