Death drop

When the player kills a monster, sometimes it may leave one random item under its corpse it didn't already have when alive; these items are known as death drops. If a monster is neither a Kop nor a type which can't leave corpses, it has a 1/6 chance of leaving a random item on it. The type of item is dependent on what portion of the dungeon you are in. There is also a penalty against small monsters, who can only leave food rations, leashes, figurines, or items that weigh at most three. The game only tries to generate the item once; if it isn't eligible (as per above), no death drop is left.

Normal dungeon

This table applies to anything except Gehennom, the Rogue Level, and contents of containers.

Item class	Probability
Food	20%
Potions	16%
Scrolls	16%
Weapons	10%
Armor	10%
Tools	8%
Gems	8%
Spellbooks	4%
Wands	4%
Rings	3%
Amulets	1%

Rogue Level

There are no death drops on the rogue level.

Gehennom

Item class	Probability
Weapons	20%
Armor	20%
Food	16%
Tools	12%
Gems	10%
Wands	8%
Rings	8%
Amulets	4%
Potions	1%
Scrolls	1%

Special Drops

Some monsters additionally always leave behind certain non-random body parts:

Monster	Item
dragon	dragon scales (1/3 chance, 1/20 if revived)
unicorn	unicorn horn (1/20 chance if revived)
long worm	worm tooth
iron golem	2d6 iron chains
glass golem	worthless pieces of glass
clay golem	50 + 1d20 (avg. 60.5) rocks
stone golem	statue of a stone golem
wood golem	2d4 quarterstaffs
leather golem	2d4 leather armors
gold golem	gold
paper golem	1d4 blank scrolls

See also

• Container#Generation for items inside chests and large boxes
• Monster starting inventory
• offensive item
• defensive item
• miscellaneous item

References

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