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Revision as of 07:52, 14 August 2011
Disintegration is a way items and creatures can be destroyed. Disintegration is one kind of instadeath, which occurs when you are hit by a blast of disintegration. The only possible sources of such a blast are a black dragon's breath or a particular flavor of your God's wrath - wide-angle disintegration beam (which can also destroy worn armor, helmets and shields, even if you are reflective or disintegration-resistant); there are no spells or wands of disintegration. Magic resistance does not save you from disintegration.
Reflection will reflect a blast of disintegration, but not a wide angle disintegration beam. You can gain disintegration resistance, by eating an adult black dragon corpse, by wearing black dragon scales, black dragon scale mail, or by polymorphing into any black dragon. This will protect you from both sources of disintegration, and your armor from a dragon's blast. (Reflective or black dragon armor is not destroyed by a god's wrath.)
If a dragon's blast of disintegration hits you or a monster, and you/it are neither resistant nor reflecting, it will destroy:[1][2]
- a shield if worn, otherwise:
- body armor if worn (plus any cloak), otherwise:
- an amulet of life saving if worn,[3] otherwise:
- you/it.
The rebound can still kill you/it in case your gear saved you from the direct hit.
Certain items can also disintegrate; a spellbook has a chance to disintegrate when you fail to read it. An uncursed scroll of scare monster disintegrates when picked up if it both is uncursed and already has been picked up once, and a cursed one always disintegrates when picked up.
References
- ↑ zap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 3120
- ↑ zap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 2981
- ↑ Corner case: an amulet of life saving is never destroyed by the blast, but it does not die instead of an undead or non-living monster. This can only arise if a living monster wearing an amulet is subsequently polymorphed.
