Orcish spear
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| Name | orcish spear |
| Appearance | crude spear |
| Damage vs. small | 1d5 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d8 |
| To-hit bonus | +0 |
| Weapon skill | spear |
| Size | one-handed |
| Base price | 3 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Weight | 30 |
| Material | iron |
An orcish spear is a type of weapon that appears in NetHack. It is a one-handed weapon that uses the spear skill and is made of iron, and appears as a crude spear when unidentified.
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Generation
Orcish characters start the game with knowledge of the orcish spear. Any orcish character that would start the game with a spear will start with an orcishspear instead - currently, there are no applicable roles where this substitution occurs.[1]
Orcish spears make up about 1.2% of randomly generated weapons. In addition to random generation, weapon shops and general stores can stock dwarvish spears.
Player monsters, including those generated on the Astral Plane, have a 13⁄1160 chance (just above 1%) of being generated with a stack of 1-4 orcish spears as their initial weapon before role-based replacements.[2][3]
Strategy
The orcish spear is the weakest among spear weapons against smaller monsters, but still deals respectable damage against larger ones.
History
The orcish spear first appears in NetHack 3.0.0.
References
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 214: Race-based substitutions for initial orc inventory
- ↑ src/mplayer.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 155: 1⁄2 to get a random weapon - the designated range of objects covers weapons from the spear to the bullwhip inclusively in objects.c, and uses normal generation odds
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 275: stackable weapons for player monsters
