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{{armor
  |color=white
  |name=T-shirt
  |slot=shirt
  |ac=0
  |special=<ul><li>[[read]]able</li><li>[[shop]] markup</li></ul>
  |cost=2
  |weight=5
  |material=cloth
}}

A '''T-shirt''' is a type of [[shirt]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. It is made of [[cloth]], and is nearly identical to the [[Hawaiian shirt]].

==Generation==
The T-shirt makes up 0.2% of all randomly generated [[armor]].

==Description==
While worn, a T-shirt provides no base [[AC]].

T-shirts can be [[read]], which breaks the illiterate [[conduct]] and displays a message describing the text on the shirt{{refsrc|src/read.c|161|nethack=3.6.7}}  - this message is dependent on the item's object ID, so it will remain consistent for any one T-shirt, and the text will be degraded if the shirt is [[eroded]].{{refsrc|src/read.c|162|nethack=3.6.7}}

Entering a [[shop]] with a visible worn T-shirt will cause the [[shopkeeper]] to charge an extra {{frac|3}} markup and buy things for {{frac|3}} of the base price.

===T-shirt texts===
The possible messages are:{{refsrc|src/read.c|81|nethack=3.6.7}}

* "I explored the [[Dungeons of Doom]] and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!"
* "Is that [[Mjollnir]] in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
* "It's not the size of your sword, it's how [[Enhance|#enhance]]’d you are with it."
* "Madame Elvira's House O' [[Succubi]] Lifetime Customer"
* "Madame Elvira's House O' Succubi Employee of the Month"
* "[[Fort Ludios|Ludios]] [[Vault]] Guards Do It In Small, Dark Rooms"
* "Yendor Military [[Soldier]]s Do It In Large Groups"
* "I survived Yendor Military Boot Camp"
* "Ludios Accounting School Intra-Mural Lacrosse Team"
* "[[Oracle (level)|Oracle]](TM) Fountains 10th Annual Wet T-Shirt Contest"
* "Hey, [[black dragon]]! Disintegrate THIS!"
* "I'm With Stupid -->"
* "Don't blame me, I voted for [[Izchak]]!"
* "Don't Panic"
* "Furinkan High School Athletic Dept."
* "Hel-LOOO, [[Nurse]]!"
* "=^.^=",
* "100% [[goblin]] hair - do not wash"
* "Aberzombie and Fitch"
* "cK -- [[Cockatrice]] touches the [[Keystone Kop (monster class)|Kop]]"
* "Don't ask me, I only adventure here"
* "Down with pants!"
* "d, your dog or a killer?"
* "FREE [[Wizard quest#The Dark One's Dungeon|PUG AND NEWT]]!"
* "Go [[Team Ant|team ant]]!"
* "Got [[newt]]?"
* "Hello, my darlings!"
* "Hey!  [[Nymphs]]!  Steal This T-Shirt!"
* "I <3 Dungeon of Doom"
* "I <3 [[Maud]]"
* "I am a [[Valkyrie]].  If you see me running, try to keep up."
* "I am not a pack rat - I am a collector"
* "I bounced off a rubber tree"
* "Plunder Island Brimstone Beach Club"
* "If you can read this, I can hit you with my [[polearm]]"
* "I'm [[confused]]!"
* "I scored with the princess"
* "I want to [[Ascension|live forever]] or [[Dying|die]] in the attempt."
* "[[Lichen]] Park"
* "LOST IN THOUGHT - please send search party"
* "Meat is Mordor"
* "[[Minetown]] Better Business Bureau"
* "Minetown [[Watch]]"
* "Ms. Palm's House of Negotiable Affection -- A Very Reputable House Of Disrepute"
* "[[Protection racket|Protection Racketeer]]"
* "Real men love [[Crom]]"
* "Somebody stole my [[Mjollnir|Mojo]]!"
* "The [[Hellhound]] Gang"
* "The [[Werewolves]]"
* "They Might Be [[Storm giant|Storm Giants]]"
* "Weapons don't kill people, I kill people"
* "White Zombie"
* "You're killing me!"
* "[[Anhur]] State University - Home of the Fighting [[Fire ant|Fire Ant]]s!"
* "FREE HUGS"
* "[[Streak|Serial Ascender]]"
* "Real men are valkyries"
* "Young Men's Cavedigging Association"
* "Occupy Fort Ludios"
* "I couldn't afford this T-shirt so I stole it!"
* "[[Mind flayers]] suck"
* "I'm not wearing any pants"
* "Down with the living!"
* "[[Pudding farming|Pudding farmer]]"
* "[[Vegetarian]]"
* "Hello, I'm [[War]]!"
* "It is better to light a [[candle]] than to curse the darkness"
* "It is easier to curse the darkness than to light a candle"
* "[[rock]]--[[Scroll of blank paper|paper]]--scissors--[[lizard]]--Spock!" (''The Big Bang Theory'')
* "/Valar morghulis/ -- /Valar dohaeris/" ([https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Valar_morghulis Common phrases] from ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series)

==Strategy==
Like the Hawaiian shirt, T-shirts are generally employed to enchant as an additional source of AC, but are best reserved until after a character obtains protection from [[polymorph trap]]s - worn torso armor will be destroyed if they polymorph into a large form. In the early game, scrolls of {{? of|enchant armor}} may be best reserved for other armor such as a [[helm]], [[boots]] or [[gloves]]. T-shirts are typically most worth enchanting once a character has [[magic resistance]], as well as solid enough enchantment on their other armor. An enchanted T-shirt may also be [[wish]]ed for in order to top off an otherwise-complete [[ascension kit]].

For characters not averse to [[polypiling]], shirts are fairly easy to obtain with a [[wand of polymorph]] (or the {{spell of|polymorph}} spell for powerful enough casters) and a large pile of armor, which is most easily obtained in the [[Castle]] or [[Fort Ludios]]. The Castle's armor storeroom in particular has a 13.13% chance of containing either a Hawaiian shirt or a T-shirt. The random general store items in [[Orcus Town]] may also have a T-shirt among them.

==History==
The T-shirt first appears in [[NetHack 3.2.0]], where it generates if the TOURIST [[compile-time option]] is defined. From this version to [[NetHack 3.3.1]], there are only three possible T-shirt messages:{{refsrc|read.c|86|version=NetHack 3.3.0}}

{{message|"I explored the Dungeons of Doom, but all I got was this lousy T-shirt"|The normal T-shirt message.}}
{{message|"I explored the Dungeons of Doom, and never did any laundry..."|You are [[hallucinating]] and currently wearing the T-shirt.}}
{{message|"I explored the Dungeons of Doom, and couldn't find my way out"|As above, but you are not currently wearing the T-shirt.}}

Many extra T-shirt messages are added in [[NetHack 3.4.0]] from a [http://www.killerbunnies.org/nethack/3.3.1/tshirt.diff patch by Scott Bigham], and several more are introduced in [[NetHack 3.6.0]] and [[NetHack 3.6.1]].

==Variants==
===dNetHack===
In [[dNetHack]] and [[notdNetHack]], the [[dNetHack artifacts#Tie-Dye Shirt of Shambhala|Tie-Dye Shirt of Shambhala]] is an unaligned [[artifact]] T-shirt that can be enchanted to +7, and alters carrying capacity while worn: it confers a {{frac|2}} increase while blessed, a {{frac|4}} increase while uncursed, and a {{frac|4}} ''penalty'' while cursed. The shirt also enhances charisma if worn without body armor and enhances wisdom if worn with it, and can be read to cure status properties like a [[unicorn horn]] if not covered by non-crystal body armor. Invoking the Tie-Dye Shirt confers [[enlightenment]].

===TNNT (the game)===
In [[TNNT (the game)]], the reward for completing [[the DevTeam Office]] quest is the [[Really Cool Shirt]], an artifact T-shirt that acts as a [[luck item]] while carried and provides [[warning]] while worn. Reading the Really Cool Shirt has a {{frac|49|50}} chance of producing a random rumor according to its beatitude: true only if blessed, false only if cursed, or either if uncursed. Due to its generation method, it will revert to a normal T-shirt if left in a [[bones]] file.

===EvilHack===
In [[EvilHack]], T-shirts can be made of other materials such as [[leather]], which provides some base [[AC]] and may make them more valuable to wear early on. Shirt wishes are just as popular as in ''NetHack'' if not more so: [[Object materials (EvilHack)|object materials]] and [[Object properties|properties]] make the shirt slot valuable for characters that are not [[Giant (starting race)|giants]] or [[Tortle (starting race)|tortles]]. An example of such a wish is "blessed greased fixed +3 [[dragonhide]] T-shirt of decay", with "decay" being an object property that provides [[drain resistance]].

===Hack'EM===
In [[Hack'EM]], T-shirts can only be made of cloth. [[Upgrading]] a T-shirt will produce a [[striped shirt]], and vice versa.

==References==
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