Wood golem
' wood golem 
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| Difficulty | 8 |
| Attacks |
Claw 3d4 |
| Base level | 7 |
| Base experience | 92 |
| Speed | 3 |
| Base AC | 4 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 900 |
| Nutritional value | 0 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | sleep, poison |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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A wood golem:
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| Reference | monst.c#line2064 |
A wood golem, ', is a type of golem that appears in NetHack. Wood golems take an extra d4 of damage when attacked with an axe or battle-axe, and can also be damaged by rot- or burn-inducing attacks.
Generation
Wood golems are always generated with 50 hit points.[1][2] Wood golems never leave a corpse, instead dropping a pile of 2-8 quarterstaves upon death.[3]
Strategy
Despite a decently strong melee attack for the point they are encountered at, wood golems are quite slow and unlikely to be a threat to most players
History
Wood golems first appear in NetHack 3.0.0.
Encyclopedia Entry
Come, old broomstick, you are needed,
Take these rags and wrap them round you!
Long my orders you have heeded,
By my wishes now I've bound you.
Have two legs and stand,
And a head for you.
Run, and in your hand
Hold a bucket too.
...
See him, toward the shore he's racing
There, he's at the stream already,
Back like lightning he is chasing,
Pouring water fast and steady.
Once again he hastens!
How the water spills,
How the water basins
Brimming full he fills!
translation by Edwin Zeydel ]
