Church-hammer

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Name	Church-hammer
Appearance	Church-hammer
Damage vs. small	2d8+2
Damage vs. large	2d8
To-hit bonus	-2
Weapon skill	hammer
Size	two-handed
Base price	100 zm (+10/positive enchant)
Weight	170
Material	stone

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Name	hunter's shortsword
Appearance	hunter's shortsword
Damage vs. small	2d8+2
Damage vs. large	2d8
To-hit bonus	+2
Weapon skill	shortsword
Size	one-handed
Base price	20 zm (+10/positive enchant)
Weight	30
Material	silver

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Name	church-brick
Appearance	engraved brick
Base price	100 zm
Weight	170
Material	stone
Monster use	Will not be used by monsters.

A Church-hammer is a type of weapon seen in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. It is a two-handed blunt weapon that uses the hammer skill, and is usually made of stone. At skilled and expert, it gains the hew, knock back and penetrate armor expert traits.

When applied, the church-hammer splits into two different items: the hunter's shortsword and the engraved brick. The hunter's shortsword is a type of one-handed slashing/piercing weapon that uses the shortsword skill and is usually made out of silver. At skilled and expert it gains the focus fire, create opening and quick expert traits.

The engraved brick is a tool that nonetheless appears alongside weapons in the inventory.

The church-hammer counts as self-righteous when in its untransformed state, dealing 2.5x holy/unholy damage against monsters vulnerable to those damage types. Neither of the other two items receive this property.

Changes made to the weapon in the church-hammer form do not apply to the hunter's shortsword, unless they are done through smithing. This does not extend to object properties, which will be applied to both weapons, so long as the sword is sheathed at the time. As an example, a read scroll of enchant weapon will only enchant the church-hammer—not the sheathed hunter's shortsword—but a church-hammer that is improved at a forge or has the drooling object property applied to it also has that change applied to the sheathed hunter's shortsword.

Generation

Church-hammers make up ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of randomly generated weapons.

The Undead hunter quest will have a church-hammer contained in a chest at the top left of the map in the quest home level.

Strategy

Church-hammers are prohibitively heavy weapons, even for roles with high carry caps. Undead hunters who receive church-hammers as their starting weapon will likely want to smith themselves a lighter version or ditch the church brick entirely and just use the hunter's shortsword instead. Although church bricks are categorized as tools, they cannot be resized and only have their weight slightly reduced when made out of mithril (166 aum vs. 200 aum). A more effective solution is to ask a treesinger to make a copy of the weapon, however since those can't be reverse genocided, this option will only really be a guaranteed if the mordor variant of the Chaos Quest was generated, which can be verified at the Oracle.

As a weapon, the church hammer is most useful against holy/unholy hating monsters, but carries a very disadvantageous to-hit penalty in the early game. Before reaching level 7, where they will also gain speed, Undead hunters who start with this weapon will likely want to use the hunter's shortsword instead of the hammer to save on healing and to when dealing with blunt resistant monsters. Their starting smithing hammer (+0 to-hit) can be used to train their hammer skill in the meanwhile.

Messages

You draw the sword from the stone.

The hunter's shortsword is now wielded, and a church brick was added to inventory.

You sheath the sword in the stone.

The hunter's shortsword was sheathed in the brick, becoming the church-hammer

You can't sheath the sword in the stone while wearing a shield.

You are carrying too much junk to successfully draw your sword.

Cannot split the item into two due to the pack being full.

Origin

The Kirk Hammer is a weapon featured in the 2015 game Bloodborne.