Droven bolt
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| Name | droven bolt |
| Appearance | <obsidian> crossbow bolt |
| Damage vs. small | 1d9+1 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d6+1 |
| Damage type | piercing |
| To-hit bonus | +8 |
| Weapon skill | crossbow |
| Primary attribute | strength |
| Magical item? | no |
| Properties | (none) |
| Base size | small |
| Base price | 2 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Default weight | 1 |
| Base material | obsidian |
- For the weapon in EvilHack, see dark elven crossbow bolt.
A droven bolt is a type of weapon that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. It is a stackable projectile designed for use with droven crossbows, and uses the crossbow skill. It has a default material of obsidian, and appears as a "crossbow bolt" when unidentified.
Generation
Drow Rangers will receive a droven crossbow and bolts in place of the role's standard bow and arrows, with the bolts being drug-coated. Other drow heroes that are not Madpeople start with knowledge of droven bolts—drow Madpeople that open their quest box will regain their knowledge of the droven bolt.
Droven bolts are not randomly generated, though they can be wished for or found in bones.
Droven bolts have a base 1⁄33 chance of being generated by the arrow rain monster spell.
Some drow and other monsters are generated with droven bolts for their droven crossbow, and droven bolts given to drow will always be drug-coated.
- Y-cultist fighters and any drow that does not have a defined starting inventory will have a 1⁄3 chance of generating with a weapon kit that includes a droven crossbow and a stack of 24-36 droven bolts.
- Drow matrons and drow matron-mothers are always generated with a droven crossbow and a stack of 24-36 droven bolts.
- Driders always generate with a droven crossbow and 20-30 droven bolts.
- Deminymphs that are created with "Black Web drow priestess" kits will always be generated with 20-30 droven bolts for their droven crossbow.
- Hedrow wizards that are generated as priests of a temple to Lolth will generate with a droven crossbow and a stack of 24-36 droven bolts.
Liecleaver and Wrathful Spider can be invoked to generate a small stack of droven bolts. A hero that has the spirit Eve bound and is wielding a droven crossbow can use "Thorns and Stones" to create some droven bolts at the cost of some HP.
Description
As crossbow ammunition, droven bolts must be fired or shot from an appropriate launcher to deal their actual base damage, and deal piercing damage when properly shot. Droven bolts that are properly shot deal 1d9+1 damage versus small monsters and 1d6+1 damage versus large monsters, and they have a +8 to-hit bonus. Droven bolts can be be poisoned by dipping them in an appropriate potion.
In terms of monster weapon preference for ranged weapons, monsters will favor shooting droven bolts to throwing dwarvish spears and will prefer firearms ammo or better projectiles over droven bolts.
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