Dwarvish cloak
[ dwarvish cloak 
| |
|---|---|
| Appearance | hooded cloak |
| Slot | cloak |
| AC | 0 |
| Special | |
| Base price | 50 zm |
| Weight | 10 |
| Material | cloth |
A dwarvish cloak is a type of cloak that appears in NetHack. It is made of cloth, and appears as a hooded cloak when unidentified.
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Generation
Dwarven characters start the game with knowledge of the dwarvish cloak.
In addition to random generation, armor shops and general stores can stock dwarvish cloaks.
Hobbits have a 1⁄10 chance of being generated with a dwarvish cloak.[1] Live dwarves have a 6⁄7 chance of being generated with a dwarvish cloak.[2]
Description
While worn, a dwarvish cloak provides no base AC and MC1. Selling or buying a dwarvish cloak will auto-identify it.
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
Per commit b98a70e3, dwarvish cloaks protect against inventory damage from fire and cold 9⁄10 of the time.Strategy
While almost any cloak is better than a dwarvish cloak (minus the similar orcish cloak), the dwarvish cloak is still enough to protect armor underneath from damage, and the scroll of destroy armor and the destroy armor monster spell will always target the outermost layer of armor first. If you test unknown scrolls by reading them, a dwarvish cloak can be useful as a throwaway cloak to catch destroy armor, after which you can put your regular cloak back on.
Collecting and selling dwarvish cloaks provide some easy money early in the game: most characters are likely to run across dozens of these cloaks while exploring the Gnomish Mines and fighting off dwarves, and lawful characters can collect them from peaceful dwarves killed by their pet (or by their own hand if they are willing to risk alignment record penalties). The sample autopickup exception below is set so that it will turn itself off automatically after you cash in:
# #raise cash for speed runners, on the way down to mine town AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION="<*hooded cloak"
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
The inventory protection from dwarvish cloaks makes them much more valuable assets in the early game, and they can compete for the cloak slot: a character can swap between the dwarvish cloak and a different cloak depending on their needs, while selling spare cloaks as normal, until they find a viable bag to carry vulnerable items in and/or other forms of inventory protection (e.g. extrinsic cold and fire resistance).History
The dwarvish cloak first appears in NetHack 3.0.0. From this version to NetHack 3.4.3, including some variants based on these versions, the dwarvish cloak grants MC2 while worn.
Variants
Some variants may give dwarves an AC bonus for wearing a dwarvish cloak, including dwarven characters.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, the dwarvish cloak grants MC2 when worn.
Upgrading a dwarvish cloak will produce either an oilskin cloak or an elven cloak.
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack, the dwarvish cloak grants a +1 AC bonus to dwarves that wear them, including dwarven characters.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, a dwarvish cloak grants 0 AC, 1 DR and MC2 while worn. Dwarven Nobles start each game with a +1 dwarvish cloak, while dwarven Binders start each game with a +0 burnt dwarvish cloak.
Live dwarves and wizard driver Amm Kamerel may generate with dwarvish cloaks.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, the dwarvish cloak grants a +1 AC bonus to dwarves that wear them, including dwarven characters.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, the dwarvish cloak grants a +1 AC bonus to dwarves that wear them, including dwarven characters.
Upgrading an orcish cloak will produce a dwarvish cloak, and upgrading a dwarvish cloak will produce an elven cloak.
Encyclopedia entry
That's how they all came to start, jogging off from the inn one
fine morning just before May, on laden ponies; and Bilbo was
wearing a dark-green hood (a little weather-stained) and a
dark-green cloak borrowed from Dwalin. They were too large for
him, and he looked rather comic.
