Explosion attack

Monsters with explosion attacks will sacrifice themselves to engulf their foes in some kind of magical explosion.

The following monsters have explosion attacks:

• e freezing sphere
• e flaming sphere
• e shocking sphere
• y yellow light
• y black light

Note that gas spores are not considered to have an explosion attack, since their explosion is instead triggered by death from HP loss.

Explosion attacks are represented by the macro AT_EXPL.

This page is a stub. Should you wish to do so, you can contribute by expanding this page.

This page may need to be updated for the current version of NetHack.

It may contain text specific to NetHack 3.4.3. Information on this page may be out of date.

Editors: After reviewing this page and making necessary edits, please change the {{nethack-343}} tag to the current version's tag or {{noversion}} as appropriate.