Hammer (skill)
The hammer is a weapon skill that appears in NetHack.[1]
Available roles
The following roles can reach the listed skill levels in hammers:
| Hammer | |
|---|---|
| Max | Role |
| Basic | |
| Skilled | |
| Expert | |
List of weapons
The war hammer is the only weapon to use the hammer skill. Despite its name, the lucern hammer is a type of polearm and uses that skill instead.
There are two artifacts that use the hammer skill: Mjollnir and Ogresmasher.
History
The hammer skill is introduced with many other weapon skills in NetHack 3.2.0.
Variants
SLASH'EM
SLASH'EM adds a new type of hammer in the heavy hammer, which is stronger than the war hammer and used as the base item for Mjollnir—this change is derived from NetHack Plus and SLASH 6, which are ancestor variants.
dNetHack
dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack add the church-hammer, smithing hammer and seismic hammer as weapons that use the hammer skill.
The Water Crystal increases a hero's skill cap in hammers by one level while carried.
EvilHack
EvilHack adds the heavy war hammer as a stronger type of hammer, and it acts as the base item for Mjollnir, Ogresmasher and the new artifact known as the Hammer of the Gods.
SlashTHEM
In addition to SLASH'EM details, SlashTHEM also adds the mallet as a weapon that uses the hammer skill.
