Human (monster)
@ human 
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| Difficulty | 2 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 1d6 |
| Base level | 0 |
| Base experience | 6 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 10 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A human:
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| Reference | monst.c#line2277 |
A human, @, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. Humans are strong omnivores that can be seen via infravision and will pick up weapons, food and other items—they serve as the base monster for the corpse left by human heroes, human zombies, human mummies, vampires and vampire lords.
A human has a single weapon attack.
Contents
Generation
Standard humans are not randomly generated.
A human zombie, human mummy, vampire, or vampire lord will leave an aged human corpse behind upon death;[1][2] human heroes that are killed and leave bones will have a human corpse atop their grave, unless they were killed by certain monsters, stoned or else disintegrated. Humans can be generated by zapping a wand of undead turning at a human corpse that is not left by an undead monster, or else by selecting humans while reading a cursed scroll of genocide.
The Wizard of Yendor may create a clone of himself in the guise of a human via the Double Trouble monster spell, which is one of the few instances where the monster can be encountered without the hero creating any themselves.[3]
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.
Per commit 524ae27c, human corpses generated as part of fake bones on traps have a 24⁄25 chance of being replaced with a player monster corpse.Murder and monster humans
Strangely, killing any standard human, even a hostile one, will be considered murder for a lawful character. This occurs because the following conditions must be met for murder penalties to apply:
- The player must not be chaotic
- The monster killed must be of human type
- The monster killed must not be a player monster
- The monster killed must not always be generated hostile
- Killing the monster must produce a non-positive change in alignment record for the player
For a non-chaotic character, the first four conditions are always met, since humans are not always generated hostile. However, they are also not guaranteed to be peaceful: they will always be hostile to a lawful hero, and have a 1⁄2 chance of being peaceful to a neutral hero. Because of the way alignment gain works, killing a hostile human will be considered murder for lawfuls, since killing a cross-aligned "sometimes peaceful" monster adjusts the player's alignment record by malign - this represents the monster's alignment, which in the case of the neutral human is zero and thus neither positive nor negative. The human is the only monster for which these conditions can align.
For a neutral hero, killing a hostile human will not be considered murder, as the alignment gain from killing a co-aligned "sometimes peaceful" monster is max(3, malign), or 3 - killing a peaceful human will still be considered murder as normal.
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.
Per commit cd91d063, killing standard humans no longer incurs murder penalties.History
The human first appears in NetHack 3.0.0.
Variants
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, vampire heroes are given human blood as a replacement for the following items in their role's starting inventory: food rations, cram rations, potions of fruit juice, tripe rations, bananas, oranges, and potions of booze.
Encyclopedia entry
These strange creatures live mostly on the surface of the earth, gathering together in societies of various forms, but occasionally a stray will descend into the depths and commit mayhem among the dungeon residents who, naturally, often resent the intrusion of such beasts. They are capable of using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species.
References
- ↑ src/mon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 147: Converting monster index of undead to corpses of their living counterparts
- ↑ src/mon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 372: Undead corpses and their ages are handled with other "special" death drops
- ↑ src/wizard.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 51
