Long sword (skill)

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The long sword is a weapon skill that appears in NetHack.[1]

Available roles

The following roles can reach the listed skill levels in long swords:

Long sword
Max Role
Basic
Skilled
Expert

List of weapons

Both long swords and katanas use the long sword skill.

The long sword skill has the most artifacts associated with it at seven:

Description

A lawful or neutral hero that is crowned will unlock the long sword skill, even if they do not receive Excalibur or Vorpal Blade from crowning.[2][3]

The ability to create Excalibur by dipping into a fountain is exclusive to the long sword as an item, and cannot be done with any other weapon that uses the same skill.

History

The long sword skill is introduced with many other weapon skills in NetHack 3.2.0.

Variants

NetHack variants will often change the base items of artifact long swords to other items in order to lower reliance on the skill.

SLASH'EM

SLASH'EM adds the silver long sword as a weapon that uses the long sword skill, and is simply a long sword made of silver. SLASH'EM also adds two artifact weapons that use the long sword skill:

All other artifact weapons that use the long sword skill are retained from NetHack 3.4.3 and prior contemporary versions except for Giantslayer, which is replaced by the artifact axe Giantkiller.

SporkHack

SporkHack adds the silver long sword, which uses the long sword skill and is simply a long sword made of silver similar to SLASH'EM.

SporkHack also changes some of the base items for artifact long swords: Demonbane's base item is changed to a silver mace, while Sunsword's base item changed to a silver long sword, and Giantslayer is changed to a sling. SporkHack further adds a new artifact long sword in Dirge, which acts as a sort of a chaotic counterpart to Excalibur.

All other artifacts that use the long sword skill from NetHack 3.4.3 and prior contemporary versions are retained.

UnNetHack

In UnNetHack, Giantslayer's base item is changed to a sling as in SporkHack, and all other artifacts that use the long sword skill from NetHack 3.6.7 and prior versions are retained.

dNetHack

dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHackadds several weapons that use the long sword skill:

The Fire Crystal increases a hero's skill cap for long swords by 1 while carried.

Eden is a spirit that grants skill in long swords while bound.

dNetHack has many artifacts that use the long sword skill—this information can be viewed in the marked tabs.

The following artifacts use the long sword as their base item:

Some changes are also made to the base items of existing artifact long swords from NetHack 3.4.3:

  • Fire Brand and Frost Brand are defined as long swords by default, and have a 1⁄3 chance of generating as a long sword, but they can be generated or wished for as several types of base item.
  • Excalibur retains its long sword base item, and can be created from a long sword of any object material by either dipping the desired long sword or wishing for the artifact as the desired long sword type.
  • Demonbane has its base item changed to a saber, while Giantslayer has its base item changed to an axe similar to SLASH'EM.
  • Sunsword retains its long sword base item and is made of silvered gold.
  • Vorpal Blade retains its long sword base item.

The following artifacts use the long sword skill:

Some artifacts make particular use of the long sword skill:

Conversely, The Singing Sword is an unaligned artifact whose base item is a long sword, but it does not use the long sword skill—instead, it uses and exercises the musicalize spell skill.

xNetHack

In xNetHack, Fire Brand and Frost Brand have their base items changed to short swords. All other artifacts that utilize the long sword skill from current versions of NetHack retain their base items.

SpliceHack

In SpliceHack, Demonbane remains an artifact long sword as it does in NetHack 3.6.7 and prior versions, and SpliceHack also adds two other artifacts that use the long sword skill alongside the existing ones retained from NetHack:

  • Acidfall, an unaligned long sword
  • Frostburn, an unaligned long sword created by combining Fire Brand and Frost Brand at a furnace

EvilHack

EvilHack adds the orcish long sword, elven long sword and dark elven long sword as weapons that use the long sword skill.

Some artifacts retained from NetHack 3.6.7 and prior versions have their base items changed: Fire Brand and Frost Brand's base items are changed to short swords, similar to xNetHack, while Giantslayer is changed to a spear, and Demonbane is changed to a heavy mace made of silver—Excalibur, Vorpal Blade, Snickersnee, and Sunsword retain their base items.

SlashTHEM

In addition to SLASH'EM details, SlashTHEM adds the electric sword as a weapon that uses the long sword skill.

Clockwork automaton heroes can always reach a minimum of Basic skill in long swords.

SlashTHEM also retains the artifacts from SLASH'EM that use the long sword skill, and adds several other artifacts that use the skill (including from other variants):

Hack'EM

Hack'EM adds the orcish and elven long swords from EvilHack as weapons that use the long sword skill.

For artifacts, Fire Brand and Frost Brand have their base items changed to short swords similar to xNetHack and EvilHack, and Hack'EM adds Giantslayer from NetHack instead of adapting Giantkiller from SLASH'EM or other variants—Demonbane is a silver heavy mace, as it is in EvilHack. Hack'EM retains all other artifacts that use the long sword skill from NetHack 3.6.7 and prior versions, and adds some others:

  • Thiefbane, from SLASH'EM
  • Dirge from EvilHack
  • Kiku-ichimonji from dNetHack and SlashTHEM
  • The Master Sword, an artifact wholly new to the variant

References

  1. ↑ include/skills.h in NetHack 5.0.0, line 30
  2. ↑ src/pray.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 916-L919
  3. ↑ src/pray.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 939-L942
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