Plasteel helm (dNetHack)
| [ plasteel helm | |
|---|---|
| Appearance | white skull helm |
| Slot | helm |
| Base size | small |
| AC | 3 |
| DR | 4 |
| MC | 2 |
| Magical item? | no |
| Future tech? | yes |
| Properties |
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| Base price | 50 zm |
| Default weight | 25 |
| Base material | plastic |
A plasteel helm is a type of helm that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. It has a base-material of plastic and appears as a white skull helm when unidentified.
Generation
Several types of hero can start the game with a plasteel helm.
- Human Anachrononauts start each game with an uncursed +0 plasteel helm.
- Male myrkalfar Anachrononauts start each game with an uncursed +0 plasteel helm.
Several quest levels contain plasteel helms:
- 2 uncursed +0 plasteel helms are generated in the bottom right storage room inside the bastion on the Anachrononaut quest home level. Each plasteel helm only has a 1⁄4 chance of being generated for Androids in their quest.
- 2 plasteel helms are generated in the Anachrononaut quest and Android quest locate levels.
- 2 plasteel helms are generated on Anachrononaut quest and Android quest "filler B" levels.
Plasteel helms do not randomly generate, and a hero who isn't a Tourist cannot wish for them, though they may still be found in bones.
Several monsters can be generated with a plasteel helm if they are created in the future.
- troopers have a 9⁄10 chance of being generated with a non-cursed plasteel helm. This helm will receive an additional enchantment ranging from +0 to +3. Otherwise, they are generated with a non-cursed gray plasteel helm with an enchantment ranging from +4 to +7.
- Dwarven monsters generated during level creation are always given a non-cursed gray plasteel helm with an enchantment ranging from +4 to +7.
- The alider is always generated with a blessed +4 red plasteel helm.
- Nazgul are always generated with a black unholy plasteel helm with an enchantment ranging from +1 to +7.
- For Incantifier Kensei, gray fungal towers generated in the Kensei quest during level creation have a 1⁄6 chance of being generated with a plasteel helm.
- death knights are always generated with a black unholy healing plasteel helm with an enchantment ranging from +3 to +6.
- master liches generated in the future are always generated with a black unholy healing plasteel helm with an enchantment ranging from +3 to +6.
- arch-liches generated in the future are always generated with a black unholy healing plasteel helm with an enchantment ranging from +3 to +6.
- Anachrononaut player monsters generated on the Astral Plane are always created with plasteel helm.
Description
While worn, a plasteel helm grants 3 base AC and 4 DR to the head slot, MC2, and takes two actions to wear or take off. A worn plasteel helm covers the face entirely, blocking all non-phasing intelligence-draining attacks aimed at the hero's head, but impeding eating and quaffing if the hero cannot remove the helm, such as when it is cursed or if both of their hands are welded to a weapon. The helm also negates blinding claw and wing attacks, as well as the effects of blinding venom, such as from a cobra's spitting attack. Only plasteel helms made of their plastic base material, or those made of glass, allow for full vision. Plasteel helms made of other materials instead act like a blindfold while worn. Plasteel helms only slightly interfere with spellcasting.
History
Four pieces of plasteel equipment —helm, body armor, gloves, and boots—are added in the standalone Jedi patch for SLASH'EM, which is also incorporated into the base game of SlashTHEM. These make up the iconic armor of the stormtrooper and, along with a heavy machine gun or submachine gun and ammunition, are part of their automatic starting inventory in the patch.
Origin
Plasteel is a fictional material from the Star Wars series. It is, as its name suggests, a compound of plastic and steel. More precisely, it is a plastic reinforced with the fictional alloy durasteel. The Imperial Stormtroopers' armor is made of thin plates of plasteel, lightweight but providing adequate protection against physical damage.
Plasteel is also the name of a durable steel compound in the Dune universe, as well as a real-life composite of steel and fiberglass used to make automobile chassis.
