Ranged weapon
In NetHack, a ranged weapon is any type of weapon that can be used to attack a monster not adjacent to the player character. While technically any item in the game can be considered a ranged weapon if it can be thrown or otherwise used in such a manner, only certain weapons are actually designated for use as projectiles in this manner by the source code:[1]
- all spears (dwarvish spear, silver spear, elven spear, spear, orcish spear) including javelins
- shuriken
- all types of arrows (ya, silver arrow, elven arrow, arrow, orcish arrow) and crossbow bolts
- all daggers (silver dagger, elven dagger, dagger, orcish dagger) and the knife
- all stones (flint stone, rock, loadstone, luckstone)
- dart
- boomerang
- cream pie
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Monster usage
The order of preference in which hostile monsters will use a ranged weapon is:[2]
- cockatrice egg,
- cream pie for Keystone Kops,
- boulders for giants,
- polearms or lance if you are in range,
- the above list, in order of priority and if a necessary launcher is available.
Gems are inserted into said above list between luckstone and darts. Polearms can only be used by "strong" monsters without a shield - the preference of polearms is: halberd, bardiche, spetum, bill-guisarme, voulge, ranseur, guisarme, glaive, lucern_hammer, bec_de_corbin, fauchard, partisan, lance.
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See Also
- projectile
- Pet#Weapons lists the order of preference of melee weapons
References
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