Shirt
A shirt is a type of armor that appears in NetHack and is generally worn underneath body armor.
Contents
Generation
Shirts make up 1% of all randomly generated armor.
List of shirts
There are two types of shirt in NetHack:
| Name | Cost | Weight | AC | Weight/AC | Material | MC | Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T-shirt | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | cloth | 0 | — |
| Hawaiian shirt | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | cloth | 0 | — |
Strategy
Shirts confer no base AC on their own, but can be enchanted into a lightweight source of extra AC - they are most valuable for this purpose once a character has obtained magic resistance or unchanging to protect them from polymorph traps, since polymorphing into a large form will destroy torso armor. In the early game, it may be better to enchant other armor such as a helm, boots or gloves; in the later stages, they are a somewhat common form of wish used to complete late-game and ascension kits by topping off a character's AC.
Shirts are a popular target for polypiling since they are non-magical, making them fairly easy to obtain by polymorphing a large pile of armor - the Castle and Fort Ludios in particular always guarantee a sufficient amount of armor, and the Castle's armor storeroom has a significant 13.13% chance of containing a shirt. The random general store items in Orcus Town may also have a shirt among them.
The table below contains a breakdown of the probabilities of success for polypiling a shirt:
| Confidence | 25% | 50% | 75% | 95% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polymorphs | 28.62 | 68.97 | 137.94 | 298.07 |
| Armors needed (blessed) | 3.59 | 8.66 | 17.32 | 37.41 |
| Armors needed (uncursed) | 5.51 | 13.29 | 26.58 | 57.42 |
Variants
Variants of NetHack often add new types of shirts - those that incorporate the Convict role add the striped shirt, which all Convicts start the game with.
dNetHack
dNetHack adds several shirts with distinct effects:
- Ruffled shirts, which grant a +1 bonus to charisma
- Victorian underwear, which grant a charisma bonus of +2 and MC3, at the cost of a -2 penalty to AC and reduction of dexterity bonuses
- Bodygloves, which are future tech available to Anachrononauts
- Black dresses, which are worn primarily by female drow Nobles
- Plain dresses, which can be found on certain monsters such as witches
- Ichcahuipilli
- Striped shirts, which Convicts start the game with
SpliceHack
SpliceHack adds a few shirt-type items:
SlashTHEM
SlashTHEM adds the following shirts:
- Ruffled shirts from dNetHack, which behave as ordinary shirts
- Victorian underwear from dNetHack, which still grants MC3 at the cost of an AC penalty
- Expensive suits from the NetHack-- series, which Undertakers start with
- Striped shirts, which Convicts start the game with
