Titanothere
q titanothere 
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| Difficulty | 13 |
| Attacks |
Claw 2d8 physical |
| Base level | 12 |
| Base experience | 267 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 6 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 2650 |
| Nutritional value | 650 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A titanothere:
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| Reference | monst.c#line713 |
A titanothere, q, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. The titanothere is an herbivorous rhino-like quadruped that is thick-skinned and can tear through webs.
Titanotheres have a single claw attack.
Contents
Generation
Randomly generated titanotheres are always created hostile.
Strategy
The titanothere is a very straightforward monster: it moves at the same speed as the hero and hits decently hard, but lacks any MR score and has a mediocre AC. A hero encountering a titanothere is likely to have a source of speed themselves along with good AC and either a reliable/quick source of melee damage, wands or spells to hobble the monster with, or projectiles to pepper them with and even apply poison if possible.
History
The titanothere first appears in NetHack 3.0.0.
Origin
Brontotheriidae is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the order Perissodactyla, which includes horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs—the animals themselves are known as brontotheres or titanotheres. They superficially resemble rhinos with some developing bony nose horns, and were some of the earliest mammals to have evolved large body sizes of several tonnes. They lived around 56–34 million years ago, until the very close of the Eocene, and occupied what is now North America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. They were the first fossilized mammals to be discovered west of the Mississippi, and were first discovered in South Dakota.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, the titanothere hits as a +2 weapon, is not visible via infravision and does not randomly generate in Gehennom.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack, notnotdNetHack, the titanothere is a huge monster that is considered a giant, and can also smash down doors. All four points of its AC are in the natural category.
Encyclopedia entry
Extinct rhinos include a variety of forms, the most spectacular being _Baluchitherium_ from the Oligocene of Asia, which is the largest known land mammal. Its body, 18 feet high at the shoulder and carried on massive limbs, allowed the 4-foot-long head to browse on the higher branches of trees. Though not as enormous, the titanotheres of the early Tertiary were also large perissodactyls, _Brontotherium_ of the Oligocene being 8 feet high at the shoulder.
