User:Umbire the Phantom/Centaur
| C centaur (No tile) | |
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| Attacks |
Weapon 1d6 |
| Base level | 4
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| Speed | 18 |
| Base AC | 4 |
| Base MR | 10
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| Weight | 50 |
| Nutritional value | 500
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| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A centaur:
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A centaur, C, is a monster that appears in older versions of NetHack from Hack 1.0 to NetHack 3.0.0.
A centaur has a single attack.
(The information below primarily concerns NetHack 1.3d, and will be expanded as necessary upon studying other versions.)
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Generation
Centaur are typically created hostile.
Centaurs are among the monsters that can be generated in throne rooms.[1]
Centaurs have a 1⁄2 chance of generating with a crossbow that has a 1⁄2 chance of being cursed and 3-14 crossbow bolts.[2]
Strategy
Centaurs are quite fast and annoying to deal with if they manage to pick up a ranged weapon, but a smart hero can position themselves for an easier fight. Dead centaurs are also quite filling at 500 nutrition.
History
The centaur first appears as an individual monster in Hack 1.21 and Hack for PDP-11, which are based on Jay Fenlason's Hack, and is included in the initial bestiary for Hack 1.0. In Hack 1.21, the centaur uses the c glyph; in Hack for PDP-11 and Hack 1.0, it uses its modern glyph. NetHack 3.0.0 introduces the centaur monster class and phases out the centaur monster in favor of the three modern subtypes.
