Sedge hat
| [ sedge hat | |
|---|---|
| Appearance | wide conical hat |
| Slot | helm |
| Base size | medium |
| AC | 0 |
| DR | 0 |
| MC | 1 |
| Magical item? | no |
| Properties |
|
| Base price | 8 zm |
| Default weight | 3 |
| Base material | veggy |
A sedge hat is a type of helm that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. It has a veggy base material and appears as a wide conical hat when unidentified.
Samurai know the sedge hat as a sugegasa.
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Generation
Monks start the game with a non-cursed +0 sedge hat. Kensei start the game with a blessed +0 sedge hat. Incantifier Anachrononauts start the game with an uncursed +1 sedge hat.
Sedge hats make up 3⁄1000 of all armor randomly generated on the ground, in general shops or as death drops. Used armor dealerships and antique weapon outlets can also stock sedge hats.
Yuki-onna Madpeople that started the game as female will have an orange sedge hat generated among their belongings in the quest box on the goal level of the Madperson quest during level creation.
Several monsters can be generated with sedge hats:
- Zhi ren monks are always generated with a paper sedge hat that has a 1⁄4 chance of being given an enchantment ranging from +1 to +4.
- Roshis are always generated with sedge hats.
- Xorn monks and xuenu monks are always generated with sedge hats.
- Terracotta soldiers generated on the Monk quest are always created with mineral sedge hats.
- Deminymphs can generated with sedge hats depending on the kits they are given, and those hats have a 1⁄20 chance of being made into an artifact.
- Deminymphs that are generated with monk kits are always generated with sedge hats that have an enchantment ranging from +1 to +3.
- Undead Hunter deminymphs that are generated with samurai kits are always generated with orange-colored sedge hats that have an enchantment ranging from +2 to +4.
- Lilitu that are aligned with the Black Mother and are not created with the "mistweaver" template will be given a +4 bone sedge hat.
- Chiropterans generated in the Anachrononaut quest and Android quest are always generated with sedge hats.
- Player monster monks are always generated with sedge hats.
Description
While worn, a sedge hat grants 0 base AC, 0 base DR and MC1. As a wide hat, wearing it grants protection from the acid rain monster spell.
Since they are veggy, herbivorous monsters can eat sedge hats.
Origin
The "sedge hat" is an English name for the Asian conical hat, a style of sun hat worn in various countries across the continent: China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Bhutan. The Asian conical hat is kept on the head by a cloth or fiber chin strap, an inner headband, or both. It is primarily used as a form of protection from the sun and rain, and when made of straw or other woven materials, it can be dipped in water and worn as an impromptu means of evaporative cooling. Sedge itself refers to the hat's material, which is derived from a family of flowering plants, Cyperaceae, that are graminoids (grass-like) and monocots (i.e. they have only one embryonic leaf)—this family has some 5,500 known species in about 90 genera, with the largest being the "true sedges" (genus Carex) that consist of over 2,000 species.
In China, these conical hats are typically associated with farmers, and mandarins wore tighter circular caps (especially in the winter). In the Philippines, the hat is known as a salakót and is more commonly a pointed dome-shape rather than conical, with a spike or knob finial and an inner headband in addition to a chinstrap: the plain type is typically worn by farmers, but nobles in the pre-colonial period (and later principalia in the Spanish period) crafted ornate variations with jewels, precious metals, or tortoiseshell; these are considered heirloom objects passed down from generation to generation within families. In Vietnam, the hat is known by many names–nón lá, nón tơi ("hats"), nón gạo ("rice hat"), nón dang ("conical hat") or nón trúc ("bamboo hat")–and forms a perfect right circular cone which tapers smoothly from the base to the apex; special hats also contain colourful hand-stitch depictions or words. The Huế varieties are famous for their nón bài thơ (lit. poem conical hats) and contain random poetic verses and Chữ Hán, which can be revealed when the hat is directed above one's head in the sunlight. In modernity, they have become part of Vietnam's national costume.
In Japan and other regions of East Asia, this style of hat is known as a kasa (笠), a symbol of Buddhism that was traditionally worn by pilgrims and Buddhist monks in search of alms (hence its association with Monks in dNetHack and its derivatives)—kasa is changed to -gasa when preceded by another word specifying the type of hat, e.g. sugegasa. A number of different styles of kasa exist, with many varieties used throughout most all levels of Japanese society: the sugegasa (菅笠) is Japan's equivalent of the Asian conical hat, and is a pointed wickerwork kasa made of sedge, while the jingasa (陣笠) is a sturdier and/or metallic variant commonly worn by samurai, retainers and foot soldiers that almost always bore crests, and could be made from iron, copper, wood, paper, bamboo, or leather.
Messages
- A few drops of liquid hit your wide straw hat.
- You were protected from the acid rain spell by your worn sedge hat.
- A few drops of viscous liquid hit <the monster's> wide straw hat.
- A monster was protected from the acid rain spell by their worn sedge hat.
