# Oilskin cloak

[   oilskin cloak   

Appearance

slippery cloak

Slot

cloak

AC

1

Special

MC2slippery

Base price

50 zm

Weight

10

Material

cloth

An oilskin cloak is a type of cloak that appears in NetHack. It is made of cloth, and appears as a slippery cloak when unidentified.

Contents

1 Generation
2 Description
3 Messages
4 Variants

4.1 SLASH'EM
4.2 dNethack
4.3 FIQHack

5 References

Generation
Oilskin cloaks have a 0.8% chance of being randomly generated.

Description
When wearing a non-cursed oilskin cloak, it functions as a permanently greased cloak. granting immunity to the drowning attack of eels; a non-cursed oilskin cloak will also protect metal body armor worn under it if you step into a moat.[1] It provides MC2.
Buying or selling an oilskin cloak in a shop will auto-identify its item type.

Messages
The slippery cloak fits very tightly.
You put on an unidentified oilskin cloak.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, the oilskin cloak has an MC of 3.

dNethack
In dNethack, oilskin cloaks can protect the entire inventory from water damage, as opposed to just worn body armor.

FIQHack
In FIQHack, oilskin cloaks protect against inventory water damage.

References

↑ trap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 2736