# Wood golem

' wood golem 

Difficulty

8

Attacks

Claw 3d4

' wood golem 

Difficulty

8

Attacks

Claw 3d4

Base level

7

Base experience

92

Speed

3

Base AC

4

Base MR

0

Alignment

0 (neutral)

Frequency (by normal means)

1 (Very rare)

Genocidable

No

Weight

900

Nutritional value

0

Size

Large

Resistances

sleep, poison

Resistances conveyed

None

A wood golem:

 does not breathe.

 is mindless.
 has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso.

 has a thick hide.

 does not eat. (*)
 is neither male nor female.
 is normally generated hostile.

 never leaves a corpse.

Reference

monst.c#line2064

A wood golem, ', is a type of golem that appears in NetHack. Wood golems take an extra d4 of damage when attacked with an axe or battle-axe, and can also be damaged by rot- or burn-inducing attacks.
A wood golem that is hit by a rotting attack (i.e., from a brown pudding) will suffer an instadeath and "fall to pieces". A player polymorphed into a wood golem that is rotted away by an attack will instead 'revert to their base form, even if wearing an amulet of unchanging. A wood golem that is subjected to stoning will become a stone golem.

Contents

1 Generation
2 Strategy
3 History
4 Messages
5 Variants

5.1 SLASH'EM
5.2 dNetHack

6 Encyclopedia Entry
7 References

Generation
In addition to random generation, polypiling enough items made of wood may create a wood golem.
Wood golems are always generated with 50 hit points and do not leave a corpse, instead dropping a pile of 2-8 quarterstaves upon death.[1][2][3]

The following information pertains to an upcoming version (3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that it is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate this information.

Per commit e5c73d0, wood golems have a chance to also drop small shields, clubs, elven spears, and boomerangs as well as quarterstaves when killed.
Strategy
Despite a decently strong claw attack for the point at which they can generate, wood golems are quite slow and unlikely to be a threat to most players who encounter them. Be careful not to create a wood golem by accident when polypiling your highlly-enchanted elven weapons.

History
Wood golems first appear in NetHack 3.0.0.

Messages

<the golem="" wood=""> falls to pieces!
A wood golem was hit by a rotting attack and killed instantly.
May <pet> rot in peace.
A pet wood golem was killed as above while out of your sight.
Variants
In variants with object materials systems, wood golems may drop additional wooden items alongside or in place of a pile of quarterstaves upon death.

SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, wood golems are generated with 100 HP, and hit as a +1 weapon.[4][5]

dNetHack
Main article: Golem (dNetHack)
dNetHack adds a similar type of new golem in the living lectern, an animated spellbook on a wooden stand that drops 2-6 clubs and a random spellbook upon its death.

Encyclopedia Entry

Come, old broomstick, you are needed,
Take these rags and wrap them round you!
Long my orders you have heeded,
By my wishes now I've bound you.
Have two legs and stand,
And a head for you.
Run, and in your hand
Hold a bucket too.
...
See him, toward the shore he's racing
There, he's at the stream already,
Back like lightning he is chasing,
Pouring water fast and steady.
Once again he hastens!
How the water spills,
How the water basins
Brimming full he fills!

[ The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
&nbsp;translation by Edwin Zeydel ] 

References

↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 990

↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 1891

↑ src/mon.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 400

↑ SLASH'EM 8E0F2 makemon.c, line 2256

↑ SLASH'EM 8E0F2 monst.c, line 3528

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