

One of the quickest ways to "handle" a hostile minotaur is to use a scroll of taming or other similar item see the below section for more information on that. As minotaurs are not intelligent, they cannot make use of weapons, armor or various other items, including the wand of digging they often generate with - minotaurs also have no monster MR and lack any intrinsic resistances, making them very vulnerable to magic and other effects. Thankfully, unless a hostile monster gets a "lucky" polymorph, you likely won't encounter a minotaur until you're near or in Gehennom. Be ready to employ some of the strategies listed below, and be sure to scan your inventory thoroughly when making last-ditch efforts in a worst-case scenario. Minotaurs represent such a gigantic physical threat that there is an entire section of the article on armor class dedicating to estimating how badly a minotaur can stomp a player at a given AC threshold. Minotaurs are slightly faster than an unhasted hero at 15 speed, and have a natural AC of 0 their three attacks have the highest damage ceiling in the game, short of the Riders themselves. Minotaurs are eligible forms for polymorph, and can also be summoned by the summon nasties monster spell.Ī minotaur has a 1⁄ 3 chance to generate with a wand of digging the minotaurs on Plane of Earth are guaranteed to generate with one. Two minotaurs are generated on the Plane of Earth, including one in the cavern you enter from, and another appears on the Plane of Fire. A sleeping minotaur is generated on the Ranger quest home level.

Minotaurs are not randomly generated one or two minotaurs may be generated on creation of a normal floor that is a full-level maze.
