Bat

Useful Info

Although weak, bats are one of most annoying creatures in the game. They move three times faster than the average player and aren't easy to hit, but do very little damage. Bats are only a threat to players on the brink of death.

Bats can be summoned with the Summon Small Mammals spell.

Tips & Tricks

• Bats move very quickly and can perform multiple actions before the player can react, which means they can hit and move out of melee range between the player's actions. One way to minimize hits is to move away from them rather than toward them. They'll waste most of their turn approaching you and may end up next to you. This technique is very useful later on when dealing with monsters that are both fast and dangerous, such as unseen horrors.
• Another way to deal with bats is to fight them in a corridor to restrict their movement. You can even trap the bat between yourself and another monster or a dead end to prevent the bat from moving.
• Ranged weapons such as stones, and bows allow you to attack even when they fly a few spaces away, but characters without the appropriate skills will often miss.

Variant Bats

One particularly harmless-yet-annoying vault you can encounter (the aptly-named "goddamned_bats" vault) contains a wide variety of unique bats. They all have their own names, but for the most part their stats are only slightly different from those of standard bats.

File:Megabat.png Megabat Template:Flavour

Microbat Template:Flavour

File:Gigabat.png Giga bat (has 4 HD and slightly improved stats) Template:Flavour

File:Vampire bat.png Vampire bat Template:Flavour

File:Simulacrum bat.png Ice bat (bat simulacrum) Template:Flavour

File:Bat spectral.png Ghost faced bat (bat spectral thing) Template:Flavour

File:Fire bat.png Fire bat (with only 1 HD and reduced stats) Template:Flavour

File:Bat zombie.png Rotten bat (bat zombie) Template:Flavour

File:Bat skeleton.png Skeletal bat (bat skeleton) Template:Flavour

File:Phase bat.png Phase bat (bat with the Blink spell) Template:Flavour

History

• Prior to 0.13, the goddamned_bats vault also contained dwarf mountain bats and fruity bats.
• Originally, these monsters were called giant bats. This was changed to megabats in 0.8, and in 0.9 they simply became bats.