Shovel

The shove is used to destroy several kinds of obstacles easily. Some of them can only be destroyed with a shovel, others can be destroyed by a strong enough weapons.

Shovel is a terrible weapon with very short range, hard to aim, you often hit yourself against the monster and miss. Use as a weapon only in case of emergencies.

You can get some items or gasses from destroying some obstacles, or even spawn enemies.

This is a list of objects you can shovel:
 * Sand Pile: Only destroyed with the shovel. Some times is used to block secret rooms. Other times you can create shortcuts, most of the time is just decoration on the level. Can spawn sand elementals or sand worms. It is best to shield yourself while digging these.
 * Snow Pile: Destroyed with shovel or fire projectiles. Can be removed to create shortcuts or find hidden rooms.
 * Rock Wall: Often used to hide secret rooms, can only be destroyed with the shovel. It looks different from the rest of the dungeon walls and blocks view from what is behind.
 * Stalacmites: Can be destroyed to create shortcuts or find hidden rooms. The deeper in the dungeon the higher the chance that it will create a cave collapse when destroyed (it will rain meteors that do crushing damage and may stun you or enemies)
 * Gold Rocks. Found in gold mines, you get a random amount of gold from breaking these.
 * Iron Rocks. Found in Iron mines, you one iron from each rock. if you leave the dungeon, you can get 6 gold per iron stack. It may not be much but some floors can have 216 or more iron. If you are patient you can move all the iron back to the Yendor Door (the exit of the dungeon) and leave it there, so on the way out you can take as much as you can and profit.
 * Sulphur Rocks. Found in Sulphur mines, you get one sulphur per rock, often you get dozens if not hundreds of them. Some times there are hidden rooms behind them or you can create shortcuts.
 * Grievous Stalacmites. You hear whispers on the floor, stalacmites will spawn imps when broken.
 * Gas Rock: They come in 4 types.

•Myst rocks. Periodically release gas. Release a lot of Myst when broken. Shooting at them with Lightning bolts also break them, creating nasty chain reactions.

•Gas rocks. Periodically release gas. Release a lot of flammable gas when broken.

•Poison rocks. Periodically release gas. Release a lot of flammable poison gas when broken.

•Ash Rock. Periodically release gas. These release a lot of smoke if broken. May spawn fire sprites which can be dangerous at low levels.
 * Explosion Rocks. These rock glow orange and explode when hit, setting you on fire and doing 10 to 25 damage (some times you get hit twice so you can lose 50 hp in a single hit) some times you can create useful shortcuts by removing them, but is not worth using melee weapons or a shovel to break them, a +3 dagger or throwing axe is strong enough to safety break them from distance.
 * Spike Rocks. Can't be destroyed with the shovel, but a big explosion from a staff can blow them up.