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{{monster
|name=bat
|glyph={{LightGrey|b}}
|tile=[[File:Bat.png]]
|flags={{Batty flag}}<br>{{Flying flag}}<br>{{See invisible flag}}<br>{{Warm blood flag}}
|resistances={{Drown resistance}}
|vulnerabilities=None
|max_chunks=1
|meat={{Clean corpse}}
|xp=1
|holiness={{Natural}}
|magic_resistance=0
|hp_range=2-5
|avg_hp=3
|armour_class=1
|evasion=14
|habitat=Land
|speed= 30
|size={{tiny}}
|item_use={{Uses nothing}}
|attack1=1 ({{Hit type}}: {{Plain flavour}})
|attack2=
|attack3=
|attack4=
|hit_dice=1
|base_hp=2
|extra_hp=3
|fixed_hp=0
|intelligence={{Animal intelligence}}
|genus=bat
|species=bat
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{{Flavour|A large grey bat that, despite being herbivorous, is quite aggressive. It is myopic and uses echolocation to navigate.
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“The sun was set; the night came on apace,<br>
And falling dews bewet around the place;<br>
The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings,<br>
And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.”<br>
-John Gay, Shepherd's Week, Wednesday; or, The Dumps.<br>
<br>
“Ere the bat hath flown<br>
His cloister'd flight.”<br>
-William Shakespeare, _Macbeth_, III, 2, line 40. 1605.}}
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==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 horror]]s.
*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 [[weapon]]s such as [[stone]]s, [[dart]]s, and [[bow]]s 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.

[[Image:Megabat.png]] '''Megabat'''
{{flavour|A huge black bat.}}

[[Image:Microbat.png]] '''Microbat'''
{{flavour|A bat that, despite its name, is not any smaller than a megabat.}}

[[Image:Gigabat.png]] '''Giga bat''' (has 4 [[HD]] and slightly improved stats)
{{flavour|A huge, bloated bat.}}

[[Image:Vampire bat.png|32px]] '''[[Vampire bat]]'''
{{Flavour|A large black bat with vicious fangs that feeds on blood. This is the preferred form for vampires in disguise.}}

[[Image:Simulacrum bat.png]] '''Ice bat''' (bat [[simulacrum (monster)|simulacrum]])
{{flavour|An undead creature in the shape of a bat, made of ice.}}

[[Image:Bat spectral.png]] '''Ghost faced bat''' (bat [[spectral thing]])
{{flavour|Does this bat merely posses the visage of a ghost, or is it a ghost itself?}}

[[Image:Fire bat.png|32px]]''' [[Fire bat]]''' (with only 1 HD and reduced stats)
{{flavour|A bat whose leathery body burns with a hot flame.}}

[[Image:Bat zombie.png]] '''Rotten bat''' (bat [[zombie]])
{{flavour|I guess this bat is well past its sell-by date.}}

[[Image:Bat skeleton.png]] '''Skeletal bat''' (bat [[skeleton (monster)|skeleton]])
{{flavour|A bat skeleton without the decency to lie unmoving like dead bats are supposed to.}}

[[Image:Phase bat.png]] '''Phase bat''' (bat with the [[Blink]] spell)
{{flavour|A strange, glowing bat that seems to flutter through more dimensions than the average bat.}}

==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.