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The '''amoeboids''' are the [[blob]]s, [[pudding]]s, and [[ooze]]s:
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In ''[[NetHack]]'', all monsters in the {{monclass|b}} and {{monclass|P}} [[monster class]]es share an encyclopedia entry describing them as '''amoeboids'''.
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* [[Image:acid blob.png]] {{monsymlink|acid blob}}
 
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* [[Image:quivering blob.png]] {{monsymlink|quivering blob}}
 
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* [[Image:gelatinous cube.png]] {{monsymlink|gelatinous cube}}
 
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* [[Image:gray ooze.png]] {{monsymlink|gray ooze}}
 
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* [[Image:brown pudding.png]] {{monsymlink|brown pudding}}
 
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* [[Image:black pudding.png]] {{monsymlink|black pudding}}
 
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* [[Image:green slime.png]] {{monsymlink|green slime}}
 
  
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While "amoeboid" is not itself a [[monster class]], all amoeboids belong to one of two [[monster class]]es, the blobs ({{white|b}}) or the puddings ({{white|P}}).
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==Description==
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Apart from their encyclopedia entry, amoeboid monsters have no one defining trait not shared by at least some other monsters, although they share many common traits: amoeboid monsters are all [[mindless]], [[unbreathing]], and [[Eyeless|have no eyes]], [[Headless|heads]] or limbs.  With the exception of the [[quivering blob]], their corpses or [[glob]]s are all [[acidic]] to eat.
  
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If for any reason you wanted to [[genocide]] all amoeboids, it would take two class genocides instead of one.  Most members of the classes are not especially dangerous, however, so exterminating them all is probably unnecessary.
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* {{monsymlink|acid blob}}
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* {{monsymlink|quivering blob}}
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* {{monsymlink|gelatinous cube}}
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* {{monsymlink|gray ooze}}
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* {{monsymlink|brown pudding}}
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* {{monsymlink|black pudding}}
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* {{monsymlink|green slime}}
  
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==Common traits==
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==Variants==
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{{Wikipedia|Ooze (Dungeons & Dragons)}}
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Some variants introduce new monsters sharing the amoeboid encyclopedia entry; additionally, several variants introduce {{white|b}} and/or {{white|P}} with different encyclopedia entries, such as the {{monsymlink|shoggoth}} in [[SLASH'EM]], [[dNetHack]], and derived variants.
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Amoeboids correspond to the "ooze" creature type in Dungeons & Dragons, lacking recognizable body features like heads and limbs.  They are [[mindless]] and [[Eyeless|have no eyes]], yet have no apparent trouble sensing the player's location.  All amoeboids are [[breathless]].
 
  
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Many amoeboids are made of substances that can [[Erosion|rust, corrode, or rot]] adventurers' equipped weapons or armor, by means of active and [[passive attack]]s.  The green slime can go one step further and turn adventurers themselves into [[Sliming|slime]].  While the gelatinous cube by itself cannot seriously harm adventurers or their equipment, its [[paralysis]] attacks and its appetite for anything made of [[organic]] material—comestibles, scrolls, spellbooks, armor made of wood or leather, and so on—make it no less of a nuisance to players.
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===SLASH'EM===
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The following new monsters in SLASH'EM are described as amoeboids:
  
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The acid blob and all puddings are [[amorphous]], so they can pass under closed [[door]]s.  Quivering blobs and gelatinous cubes apparently have enough of a definite shape that they cannot.
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* {{monsymlink|moldy pudding}}
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* {{monsymlink|lava blob}}
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==Remains==
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* {{monsymlink|static blob}}
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All blobs leave corpses that are considered [[vegan]].
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* {{monsymlink|jiggling blob}}
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* {{monsymlink|burbling blob}}
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All members of the pudding class (including the gray ooze and green slime) leave [[glob]]s instead of corpses.  Like corpses, globs can be [[eat]]en and cause [[food poisoning]] if they become [[tainted]].  Unlike corpses, globs cannot be [[sacrifice]]d or revived by [[Wand of undead turning|undead turning]].  All globs are [[Flesh|meat]]y, so eating them violates the [[vegetarian]] and [[vegan]] [[conduct]]s.  Since puddings don't leave corpses, they will never leave random [[death drop]]s.
 
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All amoeboids, with the exception of the quivering blob, have [[acid]]ic bodies, so they resist [[petrification]] and can be eaten to stop it.  You would probably not want to eat a glob of [[Sliming|green slime]], however, unless you had no other alternative.
 
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==History==
 
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Globs were added in [[NetHack 3.6.0]] as a countermeasure against [[pudding farming]].  In variants based on older versions, puddings may still drop corpses.
 
  
 
==Encyclopedia entry==
 
==Encyclopedia entry==
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"Blob", "pudding", and "ooze" share the same entry:
 
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{{encyclopedia|<poem>
 
{{encyclopedia|<poem>
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These giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than
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These giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to supplement their diet.
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puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on
 
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metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to
 
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supplement their diet.
 
  
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But we were not on a station platform.  We were on the track ahead
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But we were not on a station platform.  We were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the pallid abyss vapor.  It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
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as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed
 
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tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy
 
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speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the
 
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pallid abyss vapor.  It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster
 
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than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic
 
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bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes
 
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forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the
 
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tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic
 
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penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its
 
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kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
 
 
{{right-align|[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]}}
 
{{right-align|[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]}}
 
</poem>}}
 
</poem>}}
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==See also==
 
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[[Amoeboid (SLASH'EM)]]
 
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[[Category:Monsters]]
 
[[Category:Monsters]]
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{{nethack-360}}
 

Latest revision as of 09:47, 28 December 2023

In NetHack, all monsters in the ​b blob and ​P pudding or ooze monster classes share an encyclopedia entry describing them as amoeboids.

Description

Apart from their encyclopedia entry, amoeboid monsters have no one defining trait not shared by at least some other monsters, although they share many common traits: amoeboid monsters are all mindless, unbreathing, and have no eyes, heads or limbs. With the exception of the quivering blob, their corpses or globs are all acidic to eat.

Variants

Some variants introduce new monsters sharing the amoeboid encyclopedia entry; additionally, several variants introduce b and/or P with different encyclopedia entries, such as the P shoggoth in SLASH'EM, dNetHack, and derived variants.

SLASH'EM

The following new monsters in SLASH'EM are described as amoeboids:

Encyclopedia entry

These giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to supplement their diet.

But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]

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