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The '''brown pudding''', {{monsym|brown pudding}}, is an [[amoeboid]] [[monster]] in ''[[NetHack]]''.
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A '''brown pudding''', {{monsym|brown pudding}}, is an [[amoeboid]] [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. Its bite deals no damage, but will cause [[organic]] armor to decay, and like the [[black pudding]] it will [[divide]] when hit by an [[iron]] weapon.
  
Like its more powerful cousin, the [[black pudding]], it will [[divide]] when hit by an iron weapon. Eating brown puddings is [[vegetarian]], but not [[vegan]].
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Eating [[glob]]s of brown pudding breaks [[vegan]] [[conduct]].
  
== Strategy ==
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==Generation==
The brown pudding's attacks do no damage, and its AC is rather high; its only danger lies in [[rotting]] your or your pet's [[armor]]. This can be easily avoided by any combination of wearing metal armor, covering your body armor with a throwaway [[cloak]], or simply removing any organic armor. Pets without armor, such as domestic animals like [[dog]], can freely dispose of a brown pudding.
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Brown puddings will leave behind a glob of brown pudding upon death.
  
=== Pets ===
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==Strategy==
If you have a pudding [[pet]], you can hit it with [[iron]] items to cause the pet to split, yielding more pets for [[polymorphing]]; see [[abuse]] for the ramifications of attacking and splitting your pet. As the name is cloned, you might want to rename one. Alternately, consider splitting them first, then using a [[scroll of taming]] or a [[spell of charm monster]] if either is available. For pet splitting, a [[Puddingbane]] is recommended to avoid incurring [[Alignment record|alignment]] and [[luck]] penalties.
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The brown pudding is fairly easy to dispose of, with its primary danger lying in its bites degrading you or your humanoid [[pet]]'s non-metallic armor. This can be easily avoided by any combination of wearing metal armor, covering your body armor with a throwaway [[cloak]], or simply removing any organic armor. For pets, tame unarmored monster such as [[dog]]s and [[cat]]s can freely dispose of a brown pudding.
  
== History ==
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==History==
Beginning in [[NetHack 3.6.0]], brown puddings leave [[glob]]s instead of [[corpse]]s when they are killed. Globs cannot be sacrificed, revived or tinned, making [[pudding farming]] a less useful tactic than in previous versions of NetHack. Globs also could not give resistances when eaten; this is fixed as of [[3.6.1]].
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In [[NetHack 3.4.3]] and prior versions, as well as variants based on those versions, brown puddings were a target of [[pudding farming]] strategies, as they could be split and then killed for their [[corpse]]s and [[death drop]]s, or else tamed (e.g. via the [[scroll of taming]] or [[spell of charm monster]]) and then polymorphed to amass an army of pets. They were less commonly farmed compared to black puddings, which can be reliably generated by kicking a [[sink]].
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Starting in [[NetHack 3.6.0]], brown puddings leave globs instead of corpses when they are killed; this was done to make pudding farming much less useful, as globs cannot be sacrificed, revived or tinned. In [[NetHack 3.6.1]], a bug was fixed that prevented globs from giving resistances when eaten.
  
 
==Encyclopedia entry==
 
==Encyclopedia entry==
"Blob", "pudding", and "ooze" share the same entry:
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{{encyclopedia-redirect|amoeboid}}
 
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{{nethack-366}}
{{encyclopedia|<poem>
 
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.
 
{{right-align|[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]}}
 
</poem>}}
 
 
 
{{nethack-364}}
 
 
[[Category:Monsters]]
 
[[Category:Monsters]]

Latest revision as of 15:03, 6 March 2023

A brown pudding, P, is an amoeboid monster that appears in NetHack. Its bite deals no damage, but will cause organic armor to decay, and like the black pudding it will divide when hit by an iron weapon.

Eating globs of brown pudding breaks vegan conduct.

Generation

Brown puddings will leave behind a glob of brown pudding upon death.

Strategy

The brown pudding is fairly easy to dispose of, with its primary danger lying in its bites degrading you or your humanoid pet's non-metallic armor. This can be easily avoided by any combination of wearing metal armor, covering your body armor with a throwaway cloak, or simply removing any organic armor. For pets, tame unarmored monster such as dogs and cats can freely dispose of a brown pudding.

History

In NetHack 3.4.3 and prior versions, as well as variants based on those versions, brown puddings were a target of pudding farming strategies, as they could be split and then killed for their corpses and death drops, or else tamed (e.g. via the scroll of taming or spell of charm monster) and then polymorphed to amass an army of pets. They were less commonly farmed compared to black puddings, which can be reliably generated by kicking a sink.

Starting in NetHack 3.6.0, brown puddings leave globs instead of corpses when they are killed; this was done to make pudding farming much less useful, as globs cannot be sacrificed, revived or tinned. In NetHack 3.6.1, a bug was fixed that prevented globs from giving resistances when eaten.

Encyclopedia entry

See the encyclopedia entry for amoeboid.