Brown pudding
P brown pudding 
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| Difficulty | 6 |
| Attacks |
Bite decays organic items |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | 56 |
| Speed | 3 |
| Base AC | 8 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Very rare |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 500 |
| Nutritional value | 250 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | cold, electricity, poison, acid, petrification |
| Resistances conveyed |
poison (11%), cold (11%), electricity (11%), Cures stoning |
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A brown pudding:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1829 |
The brown pudding, P, is an amoeboid NetHack monster. Like its more powerful cousin, the black pudding, it will divide when hit by an iron weapon, and as such can be used for pudding farming. Brown puddings are vegetarian, but not vegan.
Strategy
Brown puddings' attacks do no damage, so their only danger is in rotting your armor. This can be easily avoided by wearing metal armors, covering your body armor with a cloak, or simply removing organic armor.
Since they do no damage, farming them for resistances and sacrifice gifts is a viable tactic. Since they have such low hitpoints, you'll need to get yourself a low-damage iron weapon to divide them; A corroded -3 orcish dagger is a good choice. After you've gotten all three intrinsics from them, you may consider killing off the crop so that they don't get in your way. Brown puddings are mostly inferior for pudding farming, as a brown pudding is not guaranteed to drop a corpse unlike a black pudding, and therefore will not drop items as often.
Encyclopedia Entry
" It's all very fine," said the Puddin' gloomily, " singing about
the joys of being penguins and pirates, but how'd you like to be a
Puddin' and be eaten all day long? "
And in a very gruff voice he sang as follows :--
" O, who would be a puddin',
A puddin' in a pot,
A puddin' which is stood on
A fire which is hot ?
O sad indeed the lot
Of puddin's in a pot.
...
" But as I am a puddin',
A puddin' in a pot,
I hope you get the stomachache
For eatin' me a lot.
I hope you get it hot,
You puddin'-eatin' lot ! "
" Very well sung, Albert," said Bill encouragingly, " though you're
a trifle husky in your undertones, which is no doubt due to the gravy
in your innards. However, as a reward for bein' a bright little
feller we shall have a slice of you all round before turnin' in for
the night."
