Growing up

Growing up is the process in which an NPC (non player character) such as a tame kitten turns into a larger version of itself (e.g a housecat). Monsters grow from killing monsters and receiving xp, from the effects of potions of gain level, or from wraith corpses.

Monsters will grow up as follows:

• Baby dragons grow into dragons of the same type.

• Kittens grow into housecats and then into large cats.

• Little dogs grow into dogs and then into large dogs.

• Ponies grow into horses and then into warhorses.

• Wolf cubs and winter wolf cubs grow into wolves and winter wolves.

• Naga hatchlings grow into nagas.

• Hellhound pups grow into hellhounds.

• Liches grow to demiliches, master liches, and then into arch-liches.

• elves (of all varieties), gnomes, dwarves and ogres grow into foo-lords, then foo-kings.

• Gargoyles grow into winged gargoyles (Although some are born with wings, and hence hatch from winged gargoyle eggs).

• Chickatrices grow into Cockatrices.

• There are many others listed in the source code linked below.

Growing up into a genocided form

Growing up does not allow a monster to take a genocided form. If the new form is genocided, the monster dies and does not leave a corpse. Extinct forms are nonetheless allowed.

References

This page may need to be updated for the current version of NetHack.

It may contain text specific to NetHack 3.4.3. Information on this page may be out of date.

Editors: After reviewing this page and making necessary edits, please change the {{nethack-343}} tag to the current version's tag or {{noversion}} as appropriate.