Mindless
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"Please confirm or debunk that mindless monsters with items in their inventory will (sometimes?) drop them (steal.c#line587), and that they may not equip armor (worn.c#line372)."
A mindless monster does not have a mind (syntactical!). Mindlessness is identified by the macro mindless(ptr),[1] which checks for the flag M1_MINDLESS in monst.c.
Take heed to discern between mindless monsters and brainlessness, a state attainable by unfortunate players not keeping their distance from mindflayers.
Effects
Mindless monsters cannot be detected by telepathy.[2] They are also unaffected by the brain-eating attacks of (master) mind flayer.[3][4]
Further, mindless monsters are incapable of using items; that is, scrolls, wands, potions and horns.[5][6]
List of mindless monsters
- Blobs
- Spheres (including gas spores but not floating eyes)
- Jellies
- Vortices
- Lights
- Elementals (excluding stalkers)
- Fungi
- Mummies
- Puddings
- Zombies
- Golems
