User:Killian/Pet food

Item types

• Treat (DOGFOOD)
• Suitable corpse (CADAVER)
• Acceptable (ACCFOOD)
• Human food (MANFOOD)
• Apportable (APPORT)
• Poison (POISON)
• Uninteresting (UNDEF)
• Taboo (TABU)

Classification

• Quest artifacts (and other artifacts, 5% of the time) are considered taboo if cursed, or apportable otherwise.

Food

• Rider corpses are taboo.
• Petrifying corpses are taboo for monsters that are not stoning-resistant.

• For ghouls, old corpses (more than 50 turns) are treats, and other corpses are taboo.

• For monsters (other than ghouls) that are neither carnivores nor herbivores, cursed food is uninteresting and non-cursed food is apportable.

• The following foods are treats for carnivores, and considered human food by herbivores:
  • tripe ration
  • meatball
  • meat ring
  • meat stick
  • huge chunk of meat

• Petrifying eggs are considered poison by monsters not stoning-resistant. Other eggs are considered suitable corpses by carnivores, and human food by herbivores.

• Corpses that are more than 50 turns old and are not lizards or F are considered poison. Acidic corpses are poison for monsters not acid-resistant. Poisonous corpses are poison for monsters not poison-resistant. Vegan corpses are considered suitable corpses by herbivores, and non-vegan corpses are considered suitable by carnivores. All other corpses are considered human food.

• A clove of garlic is taboo for undead monsters. It is acceptable to herbivores and to starving carnivores; otherwise it is considered human food.

• Tins are considered acceptable to metallivores, and are considered human food otherwise.

• Apples and carrots are treats for herbivores. Carnivores will consider them acceptable if starving, and human food otherwise.

• Bananas are considered treats for Y. They are acceptable to herbivores and starving carnivores, and are otherwise considered human food.

• All other comestibles are considered acceptable by starving pets. Other fruits and vegetables are acceptable to herbivores, and other processed foods (including royal jelly) are acceptable to carnivores; they are otherwise considered human food.

Non-food

• An amulet of strangulation or ring of slow digestion is always considered taboo.

• Any object made of silver is taboo for silver-hating monsters.

• Gelatinous cubes will consider objects made of organic materials to be acceptable: wax, veggy, flesh, paper, cloth, leather, and wood (but not bone, dragon hide, or a worm tooth).

• Metallivores will consider iron objects to be treats if they are not rustproofed. All other metallic materials are considered acceptable to them: (rustproofed) iron, metal, copper, silver, gold, platinum, and mithril.

• Cursed objects, heavy iron balls, iron chains, boulders and statues are considered uninteresting. All other objects are considered apportable.