Spellbook of detect food

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spellbook of
+   detect food   Light green spellbook.png
Appearance random
Abundance 3.05%
Base price 200 zm
Weight 50
Turns to read 3
Ink to write 10–19
Spell type divination
Level 2
Power cost 10 Pw
Direction non-directional
Equivalent scroll of food detection

The spellbook of food detection allows you to learn the detect food spell. Casting this spell has the same effect as the scroll of food detection, revealing the location of all comestibles on the level, on the ground and even in monster inventories. If cast at skilled or expert, you will also acquire the food appraisal intrinsic. This spell is the only one in NetHack that does not cause spell hunger at all, especially important given its function. It can be used to train divination spells.

Strategy

The obvious use is if you are short on food you can cast this spell to find food on the level. This can be a real lifesaver in a fix, but beware, it will also display tainted and poisoned corpses and corpses that can cause petrification or other harmful effects. As you go deeper into the dungeons, food becomes more abundant, and this spell loses much of its base value. However, once you become skilled or expert in divination, you can use it as a faux-permenant food appraisal intrinsic by recasting every time you get a warning, as it drains very little energy.

Messages

Replace <nose> in the messages with the appropriate equivalent based on your current form.

Your <nose> starts to tingle and you smell food.
You cast the spell at skilled or expert level.
There are comestibles on the level.
You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
Your <nose> continues to tingle and you smell food.
You cast the spell at skilled or expert level.
There are comestibles on the level.
You already have the food appraisal intrinsic.
Your <nose> twitches then starts to tingle.
You cast the spell at skilled or expert level.
There are no comestibles on the level.
You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
Your <nose> twitches.
You cast the spell at any skill level.
There are no comestibles on the level.
If cast at skilled or expert, you already have the food appraisal intrinsic.
You smell food nearby. Your <nose> starts to tingle.
You cast the spell at skilled or expert level.
There are comestibles on the level but only on your square.
You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
You smell food nearby.
You cast the spell at unskilled or basic level.
There are comestibles on the level but only on your square
You sense a lack of food nearby. Your <nose> starts to tingle.
You cast the spell at skilled or expert level.
You previously detected comestibles on the level, but they are gone now.
You gain the food appraisal intrinsic.
You sense a lack of food nearby.
You cast the spell at unskilled or basic level.
You previously detected comestibles on the level, but they are gone now.
You have a strange feeling for a moment, then it passes.
There are no comestibles on the level.
You cast the spell at any skill level.
You are a beginner.
You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes.
There are no comestibles on the level.
You cast the spell at any skill level.
You are a beginner.
You are hallucinating.

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