Banana
A banana is a type of veggy comestible that appears in NetHack.
Contents
Generation
Tourists may start with oranges among their random food items.[1]
Kicking a tree has a one-time 14⁄15 chance of dropping (8−rnl(7)) bananas.[2] Cutting down a tree has a 1⁄5 chance of producing a piece of fruit that can be a banana.[3] If a tree is tunneled through, there is a 1⁄3 chance of fruit being left behind, which can be a banana.[4]
Applying a charged horn of plenty has a 0.9% chance of generating a banana or two.[5]
Description
Eating a banana confers 80 nutrition. Bananas are vegan, and can be used to tame domestic herbivorous monsters.
Apes and monkeys can be tamed with thrown bananas, and along with sasquatches they regard them as treats.[6][7]
History
The banana first appears in Hack 1.21 and Hack for PDP-11, which is based on Jay Fenlason's Hack, and is included in the initial item list for Hack 1.0.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, all apelike creatures can be tamed with thrown bananas.
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack, the Pacman random vault has a guaranteed banana at a random position.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, Pirates start the game with 3-6 bananas; incantifier Pirates have their bananas replaced with scrolls of food detection. Clockwork automata characters in roles that would start with bananas replace them with potions of oil.
The November NetHack Tournament
In The November NetHack Tournament, a banana is placed in the snack area of the DevTeam Office.
SlashTHEM
In SlashTHEM, Pirates start the game with 3-6 bananas as in dNetHack, and incantifier Pirates receive scrolls of food detection instead.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, Pirates start the game with 3-6 bananas as in dNetHack.
Encyclopedia entry
He took another step and she cocked her right wrist in
viciously. She heard the spring click. Weight slapped into
her hand.
"Here!" she shrieked hysterically, and brought her arm up in
a hard sweep, meaning to gut him, leaving him to blunder
around the room with his intestines hanging out in steaming
loops. Instead he roared laughter, hands on his hips,
flaming face cocked back, squeezing and contorting with great
good humor.
"Oh, my dear!" he cried, and went off into another gale of
laughter.
She looked stupidly down at her hand. It held a firm yellow
banana with a blue and white Chiquita sticker on it. She
dropped it, horrified, to the carpet, where it became a
sickly yellow grin, miming Flagg's own.
"You'll tell," he whispered. "Oh yes indeed you will."
And Dayna knew he was right.
References
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 144
- ↑ src/dokick.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1115
- ↑ src/dig.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 398
- ↑ src/dig.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1321
- ↑ src/mkobj.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2219: any comestible that can be randomly generated is eligible
- ↑ src/mondata.h in NetHack 3.6.7, line 232
- ↑ src/dog.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 826
