Orange
An orangeis a type of comestible that appears in NetHack. It is veggy and considered vegan.
Contents
Generation
Monks start each game with 5-10 oranges.[1] Tourists may start with oranges among their random food items.[2]
Oranges make up 1⁄100 (1%) of all comestibles randomly generated on the ground, in general shops or as death drops. Delicatessens and health food stores can also stock oranges.
Tree 'fruits' have a 1⁄5 chance of being oranges, and generate in the following circumstances:[3][4]
- Kicking a tree has a one-time 14⁄15 chance of dropping (8−rnl(7)) oranges.[5]
- Cutting down a tree has a 1⁄5 chance of producing an orange.[6]
- A tree that is tunneled through has a 1⁄3 chance of leaving behind oranges.[7]
Applying a charged horn of plenty has a 0.9% chance of generating an orange or two.[8]
Description
Eating an orange grants 80 nutrition and takes 1 turn to consume it. A hero can throw oranges to tame domestic herbivorous monsters and pacify domestic carnivores.
If a hero eats a mimic corpse of any type while hallucinating, they will turn into an orange instead of a pile of gold—this will produce YAFM from a guard that enters a vault while the hero is in this transformed state.
History
The orange 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.
Origin
The orange is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae which is a botanical hybrid of Citrus × sinensis, and is also called the "sweet orange" to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium). The orange originated in a region encompassing Southern China, Northeast India, and Myanmar; the earliest mention of the sweet orange was in Chinese literature in 314 BC. Orange trees are widely grown in tropical and subtropical areas for their sweet fruit, which can be eaten fresh or processed for its juice or fragrant peel. In 2022, 76 million tonnes of oranges were grown worldwide, with Brazil producing 22% of the total, followed by India and China.
Messages
- "Hey! Who left that orange in here?"
- A guard entered a vault while you were polymorphed from eating a mimic corpse while hallucinating, and left immediately afterward.
Variants
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack, the Pacman random vault has a guaranteed orange at a random position.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, several roles can start with oranges:
- Kensei start each game with 5-10 oranges.
- Troubadours start each game with 3-6 oranges.
Some other roles are given replacements for oranges:
- Incantifier Bards, Kensei and Monks have their oranges replaced with scrolls of food detection.
- Clockwork automaton heroes in roles that would start with oranges instead receive potions of oil.
- Vampire heroes in roles that would start with oranges instead receive human blood potions.
Oranges may appear among the food items generated in antholes during level creation, which have a higher chance of being populated with specific food item types compared to antholes in NetHack.
Eve is a spirit that increases the amount of oranges dropped from kicking trees by 50% while she is bound, but her taboo prevents the hero from consuming any oranges.
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, the defunct Dancer role starts with 1-2 oranges among their food items.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, draugr Knights and Monks are given eggs in place of oranges, and vampire Monks will not start with oranges at all.
3 oranges are generated within one of the crystal chests on the last level of the Ice Queen's Realm during level creation.
SlashTHEM
In SlashTHEM, Bards start each game with 3-6 oranges as in dNetHack, and incantifier Bards and Monks have them replaced with scrolls of food detection as in dNetHack.
Encyclopedia entry
The pear and orange share an encyclopedia entry:
What was the fruit like? Unfortunately, no one can describe a taste. All I can say is that, compared with those fruits, the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, and the juiciest orange was dry, and the most melting pear was hard and woody, and the sweetest wild strawberry was sour. And there were no seeds or stones, and no wasps. If you had once eaten that fruit, all the nicest things in this world would taste like medicines after it. But I can't describe it. You can't find out what it is like unless you can get to that country and taste it for yourself.
References
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 93
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 144
- ↑ src/mkobj.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1474
- ↑ src/mkobj.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1481
- ↑ 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
