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Umbire the Phantom: /* Messages */ word choice

2025-03-07T01:37:51Z

‎Messages: word choice

Umbire the Phantom: /* Strategy */ upcoming

2025-03-07T01:27:15Z

‎Strategy: upcoming

Umbire the Phantom: /* Strategy */ note carrying corpses

2025-03-07T01:26:56Z

‎Strategy: note carrying corpses

Umbire the Phantom: /* dNetHack */ renovate

2025-03-07T01:24:37Z

‎dNetHack: renovate

Umbire the Phantom: character(s) => hero(es)

2024-10-15T13:22:45Z

character(s) => hero(es)

Umbire the Phantom: lede, citations, word choice

2024-09-15T10:52:20Z

lede, citations, word choice

Furey: /* TNNT (the game) */ delete tangential information about TNNT. devteam office covers this.

2024-06-20T01:42:19Z

‎TNNT (the game): delete tangential information about TNNT. devteam office covers this.

Furey: Link directly to new page TNNT (the game).

2024-06-18T05:01:53Z

Link directly to new page TNNT (the game).

Umbire the Phantom: copyedit pass

2024-06-12T18:58:52Z

copyedit pass

Furey: "The November NetHack Tournament" -> "TNNT (the game)"

2024-06-12T01:48:01Z

"The November NetHack Tournament" -> "TNNT (the game)"

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 ==Messages==
 {{message|[[You feel]] limber!|You ate a lizard corpse and cured stoning.}}
-{{message|What a pity - <you> just ruined a future piece of <fine> art!|As above while you are [[hallucinating]]; if your charisma is above 15, the message will say "fine art", and just "art" otherwise.{{refsrc|src/eat.c|749|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} This also applies to monsters that eat a lizard corpse or tin to cure stoning while you are hallucinating.{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2292|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}}}
+{{message|What a pity - <you> just ruined a future piece of <fine> art!|As above while you are [[hallucinating]]; if your charisma is above 15, the message will say "fine art", and just "art" otherwise.{{refsrc|src/eat.c|749|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} This message is also applied to monsters that eat a lizard corpse or tin to cure stoning while you are hallucinating, with the monster's name replacing the hero's.{{refsrc|src/eat.c|2292|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}}}
 {{message|<Monster> is slowing down. <Monster> eats a lizard corpse. <Monster> seems limber!|A monster ate a lizard corpse to cure stoning.}}
 {{message|<Monster> is slowing down. <Monster> eats a lizard corpse. <Monster> seems steadier now.|The monster ate a lizard corpse to cure stunning or confusion.{{refsrc|src/muse.c|2253|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} The "slowing down" message appears incorrectly in this case because the "eat a lizard corpse to unstone" function is called, causing them to lose any intrinsic speed.}}

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 Note that finishing the meal is not required to prevent gradual stoning, as simply taking a bite is enough: This allows a hero to get at least two or three "unstonings" per corpse, especially since a hostile monster (often the one attempting to stone them) will often interrupt the meal. It is always worth carrying at least one lizard corpse in open inventory to lower the odds of stoning, and any lizard corpses beyond a stack of 2-3 should be stashed in a [[bag]] on hand for safety. Note that lizard meat '''does not''' prevent instantaneously turning to stone from contact with a stoning corpse (e.g. accidentally eating or touching a cockatrice corpse); lizard meat also does not restore any [[intrinsic]] [[speed]] lost from turning to stone.
-{{upcoming|3.7.0|Hostile monsters will zap the [[wand of undead turning]] at you if there are any corpses in your inventory; this is most likely to occur with lizard corpses you are carrying.}}
+{{upcoming|3.7.0|In addition to carried lizard corpses no longer affecting stoning odds, hostile monsters will zap the [[wand of undead turning]] at you if there are any corpses in your inventory; this is most likely to occur with lizard corpses you are carrying.}}
 ==History==

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 ==Strategy==
-As an enemy, the lizard is fairly unremarkable in terms of difficulty, but represents an opportunity to gain protection from one of the more annoying [[instadeath]]s in ''NetHack'': Most players carry at least one lizard corpse in inventory, both to lower the odds of slowly turning to stone from footrice attacks and to immediately cure any stoning, making them [[Autopickup exceptions#Never pick up corpses except lizards|a very common autopickup exception]]. Lizards themselves are easy to dispatch of, with the most difficulty a majority of heroes will encounter involving preventing a meat-eating pet from immediately snapping up the corpse.
+As an enemy, the lizard is fairly unremarkable in terms of difficulty, but represents an opportunity to gain protection from one of the more annoying [[instadeath]]s in ''NetHack'': Most players carry at least one lizard corpse in inventory, both to lower the odds of slowly turning to stone from footrice attacks and to immediately cure any stoning, making them [[Autopickup exceptions#Never pick up corpses except lizards|a very common autopickup exception]]. Lizards themselves are easy to dispatch of, with the most difficulty that one presents to a majority of heroes being preventing a meat-eating pet from immediately snapping up the corpse.
-Note that finishing the meal is not required to prevent gradual stoning, as simply taking a bite is enough: This allows a hero to get at least two or three "unstonings" per corpse, especially since a hostile monster (often the one attempting to stone them) will often interrupt the meal. Note that lizard meat '''does not''' prevent instantaneously turning to stone from contact with a stoning corpse (e.g. accidentally eating or touching a cockatrice corpse); lizard meat also does not restore any [[intrinsic]] [[speed]] lost from turning to stone.
+Note that finishing the meal is not required to prevent gradual stoning, as simply taking a bite is enough: This allows a hero to get at least two or three "unstonings" per corpse, especially since a hostile monster (often the one attempting to stone them) will often interrupt the meal. It is always worth carrying at least one lizard corpse in open inventory to lower the odds of stoning, and any lizard corpses beyond a stack of 2-3 should be stashed in a [[bag]] on hand for safety. Note that lizard meat '''does not''' prevent instantaneously turning to stone from contact with a stoning corpse (e.g. accidentally eating or touching a cockatrice corpse); lizard meat also does not restore any [[intrinsic]] [[speed]] lost from turning to stone.
 {{upcoming|3.7.0|Hostile monsters will zap the [[wand of undead turning]] at you if there are any corpses in your inventory; this is most likely to occur with lizard corpses you are carrying.}}

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 ===dNetHack===
-In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], heroes can make [[Potion of blood (dNetHack)|potions of monster blood]] by applying a [[tinning kit]] to a corpse with blood, which has the effects of eating that monster's corpse or tin when quaffed. The corpses, tins and blood of [[Cave lizard (dNetHack)|cave lizards]] and their various growth stages provide the same benefits as those of "regular" lizards, though their corpses eventually rot away unlike normal lizard corpses and potions of blood eventually congeal - the corpses are also much heavier to carry.
+In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], [[Vampire (starting race in dNetHack)|vampire]], [[Incantifier (dNetHack starting race)|incantifier]] and [[Clockwork automaton (starting race)|clockwork]] heroes can use [[Potion of blood (dNetHack)|potions of lizard blood]] to cure stoning in the mid- and late game in lieu of eating the actual corpses directly (which is not possible for them). A lizard corpse is also practically essential for any hero to protect against not only stoning from cockatrices, but the [[flesh to stone]] [[monster spell]] and the clawing attack of the [[teraphim tannah]].
-Heroes that are [[Vampire (starting race in dNetHack)|vampires]], [[Incantifier (dNetHack starting race)|incantifier]]s or [[android]]s ('[[Clockwork automaton (starting race)|clockwork]]' [[Anachrononaut]]s) can stockpile the blood of lizards or any acidic monster to cure stoning in the mid- and late game. A lizard's corpse or blood is practically essential for any hero to protect against not only stoning from cockatrices, but the [[flesh to stone]] [[monster spell]] and the clawing attack of the [[teraphim tannah]].
+[[Cave lizard (dNetHack)|Cave lizards]] are monsters with [[Cave lizard|four growth stages]] whose corpses and blood all have similar properties to those of regular lizards, though none of them are randomly generated&mdash;their corpses also eventually rot away, and the cave lizard and [[Large cave lizard (dNetHack)|large cave lizard]] are much heavier in [[weight]].
 ===TNNT (the game)===

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 [[Eating]] a lizard's [[corpse]] or [[tin]] immediately cures gradual [[stoning]] and reduces the duration of any [[confusion]] and [[stun]]ning to two turns.{{refsrc|src/eat.c|708|version=NetHack 3.6.7|comment=stoning case}}{{refsrc|src/eat.c|1062|version=NetHack 3.6.7|comment=confusion and stun case}}{{refsrc|src/eat.c|3337|version=NetHack 3.6.7|comment=<tt>Popeye</tt> case for lizard corpses}} Monsters can use lizard corpses as [[defensive item]]s, and will eat lizard meat to cure stoning, stunning and/or confusion{{refsrc|src/muse.c|367|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} - monsters with a tin of lizard meat have a {{frac|2|3}} chance of opening it if subjected to any of these status properties.{{refsrc|src/muse.c|376|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} A monster with intrinsic [[speed]] loses the intrinsic if it eats a lizard corpse.{{refsrc|src/muse.c|999|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/muse.c|2301|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-Lizard corpses do not rot away or become tainted from aging, though they can become too old for [[sacrifice]]. A character carrying a lizard corpse in open inventory will not be immediately subjected to gradual stoning by the hiss of a [[cockatrice]] or [[chickatrice]] during the [[new moon]].{{refsrc|src/mhitu.c|1251|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+Lizard corpses do not rot away or become tainted from aging, though they can become too old for [[sacrifice]]. A hero carrying a lizard corpse in open inventory will not be immediately subjected to gradual stoning by the hiss of a [[cockatrice]] or [[chickatrice]] during the [[new moon]].{{refsrc|src/mhitu.c|1251|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 {{upcoming|3.7.0|Lizard meat grants temporary stoning resistance, as does the meat of all stoning-resistant monsters.
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 ==Strategy==
-As an enemy, the lizard is fairly unremarkable in terms of difficulty, but represents an opportunity to gain protection from one of the more annoying [[instadeath]]s in ''NetHack'': Most players carry at least one lizard corpse in inventory, both to lower the odds of slowly turning to stone from footrice attacks and to immediately cure any stoning, making them [[Autopickup exceptions#Never pick up corpses except lizards|a very common autopickup exception]]. Lizards themselves are easy to dispatch of, with the most difficulty a majority of characters will encounter involving preventing a meat-eating pet from immediately snapping up the corpse.
+As an enemy, the lizard is fairly unremarkable in terms of difficulty, but represents an opportunity to gain protection from one of the more annoying [[instadeath]]s in ''NetHack'': Most players carry at least one lizard corpse in inventory, both to lower the odds of slowly turning to stone from footrice attacks and to immediately cure any stoning, making them [[Autopickup exceptions#Never pick up corpses except lizards|a very common autopickup exception]]. Lizards themselves are easy to dispatch of, with the most difficulty a majority of heroes will encounter involving preventing a meat-eating pet from immediately snapping up the corpse.
-Note that finishing the meal is not required to prevent gradual stoning, as simply taking a bite is enough: This allows a character to get at least two or three "unstonings" per corpse, especially since a hostile monster (often the one attempting to stone them) will often interrupt the meal. Note that lizard meat '''does not''' prevent instantaneously turning to stone from contact with a stoning corpse (e.g. accidentally eating or touching a cockatrice corpse); lizard meat also does not restore any [[intrinsic]] [[speed]] lost from turning to stone.
+Note that finishing the meal is not required to prevent gradual stoning, as simply taking a bite is enough: This allows a hero to get at least two or three "unstonings" per corpse, especially since a hostile monster (often the one attempting to stone them) will often interrupt the meal. Note that lizard meat '''does not''' prevent instantaneously turning to stone from contact with a stoning corpse (e.g. accidentally eating or touching a cockatrice corpse); lizard meat also does not restore any [[intrinsic]] [[speed]] lost from turning to stone.
 {{upcoming|3.7.0|Hostile monsters will zap the [[wand of undead turning]] at you if there are any corpses in your inventory; this is most likely to occur with lizard corpses you are carrying.}}
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 ==Variants==
 ===SLASH'EM===
-In [[SLASH'EM]], [[Vampire (starting race in SLASH'EM)|vampire]] characters will find lizard corpses much harder to utilize, as they cannot drain corpses more than a few turns old. It is still worth carrying one for the protection they provide on the new moon, but a vampire will instead need to rely on a [[potion of acid]], the {{spell of|stone to flesh}} spell or an [[amulet versus stone]].
+In [[SLASH'EM]], [[Vampire (starting race in SLASH'EM)|vampire]] heroes will find lizard corpses much harder to utilize, as they cannot drain corpses more than a few turns old. It is still worth carrying one for the protection they provide on the new moon, but a vampire will instead need to rely on a [[potion of acid]], the {{spell of|stone to flesh}} spell or an [[amulet versus stone]].
 ===SporkHack===
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 ===UnNetHack===
-In [[UnNetHack]], [[Vampire (starting race in UnNetHack)|vampire]] characters face a similar dilemma to SLASH'EM, and should stock up on acid or use the stone to flesh spell.
+In [[UnNetHack]], [[Vampire (starting race in UnNetHack)|vampire]] heroes face a similar dilemma to SLASH'EM, and should stock up on acid or use the stone to flesh spell.
 ===dNetHack===
-In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], characters can make [[Potion of blood (dNetHack)|potions of monster blood]] by applying a [[tinning kit]] to a corpse with blood, which has the effects of eating that monster's corpse or tin when quaffed. The corpses, tins and blood of [[Cave lizard (dNetHack)|cave lizards]] and their various growth stages provide the same benefits as those of "regular" lizards, though their corpses eventually rot away unlike normal lizard corpses and potions of blood eventually congeal - the corpses are also much heavier to carry.
+In [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]], heroes can make [[Potion of blood (dNetHack)|potions of monster blood]] by applying a [[tinning kit]] to a corpse with blood, which has the effects of eating that monster's corpse or tin when quaffed. The corpses, tins and blood of [[Cave lizard (dNetHack)|cave lizards]] and their various growth stages provide the same benefits as those of "regular" lizards, though their corpses eventually rot away unlike normal lizard corpses and potions of blood eventually congeal - the corpses are also much heavier to carry.
-Characters that are [[Vampire (starting race in dNetHack)|vampires]], [[Incantifier (dNetHack starting race)|incantifier]]s or [[android]]s ('[[Clockwork automaton (starting race)|clockwork]]' [[Anachrononaut]]s) can stockpile the blood of lizards or any acidic monster to cure stoning in the mid- and late game. A lizard's corpse or blood is practically essential for any character to protect against not only stoning from cockatrices, but the [[flesh to stone]] [[monster spell]] and the clawing attack of the [[teraphim tannah]].
+Heroes that are [[Vampire (starting race in dNetHack)|vampires]], [[Incantifier (dNetHack starting race)|incantifier]]s or [[android]]s ('[[Clockwork automaton (starting race)|clockwork]]' [[Anachrononaut]]s) can stockpile the blood of lizards or any acidic monster to cure stoning in the mid- and late game. A lizard's corpse or blood is practically essential for any hero to protect against not only stoning from cockatrices, but the [[flesh to stone]] [[monster spell]] and the clawing attack of the [[teraphim tannah]].
 ===TNNT (the game)===

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 A lizard has a single bite attack and possesses [[stoning resistance]].
-[[Eating]] a lizard's [[corpse]] or [[tin]] immediately cures gradual [[stoning]] and reduces the duration of any [[confusion]] and [[stun]]ning to two turns.{{refsrc|src/eat.c|1062|version=NetHack 3.6.7|comment=confusion and stun case}}{{refsrc|src/eat.c|3337|version=NetHack 3.6.7|comment=stoning case for lizard and acidic corpses}} Monsters can use lizard corpses as [[defensive item]]s, and will eat lizard meat to cure stoning, stunning and/or confusion{{refsrc|src/muse.c|367|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} - monsters with a tin of lizard meat have a {{frac|2|3}} chance of opening it.{{refsrc|src/muse.c|376|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} A monster with intrinsic [[speed]] loses the intrinsic if it eats a lizard corpse.{{refsrc|src/muse.c|999|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/muse.c|2301|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+[[Eating]] a lizard's [[corpse]] or [[tin]] immediately cures gradual [[stoning]] and reduces the duration of any [[confusion]] and [[stun]]ning to two turns.{{refsrc|src/eat.c|708|version=NetHack 3.6.7|comment=stoning case}}{{refsrc|src/eat.c|1062|version=NetHack 3.6.7|comment=confusion and stun case}}{{refsrc|src/eat.c|3337|version=NetHack 3.6.7|comment=<tt>Popeye</tt> case for lizard corpses}} Monsters can use lizard corpses as [[defensive item]]s, and will eat lizard meat to cure stoning, stunning and/or confusion{{refsrc|src/muse.c|367|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} - monsters with a tin of lizard meat have a {{frac|2|3}} chance of opening it if subjected to any of these status properties.{{refsrc|src/muse.c|376|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} A monster with intrinsic [[speed]] loses the intrinsic if it eats a lizard corpse.{{refsrc|src/muse.c|999|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}{{refsrc|src/muse.c|2301|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 Lizard corpses do not rot away or become tainted from aging, though they can become too old for [[sacrifice]]. A character carrying a lizard corpse in open inventory will not be immediately subjected to gradual stoning by the hiss of a [[cockatrice]] or [[chickatrice]] during the [[new moon]].{{refsrc|src/mhitu.c|1251|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-{{upcoming|3.7.0|Lizard meat grants temporary stoning resistance, as does the meat of all stoning-resistant monsters. Lizard corpses no longer protect from the effects of the new moon.}}
+{{upcoming|3.7.0|Lizard meat grants temporary stoning resistance, as does the meat of all stoning-resistant monsters.
 ==Generation==
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 Both the lizard and lizard corpses appear in Hack 1.21, which is based on [[Jay Fenlason's Hack]] - in this version, the corpses are known as '''dead lizards''', and are simply normal food items. Lizard corpses appear in the initial item list for [[Hack 1.0]], though lizards do not appear as monsters for several versions.
-From Hack 1.0 to [[Hack 1.0.2]], stoning by cockatrice hissing is an [[instadeath]], and lizard corpses reduce the duration of confusion instead. [[Hack 1.0.3]] introduces gradual stoning and gives lizard corpses their additional anti-stoning functions. [[NetHack 3.0.6]] 're-introduces' the lizard as a monster, meaning that their corpses are no longer distinct items.
+From Hack 1.0 to [[Hack 1.0.2]], stoning by cockatrice hissing is an [[instadeath]], and lizard corpses reduce the duration of confusion instead. [[Hack 1.0.3]] introduces gradual stoning and gives lizard corpses their additional anti-stoning functions. [[NetHack 3.0.6]] 're-introduces' the lizard as a monster, and their corpses are no longer distinct items.
 ==Messages==

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 ===TNNT (the game)===
 In [[TNNT (the game)]], [[the DevTeam Office]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a peaceful lizard [[named]] the Lizard of Yendor at level creation.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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 ===TNNT (the game)===
-In [[TNNT|TNNT (the game)]], [[the DevTeam Office]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a peaceful lizard [[named]] the Lizard of Yendor at level creation.
+In [[TNNT (the game)]], [[the DevTeam Office]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a peaceful lizard [[named]] the Lizard of Yendor at level creation.
 The [[deathmatch]] opponent will always generate with 3 to 10 lizard corpses if they represent a character that does not have any in their open inventory.

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 Characters that are [[Vampire (starting race in dNetHack)|vampires]], [[Incantifier (dNetHack starting race)|incantifier]]s or [[android]]s ('[[Clockwork automaton (starting race)|clockwork]]' [[Anachrononaut]]s) can stockpile the blood of lizards or any acidic monster to cure stoning in the mid- and late game. A lizard's corpse or blood is practically essential for any player to protect against not only stoning from cockatrices, but the [[flesh to stone]] [[monster spell]] and the clawing attack of a [[teraphim tannah]].
-===The November NetHack Tournament===
+===TNNT (the game)===
-In [[The November NetHack Tournament]], [[the DevTeam Office]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a peaceful lizard [[name]]d the Lizard of Yendor at level creation.
+In [[TNNT|TNNT (the game)]], [[the DevTeam Office]] has a {{frac|5}} chance of generating a peaceful lizard [[name]]d the Lizard of Yendor at level creation.
 The [[deathmatch]] opponent will always generate with 3 to 10 lizard corpses if they represent a character that does not have any in their open inventory.