Violet fungus
F violet fungus 
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| Difficulty | 5 |
| Attacks |
Touch 1d4 sticky |
| Base level | 3 |
| Base experience | 34 |
| Speed | 1 |
| Base AC | 7 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 100 |
| Nutritional value | 100 |
| Size | Small |
| Resistances | Poison |
| Resistances conveyed | Poison (20%) |
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A violet fungus:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1440 |
A violet fungus, F, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. The violet fungus (plural violet fungi) is the strongest monster of the fungus or mold monster class.
Violet fungi possess a sticky touch attack that deals damage and holds the hero in place for a short amount of time, with the sticking having no effect on monsters. Violet fungi possess poison resistance.
Eating a violet fungus corpse or tin has a 1⁄5 chance (20%) of granting poison resistance, and will always cause hallucination for the hero.
Generation
Randomly generated violet fungi are always created hostile.
Strategy
Violet fungi are not particularly threatening, though they can be annoying with their sticky attacks holding heroes in place. Violet fungi corpses are a possible source of poison resistance for a hero, but the hallucination warrants a reliable means of curing it (e.g. a unicorn horn) in order to make them safer to eat. Pet herbivores such as horses are not given hallucination from food, and so can freely eat violet fungi corpses.
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that it is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate this information.
Monsters can gain intrinsics from eating corpses, so a violet fungus can be useful for giving poison resistance to a pet pony (e.g. as a Knight).History
The violet fungus first appears in Hack for PDP-11, which is based on Jay Fenlason's Hack. From this version to NetHack 2.3e, the monster is known as "violet fungi", with the "violet fungus" name used if the KAA compile-time option is set, and it uses the v glyph. NetHack 3.0.0 moves the violet fungus to the fungus or mold monster class, and establishes its current name and glyph.
Message
- You smell mushrooms.
- A monster polymorphed into a violet fungus.
Encyclopedia entry
"Fungus" and "fungi" both return this encyclopedia entry:
Fungi, division of simple plants that lack chlorophyll, true
stems, roots, and leaves. Unlike algae, fungi cannot
photosynthesize, and live as parasites or saprophytes. The
division comprises the slime molds and true fungi. True
fungi are multicellular (with the exception of yeasts); the
body of most true fungi consists of slender cottony
filaments, or hyphae. All fungi are capable of asexual
reproduction by cell division, budding, fragmentation, or
spores. Those that reproduce sexually alternate a sexual
generation (gametophyte) with a spore-producing one. The
four classes of true fungi are the algaelike fungi (e.g.,
black bread mold and downy mildew), sac fungi (e.g., yeasts,
powdery mildews, truffles, and blue and green molds such as
Penicillium), basidium fungi (e.g., mushrooms and puffballs)
and imperfect fungi (e.g., species that cause athlete's foot
and ringworm). Fungi help decompose organic matter (important
in soil renewal); are valuable as a source of antibiotics,
vitamins, and various chemicals; and for their role in
fermentation, e.g., in bread and alcoholic beverage
production.
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