Corpseless
Corpseless monsters are those that do not leave corpses or globs:
- x grid bugs
- y lights
- e spheres, except floating eyes
- v vortices
- ' golems, except for flesh golems (although most leave characteristic item drops)
- i manes and i lemures
- Z ghouls
- W barrow wights
- L liches
- W Nazgul
- Z skeletons
- ghosts and shades
- @ Ashikaga Takauji
- @ Dark One
- & Minion of Huhetotl
- & Nalzok
- @ Thoth Amon
- E elementals proper, except stalkers
- A angelic beings
- & demons and djinn, except the Riders
Such corpses simply cannot be created in a normal game, although a mimic may take on the appearance of one.
A purple worm can swallow and digest a corpseless monster. If you are polymorphed into a purple worm, digesting a corpseless monster yields no nutrition and confers no intrinsics. This breaks foodless conduct but preserves vegan and vegetarian conducts.[1]
Several types of undead monsters revert to ordinary corpses when destroyed. For example, a kobold zombie does not leave a kobold zombie corse, but rather an old and tainted kobold corpse. [2] These monsters are:
In wizard mode, it is possible to wish for corpses of corpseless monsters. These act exactly like normal corpses, with the weight, nutrition and intrinsics drawn from src/monst.c.[3]. This includes the undead monsters above, which would normally drop another type of corpse. You must wish for "<monstername> corpse"; NetHack will not recognize "<monstername>'s corpse."
History
In NetHack 3.4.3, puddings, oozes, and slimes left ordinary corpses rather than globs, enabling pudding farming.
Prior to Nethack 3.6.2, it was possible to create a corpse of a corpseless monster by setting up a level full of monsters, going up one level, and then making a monster fall into a hole.[4].
References
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