Gray ooze
P gray ooze 
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| Difficulty | 4 |
| Attacks |
Bite 2d8 rusting |
| Base level | 3 |
| Base experience | 28 |
| Speed | 1 |
| Base AC | 8 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 500 |
| Nutritional value | 250 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | fire, cold, poison, acid, petrification |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A gray ooze:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1817 |
The gray ooze, P, is a weak amoeboid NetHack monster. It is extremely slow, but its bite causes rusting and can damage armor if it manages to land an attack. It is capable of dissolving a spider web. Unlike the Brown or Black pudding, it will not divide when you hit it without killing it.
Strategy
By the time a player encounters a Gray ooze they should be more than capable of defeating it unless you are a Tourist. Its rusting attack and ability to pass under doors makes this monster more annoying than anything else. It's best to take them out with ranged attacks as they are very slow if not persistent. If you lack the means to kill it from afar and don't want to expend a wand's charge on it, let your pet deal with it. If all else fails, you could punch it to death with no iron items on. Only do this if it is safe to do so, i.e. there aren't any other monsters nearby.
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Nethack 3.6.0
In nethack 3.6.0, the gray ooze, like all amoeboids, will leave a glob instead of a corpse. This can be eaten like a corpse, and will become tainted but never fully rot away.
