Water moccasin
S water moccasin 
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| Difficulty | 7 |
| Attacks |
Bite 1d6 poison |
| Base level | 4 |
| Base experience | 48 |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | 3 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 150 |
| Nutritional value | 80 |
| Size | Small |
| Resistances | Poison |
| Resistances conveyed | Poison (27%) |
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A water moccasin:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1760 |
A water moccasin, S, is a variety of snake, virtually identical to the normal snake but not generated at random. Water moccasins are poisonous to eat and have a 27% chance of imparting poison resistance.
Generation
They are generated only in swarms by quaffing from (or dipping an item into) a fountain (often killing unsuspecting low-level characters); their presence in the absence of fountain quaffing is indicative of bones or a rogue shapeshifter.
Due to their affiliation with fountain quaffing, they are the fourth most frequent cause of death on nethack.alt.org (next to soldier ants, jackals, and wands); it is common in #nethack, on hearing of a water moccasin death, to exclaim "Go team fountain!" in acknowledgement of this.
Strategy
Origin
Water moccasins are a species of venomous snake well known in the southeastern United States.
Encyclopedia entry
- See the encyclopedia entry for snake.
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