Spinach
Spinach is a type of food in NetHack that appears in select tins.
Generation
1⁄6 of randomly generated tins, including any generated in the starting inventory of a Tourist, will contain spinach.
General stores, delicatessens and health food stores can sell tins of spinach, and health food store tins in particular will convert tins of non-vegetarian food to spinach.[1]
Description
A tin of spinach is vegan and confers nutrition and additional effects dependent on its beatitude: a blessed tin grants 600 nutrition and increases strength, while an uncursed tin grants 401-600 nutrition and increases strength, and a cursed tin grants 201-600 nutrition and decreases strength.[2] The exact amount of strength increase depends on the character's current strength:[3]
| Current strength | Gain |
|---|---|
| 17 or less |
|
| 18–18/84 |
|
| 18/85 or more |
|
Strategy
Because health food shops spawn 70% of their products as vegetarian foods, any tins they sell are liable to be tins of spinach, therefore any tins found in these shops should be bought first for a hefty amount of spinach.
History
Spinach appears as a food item in Hack 1.21, which is based on Jay Fenlason's Hack, and appears in Hack 1.0 as the potential contents of a tin, and can randomly increase strength in both appearances.
The messages for eating a tin of spinach while wearing a ring of sustain ability are added in NetHack 3.6.2.
Origin
The effects of spinach in NetHack and the messages produced are based on the Popeye series of comics and cartoons featuring the titular character, who gains incredible strength after eating spinach: Olive Oyl is generally Popeye's love interest, while Bluto is Popeye's rival both for Olive's affections and in general, and Swee'pea is Popeye's adoptive child.
Messages
- It contains some decaying <green> substance.
- You opened a cursed tin of spinach, with the color noted only if you are not blind.[4]
- This makes you feel like Popeye!
- You ate a tin of spinach and gained strength from it.
- This makes you feel like Swee'pea!
- As above, but while hallucinating.
- This makes you feel like Olive Oyl!
- As a female character, you ate a noncursed tin of spinach while wearing a ring of sustain ability.
- This makes you feel like Bluto!
- As above, but for a male character.
References
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