Brown moldier
| F brown moldier (No tile) | |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | 7 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 1d4 physical, passive 0d6 cold |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | ? |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 8 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 200 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | Cold, sleep, poison |
| Resistances conveyed | none |
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A brown moldier:
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| Reference | SpliceHack 1.2.0 - monst.c, line 2312 |
A brown moldier, F, is a type of monster that appears in SpliceHack-Rewrite and Hack'EM. The brown moldier is a type of humanoid mold that has an affinity to cold similar to the brown mold, and like all moldiers it is capable of following the hero to other levels while it is adjacent.
A brown moldier has a weapon attack, as well as a passive attack that can trigger when it is attacked in melee and not killed, dealing cold damage against attackers without cold resistance dependent on their level. This passive attack increases the moldier's HP by half the damage inflicted - if enough HP is gained from this, it will undergo division, halving its HP (rounded up) and creating a second moldier with almost the same amount of HP. Brown moldiers possess poison resistance, sleep resistance and cold resistance.
Generation
Randomly generated brown moldiers are always created hostile. A brown mold can grow up into a brown moldier, though this does not normally occur in gameplay.
A brown moldier can generate from a corpse that reaches 51 turns of age, is not acidic, and is not located within or on top of a square of water, ice or lava. Corpses infected by brown moldiers may be turned into brown moldiers themselves.
Strategy
Much like regular molds, brown moldiers should be fought using ranged attacks by heroes that lack the appropriate resistance for their passive attacks. Copper weapons deal extra damage to mold and fungus monsters, which can provide an important edge against moldiers in general. When dealing with a room of hostile monsters, dispose of as many of the corpses as reasonably possible (e.g. eating them, feeding them to pets, etc.) so that you have fewer potential moldiers to deal with - if possible, stash any leftover weapons and other loot so that moldiers cannot use them.
Despite their weight, moldier corpses provide relatively little nutrition and do not give intrinsics (done intentionally in order to avoid potential farming).
Encyclopedia entry
Mold, multicellular organism of the division Fungi, typified
by plant bodies composed of a network of cottony filaments.
The colors of molds are due to spores borne on the filaments.
Most molds are saprophytes. Some species (e.g., penicillium)
are used in making cheese and antibiotics.
