Food poisoning
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Food poisoning is acquired by eating an old corpse. It is marked by the text FoodPois on the status line. The initial time-to-live is set to 10 + 1d9 turns.[1] It is eventually fatal, but can be cured by doing one of the following:
- applying a non-cursed unicorn horn,
- praying to your god,
- quaffing a non-cursed potion of extra healing or full healing, a blessed potion of healing, or a potion of holy water (unless chaotic),
- casting a spell of cure sickness,
- eating a eucalyptus leaf,
- #invoking the Staff of Aesculapius.
The full list of less common remedies also includes:
- vomiting from eating tripe, a rotten egg, or in SporkHack, drinking a potion of salt water. This is quite unreliable, but it's there.
- polymorphing into a new version of yourself[2] or a sickness-resistant monster[3]. (A new version includes if you "fail" to change form, but get your attributes adjusted.)
- getting hit by a nurse's healing attack[4],
- sitting on a throne (1/13 chance)[5].
Food poisoning is completely preventable (in NetHack) by avoiding eating old corpses. Corpses left by zombies and other undead (except wraith) are always considered old. A corpse is too old to eat after 6*(9+1d20) turns, where 6 is replaced with 8 if blessed and 4 if cursed.[6]
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, you may also get food poisoning from swallowing a pill. You can cure food poisoning by sitting on a toilet.
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