P

Printable ASCII characters
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	Qq	Ww	Ee	Rr	Tt	Yy	Uu	Ii	Oo	Pp	:	"	[	]	\
	Aa	Ss	Dd	Ff	Gg	Hh	Jj	Kk	Ll	?	;	'	Ctrl
	Zz	Xx	Cc	Vv	Bb	Nn	Mm	,	.	/	<	>	Alt

In NetHack, the letter P serves the following purposes:

• p represents a piercer:
  • p rock piercer
  • p iron piercer
  • p glass piercer

• P represents a pudding or ooze:
  • P gray ooze
  • P brown pudding
  • P black pudding
  • P green slime

• Press p to pay your shopping bill.

• Press shift + p to put on a ring, an amulet, or other accessory.

• Press ctrl + p to repeat previous messages.

Historical uses

In Hack 1.21, a port of Jay Fenlason's Hack, pickpockets use the p glyph, while phase shifters use the P glyph. In Hack for PDP-11, the p glyph is given to the piercer, while the P glyph is given to the purple worm - both monsters retain their glyphs for their appearance in Hack 1.0, and continue to use those glyphs up to NetHack 2.3e.

In NetHack 3.0.0, the piercer is made into a monster class, with three distinct types of piercer introduced, and the pudding or ooze monster class is introduced and given the P glyph - the purple worm is moved to the worm monster class, w.

Variants

SLASH'EM

SLASH'EM introduces three new monsters that use the P glyph:

• P pudding or ooze:
  • P moldy pudding
  • P shoggoth
  • P giant shoggoth