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| − | The brown pudding's attacks do no damage, and its AC is rather high; its only danger lies in [[rotting]] your armor. This can be easily avoided by any combination of wearing metal armor, covering your body armor with a throwaway [[cloak]], or simply removing any organic armor. | + | The brown pudding's attacks do no damage, and its AC is rather high; its only danger lies in [[rotting]] your or your pet's [[armor]]. This can be easily avoided by any combination of wearing metal armor, covering your body armor with a throwaway [[cloak]], or simply removing any organic armor. Pets without armor, such as domestic animals like [[dog]], can freely dispose of a brown pudding. |
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Beginning in [[NetHack 3.6.0]], brown puddings leave [[glob]]s instead of [[corpse]]s when they are killed. Globs cannot be sacrificed, revived or tinned, making [[pudding farming]] a less useful tactic than in previous versions of NetHack. Globs also could not give resistances when eaten; this is fixed as of [[3.6.1]]. | Beginning in [[NetHack 3.6.0]], brown puddings leave [[glob]]s instead of [[corpse]]s when they are killed. Globs cannot be sacrificed, revived or tinned, making [[pudding farming]] a less useful tactic than in previous versions of NetHack. Globs also could not give resistances when eaten; this is fixed as of [[3.6.1]]. | ||
| − | == Encyclopedia entry == | + | ==Encyclopedia entry== |
| + | "Blob", "pudding", and "ooze" share the same entry: | ||
| − | {{encyclopedia| | + | {{encyclopedia|<poem> |
| − | + | These giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than | |
| − | + | puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on | |
| − | + | metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to | |
| − | + | supplement their diet. | |
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| − | + | But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead | |
| − | + | as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed | |
| − | + | tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy | |
| − | + | speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the | |
| − | + | pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster | |
| − | + | than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic | |
| − | + | bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes | |
| − | + | forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the | |
| − | + | tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic | |
| − | + | penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its | |
| − | + | kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. | |
| − | + | {{right-align|[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]}} | |
| − | + | </poem>}} | |
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Revision as of 18:35, 3 March 2020
P brown pudding 
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| Difficulty | 6 |
| Attacks |
Bite decays organic items |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | 56 |
| Speed | 3 |
| Base AC | 8 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 500 |
| Nutritional value | 250 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | cold, shock, poison, acid, petrification |
| Resistances conveyed |
cold (7%), shock (7%), poison (7%) |
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A brown pudding:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1829 |
The brown pudding, P, is an amoeboid monster in NetHack.
Like its more powerful cousin, the black pudding, it will divide when hit by an iron weapon. Eating brown puddings is vegetarian, but not vegan.
Contents
Strategy
The brown pudding's attacks do no damage, and its AC is rather high; its only danger lies in rotting your or your pet's armor. This can be easily avoided by any combination of wearing metal armor, covering your body armor with a throwaway cloak, or simply removing any organic armor. Pets without armor, such as domestic animals like dog, can freely dispose of a brown pudding.
Pets
If you have a pudding pet, you can hit it with iron items to cause the pet to split, yielding more pets for polymorphing; see abuse for the ramifications of attacking and splitting your pet. As the name is cloned, you might want to rename one. Alternately, consider splitting them first, then using a scroll of taming or a spell of charm monster if either is available. For pet splitting, a Puddingbane is recommended to avoid incurring alignment and luck penalties.
History
Beginning in NetHack 3.6.0, brown puddings leave globs instead of corpses when they are killed. Globs cannot be sacrificed, revived or tinned, making pudding farming a less useful tactic than in previous versions of NetHack. Globs also could not give resistances when eaten; this is fixed as of 3.6.1.
Encyclopedia entry
"Blob", "pudding", and "ooze" share the same entry:
These giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than
puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on
metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to
supplement their diet.
But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead
as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed
tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy
speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the
pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster
than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic
bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes
forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the
tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic
penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its
kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
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