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Nevertheless, it is possible to eat a corpseless monster by swallowing it live and [[digest]]ing it, for example if you or your pet is a [[purple worm]]. Doing so yields no [[nutrition]],<ref>[[source:Uhitm.c#803]]; [[source:Mhitm.c#650]]</ref> confers no [[intrinsic]]s, and does not break [[vegan]] conduct.
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Nevertheless, it is possible to eat a corpseless monster by swallowing it live and [[digest]]ing it, for example if you or your pet is a [[purple worm]]. Doing so yields no [[nutrition]],<ref>[[source:Uhitm.c#line803]]; [[source:Mhitm.c#line650]]</ref> confers no [[intrinsic]]s, and does not break [[vegan]] conduct.
  
Internally, corpseless monsters are tagged with G_NOCORPSE, but the flag is also used for certain [[undead]]&#8212;[[zombie]]s, [[mummy|mummies]], and [[vampire]]s&#8212;that revert to corresponding [[tainted]] ordinary corpses.<ref>[[source:Mon.c#163]]</ref> For example, you cannot successfully wish for a "dead kobold zombie", since killing a kobold zombie simply yields a tainted dead kobold.
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Internally, corpseless monsters are tagged with G_NOCORPSE, but the flag is also used for certain [[undead]]&#8212;[[zombie]]s, [[mummy|mummies]], and [[vampire]]s&#8212;that revert to corresponding [[tainted]] ordinary corpses.<ref>[[source:Mon.c#line163]]</ref> For example, you cannot successfully wish for a "dead kobold zombie", since killing a kobold zombie simply yields a tainted dead kobold.
  
 
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Revision as of 13:03, 20 January 2011

Corpseless monsters are those that never leave corpses—such corpses simply do not exist, and cannot be formed by any means:

Nevertheless, it is possible to eat a corpseless monster by swallowing it live and digesting it, for example if you or your pet is a purple worm. Doing so yields no nutrition,[1] confers no intrinsics, and does not break vegan conduct.

Internally, corpseless monsters are tagged with G_NOCORPSE, but the flag is also used for certain undeadzombies, mummies, and vampires—that revert to corresponding tainted ordinary corpses.[2] For example, you cannot successfully wish for a "dead kobold zombie", since killing a kobold zombie simply yields a tainted dead kobold.

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