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Revision as of 14:02, 7 March 2023
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| Name | cram ration |
| Base price | 35 zm |
| Nutrition | 600 (700 for dwarves) |
| Turns to eat | 3 |
| Weight | 15 |
| Conduct | vegan |
A cram ration is a kind of comestible that appears in NetHack. It is a vegan food, and is lighter but less filling than a food ration; dwarves gain an additional 100 nutrition from cram rations.
Generation
Gnomish and human Rangers start the game with a stack of 4-8 cram rations.
Strategy
Non-cursed cram rations are a safer option than most other comestibles if you must eat while hostile monsters are nearby, since they weigh less and can be eaten in 3 turns—this can be particularly useful during the ascension run or an encounter with Famine in the Astral Plane.
History
Cram rations first appear in NetHack 3.0.0. The inability of non-cursed cram rations to be rotten when eaten is introduced in NetHack 3.6.0; the extra nutrition for dwarves is added in NetHack 3.6.1.
When starting races were introduced in NetHack 3.3.0, orcish characters except for Wizards could start the game with cram rations among their random extra food items.[1] There was intended to be code for an orcish player character's initial inventory that gave them tripe rations in place of cram ration and lembas wafers, which was properly implementd in NetHack 3.6.2.[2][3]
Messages
- This cram ration is bland.
- You ate a non-cursed cram ration.
Encyclopedia entry
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise. It was made by the Lake-men for long journeys.
