Cream pie
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| Name | cream pie |
| Base price | 10 zm |
| Nutrition | 100 |
| Turns to eat | 1 |
| Weight | 10 |
| Conduct | vegetarian |
A cream pie is a type of veggy comestible that appears in NetHack.
Generation
Keystone Kops frequently generate with cream pies.
Description
Eating a cream pie provides 100 nutrition and breaks the vegan conduct, but preserves the vegetarian conduct. Throwing a cream pie at a monster will blind them; monsters can throw cream pies at you for the same effect, which blinds you for up to 25 (more) turns.[1] Applying a cream pie will smash it onto your face, blinding yourself for the same amount of turns. Wielding a cream pie and attacking with it will splatter the pie in the target monster's face.
Attacking with thrown and/or wielded cream pies do no damage, and thus does not break pacifist conduct.
If you are hit by a cream pie, you can #wipe your face or apply a towel to regain sight faster; applying a cursed towel may cause cream pie gunk to cover your face.
Any cream pie in the path of a force bolt spell or a zapped wand of striking is destroyed on contact with the bolt.
Strategy
The usefulness of cream pies as a long-term food source is limited due to their low nutrition to weight ratio. Instead, cream pies are most frequently employed as a one-off source of blindness (e.g., to use intrinsic telepathy) if you have not obtained a blindfold or towel. They can also be useful if you are wearing a pair of lenses or the Eyes of the Overworld and do not want to use up turns switching to a blindfold or towel.
Cream pies are also useful against gaze attacks, either by blinding yourself (e.g., to hit a floating eye safely]]) or the gaze-possessing monster (e.g. an Archon); the cream will eventually clear off, so repeated applications may be necessary in either case. Pacifist players will often wield a cream pie (or a whole stack of them) to avoid doing any damage if they accidentally hit a monster.
Keystone Kops are a readily-accessible source of cream pies if a player can reliably dispose of them before they have a chance to throw any.
History
The cream pie first appears in NetHack 1.3d.
In NetHack 3.4.3 and earlier versions, applying or otherwise destroying a wielded cream pie can crash the game; this is bug C343-218, and was fixed in October 2006.[2][3][4]In versions and derived variants that do not have this bug patched, you are safe if you immediately wield something else (or even nothing -), or else save and restore the game. Bilious also has a patch that addresses this - Bilious #342, added in January 2009.
Messages
- What a mess!
- A cream pie was destroyed by a force bolt from a spell or wand.
