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While slow, the '''crocodile''' can do significant damage, and is much more difficult a foe than its younger form.
 
While slow, the '''crocodile''' can do significant damage, and is much more difficult a foe than its younger form.
  
A crocodile corpse is a good meal, but an adventurer with a [[wand of polymorph]] may want to reconsider before eating — [[polypiling]] a crocodile corpse will yield a pair of non-cursed [[fireproof]] +0 [[low boots]].
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In addition to eating the corpse for a surprisingly large amount of [[nutrition]], there is an alternative use for the corpse: [[polypiling]] it into a pair of non-cursed [[fireproof]] +0 [[low boots]]. This is mostly only worth doing for the novelty value.
  
 
The '''baby crocodile''' is simply just a young crocodile.  It is amphibious, and rather slow moving.  It poses little threat to a player, as [[escape]] is easy. In [[UnNetHack]], [[tourist]]s will start the game with a baby crocodile as pet.
 
The '''baby crocodile''' is simply just a young crocodile.  It is amphibious, and rather slow moving.  It poses little threat to a player, as [[escape]] is easy. In [[UnNetHack]], [[tourist]]s will start the game with a baby crocodile as pet.

Revision as of 08:12, 1 June 2015

While slow, the crocodile can do significant damage, and is much more difficult a foe than its younger form.

In addition to eating the corpse for a surprisingly large amount of nutrition, there is an alternative use for the corpse: polypiling it into a pair of non-cursed fireproof +0 low boots. This is mostly only worth doing for the novelty value.

The baby crocodile is simply just a young crocodile. It is amphibious, and rather slow moving. It poses little threat to a player, as escape is easy. In UnNetHack, tourists will start the game with a baby crocodile as pet.

Encyclopedia entry

A big animal with the appearance of a lizard, constituting
 an order of the reptiles (_Loricata_ or _Crocodylia_), the
 crocodile is a large, dangerous predator native to tropical
 and subtropical climes. It spends most of its time in large
 bodies of water.