Flying
Flying is an intrinsic property. The effects of flying are:
- You can pass over pits, holes, trap doors, squeaky boards, bear traps, water or lava safely. (Pits and holes in Sokoban will still trap you.)
- Land mines have a chance of not being triggered, and will not wound your legs.
- Improved chances of avoiding death by drawbridge.
- You can move freely over ice or on the Plane of Air.
- Wounded legs do not reduce your carrying capacity.
- No ill effects from descending stairs when encumbered, fumbling or punished.
- You are out of reach of xans' attacks.
- You escape the dungeon rather than dying by level teleporting to levels between -9 and -1.
- You can dip objects into water, unlike with levitation.
You can acquire this property by polymorphing into a flying monster:
- killer bee
- queen bee
- winged gargoyle
- mind flayer
- master mind flayer
- homunculus
- lurker above
- xan
- couatl
- titan
- jabberwock
- wraith
- succubus
- incubus
- balrog
- any monster represented by v, y, B, D, E, or V.
You can also fly by riding a flying monster:
- couatl
- ki-rin
- jabberwock
- any monster represented by D.
There are some flying monsters which you cannot polymorph into:
- Angel
- ki-rin
- Archon
- Vlad the Impaler
- Medusa
- Wizard of Yendor
- ghost
- shade
- Juiblex
- Yeenoghu
- Orcus
- Geryon
- Dispater
- Baalzebub
- Asmodeus
- Demogorgon
- Death
- Pestilence
- Famine
- Mail daemon
- Djinni
- Minion of Huhetotl
- Ixoth
- Nalzok
You can sometimes displace flying monsters by kicking them. If the "foo swoops, nimbly evading your kick" than it is moved to a random vacant square adjacent to you.
Source code
In the source code, a monster is defined as flying if it has the M1_FLY flag[1]. Note that flying is different from levitation, and monsters represented by an e levitate rather than fly, even though they possess the M1_FLY flag.
Source code references
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