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Gelatinous cubes are noteworthy in that as they move they will eat [[organic]] items they pass over and engulf most other items (exceptions being [[rock]]s or a punished player's [[heavy iron ball|iron ball]] and [[iron chain|chain]]) which are then placed into the cube's inventory.  They are thus useful for cleaning useless items out of a level, and the bane of [[stash]]es.
 
Gelatinous cubes are noteworthy in that as they move they will eat [[organic]] items they pass over and engulf most other items (exceptions being [[rock]]s or a punished player's [[heavy iron ball|iron ball]] and [[iron chain|chain]]) which are then placed into the cube's inventory.  They are thus useful for cleaning useless items out of a level, and the bane of [[stash]]es.
 
==Encyclopedia entry==
 
These giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than
 
puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on
 
metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to
 
supplement their diet.
 
 
But we were not on a station platform.  We were on the track ahead
 
as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed
 
tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy
 
speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the
 
pallid abyss vapor.  It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster
 
than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic
 
bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes
 
forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the
 
tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic
 
penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its
 
kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
 
        [ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]
 
 
[[Category:Monsters]]
 
[[Category:Monsters]]

Revision as of 05:17, 20 January 2008


The gelatinous cube, b, is a monster in NetHack. Unlike the Dungeons & Dragons creature from which it is derived, it has no means to engulf the player; however it still possesses the means to paralyze the unwary. Their corpses are acidic, but may also provide fire/cold/shock/sleep resistance.

Gelatinous cubes are noteworthy in that as they move they will eat organic items they pass over and engulf most other items (exceptions being rocks or a punished player's iron ball and chain) which are then placed into the cube's inventory. They are thus useful for cleaning useless items out of a level, and the bane of stashes.