Green slime
P green slime 
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| Difficulty | 8 |
| Attacks |
Touch 1d4 sliming |
| Base level | 6 |
| Base experience | 164 |
| Speed | 6 |
| Base AC | 6 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 400 |
| Nutritional value | 150 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | cold, electricity, poison, acid, petrification |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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A green slime:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1847 |
The green slime, P, is a dangerous monster that appears in NetHack. It is slow and has a single, seemingly innocuous touch attack that deals very low damage, but can also cause sliming.
There is a sliming passive attack coded into the slime's attack set, but there is nothing in uhitm.c that currently handles sliming passives;[1] the attack still contributes to the experience points you earn for killing the green slime.
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Generation
Green slimes are randomly generated only in Gehennom, but are a valid form for things like shapeshifters and polymorph traps. They can also be generated if a neutral spellcaster casts the summon nasties monster spells.
Instead of corpses, green slimes leave globs of green slime that are safe to touch, but not to eat.
Strategy
While it only has one attack and moves at half the speed of an average hero, the green slime is extremely dangerous - sliming is a delayed instadeath that leaves you with nine turns to cure it before you are fully turned into a green slime yourself. As such, avoid remaining within melee range of the monster if at all possible. If you have no choice or else are pinned close to one (e.g., as part of a group of summoned nasties), be sure to have at least one or two cures (e.g. a wand of fire or a spell of cure sickness) ready to go immediately if you get slimed.
Note that monsters will pick up leftover globs as a potential stoning cure - only salamanders will actually eat them, as they are the only fiery (and thus slimeproof) monsters eligible to pick up and use such items.
Origin
Green slimes are one of the many monsters imported from Dungeons & Dragons.
History
The green slime is introduced in NetHack 3.3.0; the glob of green slime it leaves behind in lieu of a corpse was introduced in NetHack 3.6.0.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, the green slime's attack has a 1⁄4 chance of succeeding instead of 100%. They also drop normal corpses instead of globs, but the corpse is still unsafe to eat. Green slime corpses can be found in fungus farms.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, the green slime now has an engulfing attack that can indue sliming similar to its touch attack, as well as strangling its victim unless they have a means of magical breathing.
Encyclopedia entry
- See the encyclopedia entry for amoeboid.
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