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While weak, your strength is decreased. While fainted, you are vulnerable to attack as if paralysed. Being satiated [[abuse]]s [[dexterity]] for all classes, and [[wisdom]] for [[Monk]]s only. Being hungry exercises wisdom for [[Monk]]s. | While weak, your strength is decreased. While fainted, you are vulnerable to attack as if paralysed. Being satiated [[abuse]]s [[dexterity]] for all classes, and [[wisdom]] for [[Monk]]s only. Being hungry exercises wisdom for [[Monk]]s. | ||
| − | Occasionally, while hungry you will receive the message "(player class) needs food badly!" (This message always occurs when you become hungry if playing as a [[Valkyrie]] or [[Wizard]], or as an [[Elf]].) This is most likely a reference to the series of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet_(arcade_game) Gauntlet] dungeon crawler arcade games, where food is usually a far more pressing issue since it | + | Occasionally, while hungry you will receive the message "(player class) needs food badly!" (This message always occurs when you become hungry if playing as a [[Valkyrie]] or [[Wizard]], or as an [[Elf]].) This is most likely a reference to the series of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet_(arcade_game) Gauntlet] dungeon crawler arcade games, where food is usually a far more pressing issue since it is a healing item. In the Gauntlet games, the narrator will boom the same message when your player is dying. |
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Revision as of 10:59, 14 April 2009
Nutrition is essential for keeping your character alive. Too little and you starve; too much and you choke.
Sources of nutrition
Comestibles are the main source of nutrition. Eating one ([e]) increases your nutrition (equivalently, decreases your hunger) by a set amount. For example, a food ration grants 800 units of nutrition.
Wraith corpses can be eaten, but provide zero nutrition. It is nevertheless possible to choke on them.
Hunger status
On the status line, your hunger is displayed if you are anything other than "Not hungry". The following table lists the hunger states and the corresponding amount of nutrition remaining.
| Nutrition | Hunger |
|---|---|
| 2000 or more | Oversatiated |
| 1000 or more | Satiated |
| 150 to 999 | Not hungry |
| 50 to 149 | Hungry |
| 0 to 49 | Weak |
| Below zero | Fainting |
| Below minimum | Starved to death |
The minimum in the table above is -200-(20*Con).[1] For a Con:18 character, that's -560.
If your nutrition is 1500 or more[2], you may get a warning that you're having a hard time getting the food down. If you continue to eat, you risk choking to death. Sometimes NetHack will give you an option to "Stop eating? (yn) <y>". If you continue to eat, you risk choking. If you select "y" and eat something else, you will immediately choke. You cannot choke to death unless you are already satiated, but if you are, you won't always get a warning. You cannot choke to death if wearing an amulet of magical breathing - instead you will "stuff yourself, then vomit voluminously", losing 1000 points of nutrition.
If you consume any food (even a zero-nutrition wraith corpse) while oversatiated, you immediately choke to death.
While weak, your strength is decreased. While fainted, you are vulnerable to attack as if paralysed. Being satiated abuses dexterity for all classes, and wisdom for Monks only. Being hungry exercises wisdom for Monks.
Occasionally, while hungry you will receive the message "(player class) needs food badly!" (This message always occurs when you become hungry if playing as a Valkyrie or Wizard, or as an Elf.) This is most likely a reference to the series of Gauntlet dungeon crawler arcade games, where food is usually a far more pressing issue since it is a healing item. In the Gauntlet games, the narrator will boom the same message when your player is dying.
Losing nutrition
Every turn[3], you lose one point of nutrition, unless you are wearing a ring of slow digestion. Every twenty turns, you lose one point of nutrition for each ring you wear (the turn that this is calculated is different for your left and right hands). Some rings (namely conflict, hunger, and regeneration) grant intrinsics that have a far harsher hunger penalty, which is one point of nutrition every second turn. Every twenty turns, you lose one point of nutrition if you're wearing an amulet. Also, every twenty turns, you lose one point of nutrition if you're carrying the Amulet of Yendor.
Jumping incurs a 1d25 hunger penalty, regardless of its source.[4]
Spellcasting without hungerless casting or reduced-hunger casting (both of which are granted only to high-intelligence wizards) incurs a hunger penalty, unless the spell is detect food, which costs 0[5]. The base penalty is ten times the level of the spell you're casting.[6] Spellcasting with the Amulet of Yendor incurs an additional d(spell level * 4) hunger penalty (which is also affected by wizard hunger reduction).[7]
Being Stressed or worse incurs a point of nutrition loss every odd-numbered turn.[8]
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