Oviparous

Oviparous monsters are creatures in NetHack that can lay eggs.

Description

Some randomly-generated eggs are the eggs of oviparous monsters, and will hatch into that monster's "youngest" available form unless they are left in a container.

If the player is polymorphed into a female oviparous monster, the #sit command can be used to lay an egg, which will hatch into a tame monster.

List of oviparous monsters

The following monsters are oviparous:

• all cswNS
• all a except giant beetles
• all adult ​D dragons except the Chromatic Dragon and Ixoth
• all ​; sea monsters except jellyfish and krakens
• g gargoyles and g winged gargoyles
• : crocodiles
• s Scorpius
  • Scorpius is defined as oviparous, but is unique, always male, and not a valid polymorph form, so his oviparous status is generally irrelevant. A Scorpius egg is never generated, and wishing for one will produce a scorpion egg instead.

"Baby" and "hatchling" monsters are never oviparous, even if their adult forms are.

Variants

SLASH'EM

SLASH'EM adds many new oviparous monsters:

• a Giant tick
• a Giant flea
• a Snow ant
• a Giant louse
• s Recluse spider
• s Barking spider
• s Carrion crawler
• s Nickelpede
• s Giant scorpion
• s Girtab
• s Shelob
• s Phase spider
• s Werespider
• z Echidna
• z Platypus
• D Shimmering dragon
• D Deep dragon
• S King cobra
• S Asphynx
• ; Giant crab
• : Rhaumbusun
• : Basilisk
• : Komodo dragon