Potion of fruit juice
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| Name | fruit juice |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 50 zm |
| Weight | 20 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
A potion of fruit juice is a type of potion that appears in NetHack.
Generation
Delicatessens will sometimes sell fruit juice.
Fruit juice can also be created from other potions in the following ways:
- Dipping an amethyst into a potion of booze.
- Dipping a unicorn horn into a potion of sickness.
- Cancelling a potion of sickness or see invisible.
Description
The potion is simply juice made from the nameable fruit, and raises your nutrition when quaffed. It adds only 10 nutrition if cursed, 20 if uncursed, and 30 if blessed. The amount of nutrition is halved if the potion is diluted.[1]
Strategy
Potions of fruit juice have the same weight as food rations, but offer a lot less nutrition per unit a weight than rations and some other comestibles; most players will be fine polypiling potions of fruit juice that they come across, diluting them into water or else simply drinking them immediately. Foodless players are a major exception for obvious reasons, and also benefit in particular from alchemizing diluted fruit juice into booze.
In a game where the smoky potion is fruit juice, players may consider going for wishes by collecting potions of sickness or see invisible to turn into fruit juice via cancellation.
Identification
The potion of see invisible uses the same messages as fruit juice when quaffed, making it somewhat difficult to tell them apart. Some ways reliably identify fruit juice include:
- Fruit juice is the only one of the pair sold in a delicatessen; delicatessens will also only buy the fruit juice if you drop either potion on any of the shop's squares.
- Dipping a unicorn horn into a potion of sickness turns it into fruit juice.
- Fruit juice is unaffected by cancellation.
- If you have become hungry within the last few turns and that status disappears upon quaffing a potion that gives these messages, it was fruit juice.
- Fruit juice can be generated by a horn of plenty.
- Dipping an amethyst into a potion of booze turns it into fruit juice; however, this typically requires you to have identified the gem first.
Messages
These messages use whatever the user-specified name for the fruit is, which is "slime mold" by default.
- This tastes like <slime mold> juice.
- The potion was blessed or uncursed.
- Yecch! This tastes rotten.
- The potion was cursed.
- This tastes like reconstituted <slime mold> juice.
- The potion was diluted.
- This tastes like 10% real <slime mold> juice all-natural beverage.
- You quaffed the potion while hallucinating.
- This tastes like 10% real reconstituted <slime mold> juice all-natural beverage.
- As above, and the potion was diluted.
