Quivering blob
b quivering blob | |
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Difficulty | 6 |
Attacks |
Touch 1d8 |
Base level | 5 |
Base experience | 59 |
Speed | 1 |
Base AC | 8 |
Base MR | 0 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 200 |
Nutritional value | 100 |
Size | Small |
Resistances | sleep, poison |
Resistances conveyed |
poison (33%) |
A quivering blob:
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Reference | monst.c#line151 |
The quivering blob, b, is an amoeboid monster in NetHack. Lika all blobs, Quivering blob corpses are considered vegan, and can safely be eaten without breaking any food-related conduct. Eating a quivering blob corpse provides 100 nutrition and has a 33% chance of conferring poison resistance. Perhaps unusually as monsters go, there are no special cases in the source code with respect to quivering blobs; all the information about them is given by their status as a blob, and their stats.
Quivering blobs are extremely slow, meaning that they attack infrequently, and cause only minor damage even when they do attack; thus, they are generally considered to not be much of a threat. (Unlike most amoeboid monsters, they do not cause passive damage when attacked.) They also die quickly to most sources of damage; thus, their major tactical and strategic influence on the game is to be eaten for their relatively large chance of conferring poison resistance.