Slime mold

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Name	slime mold
Base price	17 zm
Nutrition	250
Turns to eat	{{{turns}}}
Weight	5
Conduct	{{{conduct}}}

Slime mold is the default name for NetHack's customisable fruit. You can change it, with the fruit option, to anything you like. You could choose slice of pizza or bowl of gruel or leg of ham and the game will identify pizza, gruel and ham as the food part, giving messages such as "This tastes like ham juice" when quaffing certain potions.

The name you choose has no impact on gameplay; the fruit will be worth 250 nutrition points (whereas melons are only 100 points each, and other fruit are less). For conduct purposes, NetHack assumes that the fruit is vegan.

If you leave a bones file with any custom fruit in it, the name will be preserved for the player who finds it. Thus it is possible to have several different pieces of customised fruit in one game.

Which name to use?

Nethack.alt.org has a list of fruit names. Some of the more interesting ones:

• "Amulet of Yendor" - now it is easier to find
• "apple" - but NetHack already has those!
• "cockatrice corpse" - now safe to eat
• "copy of Windows XP" - because NAO runs Debian?
• "FruitName" - meta food
• "human brain" - pretend to be a mind flayer
• "rotting lump of diseased meat" - tasty!
• "tin of iron golem meat" - at least you'll get your recommended daily amount
• "ring of slow digestion" - now edible
• "WANG" - try not to choke on it...
• "neutron star" - sits heavy in your stomach
• "percent sign" - Crash! You see here the remains of the fourth wall.
• "slime mold. You die.." - for funny message

Angband players have no chance to rename their slime molds, so they restorted to inscribing them.