Sustain ability
Sustain ability is a property in NetHack that prevents most changes to a character's attribute.
The only source of protection from shape changers is wearing a ring of sustain ability.
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Description
Sustain ability prevents attribute changes from exercise or abuse, as well as blocking the parts of item effects that change attributes:
- Applying a cursed unicorn horn
- Eating the corpse or tin of a giant
- Eating a tin of spinach
- Quaffing a non-cursed potion of gain ability
- Sitting on a coaligned altar
Sustain ability does not prevent changes to attributes from polymorph, including the shuffling that occurs when polymorphing into your own race.
Strategy
Messages
- You have fixed abilities.
- You have sustain ability as viewed via enlightenment.
Variants
Some variants introduce more sources of the property.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, the Binder spirit Dahlver-Nar confers sustain ability while bound.
FIQHack
In FIQHack, sustain ability is one of the properties that can be conferred by quaffing or dipping into a potion of wonder.
notdNetHack
In addition to dNetHack details, notdNetHack adds The Talisman of Buer, an artifact amulet of life saving that confers sustain ability while worn.
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