Animal
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In NetHack, some monsters are classified as animals, identified by the is_animal() macro and ultimately defined by the M1_ANIMAL flag in monst.c.
Description
The "animal" classification has the following implications:
- Animals with an item-stealing attack will attempt to take an object and flee on foot rather than teleport if successful, as nymphs do. They cannot steal cursed objects stuck to you, rings worn under a curse-welded weapon or armor that takes more than one move to take off. The same caveats apply to theft by muggers in variants.
- Animals with an engulfing attack can remove you from a steed, even if your saddle is cursed. They are affected by a chameleon, doppelganger, nurse, wraith, or cockatrice corpse dropped or thrown inside of them. They can be forced to release you by spinning a web, ringing the Bell of Opening or using opening magic inside of them.
- Animals can't use (and don't generate with) armor, offensive, defensive, miscellaneous items or tins, and will not deliberately use traps or stairs to flee.
- Chameleons usually imitate animals.
List of animals in NetHack
- all acdfmpqrstwxzBJRSY, excluding werecreatures in either of their forms
- all u except unicorns
- E stalkers
- H ettins and H minotaurs
- all : lizards except salamanders
- all ; sea monsters except jellyfish
- A ki-rins
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
Ki-rin are no longer considered animals.Body parts
Animal also refers to the grouping of body parts for the forms of many animals. It affects the messages referring to the appropriate body parts as follows:
| Bodypart[1] | Description |
|---|---|
| arm | forelimb |
| eye | eye |
| face | face |
| finger | foreclaw |
| fingertip | claw tip |
| foot | rear limb |
| hand | foreclaw (paw for dfY) |
| handed | clawed (pawed for dfY) |
| head | head |
| leg | rear limb |
| light headed | light headed |
| neck | neck |
| spine | spine |
| toe | rear claw tip |
| hair | fur |
| blood | blood |
| lung | lung |
| nose | nose (trunk for mumakil and mastodons) |
| stomach | stomach |
