Bag of digestion
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|---|---|
| Name | bag of digestion |
| Appearance | bag |
| Base price | 100 zm |
| Weight | 15 |
| Material | cloth |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
- For a similar item in EvilHack, see bag of devouring.
A bag of digestion is a type of tool that appears in NetHack: The Next Generation and SlashTHEM. It is a magical container that is made of cloth and appears as a bag when unidentified.
Generation
In NetHack: The Next Generation, the bag of digestion makes up 1⁄200 (0.5%) of all tools that are randomly generated on the ground, in general shops or as death drops.
In SlashTHEM, the bag of digestion makes up 1⁄200 (0.5%) of all tools that are randomly generated on the ground, in general shops or as death drops. Normally-created bags of digestion are always uncursed.
Description
A bag of digestion is outwardly similar to a sack or any other type of bag used as a container, and can store multiple items while protecting their contents from fire, cold, shock, and cancellation. However, each time the hero applies, loots or tips a bag of digestion, the items inside it may disappear with a 1⁄13 chance per stack similar to a cursed bag of holding (including charging the hero for any unpaid items belonging to a shop that are lost this way)—however, a bag of digestion will always "eat" items when used, and its beatitude instead determines the probability that each item inside will disappear:
| Case | Probability |
|---|---|
| blessed | 5% |
| uncursed | 10% |
| cursed | 50% |
Though it is a magical item, it does not protect fragile contents the same way a bag of holding or bag of tricks does, as it is not considered a "magical bag"—this also means that it will not explode if either of those bags are placed into one and vice versa, although a bag of digestion that has a bag of any kind inside it with contents of their own risks destroying that bag and those nested items all at once each time the bag of digestion is used.
Strategy
For obvious reasons, using a bag of digestion to store your items is risky, making its most ideal use as a form of garbage disposal for destroying troll corpses and unwanted items like wands that you also wish to prevent monsters from picking up—a cursed bag is likelier to empty faster. Remember that loadstones will resist being put into containers and cannot be disposed of this way.
Identification
The bag of digestion weighs and costs as much as the bag of holding and bag of tricks, making price identification of unknown bags slightly more challenging. A (charged) bag of tricks can be distinguished by applying it, but the bag of holding and bag of digestion will both behave as ordinary containers. Be careful not to put any valuables into unidentified bags with a base price of 100!
One way to informally determine which type of bag you have is to determine its beatitude and uncurse it if necessary, then put junk items inside and loot or apply it several times. If an item disappears even though the bag is non-cursed, you can be sure that you have a bag of digestion. You may get faster results with an uncursed bag and multiple items—if you put a single item into an uncursed bag, there is a 1⁄10 chance that it will disappear the next time you loot the bag; this is increased to 2⁄5 for five items and 13⁄20 for ten. Worthless glass is an ideal candidate for use-testing for a bag of digestion, as glass is lightweight and available in different colors, naturally forming multiple stacks.
If the unidentified bag is known to be cursed and you have showweight enabled, you can recognize a cursed bag of holding if it doubles the weight of items put inside.
