Giant turtle (UnNetHack)
: giant turtle 
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| Difficulty | 9 |
| Attacks |
Bite 4d6 physical damage |
| Base level | 7 |
| Base experience | 123 |
| Speed | 2 |
| Base AC | -5 |
| Base MR | 10 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 4000 |
| Nutritional value | 1200 |
| Size | Huge |
| Resistances | stoning resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | stoning resistance |
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A giant turtle:
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- This article is about the monster in UnNetHack and DynaHack. For the monster in other variants, see giant turtle.
A giant turtle, :, is a type of monster that appears in UnNetHack. The giant turtle, :, also appears in DynaHack. The giant turtle is a type of huge, herbivorous lizard that is thick-skinned, and its body is so large that it can block vision similar to a boulder: a giant turtle that is rendered invisible can be seen through by the hero and other monsters even if they have see invisible.
A giant turtle has a single bite attack, and possesses stoning resistance.
In UnNetHack, eating a giant turtle corpse or tin is flagged to grant stoning resistance, but this does not occur since that specific feature for this resistance property is not implemented. Tins of giant turtle meat that are not cursed are special-cased to always be full of "delicious soup made from giant turtle" when consumed, which grants 200 nutrition.
Generation
Randomly-generated giant turtles are normally created as hostile, and will never appear normally in Sheol.
Giant turtles can occur in certain locations within the dungeon and its branches:
- A giant turtle has a 1⁄4 chance of being placed randomly on the filler level for the Town branch during level creation.
- Eight of the fourteen possible maps for the Big Room each have a 1⁄2 chance of randomly placing a giant turtle during level creation. This is lowered to seven in DynaHack, due to it being based on earlier versions of UnNetHack.
- A peaceful giant turtle named Small A'Tuin is always generated asleep on each map of the black market during level creation.
Strategy
The corpse of a giant turtle is very filling at 1200 nutrition, which is far greater than the corpses of giants but less than those of adult dragons. The consistently-high nutrition value of giant turtle tins compared to other tins makes it worthwhile to use a tinning kit on giant turtle corpses.
History
The giant turtle first appears in SporkHack.
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