Giant turtle (dNetHack)
: giant turtle 
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| Difficulty | 9 |
| Attacks | |
| Base level | 7 |
| Base experience | 151 |
| Speed | 2 |
| Base AC | -5 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 3 (Rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 9000 |
| Nutritional value | 2000 |
| Size | gigantic |
| Resistances | none |
| Resistances conveyed | none |
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A giant turtle:
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- This article is about the monster in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. For the monster in other variants, see giant turtle.
A giant turtle, :, is a type of monster that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. The giant turtle is a type of gigantic, herbivorous lizard that is considered to be giant, aquatic and reptilian in nature. It is a strong, quadrupedal and thick-skinned animal with a long head and normal vision that is amphibious and capable of swimming, can tear through webs, and can break down doors.
As in many other variants, the giant turtle is large enough that it can block vision similar to a boulder, and its immense size and shell gives it profoundly strong defenses: giant turtles have 15 points of natural AC, along with 8 points of natural DR for both halves of their body and 2 points for their head, and roughly half of all attacks that target a giant turtle will hit its upper body. A giant turtle that is scared will pull into its shell rather than fleeing, which renders it immobile but increases its natural AC by 15 and causes all attacks against it to be treated as targeting the upper body—while inside its shell, the giant turtle cannot be roused out of this state by aggravation or other effects that awaken or mobilize monsters, such as the mind blasts of an elder brain or the hero quaffing a cursed potion of monster detection, but it will exit its shell to regain mobility once it is no longer scared.
A giant turtle has a single bite attack, and resists blunt and slashing damage.
Generation
Randomly-generated giant turtles are normally created as hostile.
Hostile giant turtles can be summoned by a hostile monster casting the summon nasties monster spell.
Strategy
The reverse genocide of giant turtles from reading a cursed scroll of genocide has some niche applications, such as blocking the sight of spellweaver goddess-mockers to prevent their myriad of spells from assaulting the hero and creating silverfire shadow's wraiths en masse.
The corpse of a giant turtle is guaranteed to fill the stomachs of most heroes at 2000 nutrition, which is among the highest nutrition values for corpses in dNetHack and its variants and eclipses the nutrition value of actual giants and even adult dragons.
History
The giant turtle first appears in SporkHack.
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