Glob
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| Name | glob of gray ooze |
| Base price | 6 zm |
| Nutrition | 20 |
| Turns to eat | 2 |
| Weight | 20 |
| Conduct | vegetarian |
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| Name | glob of brown pudding |
| Base price | 6 zm |
| Nutrition | 20 |
| Turns to eat | 2 |
| Weight | 20 |
| Conduct | vegetarian |
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| Name | glob of green slime |
| Base price | 6 zm |
| Nutrition | 20 |
| Turns to eat | 2 |
| Weight | 20 |
| Conduct | vegetarian |
A glob is a type of comestible that appears in NetHack. There are four different types of globs, all of which are fleshy.
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Generation
Globs are not randomly generated: Black puddings, brown puddings, gray oozes, and green slimes all drop globs of their bodies upon death in place of a corpse or death drops.
Description
All globs break the vegan conduct when eaten and share the same base cost of 6zm, a base weight of 20 aum and a base nutrition value of 20 - as they are not corpses, they cannot be used for sacrifice. Globs are acidic to eat and will therefore cure stoning when bitten into; they can become tainted and cause food poisoning just as corpses do, but will never fully rot away. Globs that are not of green slime can grant a set of intrinsic resistances depending on the glob.
If two globs of the same type are on the same floor squares, on adjacent floor squares, or in the same inventory or container, they will coalesce into a larger glob that has greater weight and nutritional value. Globs are described as "small" if their weight is 100 or less, "large" if their weight is 301-500, and "very large" if their weight is 501 or more.[1]
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 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.
Globs no longer become tainted, and instead shrink over time until they vanish.Globs of gray ooze
Globs of gray ooze are considered vegetarian but not vegan, and have a chance of granting fire resistance, cold resistance or poison resistance when eaten.
Globs of brown pudding
Globs of brown pudding are considered vegetarian but not vegan, and have a chance of granting cold resistance, shock resistance or poison resistance when eaten.
Globs of green slime
Globs of green slime are considered vegetarian but not vegan, and always cause sliming when eaten unless the hero is in the form of a fiery monster. Gelatinous cubes will pick up globs of green slime without attempting to digest them, while other monsters will pick up a glob of green slime as a potential stoning cure - the salamander is the only monster that will actually eat the glob to cure stoning, since it is fiery and immune to sliming.
Globs of black pudding
Globs of black pudding are considered to be neither vegetarian nor vegan, and have a chance of granting cold resistance, shock resistance or poison resistance when eaten. Their non-vegetarian status is a pun on the blood sausage dish sometimes known as "black pudding".
Strategy
While globs of pudding are not as easily farmed as corpses of puddings are in NetHack 3.4.3 and previous versions, they are still somewhat farmable and can make for a viable source of intrinsics. In particular, a decently strong hero can try kicking sinks to generate black puddings if they have trouble obtaining a source of poison resistance or other applicable intrinsic: they can then use disposable weapons to carefully split them and kill the cloned puddings for globs, and eating each glob separately without allowing them to merge increases the odds of obtaining the desired resistance.
History
Globs first appear in NetHack 3.6.0, where they are introduced as a means to make pudding farming obsolete as a strategy in post-3.4.3 versions of NetHack. In this version, globs cannot give resistances when eaten—this is fixed in NetHack 3.6.1.
Messages
- The [adjacent] globs of <monster> coalesce.
- Two globs merged on the floor to form a larger glob. They are described as "adjacent" unless the resulting glob is at your feet.[2]
- You see parts of the floor melting!
- As above, while hallucinating.
- The globs of <monster> coalesce inside your pack.
- You picked up a glob while carrying one of the same type, causing them to merge.
- Your pack reaches out and grabs something!
- As above, while hallucinating.
- You hear a faint sloshing sound.
- Two globs merged on the floor, but you could not see the resulting glob.
Variants
Many variants are based on 3.4.3, and as such some of them do not have globs.
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References
- ↑ src/objnam.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 576
- ↑ src/mkobj.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2933:
otmp->ox,oyandotmp2->ox,oyinpudding_merge_messageappear to both refer to the position of the resultant glob, not the two positions of the pre-merge globs.
