Jelly
- This article is about the monster class. For the comestible, see lump of royal jelly.
The jelly is a monster class that appears in NetHack, and is represented by the lowercase j glyph (j). Jellies are designated internally by the macro S_JELLY.[1]
The class contains the following monsters:[2]
Common traits
Jellies are neutral monsters that are amorphous, mindless and unbreathing. Each jelly has a passive attack that triggers in response to melee attacks.
The ochre jelly is the only jelly that is not sessile and able to engulf other monsters.
Body parts
Jelly also refers to the grouping of body parts for the forms of jellies and jellyfish, and affects the messages referring to the appropriate body parts as follows:[3][4]
| Body part | Description |
|---|---|
| Arm | Pseudopod (tentacle for jellyfish) |
| Eye | Dark spot |
| Face | Front |
| Finger | Pseudopod extension (tentacle for jellyfish) |
| Fingertip | Pseudopod extremity |
| Foot | Pseudopod root (tentacle for jellyfish) |
| Hand | Grasp (tentacle for jellyfish) |
| Handed | Grasped |
| Head | Cerebral area |
| Leg | Lower pseudopod |
| Light Headed | Viscous |
| Neck | Middle |
| Spine | Surface |
| Toe | Pseudopod extremity (tentacle for jellyfish) |
| Hair | Ripples |
| Blood | Juices |
| Lung | Surface |
| Nose | Sensor |
| Stomach | Stomach |
Generation
Randomly-generated jellies are always created hostile.
The jelly is the second quest monster class for Knights, and makes up 6⁄175 of the monsters that are randomly generated on the Knight quest. A few jellies are also generated on some levels of the quest below the home floor at level creation: two are generated on the locate level, and one is generated on the goal level.
Variants
SLASH'EM
SLASH'EM introduces additional jellies:
