Quivering blob
b quivering blob 
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| Difficulty | 6 |
| Attacks | |
| Base level | 5 |
| Base experience | 59 |
| Speed | 1 |
| Base AC | 8 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 200 |
| Nutritional value | 100 |
| Size | Small |
| Resistances | sleep resistance, poison resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | poison resistance (33%) |
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A quivering blob:
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| Reference | NetHack 5.0.0 - include/monsters.h, line 147 |
A quivering blob, b, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. The quivering blob is the only blob monster without a harmful passive attack, and has a tendency to wander when moving.
A quivering blob has a single touch attack, and possesses poison resistance and sleep resistance.
A quivering blob corpse is vegan-compatible as with all blobs, and eating a quivering blob corpse or tin has a 1⁄3 chance of granting poison resistance.[1]
Contents
Generation
Randomly generated quivering blobs are always created hostile.
Strategy
Quivering blobs are extremely slow-moving at 1 speed, cause fairly minor damage with their infrequent touch attacks, and lack any form of passive attack—they also have a lackluster 8 AC. In short, they are generally not threatening and can be easily dispatched, with their corpses serving as a safe source of poison resistance for a hero or a herbivorous pet.
History
The quivering blob first appears in Hack 1.21 and Hack for PDP-11, which are both based on Jay Fenlason's Hack, and is included in the initial bestiary for Hack 1.0. In Hack 1.21, the quivering blob uses the Q glyph; in Hack for PDP-11, and from Hack 1.0 to NetHack 2.3e, it uses the q glyph—NetHack 3.0.0 establishes the blob monster class and moves the quivering blob and other blob monsters to their current glyph at b.
Variants
NetHack brass
In NetHack brass, the quivering blob's speed is increased to 8.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, the quivering blob is given a passive attack like other blobs, which uses the same damage dice as their touch attack and also deals physical damage. Its corpse or tin can also grant temporary sleep resistance.
Encyclopedia entry
- See the encyclopedia entry for amoeboid.
