Cream pie
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| Name | cream pie |
| Base price | 10 zm |
| Nutrition | 100 |
| Turns to eat | 1 |
| Weight | 10 |
| Conduct | vegetarian |
A cream pie is a type of comestible that appears in NetHack. It is veggy and considered vegetarian.
Contents
Generation
Cream pies make up 1⁄40 (2.5%) of all randomly-generated comestibles.
Tourists can start with cream pies among their initial stacks of food.[1]
General stores, health food stores and delicatessens can sell cream pies.
Applying a charged horn of plenty has a 23⁄1000 chance (2.3%) of generating a cream pie or two.[2]
Keystone Kops each have a 1⁄4 chance of generating with 2 to 4 cream pies.[3]
Description
Eating a cream pie confers 100 nutrition.
Throwing a cream pie at a monster will blind them without doing any damage, and monsters can throw cream pies at you for the same effect, which blinds you for up to 25 (more) turns.[4] Thrown cream pies are destroyed whether or not they hit a monster. Wielding a cream pie and attacking with it will splatter the pie in the target monster's face, dealing no damage. Applying a cream pie will smash it onto your face, blinding yourself for up to 25 (more) turns.
If the hero is blinded by gunk from a cream pie, the #wipe extended command or an applied towel can be used to regain sight faster; applying a cursed towel may cause cream pie gunk to cover the character's face.
Force bolts from the spell or a zapped wand of striking will destroy any cream pies in the beam's path.
Strategy
The cream pie is usually not carried as a long-term food source due to its low nutrition to weight ratio, and is instead employed as a one-off source of blindness (e.g., to use intrinsic telepathy) for characters that have not obtained a blindfold or towel, or else are wearing a pair of lenses (including The Eyes of the Overworld) and do not want to use up turns removing them. Cream pies can also offer a momentary defense against gaze attacks from monsters such as floating eyes and pyrolisks, either by the character blinding themselves or hitting the monster - remember that the cream will eventually clear off.
Cream pies are especially useful for pacifist players, who will often wield one or more pies to avoid doing any damage at all if they accidentally hit a hostile monster.
The Keystone Kops are a readily-accessible source of cream pies for characters that are willing to risk stealing from shops and capable of avoiding the shopkeeper, provided they (or a pet) can reliably kill the Kops before they can throw their pies.
History
The cream pie first appears in NetHack 1.3d.
In NetHack 3.4.3 and earlier versions, applying or otherwise destroying a wielded cream pie can crash the game - this is bug C343-218, and is fixed in October 2006 via commits 15d933a, 271632d and 60c9667. In versions and derived variants that do not have this bug patched, you are safe if you immediately wield something else (or even nothing -), or else save and restore the game. The NetHack Patch Database also has a patch that addresses this, Bilious #342, added in January 2009.
Messages
- You immerse your <face> in <one of> the cream pie<s>.
- You applied a cream pie to your face, with the plural applied if it was part of a stack.[5]
- You give yourself a facial.
- As above, while hallucinating.[6]
- Splat!
- A wielded or thrown cream pie was splattered while you were blind.
- What a mess!
- A cream pie was destroyed by a force bolt or wand of striking.
Variants
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, a cream pie can be combined with a pumpkin a furnace to create a pumpkin pie, and can be combined with an apple to create an apple pie.
References
- ↑ src/u_init.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 144
- ↑ src/mkobj.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 2219: any comestible that can be randomly generated is eligible
- ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 389
- ↑ src/mthrowu.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 643
- ↑ src/apply.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 3121
- ↑ src/apply.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 3119
