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changed: - the basics about food in nethack: in NetHack you must eat to stay alive. in that sense it is a FoodWorld, even though that restriction applies to the player (single in this case) only, not to the NPCs / monsters. the fun thing is that you can eat many different things, with different results. apples are healthy, meat reatios nutritive (but not suitable for a vegetarian), rats taste bad and from many weird things you get sick. it also depends on who you are, i haven't player much as a troll, but perhaps those are robust to be able to eat many things and still stay healthy. for more info (warning: spoilers for those who wanna do it the fun way and learn by playing the game, perhaps never knowing all effects!), see e.g. "Eating Corpses For Food And Intrinsics" at http://www.geocities.com/dcorbett42/nethack/corpse.htm and well this quote from the beginners manual tells the basics and does not spoil - from http://www.melankolia.net/nethack/nethack.guide.html <blockquote> Food One thing that kept killing me in my early NetHack days was starvation. Many characters start without any food at all and it won't take very long to get hungry. After you're hungry, you get weak and sooner or later you'll be fainting and finally starving to death. Where to find food? Well, there's pretty much food just lying around. If you're getting hungry and the level in which you currently are is empty of food, try going down a level, there might be some food. One option is to kill something and eat it. However, while eating some corpses might give you certain benefits, eating some corpses will give you nothing but food poisoning. A few rules of thumb are a) eat your corpses fresh and b) your pet knows certain things better than you. Don't eat anything your pet won't. It'll keep you out of the worst trouble. Also remember, some corpses are more filling than others and some are worth saving for later. There also one way to get your stomach content, but that should be left to the uttermost emergencies. If you have a healthy relationship with your god, praying will fill your stomach if you are in real need. However, one should not pray too often. Gods get angry and when they are angry, mere mortals should beware. So, save praying for food to those situations where it's a choice of praying or dying. </blockquote>
the basics about food in nethack: in NetHack you must eat to stay alive. in that sense it is a FoodWorld, even though that restriction applies to the player (single in this case) only, not to the NPCs? / monsters.
the fun thing is that you can eat many different things, with different results. apples are healthy, meat reatios nutritive (but not suitable for a vegetarian), rats taste bad and from many weird things you get sick. it also depends on who you are, i haven't player much as a troll, but perhaps those are robust to be able to eat many things and still stay healthy.
for more info (warning: spoilers for those who wanna do it the fun way and learn by playing the game, perhaps never knowing all effects!), see e.g. "Eating Corpses For Food And Intrinsics" at http://www.geocities.com/dcorbett42/nethack/corpse.htm and
well this quote from the beginners manual tells the basics and does not spoil - from http://www.melankolia.net/nethack/nethack.guide.html
FoodOne thing that kept killing me in my early NetHack days was starvation. Many characters start without any food at all and it won't take very long to get hungry. After you're hungry, you get weak and sooner or later you'll be fainting and finally starving to death. Where to find food?
Well, there's pretty much food just lying around. If you're getting hungry and the level in which you currently are is empty of food, try going down a level, there might be some food.
One option is to kill something and eat it. However, while eating some corpses might give you certain benefits, eating some corpses will give you nothing but food poisoning. A few rules of thumb are a) eat your corpses fresh and b) your pet knows certain things better than you. Don't eat anything your pet won't. It'll keep you out of the worst trouble. Also remember, some corpses are more filling than others and some are worth saving for later.
There also one way to get your stomach content, but that should be left to the uttermost emergencies. If you have a healthy relationship with your god, praying will fill your stomach if you are in real need. However, one should not pray too often. Gods get angry and when they are angry, mere mortals should beware. So, save praying for food to those situations where it's a choice of praying or dying.