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Pudding farming is not a modern invention; [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.hack/msg/38f2dc4baccaf39a this post from 1993] talks about farming brown puddings. Several NetHack versions later, the game still allows pudding farms. |
Pudding farming is not a modern invention; [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.hack/msg/38f2dc4baccaf39a this post from 1993] talks about farming brown puddings. Several NetHack versions later, the game still allows pudding farms. |
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Revision as of 10:20, 29 December 2006
Pudding farming involves finding a black pudding (or occasionally brown pudding) and dividing it repeatedly before killing any of the puddings. Players do this to generate large numbers of death drops and corpses (for sacrifice); expert pudding farmers can actually fill entire levels with the divided puddings and obtaining several hundred pages of items from the result.
Pudding farming is slow
Pudding farming is a slow process, especially at the start. The wielding of a weapon that deals any significant amount of damage tends to kill the puddings faster than they can divide. Pudding farmers prefer weapons that deal low damage (or even non-weapon iron items) when splitting puddings. A weapon used in this manner is often named a "Puddingbane". A typical Puddingbane is dull from engraving and thoroughly corroded by the black puddings themselves.
Critics decry the act as scumming because it allows one to (relatively) quickly obtain all of the possible benefits of sacrifices and causing items that were normally extremely rare to be common. For example, amulets of life saving could become as common as the player would like them to be.
Intention of the DevTeam?
Some in RGRN have requested that the DevTeam put some cap against the process of pudding farming. There are a few different ways that this might be done; for example the RGRN thread Is Nethack too easy? (spoilers) from January 2006. Ideas included having puddings become more powerful as you kill them, preventing cloned puddings from dropping corpses and items, and forcing pudding division to respect extinction.
Pudding farming is not a modern invention; this post from 1993 talks about farming brown puddings. Several NetHack versions later, the game still allows pudding farms.
At 16 October 2006, the Shrewd Dude posted a guide, How to Raise the Perfect Pudding. In 13 years, players have invented many strategies for more effective pudding farms, but they have also become bored. Jove stated in reply, "The DevTeam has arranged an automatic and savage punishment for pudding farming. It's called pudding farming."
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