Pudding farming is the (frequently frowned upon) practice of finding a black pudding (or occasionally brown pudding) and dividing it repeatedly before killing any of the puddings. This is done to generate large numbers of items and corpses for sacrificial purposes; expert pudding farmers are capable of filling entire levels with the divided puddings and obtaining several hundred pages of items from the result.
This tends to be a slow process, especially when starting it, as wielding a weapon that deals any significant amount of damage will tend to kill the puddings faster than they can divide; therefore weapons that deal low damage (or indeed other iron items) are usually used.
Critics decry the act as scumming by means of it being possible quickly obtain all of the possible benefits of sacrifices and causing items that are normally extremely rare (e.g. amulets of life saving) to become as common as the player would like them to be.
Intentionality
There are frequent calls in RGRN for the DevTeam to put some sort of cap on the process (for example, forcing pudding division to respect extinction), but pudding farming is not a modern invention; this post from 1993 talks about farming brown puddings.
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