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>*Fellow Hackers-- I have just started to play the game(about three weeks ago),  and I have just one complaint, the fact that in about two thirds of my games
>I die from lack of food or its effects (fainting in front of a pack of Orcs!).
>Why is there so little food in this game, it is plenty hard reguardless of this
>feature?  I wouldn't mind if maybe 20% of the time I ran out, but I've had to
>use wands of wishing  to gain food, and that seems like an awful waste! Am I
>missing something? Is this apparent lack of food just an artifact of poor 
>playing skill? I could see if I was wasteful (a gourmond perhapes) but I
>am more under the description of anorexic hording what little food I do recieve.Anyway the game is great, if a little frustrating, but some replies on how
>to remedy this problem would be appreciated. --Thanks--

	You *must* eat monsters along the way as a necessary supplement
to your diet.  You will learn which ones aren't so good to eat (kobolds,
acid blobs, homunculi); which give you certain abilities (Eye = telepathy;
leprechaun, nymph, tengu = teleportation; dragon = fire resistance; freezing
sphere = cold resistance etc.) AND which monsters are a lot of food (centaurs,
dragons, etc.).  See the hackhints for more info on which monsters are good
food.