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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.

In article <275@ucdavis.UUCP> u555027396ea@ucdavis.UUCP (Farin Reborn) writes:
>*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--
>                                                         Jon Waggoner
>                                                         UC Davis.
>                                       ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!u555027396ea
>

In hack you are able to eat the monsters that you kill. Not all of them are
good for you, but some have special properties that give you teleportation
abilities, poison resistance and the ability to see when blind. Trial and
error (or a look at the source) is the only way to find out which monster
has what effect on you.


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Steve Grice
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In article <10216@rochester.UUCP> noemi@rochester.UUCP (Noemi Berry(for Lab Manager)) writes:
>	You *must* eat monsters along the way as a necessary supplement
>...See the hackhints for more info on which monsters are good
>food.

WHAT hackhints?
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In article <10216@rochester.UUCP>, noemi@rochester.UUCP writes:
> See the hackhints for more info on which monsters are good food.

	Does anyone have this info in the hack "data" file format?  This would
	mean that when you went "info armor" ( /[ ) you would get:

[	a suit of armor;
	Name			AN
	|
	Shield			11	doesn't rust
	Helmet			11
	Elven cloak		11	doesn't rust
	Pair of Gloves		11	doesn't rust
	|
	Leather armor		12	doesn't rust
	Studded leather armor	13	doesn't rust
	Ring mail		13
	Scale mail		14
	Chain mail		15
	Splint mail		16
	Banded mail		16
	Plate mail		17

	I did this for our (very old) verison of hack when the early hackhints
	came out, so I am sure it is out of date.  Any way we can talk the
	author into including a "data.cheat" file for folks like me?  Are you
	listening Andries?
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	Dr. Bob					UUCP	..!ihnp4!plus5!bob

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