[rec.games.hack] Poison bug in Nethack

flee@gondor.psu.edu (Felix Lee) (09/26/87)

In article <45700007@silver> creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
>Bug:
>	After you get INTRINSIC poison resistance, i.e. by eating a _______,
>anything poisonous you eat should not lower your strength. However, quaffing
>a potion of sickness still lowers your strength, even though it says it was
>biologically contaminated orange juice. Looks to me like it's not a feature,
>it's a bug! The same problem also occurs in PC Hack.

This is a feature, and has been since, oh I dunno, version 1.01?
The point of the message "biologically contaminated orange juice" is that
it isn't really poison--it's more on the order of tainted food.  Biological
disease, rather than chemical poison.  That's why it's called a potion
of "sickness".
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