Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utflis.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!utflis!chai From: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: hungry dogs Message-ID: <293@utflis.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 11:34:53 EDT Article-I.D.: utflis.293 Posted: Mon Oct 7 11:34:53 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Oct-85 01:41:49 EDT References: <76@druhi.UUCP> <105@bbnccv.UUCP> Reply-To: chai@utflis.UUCP (Henry Chai) Organization: FLIS, University of Toronto Lines: 44 Summary: In article <105@bbnccv.UUCP> ptraynor@bbnccv.UUCP (Patrick Traynor) writes: >I've seen the message 'You feel worried about your dog' on occasion, This means that doggie is REALLY hungry, but you only get this message when doggie is not in sight. > >Is there some control character that I don't know about to check on your >dog's present state of hunger? If not, does someone have any handy >rule of thumb to feed him? Does he like food rations? Is he getting >enough vitamin B12 in his tripe ration? > I don't know of any such commands, nor do I think one exists. Generally, I try to feed it some of the dead monsters that's acceptable to a dog's palate but not a human's, e.g. bats, orcs etc. If I got more than, say, 3 tripe rations I'll give one as a treat. Also I let it munch on edible corpses when I am "Satiated". Note that if a dog is tame it will not eat food rations. >Perhaps even more important, after I've past the first few levels and >have 30-40 hit points to play with, do I really need him? (Sorry if >that sounds heartless...) As doggie eats, it grows. When it is a large it does help when you are fronted with say a flock of orcs. But don't let it fight a swarm of bees because the poison can kill it quite quickly. >I've heard rumors about taming a dog to rip >off a shop, but in all the games I've played, I've found a grand total >of ONE scroll of taming (and that was long after my dog starved). > The dog you start out with is ALWAYS tame. What the rumor means is that if you treat it nicely (i.e. keep it well fed) it will follow you into a shop and take something out of it (one thing at a time). A scroll of taming works on MONSTERS. If you read one, all monsters in the room will be tamed. *THEN*, if you throw some at it, you will see "The devours the ." and it will fight FOR you. If you go up/down a level without your dog, if you go back to the level the dog will become confused and will perhaps bite you, and you have to feed it to regain its 'respect'. -- Henry Chai Faculty of Library and Information Science, U of Toronto {watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utzoo!utflis!chai