Giant beetle

a giant beetle
Difficulty	6
Attacks	Bite 3d6

Base level	5
Base experience	56
Speed	6
Base AC	4
Base MR	0
Alignment	0

Frequency (by normal mechanisms)	Uncommon
Genocidable	Yes

Weight	10
Nutritional value	10
Size	Large

Resistances	Poison
Resistances conveyed	Poison (33%)

Other attributes	A giant beetle: has no hands. is an animal. can lay eggs. is poisonous to eat. eats corpses. always starts as hostile.

Reference	monst.c#line125

The giant beetle, a, is a monster in NetHack. Unlike the rest of its insectoid brethren, it is very slow, moving at half the speed of the player, and thus not usually seen as a significant threat. They do hit fairly hard, however, so take care if you have poor HP or AC. Their corpses are poisonous, but have a 33% chance to convey poison resistance.

On some systems, dark gray items and creatures will be displayed as blue instead. This makes it easy to confuse giant beetles with their much more dangerous cousins, soldier ants.

Encyclopaedia entryEdit

[ The Creator ] has an inordinate fondness for beetles.

[ attributed to biologist J.B.S. Haldane ]

The common name for the insects with wings shaped like
shields (_Coleoptera_), one of the ten sub-species into
which the insects are divided. They are characterized by
the shields (the front pair of wings) under which the back
wings are folded.

[ Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal ]

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