why does my pet attack me?
lisa kerr
spoilers trying to get this info. I don't want to spoil any more. Sometimes
when I go down a level, my pet doesn't come with me. Then when I come back,
my pet starts biting me and I have to kill it. Once I just kept #chatting
with it and it killed me, and on my attributes I saw I had "cause conflict."
So I figured this was why.
But just again, I was playing a Priest and the same thing happened with my
kitten. I let it kill me just to see again, and I didn't have "cause
conflict" or "aggravate monsters," in fact my only intrinsic was that I was
nominally aligned. Do I have to feed the pet to make it not start hating me?
Or is just letting it eat corpses enough? If I feed it, what should I feed
it? How do I make sure my pet will follow me down a level instead of staying
in the "lobby."? Thanks.
lisa kerr, kitten food on the hoof
Jukka S Lahtinen
>my pet starts biting me and I have to kill it. Once I just kept #chatting
>with it and it killed me, and on my attributes I saw I had "cause conflict."
>So I figured this was why.
Yes, you were wearing a ring of conflict. It makes every monster want to
hit someone, and any peaceful monster and your pet may even hit you.
>kitten. I let it kill me just to see again, and I didn't have "cause
>conflict" or "aggravate monsters," in fact my only intrinsic was that I was
>nominally aligned. Do I have to feed the pet to make it not start hating me?
>Or is just letting it eat corpses enough? If I feed it, what should I feed
You guessed it right, your pet has to eat. It is often quite happy with
corpses laying on the ground, but if it doesn't find/kill enough of
them, you'll have to provide the food. Otherwise it begins to see you as
potential lunch. Tripe rations are the favorite food for cats and dogs,
but food rations are also fine, and almost anything represented as the %
sign will do.
Also, if you leave your pet behind and go to another dungeon level
without it for a long time, it will forget you and go wild. (I don't
know how long is a safe time, but at least if you're away for some 50
moves, it's not yet too much.)
>it? How do I make sure my pet will follow me down a level instead of staying
>in the "lobby."? Thanks.
Wait on the stairs until your pet comes next to you, to one of the eight
squares around you. Then it will follow you (unless it is eating, which
means you have to wait for it to finish).
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Steven White
lisa kerr <lk...@uclink3.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>with it and it killed me, and on my attributes I saw I had "cause conflict."
>So I figured this was why.
A good sign of a ring of conflict yes, should you put on a ring and your
pet and the local shopkeeper both hit you...
>But just again, I was playing a Priest and the same thing happened with my
>kitten. I let it kill me just to see again, and I didn't have "cause
>conflict" or "aggravate monsters," in fact my only intrinsic was that I was
>nominally aligned. Do I have to feed the pet to make it not start hating me?
>Or is just letting it eat corpses enough? If I feed it, what should I feed
>it? How do I make sure my pet will follow me down a level instead of staying
>in the "lobby."? Thanks.
One: To get it to follow you, have your pet stand next to you, then go down.
Otherwise, wait until it comes close. A leash can be real usefull for this.
Two: Leaving a pet too long makes it wild. If it's a dog or cat, nearly
any food be useful. At worst it becomes peacefull. Candybars for some
reason seems to work for taming it, just as the obvious tripe rations.
Monster corpses will tame them, if they eat it. Otherwise will make them
peaceful. Then you can go off kill something better and feed it to your
pet.
Other monsters as pets? Well, scrolls of taming is about the best you can
do to get them back. Try not to abandon them, should your pet be very
touch...
Three: Agravate monsters do nothing against your pet.
Steven White