# Tove

J tove 

Difficulty

11

Attacks

Bite 1d10 physical

J tove 

Difficulty

11

Attacks

Bite 1d10 physical

Base level

10

Base experience

211

Speed

10

Base AC

4

Base MR

50

Alignment

0 (neutral)

Frequency (by normal means)

1 (Very rare)

Genocidable

Yes

Weight

300

Nutritional value

50

Size

small

Resistances

Resistances conveyed

A tove:

 has no hands.

 is an animal.

 is omnivorous.

 wanders randomly.

 can be seen through infravision.
 does not appear in Gehennom.

 cannot be tamed.

Toves are a new type of "Jabberwockian" that can be encountered in dNetHack. On every move, they have a 5% chance of digging a pit in the ground ("The tove gyres and gimbles into the ground"). If a tove digs in a square that already contains a pit, it creates a hole and falls through to the next level. Toves can only dig downward; they cannot tunnel through walls. They are immune to grab and swallowing attacks.
Toves are a valid polymorph form.  A player polymorphed into a tove can dig with #monster, is immune to grab and swallowing attacks, and can also quickly open tins without a tin opener.

Contrary to their encyclopedia entry and source material, toves are not slithy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
	Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
	All mimsy were the borogoves,
	And the mome raths outgrabe.

Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll 