# Gray ooze

P gray ooze 

Difficulty

4

Attacks

Bite 2d8 rusting

P gray ooze 

Difficulty

4

Attacks

Bite 2d8 rusting

Base level

3

Base experience

28

Speed

1

Base AC

8

Base MR

0

Alignment

0 (neutral)

Frequency (by normal means)

2 (Quite rare)

Genocidable

Yes

Weight

500

Nutritional value

250

Size

Medium

Resistances

fire, cold, poison, acid, petrification

Resistances conveyed

fire (7%), cold (7%), poison (7%)

A gray ooze:

 can flow under doors.

 does not breathe.

 has no eyes.

 has no limbs.
 has no head.
 is mindless.

 is acidic to eat.

 is omnivorous.

 is neither male nor female.
 is normally generated hostile.

 never leaves a corpse.

Reference

monst.c#line1682

The gray ooze, P, is a weak amoeboid NetHack monster.  It is extremely slow, but its bite causes rusting and can damage iron armor if it manages to land an attack. 
As an acidic monster, the gray ooze is capable of dissolving a spider web. Unlike brown and black puddings, it will not divide when you hit it without killing it.
Like all puddings, gray oozes leave a glob instead of a corpse. This can be eaten like a corpse, and may become tainted, but never fully rots away. The glob is acidic and has a chance of conveying fire, cold, or poison resistance.

Strategy
By the time you encounter a gray ooze, you should be more than capable of defeating it easily, unless you are a Tourist. Its rusting attack and ability to pass under doors makes this monster more annoying than dangerous. 
It's best to take gray oozes out with ranged attacks as they are very slow, if not persistent. If you lack the means to kill it from afar and don't want to expend a wand's charge on it, let your pet deal with it. If all else fails, you could punch it to death after unequipping all iron equipment. Only do this if it is safe to do so, i.e. there aren't any other monsters nearby.

History
In NetHack 3.4.3 and earlier, gray oozes left a corpse instead of a glob when killed.
In NetHack 3.6.0, globs could not give resistances when eaten. This was fixed in 3.6.1.

Encyclopedia entry
See the encyclopedia entry for amoeboid.

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