How to Cure Various Conditions - hyvanmielenpelit/GnollHack GitHub Wiki

Mummy Rot

You can contract mummy rot from mummies in the game. If their melee attack bypasses your Magic Cancellation, you contract the mummy rot. It can be cured like any other disease in the game.

• Eat a fig (cures disease)
• Use a jar of medicinal salve
• Cast a cure sickness spell
• Pray (if it is safe to pray)
• Apply a noncursed unicorn horn
• Talk to a priest and ask for cure sickness
• Quaff a blessed potion of healing, or a blessed potion of extra healing, or a noncursed potion of greater healing, or a noncursed potion of full healing
• Any other means that cures a disease in the game

Stoning/Petrification

When a cockatrice touches you and its attack bypasses your Magic Cancellation, you will quickly turn to stone. You have exactly one turn time to cure the condition. It can be cured as follows:

• Eat a lizard corpse
• Eat a dragon fruit
• Use a jar of basilisk blood
• Pray (if it is safe to pray)

These will convey you also a 13-turn stoning resistance. Because you need to act quickly when the stoning occurs, most players keep a lizard corpse or a dragon fruit in open inventory when playing the game.

Note that once the stoning process has started putting on an item that protects you from petrification, such as an amulet versus petrification, does not protect you from being petrified.

Blindness

• Eat a carrot
• Apply a noncursed unicorn horn
• Quaff a blessed potion of healing, or a blessed potion of extra healing, or a noncursed potion of greater healing, or a noncursed potion of full healing
• Cast a cure blindness spell
• Wait — Blindness is never permanent in GnollHack, so you can wait some time and it will time out.
• Pray (if it is safe to pray) — This can be overkill for curing blindness.

Lycanthropy

• Eat a sprig of wolfsbane (but beware, it's poisonous)
• Drink a potion of holy water (it's a blessed potion of water)
• Pray (if it is safe to pray)

Polymorph (Self)

• You will return back to your normal form when your hit points go to 0.
• You can cancel yourself with a wand of cancellation.

Polymorph (Pet)

• You can cancel your pet with a wand of cancellation to return it to its normal form.