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Black Cat
Description
The Black Cat is a neutral NPC found in the Fortune Teller's house in Town. It behaves like a regular cat, wandering around and occasionally making cat-like sounds. The cat is friendly and can be interacted with by petting it.
Stats
- HP: 10
- Defense Skill: 3
- Attack Skill: 8
- Damage: 1-4
- Damage Reduction (DR): 1
- Experience for Kill: 2
- Maximum Level: 4
- Attack Delay: 1.0
- Base Speed: 1.0
- Fraction: NEUTRAL
- Friendly: true
- Immortal: true (cannot be killed normally, but death curse triggers on scripted death)
Behavior
- AI Actions: Seeks out edible food items to eat (Fried Fish, Chargrilled Meat)
- Raw Food Conversion: Will cook raw food items (Mystery Meat, Raw Fish) using Wand of Firebolt when adjacent
- Disgusting Food: When finding rotten food (Rotten Ration, Rotten Pasty, Rotten Pumpkin Pie, Rotten Fish), may summon a Rat to deal with it
- Movement: Wanders around looking for food items; can blink to reach food
- AI Status: “This cat is doing ordinary cat things”
Interaction
- Players can interact with the Black Cat by petting it (action: “pet”)
- When pet, the cat will make a random sound: “Prrrrrrr”, “Meow…”, or “Meow!”
- When approached by the player, the cat will sleep and make a sound
Special Properties
- Death Curse: When the Black Cat dies, it reduces the player's Strength by 1 (minimum of 1)
- Curse Visual: Reduces strength with a shadow particle effect and shows red “Strength -1” status
- Sound Effect: Plays a “cursed” sound when dying
Location
- Found in the Fortune Teller's house in town (Fortune level)
- May wander within the house but generally stays in the room with the Fortune Teller
Notes
- Despite being called “Black” Cat, its actual color may vary based on sprite
- The cat represents a common Pixel Dungeon reference - black cats were traditionally thought to bring bad luck
- The cat has a gender of feminine in most localizations
Content Verification
- Information source: Lua Script (scripts/npc/BlackCat.lua and scripts/ai/BlackCat.lua)
- Behavior and mechanics: Extracted directly from Lua code
- Mob configuration: BlackCat.json
- String resources: BlackCat strings
- Entity kind: blackcat (via getEntityKind() returning simple class name)
- Machine-readable data: mr:blackcat_npc
- Last updated: Based on Remixed Dungeon source code analysis
Code References
- NPC interaction and death effects: BlackCat.lua NPC
- AI behavior patterns and food seeking: BlackCat AI
- Mob configuration: BlackCat.json
- String resources: BlackCat strings