Saprovore

The Saprovore mutation reduces your odds of becoming nauseous when eating contaminated chunks, and also allows you to eat rotten meat (though at a higher risk of nausea and for less nutrition than when eating fresh meat). This mutation does not provide the benefits of the Carnivore mutation; saprovores cannot eat chunks unless hungry or worse. Saprovores get different messages when food rots in their backpack.

The saprovore mutation only exists as a starting mutation for orcs, ogres, trolls, kobolds, and ghouls, or as a possible demonspawn mutation. It may not be acquired from random mutations, nor may it be lost.

Saprovore Ranks	Contaminated Meat Nausea Rate	Rotten Meat Nausea Rate	Species
0	33.3%	N/A, inedible	Most species
1	6.6%	20%	Orc, Ogre, some Demonspawn
2	2.2%	6.6%	Troll, Kobold
3	0%	0%	Ghoul*

• Saprovore 3 is linked to a ghoul's ability to recover HP while eating meat. In Wizard mode, ghouls without Saprovore 3 lost their ability to recover HP in this way, and non-ghouls given Saprovore 3 did not suddenly gain the ability.