1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/mon-place.cc b/crawl-ref/source/mon-place.cc
index 1ea3d0a567..4881b7e5f3 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/mon-place.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/mon-place.cc
@@ -1003,6 +1003,15 @@ int place_monster(mgen_data mg, bool force_pos)
             // same religion.
             if (priest)
                 menv[band_id].god = mon->god;
+
+            if (mon->type == MONS_PIKEL)
+            {
+                // Don't give XP for the slaves to discourage hunting.  Pikel
+                // has an artificially large XP modifier to compensate for
+                // this.
+
+                menv[band_id].flags |= MF_CREATED_FRIENDLY;
+            }
         }
     }