Luck - Revision history

Tomsod: /* Ways to change your luck */ altar abuse is random (now?)

2025-10-26T14:57:33Z

‎Ways to change your luck: altar abuse is random (now?)

Phol ende wodan: /* Ways to change your luck */ 3.7: luck gains from sacrifice are now capped

2024-12-29T00:59:45Z

‎Ways to change your luck: 3.7: luck gains from sacrifice are now capped

Umbire the Phantom: lede

2024-06-22T10:50:06Z

lede

Furey: /* External links */ eva's nethack pages moved.

2024-06-22T10:23:30Z

‎External links: eva's nethack pages moved.

Ardub23: Adjusted capitalization following updates to NetHackWiki:Style guide. Also various improvements to wording; notably, rewrote lead section for better focus.

2024-06-22T06:03:36Z

Adjusted capitalization following updates to NetHackWiki:Style guide. Also various improvements to wording; notably, rewrote lead section for better focus.

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Furey: /* Other links */ change spod-central link to our archived copy. change an http: to https:. Looks like www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva is gone, I will make a todo for that.

2024-06-12T14:12:05Z

‎Other links: change spod-central link to our archived copy. change an http: to https:. Looks like www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva is gone, I will make a todo for that.

Ardub23: /* Bonus Luck */ The in-game messages don't capitalize 'luck'. Quoting them correctly is more important than following the contrived convention of capitalizing only this specific word. (Why do we have this convention again? It's unhelpful AND incorrect.)

2024-01-03T04:32:46Z

‎Bonus Luck: The in-game messages don't capitalize 'luck'. Quoting them correctly is more important than following the contrived convention of capitalizing only this specific word. (Why do we have this convention again? It's unhelpful AND incorrect.)

Darth l33t: /* Ways to change your Luck */ link is dead, and there's no need to directly quote the source anyway

2023-04-28T23:21:24Z

‎Ways to change your Luck: link is dead, and there's no need to directly quote the source anyway

Cathartes: capitalize in-game "Luck" according to NetHackWiki:Style guide#Capitalization

2021-07-24T23:57:07Z

capitalize in-game "Luck" according to NetHackWiki:Style guide#Capitalization

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Cathartes: /* Luck in-game effects */ add a note for rnl

2021-07-24T23:46:31Z

‎Luck in-game effects: add a note for rnl

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 |Sacrificing at another god's altar.
 |-
-| &minus;1
+| data-sort-value=−1.05 | &minus;2 to 0
-|Kicking another god's altar ("Thou shalt pay, infidel!")
+|Sitting, engraving on, or kicking another god's altar ("Thou shalt pay, infidel!")
 |-
 | +2

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 |}
-{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Killing your Quest leader gives &minus;20 luck, effectively setting natural luck to &minus;10.}}
+{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Killing your Quest leader gives &minus;20 luck, effectively setting natural luck to &minus;10.
 Killing a monster has a 50% chance of reducing luck by one point, if it was peaceful, but not tame, when it died. Attacking such a monster in melee, with a projectile, or with a [[ray]] wand or spell will always anger it, even if it dies in one hit, and so the luck penalty will never be applied. [[Beam]] wands and spells, however, only anger the monster if it survives. Note that [[cancellation]] can kill [[clay golem]]s, and [[polymorph]] can kill any monster susceptible to [[system shock]]. Crushing a peaceful monster in a [[drawbridge]] also risks the penalty.

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-In ''[[NetHack]]'', '''luck''' is a statistic that influences the outcome of many [[RNG|random events]]. If your [[character]]'s luck statistic is high, these random outcomes will be skewed in your favor. Reaching and maintaining a high luck stat is therefore an important part of [[strategy]] for every character.
+In ''[[NetHack]]'', '''luck''' is a statistic that influences the outcome of many [[RNG|random events]]. If a [[character]]'s luck statistic is high, these random outcomes will be skewed in their favor, and almost every player will seek to reach and maintain a high luck stat as part of their [[strategy]].
-== Value ==
+==Value==
 Luck is the sum of two components: natural luck and bonus luck. Natural luck ranges from &minus;10 to +10, changes with events in the game, and may slowly return to a baseline level (see {{sa|Luck timeout|sectionsign=1}} below). Bonus luck, on the other hand, may be &minus;3, 0, or +3, and it is determined by the [[beatitude]]s of any [[luckstone]]s (and certain [[quest artifact]]s) you are carrying. Thus the highest possible total luck is 13, and the lowest possible is &minus;13. A positive value indicates a measure of "good luck" and a negative value indicates "bad luck". However, only a rough idea of your total luck is given in the [[enlightenment]] list; the meaning of the messages is as follows:
 {|class="prettytable"

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 ==External links==
-* https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/index.html#peaceful
+* https://sites.google.com/view/evasroguelikegamessite/myths-and-facts-about-nethack#h.p_LrEgrX5Om5jh
 {{DOD}}
 [[Category:Your character]]
 {{nethack-366}}

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 <references/>
-==External links==
+==Other links==
-* http://www.spod-central.org/~psmith/nh/gems-343.txt
+* [[gems-343.txt]]
-* http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/index.html#peaceful
+* https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/index.html#peaceful
 {{DOD}}
 [[Category:Your character]]
 {{nethack-366}}

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 |-
 | More cursed than non-cursed
-| &minus;3 "reduced Luck"
+| &minus;3 "reduced luck"
 |-
 | Equal cursed and non-cursed
-| +3 "extra Luck"
+| +3 "extra luck"
 |-
 | More non-cursed than cursed
-| +3 "extra Luck"
+| +3 "extra luck"
 |}

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 Prior to [[Nethack 3.6.0]], any Luck penalty associated with Sokoban would occur even after solving the puzzle on that level.
-Note about Luck penalty for killing peaceful monsters, from [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/]:
+Killing a monster has a 50% chance of reducing Luck by one point, if it was peaceful, but not tame, when it died. Attacking such a monster in melee, with a projectile, or with a [[ray]] wand or spell will always anger it, even if it dies in one hit, and so the Luck penalty will never be applied. [[Beam]] wands and spells, however, only anger the monster if it survives. Note that [[cancellation]] can kill [[clay golem]]s, and [[polymorph]] can kill any monster susceptible to [[system shock]]. Crushing a peaceful monster in a [[drawbridge]] also risks the penalty.
 ==Luck in-game effects==

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 ==Luck in-game effects==
+:''For details about the effect of Luck on event probabilities, see [[rnl]].''
 Luck has a part in:
 * Making a monster [[peaceful]] by [[untrap]]ping it