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Umbire the Phantom: /* The Gnomish Mines */ potholes

2024-04-24T19:47:41Z

‎The Gnomish Mines: potholes

Umbire the Phantom: /* The Temple Complex (R'lyeh) */ small correction

2023-12-24T00:24:39Z

‎The Temple Complex (R'lyeh): small correction

Umbire the Phantom: potholes

2023-12-23T08:36:21Z

potholes

Umbire the Phantom: cats + caps

2023-12-21T23:27:05Z

cats + caps

Umbire the Phantom: chance to:opportunity::chance of:probability

2023-10-29T06:33:51Z

chance to:opportunity::chance of:probability

Umbire the Phantom: ver, lede

2023-07-04T08:13:59Z

ver, lede

Noisytoot: Fix another Anachrononaut typo

2023-05-28T21:03:19Z

Fix another Anachrononaut typo

Noisytoot: Anachrononaut, not Anachronaut

2023-05-28T21:02:17Z

Anachrononaut, not Anachronaut

Actual-nh: /* The Gnomish Mines */ Typo

2021-06-15T13:37:25Z

‎The Gnomish Mines: Typo

ScienceBall: /* Mithardir */ Fix link

2021-06-15T10:56:57Z

‎Mithardir: Fix link

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 ** Weak roles may struggle to kill dwarves safely. However, for roles that don't start with a good starting weapon, [[dwarvish short sword]]s are relatively good early-on.
 ** Large swarms of stronger enemies like dwarves may overwhelm and kill the starting pet. Try to pick them off one by one.
-*** [[Bard|Troubadour]]s that can play the lullaby song can clean out the mines much easier.
+*** [[Troubadour]]s that can play the lullaby song can clean out the mines much easier.
 *** If dwarves are peaceful to you, whether due to alignment or race, you can let your pet kill a few dwarves with little risk.
-* As in vanilla, Minetown is a good early goal. Check the tool shop especially, since it can have [[candle of invocation|candles of invocation]] as well as magic lamps or magic markers. Izchak will not sell any however.
+* As in vanilla, Minetown is a good early goal. Check the tool shop especially, since it can have [[candles of invocation]] as well as magic lamps or magic markers. Izchak will not sell any however.
 ** For a price, shopkeepers can identify items for you.  They can also be used to price id items for you, just as in vanilla. If you can informally ID a valuable gem, maybe with a touchstone, you can pay a shopkeeper to identify it.  It will cost you up to 750 gold, but if it's valuable enough you can resell the gem for a profit. This can be done with your Mine's End haul of gems if you've managed to informally identify any for a large amount of gold and credit. Remember that only general stores purchase gems.
 ***In dNetHack, "brilliant blue" gems are "magicite", a valuable gem worth 9999 gold (base selling price).  No worthless glass shares this appearance, and it is well-worth spending 750 gold to identify it in a shop.

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 === The Temple Complex (R'lyeh) ===
-This area contains the second Alhoon, 2 priests of the unknown god, The Silver Key, and the Great Cthulhu.  All of these are scattered around the temple altars, of which there are three. If you make it this far then the Silver Key is absolutely worth grabbing.  It grants fast energy regen, in addition to teleport and polymorph control, automatic searching, and [[branchport]]ing abilities.  Even if the Key is placed next to Cthulhu, it can still be recovered as long as the player is careful.
+This area contains the second Alhoon, 2 priests of the unknown god, The Silver Key, and the Great Cthulhu.  All of these are scattered around the temple altars, of which there are three. If you make it this far then the Silver Key is absolutely worth grabbing.  It grants fast energy regen in addition to teleport and polymorph control, and has [[branchport]]ing abilities.  Even if the Key is placed next to Cthulhu, it can still be recovered as long as the player is careful.
 Cthulhu poses his own dangers, see [[User:Chris/dNetHack/dNethack_Neutral_Quest_Monsters#Great_Cthulhu|his article]] for more info.  In essence: he will revive infinitely, has a 400 damage melee attack, and merely seeing him drains 1d10 points of wisdom, which can't be recovered with a potion/spell of restore ability. Luckily, he is generated asleep and is very slow, but confronting him is generally a unwise choice.  He can always be sensed from a distance as an "unknown creature causing you dread".

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 Deep and deeper ones may also appear. They are roughly equivalent to the Yendorian army (soldiers and co.), but more difficult. They can swim, and will get stronger the more are slain.  They appear in groups, sometimes with a stronger deeper one nearby.  Deepest ones are very rare, but a highly formidable threat.
-[[Shoggoth#dNetHack|Shoggoth]]s may appear, but this is rare.  If one is spotted, your best choice is likely to flee immediately.  They are very different from Slash'em shoggoths, with an armor and head sucking attack, in addition to the strong acid touch/passive attacks.
+[[Shoggoth (dNetHack)|Shoggoths]] may appear, but this is rare. If one is spotted, your best choice is likely to flee immediately. They are very different from [[Shoggoth (SLASH'EM)|SLASH'EM shoggoths]], with an armor and head sucking attack, in addition to the strong acid touch/passive attacks.
 ====Alhoons====

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 This is mostly the same as the vanilla endgame.  Just remember that the Plane of Water will contain deep(er,est) ones, and the [[Archon (dNetHack)|dNetHack Archons]] are changed slightly.  Don't be slowed in the Plane of Air, or the Archons may rapidly finish you off with their silver arrows.  [[Binder (dNetHack role)#The Binder pantheon|Binders]] and [[User:Chris/dNetHack/Anachrononaut_Astral_Plane|Anachrononauts]] have their own endgame tweaks (or large changes in the Anachrononaut case).
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 ==== The Temple of Chaos ====
-The Temple of Chaos ("chaos1") is the original chaos branch, and has artifacts that grant slotless extrinsic fire resistance, cold resistance, shock resistance, half physical damage, and magic resistance. It also has a runesword on the first level that has a chance to become [[Stormbringer]]. However, it can be exceedingly difficult without resistances - to collect each artifact you must kill a unique themed Fiend. They have large health pools (800+) and hit hard. Defeating each fiend will allow you to pick up the elemental crystals located at the beginning of the quest. Overall, it is probably the worst Chaos quest for a weak player in the mid-game, since there's really no loot you can grab easily.
+The Temple of Chaos ("chaos1") is the original chaos branch, and has artifacts that grant slotless extrinsic fire resistance, cold resistance, shock resistance, half physical damage, and magic resistance. It also has a runesword on the first level that has a chance of being made into [[Stormbringer]]. However, it can be exceedingly difficult without resistances - to collect each artifact you must kill a unique themed Fiend. They have large health pools (800+) and hit hard. Defeating each fiend will allow you to pick up the elemental crystals located at the beginning of the quest. Overall, it is probably the worst Chaos quest for a weak player in the mid-game, since there's really no loot you can grab easily.
 This branch has two easily accessed altars, if the RNG was not kind enough to provide one in the upper dungeon. It also allows teleporting on all levels, so you can use your teleportitis/teleport control combo to skip many of the levels (notably, Lich & Kary's levels cannot be skipped due to the downstair locations). The second alignment key is located somewhere on Lich, the Fiend of Earth's level, and the third one is dropped from Chaos.

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-This page is designed as a supplement to the [[Standard strategy]] page for vanilla NetHack. It suggests a path through the game that works well for many roles.  You may also wish to consult the [[Role difficulty/Variants#dNetHack roles|role difficulty chart]].
+This page is designed as a supplement to the [[standard strategy]] page for vanilla NetHack. It suggests a path through the game that works well for many roles.  You may also wish to consult the [[Role difficulty/Variants#dNetHack roles|role difficulty chart]].
 == The Upper Dungeon ==
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 This is mostly the same as the vanilla endgame.  Just remember that the Plane of Water will contain deep(er,est) ones, and the [[Archon (dNetHack)|dNetHack Archons]] are changed slightly.  Don't be slowed in the Plane of Air, or the Archons may rapidly finish you off with their silver arrows.  [[Binder (dNetHack role)#The Binder pantheon|Binders]] and [[User:Chris/dNetHack/Anachrononaut_Astral_Plane|Anachrononauts]] have their own endgame tweaks (or large changes in the Anachrononaut case).
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 ====Priests of the Unknown God====
-These monsters are technically hostile, but don't move and can't attack.  You can remove artifacts from the game (with the exception of the Anachronaut and Binder quest artifacts, and the Silver Key) by hitting them with it.  They will "tug gently" on the artifact, and if you let go it will be removed from the game (along with the priest).  If the artifact was a gift, you will anger the god who gave it.
+These monsters are technically hostile, but don't move and can't attack.  You can remove artifacts from the game (with the exception of the Anachrononaut and Binder quest artifacts, and the Silver Key) by hitting them with it.  They will "tug gently" on the artifact, and if you let go it will be removed from the game (along with the priest).  If the artifact was a gift, you will anger the god who gave it.
 === The Temple Complex (R'lyeh) ===

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 ==== Mithardir ====
-Mithardir ("chaos2") is the second possible branch. It is primarily a desert, followed by a series of catacombs (very tight room and corridor levels). The main loot are consumables with temporary effects called [[syllables of power|syllable]]s, and the [[Word of Creation|Words of Creation]]. The words provide slotless [[flying]], [[waterproofing]], and [[regeneration]] for all pets. Overall, this quest is mediocre for the average midgame player, since there's no guaranteed sources of magic resistance or the like.
+Mithardir ("chaos2") is the second possible branch. It is primarily a desert, followed by a series of catacombs (very tight room and corridor levels). The main loot are consumables with temporary effects called [[syllable]]s, and the [[Word of Creation|Words of Creation]]. The words provide slotless [[flying]], [[waterproofing]], and [[regeneration]] for all pets. Overall, this quest is mediocre for the average midgame player, since there's no guaranteed sources of magic resistance or the like.
 However, the first level has many shops on it. They're special kinds of shop only found on this level, and can include useful items like amulets, armor, and weapons. You can also find "living masks" ("gilled jellyfish" when unidentified), face-slot items that grant magical breathing when worn. If you're lucky, you'll find an artifact weapon or an amulet of reflection/nullify magic that can help you keep moving forward.