User:Furey/Furey's NetHack Tips - Revision history

Furey: /* Practice a lot of techniques */ You could throw a comestible. You could blind yourself. You could levelport. You could branchport.

2024-07-08T04:36:17Z

‎Practice a lot of techniques: You could throw a comestible. You could blind yourself. You could levelport. You could branchport.

Furey: /* Use scrolls of magic mapping */ wordsmith

2024-07-08T04:23:11Z

‎Use scrolls of magic mapping: wordsmith

Furey: /* Bag test the Amulet of Yendor */ wordsmithing

2024-07-08T03:42:04Z

‎Bag test the Amulet of Yendor: wordsmithing

Furey: /* Harvest the Gnomish Mines */ grammar

2024-07-08T03:02:21Z

‎Harvest the Gnomish Mines: grammar

Furey: /* Use pets */ touch up

2024-07-08T02:18:44Z

‎Use pets: touch up

Furey: heros -> heroes, thanks umbire

2024-06-18T00:56:44Z

heros -> heroes, thanks umbire

Furey: /* How to Get a Unicorn to Stand Still */ New section. Use a beartrap.

2024-06-01T19:12:52Z

‎How to Get a Unicorn to Stand Still: New section. Use a beartrap.

Furey: /* Acknowledgements */ add missing comma

2024-05-21T14:59:09Z

‎Acknowledgements: add missing comma

Furey: /* Rule 1 and Rule 2 */ more color

2024-05-21T14:56:30Z

‎Rule 1 and Rule 2: more color

Furey: /* Planner!Me versus Execution!Me */ cancel ops

2024-05-21T14:54:40Z

‎Planner!Me versus Execution!Me: cancel ops

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 How many ways can you deal with a monster?
-You could hit it with a melee weapon. You could kick it. You could throw projectiles. You could zap a wand. You could cast a spell. You could pacify or tame it with a scroll. You could build a boulder fort. You could tip a scroll of scare monster onto the ground. You could pray. You could engrave Elbereth. You could lead it over a trap. You could flash it with a camera. You could jump. You could teleport yourself. You could teleport the monster. The list goes on and on.
+You could hit it with a melee weapon. You could kick it. You could throw projectiles. You could throw a comestible. You could zap a wand. You could cast a spell. You could pacify or tame it with a scroll. You could build a boulder fort. You could tip a scroll of scare monster onto the ground. You could pray. You could engrave Elbereth. You could lead it over a trap. You could flash it with a camera. You could jump. You could blind yourself. You could teleport yourself. You could teleport the monster. You could levelport. You could branchport. The list goes on and on.
 Learning more techniques is the easy part. You have to practice the techniques so they are in your working set. Then, when an out-of-pocket monster appears (as they do), and you take yourself out of autopilot mode (as you should), then you can use some resource to survive. The more techniques you actually can use in crisis mode, the higher your chances of survival.

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 === Use [[scrolls of magic mapping]] ===
-After you discover the portal once, a scroll of magic mapping will show you its current location, as well as the current position of all the bubbles.
+After you detect the portal once, a scroll of magic mapping will show you its current location, as well as the current position of all the bubbles.
 === Prep for [[Astral Plane]] ===

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 The very last move I make before ascending the upstairs is to put the Amulet of Yendor in a bag. If I can't find the Amulet, then I get the hell off those stairs and rethink. If the Amulet actually goes into the bag, then I get the hell off those stairs and rethink. If I get a message "The Amulet of Yendor cannot be confined in such trappings", then I am good to go.
-If something happens during this test, or I remember something to do, then I re-do the bag test. My screen says "The Amulet of Yendor cannot be confined in such trappings" when I hit the < key.
+If something happens during this test, or I remember something to do, then I re-do the bag test. My screen has to say "The Amulet of Yendor cannot be confined in such trappings" at the moment I let myself hit the < key.
 == [[Plane of Earth]] ==

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 You can get experience, daggers, armor, edible corpses, bone piles, and a pick-axe. If you survive to Mine Town, then you can buy and sell and price-identify at shops, buc-test at the altar, and occassionally score a magic lamp from Izchak.
-If you are dying a lot in the upper mines, then spend more time preparing before the enter the mines.
+If you are dying a lot in the upper mines, then spend more time preparing before you enter the mines.
 Get a pick-axe or a dwarvish mattock. Attack a peaceful dwarf if you have to. Or let your pet do the dirty work.

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 If you take care of your initial pet, you will play slower, and you will live longer.
-Your pets can curse-test objects. Your pets can fight alongside you. Your pets can attack peaceful monsters without penalty. Your pets can fight leprechauns and nymphs with impunity. Your pets can steal items from shops. Your pet can step on traps before you do.
+Your pets can curse-test objects. Your pets can fight alongside you. Your pets can attack peaceful monsters without penalty. Your pets can fight leprechauns and nymphs with impunity. Your pets can steal items from shops. Your pets can step on traps before you do.
 A dog or cat will feed itself. A horse needs attention. Husband your apples and carrots and lichen corpses.
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 If you meet more tameable monsters, tame some of them. I find three pets to be about the best number.
-For hedering pets, a magic whistle is best. A leash is good too. A tin whistle is better than nothing.
+For herding pets, a magic whistle is best. A leash is good too. A tin whistle is better than nothing.
 You can also pacify a tameable monster by throwing food at it, even if the food is not suitable food for taming the monster. Even when you do not want a pet (or another pet), taming or pacifying a cat, dog, horse, or ape may stop it from killing you. This is especially important if you encounter a strong pet near a bones pile.

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 == Plan your food load ==
-In the early game, most heros need all the food they can find. Once you get to the middle game, though, you are going to find more food than you can carry.
+In the early game, most heroes need all the food they can find. Once you get to the middle game, though, you are going to find more food than you can carry.
 After the Sokoban zoo, I set limits for my hero. For most types of food, the limit is 8 of each type. For tripe, the limit is 2. (I rarely tame monsters with tripe after Sokoban). For meatballs, the limit is 16, because they are so light. For lizard corpses, the limit is 2, and I carry them in open inventory. And for huge chunks of meat, the limit is 1.
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 These limits are empirical. I started with a limit of 4 for most types, but ran out of food once or twice, so I raised the limit. If I ever run out of food again I will raise the limits again. By having a limit, I don't angst about whether to carry more food or not, I just execute the plan that I set up.
-None of this applies to vegetarian, vegan, or foodless heros; they need entirely different strategies. Tip: a vegan monk can kick the trees on Home 1 for fruit.
+None of this applies to vegetarian, vegan, or foodless heroes; they need entirely different strategies. Tip: a vegan monk can kick the trees on Home 1 for fruit.
 == You don't need two bags of holding ==

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	This command saves a lot of time when you are collecting objects from all over the dungeon for your stash.		This command saves a lot of time when you are collecting objects from all over the dungeon for your stash.
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		+	== How to Get a Unicorn to Stand Still ==
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		+	Use a [[beartrap]]. Wait for unicorn to hit it.

	== Sokoban ==		== Sokoban ==

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 == Acknowledgements ==
-arseniy, grasshopper loggers, roke, tjw, umbire
+arseniy, grasshopper, loggers, roke, tjw, umbire
 disperse for the sokoban practice page.

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 As of this writing, https://alt.org/nethack/top60d.html shows 34 deaths by choking (out of 2000 games).
-That's why I have Rule 2. It speeds up my game and removes angst. And it works: I have zero choking deaths on NAO. Just some pangs of longing when my hero is xlvl 12 and walks away from a wraith corpse.
+That's why I have Rule 2. It speeds up my game and removes decision points. And it works: I have zero choking deaths on NAO. Just some pangs of longing when my hero is xlvl 12 and walks away from a wraith corpse.
-But then Rule 2 induces me to change my play style for the better. Look, there's a graveyard, better check my satiation status before I go over there. Better balance my hero's diet better and not eat ogre corpses just because they are there, because there might be a graveyard on the next level. And so on.
+But then Rule 2 induces me to change my play style for the better. Look, there's a graveyard, better check my satiation status before I go over there. Better balance my hero's diet better and not eat ogre corpses just because they are there, because there might be a graveyard on the next level. And so on. I actually do not miss out on very many wraith corpses these days.
 == Autopilot versus Turn-By-Turn ==

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 * I avoid picking up a second bag of holding or a bag of tricks. If I need them for polyfodder, then I put them in my secondary sack.
 * I avoid the 'A' selector. The 'unknown beatitude' selector is better.
-* I mentally tell myself 'wand ops' when I put wands in my stash, I go slow, and I don't select all wands.
+* I mentally tell myself 'wand ops' when I put wands in my stash, I go slow, and I select one wand at a time.
 * When I play monk, I turn off autodig, and I mentally tell myself 'pickup ops' when I am pick-axing. So my pick-axe speed in turns-per-minute is very slow. But I have gotten good at not hitting monsters with a pick-axe.
 * When I play monk, I bring a lot of wands of digging to Gehennom. Safer than a pick-axe.