Strategy
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One of the uses of Wikihack is to document the strategy that adventurers are using to survive NetHack.
- Category:Strategy contains a list of Wikihack articles classified as strategy.
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The list of strategies on this page can include "red links" to missing wiki pages. Feel free to remove any red links if you can replace them with links to suitable pages.
List of strategies
- Beginning the game
- Class difficulty: Which class is easiest? Hardest?
- The standard strategy
- General tactics
- Movement tactics
- Boulder as corridor plug.
- Boulder fort
- Hunger and not dying of starvation
- Disease and curing oneself
- Weapon skill: How to #enhance
- Sectarian tactics
- Sacrifice: How to #offer
- curse avoidance, typically via pet accumulation or membership in the priesthood.
- Fountains and sinks: Ignore them? Curse avoidance, above, a strong incentive for doing so.
- Movement tactics
- Managing items:
- Making a stash
- Ascension kit
- Ring strategy
- Potion strategy: Which to keep, which to dilute?
- Wishing, what to wish for
- repertoire and literacy strategy, perhaps also practicing amnesia-avoidance.
- Using shops:
- Advanced strategies