Bad Idea

Many things in NetHack are a Bad Idea, although that often only becomes apparent after your demise, which may well be YASD.

A few bad ideas include:

• Genociding @
• Pasting stuff into Nethack unless you are sure what is in the clipboard
• Casting force bolt while in a shop
• Picking up items in shops while afflicted with teleportitis
• Teleporting the Riders' corpses
• Eating "just one more" giant corpse/royal jelly
• Eating old (rotten) corpses
• Strength training by overburdening your self
• Wielding a cockatrice corpse while burdened and deciding to go down stairs
• Walking around with a cockatrice corpse wielded. Levitation is safe, as long as you don't pass over a sink
• Walking around while blind, without gloves
• Breaking a drawbridge while standing adjacent to it
• Having your wand of wishing in your main inventory instead of a bag
• Putting a wand of cancellation, a bag of tricks, or another bag of holding into your bag of holding
• Sacrificing at a cross-aligned altar while having bad alignment record
• Killing a co-aligned unicorn, breaking a mirror, et cetera...
• Killing a nymph with a force bolt
• Killing the Wizard of Yendor before collecting seven candles for the invocation ritual
• Picking up non-identified gray stones (identification is done by first kicking and then rubbing the stone on an iron object)
• Reading a scroll of genocide while confused
• Throwing your highly enchanted metal daggers at a metallivore
• Slowly engraving more than 1 letter of Elbereth at once while under attack
• Using fountains and sinks at a low level
• Kicking doors when there is a store somewhere on the floor, even if the doors are locked.
• Letting that monster hit you just one more time before you heal yourself
• Saving the game in the middle of a wish or genocide selection
• Attempting to mount a pony before leveling at least once

See also

• Lessons learned the hard way

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