Boulder fort

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A boulder fort is generally used in extinctionism or farming. It is an array of boulders placed around oneself to cause monsters to only be able to attack you from a certain spot, such as an altar.

You can create one by using a blessed scroll of earth to summon boulders around your altar, blocking all other spaces nearby. You should also engrave Elbereth under each boulder to prevent giants from walking on them. Note that summoned giants will appear on the boulders occasionally, picking up boulders and ruining your fort if you did not engrave Elbereth. Intelligent monsters can zap a wand of striking at you if they see you, destroying boulders. To avoid this, surround yourself completely with boulders.

Boulder forts are not impervious to ghosts or giants, but monsters cannot occupy the same square as another, so a variation on the boulder fort is to surround the boulders by a layer of blue jellies (or other sessile monster), which never move, or better to create the boulders on top of the monsters.

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