Insight
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Insight is a feature specific to dNethack. It represents the player's ability to see beyond the veil. Players with a high insight will encounter creatures they would otherwise never see.
Methods of Changing Insight
| Change | Method |
|---|---|
| +1 | Successfully reading the Necronomicon |
| Successfully reading the Book of Lost Names | |
| Gaining telepathy from a corpse while hallucinating | |
| Drinking a cursed potion of enlightenment | |
| Drinking a cursed potion of see invisible (1 in insight chance) | |
| Seeing an insight-granting monster up close for the first time | |
| +X insight | Killing an insight-granting monster for the first time. X is the monster's difficulty/10 - 1. |
| -1 | Drinking a cursed potion of hallucination |
| -X% insight | Amnesia (X is typically 10) |
Insight Creatures
| Creature | Insight to See Creature |
|---|---|
| Bright walker | 10 |
| Lurking One | 20 + rn2(21) |
| Blasphemous Lurker | 40 |
| Blessed | 40 |
| Mouth of the Goat | 60 |
| The Good Neighbour | 40 |
| Hmnyw Pharaoh | 40 |
| Polypoid being | 40 |
| Parasitized Doll | rnd(20) |
| Living Doll | rnd(20) |
| Kuker | rnd(20)+rn2(21) |
Insight Merchants
In the Gulf of N'Kai in the Neutral Quest, you can encounter a number of peaceful merchants. If you chat to them while wielding an artifact in your main hand, they will offer to take it from you, giving you a "thought" in return. You may have up to three thoughts in your head at once.
| Merchant | Insight to See Merchant | Related Thought | Thought's Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bestial dervish | 20+rn2(10) | clockwise metamorphosis | +30% maxhp |
| Ethereal dervish | 20+rn2(10) | anti clockwise metamorphosis | +3 speed (+25% of normal speed) |
| Sparkling lake | 18+rn2(9) | arcane bulwark | magic resistance |
| Flashing lake | 16+rn2(8) | dissipating bulwark | shock resistance |
| Smouldering lake | 11+rn2(6) | smoldering bulwark | fire resistance |
| Frosted lake | 12+rn2(6) | frosted bulwark | cold resistance |
| Blood shower | 14+rn2(7) | blood rapture | heal 30 hp on sneak attacks |
| Many taloned thing | 16+rn2(8) | clawmark | +30% increased sneak attack damage |
| Deep blue cube | 10+rn2(5) | clear deeps | poison resistance |
| Pitch black cube | 22+rn2(11) | deep sea | physical damage reduction |
| Prayerful thing | 25+rn2(13) | communion | +25% carrying capacity |
| Hemorrhagic thing | 15+rn2(8) | corruption | lifesteal when injured below 30% hp |
| Many eyed seeker | 17+rn2(9) | eye thought | 2x death drop frequency |
| Voice in the dark | 19+rn2(10) | formless voice | +30% max power |
| Tiny being of light | 13+rn2(7) | guidance | heal when attacking those that hurt you |
| Man faced millipede | 5+rn2(3) | impurity | physical damage reduction for pets |
| Mirrored moonflower | 10+rn2(5) | moon | +30% XP gain |
| Crimson writher | 14+rn2(7) | writhe | sneak attacks restore 30 energy |
| Radiant pyramid | 12+rn2(6) | radiance | +30% magical healing |
