NetHackWiki talk:Ask an expert/Archive4

How do i send a message to another player?

vlads tower

is the entrance to vlads tower under the big square i can't enter or one of the doors around it?

The entrance to Vlad's Tower is simply an extra up-stairs on a random level between 34 and 42. If you're talking about the Wizard's tower, however, you need to keep going down past all the large squares you can't enter until you see a little island and moat in the middle of the level. There will be two of them (on two different levels) - one is a fake entrance, the other is real. The real one has a teleport trap in the middle. Which takes you inside the large squares that you couldn't previously enter.

elemental planes

I'm never able to make it past the elemental planes. What always happens is archons and titans keep summoning more of each other until the entire level is filled with them. Wearing a ring of conflict doesn't seem to be enough to thin their numbers, unfortunately. What am I supposed to do? How do you deal with the hordes of archons? I'm wondering - perhaps I'm genociding too many classes of monsters and thus, their summon spells summon more of each other? Maybe I should pursue a more minimalist genociding strategy?

The planes are different than any other part of the game - you should be racing through them as fast as possible, be in and out long before anything has a chance to summon and fill the level with anything. If there are some Titans/Archons in your way, shoot them with a wand of teleport to clear a path then keep running. Standing around trying to fight the Titans/Archons or trying to thin the herd with conflict is basically a guaranteed way to lose unless your character is mega-pimped.

Ascending without doing the wizard quest

I accidently attacked the Wizard Quest NPC and got expelled. The game was going great until then and I have pretty much all the items needed to ascend.. Is it still worth trying to pursure the great ascension without the eye?

You can definitely ascend without the Eye, but you might have a hard time without the Bell of Opening. --Andronikus 13:28, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Different commands

I am semi-new to net hack, and i know most of the commands and they do.but one thing I haven't been able to figure out is: 1.How do I delete a saved file in explore mode,and 2.How do I make friends with a tame-able animal (I.E. unicorn)? oh, I forgot, how do you sacrafice, and use rings? --BobicusIX 22:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

• Welcome! Here are some answers to your questions:

1. See the entry on the bones page for what the file names are for the save files. Just navigate to the sandbox directory and delete the appropriate file. Information on how to interact with them is on the explore mode page
2. See taming for a full description, but the crib notes are: Harps, food and spellbook of charm monster are your friends in different situations. You can pacify any unicorn with a gem, however taming them (making them a pet) requires charm monster. Information with how to interact with them is on the pet or tame pages
3. Sacrifices are done at altars - carry or move the corpse on to it and then use the extended command #offer. Check the alignment of the altar first! Information on how to interact with them is on the sacrifice page
4. Rings need to be Put on. You can only wear two of them at a time. Information on how to interact with them is on the rings page

Is it me or do you see a pattern for each last sentence in the above points? -- Kalon 22:49, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. That helps a lot. Yes i do see a pattern, but it doesn't matter. --BobicusIX 15:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok, thats all figured out, but i also have the ipod version, and I cant get that fie to delete, so im stuck in explore mode for now. my computer file is good now, but this is still a problem. Does anyone know how to delete ipod nethack files? --BobicusIX 20:39, 26 August 2009 (UTC)