Strategy

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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List of strategies

• Beginning the game
  • Class difficulty: Which class is easiest? Hardest?
  • The standard strategy (ie. How to beat the game)
• General tactics
  • Movement tactics
    • Boulder as corridor plug.
    • Boulder fort
  • Hunger and not dying of starvation (see Nutrition)
  • 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.
• 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:
  • Price identification
  • Credit cloning
  • Stealing from shops
• Advanced strategies
  • The protection racket
  • Digging for victory
  • Nurse dancing
  • Teleportation
  • Genocide
  • Polymorph and Polypiling
  • Cancellation