Talk:Genocide

added unicorns

As my first edit ever to any wiki, I added unicorns to the list of monsters to reverse-genocide. If you polypile the resulting horns, you might get a magic marker, and thus replace the scrolls used for reverse-genociding unicorns! Riley Riley37 22:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Reverse Genocide and Extinctionism

Can you reverse genocide extinct monsters? --TBF01 23:25, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Not according to <nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Scroll_of_genocide>

Checking what you genocided?

Is there any way to check to see what you've genocided without dying? (I've played a bit too much Nethack in the past few weeks and can't keep track of what the current character did versus the character who died yesterday, etc...)

Strategy

I'd love to read a bit on strategy. Can anyone add some tips? Shmoo 06:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I have a personal strategy for sea monsters (;) Do not genocide them until you arrive on the plane of water (just deal with them with a ranged attack, eg use a spell of magic missile if you can). Then genocide them will clear nearly completely the plane of water instantly! If you had genocided them before, then they would be replaced with other difficult monsters). Has anyone tried that apart from me ?

Personally, I don't genocide sea monsters at all because they are quite easy to avoid (perhaps except on the plain of Water), and in the mid-game, I value cursed genocides more, and I tend to overprepare for Astral anyway. On the planes, I just teleport them if they grab me, and use normal methods if not (evade, fight, tame, conflict,...). However, if you really want to avoid encounters at all cost, genociding them late is the common sense approach. It might work to storm through the Plane of Water and genocide them only once they pose an actual threat. -Tjr 21:58, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Nymphs

If a nymph is robbing you blind, you won't get your stuff back if you genocide her, right? Does a nymph ever steal the amulet? Tjr 22:10, 21 March 2009 (UTC) if you genocide nymphs, then all there stuff falls on the floor, including whatever she stole.60.242.66.41 23:32, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Gelatinous cube

Is it really worth it to reverse genocide them as a monk... you should have all the interesting intrisincs by the time you got a magic marker, a permanent elbereth method/free action.

According to the shock resistance page, gelatinous cubes are the only vegan corpses to give shock resistance, and brown puddings are the only other vegetarian corpse (black pudding are not vegetarian). Shock resistance is also the last resistance granted for monks by leveling up, and the exponential XP requirements mean the character would need to go a decent amount of time before hitting level 15 - not to mention other roles going vegetarian for the conduct. A gelatinous cube is also the only source of sleep resistance besides divine favor, and I would personally not be required to wear a ring of free action all the time to avoid wands of sleep. The other resistances are also certainly helpful for an early character that chances upon a scroll. I'd say it's definitely worth it, although maybe the page should say vegetarian players and not just monks, as non-monk vegetarians would actually benefit more. -- Qazmlpok 21:49, October 1, 2009 (UTC)

watch for name conflicts?

It might be worth adding something definitive about what happens when a monster name is the same as the class name. I was faced by water moccassins, so genocided snakes...but it only worked on snakes, not ALL snakes. Which leaves me wondering, if it has been a blessed scroll, would it have genocided all snakes, or just snakes called snakes? I would expect all snakes, but is that the case? Did that make any sense at all? 79.71.72.211 09:31, October 17, 2009 (UTC)MartinB

If it was a blessed scroll, it would ask "what class" of monsters would you like to genocide. You would enter "S" and all monsters that appear as "S" will be removed.