Unofficial conduct
Unofficial conducts are conducts that are not tracked by the vanilla version of the game. They are enforced by the players themselves only.
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Popular Conducts
Celibate
Celibacy means not having sex. Having sex with an incubus or succubus may have positive effects such as gaining levels. SLASH'EM officially tracks this conduct.
Nudist
Nudism means not wearing any armor throughout the game, except for the first turns during which you remove any starting armor.
Petless
The starting pet can be turned off from the options file.
Zen
The zen conduct is one of the most difficult conducts. It means wearing a blindfold throughout the whole game. Only a handful of people are known to have ascended zen games and all of them have been zen samurai.
The difficulty in zen comes in that it is like a mixture of other conducts with additional twists to make it even harder. While blind, you may not read, though you may still use scrolls after you get the shopkeepers to name them to you (you only need to know those magic words). You cannot use altars to find the BUC status of an object because you do not see if the objects glow and what color. You also do not see what your objects look like by their material or color, so all potions are only shown as "a potion", wands as "a wand" and so on.
Inventoryless
Inventoryless conduct requires you to not pick up or carry any items (with limited exceptions made only for actions required to win the game).
On turn one, remove all your armor and drop all inventory on the ground. You may not pick up any more items for the rest of the game, with the following exceptions:
- You may take your quest artifact to your quest leader. Since you won't be using it, you should just leave it with him. You should not wield, wear, apply, or invoke any properties of the artifact other than those it grants merely by being carried. Do not carry it any longer than necessary.
- You may take the Bell of Opening, the Candelabrum of Invocation, and the Book of the Dead from their previous owners' locations to the Vibrating Square. Again, do not use any of their powers except to perform the Invocation, and do not carry them any longer than necessary. Locating the Vibrating Square before collecting the items and bringing them straight down is an acceptable course of action.
- You may pick up candles. You should attach them to the Candelabrum at the first available opportunity.
- You may carry the Amulet of Yendor from Moloch's Sanctum to the Astral Plane.
Other Conducts
This is where users can post their own conducts. You must give some description to the ways the conduct makes NetHack harder, as well as your signature without a timestamp(~~~).
Stubborn
Go through the entire game with your starting equipment. This is a difficult task, due to the fact that you cannot use any rings, amulets, weapons, spellbooks, or items other than the ones with which you started. This is nearly impossible for the Tourist, due to the class's nature of buying items to start. Exceptions are allowed for food, the Amulet of Yendor, the Bell of Opening, any of the items necessary to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor or the quest artifact that you earn through the quest. --Edrobot
