User:Phol ende wodan/YANI/YASI

This page is an attempt to list YASIs that come up on several NetHack-related IRC channels. I have made this list separate from my other list.

Attribution will be listed wherever possible, and feel free to add any more that aren't here. While YASIs are not intended to be taken seriously, they might still find some use if listed here.

Silly Idea	Variant	Source
New "farmer" role: starts with seeds and a spade, has other tools available like sickles and scythes.		jonadab
Opening a cursed bag of holding does not destroy the items, but it redistributes them around the level, or perhaps the entire dungeon.		Grasshopper, AmyBSOD
Dropping a ring of polymorph control down a sink, then a ring of polymorph, turns the sink into a regularly erupting geyser.		FIQ
The Mazes of Menace are located on the moon Titan, to mess with day/night and moon phases.		rumflump
Donkeys that carry around the player's loot. If you kick a pet donkey, you get the YAFM "You kick your own ass!"		jonathanhanes, Grasshopper
Playable race that doesn't have teeth and can't eat anything unless polymorphed into something that can.		aosdict
New scroll label CONULATION (apparently it is CONGRATULATIONS minus GRATS?)		aosdict
Potion of un-dilution. Does nothing when quaffed or thrown. Only effect is that when you dip a diluted stack of potions into it, they become undiluted.		aosdict
Trap which pushes the player one level higher, like a potion of gain level.		aosdict
Oilskin sack of cancellation, which cancels items that you put into it.		AmyBSOD
Priest players, if they are at XL 30 (with the "High Priest(ess)" rank title), can kill their own high priest and take over, becoming the new high priest.		aosdict
If you genocide @, you only die if you have showrace turned off so your symbol is a @. If you have showrace turned on, you live, but if you ever turn it off again that game, you die.		Wooble
Lego trap. If you're not wearing metal boots, you take damage when you step on it.		FIQ
Chicken soup that cures constitution loss when consumed. When thrown at a shade, wraith or ghost, it is instakilled (chicken soup is good for the soul).		bug_sniper, aosdict
Dipping a thirsty weapon into water makes it satisfied. Hitting things with a satisfied weapon removes their hunger.		bug_sniper, jonadab
Burying a troll corpse results in a troll zombie, which is twice as likely to reanimate. Sticking a troll corpse in an ice box results in an ice troll emerging from the box. Dumping a troll in lava results in a lava troll. Dumping a troll corpse in water results in a water troll. Locking a troll corpse in a box results in a freedom fighter troll, who goes around liberating all the other trolls from their boxes.		Tangles, jonadab, aosdict
Tasp: charged ranged tool that works on monsters that have a mind and are not immaterial. It paralyzes for one turn, dealing no damage, and has a small chance of taming. To keep the monster tame, you have to keep tasping it occasionally. Applied to yourself, it cures hallucinations by electroshock therapy.		jonadab, Grasshopper
Add a corpse swinging skill, which increases your odds of hitting with a wielded corpse. Only Cavemen can get skill in it.		aosdict
You can apply Fire Brand to an adjacent tame rothe to brand it with your cattle mark.		aosdict
Pools of oil, black or brown }		FIQ
Rather than spell schools, every spell must be trained individually, costing the same amount of skill points as normal.		AmyBSOD
Rename the mundane two-handed sword to "claymore". Apply it to adjacent tiles to create a land mine.		jonadab
Hobbit nuns, and nuns as a playable role that can use a #sing command.		jonadab
Roaming shopkeepers, that will attack and kill you even before you break any doors.		bug_sniper
You can #jump onto tiny monsters, which makes a Dex check. If successful the monster is squashed.		AmyBSOD
Deli shopkeepers sometimes have a tinning kit in inventory. If a monster dies in their shop, they will instantly tin its corpse and drop the tin in their shop for sale.		jonadab
You can eat leather while starving.		ChaseSP
Eating a bag of holding lets you store items in your stomach.		aosdict
Eating a magic lamp gives you intrinsic light.		Wooble
Potion of solipsism: gives every other monster on the level temporary phasing because you're not sure whether they're figments of your imagination or not.		aosdict
Artifact Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses, which when equipped cause blindness and warning when a monster is in line of sight.		jonadab
Librarian monster whose attack breaks illiterate conduct.		jonathanhanes
The Candelabrum of Invocation, if it contains 7 candles of invocation, can be used to do the invocation without the other invocation items / from anywhere in the dungeon	dnethack	Chris, AmyBSOD
Pets you get from other players' bones files that were the pets of the dead adventurer are harder to make do what you want, like in Pokemon.		aosdict
Wand of alignment conversion, which will convert the alignment of both altars and priests tending those altars, so the priest may not get angry. Also a potion of change alignment.		bug_sniper
Hill orcs can grow up into hell orcs, which are much stronger and normally spawn only in Gehennom.		aosdict
Winter wolves can grow up into spring wolves, which can coil their body and launch themselves several spaces in one linear move to attack, damaging you from the impact and landing next to you.		jonadab
Pinball monster: Has a fast speed, rolls around and bounces into walls, and occasionally teleports. Uses the S_BOULDER symbol. If you kick it, it changes direction.		FIQ, aosdict, jonadab
Add charm monster to the list of maintainable spells. If you maintain charm monster, you automatically cast it any time you're next to a hostile monster.	FIQhack	jonadab
Add a spellbook of wish, but it is not randomly generated, unwishable, costs over 100 ink minimum to write, and is level 27 so nobody can cast it.		aosdict, jonadab
Amulet of undead turning. If you die while wearing it, you rise from the grave as a zombie. If an undead monster dies while wearing it, it has the same effect as an amulet of life saving. Related: a cursed amulet of life saving will save you if and only if you are undead. Also related: an amulet of death saving, which has the same randomized appearance as life saving, which saves undead and instakills any living creature that wears it.		aosdict, raisse
Fire gloves and ice gloves that send a bolt of fire or cold in the direction you hit.		Wooble
If your terminal is big enough, whenever the game makes a die roll, you must watch an ASCII-art animation of the die roll.		jonadab
Spinach monster, whose corpse when tinned becomes a tin of spinach.		aosdict
Pun mode, an option that only allows messages containing puns to be printed.		jonadab
Potions of wonder can give the "Yendor" property to any amulet upon dipping, which gives it the properties of the Amulet of Yendor.	FIQhack	aosdict
Some locked doors may open easily from one side (because they have a deadbolt or other easy latch). Secret doors or formerly secret doors have no method of opening on one side and must be kicked down.		aosdict
Instead of doing nothing, a blessed scroll of punishment punishes you, but with a longer chain.		jonadab
Ring of illness: a ring that causes the fatal illness timer to start, and autocurses when worn, but will reliably cure illness when removed.		jonadab
If you're polymorphed into a water moccasin, you can crawl into a fountain to travel to any fountain in the game.		FIQ
#shout works to send mail to someone in another game on the same server. Uses engraving erosion code because it's from far away.		bug_sniper, Tangles
#yodel and #karaoke commands to make nearby peaceful and tame monsters hostile.		jonadab, K2
Cans of grease appear as "a tin" while unidentified.		aosdict
Herrings that can be used as axes, because of Monty Python.		bug_sniper
The Plane of Tedium, which is 8000x2400 with the viewport scrolling with the character to keep them on the screen.		jonadab
Spambots that attack by throwing tins of rotten spam at you.		bug_sniper
Remembrall, a tool made of glass (it could even be a "glass orb" when unidentified) that cures amnesia.		aosdict
Separate spells that convert every type of material into every other type of material (metal to flesh, stone to metal, cloth to paper, stone to cloth, etc).		bug_sniper, aosdict
Monsters' resistance to Elbereth is dependent on how many games you have played.		FIQ
If you are hallucinating/confused and use a magic whistle, any pets may get hit with a magic missile instead.		Menche
1/50 player-character monsters will only move orthogonally, because their laptop doesn't have a numpad and they are stubbornly using the arrow keys.		jonadab
Killing a wood golem with fire or burning more than a certain weight of objects on a square creates fire terrain on that space. The fire eventually burns out and reverts to normal floor, the duration determined by the total weight of the burning objects. Standing next to or on fire terrain grants cold resistance, but standing on top of fire terrain has the same effect as a fire trap whenever you end your turn on it. Throwing burnables onto a fire trap may make them spontaneously combust.		aosdict, AmyBSOD
Remove Quest nemeses' petrification resistance, because making it feasible to play around with a c corpse means the player might YASD with it.		Wooble
Rename the Dark One to the Dim One.		ChrisE
Starting to levitate/fly should give the message "You ascend."		Wooble
Tame kittens will randomly stop to lick themselves or fall asleep.		Wooble
Occasionally generate 2x2 squares in rock with a few gold pieces embedded in each, to trick people into digging for it.		aosdict
At most one treasure zoo in the game is actually called "David's treasure zoo", and it contains a player monster named David.		aosdict
Dehydrated conduct, which is broken if you drink potions, quaff fountains or sinks, or go in water.		stenno
While invisible, you are always blind. This is because photons are passing straight through your eyes and the rest of your head without actually hitting your retinas.		aosdict
Masonry that smooths out the surfaces of luckstones, so they stack.		bug_sniper
If you are playing the Noble role, you cannot squeeze past boulders at all, because you are "portly".	dNetHack	aosdict
Horseflies, ridable flying monsters that are Tiny size.		bug_sniper
Make a Strength check for bugling the notes A, B, D or F, since such notes are theoretically possible to play on a bugle but require you to blow almost impossibly hard.		aosdict
At most one treasure zoo in the game is actually designated and introduced to the player as "David's treasure zoo". This zoo contains a player monster named David.		aosdict
Legal blindness, a birth option that is not quite as blind as permablind. You can see only one square around you for the whole game regardless of lighting.		aosdict