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General Nemo
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It may not be multiplayer, but we can sure as hell post who gets the farthest.
[url]telnet://nethack.alt.org[/url]
Go there. Make an account and post your death screens here. Trust me, gentlemen, you will die.
In game, hit shift+o and you'll get the options and you can look at the keys from there.
This game is much more complex than it looks. I'm still twitching from the pure awesome that this game emits.
EDIT: Link fixed...
[url]telnet://nethack.alt.org[/url]
Go there. Make an account and post your death screens here. Trust me, gentlemen, you will die.
In game, hit shift+o and you'll get the options and you can look at the keys from there.
This game is much more complex than it looks. I'm still twitching from the pure awesome that this game emits.
EDIT: Link fixed...
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There was, I don't know what the hell happened to it.
It's in the same place as the socks, pens, and hot gamer girls from the internet.
It evolved into all sorts of games one can play at work, though.
zangband and eyangband for the most part
should i try zangband? i pretty much just play eyangband, so will it be hard to adapt?
E.g. this one after I had magic resistance, reflection, was crowned by Odin, had Mjollnir, conflict and regeneration, and like -20 AC a couple levels before Medusa
---------- / \ / REST \ / IN \ / PEACE \ / \ | Ledneh | | 12449 Au | | choked on an | | Olog-hai corpse | | | | | | 2007 | *| * * * | * _________)/\\_//(\/(/\)/\//\/|_)_______ Farvel Ledneh the Valkyrie... You choked in The Dungeons of Doom on dungeon level 22 with 207873 points, and 12449 pieces of gold, after 25963 moves. You were level 13 with a maximum of 118 hit points when you choked.:downs:
The commands for zangband are pretty much identical. The main differences will be some different races, classes, and monsters as well as the magic system working differently. You cast spells the same way but if you create a spell caster you have to choose one or more schools of magic that determine what books you can use. Some classes give 2 schools of magic but there's 6 or 7 schools so you have to really think about what spells you want. I always play casters so this is one of the more noticable changes to me.
I've been playing for about 5 years off and on, I've made one Ascension in that time. Lawful Male Human Knight. IMO Knight is kind of an underrated class to play; recently they've buffed it up a bit, too. Jumping can get you out of a lot of trouble early against stuff like soldier ants. Riding a big pet like a Ki-Rin is great too.
Also, its annoying to have to remember the keyboard commands.
When you encounter a fountain, do you always drink from it?
Nah, save them. Sometimes you might want to #dip a whole bunch of useless potions in a fountain to make water, put 'em on an altar, and then #pray to make holy water. Or if you're lawful, you will want to #dip a longsword in the fountain to make Excalibur if you're a knight or valkyrie.
1 983 Lawmus-Val-Dwa-Fem-Law died in The Dungeons of Doom
on level 4. Killed by a pony. - [47]
Is there a way to do something to identify all your possessions?
What about all the statues that are everywhere?
There are various ways of identifying stuff. The easiest is to use a Scroll of Identity (you have to find it first though)
Statues are just that, statues.
If you identify a touchstone which is a kind of gray stone, you can rub that on unidentified gemstones to figure out what they are. Archaeologists start with one, which gives them a good way of making money. If you don't sell gems, you can throw them at co-aligned uniforms. They will catch them, and give you a bonus to your luck in return.
To ID stuff yeah, use a scroll of identify. A blessed one might identify everything.
Statues are just statues. If you have the stone to flesh spell, you might try messing around with it on them.
Seconds after posting, I figured it out.
Are there any other tips for beginners? I liked the ones regarding fountains, I had no idea you could do anything with them. There seem to be a lot of lateral-thinking actions you can take. Praying yourself out of food poisoning took me a while to think of.
Last edit: Does EVERY spawn of the game have a way to get out of every level? I just got started in one that was just one room, no doors. I searched all over, and found one door, but it just leads to one space, and no further. More searching yielded nothing.
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? Have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!
you just stand over it and break the lock open, then loot. works like 99% of the time
Also, don't try to #force things with a blunt weapon, you'll smash the box ( good for dumping everything in if you don't have a bag of holding, locking it and burning Elbereth into the ground under it ) and sometimes everything in it.
To figure out if things are cursed early on, see if your pet will walk over them when they're on the ground. If they stay off that tile, it's cursed, or if it only moves reluctantly.
If you're lucky enough to find a Wand of Wishing, the first thing you must wish for is a blessed scroll of charging to recharge the scroll and get more wishes once it's used up.
The point of the Gnomish Mines aside from the amenities in Minetown (you'll need the candles in the lighting store later on) is the Luckstone at the bottom of the mine. The lowest floor is always one of 3 or 4 designs, you'll get to know it by layout or if you're new, when you can't dig through the floor, you're there. Anyway, no matter what layout it is, there will be a luckstone somewhere on it. Kick the grey stones you find on the ground. If you hurt your foot, it is a loadstone, which is a huge weight burden you can't drop unless you uncurse it. Horrible. If it moves, you're okay, it's either a touchstone, flint, or a luckstone. Luckstones will maintain your luck so good or bad luck doesn't time out for you; what you want to do is get some holy water and bless the luckstone so good luck never times out, but bad luck does. This gives you a big advantage in a lot of areas.
Go here and refer to the guides when you need to, this is probably the most comprehensive set of Nethack info out there, although it is a bit old the vast part of it still holds up. Figuring out the standardized prices of different stuff in shops so you can guess what they are without identifying them first is invaluable.
http://www.spod-central.org/~psmith/nh/