Nethack definitely is a game of play, or knowledgeable play, or enlightened knowledgeable play!

First, a player may learn that wishes can be granted by attempting to #sit on a throne, or zap a wand of wishing, to wish for something they need.

During TNNT2024, decided to reread the online nethack wiki about a wand of wishing. Right there in ( Read more... )

TNNT is slaughtering my Adventurer this year.

Playing as a Lawful Dwarven Valkyrie.

On the 1st day, Nov1st, was slaughtered four or five times. All attempts the slaughter happened before the Adventurer could even convert their long sword into Excalibur!

Nov2nd, make another handful of attempts. Was able to get the long sword converted to ( Read more... )

If you convert an unattended altar to your Adventurer's god and #pray on it when safe, sometimes your Adventurer will be rewarded with protection.

Normally if a game session has a temple of the Adventurers god, you'll accumulate (XL * 400) gold coins to give to the priest when you #chat at them.

For games where there are no such temples ( Read more... )

Just learned something new!

If an Adventurer is carrying a luckstone in their inventory, can break a boulder in sokoban, and their luck will be maintained.

Found out by experimenting in explore mode.

Had been trying to solve sokoban as per usual, then realized I had made a mistake, making one of the levels of sokoban unsolvable without ( Read more... )

nethack - ascension run - astral plane - 1st ascension ever - explore mode

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Adventurer died many many times. Was only successful because was playing in explore mode.

The total was eleven deaths. The 1st death was in the pre-ascension run, when I got greedy, and tried to eat a Black Dragon even though adventurer's status was satiated. YASD ( Read more... )

Now entering the astral plane.

Using a ring of conflict helped.

Astral plane https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Astral_Plane.

Starting 1st attempt at the plane of water

Seems many of the baddies are the type to drown an Adventurer in the regular dungeon. Will try a strategy of staying in levitation, and see how it goes.

Using an amulet of magical breathing helped.

The stuff in my bag of holding got wet and blanked or rusted. For next time, need to remember to make ( Read more... )

Starting the plane of fire.

Since the Adventurer is a Lawful dwarven valkyrie with fireproof clothing, this level had the least health damage. The Adventurer stayed in good health.

Best technique seemed to wield Excalibur (automatic searching), and stay levitated, and just try to quickly roam.

Painful part was having to press spacebar what ( Read more... )

Now will attempt the plane of air.

Barely survived. Air elementals are brutal. Adventurer's health was under 100 by the time they found the exit.

Need to have levitation. Ring of conflict helped. Ring of protection from shape changers helped.

Learning that a goal/strategy of surviving the levels above LVL1 is to try to exit in as few moves as ( Read more... )

Finished the plane of earth.

Things I learned: Next time, try to make sure to have blessed wands of digging and a blessed pickaxe.

Without blessed pickaxe, was able to finish the level, but was a slog. Each time the pickaxe dug one square of progress, a monster would be generated. Was successful, but took a long time.

Because it took so long ( Read more... )