feeling really good about this run now. got down to the castle and completed my outfit so now i've got like -33 AC and still like 3 wishes left over. i have 3 uncharged magic markers, plenty of scrolls, basically the whole ascension kit. i'm about ready to do my quest (it was taking forever to level up so i reverse genocided some wraiths and that did it). i don't want to jinx myself but high level wizard really is super OP. i've already genocided all the sea creatures, liches and mind flayers. i found a wand of death with charges on it... i have an amulet of life saving.
do any of you guys have experience with polymorphing items? i have the spell and i have a ton of stuff to polymorph (rings, wands, unicorn horns).
― Mordy, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
The only prob necessary stuff I still need is maybe a ring of conflict and amulet of magic breathing but I figured I can wish for them when I need them and maybe I’ll find or poly them first. Also no tanning kit yet but same thing (and not a priority I have almost every resistance intrinsic now). Did they change the levels so that there are now mazes before the castle? I found two floors of mazes btwn Medusa and the castle and for some reason I don’t remember them being there before (tho I prob just don’t remember)
― Mordy, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
That sounds awesome! Do you have reflection (did you end up getting that sdsm)? How's your magic resistance and cancellation?
― Dan I., Friday, 11 May 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
I got the sdsm so I have reflection. I'm using the starting wizard cloak of magic resistance for MR and MC1. not sure how to go about getting better MC or if I need it? i have the helm of brilliance, speed boots, and some normal enchanting gauntlets. i'm wearing the amulet of life saving atm but i'm wondering what i'll do when i get the wizard quest artifact. swap the two depending on the circumstances?
― Mordy, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
oh u know what nm. i have a ring of protection +5 which is giving me the rest of the MC i need i think so i'm good.
― Mordy, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
i don't have great news. my nethack program has become super buggy and i've now lost 3 ascension worthy chars in a row to bugs and problems. i'm gonna find a new client to play in but it seems like pickings for mac are pretty slim.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
Man, that blows. I never played nethack on a mac. In fact I've got an old netbook around here which is p much only used for playing nethack.
Does the program just quit with your game being lost?
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
No it ends the game bc of “trickery” aka the stop game it gives you when it detects you’ve been cheating by editing save files. I actually get a score and conduct report and everything.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
Damn, that sucks. And quite frankly I am a bit upset! Your wizard quest was so full of promise. With an attire and inventory well up to speed. Better than I ever managed a wizard, that's for sure. Idk why, whenever I try playing this as a wizard it just never happens. No lucky breaks.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
Bar-Hum-Mal-Cha
https://imgur.com/4ObyK03.jpeg
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
my final kit in case anyone is curious:
an uncursed amulet of reflection (being worn)a +5 silver saber (wielded in other hand)the cursed rustproof +6 Stormbringer (weapon in hand)a blessed fireproof +5 pair of speed boots (being worn)a blessed +4 robe (being worn)an uncursed rustproof +4 helm of telepathy (being worn)a blessed +5 T-shirt with text "Don't Panic" (being worn)a blessed +5 pair of gauntlets of power (being worn)an uncursed +5 gray dragon scale mail (being worn)ring of conflict (being worn)ring of free action (being worn)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Congratulations Dalialatte
I still have weird ASCII nightmares about those four bosses. Which is the one who saps your level? Pestilence?
And my internal monologue thinks about "blessed scroll of genocide" maybe once a month
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
Awesome! congratulations! 3.6.0?
― Dan I., Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
yeah, 3.60. i got the cocoa compiler to fix the bugs i was running into and i rebuilt it on may 25th and it has been pretty smooth (ran into one fatal crash since then but otherwise okay)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
i found an outrageous number if gain level potions and wraith corpses that game
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
congrats
it’s weird, since i got into the Michael Brough roguelikes i never really have the urge to play nethack. or any rogue like i can’t play on the bus i guess
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
Congrats Mordy, very nice kit you've got there (love the shirt). Didn't Stormbringer being cursed hamper you?
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 14 June 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
Nah happened near the very end. Didn’t even notice it until I ascended so either the Wizard cursed it while i was scaling the dungeon or maybe someone on the Astral Plane did.
― Mordy, Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
Feel like such a n00b, having played Nethack for 30 years, but I'm playing 3.6 for the first time. Went down the Gnomish mines, and for some reason there are iron bars, barring me from entering the shop section? It's the # sign. How does one enter the shops?
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Minetown#Orcish_Town
― Dan I., Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
yeah it's the new minetown and there are no shopkeepers - you'll need to pickaxe your way in
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
the only plus side really is you're guaranteed an altar without a priest
Have a new laptop, just downloaded the new(est) Nethack and had no idea. Thanks guys!
No shopkeepers: this doesn't feel right. At all.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
https://cohost.org/morayati/post/838182-there-s-also-code-in
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 13 January 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
That made me want to go look at the Nethack code on Github again. It's always a bit fun, because everything's quite explicit, not hidden behind layers of abstraction like it tends to be in enterprise software.I still haven't really tried to get into this game, but the detail of this comment in the code really appeals to me:
* 3.7: New moon is no longer overridden by carrying a * lizard corpse. Having the moon's impact on terrestrial * activity be affected by carrying a dead critter felt * silly. * * That behavior dated to when there were no corpse objects * yet; "dead lizard" was a distinct item. With a lizard * corpse, hero can eat it to survive petrification and * probably retain a partly eaten corpse for future use. * * Maintaining foodless conduct during a new moon might * become a little harder. Clearing out cockatrice nests * could become quite a bit harder.
― Øystein, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 07:06 (one year ago) link