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Have you beaten Nethack?

Yup.
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Not even close.
- 391 (73.4%)
Almost . . . but didn't
- 26 (4.9%)
Maybe managed halfway
- 51 (9.6%)

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cowofdoom78963

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Re: Nethack
« Reply #435 on: June 14, 2009, 12:48:35 am »

Wouldn't a unicorn horn fix the stat loss from a mind flayer?
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« Reply #436 on: June 14, 2009, 01:15:37 am »

Yes, it does. I forgot to do so before eating it ("Like sucking on my brain huh? Now I'll have yours!").

Doh!

My wand of wish has 2 charges, so I wished for a pair of levitation boots. I've cleared the first level of Genhennom, right now back in the castle store room to further enchant my stuff.

I am overpreparing it by altar camping. So far I've got Mjolnir, Dragonbane, Firebrand, Frostbrand and Trollbane generated. I wanted to generate Grayswandir to see how great it is. But I guess I'll have to settle with Excalibur + Silver Sabre.

AC is -15, and I've yet to see one magical marker generated. I think before diving deeper into Genhennom, I'll go back to my main stash on DL9 to polypile some. I got a lot of unihorn stashed. I really need the enchanter armor/weapon and fixing.

Edit: This game has a severe lack of identify scrolls, magic markers and magical boots/gauntlets/rings/amulets.

I caved and wished for a cloak of magic resistance and a ring of free action... 2 wishes left, and now I have all the important intrinsics without being crowned. Not much luck getting more enchant scrolls, so most of my items are still unfixed. AC is -17 with a little bit of protection.

And I had yet another encounter with a mind flayer... >_< I remember to use unihorn first this time, so at least I got more Int out of it.
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Re: Nethack
« Reply #437 on: June 14, 2009, 02:09:16 pm »

Wouldn't a unicorn horn fix the stat loss from a mind flayer?
yep

Doesn't fix memory loss though and that's the annoying part >:(
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Re: Nethack
« Reply #438 on: June 14, 2009, 02:21:22 pm »

Wouldn't a unicorn horn fix the stat loss from a mind flayer?
yep

Doesn't fix memory loss though and that's the annoying part >:(
Shit, you get memory loss from mind flayers?

Well you could always write it down hen you meet them....

Remember to wear a greased hat, it protects well enough.
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« Reply #439 on: June 14, 2009, 03:07:11 pm »

Wouldn't a unicorn horn fix the stat loss from a mind flayer?
yep

Doesn't fix memory loss though and that's the annoying part >:(
Shit, you get memory loss from mind flayers?

Well you could always write it down hen you meet them....

Remember to wear a greased hat, it protects well enough.

Actually, Mind Flayers are dangerous enough enemies to warrant the use of a charge of your wand of fire/lightning to burn Elbereth the moment you see them, or at the very least athame it into the ground with Magicbane a 10 times or so. That way you avoid the amnesia-causing tentacles altogether.

It's too bad Orc's maximum intelligence is 16, I need a helm of brilliance or something.
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« Reply #440 on: June 14, 2009, 08:05:23 pm »

Wouldn't a unicorn horn fix the stat loss from a mind flayer?
yep

Doesn't fix memory loss though and that's the annoying part >:(
Shit, you get memory loss from mind flayers?

Well you could always write it down hen you meet them....

Remember to wear a greased hat, it protects well enough.

Actually, Mind Flayers are dangerous enough enemies to warrant the use of a charge of your wand of fire/lightning to burn Elbereth the moment you see them, or at the very least athame it into the ground with Magicbane a 10 times or so. That way you avoid the amnesia-causing tentacles altogether.

It's too bad Orc's maximum intelligence is 16, I need a helm of brilliance or something.
for casting with armour? or without armour and a robe?
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« Reply #441 on: June 14, 2009, 08:14:19 pm »

It's too bad Orc's maximum intelligence is 16, I need a helm of brilliance or something.
for casting with armour? or without armour and a robe?

For reading difficult spellbooks and hungerless spellcasting.
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« Reply #442 on: June 15, 2009, 10:18:45 am »

I found a stone giant corpse inside an ice box in a delicatessen, but both the stone giant corpse and the ice box are too heavy to lift. I want to eat the corpse to gain strength, but I can't get it out of the ice box to interact with it. Is there anything I can do to get that corpse?
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Re: Nethack
« Reply #443 on: June 15, 2009, 12:33:14 pm »

Drop a bunch of stuff outside and see if you can pick it up when you have nothing (or next to that)?  That's all I can think of.
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« Reply #444 on: June 15, 2009, 08:16:43 pm »

I found a stone giant corpse inside an ice box in a delicatessen, but both the stone giant corpse and the ice box are too heavy to lift. I want to eat the corpse to gain strength, but I can't get it out of the ice box to interact with it. Is there anything I can do to get that corpse?

Giant corpses are very heavy - 2250 to be exact. Your carrying capacity is (25 * (Str + Con)) + 50, capped at 1000. The minimum Str + Con combination is thus 38. You will need to have gauntlets of power and drop everything to lift it out of the icebox.

I don't think there is a way to destroying icebox. It's plastic, so a gelatinous cube won't be able to eat it. It isn't lockable, so you can't lock it and then #force it with a blunt weapon (and that would destroy its contents anyway).
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Re: Nethack
« Reply #445 on: June 15, 2009, 09:15:10 pm »

Try kicking the icebox.  That might work.
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And this is how tinned food was invented.
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« Reply #446 on: June 15, 2009, 09:18:43 pm »

IIRC, there is a bug where ice boxes get generated too heavy to lift, and so you can't eat what is inside of them.

For the guy missing a magic marker, wish for one. Only semi worth polypiling for.
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Re: Nethack
« Reply #447 on: June 15, 2009, 09:43:31 pm »

Durn Giant Corpse, evading my hungry stomach! Trapped inside a ice box, too heavy to lift OUT of the ice box, and I can't stick my head into the ice box to eat you there.
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Re: Nethack
« Reply #448 on: June 15, 2009, 09:48:18 pm »

Sadly you are screwed, there is no way to get a extra heavy corpse out of the ice box. I think the eat command should be extended to support eating out of unlocked contaners.

Anyone here willing to make a patch? 
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Re: Nethack
« Reply #449 on: June 16, 2009, 12:20:32 pm »

If I get bored while my roommates are gone, I might just try to make that patch.  There's an awful lot of things that could go horribly wrong though...
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