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Things You Should Know Before Playing NerfHack

Most important things to know about NerfHack:

  1. Wands of wishing cannot be recharged. Do not wish for a scroll of recharging!
  2. Quest artifacts cannot be wished for.
  3. Rodney cannot steal your quest artifact.
  4. Genocide is Unnethack style, a blessed scroll wipes out one species from the dungeon, an uncursed scroll only wipes it from the current level.
  5. Cracked altars have a limited lifetime - if you receive a gift or are crowned on a cracked altar, it will be destroyed!
  6. Your god will not crown you until you have completed the quest.
  7. Once you are crowned, you cannot change alignment again.
  8. Crowning requires max luck + blessed luckstone.
  9. Weapons can be safely enchanted up to +11 (if +5 was the old soft limit, +11 is the new soft limit).
  10. Unicorn horns only reduce timeout for most things (except illness/vomiting); enchant them for better treatment.
  11. To use a forge, wield a hammer and (a)pply it whilst standing over a forge (no #forge/#craft commands here).
  12. Avoid dipping your rare and precious unicorn horns into acid! This will dissolve the horn and you'll lose it.
  13. There are forcefields that make levelport/branchport from within Gehennom can be extremely painful, plan accordingly!
  14. There are no candles at Vlad's.
  15. THERE ARE NO CANDLES AT VLAD'S!

General strategy guide

  • Times are tough and resources are tight - don't default to your standard strategies, use what the dungeon gives you!
  • Don't just dilute all potions - potions of healing and see invisible might be more valuable than you think.
  • Sokobon is deeper and tougher to get into, however some roles and races might have tricks that allow them to thrive there.
  • Use your pets to team up on monsters and get potent flanking bonuses, and avoid getting flanked by foes.
  • Most quest nemeses have been buffed or the quests have had extra challenges added, don't go in unprepared.