If you’re playing like me, you probably have lots of “while helpless” deaths in the top 10. In order to make these messages somewhat helpful instead, install Jukka Lahtinen’s helplessness reasons patch as soon as possible. This very useful patch will make new death messages more descriptive, such as “while praying”, “while reading a book” and “while frozen by a monster’s gaze”.
The sooner you install the patch, the less boring “while helpless” deaths you will have. Note that you will have to recompile the source to do this, and by doing so, the NetHack folder (often /usr/games/lib/nethackdir) is overwritten. Make backups of your logfile, bones files and save files.
Hello Tim, welcome to NetHack! You are a neutral male human Barbarian. Watch out! Bad things can happen on Friday the 13th.
Before realizing that today is the unlucky Friday the 13th, I started a NetHack game. My barbarian quaffed from a fountain, immediately attracting a water demon, who summoned one of his friends. They hunted me down into a corridor, and killed me with an arrow when I fingered Elbereth into the dust.
Drinking from the fountain was probably a bad idea from the start, but I’m convinced that Friday the 13th had something to do with it.
Since I’ve become addicted to NetHack, an old text-based RPG, I decided that i should spread parts of my discoveries.
Press or push keys–never hold them. If you want to search for hidden doors, use n20s (or just 20s if you’re not using numpad). This way, if you are disturbed, the search will end and you will regain control of your character. If you had held s down, a newt could have come and eaten you while you were letting go of the key. One problem is when monsters who will not attack you are around, such as unaligned unicorns. In that case, you’ll just have to be patient. Or kill the unicorn.
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