NetHack Hint #3: Descriptive Helplessness

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.

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