Voluntary challenges in NetHack 3.4
by Dion Nicolaas <dion@nicolaas.net>
with help from Kate Nepveu <knepveu@steelypips.org>,
Raisse the Thaumaturge <raisse@valdyas.org>, Wim
Benthem <wbenthem@wxs.nl>, Stephen
Churchill <stephen.churchill@bigfoot.com>, nyra <nyra@gmx.net> and Dylan O'Donell
<psmith@spod-central.org>
This spoiler tells exactly what you should not do to adhere to
the voluntary challenges or conducts. If you can still stop doing
something before it is to late, it is stated (see genocide.) If
doing something has a chance of less than 100% to break a conduct,
that chance is given. Note that chances may depend on level,
dungeon level, luck etc; see other spoilers for exact chances.
Contents
To be vegetarian, refrain from:
- Eating a corpse of a non-vegetarian monster
- Eating a tinned corpse of a non-vegetarian monster
- Eating objects made of leather, bone or dragon hide (if that
were possible)
- Eating a brain of a non-vegetarian monster while polymorphed
into a mind flayer
- Digesting a non-vegetarian monster while polymorphed into a
monster with a digest attack
Vegetarian monsters are not monsters that don't eat meat, but
are the following:
- all vegan monsters (see next section)
- all P except black pudding
To follow a strict vegan diet:
Be vegetarian, plus refrain from:
- Eating objects made of wax
- Eating eggs, pancakes, fortune cookies, candy bars or royal
jelly
Vegan monsters are the following:
- all b, all j, all F;
- all v, all y;
- all E except stalkers;
- all ' except flesh golems and leather golems,
- and all ghosts.
Only b, j and F leave corpses to eat. (Some of these are not
advisable to eat, of course, but they're all vegan.)
To go without
food:
Be vegan, plus refrain from:
- Eating anything else
- Chewing on a wall, door or boulder when polymorphed into a
monster that can
Atheism
To be an atheist, refrain from:
- Dropping an object on an altar while not blind ("You see a
<color> flash")
- Sacrificing
- Praying
- Turning undead as a priest or a knight, whether your god
listens or not.
- #chatting to a priest (even if he doesn't listen)
To never hit with a wielded weapon, refrain from:
- Hitting with a wielded weapon (surprise!)
Note that grappling hooks, pick-axes and unicorn horns, though
under "tools" in your inventory, count as wielded weapons.
Also note that throwing or shooting things does not break this
conduct, nor does hitting with a non-weapon (e.g. a banana.)
To be a pacifist, refrain from:
- Killing monsters yourself (you can hit them!)
To be illiterate, refrain from:
- Eating fortune cookies while not blind
- Engraving anything else than x or X
- Reading a fortune cookie
- Reading a T-shirt
- Reading a scroll other than blank paper
- Reading a spellbook other than blank paper or the Book of the
Dead
- Trying to write a scroll or spellbook, other than blank paper
or the Book of the Dead (which is impossible anyway)
To not genocide any monster, answer "none" when asked what to
genocide.
Genocide may be granted:
- By reading a (blessed or uncursed) scroll of genocide
- By sitting on a throne (less than 2%.)
To never polymorph an
object, refrain from:
- Polymorphing an object by dipping it into a potion of
polymorph
- Polymorphing an object by zapping a wand or spell of polymorph
at it
Note that by zapping a spell or wand at a monster, objects it
drops may be polymorphed.
To never change
form, either get the Unchanging intrinsic (by wearing
an amulet of unchanging), with which you never polymorph; or get
polymorph control (by wearing a ring of polymorph control) and
answer <you own race> to the question "Become what kind of
monster?"; or refrain from:
- Changing into the animal-form of a werecreature (with polymorph
control you can stay your own race)
- Getting polymorph intrinsic (unless the game ends before your
first change)
- Eating a chameleon or doppelganger
- Drinking from a sink (5% chance)
- Quaffing a potion of polymorph
- Getting hit by a thrown potion of polymorph while not magic
resistant
- Stepping onto a polymorph trap while not magic resistant
- Being zapped with a wand or spell of polymorph
To use no
wishes, specify "nothing" when a wish is granted. You
may get wishes from:
- Drinking from fountains (a water demon might grant you a wish,
less than 20% chance)
- Drinking smoky potions (a djinni might grant you a wish, less
than 8% chance of one appearing, 80% chance of a wish if the potion
was blessed)
- Sitting on thrones with luck greater than -5 (5% chance)
- Zapping a wand of wishing with luck greater than -5
- Engraving with a wand of wishing with luck greater than -5
- Rubbing a magic lamp (a djinni might grant you a wish, 33%
chance of one appearing, 80% chance of a wish if the lamp was
blessed)
To not wish for
artifacts, refrain from:
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