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Introduction and general advice
Nethack is a roguelike computer game in which your objective is to go down to the bottom of the Dungeons of Doom and retrieve the Amulet of Yendor. It can be downloaded for free from the official Nethack home page.
Nethack is a complicated game, and it can be difficult to understand all the details of how it works. There are numerous "spoilers" available on the Web; here is a fairly complete list.
Food
Eat these corpses:
- wraith (level up)
- giant (strength up)
- mind flayer (intelligence up)
- floating eye (you get telepathy-skill)
- quantum mechanic (you get speed-skill if you don't already have it, but lose it if you do)
Don't eat these corpses:
- cockatrice, chickatrice, Death, Famine, Pestilence (you die)
- your own race (cannibalism gives you aggravate monster -skill)
- cats and dogs (gods don't like it)
- werewolves, -rats, -jackals (you become one)
Genocide
These monsters you should genocide:
- rust monster
- disenchanter
- lich
- mind flayer'
- black pudding
- olog-hai and other trolls