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** Is it a legitimate tactic to exploit programming quirks which allow such things as "pudding farming" (see below)?
* [[Demonic Spiders]]: There's ''at least'' two or three at any point:
** On early levels, you have to deal with
** On early-middling levels, you have to deal with soldier ants -- the most common enemy-based cause of death in the game (accounting for 1.75% of all deaths on nethack.alt.org. [http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Ant#.22Go_Team_Ant.22 Go team ant!])
** On
** Then you must contend with Demon Lords and Princes, and should you actually ''survive'' them and get the Amulet of Yendor, you must face
▲** Then you must contend with Demon Lords and Princes, and should you actually ''survive'' them and get the Amulet of Yendor, you must face an infinite amount of more and more powerful Wizards of Yendor, and the consistently respawning Riders of the Apocalypse: Death, Pestilence, and Famine. {{spoiler|You're War.}}
* [[Excuse Plot]]: There is an amulet in this dungeon. You need to find it, then return it to your god. Go.
** The details and quest branch vary with each class, but ultimately the basic plot progression is the same.
* [[Fridge Horror]]: There are lots of "used armor" shops scattered throughout the dungeons. Sometimes these shops contain cursed armor, which can't be removed, except by uncursing it or if the original owner dies wearing it. The horror comes when you realize where the shopkeeper gets his inventory.
** And if you die in a shop, the game flat-out tells you that the shopkeeper takes all your possessions. If you somehow directly steal from the shop (e.g. teleporting out with unpaid items, digging out...), the shop owner will chase you. When you die, guess who comes for the loot?
* [[Game Breaker]]: A very controversial thing to do in Nethack pre-3.6.0 is "Pudding Farming", causing an enemy that splits into two whenever you attack it to split multiple times to abuse the game's prayer and sacrifice systems. A similar thing is to repeatedly kill a boss that is on the last level of the game. This boss reincarnates an infinite number of times, but gives a full score each time, meaning with the proper setup, hitting the max score is [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/beddbbf83d4a369d trivial] (but that's OK, since in Nethack, it's generally considered a sign of skill to ascend with a lower score rather than a higher one).
** The joke goes that the [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|DevTeam]] implemented an immediate and savage punishment for pudding farmers. {{spoiler|It's called pudding farming.}} Also, nearly anything you'd accomplish with pudding farming won't help you as much on the astral plane.
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