XNetHack: Difference between revisions

* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: A ''lot'' of fundamental changes were made from the base game that's very likely to trip up players taking what was changed for granted.

** Several monster and monster class letters are changed up: in particular, mind flayers are <code>U</code> (aberrations), not <code>h</code> (humanoids), and [[Our Elves Are Better|elves]] now occupy the <code>Q</code> glpyh (which stands for [[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|Quendi]]) instead of <code>@</code>, which is very important for those looking to read scrolls of genocide. Ghosts are also moved to the <code>W</code> glyph with wraiths.

** Changes to the upper tiers of armor have been made: elven and dwarvish mithril coats have been replaced with "racial" ring mails. {{spoiler|Dragon-scaled armor now replaces dragon scale mail, which among other things means that a wish for dragon scale mail will give a player the corresponding scales instead&mdash;the player much use the scroll of enchant armor to fuse them to their body armor. It also means that reading a scroll while only wearing those scales now [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|turns you into a dragon]].}}

** There is no spell of identify. The spell was considered a [[Game Breaker]] in vanilla NetHack, since a player could barricade themselves up with some food and slowly but surely identify every single item on hand with no need for scrolls - outside of [[Easy Amnesia|unfortunate bouts with amnesia]], which the spell was efficient at undoing the effects of anyway (unless it was itself forgotten). However, scrolls of identify are made much more reliable, with the number of identifications they give depends entirely on their beatitude.