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I’ve been trying to reach the amulet for 30 years.
When I saw the previous submission of this as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853508 (which describes it as a "tool-assisted speedrun" of NetHack on the online server nethack.alt.org), I thought "wait, you can't have a tool-assisted speedrun of a nondeterministic game with hidden information...!" (particularly on an online server where you can't roll back history). Then I read the article and saw that this pro…
The bumping into a wall to advance the RNG state without changing the game time is a really neat trick that I would otherwise have been completely unaware of, and I have played Nethack for many years and done some source diving myself.
Truly a great feat of engineering here.
Had to look up this abbreviation: c!oGL = cursed potion of gain level https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Abbreviations
This is generally very disappointing because an opportunity for your character to become more powerful was effectively squandered due to the curse. But magically moving upward quickly through the dungeon can be very useful if you need to escape from a dangerous monster quickly—or at the end of the game when you need to escape from the dungeon as a whole. The latter is what this speedrun used in order to avoid having to walk through the dungeon and take the stairs.
Most normal characters wouldn't be close to having enough potions of this kind to get entirely out of the dungeon by this means (also because of a certain complicating factor that prevents characters who can't control the RNG from knowing in advance exactly how many they'll need!). Although it's been done before by different forms of grinding, this is a whole other matter because the potions were obtained almost instantly with a preposterously lucky series of wishes.
I’ve been trying to reach the amulet for 30 years.
Thriving in the dungeons though... that's something that's always been elusive.
NetHack can be very fun, if you invest some time. I recommend to start with a GUI version.
haha, nice. https://alt.org/nethack/fastasc.html
An ascension in -2147483648 turns by Khaos is another thing to note in the table. Did he really wait for 2 billion turns before ascending to overflow that counter?!
Check out the information at the very end of this page.
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An ascension in -2147483648 turns by Khaos is another thing to note in the table. Did he really wait for 2 billion turns before ascending to overflow that counter?!
https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/1-turn_ascension Check out the information at the very end of this page.
[1] Since it had license headers, this is probably okay. https://xorhash.bitbucket.io/nh/nethack_rng_tools-0.2.3.tar....
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An ascension in -2147483648 turns by Khaos is another thing to note in the table. Did he really wait for 2 billion turns before ascending to overflow that counter?!
https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/1-turn_ascension Check out the information at the very end of this page.
Thanks for the laugh