![]() ![]() Like in vanilla, you will definitely want to obtain a digging implement (pick or dwarvish mattock) at this point.Look for leather dwarvish cloaks in particular, or mithril dwarvish iron helms for the slight weight decrease and erodeproofing. Remember that dwarves drop good armor when killed, so you can probably get some reasonable AC and DR at this point.No worthless glass shares this appearance, and it is well-worth spending 750 gold to identify it in a shop. In dNetHack, "brilliant blue" gems are "magicite", a valuable gem worth 9999 gold (base selling price).Remember that only general stores purchase gems. ![]() This can be done with your Mine's End haul of gems if you've managed to informally identify any for a large amount of gold and credit. It will cost you up to 750 gold, but if it's valuable enough you can resell the gem for a profit. If you can informally ID a valuable gem, maybe with a touchstone, you can pay a shopkeeper to identify it. They can also be used to price id items for you, just as in vanilla. For a price, shopkeepers can identify items for you.Check the tool shop especially, since it can have candles of invocation as well as magic lamps or magic markers. As in vanilla, Minetown is a good early goal.If dwarves are peaceful to you, whether due to alignment or race, you can let your pet kill a few dwarves with little risk.Troubadours that can play the lullaby song can clean out the mines much easier.Large swarms of stronger enemies like dwarves may overwhelm and kill the starting pet.However, for roles that don't start with a good starting weapon, dwarvish short swords are relatively good early-on. Weak roles may struggle to kill dwarves safely.This abundance of iron-weapon-wielding foes makes the mines very dangerous to elven, droven, and yuki-onna characters.Gnomes and dwarves spawn in large numbers in the mines.Pets become full after eating several corpses, so starvation should not be as big a threat in dNetHack as it is in vanilla.If both you and your pet are next to the same monster, the monster will prefer to target your pet instead of yourself. Try to fight newts, grid bugs, and lichens yourself, and enlist your pet's aid for anything tougher. Roles that are weak in the early game will need to exercise caution and good pet management during this phase.You'll need a pick to enter the vault though, and it's recommended to have enough HP to survive an attack routine or two. You won't be able to deal with them yet, but they're slow and relatively easy to lure away from the vault if you come back later. If you can hear 'scraping in the distance', there is a magic item vault with either a juggernaut or an id juggernaut on the level.Especially look out for crystal plate mail, mithril armor, or uneroded gauntlets - which could be orihalcyon gauntlets. Any armor out of non-rustable materials like silver, mithril, crystal or metal can be particularly helpful. Rust monsters and brown puddings are only dangerous to your armor, so if you find one you should probably strip out of any armor that would be at risk and punch the monsters to death. Dilapidated armories are another helpful find. ![]() ![]()
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