Hmm I just found out that zapping a wand of necromancy makes you more chaotic

What other little details have you guys discovered?

Pretty well known, but throwing a bone to a dog or wolf will make it your pet.

Vomiting on Scabies's altar will increase your alignment with him by 1.

Not tested, but I think resurrecting someone makes them your pet... Maybe.

Opening doors improves DEX

Zapping wands improves PER

Banana peels are deadly XD

If you chat with Kenny the puppy long enough he will eventually you leavem me alone you moron don;t you know I can;t talk! (badly paraphrased0

Dude did your keyboard rebel for a second.

I've used this on mystic dark frogs and some other. But for some reason when I resurrected Sherarax she still tried to kill me.. luckily I had taken all her equipment though. I tried it a few times in fact, and ended up killing 5 Sheraraxes in one game

edit: Yes! I still have the screenshot

Haha, you really killed Sherry five times!

In CVS version it is possible to tame Sherarax that way. That's because in 0.50 there were <i>untamable</i> monsters and she was one of them, and in CVS there is TamingDifficulty, Sherarax is difficult, but even she can't resist resurrection.

Where can you FIND Sherarax anyway? I've played through IVAN a few times, but never found her.

Um.. a) you don't want to find her, trust me,... b) she will find you

get AStr + Dex over 30, your HP over 300, kill Ur Khan and Golgor Dhan and then she will come. Usually happens after I kill Elpuri too. Anyone ever had her spawn before then?

She really likes to take your head off in one shot with her spidersilk whips

She always appears before Elpuri for me, but that's mostly because I play IVANT and GC is like twice as long.

If you've gone through the IVAN basic script course, she'll spawn right in New Attnam...

She usually comes before Elpuri and has come before I've even seen Golgor Dhan (although he might have spawned out of sight somewhere)
And she has definitely come looong before HP is at 300

I think different named baddies have different markers on them. Shererax has something to do with Astr and Lstr I believe, while most of the others are HP-based.

I haven't tested this theory at all, but it's what seems to happen whenever I play.

Some from the old forum:

Kick bear traps to disable them harmlessly (does NOT work with mines )

Wait with the 's'earch command when enemies are approaching. This takes less time than hitting '.' so that you always get the first hit in a fight

With those meteoric steel chests, if you don't have strong enough legs to break the locks, you can use a wand of striking. (Just hope there are no bottles in it or they will shatter)

You can also SoCM them into, say, beef, and then eat them. (The chests that is. Not so effective for mine disabling.)

If you throw a bottle of water at a enemy, and the water splashes on them, a Wand of Lightning deals extra damage.

Kicking in Doors improves your LStr by a little.

I think you can use Pickaxes to mine enemy bodies into little flesh, for sacrifices (AKA, to Mortifer/Evil Gods)

Equiping gloves (Metal ones, etc) can increase your H2H (Hand to Hand) damage.

IE-

No Gloves - 1-3

Iron Gloves - 3-7

At 11 AStr.

Zayre those are really good observations.

Also that gives me an idea, Gloves of Punching .

Using gauntlets as gloves improves uncategorised.

I've always thought it ought to be unarmed.

Oh, man, I LOLd at "Gloves of Punching." But, the problem is, should there be a seperate command for punching? I would like to be able to choose when I punched. I mean, just because I'm carrying a sword doesn't mean I don't want to ever punch while I have it. I wish there was a way to knock a helmet off of someone besides beheading them. That would be so cool, to be able to just punch some guy's helmet off, then stab him in the face for complete ownage.

Except for the fact that punching the helmet off of someone's face is theoretically physically impossible, outside of an extremely well placed uppercut of some sort. However, something that WOULD be more possible, either with incredibly buff human flesh arms, or some strong metal, would be punching something so hard that you dent it, and denting plate armor hurts a hell of a lot. Seriously.

Eating floating eye corpses also boosts your Int by a very tiny amount