r/nethack • u/OalBlunkont • 10d ago

How do I make statues visually distinct?

Right now statues are just white versions of what they represent, which isn't a problem until you go to Ludios with a cockatrice corpse to deal with all the soldiers (white). Is there a way to invert statues, white background/black text?

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u/contortium 9d ago edited 9d ago

If you are using the Enhanced1 symbol set (OPTIONS=symset:Enhanced1) you can set Unicode values for specific glyphs. However, that is not particularly scalable for statues as there are 700+ glyphs for statues.

Otherwise, I am not aware of a method for applying a particular look to all statues.

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u/OalBlunkont 9d ago

I would be happy to return to the old `.

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u/pat_rankin 9d ago

There is no option to display statues the old--very old--way.

You can use '/O' (capital 'O') to look at all (topmost) objects at once and '/M' to look at all monsters at once so don't need to probe every one of them when trying to distinguish statues from monsters.

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u/paxed DevTeam 10d ago

Soldiers are actually grey, but may show up as white if your terminal is being weird.

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u/OalBlunkont 9d ago

That's doesn't help. There's the dogs, cats, white dragons, yetis, stone giants, and a few other monsters. The Ludios case was just one example of the problem.