A good stash

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I always tend to die before being too much encumbered or filling my BoH enough, but I wonder: what is the ultimate stash configuration?

I heard about boulder forts, but also blue jelly fort. I understand how to build a boulder fort (scroll of earth are good for that), but blue jelly fort… Do I need to reverse genocide them? Are the advantages of such a fort worth the spending of a scroll of genocide?

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There are absolutely no advantages to anything beyond a container (which will prevent anything but a gel cube from affecting your stash at all in any way) and a permanent Elbereth (which will keep the gel cube off too.) Add a single boulder on top if you have any pets capable of lifting the container.

Reverse genociding blue jellies for the purpose is just silly.

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Mazes of Menace – a good map

I agree it is pretty hard to read, and I think is better explained in text.

You start on Dungeon Level 1. At certain points in the game you can branch off to another area.

You start at Dungeon Level 1, which is the top level of the Dungeons of Doom
Somewhere between Dungeon Level 2 - 4 you can branch off to the Gnomish Mines
- On the 3rd or 4th level of the Gnomish Mines you will find Minetown
- The last level of the Gnomish Mines is Mines' End, which'll occur at the 8th or 9th level of the Gnomish Mines
Somewhere between Dungeon Level 5 - 9 you will find The Oracle
Just after The Orcle, you can can branch off to Sokoban (which you'll actually enter from the bottom and is 4 stories high.)
There is a 40% change of a Big Room somewhere between Dungeon Level 10 - 12
Somewhere between Dungeon Level 11 - 18 you can embark on a Quest
- The first Level of the Quest will be the Quest Home Level.
- The third Level of the Quest will be a locate mission.
- The last Quest level, containing the Quest Goal is located somewhere between the 5th and 7th level of the Quest
Somewhere Between Dungeon Level 10 and Medusa's Island you might be able to reach Fort Ludios
Somewhere Between Dungeon Level 15-18 you will find the Rogue level
1-4 levels before Castle you will find Medusa's Island
Somewhere Between Dungeon Level 25-29 you will find the Castle, which is also the last level of the Dungeons of Doom

Right after the Castle, you will enter the Valley of the Dead which is also the first level of Gehennom (this will be Dungeon Level 26-30)
The Lairs of three demons are located in Gehennom:
- Asmodeus' Lair is located somewhere between the 2nd and 7th levels of Gehennom
- Juiblex's swamp is located somewhere between the 4th and 7th levels of Gehennom
- Baalzebub's Lair is located somewhere between the 6th and 9th levels of Gehennom
You can enter Vlad's Tower from somewhere between the 9th and 13th levels of Gehennom. (you'll actually enter it from the bottom and it is 3 stories high.)
Orcus-town is located somewhere between the 10th and 15th levels of Gehennom
The Wizard's Tower is a set of three consecutive levels, which start somewhere between the 11th and 16th level of Gehennom and have the last 2 levels lower.
There are 2 Fake Wizard's Towers levels, which are located between one to four levels above the Vibrating square
the level above Moloch's Sanctum is Vibrating square
Moloch's Sanctum is located somewhere between the 20th and 24th levels of Gehennom which translates back to somewhere between Dungeon Level 45-53. this is also the lowest level you can reach.

The Negative levels are part of the End Game, which consists of:
- The four Elemental Planes:
  - The Plane of Earth
  - The Plane of Air
  - The Plane of Fire
  - The Plane of Water
- The Astral Plane, which is the location of your ultimate goal.

As you can see, due to it's complex design, and random generation, it is very difficult to produce a good map of the Mazes of Menace

(All information has been collected from Wikihack)

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