I'm prepping my lawful human valk for the midgame, just unloaded a bunch of extra items to my stash in Sokoban, completed Mine's End, and ID'ed a bunch of scrolls, potions, etc, without any negative effects that I noticed.
Now, however, I've started going deeper into the dungeon, and I can't seem to find any hidden doors any more, and I know that some should be there (for instance, I found a 'Vlad was Here' tile and there has to be a door). I have Excalibur, a luckstone, and can't for the life of me figure out why my searching is now rendered useless…is there anything that could cause this?
Best Answer
Searching is not affected by much; it's based on your luck, whether or not you are wearing lenses, and whether you are wielding Excalibur and nothing else. In particular, being blind does not prevent you from searching, although it does mean you need to feel all the surrounding spaces to search (which is bad if there's a cockatrice in one of them) - although being blind does mean that you get no benefit from wearing lenses.
A few things that come to mind that could explain your difficulties:
So, things to check: