What's the most annoying thing in Angband (without dying)?

[DavidMedley]

Town layout is pretty annoying

[bughunter]

Graveyards full of Black Reavers make a mess out of the RNG's pretty dungeon...

[bughunter]

The dracolich breathes nether.
You die.

Oh... dracoLICH.

(Gnome mage had protection from nexus... but has to swap out a shield for nether protection.)

(Had to, that is.)

[Hounded]

Being swarmed by Red-Hatted elves and fleeing to the dungeon and back 3 times before a new @ is kitted out.

Seriously though, that's pretty great.

[DavidMedley]

Shouldn't killing zombies be a good thing?

Yeah, but before they Drain (2 weeks of) Life!

[mrfy]

A zombie process on Angband.live is finally killed and costs you weeks of progress

Shouldn't killing zombies be a good thing?

[DavidMedley]

A zombie process on Angband.live is finally killed and costs you weeks of progress

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Server crashes on Angband.live and losing all progress on the level.

[bughunter]

You have no room for a rusty iron wand.
Aim which wand?
a) Rusty Iron Wand
a
Direction? ('*' or <click> to target, "'" for closest, Escape to cancel)?
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The Ancient Red Dragon resists a lot.
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You are standing on a Wand of Fire Balls (4 charges).
[...]
The Ancient Red Dragon breathes Fire.
The Wand of Fire Balls burns up!

Wait.

What?

[bughunter]

What are you talking about? Elvish Waybread I understand. The Honey Cakes are Beorning.

Oops. I told you I had no idea.

Actually, right after I posted that, Bumblef*ck (cl39 hobbit Rogue) found a ring that when Activated restores Strength and Con, but makes him vomit. So I finally bought a Waybread... it was anticlimactic.

Generally, few of my characters carry food anyway. Once they get Slow Digestion, it's a waste of valuable inventory space.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I have never been hungry enough to eat an Elvish Honey Cake.

None of my characters even know what they taste like.

Not even the elven ones.

What are you talking about? Elvish Waybread I understand. The Honey Cakes are Beorning.

[bughunter]

I have never been hungry enough to eat an Elvish Honey Cake.

None of my characters even know what they taste like.

Not even the elven ones.

[sffp]

That item you were looking for on the 3-7 level is
Metal Lamellar Armour (-3) [58.+3]
when you're a kobold necromancer with about 3.5 lb.s of space left to carry

[archolewa]

I have not tried this option yet.

You are not making me want to.

Yeah, I usually turn it off, but I recently had to reinstall my OS, and so had a fresh install of Angband and forgot to turn it off now that its the default.

Its pretty terrible. Enemies spam their best spells, including their healing spells over and over again, so you run away even more than you did before, and burn through way more consumables. REALLY brutal playing low stealth characters without access to the town.

[bughunter]

Their AI when "learn from their mistakes" is on

I have not tried this option yet.

You are not making me want to.