I've generally had trouble with hurthlings, low str seems to fit my playstyle very poorly but grinded this one through.
Did cheese for 5 initial talents also hurthling farmer was preset.

I've finished atleast one more farmer before (human) and they sort of suffer from similar crappy skillups as weaponsmith but without concentration.
Fletchery is a red herring, it probably takes less time to farm barbarians and then you can use skill ups for something more useful like like like ehum oh well then....
Gardering and food preservation is somewhat strong, lots of spens and while I was fairly unlucky with str potential potions I managed to get a decent amount of TO increases as well as see invis intrinsic.
I made a lot of use of cooking for crowning and saving potential stat corpses, also cooked ACW for the Druid.
Maxing smithing requires a fair amount of dedication, also no mining.

I got my first seven league boots and helm of mental stability on D40'ish GGV but was ok w/o either.


Code:
Mepps Billon  St:50  Le:36  Wi:40  Dx:44  To:44  Ch:19  Ap:19  Ma:27  Pe:21 L+
DV/PV: 73/63   H: 817(817)    P: 174(461)    Exp: 50/14327980  DrCh   Sp: 115
Blessed Invisible Satiated
Star sign: Falcon 
Class: Farmer

Head          : uncursed mithril cap [+6, +6]                         [40s]
Neck          : blessed necklace of rapid healing                      [2s]
Body          : uncursed eternium scale mail (-1, -1) [+6, +14]      [220s]
Girdle        : uncursed girdle of giant strength [+6, +0] {St+12}    [30s]
Cloak         : uncursed cloak of invisibility (-1, +0) [+1, +2]      [30s]
Right Hand    : blessed rune-covered trident (+6, 3d12+6) [+4, +4] {Dx+12}
Left Hand     : -
Right Ring    : blessed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
Left Ring     : blessed ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage)
Bracers       : blessed rustproof bracers of resistance [+9, +5]      [10s]
Gauntlets     : uncursed black dragon-hide gauntlets (-2, +0) [+6, +7][10s]
Boots         : uncursed adamantium boots [+5, +5]                    [89s]
Missile Weapon: uncursed heavy crossbow of accuracy (+9, +3)         [140s]
Missiles      : bundle of 28 blessed quarrels of humanoid slaying (+3, 2d6+3)
Tool          : uncursed pick axe of mayhem (+1, 3d6+7)               [75s]



early game
just poked into smc and left
got healing, pick pocket and detect traps

pc6 orcs

Main weapons axe:
battle axe 2d8+2
adamantium battle axe of the sun d6+7

Armour: elven chain, this was really an early game lifesaver
and herbs....

Screw up and kill a wildcat.
Had a shot at blinkdog but messed up and oneshot him.

Precrown cooked food and gold for Soaker, yeah
got a bit of use in d13 jelly vault but that was about it.

Got 2 scrolls of education, new skill alertness!!!

Potential str, dex and will.

Pyramid + graveyard
Herbs got dex and tough to 26!

Got a learning increase, drank potion of le to get 15, desperately need skill increases.

3rd scroll of edu, got find weakness, what are the odds?!!!!
boots +5pv, small increases pushing defences to somewhat decent levels.

Nonnak, adamantium spear or axe, hrm not a huge difference, 14-18 max damage.

RODS!!!!

saved khelly

got wand of fireballs from dwarves
Managed to get intrinsic invis from I think invisible stalker corpse

Got str to 19! Thank you ogres.

Grind of r2, pickaxe of mayhem, 3d6+7!

Arena, should I go neutral, I have ring of ice and fireproof blanket.

Went for stun ray, 1/1 read of blessed book, nice.
Killed glod for free smithing.
Killed more for neutral.

Up to SMC with magic mapping.
UD1, blink dog, yes!

Crowned for hammer of the gods, oh gods

Grind grind rest of game, two GGV's.
Got courage and did unicorn quest on my way out.

Look at that artifact list (edited out the garantueed ones) ....
the silvery two-handed sword "Vanquisher" ***D40'ish GGV
the heavy cudgel "Black Thumb" ***FGJC5 GGV
the rune-covered long sword "Trusted One" ***Casino
the silver key ***D50 random drop
the scorched spear ***D40'ish GGV
the girdle of the emperors "Celestrix" ***FGJC5 GGV
the hammer of the gods ***Crown
the rune-covered sling "Whirlwind"
the shining long spear "Soaker" ***Precrown
the rune-covered halberd "Wyrmlance" ***D49