nethack

Everyone knows the daggerstorm is the primary means of damage of any rogue, but I've been playing around with using poisoned darts and bolts as backup, for enemies that are vulnerable...

A swap chest is a special container in The November NetHack Tournament, added in 2018. It is never randomly generated, but there is a guaranteed swap chest in Mines’ End and another in the Valley of the Dead. It allows players to exchange items between games. You cannot successfully wish for a swap chest except in wizard mode;...

NetHack 3.7.0 will be the 37th public release of NetHack and the 33rd by the DevTeam. NetHack 3.7.0 is currently available as development source code on Github. No official binaries exist as of yet, because this version is still in development and subject to change. A recent build of it is also available for play on the...

Techno-Mage does have fun sometimes, you know.

For me it’s an easy choice. I lost a fully compliant weaponless monk on the Astral. I was headed for the last and certainly aligned altar. In my haste I had forgotten to swap out my ring of slow digestion with free action after my run. With the altar in sight I’m suddenly hit with a long and continuous fusillade of potions...

I’ve plugged this book on other forums and this seems like another group that would be interested in it....

When I decided to open NetHack et al. to all rogue-likes I discovered I didn’t have a working definition of the genre. After a bit of poking around I discovered the Berlin Interpretation [1] from 2008. A bit wordy but it defines the basics. Rogue-likes don’t have to check every box but the more the better. This will form the...

Oh hey, just noticed this was here and as far as I can tell this is the only nethack lemmy community. Pretty neat!...

This is Junethack month, the NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament. It runs annually during June. The website has all the stats and details. Put it on your calendar for next year....

I suggest you right-click on the new NetHack community banner to view the entire graphic for a bit of retro-computer nostalgia…

Role, style, race or let the RNG decide. How do you select your adventurer?

While Vanilla NetHack is certainly a challenge for most, some masochists play variants as well. The most complete collection I’m aware of is on the hardfought server [1]. K2, the site’s owner, even offers his own EvilHack. The name is not a misnomer....

My first exposure to NetHack was a truncated DOS port on a dial-up modem from a local BBS. Took the better part on an afternoon to download, as I recall. And since it predated both gopher and the web, I was flying completely blind and “unspoiled”. I died a lot....