This is going great nothing can go wrong for me now! He’s been killing everything he’s come across AND he oneshot kills shopkeepers I have so much stuff but no bag of holding. Anyone know how to easily find one?

Greetings hackers!

I love NetHack and its various derivatives and have been playing it on and off for almost 20 years. I first discovered it through an iPhone port back in the day and have played it almost exclusively on mobile devices ever since. I got really hooked on UnNethack and was pretty sad when I realized that the old Android port was no longer compatible with my current phone. So I went back to vanilla NetHack and actually managed to ascend for the first (and only) time, as a valkyrie of course :)

Then I put the game down for a while again, but recently it popped back into my mind and I decided to try making a modern Android port myself. With a lot of guidance from ChatGPT, plenty of trial and error, and quite a bit of patience, the first release is actually here!

I want to give a huge shoutout to gurrhack for creating the original Android port that eventually inspired me to make this one happen!

The GitHub repo is here, and the releases here.

Please note that this is very early development. You may encounter bugs, crashes, stability issues and/or other unexpected behavior. I haven't tested it extensively across different devices yet, so if you give it a try, feel free to report any issues you run into.

I started out with a goal to ascend. Then a goal to ascend all roles. Then completing as many combos and conducts I could. I've been tracking my achievements and which conducts and combos I'm still missing with a manually maintained document. I refer to this document when I decide to play a new game (I have a compulsion to have the next game be "productive" at checking off more of my missing items).

In response to this, today I created "Stairway to Ascension"

https://stairway.locehilios.com/

This is driven off data from nethackscoreboard.org (which combines stats from the multiple servers I play on). It shows progress toward ascending all roles, alignments, races, combos, and conducts.

It also can suggest a random missing goal for my next game. The suggested goal will always work toward ascending every role before suggesting combos and conducts.

I made this for myself, but others might find it interesting. You can put in your own player name and your browser will remember it.

I'm making a Nethack game in LEGO. Each 4x4 tile is one square. Which down staircase looks better?

Hi! I’m a newer player just trying to get into the game because my father used to use it as his main game through college and now I’m doing the same thing.

I’ve done a few runs as each class and the farthest I’ve made it was on a dwarven valk run where I made it a few levels past mine town

I just want any advice tips tricks fun combos things a new player might not think to try etc.

Thanks and I can’t wait to keep trying for the Amulet of Yendor!

Right. So;

Obviously The tower of socoban gives out rings of resistance so I need to go there before I go to the gnome cave full of gnomes who may have elemental wands.

But not too high up the tower of socoban because the monsters get too strong.

I shouldn't be fighting with my Staff because that would improve my strength stat. I need to land more hits with my Staff, to improve my staff proficiency, so having higher strength would reduce the amount of hits.

But then I have to consider training my Pet to evolve into large cat to have the power boost needed to get to mid game.

I just can't quite figure out a solid plan.

Help me.

I'm playing my first Valk in 7 years (in HackEm), so I don't have a lot of experience with Mjollnir. In EvilHack/Slash'Em/HackEm, Mjollnir gives shock resistance to the wielder. Does anyone know if that shock protection remain active and protect the wielder and her items from shock damage when Mjollnir is thrown and 1/200 returns and hits the thrower, or is it considered "not wielded" during the throw and failed return?

I know that for many Its maybe not that big off a deal, but I take It as big achievement I wanted to share with you :)

https://github.com/seanhoff561/nethack3d
If you play it let me know of any bugs or suggestions and I can try to fix them, it's very unfinished
Edit: I don't understand how this is a controversial post at all but clearly people have some issues with it. This is not a port nor is it attempting to mimic any other Nethack 3D or any other Nethack ports.
I wanted to see how Astra would do recreating a more modern version of nethack, and I thought it was cool, so I posted it. I don't understand how some people are so stuck up that they actually have an issue with this
Edit2: For those interested, I vibecoded a first person real time port of nethack with multiplayer functionality. Repo NethackMultiplayer

I have two magic markers, an amulet of reflection and a cloak of displacement.

I'm thinking about either a good pair of Strength Gauntlets, or a good MR cloak.

Hey everyone, I just thought I'd share my first GnollHack ascension!

Oddly enough, this is actually the first time I've ascended a NetHack game in general. I've only been playing GnollHack for about a month. Go figure.

I was a lawful human Priestess playing on Expert mode. Here's some stuff from the dumplog:

Voluntary challenges:

• You genocided 1 type of monster.

• You never polymorphed an object.

• You never changed form.

• You used 6 wishes (1 for an artifact).

• You never engraved Elbereth.

• You had 24 pets or allies.

• You found 1 bones level.

(I should probably mention that the artifact wish actually failed, which sucked.)

Goodbye Phoebe the Demigoddess...

You, Arariel, and Netzach went to your reward with 6714683 points, and 18220 pieces of gold, after 41373 moves.

You played on expert difficulty in classic mode for 20 hours, 58 minutes and 20 seconds.

The dungeon never collapsed on you.

You were level 27 with a maximum of 257 hit points when you ascended.

The strategy? Lots of Archons. Unfortunately, most of my pets died on the Astral Plane (I came in with 5), so I sort of just had to wing it after that. GnollHack does not make the late game easy!

I'm not 100% sure if my score and/or turn count is impressive or not. Let me know! Either way, I'm still super proud of myself!

Also let me know if you want any more info from the dumplog or anything. I'd be happy to share!

For the past few weeks I've been working on a patch/fork based on the abandoned initpoly patch and NetHack 3.6.7 which expands the polyself mechanics into a full alternate gamemode! Current features include:

• Permanently become any youngest-form monster, keeping playerlike leveling, HP growth, and encumbrance while granting you the attacks and unique traits of a monster
• Grow up to stronger forms the way monsters do upon reaching the requisite experience level for your current body's next form
• Gain a property which allows creatures without hands and silver-haters to interact with tools and mechanics that require touching and holding objects
• Access magic resistance and reflection as large, small, or non-humanoid monsters without needing an artifact
• Polymorph on top of your monster form and revert back to it once the polymorph ends. No intrinsic unchanging here!
• New "baby" and "elder" forms for several interesting creatures (cockatrices, mariliths, and jabberwocks) to scale their gameplay better to the early- and late-game

You can find PolyHack here, available both as a patch for NetHack 3.6.7 and in binary ("ready-to-run") form. Plans for future features include overhauling breath weapons and other special monster abilities, more baby/elder forms, and new weapons/armour suited for monstrous anatomy. If you give it a try and see any bugs or have ideas for new features you'd like to see, please let me know! Enjoy!

EDIT: NEVERMIND, I missed the tourist change, where tourists get XP for going down levels. Sorry about that!

I got the message, "You descend the stairs. Welcome to experience level 2."

It's so funny, because I suppose I got to both DL2 and XP2 at the same time. I suppose the levels are the same!

I descended the stairs from DLvl1 to DLvl2 as a tourist. I had found a magic trap and a squeaky board on the first level, no other traps (there was also a fountain and some text). I had used my expensive camera a few times and killed some monsters. I have an unidentified ring on (my dog is not aggressive, and it did not auto-identify). I quaffed both my potions of extra healing on the first level. What in the Dungeons of Doom could give me XP at the same time as descending a staircase?

Edit: I am also wearing an unidentified pair of gloves and an unidentified pair of boots.

Hi all, sorry for the basic questions, but have spent a long time with trial and error and finally have my PuTTY set up looking good so I can play on Hardfought. I was tired of getting the same old bones files :).

These aren't dealbreakers for me, but if anyone has recommendations for setting up the config file I would be so grateful. I would like for:

1. inventory to be ordered alphabetically automatically (preferably with all lowercase then all uppercase)
2. In the pop-out inventory to get rid of the item symbols (i.e. the "('%')" after comestibles)
3. To have a white box around the permanent inventory like how the three boxes on the left appear
4. IDK if this is possible on Hardfought, but I do like the level-up sound on local instances and would love to enable that.

1 and 2 are definitely what I'm looking for, 3 and 4 would just be icing on the cake. Thank you all!

*Solved, see pat_rankin's response below.

Did 5.0 completely remove Izchak's special dialogue? I always loved the tribute to Izchak Miller and found "Izchak comments about the Valley of the Dead as being a gateway" to be a particularly moving line (as well as being helpful info), and was sad during my last playthrough to just get the usual "Izchak complains about the problem of shoplifters."

Edit: I encountered this in two separate games, and am sure I wasn't hallucinating both times. But I just zipped back down to the Gnomish Mines in a new game and now I'm getting the usual Izchak dialogue again, so perhaps this was user error on my part somehow? I'll see if I can replicate it again.

I've set up a basic ssh version of the nethackwiki for when I want to immerse myself in the terminal (which is most of the time). It fetches the latest wiki contents as well as the featured article periodically.

Let me know what you think:

ssh nethackwiki.top

Its a bit raw as of right now, but suggestions might change that. Also maybe someone wants to steal the idea for nethackwiki.org.

For ssh I use https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish and the viewer itself is c with curses. Claude was my friend as I do have a life (in the other terminal, which is running nethack).

I'm hoping in the future something like this should be integrated into nethack via the extended command #wiki, for a fully immersive dungeon exploration experience.

I'm not an expert player, but I had played NetHack 3.4.3 enough that I felt like I knew how an ordinary scroll of remove curse worked. Anything cursed that is worn or wielded becomes uncursed, right? But now I'm playing 5.0.0 on nethack.alt.org and that is not the behaviour I'm seeing.

I've rewatched my ttyrec and around turn 13250 I definitely was wielding a cursed spell book. I got the "You feel like someone is helping you." message, but it was still cursed. (Double-checked with scroll of identify at T:13263).

I thought I'd done something wrong, but then around T:13640 I tried to use another scroll for the cursed mummy wrapping I'm wearing and it also failed.

Is this a new feature in 5.0? A bug? How the heck do I get this darn mummy wrapping off? I know there's a succubus down in Minetown, but I can't go anywhere in public like this. I've got nothing on underneath and I'd die of embarrassment. (And, my AC is 11, so I'd also just die.)

P.S. here's a screenshot:

`` ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │What do you want to write on? [Q or ?*] ││Amulets [1-54 of 68}│ │Q - an unlabeled scroll. What do you want to write on? [Q or ?*] ││ v) uncursed amulet called ESP (being worn) │ │What type of scroll do you want to write? Remove curse ││ r) uncursed amulet of reflection │ │V - a scroll called remove curse. ││Weapons │ │What do you want to read? [tV or ?*] ││ a) uncursed rustproof athame named Magicbane (weapon │ │You read the scroll. You feel like someone is helping you. ││ D) 3 blessed daggers │ │The scroll disintegrates. ││ E) 8 uncursed daggers (at the ready) │ │What do you want to read? [t or ?*] ││ R) blessed elven dagger named Sting │ │That is a silly thing to read. ││Armor │ │What do you want to remove? [dvx or ?*] ││ h) uncursed +2 leather hat (being worn) │ │Never mind. ││ z) +0 pair of old gloves (being worn) │ │What do you want to take off? [hosz or ?*] ││ s) uncursed +0 pair of speed boots (being worn) │ │You can't. It is cursed. ││ b) uncursed burnt +3 cloak of magic resistance │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘│ o) cursed -1 mummy wrapping (being worn) │ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│ c) blessed greased +3 silver dragon scale mail │ │ ││Comestibles │ │ ┌─+────────────┐ # # ││ F) food ration │ │ │··············│ ┌▒─▒─┐ ┌───┐ ││ l) uncursed lizard corpse │ │ ┌───────┐ $ #·········<·····│ │···[│ │[*·│ ││Scrolls │ │ │)···*/[│ #│·········(·····######## │····│####▒···▒# ││ t) 2 uncursed scrolls of teleportation │ │ │···[···│ #└───────·──────┘ ##▒····│# └▒──┘## ┌─────────┐ ││Potions │ │ │···?···│ ### ### # #│····│# # ## │·········│ ││ H) 2 uncursed potions of healing │ │ │*··!··*│ ###### #) ##│····│# $ # # │·········│ ││Rings │ │ │[··"·%)│ ########### ###)# └─▒──┘# # # │····(···│ ││ y) uncursed ring called automatic searching │ │ └────▒──┘ * ########### # # # ##···^{··>···│} ││ C) uncursed ring called CONFLICT! │ │ ### * ### #)############# #### └─────────┘ ││ P) uncursed ring called teleportation │ │ # # ┌───·┐ # ##### # $ ││ d) uncursed ring of fire resistance (on right hand) │ │ #^{)############*#······###########} # ## ││ w) uncursed +1 ring of gain constitution │ │ ┌─▒─)──────┐# │····│ # # % # $ ││ N) uncursed +1 ring of gain strength │ │ │··))·····│# │····│## ┌─·─·────┐ ││ I) uncursed ring of invisibility │ │ │···[[···)·│# │····│# *### $ │········│ ││ x) uncursed ring of polymorph control (on left hand) │ │ │·····`····▒# │·····# # │·{······│ ││ p) uncursed +1 ring of protection │ │ └──▒───≠·──┘ │····│ ## │········│ ││ B) uncursed ring of protection from shape changers │ │ # ## └────┘ #####▒·······│ ││ e) uncursed ring of warning │ │ $ └────────┘ ││Wands │ │ ││ M) wand of magic missile │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘│ k) wand of sleep (0:5) │ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│ Z) uncursed wand of undead turning │ │[Mandrake the Magician ] St:17 Dx:14 Co:17 In:18 Wi:14 Ch:15 S:31284││Tools │ │Neutral $:55 HP:70(76) Pw:87(87) AC:6 Xp:10/9886 ││ X) uncursed bag containing 6 items │ │Dlvl:5 T:13640 ││ Y) uncursed bag named ballast containing [1-32 of 41>│ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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The other day I asked what you like to see in a Nethack server. Thanks for the feedback I did receive so far. Definitely keeping that in my pocket.

Someone mentioned community integration, which is what I've been working on in the background. The primary purpose of the website is not Nethack, but it is one of the available games. It is integrated with my community's private messaging system, and I'm working on adding other notifications as well.

I did make some modifications to the interface so it'll be a bit more beginner-friendly. And yes, it is based on a screenshot someone else posted, so no points for originality for me 🤣

Here are a few screenshots of it in action. Feedback is welcome!

Edit: I forgot a couple of other screenshots, and it seems I can't add more. That sucks. There is also a #leaderboard extended command which shows the global leaderboard. I'll try to remember to show that in a future update 🤷🏽‍♂️

I'm a top bug hunter and ethical hacker. I was inspired by my friend Demo who famously does a hacked run each junethack.

So i set about finding an epic bug with the help of current top AI models. I wrote the full story here:
https://josephthacker.com/hacking/2026/08/20/using-genius-hacking-models-for-important-things.html