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>│ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

```

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

Hello everyone. Two times I have dealt with early game wands/scrolls of fire. It's devastating each time, killing me or bringing me close to death.

I have been playing Monk. How can I deal with fire in the early game? I usually stash my burnable stuff but I have to carry things around, including my burnable gloves/robe.

I've been trying to ascend a Monk (vegetarian/weaponless) but I have failed a lot and I think I'd prefer a different role/conduct. I'm thinking something easier, like never polymorphed/changed form. Any other ideas?

Do you prefer vanilla Nethack or patched? If patched, do you prefer interface tweaks, gameplay tweaks, something else?

Since my last time I decided my next run would be a Weaponless Vegan Monk because I was curious to try it. And I decided to ramp up the difficulty too. I chose Neutral alignment because I wanted to do some Sacrifice cheese, though it didn't quite work out how I planned because some stuff seemingly got patched without the GnollHack wiki getting updated before I brought it up. Ended up tacking on some more Conducts as I went along since they seemed simple enough to do. I also never used a Shield or Suit all game because of the penalties.

Things weren't going quite to plan at the start but got smoother as I went. Got a bit burned out or decision-paralysed at the Castle and took an extended break. As soon as I got back on it, I was blazing through though!

Made a lot more use of magic this time, mostly for utility stuff. Still not FULLY got the hang of the system.

Shoplifted for the first time, walked out of an Orcus Town store while Orcus himself seemed to be fighting me and I was absolutely swarmed and nearly died. Thankfully I managed to heal and squeeze past to the stairs (and when it was time to go back up, I chugged a Cursed Potion of Gain Level to skip that floor).

Also had an over-enchantment incident due to misunderstanding the Enchant Weapon scroll, thankfully my irreplaceable Gauntlets only got set to +0 rather than exploding and it was simple enough to bring them back up.

If you want my thoughts on the Conducts I ended up doing:

• Vegan: Honestly the hardest part was missing out on some useful Intrinsics from corpses (like Teleportitis/Teleport Control from Tengus and Disintegration Resistance from Black Dragons), I was never really worried that much about hunger. Even then, I got most of the things I needed.

• Weaponless: The revamped Monk & Martial Arts plus weapon-gauntlets made this a breeze, appreciated the warning when I was about to pick-axe an enemy too. Can see how this would be painful on Vanilla.

• Genocideless: Early on I did a bunch of Reverse Genociding (particularly Unicorns for Sacrifice), ended up committing to this later on. Got an achievement for killing an Arch-Lich because of it (never faced one before, I would Blessed Genocide L before ever seeing one). Things went fine but I think I'd generally prefer to take out some problematic groups.

• Polypileless/Polyselfless: Came naturally.

• Artifact Wishless: Came naturally for this playthrough. By the time I got a wish the odds were bad and I had other things that took priority anyway. In general I'd only do Artifact Wishes in GnollHack if I got a really early wish and there was one that my character would really like.

• Conflictless: Not sure if this counts. Had some scrolls but didn't usse them. Made some of the rooms with LOTS of enemies (e.g. Wizard's Tower, Moloch's Sanctum and Astral Plane) a little more tedious and scary but I managed.

• Bonesless: This was just the luck of the draw, but I'll take the creit, heh.

Since the last win, I found the website for the umps, so HTML dump for those interested!

Next up I have some characters waiting on the next difficulty up (Lawful Human Valkyrie and Lawful Dwarf Caveman) as a result of a brief "alt-itis" mood, so hopefully 'll have another post or even a double-feature soon!

Right now statues are just white versions of what they represent, which isn't a problem until you go to Ludios with a cockatrice corpse to deal with all the soldiers (white). Is there a way to invert statues, white background/black text?

I am attempting to figure out how to compile NetHack 3.6.7 myself so that I can apply patches from the patch database, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to work. I have a Windows machine with a working Linux virtual machine on it, but following the instructions in the included Install files and on the Compiling wiki page) has just run into errors I can't figure out how to fix. After downloading and extracting NetHack 3.6.7 on the virtual machine, I have run the following commands, beginning in the $Top directory:

$ cd sys/unix
$ sh setup.sh hints/linux
$ cd ../..
$ make all

which yielded the following error:

( cd src ; make )
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/wildfire/Downloads/nethack-3.6.0/src'
touch ../src/config.h-t
cc -g -O -I../include -DNOTPARMDECL -DCOMPRESS=\"/bin/gzip\" -DCOMPRESS_EXTENSION=\".gz\" -DDLB -DSYSCF -DSYSCF_FILE=\"/home/wildfire/nh/install/games/lib/nethackdir/sysconf\" -DSECURE -DHACKDIR=\"/home/wildfire/nh/install/games/lib/nethackdir\" -c monst.c
In file included from ../include/unixconf.h:290,
                 from ../include/global.h:115,
                 from ../include/config.h:458,
                 from monst.c:5:
/usr/include/stdlib.h:605:13: error: conflicting types for ‘srand48’; have ‘void(long int)’
  605 | extern void srand48 (long int __seedval) __THROW;
      |             ^~~~~~~
In file included from ../include/unixconf.h:287:
../include/system.h:94:8: note: previous declaration of ‘srand48’ with type ‘void(void)’
   94 | E void srand48();
      |        ^~~~~~~
In file included from ../include/unixconf.h:291:
/usr/include/unistd.h:464:21: error: conflicting types for ‘sleep’; have ‘unsigned int(unsigned int)’
  464 | extern unsigned int sleep (unsigned int __seconds);
      |                     ^~~~~
../include/system.h:354:12: note: previous declaration of ‘sleep’ with type ‘unsigned int(void)’
  354 | E unsigned sleep();
      |            ^~~~~
make[1]: *** [Makefile:528: monst.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/wildfire/Downloads/nethack-3.6.0/src'
make: *** [Makefile:145: nethack] Error 2

I already tried doing a completely fresh install, and I'm getting the same error. How do I fix this?

There I was as an Orc wizard

Intrinsic Poison resistance

External Magic resistance

*Blam* I lost to a Fire wand

I'm playing on version 5.0.0 with number pad on windows 11 and noticed that when I "kick" I cannot select a direction, it just continues to prompt for input. Using "." "<" or ">" works fine, but not directions.

When I turn windowtype:curses off, it works fine but for some reason when it's turned on this issue occurs.

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this issue and has found a workaround other than disabling curses option? I really enjoy the curses option so I'd rather not turn it off

EDIT: for additional context I've just downloaded the .zip from the main site, made sure it was the windows 11 version

No dependencies, no build step, no network. Around 10,000 lines of JavaScript.

Anyone want to test this out and give me feedback? I pulled this together with Claude today and would love to hear what everyone thinks.

http://5hack.net