NetHack

What is Nethack?

Nethack itself is a very complex game, compared to ones such as Moria, Rogue, or Angband. There are several different classes, a larger variety of items (from keys to artifacts), a leaner, meaner collection of monsters, and several quests that a player must finish before winning the game. As opposed to the randomness that is found in the other games, Nethack tends to have set playing patterns that one must follow to win. There are also many new dungeon features as well as interesting things that a player can do.

Nethack Source

Also, source is maintained at ftp://linc.cis.upenn.edu/pub/NH3.1/source/, but there are several tar'ed, Z'ed, and uu'ed parts to it, so it would be impossible to have all the links here. However, you may be interested in seeing what files are necessary for your system, as well as instructions for getting and using the files. Please note that the maintainers of this site would like you to avoid downloads between 9:00am and 6:00pm (EST) (2:00pm-11pm GMT).

Nethack Binaries

To download these, set 'Load to Disk' in your browser program.

Amiga

NH31P3-1.lzh [314kB]

NH31P3-2.lzh [571kB]

Macintosh

nh313.hqx [1M]

Windows NT

nh313nt.zip [678kB]

OS/2 -

nh313os2.exe [799kB] (self-extracting archive)

DOS - Both are self-extracting archives

nh313386.exe [691kB] - for 386 or higher machines

nh313pc.exe [649kB] - for any PC-compat

Nethack Documents

• The rec.games.roguelike.nethack FAQ
• Docs on running Nethack on IBM's and compats.
• Commonly asked questions about the game itself
• Documents and spoiler files located at ftp.win.tue.nl, including
  • Version 7.00 of the WCST Spoilers [304k]
  • An Archive of all WCST Spoilers, including the unfinished version 8 spoilers [146k]
  • ...as well as the HTML'ed version of the version 7 spoilers
  • Tips and other (non-spoiler) useful documents...
    • Common abbreviations
    • Beginner's Hints
    • Gods
    • A listing of Monsters by character
    • The rec.games.roguelike.nethack FAQ
    • The rec.games.roguelike FAQ
    • A review of the Nethack Variants
  • ALLSPOIL.ZIP contains the following SPOILER files (you have been warned...)
    • Armour information
    • Artifact Weapons
    • Character Classes
    • Monster Corpses
    • Being Crowned by your God
    • Non-specific damage done by Artifact Weapons
    • Layout of the Dungeon of Doom
    • More verbose description of the Dungeons (with maps)
    • Enchantment Limits for Weapons
    • Experience Points
    • Food
    • Gems (and how to ID them)
    • Gremlins and Stealing Intrinsics
    • Intrinsics
    • The Ultimate Item List>/a>
    • Magic Markers
    • Equipment Lists for Monsters
    • A listing of Monsters with all stats
    • Weight and Costs of Objects
    • Training your pets
    • Chatting with Priests
    • Magic Cancellation vs Magic Resistance
    • Maps, People, and Items for each Quest
    • How to raise your stats
    • Effects of eating rings
    • Improving your Speed
    • How initial stats are determined
    • Effects of destroying a statue
    • Effects of Real-Time on your game
    • All the ways of being killed
    • How to get out of several trouble areas
    • Water
    • Everything you wanted to know about Weapons
    • Weapon types sorted by damage
    • A list of commonly wished for objects

Nethack Variants/Utilities

ChrHack

ChrHack (v2.3) is a front end for Nethack on PC and compats that replaces the normal text graphics with bitmaps that are user-customizable. The program does not alter the NetHack executable in any way: it only adds a few lines to the nethack.cfg file, which can be commented out later if needed.

ChrHack is written by Mike Marcelais (mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu). He has written a separate Home Page for ChrHack.

ChrHack can be obtained at ftp.uml.edu:/msdos/Games/Utils/chrhac23.zip

NetHack+

NetHack+ is a modified version of Nethack, with additional classes/ monsters/items/etc.

NH+ can be found at ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/games/nethack/Variants/NhPlus/nhplus02.zip. Note that this is only the PC/DOS version; sources are available.

NetHack TNG

NetHack TNG is a modified version of Nethack with a nerd-ish twist to it.

Sources only are available at ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/games/nethack/Variants/NhTNG/nh313.tng.shar

Other Sites with Nethack Information

• The (Other) NetHack Home Page by Boudewijn Wayers

Last Update: February 13, 1995