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Welcome to NetHack. http://www.nethack.org Previous thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2818537 Your task is simple: Retrieve the Amulet of Yendor from the Dungeons of Doom, deliver it to your chosen god on the Astral plane and ascend to demigod-hood. Unfortunately thousands of deadly monsters stand between you and your goal. NetHack is a rogue-like, which means that it features randomly generated dungeons and permanent death. It's difficult, really difficult, new players usually send dozens of characters to spectacular deaths before they get the hang of things, but with patience and a healthy dose of spoilers anyone can ascend. One of the fun things about NetHack is how almost everything can be used to help your survive. That seemingly useless potion of paralysis? Bash someone over the head with it and kill them while they can't move. A looking glass? Point it at a monster to scare them with their own reflection. A scroll of destroy armor? Read it to rid yourself of cursed equipment. A large dog is about to rip to to shreds? Feed it some food to tame him and now you've got an ally to fight along side you. A polymorph trap? Push your pet into it and you may end up with a tame black dragon. There are ways out of almost any situation in NetHack, it's up to you to think of them. Since NetHack dates back to the 80's it doesn't have much in the way of graphics. The old school way is to play in a text terminal... Here we see our hero (the @) in the mazes of Gehennom just after he's crushed Demogorgon with Mjollnir. The graphics aren't quite up to next-gen standards but it tells you everything you need to know at a glance and it works very well. If ASCII isn't your cup of tea, you can always try tiles. A bit prettier than the ASCII version and you also get mosuse support which is nice for those of you who have computers made after 1987. Goon The Kins also made his own tileset so you can play NetHack with that SA touch. And finally, if you have some sort of brain disease you can get THREE DEE NETHACK on Steam for a low low price. How to play There's two ways to play NetHack. One way is to head to http://www.nethack.org (or to Vulture's Eye if that's your thing), download the binaries for your OS and go for it. The second, and in my opinion the most fun way, is to play online on a public server. Telnet to nethack.alt.org (you might want to use PuTTY instead of the default windows telnet client), set up an account and start playing. NAO lets you watch other people play in real time and even send them scrolls of mail. Also you may run into bones files from other players, levels that other players have died on complete with all their loot and the things that killed them. They even record all your games so the memory of that time you dissolved in molten lava will be preserved for all time. The only downside is that you can't use tiles or Vulture's Eye on NAO, only the ASCII version is supported. NetHack forks Since NetHack is open source, a number of fine people have taken it upon themselves to modify it extensively and morph it into a whole new game. Slash'EM (Public server) - Based of NetHack 3.3.1, Slash'Em adds a whole bunch of crazy stuff to the game. Hundreds of new monsters, hundreds of new items, dozens of new weapons ranging from lightsabers to rocket launchers and even a few new character classes and races for you to play with. It also has a redesigned dungeon layout featuring a longer main dungeon, shorter Gehennom and lots more special levels. In the past elements of Slash-em have ended up being incorporated into the main NetHack branch, for example, Slash'em created the Monk class that you now see in NetHack. SporkHack (Official public server) (Also on nethack.alt.org)- A beefed up version of NetHack 3.4.3 designed for people who find the endgame of NetHack too easy. A redesigned Gehennom and some modified gameplay elements that remove easy options in the endgame are the biggest changes. Well designed but certainly not for the faint of heart, a winning NetHack character would likely be chewed up and spat out by Spork. Let's Play Threads For those of you prefer to watch things rather than do things, there's a bunch of NetHack LP's out there. Watch them to see what the game's all about and see some of the tricks that people use to stay alive in the dungeons of doom. * Salvor_Hardin's video LP (archived) * Lobster Maneuver's screenshot LP (archived) * Salvor_Hardin's screenshot LP * Sartak's NetHack on IRC #nethack on irc.freenode.net is the official channel. It also features a friendly robot named Rodney who'll answer all your queries and then shame you by announcing all your deaths on NAO to the 200+ other people in the room. Feel free to ask for advice and share your stories in here, there's a lot of good players around and we're always happy to help. The best parts of these threads are always the YAFAP's (Yet Another First Ascension Posts) and the YASD's (Yet Another Stupid Deaths) so start playing and entertain us with your epic adventures! Contra Duck fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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I just started the nerdiest thing ever (TAEB blog). Filburt Shellbach fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Feb 27, 2009 |
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A link in the OP is mislabeled. Sartak's LP ended quite some time ago.
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Argon_Sloth posted:A link in the OP is mislabeled. Sartak's LP ended quite some time ago. Fixed
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# ? Feb 27, 2009 13:28 |
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Maybe I should use this thread as an opportunity to actually get further than Minetown...
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# ? Feb 27, 2009 13:36 |
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Contra Duck posted:Fixed Much better. All the recent Nethack thread activity, has got me wanting to start playing again. But I just don't time. Maybe I'll make time when the next tournament starts.
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Edit: I am an illiterate human being too.
Sixto Lezcano fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Feb 28, 2009 |
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It's right there in the OP:Contra Duck posted:Goon The Kins also made his own tileset (updated July 3) so you can play NetHack with that SA touch. (Alternate link if that one doesn't work for you) I suppose I should give NetHack a try again. What's it like playing it over telnet? I've always played locally, but NetHack on a public server sounds cool.
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# ? Feb 27, 2009 23:08 |
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Mewcenary posted:Maybe I should use this thread as an opportunity to actually get further than Minetown... Then again, I made it through the doom roguelike (with the aid of a nuke) and finally beat spelunky after about 600-700 deaths. Maybe I should give nethack another shot soon. [edit]I guess it didn't help that I almost always played an archaeologist or a rogue - but archaeologists and throwing knives are just so awesome.
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# ? Feb 27, 2009 23:26 |
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Xaander posted:Does anyone have a link to the SA tileset? That thing was really cool and I pretty much cannot play without it because I am a human being. The default tileset is much, much better, unless you really need to have everything in the game look like a dumb forums emoticon. Ideally, though, you'll play with ASCII - tiles & junk like Vulture's Eye reduce the amount of dungeon you can see at once and also make you think you're playing something like Diablo that isn't out to kill you the instant you make a mistake.
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# ? Feb 27, 2009 23:28 |
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Contra Duck, I'm very disappointed that the OP does not contain a screenshot of a stoning-resistant monster PC eating a cockatrice corpse (and choking to death on it).
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I started a game again on the university server the other day and I am at the farthest I've ever been, but I can't help but feel like I'm a little screwed: Yeah, that's two wizards and the high priest right there, duking it out thanks to my ring, but I feel pretty helpless now that the mindflayers sucked away my knowledge of recharge scrolls for my wand of death.
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Bushibytes posted:I started a game again on the university server the other day and I am at the farthest I've ever been, but I can't help but feel like I'm a little screwed: It's not nice but you should be able to get out alive. If you've got wands of teleport you can zap some of those monsters away, and it should be easy to kill the wizards since they'll be more concerned with killing the high priest and taking the amulet. Just don't get in melee range with the high priest because with only 84HP he could easily kill you in a single round of combat. Also get unburdened argh!
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 01:51 |
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I haven't played Nethack in forever, mostly because my NAO account has a valk ready to wake the wizard, but I just plain don't feel like doing Gehennom without magic mapping. I've been thinking of killing her off and leaving a nice bones file for someone. Is Sartak going to run another tournament this year? He skipped it last year.
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 02:05 |
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There will be a June tournament, but I don't think it'll be run by me.
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 02:09 |
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Bushibytes posted:Yeah, that's two wizards and the high priest right there, duking it out thanks to my ring, but I feel pretty helpless now that the mindflayers sucked away my knowledge of recharge scrolls for my wand of death. Since this is your first ascension, I'm assuming you're not going for genocideless conduct. Why not genocide h and L? or rather, why didn't you?
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 02:14 |
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20 genocides on my first ascension and i'm not ashamed.
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 02:21 |
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I'm standing by my assertion that Rangers are the easiest class by far to ascend
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 02:40 |
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Hipster Scumbag posted:Since this is your first ascension, I'm assuming you're not going for genocideless conduct. Why not genocide h and L? I got L, but in retrospect, I should have taken out h as well. I'm rather casual and inexperienced (I just play a bit inbetween compiles). I think I got too cocky with the fact that I could take them at range with my bow, and next thing you know one of them is sucking on my brainjuice and my magic marker is too dry for genocide. I probably can escape this situation fairly easily, go back up to lick my wounds and prepare better.
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 03:04 |
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Is there any way to make NetHack not look like total rear end while playing in a KDE "terminal?"
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 03:20 |
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I've just been getting into NetHack and I'm really enjoying it so far. The only thing is why do you have to make a new thread? It's so drat annoying to have to update my bookmarks every loving goddamn time...
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 03:29 |
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Sartak posted:There will be a June tournament, but I don't think it'll be run by me. Well there better at least be an SA team then! frameset posted:20 genocides on my first ascension and i'm not ashamed. If memory serves, this is a great way to get swamped by Archons on the Plane of Fire. edit: Actually, I was thinking in terms of the letters, but if you just mean twenty monsters that's not too many. h, L, and ; are common genocides and that's fifteen or so right there. Pacra posted:I'm standing by my assertion that Rangers are the easiest class by far to ascend You're crazy, once you know how to survive the early game wizards are practically invincible. Wizards for life! Medenmath fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Feb 28, 2009 |
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Every loving year you do this to me Contra Duck
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Third Murderer posted:You're crazy, once you know how to survive the early game wizards are practically invincible. Wizards for life! Not to mention being able to write unknown spellbooks with almost 100% accuracy. Oh, here comes a minotaur *fingered*. Woah, a mindflayer, *fingered*. I just got a message that gave me a hilarious mental image. I'm (still) playing a monk in SLASH'EM (pure cheese, yeah, but hey, he's the farthest I've gotten so far... he managed to get screwed over by Vecna), and I just found out sandwiches aren't vegetarian: "You feel guilty... The sandwich tastes delicious!" Imagining a vegetarian ascetic monk admitting to enjoy a meat sandwich and feeling guilty about it is just too much.
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 04:41 |
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Contra Duck I have some stuff if you want to throw them on the OP. For those wanting to try out something different in terms of graphics, there's a 3d Japanese port of Network that includes first person perspective like a Wizardry game. http://www.sbrain.org/nethack3d/index.html Haven't tried it since it's only for MacOSX but let us know how it is. It's apparently in English too. There is another OpenGL port developed by a guy in South Africa that goes by the name of noegnud. Not Wizardry like but it still looks cool. Note of caution though, the guy is an rear end in a top hat who doesn't allow the game to be installed in the US but.. hey. Anyways here is the link: http://clivecrous.lighthouseapp.com/projects/11277/downloads and google image searching will show you how it looks.
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Pacra posted:I'm standing by my assertion that Rangers are the easiest class by far to ascend What's your strategy? Between trying to ascend rangers and rogues, I've grown to loathe ranged weapon combat.
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voodoorootbeer posted:What's your strategy? Between trying to ascend rangers and rogues, I've grown to loathe ranged weapon combat. code:
Except of course, when arrows/darts disappear or they land in water/lava.
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 17:02 |
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I just wrote an I wrote this up because a bunch of people have asked me how I pulled off WowDeath (who kicked wands of wishing to death three times in one day on NAO) and how Adeon is able to get hundreds of wishes from a single fountain. Basically I'm trying to force the DevTeam to release a new version of NetHack.
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A note on the wishes: You can get a bunch of wishes and stuff, but the real tough thing is getting enough supplies to do things with. Having enough scrolls to blank and enough potions to dilute really becomes an issue when you're skipping over 95% of the game. Don't let that large number trick you, as this game was a fight to the very end, where my high priest wouldn't get off the goddamn altar!
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Yeah, but where'd all the wishes come from? One every 300 turns seems like a lot.
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# ? Mar 3, 2009 07:14 |
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Contra Duck posted:Yeah, but where'd all the wishes come from? One every 300 turns seems like a lot. Wishing wand on Dlvl4, castle wand, and wishing wand on the VS level (of all places). Most of the wishes were burned on stuff to speed through (markers to write scrolls and cursed gain level to get out). I honestly can't explain how come my games go all freaky like that and just drop wishing wands out like candy. It's very strange, but I'm not about to look that gift horse in the mouth.
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# ? Mar 3, 2009 07:18 |
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Did you abuse the random number generator again?
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# ? Mar 3, 2009 07:19 |
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Can you sacrifice corpses on the high altars or are they only to be used for the amulet?
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Social Animal posted:Can you sacrifice corpses on the high altars or are they only to be used for the amulet?
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Now this has gotten me back into the game. Rolled a new character on NAO - a barbarian, if I remember my pantheons and classtitles correctly. I think I'll do this game without price-IDing. ...there's a coaligned altar on DL2. I'm doomed.
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Anyone want to share any particularly nice config files?
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Social Animal posted:Can you sacrifice corpses on the high altars or are they only to be used for the amulet? I once killed the High Priest of Lugh and sacrificed him on his own altar on account of Lugh being a punk. I then sacrificed a white unicorn on Birgit's altar to attempt to convert at the last moment, but it didn't go as planned. She still got the amulet though, mostly cause her wide-angle disintegration beam precluded me from making it to the chaotic altar in one piece with a helm of opposite alignment.
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Mewcenary posted:Anyone want to share any particularly nice config files? http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/ToxicFrog/ToxicFrog.nh343rc There's mine. Notable features: autopickup amulets, rings, wands, potions, scrolls, books, gold; colours unidentified items white, uncursed items grey, cursed items red (or orange if equipped), blessed items light blue. Bags of holding, wands of cancellation and bags of tricks get to be a really obnoxious black on yellow to hopefully reduce occurrences of BoH vaporization.
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# ? Mar 3, 2009 18:21 |
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A big 'gently caress you' to whoever left a bones file full of nalfenshees wandering around on dlvl12. There was at least two ghosts when I got there and there's one more now. If anyone comes across it, just dig down unless you have disintegration resistance. Which I didn't.
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Cicadalek posted:A big 'gently caress you' to whoever left a bones file full of nalfenshees wandering around on dlvl12. There was at least two ghosts when I got there and there's one more now. If anyone comes across it, just dig down unless you have disintegration resistance. Which I didn't. Wait what do you mean by disintegration resistance? Did they summon something?
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