NetHack
Official NetHack Git Repository (by NetHack)
UnNetHack
NetHack fork that is in development (by UnNetHack)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
NetHack
Posts with mentions or reviews of NetHack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-02.
- NetHack 5.0.0
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My other email client is a daemon
That's an excellent question, I thought the exact same thing when I wrote this article. From what I can tell [child](https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/ed600d9f0f3c37677418...) properly spawns a child process with the real uid/gid instead of the effective uid/gid.
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The Story of Rogue
Yes and still under active development [1]! We also just finished the 2024 November NetHack Tournament (TNNT) [2]! I played in the tournament for the first time this year. I had one near-win with a very challenging Monk (I was doing a bunch of conducts [3]) who unfortunately died to the infamous Wizard of Yendor (Rodney as we call him). I also had a winning run with a Wizard which unfortunately finished a few hours after the deadline at the end of the tournament, so sadly that one didn't count!
Next year I hope to have a bit more time to play so that I can record a win in regulation time!
[1] https://github.com/nethack/nethack
[2] https://tnnt.org
[3] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Conduct
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Installing NH 3.7 on Win11 without using Linux?
download NetHack sources (https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack -> Code -> Download ZIP, unpack them on your computer)
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Eglot + clangd not working for NetHack code base
My configuration of Eglot is simple: (use-package eglot :hook (c-mode . eglot-ensure)). And it works for a single c file. But when I use this setup to read the code of NetHack, it doesn't work for linting and definition finding (M-.), even though eglot connection has no problem. I observed the same problems when reading the code of SQLite. Some specific problems I observed:
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First version of nethack with a bestiary?
Since nethack 3.1.0, the source for nethack's "bestiary" has been dat/data.base, in plain text, processed into a file named "data" when building the program. The unprocessed file intended for the nethack's next version can be seen at https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-3.7/dat/data.base (it's quite long).
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NetHack splash screen source? (question in comments)
I am not really 100% sure what you are looking for. Are you looking for the actual picture? It is built during compilation from this uuencoded file https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-3.7/win/win32/splash.uu
- (...) instead of one single extremely large structure named 'g' to house all of the relocated global variables, they are distributed into several ga through gz. (...) To make things easy for the developer, each variable is placed into the struct corresponding to the starting letter of the variable.
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Cant go down staircase?
xNetHack is based on NetHack 3.7.0, and there was a bug (now fixed) in NetHack 3.7.0 that caused stair destinations to be messed up after a game is recovered. I wonder that has happened here: perhaps you are playing a version of xNetHack that inherited the bug from NetHack 3.7.0, this is a recovered game.
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toot toot
They won't be afraid of music in 3.7.
UnNetHack
Posts with mentions or reviews of UnNetHack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-16.
- How do I get UnNetHack to display the correct tiles?
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[Unnethack]What? It's 6 now
The ChangeLog gives a high level view: https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/blob/master/ChangeLog
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Repacking into different graphical interface
Porting over the changes is on the TODO list though. When that has happened, you will be able to download a pre-release version from https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/releases
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How to enable HP colors [UnNethack 5.2.0]
These days, GitHub is the best option. https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/issues
- UnNetHack 6.0 foocubi switch genders!
- UnNetHack potions, scrolls, and books damaged in icebox
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Stupid building questions.
Removing the Rogue levels from generating is quite easy: https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/commit/7b02e60db76d45c2c91bc7281d288e6b64182005
What are some alternatives?
When comparing NetHack and UnNetHack you can also consider the following projects:
crawl - Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
EvilHack - A variant of NetHack that is designed to be a much more challenging experience than the original, drawing inspiration and content from various existing variants along with adding unique and never-before-seen custom content.
angband - A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game
BrogueCE - Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game
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