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This page is an attempt to list YASIs that come up on several NetHack-related IRC channels. I have made this list separate from my other list.
Attribution will be listed wherever possible, and feel free to add any more that aren't here. While YASIs are not intended to be taken seriously, they might still find some use if listed here.
Silly Idea | Variant | Source |
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New "farmer" role: starts with seeds and a spade, has other tools available like sickles and scythes. | jonadab | |
Opening a cursed bag of holding does not destroy the items, but it redistributes them around the level, or perhaps the entire dungeon. | Grasshopper, AmyBSOD | |
Dropping a ring of polymorph control down a sink, then a ring of polymorph, turns the sink into a regularly erupting geyser. | FIQ | |
The Mazes of Menace are located on the moon Titan, to mess with day/night and moon phases. | rumflump | |
Donkeys that carry around the player's loot. If you kick a pet donkey, you get the YAFM "You kick your own ass!" | jonathanhanes, Grasshopper | |
Playable race that doesn't have teeth and can't eat anything unless polymorphed into something that can. | aosdict | |
New scroll label CONULATION (apparently it is CONGRATULATIONS minus GRATS?) | aosdict | |
Potion of un-dilution. Does nothing when quaffed or thrown. Only effect is that when you dip a diluted stack of potions into it, they become undiluted. | aosdict | |
Trap which pushes the player one level higher, like a potion of gain level. | aosdict | |
Oilskin sack of cancellation, which cancels items that you put into it. | AmyBSOD | |
Priest players, if they are at XL 30 (with the "High Priest(ess)" rank title), can kill their own high priest and take over, becoming the new high priest. | aosdict | |
If you genocide @, you only die if you have showrace turned off so your symbol is a @. If you have showrace turned on, you live, but if you ever turn it off again that game, you die. | Wooble | |
Lego trap. If you're not wearing metal boots, you take damage when you step on it. | FIQ | |
Chicken soup that cures constitution loss when consumed. When thrown at a shade, wraith or ghost, it is instakilled (chicken soup is good for the soul). | bug_sniper, aosdict | |
Dipping a thirsty weapon into water makes it satisfied. Hitting things with a satisfied weapon removes their hunger. | bug_sniper, jonadab | |
Burying a troll corpse results in a troll zombie, which is twice as likely to reanimate. Sticking a troll corpse in an ice box results in an ice troll emerging from the box. Dumping a troll in lava results in a lava troll. Dumping a troll corpse in water results in a water troll. Locking a troll corpse in a box results in a freedom fighter troll, who goes around liberating all the other trolls from their boxes. | Tangles, jonadab, aosdict | |
Tasp: charged ranged tool that works on monsters that have a mind and are not immaterial. It paralyzes for one turn, dealing no damage, and has a small chance of taming. To keep the monster tame, you have to keep tasping it occasionally. Applied to yourself, it cures hallucinations by electroshock therapy. | jonadab, Grasshopper | |
Add a corpse swinging skill, which increases your odds of hitting with a wielded corpse. Only Cavemen can get skill in it. | aosdict | |
You can apply Fire Brand to an adjacent tame rothe to brand it with your cattle mark. | aosdict | |
Pools of oil, black or brown } | FIQ | |
Rather than spell schools, every spell must be trained individually, costing the same amount of skill points as normal. | AmyBSOD | |
Rename the mundane two-handed sword to "claymore". Apply it to adjacent tiles to create a land mine. | jonadab | |
Hobbit nuns, and nuns as a playable role that can use a #sing command. | jonadab | |
Roaming shopkeepers, that will attack and kill you even before you break any doors. | bug_sniper | |
You can #jump onto tiny monsters, which makes a Dex check. If successful the monster is squashed. | AmyBSOD | |
Deli shopkeepers sometimes have a tinning kit in inventory. If a monster dies in their shop, they will instantly tin its corpse and drop the tin in their shop for sale. | jonadab | |
You can eat leather while starving. | ChaseSP | |
Eating a bag of holding lets you store items in your stomach. | aosdict | |
Eating a magic lamp gives you intrinsic light. | Wooble | |
Potion of solipsism: gives every other monster on the level temporary phasing because you're not sure whether they're figments of your imagination or not. | aosdict | |
Artifact Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses, which when equipped cause blindness and warning when a monster is in line of sight. | jonadab | |
Librarian monster whose attack breaks illiterate conduct. | jonathanhanes | |
The Candelabrum of Invocation, if it contains 7 candles of invocation, can be used to do the invocation without the other invocation items / from anywhere in the dungeon | dnethack | Chris, AmyBSOD |
Pets you get from other players' bones files that were the pets of the dead adventurer are harder to make do what you want, like in Pokemon. | aosdict | |
Wand of alignment conversion, which will convert the alignment of both altars and priests tending those altars, so the priest may not get angry. Also a potion of change alignment. | bug_sniper | |
Hill orcs can grow up into hell orcs, which are much stronger and normally spawn only in Gehennom. | aosdict | |
Winter wolves can grow up into spring wolves, which can coil their body and launch themselves several spaces in one linear move to attack, damaging you from the impact and landing next to you. | jonadab | |
Pinball monster: Has a fast speed, rolls around and bounces into walls, and occasionally teleports. Uses the S_BOULDER symbol. If you kick it, it changes direction. | FIQ, aosdict, jonadab | |
Add charm monster to the list of maintainable spells. If you maintain charm monster, you automatically cast it any time you're next to a hostile monster. | FIQhack | jonadab |
Add a spellbook of wish, but it is not randomly generated, unwishable, costs over 100 ink minimum to write, and is level 27 so nobody can cast it. | aosdict, jonadab | |
Amulet of undead turning. If you die while wearing it, you rise from the grave as a zombie. If an undead monster dies while wearing it, it has the same effect as an amulet of life saving. Related: a cursed amulet of life saving will save you if and only if you are undead. Also related: an amulet of death saving, which has the same randomized appearance as life saving, which saves undead and instakills any living creature that wears it. | aosdict, raisse | |
Fire gloves and ice gloves that send a bolt of fire or cold in the direction you hit. | Wooble | |
If your terminal is big enough, whenever the game makes a die roll, you must watch an ASCII-art animation of the die roll. | jonadab | |
Spinach monster, whose corpse when tinned becomes a tin of spinach. | aosdict | |
Pun mode, an option that only allows messages containing puns to be printed. | jonadab | |
Potions of wonder can give the "Yendor" property to any amulet upon dipping, which gives it the properties of the Amulet of Yendor. | FIQhack | aosdict |
Some locked doors may open easily from one side (because they have a deadbolt or other easy latch). Secret doors or formerly secret doors have no method of opening on one side and must be kicked down. | aosdict | |
Instead of doing nothing, a blessed scroll of punishment punishes you, but with a longer chain. | jonadab | |
Ring of illness: a ring that causes the fatal illness timer to start, and autocurses when worn, but will reliably cure illness when removed. | jonadab | |
If you're polymorphed into a water moccasin, you can crawl into a fountain to travel to any fountain in the game. | FIQ | |
#shout works to send mail to someone in another game on the same server. Uses engraving erosion code because it's from far away. | bug_sniper, Tangles | |
#yodel and #karaoke commands to make nearby peaceful and tame monsters hostile. | jonadab, K2 | |
Cans of grease appear as "a tin" while unidentified. | aosdict | |
Herrings that can be used as axes, because of Monty Python. | bug_sniper | |
The Plane of Tedium, which is 8000x2400 with the viewport scrolling with the character to keep them on the screen. | jonadab | |
Spambots that attack by throwing tins of rotten spam at you. | bug_sniper | |
Remembrall, a tool made of glass (it could even be a "glass orb" when unidentified) that cures amnesia. | aosdict | |
Separate spells that convert every type of material into every other type of material (metal to flesh, stone to metal, cloth to paper, stone to cloth, etc). | bug_sniper, aosdict | |
Monsters' resistance to Elbereth is dependent on how many games you have played. | FIQ | |
If you are hallucinating/confused and use a magic whistle, any pets may get hit with a magic missile instead. | Menche | |
1/50 player-character monsters will only move orthogonally, because their laptop doesn't have a numpad and they are stubbornly using the arrow keys. | jonadab | |
Remove Quest nemeses' petrification resistance, because making it feasible to play around with a c corpse means the player might YASD with it. | Wooble | |
Rename the Dark One to the Dim One. | ChrisE | |
Starting to levitate/fly should give the message "You ascend." | Wooble | |
Tame kittens will randomly stop to lick themselves or fall asleep. | Wooble | |
Occasionally generate 2x2 squares in rock with a few gold pieces embedded in each, to trick people into digging for it. | aosdict | |
At most one treasure zoo in the game is actually called "David's treasure zoo", and it contains a player monster named David. | aosdict | |
Dehydrated conduct, which is broken if you drink potions, quaff fountains or sinks, or go in water. | stenno | |
While invisible, you are always blind. This is because photons are passing straight through your eyes and the rest of your head without actually hitting your retinas. | aosdict | |
Masonry that smooths out the surfaces of luckstones, so they stack. | bug_sniper | |
If you are playing the Noble role, you cannot squeeze past boulders at all, because you are "portly". | dNetHack | aosdict |
Horseflies, ridable flying monsters that are Tiny size. | bug_sniper | |
Make a Strength check for bugling the notes A, B, D or F, since such notes are theoretically possible to play on a bugle but require you to blow almost impossibly hard. | aosdict | |
At most one treasure zoo in the game is actually designated and introduced to the player as "David's treasure zoo". This zoo contains a player monster named David. | aosdict | |
Legal blindness, a birth option that is not quite as blind as permablind. You can see only one square around you for the whole game regardless of lighting. | aosdict | |
Allow the options parser to parse the typo POTIONS= the same as OPTIONS=. | aosdict | |
Zombies pregenerate with a given number of eyes and ears, like you would see in Dwarf Fortress. Slashing attacks have a chance to remove their ears and piercing attacks have a chance to remove their eyes. With no ears or eyes left, they become deaf or blind respectively. | aosdict | |
Digless conduct, broken when you dig. | Tangles | |
New artifact Houchou Jr. It is a spork that instakills anything it's thrown at, but only in forks of NetHack. | aosdict | |
Possessing a utensil should prevent your hands from getting glibbed from eating a greasy tin | bug_sniper | |
A negative "anticoagulation" intrinsic, which prevents your wounds from healing up, so bleeding effects continue draining HP, and probably eventually kill you. | AmyBSOD, jonadab | |
If you die and one of your pets comes across your corpse with a wand of undead turning before you rot away, it can zap your corpse with the wand and bring you back to life; your game does not end. | FIQhack | aosdict |
Dipping potions into fountains may produce diluted potions of sickness. | FIQ | |
If playing a vampire who hates blessed stuff, Wizard of Yendor harassment may bless your items instead of cursing them. | dNetHack | ais523 |
Classify ice boxes as magical tools, since they manage to stay cold permanently without any supply of ice. | aosdict | |
A branch where gravity is reversed, so you walk on the ceiling and trapdoors make you fall through to higher levels. | AmyBSOD | |
Potions can be generated diluted, remain diluted when polypiled, and cannot be used in alchemy at all. | AmyBSOD | |
If you throw an unlit potion of oil and a fire elemental is in its path, it passes through and lights the potion of oil. | jonadab | |
Water elementals should count as unsolid, because clearly they are liquid. | aosdict | |
The 119th monster of its type that gets killed drops an artifact that instakills any monster of that type, except there can only ever be one more of it generated. | rikersan | |
A weapon that conveys the "freezing" property, which makes you shiver and eventually freeze to death if you don't drop it. | bug_sniper | |
If you are watching a game in which someone stone to fleshes a statue of you, you control whether you become peaceful, tame, or hostile. | bug_sniper |