Hack'EM

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Hack'EM is a project started by User:Hackemslashem with the goal of becoming the next successor to SLASH'EM. Simply put, Hack'EM is "Hack, Extended Mechanics."

About

Welcome to Hack'EM!

The first objective of this project was to bring SLASH'EM content to a modern NetHack platform:

• Port over most of the content from SLASH'EM and attempt to take the "next steps" for it.
• If something doesn't work, is buggy, or is easily abusable, attempt to fix it or remove it.
• If something is bland or feels unfinished - attempt to flesh it out.
• Add all the quality-of-life features that are available in the variant market.

Hack'EM was based on EvilHack for a few reasons:

• EvilHack is based on NetHack 3.6, and already contained many important updates and bug fixes.
• It's inherently more difficult, but in ways that seem to work with SLASH'EM.
• Many quality-of-life features were already baked in.
• EvilHack also had lots of small tweaks and gameplay changes that seemed to work with SLASH'EM content.
• EvilHack has an amazing dedicated community, and without their help, Hack'EM wouldn't have been able to grow and mature!

For a complete list of changes, see the Hack'EM Changelog.

Changes from SLASH'EM

Here is where Hack'EM diverges:

• The Drow has not been ported, but may be inherited from EvilHack's implementation in the future.

• Techniques have been implemented with updates and bug fixes. New techniques are featured! See the techniques section for more details.

These features have been removed or replaced:

• Skipped races: Lycanthrope.
• Skipped monsters: Gypsies, Doctor Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster
• Skipped items:
  • wand of fireball
  • lab coat
  • heavy hammer (evil had heavy war hammer)
  • rocket launcher, grenade launcher, rocket, stick of dynamite
  • Silver short sword/long sword/mace (object materials has these covered)
  • dark elven bow, dark elven arrow, dark elven dagger, dark elven short sword, dark elven mithril-coat
  • Giantkiller (Evil has Giantslayer).
• Skipped spellbooks:
  • spellbook of enchant armor
  • spellbook of enchant weapon
  • spellbook of resist poison
  • spellbook of resist sleep
  • spellbook of endure cold
  • spellbook of endure heat
  • spellbook of insulate
  • These all require implementing a IMMUNE property for full 100% temporary resistances, which doesn't really work with Evil's partial resistance system.
• The Guild of Disgruntled Adventurers is removed and replaced by mini-guild special rooms
• Frankenstein's Lab is removed
• The variations on the vibrating square levels have NOT been imported - the EvilHack version remains.
• None of the SLASH'EM Demon prince lairs have been imported.
• Removed "Hits as +x weapon" property from SLASH'EM monsters
• Removed "Need +x weapon to be hit" property from SLASH'EM monsters
• Removed the extra artifact blasting (6d6 to 8d10) from SLASH'EM; this mechanic does not seem to add much to the game other than making early wishes less useful and killing unknowing players.
• Removed wraith corpse nerf. In SLASH'EM there was a reduced probability of gaining levels with a mix of other effects.
• Removed the temporary polymorph mechanic for objects. There is no "hazy" status for polymorphed objects. This mechanic was not imported for 2 reasons: it makes it possible to create overpowered weapons (e.g. +127 weapons) and it is also not intuitive for new players since it contradicts the vanilla behavior of polymorphed items.
• Removed SLASH'EM's invisible objects. For now, there has not been a compelling reason to bring this mechanic in.
• Removed SLASH'EM polymorph behavior for monsters; when killed shapeshifters could immediately poly into their polyform (or different form if a chameleon or similar). This mechanic was quite frustrating to deal with, especially concerning new threats like weretigers or werepanthers. In SLASH'EM you could be forced to kill the same shapechanger many times before it would finally die in its base form. The EvilHack behavior replaces this so that a shapechanger cannot poly again once it has been killed in its polyform.

Changes from EvilHack

Another objective was to trim some of the EvilHack content. Some things did not fit, were too difficult, or left better as an Evil only feature.

Dungeon changes

• Removed the Goblin Town branch and requirement to defeat Goblin King.
• Removed the Ice Queen branch.
• Vecna's Branch was removed, instead we still have Vecna but in a different level for the Chaotic Quest.
• Mines river/sewage generation only occurs on levels deeper than Minetown.
• Removed the indestructible drawbridge from the VotD; it can be destroyed like a regular drawbridge now.
• The first level of Sokoban is guaranteed to have 2 scrolls of earth.

Big bad changes

• Reduced the chance Rodney gets an amulet of magic resistance to 1 in 13 times (changed from Evil where it was 50%).
• The Riders only get 40 + d(10, 8) HP instead of 100 + d(10, 8).
• Baalzebub, Geryon, Dispater are back to being demon princes. They should be bribable again.
• Demon lords and princes no longer negate being able to self-teleport or use cursed potions of gain level.
• Removed the Wand of Orcus. Orcus gets his standard wand of death now.
• Removed Kas and the Sword of Kas.
• Reverted the Dark One back to a human (from an Illithid in Evil)
• Vecna no longer has to be defeated to genocide liches/alhoons.

Item changes

• Some of the dragon scales have had buffs or different secondary effects added. All scales grant passive effects now. See the section on Dragon Scales for details.
• Removed The Magic 8-Ball (The Oracle gets a regular eight ball). Eight balls are still in the game but very rare, and they can be read like the Magic 8-Ball can.
• Unicorn Horns have been reverted back to a 2-handed d12 weapon.
• Improved the chances of item randomly spawning with two properties to 1 in 3141. (In Evil the chances are 1 in 100000)
• Magicbane could cause a Bag of Holding explosion, this mechanic has been removed. Magicbane is safe for any Bag of Holding.
• Removed all passive attacks from baby dragons.

Mechanics changes

• #forge has been renamed to #craft for working with forges. The reason is to make #force and #craft auto-complete. #forge still has the same meta shortcut: M('F')
• Removed two-weaponing weight-based restrictions imposed in EvilHack.
• Monsters can no longer use wands of wishing to get wishes - if they get a wish from a smoky potion they will still attempt to get something powerful.
• Removed the monster riding monster mechanic.
• Monster spawn rates are simplified a bit from EvilHack: Monster spawn rates increase to 4x normal once you've performed the invocation. After that, all denizens of the dungeon are aware of what has happened and nasties will spawn on each level's upstairs.
• Zapping light around peaceful monsters could anger them. This mechanic has been removed except for when you break a wand of light.
• Spellcasting monsters have to see you in order to cast summon nasties.
• Spellcasting monsters have had their spell range limited by their level (gnomish mages are level 3 and can only cast fire bolt in a radius of 2-3 tiles instead of 13).
• Changed timeout for monster spell of stone to flesh to timeout 2d7 instead of rn2(7).
• Removed engulfing attack from gelatinous cube, water elemental, earth elemental, and fire elemental. The Splice elementals (magma, mud, ice, acid) still can engulf.
• Removed cursed weapons reverse hitting (was in EvilHack and Splice). Instead, cursed weapons will miss their target 25% of the time.
• Revert the standard cursed wand backfire chance from 1-in-30 to 1-in-100.
• Revert EvilHack sacrifice gift changes: Instead of a mix of regular items and artifacts, players will receive only artifacts (unless you get a minion as a gift).
• Removed accompanying artifact defenders when wishing for artifacts.
• Lowered the poison insta-death resistance threshold from 35% to 25%. If your poison resistance is under 25% you have a chance of insta-death from poison dart traps, poison bite, etc.
• In EvilHack the Amulet of Yendor has a chance of teleporting randomly if dropped on the floor, this random chance of teleport has been removed.

Race/role updates

• Illithids used to get flying at level 12, now they start with flying.
• Centaurs used to get jumping at level 5, now they start with jumping.
• Giants can wear mummy wrappings and any giant can wear large splint mail.
• Tortles can wear mummy wrappings.

More content!

Originally, hackemslashem intended this variant to be a modern port of SLASH'EM. However, once he reached close to the completion of that goal he found that there was quite a lot in other variants that he loved and just could not pass on including. When deciding on what to import, he mostly went by two criteria: 1) Does it improve the player's experience (Quality of Life, Fun)? and 2) Does it complement the existing SLASH'EM content and/or EvilHack content?

So far, content from many other forks has also been integrated:

• EvilHack: Since it was based on EvilHack, you will see a lot of the mechanics, monsters, and items have stayed in Hack'EM.
• SpliceHack: Much of Splice has been imported since it seems to fit well with the SLASH'EM themes but also because development on this variant has stalled. The creator of SpliceHack (Kes) has given her blessing for us to assimilate all SpliceHack content into Hack'EM.
• SlashTHEM: Similar to Splice, a lot of content was ported from this variant because development on it is mostly stalled.
• slashem-up/slashem9: These are two forks of SLASH'EM that were developed in the past.
• UnNetHack: Many QoL features and mechanics have been imported.
• xNetHack: Many mechanics and updates have been imported.
• dNetHack: Fun gameplay tweaks and artifacts have been imported (ex: armor with special appearances has special bonuses) with plans to import much more.
• Slash'EM Extended: A few interesting things have been cherry-picked from slex, like toilet amulet ID and allowing mummies to be summoned by Call Undead.

If you have an idea for a feature that would port well, please suggest it!

Quality-of-life features

Object lookup has been fleshed out:

• If you are new to Hack'EM, the object lookup will be your new best friend!
• To access the lookup info, you can either:

   - Type ; and press : on a tile.
   - Type / and ?, and manually type in the item/monster to query (e.g. "dwarf thief")

• Object lookup shows more information, including object properties and special effects from materials.
• Object lookup for corpses now shows intrinsics conferred, and other info about eating them (like if they are poisonous or acidic).
• Weapons show bonus damage and effects resulting from materials.
• Artifacts can now be looked up in the item database!

Auto-identification

• All roles start out knowing these basic items:
  • potions of water
  • blank scrolls
  • scrolls of identify
• Auto-ID dunce cap upon wearing (Un)
• Auto-ID jumping boots (AceHack)
• Auto-ID some potions when inhaling their vapors
• Auto-ID scroll of scare monster on pickup if it turns to dust (Un)
• Auto-ID scroll of teleportation when teleporting any distance after reading one
• Auto-ID scrolls of remove curse when items' curses are removed (Un)
• Auto-ID wand of teleportation on seeing the successful effect on a monster (Un)
• Auto-ID wands with unambiguous effects and messages (Un)
• Auto-ID wand of undead turning if engraving produces a message (Un)
• Auto-ID wands of probing and secret door detection when engraved with (Un)
• Auto-ID vanishing wands if the other 2 have been identified (Un)
• Auto-ID wands of sleep or death if their counterpart has been identified (Un)
• Auto-ID wands of healing or extra healing if their counterpart has been identified
• Auto-ID rings dropped into a sink when message is shown (Un)
• Auto-ID amulets dropped into toilets, if possible (slex)
• Auto-ID for ring of regeneration (Un)
• Auto-ID whistles on use (Un)
• Auto-ID whetstones when used with a water source.
• Auto-ID magic flutes and harps on use (Un)
• Auto-ID magic lamps and oil lamps when rubbing (Un)
• Auto-ID loadstones upon discovering the inability to drop them (Un)
• Auto-ID flintstones when rubbed on iron weapons (evil)
• Auto-ID water walking boots when worn (xnh)
• Auto-ID tinfoil hat when worn
• Auto-ID BUC of products from BUC identified item generator (UnNetHackPlus)
• Rustproof/erodeproof/fixed status is known by default for all items (DynaHack)
• A blessed scroll of charging will (in addition to charging the item) also reveal the number of charges and the charge counter
• After a while of using a wielded weapon, you will identify it and its enchantment (evil)
• Throne insight now recursively identifies all items in your possession and in your containers (fiq)

Other QoL

• Paranoid swim and paranoid trap options can be set.
• The player's magic cancellation (MC) is shown in the status bar (evil)
• Phasing status is also shown in the status bar. (from EvilHack)
• Realtime display option is now available (from EvilHack)
• Show spells known in the dumplog. (from EvilHack)
• Show techniques known in the dumplog.
• Show prayer stats in Attributes menu [^X screen] (from UnNetHack, originally from dNetHack)
• Firearms that have different modes of operation display their modes in the player's inventory.
• Attempting to open "." acts as an alias for #loot
• > < to auto-travel to stairs (from Unnethack)
• Control+Direction now kicks in that direction
• You can reread a spellbook to refresh your memory at any time
• Blessed stethoscopes can identify eggs (on the floor)
• When identified, scrolls of enchant armor ask what armor to enchant.
• Remove "Auto-select every item" when putting into containers (Un)
• Default shopkeeper sell prompt to N (xnh)
• Regeneration only causes additional hunger when injured (Un)
• 1-damage hits still train weapon/unarmed skills (from DynaHack)
• Chargeable rings may get charged when hit with electricity (3.7)
• Useless +0 rings are generate very rarely (xnh)
• Monsters are prevented from picking up gold in shops (Un)
• Monsters don't blame the player for falling down holes the player dug. Pit traps still count.
• The Astral Plane is always lit (xnh)
• The passtune range has been extended by 1 so you can now play one step farther away from the drawbridge (xnh)
• Switching between your main and alternative weapon does not take any turns (from dnh)
• Monks eventually stop receiving the "You feel guilty" message for breaking vegetarian conduct (xnh)
• Removed repeated coughing of player when poison resistance renders stinking clouds harmless.
• Removed all random secret corridors (xnh)
• Removed the Quest turn limit (Un)
• Removed the mysterious force
• Deliberate level teleporter activation ignores magic resistance (3.7)
• Potions have been made more useful from a small collection of patches (see the Alchemy Mechanics section)
• Extrinsic resistances protect items from elemental damage. For example, wearing a ring of fire resistance will protect your scrolls and potions from fire damage.
• Magical Explosions: Players cannot put known wands of cancellation or magical bags into bags of holding anymore (dnh). This also applies when #tipping into your bag of holding, you will flick away explosive items if you have the item and the BoH identified.
• If a player charges a depleted Bag of Tricks/Rats with contents - it will now explode and scatter the contents instead of deleting them.
• All roles (except Caveman) get their special spell granted when they reach level 12 (SpliceHack)
• Pets will not use rings of teleportation.
• Slightly discourage pets with ranged attacks (e.g. hell hound pups) from attacking strong peacefuls like watch captains or shopkeepers.
• Projectile unidentification has been left out (prevents merging projectiles in 3.7)
• Phasing allows escape from being engulfed. (EvilHack)
• Wielding/wearing item giving stoning res will cure stoning (EvilHack).
• Players can use gaze attacks in melee range when poly'd into a form with one.
• Don't drop aklys on the floor due to slippery fingers. (EvilHack)
• Greased/oilskin objects have a chance to resist being stolen. (from EvilHack)
• Archery and gun shops do not appear if your character cannot attain any proficiency in BOW or FIREARM, respectively.

Wizard mode updates

• #wizclear (^z), clears all monsters on level (splice)
• Can wish for monsters with ^w (Un)

Wishing shortcuts

Note: Capitalization does not matter when using these.

Item	Shortcut
Amulet of ESP	AoESP
Amulet of Life Saving	AoLS
Bag of Holding	BoH
Cloak of Displacement	CoD
Cloak of Invisibility	CoL
Cloak of Magic Resistance	CoMR
Gauntlets of Dexterity	GoD
Gauntlets of Power	GoP
Helm of Brilliance	HoB
Helm of Opposite Alignment	HoOA
Helm of Telepathy	HoT
Levitation Boots	BoL
Magic Lamp	ML
Magic Marker	MM
Potion of Extra Healing	PoEH
Potion of Gain Level	PoGL
Potion of Monster Detection	PmD
Potion of Water	PoW
Ring of Conflict	RoC
Ring of Polymorph Control	RoPC
Ring of Teleport Control	RoTC
Scroll of Identify	SoI
Scroll of Remove Curse	SoRC
Scroll of Charging	SoC
Scroll of Enchant Armor	SoEA
Scroll of Enchant Weapon	SoEW
Shield of Reflection	SoR
Speed Boots	BoS
Unicorn Horn	UH
Wand of Create Monster	WoCM
Wand of Teleportation	WoT
Wand of Undead Turning	WoUT
Water Walking Boots	BoWW
Kiku-ichimonji	kiku

Mechanics changes

• If the player tries to hit a monster with a weapon they are restricted/unskilled in, or any non-weapon object, they'll never have better than a 75% chance of landing a hit (bare-handed is exempt).
• The player is unable to regenerate hit points while in the Valley of the Dead – healing via other methods (potions, healing spells) is still possible.
• Stoning – monsters being stoned is a slow-stoning process, just as it is for the player.
• Merged scimitar and saber skills.
• Added celibate conduct (SLASH'EM)
• Added conduct for performing (or refusing to perform) techniques.

1. Added a conduct for buying or selling from shopkeepers.

• Galloping duration depends on riding skills (idea by Beolach, code by Pasi Kallinen)

Mold and fungus resurrection

• Ported from from xnh, which ported from SLASH'EM.
• Corpses have a chance to mold and grow a random F.
• Petrifying monster corpses only grow green mold.
• The resurrection rates have been tapered back a bit, so it's not as pervasive as in Slash'EM - but there are more F monsters that can spawn (including moldiers at deeper levels).
• Moldy corpses can be used with different potions (see the brewing patch details)

Elbereth

• You cannot use Elbereth until you've learned it in-game (via rumor, reading it, etc).
• Conflict negates Elbereth.
• Elves & hobbits start out knowing Elbereth
• Orcs can never learn it. Player orcs can't learn Elbereth even if polyd.
• When a lawful is crowned the Hand of Elbereth, they learn Elbereth if they have not already.

Scare monster

• Several more creatures are immune to Elbereth and Scare Monster:
  • any unique monsters including the Wizard of Yendor, quest nemeses, the Riders.
  • all angelics (any A)
  • humans (any @), player monsters
  • Any monsters affected by conflict or in berserk mode are also immune.

Extended and new commands

• #force can also be used on doors while wielding a weapon (SLASH'EM)
• #loot can be used at your pet to both give and take away items from its inventory.
• #naming glitches have been nerfed - Players can no longer #name items for identification clues. On attempting to name a regular object with a related artifact name (e.g. naming a candle "The Candle of Eternal Flame"), your hand will always slip.
• Monks can break boulders and statues using martial arts skill at skilled level or higher (shift + f and then a movement key).
• Rogues can steal from monsters by using 'thievery', (must be bare-handed to use, press shift + f and then a movement key).
• Convicts can #chat with rats to pacify or tame them.
• Necromancers can #chat with zombies to pacify or tame them.
• Changed #forge to #craft.
• #tech accesses your role's available techniques.

Resistances and intrinsics

Partial resistances

• Intrinsic resistances are no longer binary, but are percentages instead. The spread is 5% to 50% resistance gained from eating per corpse. Damage reduction from various attacks is determined by how much partial resistance the player has to it.
• Reflection is not 100%; it can lessen the effects of an attack it reflects, but will never negate it.
• The "shower of missiles" monster attack is not completely negated by magic resistance.
• Restful sleep regenerates HP (we can get restful sleep property from the Amulet of Restful Sleep or a Ring of Sleeping)

Afraid status

• The player can sometimes become too afraid to control their actions and will run away from the object of fear.
• Similar to the effects of being stunned or confused, but you will still be able to use items as normal.
• Attempting to throw projectiles while afraid usually results in them slipping.
• Caused by dragon roars, some monster attacks, and the wand of fear.
• Can be cured by quaffing booze or amnesia, or by wearing an item that gives psychic resistance.

"Stable" property

• Protects you(or monsters) from clobber and hurtle attacks.

Sonic resistance property (from Splice)

• Protects you (or monsters) from sonic attacks.
• Since this property is only available from extrinsic sources, it will always also protect your items from sonic destruction.

Psychic resistance property

• (from Splice and Evil)
• Illithids start with psychic resistance.
• Protects you from forgetting skills, spells, and other things from potions and scrolls of amnesia, as well as mind flayer and zombie attacks.
• Protects you from an illithids psionic wave and tentacle attacks.
• Protects from most fear attacks, including dragon roars.
• Wearing items that give psychic resistance stop you from being afraid.

Larva carrier property

• Some monsters can infect you with eggs!
• If the larva are allowed to hatch, they emerge from your body dealing significant damage in the process. Plus you have to deal with the new monsters in front of you.

You can cure this condition with a few different methods:

• quaffing potions of sickness
• drink from a toilet
• eating a pill
• invoking the Staff of Aesculapius
• invoking the Healing Hands technique
• receiving a disease attack from a monster
• being zapped by a cure sickness spell

Upgrading and tinkering

• Upgrading mechanic via potions of gain level (from SLASH'EM)
• Instead of crystal balls upgrading to magic markers, they upgrade to lenses (going to markers didn't make much sense, and it wasn't too useful since the marker would only have a handful of charges)
• Removed a lot of the weapon upgrades, since now a lot of those are covered by forge recipes. A few still remain for quarterstaves and boomerangs.
• Added many upgrade paths for special armors
• The flintstone-to-healthstone exploit has been fixed; flintstones only upgrade one at a time.

Conflict

• When causing conflict, it now takes the player's charisma score into account.
• The formula is 'charisma - monster level + player level'
• if that value is greater than 19, clamps it to be 19.
• There's then a percentage chance (rnd(20)) against the value generated on whether conflict kicks in or not.
• So even with charisma and your xp level maxed out, there's still a 5% chance of conflict not working.
• Also, the monsters affected have to see you for conflict to work.

Dexterity

• Dexterity can directly affect the player's AC, for better or worse. See the chart below for details.
  • Being encumbered negates AC bonuses from dexterity.
  • Wearing any kind of heavy metallic body armor (not mithril) or other rigid material (bone, stone, wood) will also negate dexterity bonuses.

Dexterity	AC change
<= 6	+3
7-9	+1
10-14	none
15-16	-1
17-18	-2
19-20	-3
21-23	-4
24-25	-5

Amnesia and forgetting

• Potions of amnesia can also inflict this effect. Potions of amnesia always have the "sparkling" appearance.
• Can make you lose Elbereth knowledge if you had it.
• Can make you forget forget about shambling horrors.
• Can make you lose intrinsic telepathy.
• Can make you lose "eaten knowledge", which doppelgangers use to poly into different forms.
• Psychic Resistance protects from amnesia forgetting. Sources include rings of psychic resistance and being an illithid.

Religion, prayer, altars

• If an unaligned altar generates with a priest of Moloch, that priest will be hostile to all roles except infidels.
• This means the VoTD priest is always hostile and unable to give donations (unless, of course, you are an infidel.)
• Sacrifice offerings can sometimes bless random objects (From SLASH'EM)

Minions

• SLASH'EM had a mechanic for getting aligned minions as gifts from your god when you sacrifice or pray with low health. This has been ported over but with some restrictions. Minions were broken in SLASH'EM and too easy to obtain (Lawfuls could get Solars and Planetars very early!).

• Minions will not be granted when:
  • You have negative luck.
  • You have been crowned
  • You have completed the quest
  • You have been expelled from the quest
  • You have any pets on the current level (prevents overcrowding)

• The player will also have to hit a 1 on this roll:
  • 1 in 10 + (4 * number of gifts granted)

• Minion pets cannot betray you. However, be aware they they do seem to lose tameness quickly if left alone on a level so do try to keep your minion with you if it's important to your survival.

• The minions granted are a little bit different from SLASH'EM but generally follow the same pattern.

Dungeon growth patch

• Another feature ported over from Slash'EM
• This enables trees to slowly branch out in the dungeon and occasionally drop ripe fruits/leaves.
• It also promotes the growth of herbs left on the ground or water.
• Herbs that are left unattended will occasionally sprout more of the same kind around surrounding tiles.
• These include: garlic, wolfsbane, catnip, carrots, mushrooms, pineapples, kelp fronds

• Some of these are not technically herbs but they still do spread prolifically.
• Herbs in the water will move with water currents.
• One strategy to try is leaving these items on the ground early in the game and then coming back after a few thousand turns to see what you have "farmed."
• Level with trees have a chance of an additional axe (to aid with potential overgrowth)

Alchemy

• Alchemic blast damage is doubled, but acid resistance halves it (xnh)

Malcolm Ryan's Brewing Patch

• Enables the player to dip mold corpses in potions of fruit juice to start a fermentation timer that will eventually turn the potion into something else dependent on the mold.
• Dipping green mold into fruit juice produces acid.
• Dipping red mold into fruit juice produces booze
• Dipping brown mold into fruit juice produces sleeping
• lichens, shriekers, and non-F corpses do not ferment.
• Dipping cursed molds into fruit juice produces sickness.

Note: This also makes the shopkeeper charge you for shop-owned fruit juice that you begin fermenting. This allows you to buy the new, possibly more expensive potion at the cost of the fruit juice.

Pouring potions into sinks (xnh)

• Allows for safer identification of potions by dumping them down the drain, leaving the hero to suffer only vapor effects.
• This is done by selecting a potion to #dip while standing on top of a sink. If a potion of polymorph is poured down a sink, it polymorphs it.

Gem alchemy

• Acid is no longer a useless endgame potion!
• Gems dissolve in acid to produce new potions.
• If the acid is cursed there is a guaranteed alchemical explosion, otherwise there is always a 1 in 30 chance of an explosion.
• Use the object lookup (on a gem) to see what potion is created from a particular gem.
• Note: Smoky potions cannot be produced with this method.

As a couple of examples:

• Opals turn into "cloudy" potions"
• Jade turns into "dark green"

Oily Corpses patch

• There is a 20% chance upon starting to eat a corpse of certain slippery monsters (e.g. most slithy, non-snakelike monsters and most blobby monsters) that your fingers get slippery. Tins of them are not slippery unless caused by the tin preparation.

Shield skill

A new trainable skill from EvilHack - using shields.

Shield skill gives the player a new avenue of defense (and even offense) to train up. Roles that can highly train shields will benefit from much higher AC and gain some nice offensive bonuses.

AC bonuses:

• Being unskilled/restricted in shield skill, there is no extra AC bonus for wearing one.
• To get these bonuses, you must be wearing a shield and have the required skill.
  • BASIC skill: +1AC
  • SKILLED skill: +3AC
  • EXPERT skill: +5AC
  • MASTER skill: +8AC

• If your role allows for it, you can train up your shield skill while wearing a shield.
• If you block an attack outright with your shield, that automatically trains shield skill.
• Otherwise, there's a 33% chance of training shield skill while wearing one and a regular miss event occurs.

Shield Bashing:

• If shield skill is basic or higher, and a shield is being worn, there's a chance the player will receive an extra 'shield bash' attack along with their regular attack
• The greater the shield skill, the greater the chance of the extra shield bash attack occurring.
• Small shields do 2-4 damage, Tower shields do 2-13 damage.
• All other shields do 3-8 damage (not counting material hatred, which is factored in).
• Expert skill or higher gets an extra small damage bonus
• Expert/master skill in shields gives a chance to stun your target with a shield bash

Misc:

• If expert skill or higher in shields., your shield will be prevented from being taken away via dwarvish bearded axe attack.

The roles that can train in shields are:

Role	Shield Skill
Archeologist	BASIC
Barbarian	SKILLED
Caveperson	BASIC
Convict	BASIC
Knight	EXPERT
Necromancer	SKILLED
Priest	SKILLED
Rogue	BASIC
Ranger	SKILLED
Tourist	BASIC
Undead Slayer	SKILLED
Valkyrie	MASTER
Yeoman	BASIC

• Knights and valkyries start at basic skill.

Techniques

• Removed limit breaking from techniques. This was the primary attribute of techniques that was broken in SLASH'EM. One could simply lower their HP and gain unlimited access to some of the techs for some fairly unbalanced advantages.

• Revivification technique) and the spirit bomb spell (which was the Monk's Spirit bomb technique)
• Gnomish shopkeepers sometimes offer the expensive tinker service
• In addition the weapon practice technique, some shopkeepers offer a firearms training service.
• Double damage (from DeathVision or Staff of Rot) is handled properly for techs.

Changes to existing techniques

Technique	Notes	Origin
chained blitz	Monk blitz tech Chain blitz tech now shows how many blitz moves you have available and input feedback as you type the blitz commands. Chain blitz shows helpful feedback for incorrect inputs. Chain blitz only costs energy if a successful command sequence is input; invalid commands also don't use up the tech. Chain blitz commands can also be terminated with ; or : Updated blitz commands to be shorter and more intuitive; commands with 2 versions are always mirrored. Instead of wasting a move when making a mistake in chain blitz, it just cancels the tech and let's the player try again.	SLASH'EM
air dash	Monk blitz tech Cannot air dash while trapped or underwater. Using the air dash tech while confused, stunned, or fumbling goes in a random direction.	SLASH'EM
elemental fist	Monk blitz tech Elemental fist can inflict sonic damage. Added some rare bonus crits for elemental fist (inspired by SpliceHack skills)	SLASH'EM
chi strike	Monk blitz tech	SLASH'EM
chi healing	Monk blitz tech	SLASH'EM
pummel	Monk blitz tech	SLASH'EM
ground slam	Monk blitz tech	SLASH'EM
uppercut	New blitz tech for monks. It's a powerful alternate to ground slam which creates a pit. Does double damage to targets with heads. Influenced by stunning fist skill from Splice.	Hack'EM
spirit bomb	Monk blitz tech Buffed spirit bomb technique damage.	SLASH'EM
jedi jump	Jedi	SlashTHEM
charge saber	Jedi	SlashTHEM
telekinesis	Jedi Can disarm/trigger traps and remotely pickup objects. Rearranged the telekinesis logic into a loop, so player doesn't waste MP on invalid targets. Added new traps that can be disarmed.	SlashTHEM
force push	Jedi Jedi gain a force-push technique at level 14. Using the force push tech while engulfed breaks you out.	Hack'EM
berserk		SLASH'EM
kiii	Kii technique timeout gets extended on successful hits. Samurai	SLASH'EM
research	Archeologist	SLASH'EM
surgery	Healer	SLASH'EM
reinforce memory	General tech for spellcasters that lets them refresh their memory of a spell that is getting low in retention.	SLASH'EM
missile flurry	Ranger	SLASH'EM
weapon practice	General tech for some melee roles to let them train up skills without fighting.	SLASH'EM
eviscerate	Tech for the deferred Lycanthrope/Lunatic	SLASH'EM
healing hands	Knight and Priest tech. Also cures larval infection now.	SLASH'EM
calm steed	Yeoman Cures fear when used in centaur form/race.	SLASH'EM
turn undead	As in SLASH'EM, #turn is now a technique. Knights, priests, and undead slayers get this technique.	SLASH'EM
vanish	Gnomes	SLASH'EM
cutthroat	Rogue	SLASH'EM
blessing	Priest	SLASH'EM
primal roar	Caveman Instead of the Primal Roar tech temporarily poly-upgrading pets, we fully heal them and the duration of their double damage has been extended.	SLASH'EM
liquid leap	Doppelganger Liquid leap affects all squares the same as being zapped with acid. Paranoid confirm for liquid leaping into water or lava.	SLASH'EM
critical strike	Rogue	SLASH'EM
raise zombies	Necromancer	SLASH'EM
revivification	Removed revive tech from healers; necromancers get it at level 14. Priests can also get this tech at level 30.	SLASH'EM
tinker	Gnomes	SLASH'EM
rage eruption		SLASH'EM
blink	Hobbits	SLASH'EM
draw energy	General spellcaster tech Draw energy tech now uses grass, puddles, sewage, and dead trees in its calculation. Necromancers get a bonus for using draw energy near graves.	SLASH'EM
disarm	Any role can get this tech by advancing a non-ranged weapon skill to Skilled. In SLASH'EM, you could get this tech by advancing any weapon skill except whips. In Hack'EM, we have instead excluded ranged weapons, since it's awkward to explain how you would disarm somebody with a dart or arrow. We have also allowed the whip since they can actually be applied to disarm enemies already.	SLASH'EM
dazzle	Vampirics	SLASH'EM
power surge	Powerful technique for spellcasters.	SLASH'EM
draw blood	Vampirics	SLASH'EM
booze	For the deferred Drunk role from SlashTHEM.	SLEX
souleater	Enabled soul eater tech for dark knight Souleater tech will buff any weapon that drains life (instead of just originally Soulthief) This tech originally required the Soulthief artifact. This artifact has been left out. Necromancer gets souleater tech at level 6.	SlashTHEM
shield block	General tech for melee roles. Shield block also doesn't work if afraid or slow. Similar to disarm, any role that reaches Skilled proficiency in Shields will automatically gain access to this technique. As a result, no roles gain this tech by reaching X level anymore, and we have given priests the ability to reach skilled in shields now.	SlashTHEM
whistle undead	Necromancer Acts as a magic whistle effect for undead.	Hack'EM
spirit tempest	Necromancer Created for necromancers - it works as a self centered spirit bomb. Spirit tempest tech gets a multi explosion bonus at level 21.	Hack'EM
pickpocket	The rogue's thievery ability from EvilHack is now available on the technique menu. It it still available by using force attack (F).	Hack'EM/Evil
tumble	Adapted the Tumble skill from SpliceHack into a technique. Pirates get it from level 1. Cannot be used underwater or while levitating.	Hack'EM/Splice
sunder	Adapted the Sunder skill from SpliceHack into a technique. Pirates get it at level 5.	Hack'EM/Splice
blood magic	Adapted the Blood Magic skill from SpliceHack into a technique for necromancers.	Hack'EM/Splice
break rock	Adapted the monk's boulder breaking ability from EvilHack into a technique. It it still available by using force attack (F) on boulders or statues.	Hack'EM/Evil

Techniques left out from SLASH'EM

Warding techs for fire, cold, and shock. The monk will keep their standard resistances instead.

• |Ward against flame
• Ward against ice
• Ward against lightning

Removed all the sigil techniques. Some of these sigils have been rendered obsolete by skilled/expert spellcasting.

• Sigil of control
• Sigil of tempest
• Sigil of discharge

• Removed unused T_INVOKE_DEITY technique.

Roles and races

New player roles

• Re-balanced all SLASH'EM role skills.
• No SLASH'EM roles can start with magic markers anymore (from Evil).

Convict

Convicts present a unique challenge from the standard vanilla roles. Their alignment is always chaotic, regardless of racial background. They start out with some critical disadvantages that the player will have to quickly and creatively overcome to survive.

Convicts start out with negative alignment and punished with a heavy iron ball chained to their leg, and they also start wearing a cursed fireproof striped shirt. The shirt prevents entry into any shop while worn and visible (not covered by a cloak or robe). The shirt is fireproof so one can't simply dip it in a forge to dispose of it. They get no other weapons or armor at the start of the game, and to top it off convicts start on the verge of hunger. However, one of the convict's strengths is that they burn nutrition at half the normal rate while hungry or worse. Be careful before rushing to Minetown because the watchguards are on the lookout for you! If they see your face, they will be angered and pursue you. Wear a blindfold or towel as a quick disguise! Keep in mind that if a shopkeeper sees you with the striped shirt on - they will ban you for life (services will also not be available), so make sure to cover it up before getting close to a shop. Another challenge is that Convicts cannot tame domestic pets as normal - they will always be "wary" of you.

Level 1:	sickness resistance
Level 7:	poison resistance
Level 20:	searching

• Their first artifact gift is Luck Blade, a chaotic short sword that acts as a luckstone.
• Their starting pet is a sewer rat, and convicts can tame other rats by #chatting them.

Changes from Convict Patch:

• Replaced convict's quest artifact, The Iron Ball of Liberation, with The Iron Spoon of Liberation.
• Added secret doors to some of the prison cells on the quest home level, so it's easier for players to navigate.
• Convicts start with a spoon, which uses knife skill. Convicts also get backstab bonuses (similar to Rogues) when wielding a spoon.
• Convicts can reach expert in firearms.
• Convicts can use and train up thievery skill. (EvilHack)
• If you are playing as a doppelganger, your convict will also start out wearing a cursed amulet of unchanging. This is to prevent them from polymorphing into a form that can break or slip out of the striped shirt, but also having the Unchanging property prevents liquid leaping out of the chain and ball.
• Convicts start out knowing all firearms.

Infidel

The Infidel role was created by User:Tomsod (see this link for the original patch and author notes). It has been ported from EvilHack and subsequently to Hack'EM with minimal changes.

If you are looking for something completely different (and evil) - look no further than the Infidel! Infidels don't follow any of the typical alignments, they are worshipers of Moloch and therefore unaligned.

Forget searching for the Amulet of Yendor because you actually start with it! Your primary mission is to travel down to the Sanctum, find the unaligned altar, and sacrifice the Amulet in honor of Moloch. When doing this, you must have your quest artifact in open inventory (the Idol of Moloch). Moloch may then imbue the Idol with the power of the Amulet.

Your secondary mission is to travel back up through the dungeon and make your way to the Astral Plane, where you will attempt to invoke the Idol on the correct altar (to Moloch), thereby giving Moloch dominion over 'heaven' and the other three aligned gods, thus winning you the game.

Like a standard game with the Amulet of Yendor - the correct altar that an Infidel needs to invoke the Idol of Moloch on in the Astral Plane will vary each game. They can discover which is the correct altar by #chatting both their quest leader and the High priest of Moloch in the Sanctum.

Level 1:	fire resistance
Level 15:	warning
Level 20:	shock resistance

Inventory:

• a spellbook of drain life plus one other random spellbook.
• Infidels starting armor is cursed - they actually benefit from wearing cursed armor and wielding cursed weapons, and are able to remove/unwield these items without penalty.
• Wearing blessed armor slightly hurts spellcasting success rates.
• a cloak of protection (cursed)
• 2 scrolls of charging
• a fire horn
• 3 potions of unholy water
• an oilskin sack

• Their starting pet is a lesser homunculus.

Perks

• Their first artifact gift is Secespita, a copper ritual knife that greatly aids with altar sacrificing, and can drain energy from the monsters it was used to kill, helping to replenish spell power for the Infidel.
• The Idol of Moloch is the Infidel's quest artifact, a figurine of a horned devil that can be used to easily convert altars to Moloch, and provides magic resistance when carried. It can also be used to summon demons to aid the Infidel. An Infidel cannot win the game without having the Idol in their possession.
• Crowning - if an Infidel is crowned by Moloch, they transform into a demon, replete with a stinger-tipped tail and large wings, both of which can be used. In demon form, the Infidel can enjoy all of the strengths (and weaknesses) associated with being a demon. Trident skill is unlocked and can be trained all the way up to expert skill. Their crowning gift is a spellbook of fireball.

Gameplay

• Infidels are considered primary spellcasters.
• Infidels are either not penalized or will gain alignment for doing things that would normally be detrimental for other roles, such as murdering peacefuls or sacrificing their pets (killing your pet is still viewed as bad).
• Infidels praying to Moloch outside of Gehennom can expect an 80% failure rate. The only reliable means of praying are standing on an unaligned altar or being in Gehennom. Converting an aligned altar to Moloch is also much more difficult without aid - Moloch's power and influence are weakened outside of hell.
• Moloch expects an Infidel to perform a sacrifice to him at least once every 6000 turns. Not doing so adversely affects your alignment record, and it will begin to drain at an increasing rate; reaching negative values has a chance of incrementing Moloch's anger as well. Successfully performing a sacrifice delays this effect for 500 turns per point of sacrifice value; this delay is not cumulative, and if the previous remaining delay was higher, it isn't affected. Any sacrifice to Moloch counts, including same-race sacrifice and a sacrifice on a cross-aligned altar (as long as you're actually trying to convert the altar and not yourself). You will be warned when you're due for a sacrifice, both through a message and in the base attributes window.
• Infidels create unholy water the same way other roles would create holy water, by placing potions of water on a co-aligned altar and praying (Moloch's 'blessings' are actually curses). This can present a unique challenge for the Infidel role, as having certain blessed items is still desirable. They will need to find already blessed potions of water much the same way other roles typically have to find an already cursed potion of water to use.
• The Amulet suppresses teleportation and drains spell power when casting spells as it always has - this can prove quite challenging, especially in the early game. If you cast without the Amulet in your inventory, the spell will drain hit points instead of power. Healing and extra healing drain extra health so that using them is never a net gain. Hit point regeneration is also suppressed without having the Amulet in inventory. Once the Idol is imbued with the power of the Amulet, Moloch gains control over its power and suppresses the spell power draining and non-hit point regeneration effects (teleportation is still suppressed while holding the Idol).
• All aligned priests are hostile towards Infidels and will attack them should they enter their temple.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	reinforce memory
XP 1	curse
XP 5	draw energy

Flame Mage

The Flame Mage first made its appearance in SLASH'EM - where it was mostly a pseudo-copy of the wizard role but with fire items and spells. In Hack'EM, we have aimed to add more depth to this role and explore the power of their element. Because fire can be viewed as a symbol of divinity and wisdom, Flame mages cast magic (and get spellcasting bonuses) using wisdom and can reach expert in the magic of divination. Their special spell has also been changed to Enlighten, functioning as a play on "light" magic and a result of wisdom. (The reason it is not fireball is that the Infidel has fireball as their special spell, and the flame mage starts with a spellbook of fireball).

Level 1:	Extrinsic fire resistance (inventory is protected from fire damage)
Level 5:	Becomes vulnerable to cold

• Flame Mage can only be Lawful or Neutral.
• Flame Mages no longer gain cold resistance at level 13. (Their quest artifact also does NOT grant cold resistance anymore)
• Flame Mages also "like fire", so fire usually doesn't have an adverse affect on them.

Inventory:

• Starts with a more fire based inventory:
  • potions of oil
  • fire bombs
  • scrolls of fire
  • fireproof quarterstaff
  • fireproof robe
• Starts with Fire Bolt instead of Flame Sphere (Fire Bolt is a Flame Mage exclusive spell).

• Gets spell-hunger reduction (similar to wizards but a little weaker).
• Flame mages cannot twoweapon and have a multishot penalty.
• Their skill set has been rebalanced more in favor of blunt weapons (staff, club, etc).
• Fire Elementals generate peaceful for Flame Mages
• They can reach skilled in firearms.
• Flame mages get severe alignment penalties for genociding red dragons.

• One major drawback to Flame Mages is that they can never attain 100% cold resistance. When they get Vulnerability to Cold at level 5 their max cold resistance caps at 50%.

• Flame mages cannot use anything that is decidedly the domain of cold magic:
  • No handling Frost Brand/Deep Freeze.
  • No reading cold based spellbooks (cone of cold, freeze sphere)
  • Should not receive cold based spellbooks or weapons from their god either.

#youpoly

• At level 8, the Flame Mage gains access to their baby red dragon form via the #youpoly command. Transforming costs 20 MP.
• At level 15, you can #youpoly into an adult red dragon form. Transforming costs 40 MP.
• The transformation process takes 2 turns.
• You get a discount for wearing red dragon scales or scaled armor.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	reinforce memory
XP 3	power surge
XP 5	draw energy

Ice Mage

Ice Mages are the masters of cold magic. Like Flame Mages, they also appeared in SLASH'EM. In Hack'EM, they embody the dangerous but strong nature of ice. Their skills have been adjusted to represent mostly piercing weapons (knives, daggers, etc), and they have a few more tricks then they did in SLASH'EM.

• Can only be Chaotic or Neutral

Level 1:	Extrinsic cold resistance (inventory is protected from cold damage.)
Level 1:	Ice Mages can walk on ice without slipping
Level 5:	Becomes vulnerable to fire
Level 15:	Gains Water Walking

• Ice Mages no longer gain fire resistance at level 13. (Their quest artifact also does NOT grant fire resistance anymore)
• Ice mages get severe alignment penalties for genociding white dragons.

• Intrinsic ice armor AC protection
  • When you gain levels, your protection (ice armor) will grow more powerful.
  • Calculation is: ACBONUS = -((YOURLEVEL / 2) + 2)
  • Like SLASH'EM, this bonus caps at -11
  • Ice mages also get a passive ice attack that scales with their ice armor strength and level. The chance of triggering this passive improves as you gain levels. Ice mages don't get a passive ice armor attack until level 4.

Level	1	2-3	4-5	6-7	8-9	10-11	12-13	14-15	16-17	18-19	20-21
AC Bonus	-2	-3	-4	-5	-5	-6	-7	-8	-9	-10	-11

Inventory:

• Replaced their starting quarterstaff with a +2 stiletto
• 50% chance of starting with lenses.
• Removed studded armor, replaced with robe
• Removed starting potions (they might freeze from the cold)
• Starts with a frost horn in addition to a wand of cold

• Gets spell-hunger reduction (similar to wizards but a little weaker).
• Can now reach expert in riding.
• Ice mages get the multishot penalty, but it does not apply to knives.
• Their special spell is now the spell of reflection.
• Ice Elementals generate peaceful for Ice Mages.

#youpoly

• At level 8, the Ice Mage gains access to their baby white dragon form via the #youpoly command. Transforming costs 20 MP.
• At level 15, you can #youpoly into an adult white dragon form. Transforming costs 40 MP.
• The transformation process takes 2 turns.
• You get a discount for wearing white dragon scales or scaled armor.

One major drawback to playing Ice Mages is that they can never attain 100% fire resistance. When they get Vulnerability to Fire at level 5 their max fire resistance caps at 50%.

• Ice mages cannot use anything that is decidedly the domain of fire magic:
  • No handling Fire Brand/Firewall.
  • No reading fire based spellbooks (fireball, flame sphere)
  • Should not receive fire based spellbooks or weapons from their god either.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	reinforce memory
XP 5	draw energy
XP 12	power surge

Necromancer

Inventory:

• Removed starting quarterstaff, starts with 2 daggers instead. They still start with a +1 pick-axe.
• Starts with a robe and wand of fear.
• Removed starting scrolls; only starts with 1 ring.

Gameplay:

• Enabled necromancer to reach expert in polearms (for access to scythes like The End).
• Necromancers now receive a +1 alignment bonus when digging graves, and will exercise wisdom if they find a corpse.
• The necromancer's starting ghoul has the ghoulname option available.
• Their special spell is summon undead.
• Undead will never betray Necromancers (lots of undead are treacherous in Hack'EM, so charm monster isn't as reliable as it used to be.)
• Like convicts, Necromancers now cannot tame anything other than undead. Instead of taming, the best result that occurs will be pacifying the target.
• Necromancers do just like Priests automatically know the beatitude of all items.

With inspiration from aosdict, the Necromancer role has been overhauled with a new approach.

Spirits

• When playing as a necromancer, monsters that die drop "spirits". These are auto-collected as you walk over or adjacent to them.
• Spirits show up as a light-blue '~' symbol.
• Spirits in shops will not be auto-collected since it will be in the possession of the shopkeeper.
• Nonliving monsters do not leave spirits.
• Spirits cannot be picked up by you or other monsters, they will disappear as soon as anything tries to pick them up. If wished for, they will be absorbed immediately into your being.
• Spirits will fade away quickly, so don't let them sit around. On graveyard levels, they have a much higher timeout.
• Very rarely, spirits will sometimes turn into will-o'-the-wisps when they fade. On swamp levels this is much more common.
• Spirits generate when graves are dug up.
• Spirits generate in morgues (on the corpses of dead players).
• Multi-headed monsters drop more spirits (hydras, ettins, two-headed trolls).
• Some classes and specific monsters will also want your spirits so try to collect them before they do!
  • All L, W, A, & will consume spirits.
  • Valkyries, Necromancers, shades, specters, weredemons, aloons also will try to get your spirits.
  • Tame undead will not try to eat your spirits.

Spirits heal HP:

Level 1:	Spirits heal 1HP
Level 4:	Spirits heal (monster's level / 2) + 1 HP
Level 8:	Spirits heal (monster's level) + 1 HP

Spirits renew magical power:

• Necromancers do not regenerate magical power as other roles do.
• To renew your MP, you will have to collect spirits or find some other means (potions of gain energy, scrolls of charging, etc).
• A new necromancer starts with 0 energy, but a max of 99, so you can stock up.

Level 1:	Spirits grant (monster's level / 2) MP (minimum of 1).
Level 7:	You get the monster's full level value in MP.
Level 13:	You get the 1.5x monster's level value in MP.

Necromancer intrinsics

Level 1:	Drain resistance
Level 1:	Immunity to sickness
Level 1:	Undead Fear Resistance Not afraid of "fear attacks", e.g. banshees, bodaks Not afraid of nosferatu gaze Not afraid of ghosts or temple ghosts. Note: They still can be afraid of dragon roars.
Level 3:	Undead warning

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	Reinforce memory
XP 2	call undead
XP 3	raise zombies
XP 5	blood magic
XP 8	soul eater
XP 10	power surge
XP 14	revivification
XP 17	spirit tempest

Undead Slayer

Remember Simon from the Castlevania games, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer? This role takes cues from both of those characters and more. Are you sick of the Evil zombie constantly eating your brains and dying from illness? Well, now is your turn to kick some zombie butt. The Undead Slayer is your answer to zombies, vampires, and all sorts of things that crawl in the night. Originally from SLASH'EM, we have retooled the Slayer a bit for the challenges in Hack'EM. Starting out slow is no longer an option, so that has been discarded. They have more strength in actually slaying undead and their skills and intrinsics have been rounded out. Warning and Clairvoyance kick in at higher levels, and when speed is gained at level 7 it means more than overcoming the old slowness.

Level 1:	Stealth
Level 1:	Drain resistance
Level 1:	Immunity to sickness
Level 1:	Undead warning
Level 7:	Speed
Level 9:	Poison resistance
Level 15:	Warning
Level 21:	Clairvoyance

Inventory:

• Missiles and weapons will now be silver:
• Elven slayers can start with silver elven daggers or a silver elven spear.
• Crossbow bolts and bullets will be silver.
• If playing as a tortle slayer, your trident will also be silver.

Gameplay:

• Can now #turn undead
• Immune to fear attacks from undead or ghosts.
• Slayers get an alignment penalty for eating wraith corpses.
• Undead slayers get +2 to-hit bonus against undead/demons and inflict +d4 damage (like hitting as a blessed weapon (this also stacks with the blessed weapon bonus.)
• Undead slayers obliterate zombies to the point that they don't leave corpses. 2 in 3 chance of this happening every time you kill a zombie.
• Their special spell is protection
• Undead slayers do NOT have a multishot penalty.
• Instead of being able to attain Grand Master in Bare Handed combat, they can now get Master in Martial Arts.
• Undead Slayers can reach basic in two-weaponing.
• Undead slayers cannot poly into undead or demons.
• As a throwback to Blade, you can also play as a vampiric undead slayer now.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	turn undead
XP 1	weapon practice
XP 7	shield block

Yeoman

The Yeoman is another role from SLASH'EM that we have retooled a bit. In SLASH'EM the Yeoman closely resembled the Knight, maybe too closely. We have given them a few more tools and a dashing green coat to get them started. Like the Undead Slayer, they also had their starting slowness removed. Other races like tortle and giant have slowness, so that trait isn't totally lost with this change.

Level 7:	Speed
Level 15:	Swimming

Inventory:

• Starts with a green coat that grants MC2
• tooled horn
• a torch
• a blessed whetstone

Gameplay:

• Can reach skilled in daggers and axes.
• Their special spell is knock.
• Opened up neutral alignment and centaurs as playable options.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	calm steed

Pirate

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! If it's a pirate's life ye want, then it's the pirate role for ye! This role offers a fun immersive experience into the pirate role where most of the game messages will be translated into pirate speak for you. You'll also start with a pet monkey or parrot, and what pirate would leave home without a few bottles of rum?

This role offers a few twists on the standard NetHack experience. Most notably, the pirate can only gain one gift from altar sacrifice gifts - the Marauder's Map - after that, they will receive no further gifts from their god. After that, you have to rely on randomly generated artifacts. Luckily, pirates have improved odds: artifacts generate four times as often as for other roles when you're a Pirate! Although they can't get weapons from sacrifice gifts, they do get an artifact cutlass from being crowned - the Reaver, which will handily steal items from enemies when it hits them. Finally, their quest artifact is the Treasury of Proteus - a powerful chest that has mysterious powers. Once you have possession of the chest, you are considered "King of the Hill", and will attract the attention of pirates far and wide, dead and alive.

Level 1:	Swimming
Level 7:	Stealth
Level 11:	Speed

Starts with a pet monkey or parrot.

Inventory:

• +0 cutlass (scimitar)
• 3 +1 knives
• flintlock and bullets
• +0 leather jacket
• +0 high boots
• Two sea biscuits (cram ration)
• Three bananas (25% chance of kelp fronds)
• Three potions of rum (potion of booze)
• A random ring
• 10% chance of a 0:1 wand of death (from the Pirate YANI)
• +0 oilskin sack or grappling hook

Gameplay:

• Added a gun shop to the pirate quest.
• Changed Pirate's special spell to haste self (Barbarians already had Cause Fear)

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	weapon practice
XP 1	tumble
XP 5	sunder

Jedi

The Jedi role has been ported from SlashTHEM. The Jedi have a delicate relationship with their lightsabers - the lightsabers provide offense, defense, and utility, but they demand attention and maintenance. As a master of the force, you will have to balance your use of the lightsaber to make sure you don't exhaust its charges when you need it most. The Jedi skill set is narrowly focused on swords and sabers, so you will have to make the most of your offensive capabilities and use your techniques to get out of tight spots.

Inventory:

• +1 robe,
• +0 leather gloves,
• Chance of either a red, green or blue lightsaber,
• 50% chance of a blindfold.

Gameplay:

• Jedi can reach skilled in enchantment spells.
• Jedi's can reach Expert in martial arts.
• Jedi can reach basic in firearms.
• Receives Deluder as their first guaranteed sacrifice gift.
• Jedi have Charm Monster as their special spell.
• Jedi start out knowing all plasteel items and lightsabers instead of all armors.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	jedi jump
XP 5	charge saber
XP 8	telekinesis
XP 14	force push

Existing role changes

Archeologist

• Starts with 1 spellbook;
• Can start with torch or lamp
• Club moved from skilled to basic.
• Spear skill added, can be trained to expert.
• Archeologists can highly enchant fedoras (xnh)
• Archeologists get a +1 luck bonus from wearing fedoras.
• Archeologists start with a scroll of knowledge

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	research

Barbarian

• Barbs start with 2 food rations
• Two-weapon – Barbarians go from basic to skilled
• Riding skill increased from basic to skilled.
• Attack spell school removed. Special spell changed to cause fear.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	berserk
XP 5	rage

Caveman/Cavewoman

• Gets expanded night-vision radius of 2 tiles (from SLASH'EM).
• All spell schools removed, has 20% chance of failing to read any spellbook, regardless of its BUC status.
• Can bang rocks together to make flint.
• Can lash flint to arrows, making them more deadly with a +1 bonus. Simply (a)pply a flint stone when you have some arrows, and select the arrows to upgrade. The arrows can only get a maximum of +1 this way.
• Staying illiterate can increase maximum hit point gain per level-up.
  • XP 2-3, you can get a 1 max HP bonus.
  • XP 4-7, you can get a d2 max HP bonus.
  • XP 8+, you can get a d3 max HP bonus.
  • Your wisdom is also exercised on each level up that you remain illiterate on.
• Are the only role that can successfully tame and ride saber-toothed cats and saber-toothed tigers.
• Starting pet is a wolf (from UnNetHack). wolfname option can be set in the options file.
• First sacrifice gift is Skullcrusher (from SLASH'EM).

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	primal roar

Healer

• They start the game knowing items related to healing:
  • potion of sickness
  • potion of regeneration
  • potion of paralysis
  • potion of sleeping
  • potion of restore ability
  • potion of blood
  • all healing potions
  • healthstones.

• Now receives the Drowsing Rod as a first sacrifice gift
• Added clerical spell school, can train to skilled.
• Gets poison resistance intrinsic at experience level 3 instead of experience level 1.
• Trades warning intrinsic for sickness resistance at experience level 15.
• Can sense how wounded a monster is when attacking it, can also sense the wounded status of its pets.
• Healers get +1 blessed scalpel now.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	surgery

Knight

• Numerous weapon skills adjusted:
  • Axe, broadsword, two-handed sword, polearms and spears from skilled to expert.
  • Mace and morning star moved from skilled to basic.
  • Attack and healing spell schools moved from skilled to basic.
• Knights can not tame dragons unless they are both the same alignment (they are natural enemies), and are immune to fear from dragon roars.
• Dwarven knights will start with a dwarvish bearded axe instead of a long sword.

Lawful Knight Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	turn undead
XP 1	healing hands
XP 1	shield block

Dark Knight Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	soul eater
XP 1	shield block

Monk

Intrinsics changes:

• Monks now receive extra intrinsics as they level up into the higher experience tiers

XL 1:	see invisible, sleep resistance, and speed
XL 3:	poison resistance
XL 5:	stealth
XL 7:	warning
XL 9:	automatic searching
XL 11:	fire resistance
XL 13:	cold resistance
XL 15:	shock resistance
XL 17:	teleport control
XL 20:	telepathy
XL 23:	water walking
XL 25:	stoning resistance
XL 27:	disintegration resistance
XL 30:	sickness resistance

Skill changes:

• • Can reach skilled in lightsabers.
  • Crossbow skill removed, added trident and broadsword.

• At master level and higher monks gain an extra kick attack (random) using martial arts skill.
• At grand master level, monks gain an extra fist attack per round using martial arts skill.
• Because of the extra random kick attack, players will need to be mindful of wearing boots of some sort, as kicking a footrice/basilisk barefoot equals instant petrification.
• Can break boulders and statues using martial arts skill at skilled level or higher (press shift + f and then a movement key in the desired direction).

• Monks get a 1AC bonus for being drunk/confused (from UnNetHack).
• Reverted the starting spell of confuse monster; Monks can again start with the spell of sleep.
• Their first sacrifice gift is now The Gauntlets of Defense.
• Monks are the only role that start with a Robe of Power
• Monks get a magic marker for their crowning gift instead of a Spellbook of Restore Ability
• Monks with intrinsic water walking can now enter into and stay in pools/moats (from EvilHack)

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	dash
XP 1	pummel
XP 1	chained blitz
XP 1	break rock
XP 2	chi strike
XP 4	chi healing
XP 6	elemental fist
XP 8	draw energy
XP 10	ground slam
XP 13	uppercut
XP 17	spirit bomb
XP 20	power surge

Priest

• Gets a +2 shield.
• All slash and pierce weapons removed; can only train with blunt-type weapons.
• Priests incur a substantial to-hit penalty, abuse wisdom, and get alignment penalties when trying to use an edged weapon (wielded or thrown).
• Their first sacrifice gift is now Disrupter.
• Their crowning gift is Mjollnir.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	turn undead
XP 1	blessing
XP 7	shield block
XP 10	healing hands
XP 30	revivification

Ranger

• Ranger can now advance two-weaponing, up to skilled.
• If playing as a gnome, their quest artifact becomes the Crossbow of Carl. Its properties mirror that of the Longbow of Diana, except that it is a crossbow instead of a bow.
• At XL10, rangers automatically see ammo enchantments.
• Ranger quest artifact, if blessed, has a chance to produce ammo with an object property. (EvilHack)

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	missile flurry

Rogue

Inventory changes:

• Rogues get scrolls of teleport and gold detection (2 each) and oilskin sack
• Rogues also get darts; 30% chance that they are replaced with a pistol and bullets.
• New trainable skill known as 'thievery', which allows the rogue to pickpocket a target and steal items from their inventory (must be bare-handed to use, press shift + f and then a movement key in the direction of the target).
• If the target is peaceful, there is a chance the target will not notice depending on the players' skill in thievery.
• Critical strike from behind works while two-weaponing.
• Rogues get backstab bonus on many other monster statuses (xnh).
• The backstab formula has been adjusted: bonus is based on skill with a cap (xnh).
• First offering gift is the Bat from Hell (SLASH'EM)

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	pickpocket
XP 1	critical strike
XP 15	cutthroat

Samurai

• Removed attack and clerical spell schools.
• The samurai quest artifact The Tsurugi of Muramasa, now grants half physical damage, and has its chance of bisection increased to 15% per hit.
• Samurai alignment abuse ceases below -10 when attacking peacefuls.
• Samurai gets Kiku-ichimonji as a first sacrifice gift instead of Snickersnee (from SlashTHEM).

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	kiii

Tourist

• Tourists get automatic type identification for shop items
• Tourists get 2 extra magic maps, 2 extra food.
• Tourists start with all of their optional equipment.
• The magic marker that a tourist starts with is always 0:0.
• Two-weaponing: Tourists can reach skilled.
• Tourists receive at most 1 PW per level up (they do not have any innate magic ability.)
• Tourists can reach expert in boomerang skill.

Changed Tourist's special spell to create familiar.

No techniques.

Valkyrie

– Removed escape spell school.

• Special spell changed to repair armor.
• Dwarven valkyries will start with a dwarvish bearded axe instead of a long sword, and are automatically proficient with it when using it to disarm weapons/shields.
• Since Valkyries don't have access to Excalibur * they are able to get the powerful Gungnir as compensation. Simply get a spear, enchant it up to +5, then pray while you have "pious" alignment. Your god will turn the spear into Gungnir for you.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	weapon practice
XP 5	shield block

Wizard

• Removed numerous weapons from being trained (axe, short sword, club, mace, polearms, spear, trident, shuriken).
• Enchantment spell skill raised from skilled to expert,
• Clerical spell skill lowered from skilled to basic.
• Can sense if objects are magical in nature, much the same way a priest knows the beatitude of all objects.
• Wizards start with magic whistles, harps, flutes, and drums identified. Wizards can see the magical nature of tools, so by process of elimination a wizard should know these objects. Otherwise we get an awkward situation of seeing a magical whistle, then it auto-identifies when used to a magic whistle.
• New starting pet, the pseudodragon.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	reinforce memory
XP 3	draw energy
XP 5	power surge

New player races

Centaur

Centaurs are strong and fast, and can be just the thing if you are looking for a new twist on an old role. They have increased carrying capacity that matches the giant player race. Centaurs' strength and dexterity can be maxed to 20, but intelligence maximum is 12, wisdom is 14, and charisma is 16 (They may not make the best spellcasters but they sure can fight). Centaurs generate slightly more hit points per level vs a human player, and they start with intrinsic speed and the ability to jump (not like a Knight, but like wearing a pair of jumping boots). Centaurs know all bow and crossbow weapons automatically, and get a multishot bonus with either type.

Centaurs cannot wear boots, for hopefully obvious reasons. They can wear all other forms of armor (as can now their monster counterparts). Centaurs cannot ride anything as a steed due to them being quadrupedal.

Because they are a steed - centaurs have the unique position of being able to melee with polearms and lances as a mounted character would.

Racial abilities:

Level 1:	Fast
Level 1:	Jumping
Level 10:	Warning

No techniques

Tortle

Teenage Mutant Ninja Tortles! These turtles, err, tortles... are a tanky new addition from EvilHack. Tortles are a humanoid reptilian race that resembles an upright tortoise, complete with a large protective shell on their back. They are larger than humans, and a bit stronger and wiser, but move slower and aren't quite so nimble. Tortles are typically of lawful alignment, but can be neutral as well if the role they chose allows it.

Tortles that start with a trident, the trident is rustproof.

Strength can get as high as 19 naturally, and they have a slightly increased weight carrying cap. Wisdom can go as high as 20, with dexterity capped at 10, and charisma capped at 14.

Racial abilities:

Level 1:	Swimming
Level 1:	Magical Breathing
Level 5:	Warning
Level 12:	hungerless regeneration

Tortles have a unique ability - they can hide inside their shell for up to 200 turns at a time, using the #monster command. While inside their shell, they are blind, cannot move or attack, and basically can't do much of anything except regenerate hit points/power and pray. But, while in their shell:

• they receive a massive 40 point boost to their AC, and only take half physical damage.
• the bite attacks of monsters that are large or smaller won't do any damage.
• they are impervious to stinger attacks, and being grabbed and crushed.
• They can come out of their shell early if they so chose (same command used to enter), and will have to wait 300-400 turns before being able to hide in their shell again.

Tortles start with a natural AC of 0 due to their shells, but are extremely limited in what kind of armor they can wear. They are restricted to hats, gloves and shields only; hats and gloves made of any kind of hard or rigid material interfere with their ability to retreat into their shell (the Mitre of Holiness for tortle priests is an exception to this rule). As a tortle 'grows up' and gains experience, their shells grow thicker and become better able to repel attacks, giving the tortle an extra point of AC every three levels - this caps off at 10 points total for experience level 30.

Note: In Hack'EM tortles can wear mummy wrappings (since they can stay wrapped while in their shell), giving them one more valuable armor slot.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	shell

Giant

Make way! Here comes somebody who means business. The Giant. This race was craft in EvilHack and presents a nice balance of strengths versus weaknesses. This is Yet Another Race that can bring a fresh take to old roles, or be combined with new roles for an exciting adventure into the dungeons of doom.

Giants can be any of the four alignments (role restrictions enforced) and either gender. Giants have increased initial and maximum cap carrying capacity, with strength and constitution able to reach 25. Intelligence and dexterity are capped at 14, charisma at 16. Giants movement speed is slightly slower than other races due to their size.

• Giants have innate knowledge of certain gems, can ID touchstones and can dig as well as a dwarf.
• Other things in-game that require strength to accomplish are easier for Giants.

Giants can ride one creature and one creature only – the woolly mammoth, a new monster found only in EvilHack.

Offense for giants:

• Giants can pickup and throw boulders (the boulders stack and can be quivered). In Sokoban, the player is asked before picking up or moving aside a boulder.
• Boulders have a little bit of weight (8 aum instead of 6000 aum) when carried by giants. This prevents player giants from carrying hundreds of stacked boulders without penalty.
• Giants excel in bare-handed combat or with a club, and have a greater chance of stunning an opponent or shattering their wielded weapon.
• Giants can wield two-handed weapons in one hand.
• Giants take extra damage from slings (think 'David and Goliath').

Defense for giants:

• Hit point generation is significantly greater for giants per level vs a human player.
• Giants cannot wear body armor, cloaks, or shirts - with the exception of mummy wrappings which giants can wear.
• They have an innate lower armor class (AC 6 vs AC 10 when naked).
• Giant wizards start with an amulet of magic resistance.
• Giant samurai start with large splint mail.
• Any giant can wear large splint mail * not just Samurai.

Racial abilities:

Level 1:	aggravate monsters and never stealthy
Level 12:	hungerless regeneration

No techniques

Hobbit

Is it time for second breakfast yet?? The hobbit was originally a race in SLASH'EM, but thankfully it had some fantastic updates in EvilHack we were able to inherit. Hobbits are small and humble - but don't underestimate them, just because they are small doesn't mean they are incompetent in the dungeon, quite the contrary.

Hobbits' alignment choices are lawful or neutral (role restrictions enforced). Hobbits can max dexterity, wisdom and constitution to 20, but strength, intelligence and charisma are capped at 16.

• Hobbits receive a multishot bonus with slings, knives, and daggers (if their role is capable of multishot).
• Everyone knows hobbits are all about food and when they can eat next. They start with the new 'food sense' intrinsic but are also innately hungry. Because of this, they start with extra food (if not a Convict) and a tinning kit (if not a Convict or an Archeologist). They can also eat more than twice the amount of food other races can eat before becoming satiated.
• Hobbits prefer elven gear over anything else, and will start with said gear if it's available.
• Hobbits start out knowing Elbereth.

Racial abilities:

Level 1:	food appraisal
Level 1:	hunger
Level 4:	speed
Level 7:	searching

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	blink

Illithid

Illithid is the formal name for a mind flayer. This ancient race has psychic abilities and are natural spellcasters, but are physically weak compared to other races. Illithids can only be of chaotic alignment (unless playing as an Infidel), and can be both male or female.

Intelligence and wisdom can go as high as 22, and dexterity as high as 20, but their strength, constitution and charisma are capped at 10/12/16 respectively. Power generation per level gained is slightly higher than that of the elven player race.

Illithids have a natural psionic attack that can confuse and kill, and is tied to spell power use (but is not considered a spell for the purposes of Amulet of Yendor interactions). If your race is changed (e.g. by getting crowned as an infidel), this ability is lost.

• Levels 1-25: Deals 2d6 psychic damage
• Level 26+: Increases to 4d6 psychic damage.

Illithids have a single extra tentacle attack that behaves exactly like the tentacle attack from a mind flayer. This attack is set up in such a way that it will automatically not be used if attacking something the player should not touch unprotected (read: cockatrice). This attack does not work on a mind flayer. Conversely, illithids are immune to the mind flayer tentacle attack and zombie brain eating attacks.

Racial abilities:

Level 1:	psychic resistance
Level 1:	infravision
Level 1:	telepathy
Level 1:	flying

No techniques.

Vampiric

Vampires have an interesting history in the NetHack world. They first surfaced in SLASH'EM, then in UnNetHack, dNethack, and SpliceHack. Each one was done a little differently, so we aimed to take the best of each and release a vampire that is fun but balanced. Our "vampiric" race starts you off strong, you won't have any cheesy poison or GWAWOD deaths, nor will you have to worry about sleeping gas traps or any of the floor traps that you can just fly over. What you *will* have to worry about is silver and fire: your new worst enemies.

You'll also have to move quickly and attack aggressively to keep draining blood for food. The corpse draining mechanic from SLASH'EM has been removed. It created quite a few bugs in the nutrition code, it resulted in tedious draining of corpses (which often are wasted anyway), and a better alternative was found in SpliceHack, which was simply doubling the nutrition from feeding on life blood during combat. The main drawback to this approach is that now vampirics cannot gain intrinsics or benefits from eating corpses. To compensate, you start off with almost all the intrinsics a regular vampire enjoys.

Misc info:

• Vampirics get an extra attack – a drain life bite. This is how you will "eat" as a vampire. To maximize nutrition, you might want to fight bare-handed.
• Vampirics also get less natural HP regeneration while playing (about 1/3 of normal), instead they gain HP when they feed and successfully drain life.

• They start with both blood potions known.
• Vampires who wear an opera cloak get a +1 Charisma bonus
• Can be chaotic or neutral.
• The starting intrinsics for vampires have been buffed from SLASH'EM and UnNetHack to compensate for the lack of being able to build up resistances from draining corpses.
• Vampires can play the following roles: Arc, Bar, Con, Ice, Nec, Pir, Rog, Wiz.

Racial abilities:

Level	Ability
Level 1:	Sleep resistance
Level 1:	Poison resistance
Level 1:	Drain resistance
Level 1:	Wither resistance(*)
Level 1:	Immune to death magic(*)
Level 1:	Breathless
Level 1:	Flying
Level 10:	Regeneration

(*) mummies instead inflict regular physical damage to withering resistant monsters.

Weaknesses:

• Vulnerable to silver.
• Vulnerable to fire.
• Vulnerable to undead turning and wooden stakes.
• Vampires can wield and wear silver items, but it damages them and blocks their natural regeneration. If it's a wielded weapon, gloves will protect you from the silver irritation.
• Two-weapon skill works as normal. In most variants the vampire race has classically been restricted in two-weaponing, but in Hack'EM your role will determine your two-weaponing ability.
• Start with a small penalty to luck (-1) and alignment (-5)
• Disabled #monster polymorph for the vampiric race.
• Since vampirics cannot eat food, they can't gain intrinsics or resistances from eating corpses in their normal form. You can, however, eat if polymorphed into an appropriate form.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	dazzle
XP 1	draw blood (Requires a medical kit)

Doppelganger

How can you trust something that is constantly changing? Ask a doppelganger, better yet - play as one! The Doppelganger is a strange race, capable of taking on any form that it is familiar with. As you level up with a doppelganger, you will gain access to a greater variety and strength of forms.

Originally from SLASH'EM, this race gives the player the option to flex their knowledge of monsters. Being able to turn into the right monster at the right time is a key skill to success with playing doppelgangers. When you eat a monster, you gain memory of it so you can reliably polymorph into that form for the rest of the game.

• Added a list of all monsters doppelgangers have eaten to the stats menu (^X).
• Doppelgangers can lose memory of eaten monsters if hit with amnesia effects.
• Eating tinned corpses also added to eaten memory for doppelgangers.
• Every other race is hostile to doppelgangers (except were-foo).
• Doppelgangers know about polymorph items.
• More roles can be doppelgangers: Con, Mon, Pri, Rog, Und, Wiz.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	liquid leap

Existing race changes

Elf

• Elves always start out knowing Elbereth.
• Elves can use musical instruments without risk of breaking them.
• Elves can always squeeze between two trees
• Elves and rangers get alignment penalty for cutting down trees
• Elves can only be lawful.

Elves have an aversion to iron – wearing or wielding anything made of iron that touches the players skin will prevent hit point regeneration, and will cause 1d8 physical damage on initial contact. Being hit with any weapon made of iron will do the same amount of extra damage. Elf-based monsters are affected the same way when being attacked with weapons made of iron and will avoid using items made of iron. Wielding an iron weapon without gloves incurs a -1 luck penalty.

No techniques for elves.

Dwarf

• Dwarves get an alignment bonus for cutting down trees
• All dwarven roles (except convict) have a chance of starting with a pick-axe.

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	rage

Gnome

Techniques:

Level	Technique Gained
XP 1	vanish
XP 7	tinker

Orc

• Orcs can never use Elbereth
• Orcs have an aversion to mithril – the same conditions above for elves and iron exists for orcs and mithril. They are also the only player race that can tame and ride a warg.

The Quest

• Various changes have been made to each role's Quest to make the experience more varied and interesting for the player.

• The minimum experience level needed to be accepted for the quest has been lowered to 10 (from the default 14).
• If you've made your quest leader angry for whatever reason, this no longer makes the game unwinnable.
• You can engage them in battle, and if you kill your quest leader, this unlocks the quest. You can then complete your quest as you normally would.
• Take heed, quest leaders are not weak and can prove formidable to a mid-level player. Also note that your deity isn't exactly thrilled with you killing off your quest leader.
• Your alignment record can still be in the positive, but if you try any helm of opposite alignment shenanigans when it comes time to sacrifice the Amulet of Yendor at the endgame... interesting (read: bad) things can happen.

• Abusing your alignment can have a direct effect on how your quest ends.
• Alignment abuse is tracked throughout the game – having your alignment negatively adjusted by one point also counts as one abuse point (this can be checked at any time via #conduct, and compared to vanilla, more feedback when abusing alignment is given).
• Unlike your alignment record, which can be readjusted back into positive standing, your alignment abuse record is PERMANENT.
• Quest leaders will ask you to forfeit the quest artifact if you heavily abuse alignment (less than -64 alignment abuse score required).
• You have two options at this point – either hand over the quest artifact peacefully, or decline.
• Declining will anger your quest leader, and they will attack. Handing over the quest artifact peacefully will flag the quest as complete.
• Declining to turn over the quest artifact does not complete the quest – at some point your quest leader will need to be defeated before the quest is flagged as complete.
• Also, attempting to evade your quest leader (whether they are peaceful or hostile) will do you no good in the long run, as the Bell of Opening has been 'cursed', and the only way to lift the curse is to complete the quest.
• The Bell will not function for the invocation until this is done.
• If you complete the quest with minimal alignment abuse, you will receive a luck boon (+3 to max luck).

• Alternative scenarios have been taken into account, such as if you angered your quest leader before even starting the quest and you killed them, you simply need to defeat your quest nemesis to flag the quest as complete.
• Conversely, if you've killed the quest nemesis and return, but somehow anger your quest leader before you speak to them, killing them also flags the quest as complete.

Dungeon features

Trap mechanics

• Added ice traps (Un). Only generates after level 8.
• Added magic beam traps (evil)
• Magic beam traps cannot generate above level 16 (SlashTHEM)
• Magic beam traps now generate a random beam type on every trigger; before they were hardcoded to a single beam when created on the level.
• Can #untrap rust traps (they turn into fountains)
• Disarming rust traps from a distance (telekinesis or zapping acid) doesn't produce a fountain.
• Can #untrap fire traps (requires water)
• Untrapping a spear trap has a chance of yielding a spear or stake
• Allow force fighting of webs with a bladed weapon to destroy them
• Thrown items can get stuck in webs (3.7)
• The Castle drawbridge does not always close with the passtune
• Invisibility from magic traps is temporary.
• 1/27 chance a polytrap disappears after polymorphing a monster. This mechanic was copied from SpliceHack, but in that variant it was a 1 in 7 chance.

Breaking wands creates related traps

Breaking wands will usually create related traps (Un)

Wand	Trap created
wand of cold	ice trap
wand of opening	trap door
wand of fire	fire trap
wand of magic missile	magic trap
wand of teleportation	teleport trap
wand of polymorph	poly trap
wand of sleep	sleeping gas trap
wand of cancellation	anti-magic trap
wand of deluge	rust trap
wand of shock	magic beam trap
wand of poison gas	magic beam trap
wand of corrosion	magic beam trap
wand of noise	magic beam trap

wand of secret door detection: When broken this does not create a trap, however it will now detect traps and portals.

Grass

• Pulled from SpliceHack/xNetHack, we now have lush grass in the dungeon!
• Grass appears sparsely in the early levels, peaks around level 15, and then tapers off after level 22.
• Hidey monsters can use grass as concealment.
• Fire and death rays scorch away grass and revert it to normal floor

Bloody tiles

• Ported from SpliceHack
• When monsters are killed, they have a chance to spray blood in a random direction and color a tile red. No real effect on gameplay, purely aesthetic.
• The amount of blood depends on monster size.
• Spraying bloody tiles with a ray of water (e.g. from a wand of deluge) will clear the tile of its blood.
• When bloody tile is walked over, there is a 1 in 20 chance it will erode away.
• Orc blood is black.
• There is also a bloodless game option to play without the tile coloring.

Vents

• Ported from SpliceHack
• Vents appear after level 3.
• After level 8, some vents will emit poison gas instead of harmless mist.
• Vents have a 3/5 chance of being destroyed when bombs are dropped or thrown into them, releasing a small earthquake in the process.
• Monsters can use vents to conceal themselves.
• Polymorphed sinks can turn into vents
• Spiders, snakes, and rats can randomly pop out of vents.
• Changed vent color to bright cyan to differentiate them from iron bars.

Toilets

Toilets are a bit silly, but they have been enhanced to be more interesting and useful!

• Ported from SLASH'EM
• Toilets can appear separate from sinks, in SLASH'EM they only appeared in pairs with sinks.
• Enabled fishing in toilets
• Dropping a ring of poly into a sink can poly into a toilet.
• Prevented toilet prayer while levitating.
• Toilet prayer can now stop the vomiting process (before it could not and you could vomit and still be in the vomiting process)

Toilet kicking

• Kicking now only breaks the toilet 1/7 chance (was 1/4 in SLASH'EM)
• Kicking can generate cockroaches and sewage from kicking (1 in 17 chance)
• Kicking can generate brown puddings (only once per toilet)
• Kicking can generate a random tool, normally this tool will weigh under 15aum, but sometimes you'll get a large tool that bonks against the piping. If a large tool bonks 3x - you'll get that tool no matter now big it is and the toilet is destroyed in the process.

Amulet identification in toilets (slex)

• Amulets can be dropped down toilets and possibly identified (similar to sinks and rings)
• Updated amulet feedback messages, blind effects, and hallucination effects.
• Amulets of Flying are always regurgitated from toilets.
• Amulets of Change will polymorph the toilet into a sink

Sinks

• Random sink effect: noxious gas cloud (from 3.7)

Forges

• Inherited from EvilHack

- Forges are introduced, which have the same appearance as fountains but are orange in color. Just like fountains, dipping things into them can have desirable or adverse affects. They can be used to dispose of anything that is flammable, and can also be used to repair corrosion/rust damage to any metallic object (if your luck is greater than 0). There is a rare chance that a lava demon can be summoned via dipping, which will be hostile most times, but can sometimes spawn tame (same odds as getting a wish from a water demon/fountain). Having negative luck can cause a forge to explode when used, which can cause considerable fire damage. Players can also use a forge to remove an attached ball & chain, and can also combine two objects to forge something new using the #forge command.

• Added new recipes for various imported weapons
• Forges don't appear until after level 2.
• Forges can be blown up by rays of water.

Dungeon changes

• Adjust secret passage frequency and exclude them from DL 1-4 (xnh)
• Random doors are secret less of the time (xnh)
• Kicking a "wall" that is actually a secret of some sort will never injure the player and will always produce an unambiguous message that there's something there. This makes it a valid strategy to kick every wall suspected of hiding something, because a single kick will give a yes/no on whether it's a regular wall or not. It's still not a great strategy, because the real walls will still hurt and wound legs like normal. (xnh)

• Extended the main dungeon: Now 42-46 levels deep
• The fountains in Delphi can sometimes cause hallucination (Splice)
• The Rogue level has been removed
• Additional variants of the Castle, Fort Ludios, Sokoban, Mine Town and Mines End have been added.

The SLASH'EM levels

• The main dungeon layout has been adjusted to more closely follow SLASH'EM.

Appears	Level	Probability
2-4:	The Gnomish Mines
5-6:	The Mall (50%)
7-9:	The Oracle
8-10:	Sokoban
9-11:	Town branch
10-39:	Fort Ludios
10-11:	Rat level (50%)
11-12:	Kobold level (50%)
12-13:	Grund's Stronghold
15-19:	The Quest
15-19:	Lawful Quest
15-19:	Neutral Quest
15-19:	Chaotic Quest
19-39:	The Storage Room
20-39:	The Big room
20-21:	The Wyrm Caves
22-23:	One-eyed Sam's Market
21-24:	The Lost Tomb
23-24:	Aphrodite's level
26-29:	The Spider Caves
28-31:	The Sunless Sea
32-35:	The Temple of Moloch
32-35	The Giant Caverns

Gnomish Mines

• Added new different types of gnomes, dwarves, and thieves.
• Added dwarf/gnome thieves to most town/Minetown variants.
• Monsters will usually be undead if you are a dwarf, gnome, or hobbit (from SLASH'EM) Instead of making undead dependent on your alignment, the chance scales with the dungeon depth. At the top of the mines, undead should be quite rare, but at mine's end beware.

• Imported Minetown variants from SlashTHEM and SpliceHack.
• Imported Mine's End levels from SlashTHEM
• Imported Gnome King ending from SLASH'EM, SlashTHEM.

Note: There is a new minetown variant with a drawbridge present. Destroying the town drawbridge in view of guards angers them.

Sokoban

• The last room of Sokoban has more prize variety, with a catch.
• Imported levels from SLASH'EM, SlashTHEM, and NetHack Fourk.
• Following in the footsteps of NetHack Fourk, all levels have been given names to make them easier to reference.
• The map numbers in the listing below follow the format in the sokobon.des file (1-* is the top level and 4-* is the bottom level).

Map #	Map Name	Solution
4-1	"Kick It On Over"	Sokoban Level 1b
4-2	"Setting That Aside"	Sokoban Level 1a
4-3	"Mirror Hall"	Sokoban Level 1c
4-4	"We See You"	Sokoban Level 1d
4-5	"False Flag"	Sokoban Level 1e
4-6	"One Wrong Step"	Sokoban Level 1f
4-7	"Open the Door"	Sokoban Level 1i
4-8	"Mini Me"	Mini Me
4-9	"One More Time"	One More Time
4-10	"Boomerang Boulders"	Boomerang Boulders
4-11	"Easy Peasey"	Easy Peasey
4-12	"First Things First"	First Things First
4-13	"Picking out the Seeds"	Picking out the Seeds
4-14	"Three-Room Monte"	Three-Room Monte
4-15	"Column B"	Column B
4-16	"One Weird Trick"	One Weird Trick
4-17	"To the Top"	To the Top
4-18	"A Hug and a Kiss"	A Hug and a Kiss
3-1	"Squared Off"	Sokoban Level 2b
3-2	"Old Reliable"	Sokoban Level 2a
3-3	"Old Man of the Mountain"	Sokoban Level 1k
3-4	"Roundabout"	Sokoban Level 1l
3-5	"Room to Breathe"	Sokoban Level 1m
3-6	"The Gauntlet"	Sokoban Level 1n
3-7	"Thinking Rabbit"	Sokoban Level 2c
3-8	"A Secret to Everybody"	Sokoban Level 1j
3-9	"Escape Goat"	Sokoban Level 3j
3-10	"Christmas Chimney"	Sokoban Level 3k
3-11	"Fly on the Wall"	Fly on the Wall
3-12	"Boulder Halls of Zim"	Boulder Halls of Zim
3-13	"Two-Phase"	Two-Phase
3-14	"The Snake"	The Snake
3-15	"Count Carefully"	Count Carefully
3-16	"You Only Need Six"	You Only Need Six
3-17	"Four Wings"	Four Wings
2-1	"Squeeze Me In"	Sokoban Level 3b
2-2	"Nooks and Cubbyholes"	Sokoban Level 3a
2-3	"The Pergola"	Sokoban Level 3e
2-4	"Back Alley Cliche"	Sokoban Level 3g
2-5	"Snaggletooth"	Sokoban Level 3h
2-6	"Diligent Escape Plan"	Sokoban Level 3i
2-7	"Corner Pocket"	Sokoban Level 3c
2-8	"No Way Out"	Sokoban Level 3d
2-9	"Reading Rooms"	Sokoban Level 3f
2-10	"Shave and a Haircut"	Sokoban Level 1g
2-11	"Bring 'em on Down"	Bring 'em On Down
2-12	"Slot Machine"	Slot Machine
2-13	"Through the Cracks"	Through the Cracks
2-14	"Either Way, It's All Good"	Either Way, It's All Good
2-15	"Sneak Preview"	Sneak Preview
2-16	"Daedalus Delicatessen"	Daedalus Delicatessen
2-17	"Stacked Dozen"	Stacked Dozen (alternate solution)
1-1	"Left Holding the Bag"	Sokoban Level 4a
1-2	"Reflectoban"	Sokoban Level 4b
1-3	"Just Keep Pushing"	Sokoban Level 4c
1-4	"Work For It"	Sokoban Level 4d
1-5	"Dudley's Torment"	Sokoban Level 4e
1-6	"Plinketto"	Sokoban Level 4f
1-7	"Ringing Endorsement"	Ringing Endorsement
1-8	"Open at the Top"	Open at the Top
1-9	"Collecting Marbles"	Collecting Marbles
1-10	"Running Rings Around"	Running Rings Around
1-11	"Back At Ya"	Back At Ya
1-12	"The Dragon of Bactria"	The Dragon of Bactria

Town branch

• From SlashTHEM/UnNethack
• Appears 2-3 levels below the Oracle.
• Created a "Raided Angband" level that is been ransacked by bandits and thieves.
• You can always find the Master Sword guarded by a gang of bandits in the village.

Rat level

A single randomized level picked from:

• The Rat Level (Slash'EM)
• The Rat Level (SlashTHEM)

Alignment Quests

• (appears 15-19, From SLASH'EM)
• The alignment quests are now totally optional. Currently there are no artifact keys, and no artifact doors in Vlad's Tower. This may change in the future.

Neutral Quest

• There is now a secret compartment full of e's that will slowly funnel into the level now.

Chaotic Quest

• Instead of the randomized level that SLASH'EM had, we have replaced it with Vecna's Manse from SlashTHEM.
• The difficulty of Vecna has been reduced to be closer to the SLASH'EM version, but he still gets the extra clerical spell attack from Evil.

Big Room

• Imported a bunch of new big room variations from UnNethack, SpliceHack, and SLASHTHEM.

Grund's Stronghold

• Added more traps and the moat is double wide now, the stronghold wall is also phaseproof.
• Grund's Stronghold now has a large cache of ammunition in one of the storage rooms.

Fort Ludios

• Ludios appears on the first eligible level with a vault.
• Fort Ludios can also appear below Medusa's.
• An extra dungeon prison has been added below Fort Ludios. This is a leftover from the Lethe branch and it seemed to fit here!

Wyrm Caves branch

• Created an entrance level (from dNetHack's Erebor quest)
• At the bottom is a dangerous dragon nest which guards a massive treasure horde (from UnNetHack)

Black Market

• Now has an extra layout ported from UnNetHack which features many different shops with black marketeers, with One-Eyed Sam still standing guard.
• Reduced Black Market prices a bit.
• Black Market Layout 1 is now a little thinner.
• Now undiggable and phase-proof.

The Storage Room

• Added 4 variations from dnh

Gehennom

• No longer a series of mazes, but are mines-style levels with lava.
• Areas such as the Sanctum and the entrance to the Wizard's Tower have also been adjusted.
• Cerberus now guards the entrance to Gehennom.
• Vlad the Impaler's tower is the vanilla version
• Vibrating square: messages when player is near

Elemental Planes

• The first four Planes levels are randomized and appear in a different order every game.
• Updated monsters on the plane of water with deepest ones, things from below, and mermaids.

New special rooms

• Fungus Farm (SLASH'EM)
• Migo Hive (SLASH'EM)
• Dragon Lair (SLASH'EM)
• Real Zoo (SLASH'EM)
  • Added zoo bats
• Bad Food Shop (SLASH'EM)
  • Full of bad food and rotten eggs.
• Giant Court (SLASH'EM)
• Lemure Pit
• Mini Guild (Hack'EM)
  • These replace the Guild of Disgruntled Adventurers in SLASH'EM.
  • Much smaller, less densely packed with player monsters
  • other monsters include typical pets.
• Clinic room (SlashTHEM)
• Terror hall (SlashTHEM)

Themed rooms

• EvilHack already had most of the themed rooms but more have been added.
• Added any missing flipped versions of rooms (from UnNetHack) for completeness
• Added minimum levels to all themed Rooms
  • The dungeon is pretty clean of themed rooms until level 8.
  • At levels 8, 11, and 17 we introduce more variety.

Shops

• Shopkeepers can be a variety of different races; your race versus theirs directly affects pricing.
• Removed the racial shopkeeper price adjustments.

Shopkeeper services

• Instead of every store offering a general Identify service - every shop offers premier identify services based on their shop type or the race of the shopkeeper.
• Streamlined the service menu interface. Previously navigating the services was tedious. Now when you press 'p', you are immediately presented with a full menu of all the available services - no submenus within menus.
• Removed shopkeepers stealing all your money when you charge a wand of wishing.
• Only Black Market can have the "identify any" service
• The service charge "smoothing" rewards higher charisma.
• All shop identify services are basic (and half price).

Firearms training service

• In addition to the weapon practice technique, this is a shopkeeper service for making firearms more accessible.
• Gun shops always offer this up to Expert skill.
• Weapon shops, armor shops offer 20% of the time, up to max Skilled.
• General stores offer it 10% of the time, up to max Basic.
  • $500 for Basic skill
  • $1000 for Skilled
  • $2000 for expert

Tinker service

• Only gnomes offer this service
• Allows you to upgrade an object to a similar or related form, works the same as dipping an item into a potion of gain level.
• In Slash'EM this was implemented as a technique, but here the service only takes 1 turn (we'll assume the shopkeepers are very good at tinkering or just cheating and using a hidden potion of gain level behind the counter)
• Base charge is $500
• Non-gnomes are charged double
• Low intelligence (under 18 INT) players are subject to $100 price gouge
• Lower intelligence (under 13 INT) players are subject to $250 price gouge
• See the database on "upgrade" for a full list of eligible upgrades.

Add weapon property

• Weapon based shops can offer an expensive random property service now.
• Only one property can be added to a weapon.

Service details

Shop/Race	Services
All shops:	1 in 3 offer uncursing services. 1 in 20 offer rumors
General stores:	0-2 random identify services, 10% chance of having 1 extra identify service. 20% offer firearms training 25% offer basic charging
Weapon shops:	75% offer weapon ID 20% offer armor ID 25% offer weapon fixing 25% offer weapon enchanting 25% offer weapon poisoning 20% offer firearms training 20% offer property grafting
Armor shops:	75% offer armor ID 20% offer weapon ID 25% offer armor fixing 25% offer armor enchanting (Note: Armor shops will refuse to work on dragon scales.) 20% offer firearms training
Scroll stores:	75% offer scroll ID 20% offer book ID
Spellbook stores:	75% offer book ID 20% offer scroll ID
Potion stores:	50% offer potion ID
Ring stores:	20% offer ring ID 20% offer amulet ID 20% offer gem ID 25% offer basic charging
Wand shops:	50% offer wand ID 20% offer armor ID 25% offer basic charging 25% offer premium charging
Tool shops:	50% offer tool ID 25% offer basic charging
Deli/food shops:	100% offer food ID 10% offer potion ID
Pet shops:	50% offer food ID 25% offer tool ID
Lighting shops:	10% offer potion ID
Dwarves:	20% offer weapon ID 20% offer armor ID 20% offer gem ID
Orcs:	25% offer weapon poisoning
Gnomes:	25% offer tool ID 25% offer tinker
Giants:	20% offer gem ID
Nymphs:	10% offer ring ID 20% offer potion ID
Hobbit:	50% offer food ID 10% offer ring ID
Illithid:	25% offer scroll ID 25% offer spellbook ID

New shop types

• Pet Shops (From UnNetHack)
• Instrument Shop (From UnNetHack)
• Tin Shop ("canned food factory") (From UnNetHack)
• Junk shop (from SpliceHack): Features all your favorite items in one convenient place!
• Mask shop (from SpliceHack)
• Archery shop (from SpliceHack)
• Gun shops (from SlashTHEM)

Misc shop changes

• Lighting shops can now carry wands/scrolls/spellbooks of light, as well as the rare wand of lightning.
• Delis can carry meat sticks, royal jelly, and huge chunks of meat.
• Hardware stores stock potions of oil, and rarely touchstones (xnh)
• Archery shops not should appear if your character cannot attain any proficiency in BOW.
• Gun shops should not appear if your character cannot attain any proficiency in FIREARM.
• Gun shops can also carry assault rifles, flintlocks, grease, and towels.
• Pet shops can carry bardings of all types.

Artifacts

Design decision #1:

   In SlashEM, artifacts grant a flat damage bonus (instead of their equivalent d-notation damage). This has been implemented to more fully capture the flavor of SLASH'EM.

Design decision #2:

   Any roles that had 2 guaranteed altar sacrifice gifts in SLASH'EM have been reduced to just 1. Having 2 just seems excessive, and most of the time, the second gift was just a barrier to overcome to get to better stuff (example: Deathsword for Barbarian, or Deluder for Wizards)
  

Artifact mechanics

Wishing for artifacts:

• Instead of being based off of how many artifacts exist in the game total (vanilla NetHack method), success is based off of how many artifacts the player has wished for (successful or not).
• Players can two-weapon with an artifact in each hand, if those artifacts happen to get along with each other. The first two artiwishes are still guaranteed.
• If wielding/wearing any of the 'banes, taming becomes impossible.
• Various artifacts that have a nemesis monster warn against those monsters.
• Almost all of the stock weapon artifacts have had their to-hit and damage modifiers adjusted in the players favor.
• Certain artifacts can either deliver extra damage to their nemesis monsters, or have a small percentage chance of delivering a fatal blow – this applies to the player as well!

New artifacts

Artifact	Base Item	Alignment	Notes	Origin
Angelslayer	trident	Non-aligned	+5 to-hit, +10 fire damage An artifact trident that warns of Angels Confers automatic searching and half-spell damage There is a 5% chance that a Balrog may spawn with this artifact.	EvilHack
Balmung	Golden Broadsword	Lawful	+4 to-hit, +9 damage Destruction proof Destroys random armor on defenders Grants fire resistance	EvilHack
Bat from Hell	Club	Chaotic	+3 to-hit, +20 damage Rogues receive this as their first guaranteed sacrifice gift.	SLASH'EM
Bradamante's Fury	Lance	Lawful	+5 to-hit, +12 damage Occasionally stuns opponents Changed Bradamante's Fury to Lawful (matches Bradamante in the anime) Bradamante's Fury will always resist breaking.	SpliceHack
Butcher	triple-headed flail	Chaotic	+5 to-hit, +8 damage So large it requires two hands to wield if human-sized, and its damage output is greater than even a dwarvish mattock. Butcher has a stun attack, much as Magicbane does, but unlike Magicbane, Butcher does not also cause fear or cancellation. Belongs to the demon lord Yeenoghu. He spawns with this artifact and will use it. Cannot be wished for.	EvilHack
Carnwennan	Knife	Lawful	Confers searching and stealth +3 to-hit, +8 damage Invoke for invisibility	SpliceHack
Chains of Malcanthet	Spiked Chain	Unaligned	+6 to-hit, +10 damage Bonus damage and warning vs angels Grants 25 charisma while wielded Special paralysis hit	SpliceHack
Circe's Witchstaff	Staff of Matter	Neutral	+4 to-hit, +4 damage Was a quarterstaff in SpliceHack 10% chance each attack can transform enemies into pigs or feral hogs. Invoke for a scroll of taming effect	SpliceHack
Deathsword	Two-handed Sword	Chaotic	+5 to-hit, +14 damage Deathsword causes hostility from humans Capable of inflicting a paralyzing hit 1 in 4 attacks. Barbs no longer receive this as a guaranteed sacrifice gift. Changed from targeting vs Human to vs cross-aligned.	SLASH'EM
Deep Freeze	Athame	Chaotic	+5 to-hit, +5 cold damage Provides extrinsic cold resistance Invoke for a Scroll of Ice effect that also summons freeze spheres. Only Ice Mages can invoke this.	SLASH'EM
Deluder	Cloak of Displacement	Neutral	Confers stealth and luck Wizards no longer receive this as a guaranteed sacrifice gift, Jedi gets it instead.	SLASH'EM
Dirge	Mithril Long sword	Chaotic	+5 to-hit, +10 acid damage The "Dark Knight"'s sword, can only be obtained by chaotic Knights by sacrificing a same race monster on a co-aligned altar while wielding a long sword, elven long sword, or orcish long sword (the exact type makes no difference, Dirge will become a 'long sword' regardless). Confers acid resistance when wielded.	EvilHack
Disrupter	Mace	Neutral	+5 to-hit and +30 vs undead Grants warning vs undead. The priest's first guaranteed sacrifice gift (SLASH'EM). Disrupter causes hostility to undead.	SLASH'EM
Doomblade	Orcish Short Sword	Chaotic	+10 damage On each hit there is a 25% chance Doomblade deals an extra (1d4 * 5) damage. Shows an appropriate message for tiny monsters.	SLASH'EM
Dramborleg	Mithril Dwarvish Bearded Axe	Lawful	Intelligent +8 to-hit, +8 damage From LotR. Provides magic resistance and one level of MC when wielded. Can destroy any balrog in one hit. Warns of any demons nearby.	EvilHack
Drowsing Rod	Copper Staff of Healing	Unaligned	New artifact introduced in Hack'EM +5 to-hit, +4 damage This is meant to simulate the original drow attack from SLASH'EM; 19 in 20 times the sleep attack triggers and puts the defender to sleep for 2d4 turns. The gas vapor doesn't affect breathless monsters. Grants sleep resistance. Healer's first sac gift.	Hack'EM
Elfrist	Orcish Spear	Chaotic	Warns against elves. Elfrist causes hostility to elves	SLASH'EM
Firewall	Staff of Divination	Lawful	Was an athame in SLASH'EM. +4 to-hit, +4 fire damage Provides extrinsic fire resistance Invoke to summon flame spheres (same as casting Flame Sphere). Only Flame Mages can invoke this.	SLASH'EM
Gauntlets of Defense	Gauntlets of Dexterity	Neutral	Provides half physical damage when worn Invoke for invisibility First sacrifice gift for Monks	SLASH'EM
Gleipnir	Grappling Hook	Unaligned	+5 to-hit, +8 damage Based on the bindings used to trap Fenrir. This hook can grapple things regardless of size, and has a massive range.	SpliceHack
Gungnir	Atgeir	Neutral	+20 to-hit, +12 damage When a player creates Gungnir, it converts the spear held to an atgeir (type of spear) Invoke for a lightning bolt. This acts as the replacement Excalibur for Valkyries. To acquire: Successfully pray as a lawful or neutral pious Valkyrie while wielding a non-artifact spear-like weapon that is at least +5. Beatitude and erosion do not matter. The spear will be turned into Gungnir with no other changes made.	dnh
Grandmaster's Robe	Robe of Power	Neutral	Grants double the spellcasting bonus of an ordinary robe of power. Grants the wearer martial arts skill instead of barehanded skill in combat. Martial arts attacks get occasional bonus hits (if you don't miss any hit you will be granted one extra bonus attack and 50% chance to get a second bonus attack given you hit the first bonus attack). Can be enchanted to +7 To acquire: Reach level 30 as a monk and #name any robe of power "Grandmaster's Robe". The robe's alignment will adjust to the monk. Alternatively, any race can wear the Grandmaster's Robe as it's a potential sacrifice gift for Neutrals.	dnh
Hand Grenade of Antioch	Lawful	Fire Bomb	When armed, this bomb will go off after exactly 3 turns - not 4 nor 5, but 3. When thrown this bomb explodes on impact, dealing 6d50 magical damage. Unlike other bombs, this will *not* be lit accidentally by sources of fire!	SpliceHack
Hellfire	Crossbow	Chaotic	Provides fire resistance while wielded. Adds +5 to-hit bonus and +7 damage to bolts. Crossbow bolts fired from it cause fiery explosions in a 3x3 square centered on any target they hit, doing an additional 2d6 damage.	SLASH'EM
Spear of Light	Silver Spear	Lawful	+5 to-hit and +10 damage vs undead Grants warning vs undead. Invoke to create a blast of light that severely damages undead. The Spear of Light causes hostility from undead Invoking the Spear of Light lights the entire level. Renamed from "The Holy ..." because of naming and wish conflicts.	SLASH'EM
Houchou	Spoon	Chaotic	Insta-kills any target when thrown and it successfully hits. One-time use only. Worth $50000	SLASH'EM
Imhullu	Glaive	Neutral	+4 to-hit, +5 wind damage Mesopatamian in origin. Grants stability against clobber/hurtle attacks. Invoke for a scroll of air. Hitting a monster with a tornado does 3d4 bonus damage, takes place 1/3 of the time. Does not affect big monsters.	SpliceHack
Keolewa	Club	Neutral	+5 to-hit, +8 shock damage Grants shock resistance while wielded.	EvilHack
Kiku-ichimonji	Katana	Lawful	+4 to-hit, +12 damage Replaces Snickersnee as the new sacrifice gift for Samurai.	SlashTHEM
Lifestealer	Two-handed sword	Chaotic	+5 to-hit, +2 damage Found wielded by Vlad the Impaler, drains levels and also grants drain resistance when wielded. Cannot be wished for.	EvilHack
Luck Blade	Short sword	Chaotic	+5 to-hit, +6 damage Convict first artifact weapon. Acts like a luckstone.	Convict Patch
Luckless Folly	Short Sword	Chaotic	+5 to-hit, +5 damage This bizarre weapon acts as a cursed luckstone regardless of its BCU status. It gets bonuses to hit and damage based on the opposite of your luck value. Allows for a very unconventional play-style, since getting luck of -13 will give this weapon an automatic +13 to damage and hit, but playing with -13 luck might prove difficult.	SpliceHack
Marauder's Map, The	scroll of magic mapping	Chaotic	When read: clairvoyance When invoked: monster detection and artifact detection. If blessed, the Marauder's Map gets a luck dependent chance to map the entire level. The first sacrifice gift for the Pirate role. It is also the only artifact that Pirates can receive as a sacrifice gift.	SLASH'EM
Master Sword, The	Gemstone Long Sword	Unaligned	+3 to-hit and +3 damage Was a "named" silver long sword in the village level from SlashTHEM. If at full health, each hit has a 75% chance of shooting a magic missile for 2d6 damage. Will not fire rays if peacefuls or pets are in the way. 10% of bonus d2*6 magic attack on each successful hit. Cannot be wished for. Now has a 75% chance of appearing in the Village in the Town branch, guarded by the ruffians.	SlashTHEM
Mirrorbright	Shield of Reflection	Neutral	Provides reflection and resistance to hallucination Mirrorbright no longer hinders spell-casting. Healers no longer receive Mirrorbright as a sacrifice gift, they get the Drowsing Rod instead.	SLASH'EM
Mortality Dial	Iron Executioner's Mace	Unaligned	Was cold iron in splice. +10 to-hit +10 damage Provides regeneration while wielded Prevents monsters from regenerating. Prevents trolls and zombies from reviving.	SpliceHack
Mouser's Scalpel	Rapier	Neutral	+5 to-hit, +1 damage. Can deliver a flurry of extra hits, potentially with no limit.	slashem-up
Mystic Eyes	Gemstone Lenses	Unaligned	(Previously known as Lenses of Death Perception in SpliceHack) Grants DeathVision and automatic searching As long as the wearer is not blind, they deal double damage, but constantly hallucinate. Deathvision's double damage is applied everywhere (including spells/wands)	SpliceHack
Origin	Staff of Escape	Unaligned	+2 to-hit, +6 damage While wielded, confers teleport control and spellcasting bonuses. Increases spellcasting ability as a robe would, and its base item ability reduces the cost of escape spells. Grants a discount of 5 energy for spells that cost 10 or more.	SpliceHack
Plague	Orcish Bow	Chaotic	Grants +5 to-hit and +7 to damage when firing arrows. Arrows fired from Plague are auto-poisoned, Confers poison resistance while wielded Confers sickness res while carried (from dnh)	SLASH'EM
Poseidon's Trident	Golden trident	Chaotic	+3 to-hit, +7 damage Grants water-breathing. Invoke for water-walking and an earthquake.	SpliceHack
Pridwen	Large Shield	Lawful	Confers half physical damage and extreme stability while worn.
Quick Blade	Elven Short Sword	Lawful	+9 to-hit, +2 damage	SLASH'EM
Reaper	Copper Halberd	Lawful	+5 to-hit, +20 damage First sacrifice gift for Yeoman Converted to Copper so that elven Yeoman can receive it as a gift.	SLASH'EM
Reaver	scimitar	Chaotic	The crowning gift for Pirates; it's the only artifact weapon they are able to receive from their deity (or guaranteed artifact weapon of any kind in the game). +4 to-hit, +8 damage. Steals one item from an opponent with each successful hit. Reaver will not steal an item if it causes you to become burdened.	SLASH'EM
Secespita	Copper knife	Non-aligned (Chaotic)	+5 to-hit, +6 damage The first sacrifice gift for Infidels. It can restore a small amount of magical energy to the one that wields it if used to kill anything living. Secespita also acts as an utility artifact: wielding it while sacrificing a corpse improves its sacrifice value by 50% (rounded down). This is especially useful for Infidels, as they are required to make sacrifices to Moloch on a regular basis to avert his wrath. Secespita is unaligned for Infidels, chaotic for all other roles (bones/wishing purposes).	EvilHack
Serpent's Tongue	Parazonium	Chaotic	Upgraded to a parazonium +5 to-hit Deals double damage to all monsters, and even more to non-poison-resistant enemies: 40% chance of 2 + d6 damage 30% chance of 4 + 2d6 damage 20% chance of 6 + 3d6 damage 10% chance of poison insta-death Note that this artifact does not provide poison-resistance! First sacrifice gift for Necromancers	SLASH'EM
Skullcrusher	Club	Lawful	+3 to-hit, +10 damage Upgraded to +12 Changed material to MINERAL (+2 damage)	SLASH'EM
Sunspot	Mace	Unaligned	+5 to-hit, +5 damage 1/3'rd chance of blinding on attack. Provides protection against being blinded.	SpliceHack
Sword of Balance	Short Sword	Neutral	+2 to-hit, +5 damage Conveys "extreme stability" (hurtling resistance)	SLASH'EM
Sword of Justice	Broadsword	Lawful	+5 to-hit, +12 damage versus cross-aligned monsters Yeoman receive this as a second guaranteed sacrifice gift. Used to be a long sword in SLASH'EM Changed material to METAL (+1 damage)	SLASH'EM
The End	Scythe	Chaotic	+3 to-hit, +20 cold damage Provides drain resistance while wielded. (Was Neutral in SpliceHack)	SpliceHack
Thiefbane	Platinum Long Sword	Unaligned	Revamped Thiefbane: No longer targets humans, so now the player can wield it if lucky enough to get if off of Sam. +5 to-hit, +1 damage 10% chance of beheading defenders Cancels thieves and covetous monsters. Protects from thievery and seduction.	SLASH'EM
Thunderstruck	Metal Morning Star	Unaligned	+5 to-hit, +20 sonic damage Provides sonic resistance. Shatters glass golems Added 25% chance of sonic beam shooting out. Will not fire rays if peacefuls or pets are in the way. (previously known as Sonicboom in SpliceHack)	SpliceHack
Wallet of Perseus	Bag of Holding	Unaligned	Improved weight reduction; Effectively reduces the weight of all items inside it by 1⁄3 if uncursed, compared to 1⁄2 with its base item. When blessed, the weight of its contents is reduced to 1⁄6 compared to 1⁄4 from a blessed bag of holding. Can hold roughly 50% more than a regular bag of holding when non-cursed; however, a cursed Wallet will quadruple the weight of its contents, double that of a cursed bag of holding.	SLASH'EM
Helm of Hermes	Helm of Speed	Neutral	When worn, grants sickness resistance. Invoke for levitation.	Hack'EM
Whisperfeet	Speed Boots	Neutral	Confers stealth and luck First sacrifice gift for Tourists	SLASH'EM
Windrider	Boomerang	Unaligned	+5 to-hit, and double damage vs all. Thrown chakrams slice through monsters and always return to you. Windrider can be multishot (depending on your boomerang skill) Does not shatter if wielded in melee	dNetHack
The Candle of Eternal Flame	Magic Candle	Lawful	Quest artifact for the Flame Mage Always remains lit, no matter what #Invoke to summon a tame Fire elemental No longer grants cold resistance, instead grants extrinsic fire resistance Confers teleport control and warning Also confers faster energy regeneration (like Encanto!) Grants a passive 2d10 fire attack while carrying.	SLASH'EM
The Storm Whistle	Magic Whistle	Neutral	Quest artifact for the Ice Mage No longer grants fire resistance, instead grants extrinsic shock resistance. Grants warning, teleport control, and searching when carried. Can now #invoke for 1 of 10 random "storm" related pets.	SLASH'EM
Great Dagger of Glaurgnaa	Great Dagger	Chaotic	Quest artifact for the Necromancer +8 to-hit, +4 drain life vs cross aligned Confers MR when carried. Invoke for an energy boost. Grants double spirit bonuses when carried Also triples the radius of spirit auto-collection when carried.	SLASH'EM
Crown of Saint Edward	Helm of Telepathy	Lawful	Quest artifact for the Yeoman Confers MR when carried. Confers half spell damage when worn.	SLASH'EM
Stake of Van Helsing	Wooden Stake	Lawful	+5 to-hit, +12 vs all monsters Quest artifact for the Undead Slayer Confers MR when carried. Now warns of vampires. Bonus chance of insta-kill vs vampires.	SLASH'EM
Iron Spoon of Liberation	Spoon	Chaotic	Convict's quest artifact. Adapted from dnh, this replaces the traditional Iron Ball of Liberation +5 to-hit, double damage vs all Carrying the spoon confers searching, and luck Wielding the spoon confers free action and stealth. Invoke for phasing. Apply to dig (like a pick-axe)	Convict Patch
The Idol of Moloch	Figurine	Chaotic	The Infidel's quest artifact a figurine of a horned devil that can be used to easily convert altars to Moloch provides magic resistance when carried. It can also be used to summon demons to aid the Infidel. An Infidel cannot win the game without having the Idol in their possession.	EvilHack
The Ring of P'hul	Ring of free action	Chaotic	The Ring of P'hul replaces The Heart of Ahriman as the Barbarian quest artifact. Confers magic resistance when worn and disease resistance when carried.	EvilHack
Gjallar	tooled horn	Neutral	Gjallar replaces The Orb of Fate as the Valkyrie quest artifact. It has the same artifact properties, but it is now a tooled horn instead of a crystal ball and doesn't have half spell damage. Blowing the horn will wake up any sleeping monsters on that level, and its scare radius is larger than that a regular tooled horn. Any monsters directly adjacent to the player when they use Gjallar have a 20% chance of being briefly stunned, and any non-Valkyrie players using it may become temporarily deaf.	EvilHack
Crossbow of Carl	crossbow	Chaotic	+5 to-hit, +6 damage If playing as a gnomish Ranger, the Crossbow of Carl replaces The Longbow of Diana as the Ranger quest artifact. It shares all of the same abilities and properties of the former, except it is now a crossbow instead of a bow. Invoking the crossbow produces crossbow bolts instead of arrows. In the hands of a gnomish ranger, its weight is the same as a bow (24 aum), for all others it has the same weight as a regular crossbow. If blessed, has a chance to produce ammo with an object property.	EvilHack
Itlachiayaque	shield of reflection	Lawful	Itlachiayaque replaces the Orb of Detection as the Archeologist quest artifact. When worn: reflection, ESP, half spell damage When carried: fire resistance and warning Invoke for a stinking cloud	Un/xnh
Treasury of Proteus	chest	Chaotic	Weighs just 150 units, a quarter of the weight of a normal chest. When carried: magic resistance and blocks curses When carried you are also considered "King of the Hill" which attracts a lot of pirate opposition. When carried this chest also periodically polymorphs its contents.	SpliceHack
The Lightsaber Prototype	red lightsaber	Lawful	+5 to hit bonus and +10 damage bonus When wielded: reflection When invoked: energy boost Unlike a regular lightsaber, it never runs out of power or needs charging, so it can be wielded indefinitely.	SlashTHEM
Staff of Rot	Bone Staff of Necromancy	Chaotic	Has a special wither attack: +0 to-hit, +12 wither While wielded, inflicts a passive wither attack (and occasional fear on defenders)	Hack'EM
The Eye of the Beholder	eyeball	Non-aligned	The Eye of the Beholder is an actual body part that comes from the Beholder itself. The Eye has no effects when carried or wielded, but when invoked, it causes the Eye to death gaze at all monsters within visual range, either greatly reducing their hit points or killing them outright if they don't have magic resistance. The invoke has been copied from EvilHack's Eye of Vecna. Invoking the Eye can be detrimental, as each use drops the players luck and alignment by three points, and abuses wisdom. Invoking the Eye too often can cause it to turn on the player instead, killing them. It can be eaten, but doing so is strongly discouraged. It can also be sacrificed on an altar for maximum value. Intelligent. Cannot be wished for.	SLASH'EM/EvilHack
The Hand of Vecna	mummified hand	Non-aligned	The Hand of Vecna is also an extremely powerful artifact that is an actual body part that comes from Vecna himself. Vecna must be destroyed in order to obtain the Hand. Be aware that if Vecna is destroyed via stoning, his Hand will not appear. Its powers include: hungerless regeneration, half physical damage, and cold resistance. When wielded it grants drain resistance. It can be invoked to summon undead. Invoking its magic has consequences. Intelligent. Cannot be wished for.	EvilHack

Changes to existing artifacts

Artifact	Changes
Cleaver	Cleaver attacks in a wide arc, hitting enemies on the 2 spots adjacent to where you are attacking. If a peaceful monster is in the way of the arc - we won't execute the wide arc unless the player explicitly says so. If Cleaver is cursed, this protection is waived and it will cleave anything.
Demonbane	Switched from a long sword to a silver heavy mace +5 to-hit vs demons Grants warning and double-damage vs demons. Blocks demon gating while wielded. Can be invoked for Levitation.
Dragonbane	Switched to a pair of dragonhide gloves Now provides reflection, acid resistance, and warns against dragons.
Excalibur	+5 to-hit, +10 damage Only lawful Knights can dip for Excalibur Note: there's a danger that the sword will rust away completely when you do (if not fixed).
Eyes of the Overworld	Now protects the wearer against many forms of gaze attacks, greatly reducing the need for the player to have to remove them to blind themselves with a blindfold or towel. Take note, Medusa's petrifying gaze attack is too powerful and will overcome the EotO's protection.
Fire Brand	Now a steel short sword. Engraving with Fire Brand burns the text on the floor
Frost Brand	Now a steel short sword.
Grimtooth	Now has a sickness-inducing attack Has a 1 in 6 chance of making its target terminally ill. Grants sickness resistance while wielded.
Magicbane	No longer an athame, switched to a quarterstaff. None of its special abilities or functions have otherwise been changed. Magicbane no longer cancels inventory items. Magicbane is safe for any Bag of Holding.
Magic Mirror of Merlin	Has had magic resistance removed. In its place are reflection and half spell damage when carried.
Mitre of Holiness	Allows #pray and #turn to function in Gehennom when worn.
Mjollnir	Base type is now heavy war hammer
Ogresmasher	Base type is now heavy war hammer Ogresmasher can knock back enemies.
Sceptre of Might	Base type changed from a mace to a rod, deals slightly more damage per hit.
Sting	Changed to Lawful (same alignment as elves) Sting also warns of spiders. (EvilHack)
Orcrist	Changed to Lawful (same alignment as elves)
Staff of Aesculapius	Also cures afraid and larval infection.
Sunsword	Made of gemstone (crystal)
Tsurugi of Muramasa	Raised bisection chance to 15% Now confers half physical damage when wielded.
Vorpal Blade	Raised beheading chance to 10%. Wielding Vorpal Blade protects against decapitation attacks.

Dragons and dragon scales

EvilHack uses the dtsund patch for dragon scales, which means that dragon scale mail no longer exists - but we can apply dragon scales to any armor. Since robes are now body armor - we can even create dragon scaled robes! Evil introduced some passive effects, these have been expanded so that every dragon scale provides a form of passive attack. The scales' abilities have also been switched around. Most are from other forks, but some are original to Hack'EM. Dragon scales worn on their own only exhibit their primary effect.

Dragon	Primary	Secondary	Passive
Black	Disintegration res	Slow digestion	Disintegration (!!)
Blue	Shock res	Speed	Shock (!!)
Deep	Drain res	Stable (hurtling res)	Drain life
Gold	Light	Automatic searching	Blinding
Gray	Magic res	Cancel protection	Cancellation (!!)
Green	Poison res	Sickness res	Poison
Orange	Sleep res	Free action	Slow
Red	Fire res	+1d6 melee damage	Fire (!!)
Shimmering	Displacement	Stealth/Warn/See invisible	Confuse/Stun/Slow
Silver	Reflection	Blinding res	Scaring
Sea	Magical breathing	Swimming	Water/rust (!!)
White	Cold res	Freeze water/Lava walk	Cold (!!)
Yellow	Acid res	Stoning res	Acid (!!)
Celestial	Flying	Sleep, shock, sonic res	None

!! - Risks item destruction from the type of attack

- Most of the passive attacks only trigger 33% of the time. - Black DSM also protects from engulfing digest attacks (But not engulf "wrap" attacks) - Blue scales passive shock is normally 1d6, but is capable of a critical hit for 2d24 - Acid scales passive acid is normally 1d3, but is capable of a critical hit for (level+1)d6 - Note: Artifact armors cannot be fused with dragon scales. Currently the only armor this counts for is the Grandmaster's Robe.

Spells and spellcasting

New spellbooks

Spell	Class	Level	Notes
spellbook of acid blast	ATTACK	6	Inherited from EvilHack, originally from GruntHack. A serious damage-causing spell, will transition from a ray to an area of effect spell much like the spells fireball and cone of cold, damage output is on the same scale to creatures that do not resist acid. Can corrode objects in the target's inventory.
spellbook of command undead	NECROMANCY	3	Was an ATTACK spell in SLASH'EM, now a NECROMANCY spell. This spell is equivalent to charm monster, except that it only affects undead. Was a level 5 spell in SLASH'EM, now level 3.
spellbook of enlighten	DIVINATION	4	Using this is equivalent to the wand of enlightenment. Was a BODY spell in SLASH'EM, now DIVINATION.
spellbook of fire bolt	MATTER	1	Fire Bolt is only available to the Flame Mage and will not generate randomly. The spellbook itself is immune to fire. A fire attack (similar to force bolt) that doesn't reflect and can hit multiple targets. Destroys doors, trees, grass, webs, fountains and can insta-kill straw and paper golems. Damage scales with level: Level 1 = 1d10 fire damage Level 4 = 1d10 + 1d8 fire damage Level 8 = 1d10 + 2d8 fire damage Level 12 = 1d10 + 3d8 fire damage Matter at Skilled adds +1d4 fire damage Matter at Expert adds +1d4 fire damage
spellbook of flame sphere	MATTER	1	Inherited from EvilHack, originally from SLASH'EM. This spell creates a number of tame flaming spheres dependent on the skill of the caster. The spellbook itself is immune to fire. Was a level 2 spell in EvilHack.
spellbook of freeze sphere	MATTER	1	Inherited from EvilHack, originally from SLASH'EM. This spell creates a number of tame freezing spheres dependent on the skill of the caster. Was a level 2 spell in EvilHack.
spellbook of lightning	ATTACK	4	Inherited from EvilHack, originally from SLASH'EM. This spell shoots a powerful lightning bolt as a ray from the caster. Effects are basically the same as a wand of lightning, damage output uses the same scale as the spells fireball and cone of cold.
spellbook of passwall	ESCAPE	5	Grants temporary intrinsic phasing, allowing you to pass through solid walls and other objects for anywhere between 50 and 149 turns before they become solid again. Was a level 6 BODY spell in SLASH'EM, now level 5 ESCAPE spell.
spellbook of poison blast	ATTACK	4	Inherited from EvilHack (where it's a level 5 spell), but this spell originally came from SLASH'EM (level 4). Produces a cloud of noxious gas in a ray pattern, same effects much like a green dragons breath attack. Reduced to level 4.
spellbook of psionic wave	ATTACK	1	Not generated randomly. This "spell" acts as the illithid race's psychic attack. When playing as the illithid race you will automatically start with this spell, but you will NOT start with the spellbook. This psionic attack can confuse and kill, and is tied to spell power use (but is not considered a spell for the purposes of Amulet of Yendor interactions). If your race is changed (e.g. by getting crowned as an infidel), this ability is lost. This spell will not time out as a normal spell would. Does 2d6 psychic damage. At XL 26, this increases to 4d6 psychic damage.
spellbook of reflection	MATTER	5	Creates a temporary reflective bubble around the caster. While active this acts exactly the same as an amulet of reflection (or the like)
spellbook of repair armor	MATTER	3	Repairs one level of damage to any worn piece of armor. Will not make armor items fixed. Works as a foil to the new monster spell 'destroy armor'
spellbook of sonicboom	MATTER	4	From SpliceHack. Similar to a cone of cold, but inflicts sonic damage.
spellbook of summon undead	NECROMANCY	5	Was an ATTACK spell in SLASH'EM, now a NECROMANCY spell. 72 in 73 chance of creating one undead monster and a 1 in 73 chance of creating five undead. Necromancers will automatically attempt to dominate the resulting monster(s). Monster(s) may resist, based on their MR.

Spellcasting changes

• Unlike in SLASH'EM, the standard retention for spellbooks is still 20000 turns. The reinforce memory technique can be used to extend your spell memory when a spell gets low.
• Removed the BODY spell school in SLASH'EM, moved to the ESCAPE spells
• Removed PROTECTION spell school in SlashEM, moved to the CLERIC spells
• Removed CLERIC spell school and created a NECROMANCY spell school to support the new spin on the Necromancer role. The spells from the CLERIC school have been distributed among the other schools as appropriate.
• Increased available max spells by 10 (Added 0-9 for spell list letters)
• Spellbook weights are now based on their level.
• Spellcasting while wearing body armor will negatively affect your spell success rate.

 - The exception to this is crystal plate mail, which does not adversely affect spellcasting in any way.

• Casting any spell successfully adds +500 turns to your memory of it (from SLASH'EM)

Existing spell changes

Spell	Notes
spellbook of cause fear
spellbook of charm monster	Decreased from level 5 (in old Vanilla) to level 4. The SLASH'EM mechanics of traitorous and untamable monsters have been added. This means that many monsters that a player would typically tame with charm monster will now be able to turn hostile on a whim (or not be tamable at all).
spellbook of confuse monster	Decreased from level 2 (in old Vanilla) to level 1.
spellbook of cure sickness	Now directional and can be cast at other monsters/pets as well as yourself. When cast at zombies, does damage to them instead of healing.
spellbook of cone of cold	Was an ATTACK spell, now a MATTER spell.
spellbook of create monster	Was an CLERIC spell, now a ENCHANTMENT spell.
spellbook of create familiar	Was an CLERIC spell, now a ENCHANTMENT spell. Traitorous and untameable pets cannot be made from the spell of create familiar.
spellbook of detect food	Decreased from level 2 (in Vanilla) to level 1.
spellbook of detect monsters	Raised from level 1 (in Vanilla) to level 2.
spellbook of detect unseen	Decreased from level 3 (in Vanilla) to level 2.
spellbook of dig	Decreased from level 5 (in Vanilla) to level 3.
spellbook of fireball	Was an ATTACK spell, now a MATTER spell.
spellbook of invisibility	Decreased from level 4 (in Vanilla) to level 2.
spellbook of jumping	Raised from level 1 (in Vanilla) to level 2.
spellbook of protection	Was an CLERIC spell, now a ENCHANTMENT spell.
spellbook of remove curse	Was an CLERIC spell, now a ENCHANTMENT spell.
spellbook of restore ability	Decreased from level 4 (in Vanilla) to level 2. Restore ability spell is now directional. (EvilHack)
spellbook of sleep	Decreased from level 3 (in Vanilla) to level 1.
spellbook of slow monster	Decreased from level 2 (in Vanilla) to level 1.
spellbook of teleport away	Decreased from level 6 (in Vanilla) to level 5.
spellbook of turn undead	Was an CLERIC spell, now a NECROMANCY spell.

Arcane monster spells

Touch of death

• if you have MR you'll take damage (8d6) and your maximum hit point level can be reduced slightly.
• Having MR and half spell damage together can reduce those effects even more.

Cancellation (new)

• Acts just like having a wand of cancellation zapped at the player.
• The spellcasting monster must be lined up with the player before it can cast this spell.

Acid blast (new)

• A powerful area of effect spell, does acid damage to its target.
• The damage output is dependent on the level of the monster casting it.
• The acid from this spell also has a chance of eroding any unprotected weapons or armor in open inventory.

Destroy armor

• Vanilla behavior – if the player didn't have magic resistance, one piece of armor would be completely destroyed.
• In HackEM, any piece of worn armor can have its fixed status removed, and then deteriorated.
• Even armor that is normally erodeproof is affected.
• Having MR keeps the erosion level at one per cast, otherwise 1-3 levels per cast.
• Armor-based quest artifacts are immune to this spell, as is crystal plate mail.

Fire bolt (new)

• A small area of effect spell, this spell explodes a small fireball upon its target.
• Any flammable objects in open inventory are subject to being burned.
• low-level spell, any spellcaster has access to it.

Ice bolt (new)

• A small area of effect spell, this spell explodes a small ice storm upon its target.
• Any non-protected objects in open inventory are subject to being frozen.
• low-level spell, any spellcaster has access to it.

Reflection (new)

• Creates a shimmering globe around the caster, granting them reflection for several turns.

Create Pool (from SlashEM)

• Affected by displacement and invisibility now.
• Monsters can't create pools on traps.
• Spellcasters can only cast create pool on squares that zombies can dig on: normal room and corridor squares, grass, and grave tiles.

Call Undead (from SlashEM)

Summon Monsters/Nasties

• Enemies have to see you in order to cast this spell now.
• Implemented fix #K669 - 'nasty' monster summoning.
• chain summoning nerf. tldr: "If a replacement creature is a spellcaster it now has to have lower difficulty than the summoner."

• Updated nasties lists with slashem monsters.
• Added gug, slaughter wights, devas, revenant

Clerical monster spells

Summon minion (new)

• Summon a type of minion based on its alignment.
• Demons that can cast clerical spells are not given access to this spell (they can already demon-gate).

Geyser

• A powerful spell that causes a large geyser of water to slam into its target, causing physical damage (8d6).
• What's new: can now rust any unprotected worn armor.

Vulnerability (new)

• Its target temporarily becomes vulnerable to either fire, cold, shock or acid-based attacks, dropping its resistance (if any exists) by 50%.

Monster mechanic changes

Berserking behavior

• From EvilHack
• Monsters with this property have the M3_BERSERK tag.
• When berserkers are below 1/3 of their health, they go into berserk mode.
• When berserking, monsters totally ignore Elbereth or Scare Monster. If they are usually skittish or trying to keep away, they will instead actively approach.
• A berserking monster also has a 1 in 3 chance of dealing their max possible damage when hitting you.
• They will also lash out at random monsters to get at you.
• This property has been added to many monsters: all rabid animals, all dwarves, most orcs, all bears, all badgers, all gnolls, most giants, and other monsters where it seems appropriate.

Traitorous/betrayal behavior

• From SLASH'EM, monsters with this property have the M3_TRAITOR tag. If tame, monsters with the traitor property have a small chance to betray you on each turn.
• In SLASH'EM this used to depend on the monster's HP being lower than yours, but that condition has been removed and the chance of betraying has been significantly increased.
• Also in SLASH'EM, the chance of a pet betraying was quite low. There was a 1 in 850 chance per turn of the betray check even occurring. The chance of this check has been increased to 1 in 250 each turn.
• All monsters that were traitorous in SLASH'EM/THEM have kept it, and it has been added to various new monsters as appropriate. For example: Migos, gargoyles, any thieves, any illithids, any pirates, deep ones, most imps, all kobolds, all orcs, all gnolls, and other various conniving creatures.
• Also closely related is the "untameable" property, which as also been imported from SLASH'EM.
• Necromancers will never be betrayed by their undead pets.

How does the betrayed check work?

All these conditions must be true:

• The pet is not a minion
• The pet is less than 4 squares away from you.
• The pet is capable of treachery.
• The pet is not mindless.
• Hitting a 1 on a d3 roll.
• Hitting a d22 roll that is greater than the pets tameness (means that the lower the tameness, the higher chance of succeeding)
• Hitting a d(pet's abuse + 2) that isn't 1 (means that even if your pet has not suffered any abuse, there is a 50% chance of the roll succeeding.)

If all these conditions and rolls are met, your pet will become hostile and turn on you. The implications of this mechanic are to be more careful around polytraps - carefully monitor what your pet is polymorphing into, or abandon it if it could threaten you with betrayal.

Shield skill

A new trainable skill from EvilHack - using shields.

Shield skill gives the player a new avenue of defense (and even offense) to train up. Roles that can highly train shields will benefit from much higher AC and gain some nice offensive bonuses.

AC bonuses:

• Being unskilled/restricted in shield skill, there is no extra AC bonus for wearing one.
• To get these bonuses, you must be wearing a shield and have the required skill.
  • BASIC skill: +1AC
  • SKILLED skill: +3AC
  • EXPERT skill: +5AC
  • MASTER skill: +8AC

• If your role allows for it, you can train up your shield skill while wearing a shield.
• If you block an attack outright with your shield, that automatically trains shield skill.
• Otherwise, there's a 33% chance of training shield skill while wearing one and a regular miss event occurs.

Shield Bashing:

• If shield skill is basic or higher, and a shield is being worn, there's a chance the player will receive an extra 'shield bash' attack along with their regular attack
• The greater the shield skill, the greater the chance of the extra shield bash attack occurring.
• Small shields do 2-4 damage, Tower shields do 2-13 damage.
• All other shields do 3-8 damage (not counting material hatred, which is factored in).
• Expert skill or higher gets an extra small damage bonus
• Expert/master skill in shields gives a chance to stun your target with a shield bash

Misc:

• If expert skill or higher in shields., your shield will be prevented from being taken away via dwarvish bearded axe attack.

The roles that can train in shields are:

Role	Shield Skill
Archeologist	BASIC
Barbarian	SKILLED
Caveperson	BASIC
Convict	BASIC
Knight	EXPERT
Necromancer	SKILLED
Priest	BASIC
Rogue	BASIC
Ranger	SKILLED
Tourist	BASIC
Undead Slayer	SKILLED
Valkyrie	MASTER
Yeoman	BASIC

• Knights and valkyries start at basic skill.

Flanking behavior

• From SpliceHack, monsters with this property have the M2_FLANK tag.
• Any two monsters can flank a player (or another monster) if they sandwich the target. However, monsters with this property ("outflankers") are more tactical and will actively seek opportunities to flank the player.
• Monsters gain a large bonus to hit when flanking (located on opposite sides of the player's position).
• Flanking now scales with monster level (it used to be a flat +4 AC penalty in SpliceHack):
  • AC penalty = 4 + (mdiffulty - 4) / 2
• Flanking has been applied to many appropriate monsters in Hack'EM.

• Using a pet, you can also take advantage of flanking. Simply place yourself and your pet in such a way as to "sandwich" the monster. You (and your pet) will each get a flanking bonus on the victim.

Flanking restrictions:

• You cannot flank if hallucinating, afraid, confused, punished, fumbling, wounded, or stunned. You must also be able to see the monster you want to flank.
• Monsters cannot flank if sleeping, fleeing, confused, trapped, being stoned, sick, diseased, or stunned.

Monster hit point generation

• Now determined by their size as well as what level they are.
• They also have the same armor class damage reduction that players enjoy.

Intelligent monsters

• Mostly from evil, but a fair amount of monster usage code has come from Splice, Un, and xnh
• Intelligent monsters/pets can use many more items against the player or for their own benefit, including:
  • stashing objects into bags and taking them back out
  • unlocking and looting locked containers
  • activating any figurines it may have
  • wearing most rings
  • reading scrolls of remove curse to uncurse items in its inventory
  • scrolls of charging to recharge wands in its possession
  • utilizing powerful wands against the player
• If an intelligent monster is lucky enough to get a wish from a smoky potion - it WILL wish for something to use against the player.

• Some monsters can break boulders to get at you: the riders, shopkeepers, priests, the Oracle, your quest leader, and any monster with a pickaxe! If you are in Sokoban, however, monsters are forbidden from breaking boulders.

Player monsters

• From EvilHack, player monsters are now their own class of monster and separate from how the actual player is defined. They were purposely left out of the new monsters table as it would unnecessarily inflate that list. Player monsters differ here from vanilla NetHack in that they can spawn outside of the Astral Plane, are yellow in color, and are kitted out in player-like gear starting at level 10, and then can be kitted out with ascension-level gear starting at level 20.
• Their hit dice and difficulty level roughly matches that of the actual player (this is based off of what experience level the actual player is when the player monster spawns). Their abilities closely match their role as well (wizards and priests can cast spells, rogues can steal items from inventory, etc).
• Player monsters covet the Amulet of Yendor and will attempt to steal it! If they steal it while on the Astral Plane, they WILL attempt to sacrifice it themselves. As you can imagine, if that happens, it is a game-ending event.

Shape-changing monsters

• (except for vampires and were-creatures) will revert back to their original form when their polymorphed form dies.
• They cannot change form again once this happens.

Breaking boulders

• Some monsters can now go the extra mile and will even break down your boulder forts to get at you! This feature was ported from EvilHack.
• Monsters that can break boulders include: The riders, shopkeepers (including One-Eyed Sam), priests, quest leaders, and the Oracle.
• Any monster that is wielding a pick-axe can also break rocks.
• Note: This doesn't apply in Sokoban, monsters are banned from breaking those boulders.

Other new behaviors that need documentation

• M3_ACCURATE
• M3_SKITTISH
• M3_DISPLACES
• M4_VULNERABLE_FIRE
• M4_VULNERABLE_COLD
• M4_VULNERABLE_ELEC
• M4_VULNERABLE_ACID
• M4_STATIONARY
• MR_PSYCHIC
• MR_CLOB
• MR_SONIC
• M2_JUMPER

Unique monster changes

• The Oracle sometimes gets a potion of hallucination. (xnh)

Medusa

• Medusa has been enhanced; she is no longer an easy kill.
• Her hit points and level have been boosted.
• She spawns wielding an enchanted orcish bow with a quiver full of enchanted and poisoned orcish arrows.
• The snakes on her head can attack (poisonous bite) and her own bite causes slow-stoning.
• Her gaze is still of the instant petrification type.
• Having reflection is no longer a guaranteed kill, she resists most of the time.
• When defeated, a pegasus will arise from her body (SLASH'EM)

Demon lords/princes

• These demons and the lair they may appear in, has been completely randomized.
• Your experience in Gehennom can be a very different experience per game.

Juiblex

• Has been enhanced, and has many more acid-based attacks at its disposal.

Vlad the Impaler

• Can cast wizard-based monster spells, and wields the artifact weapon Lifestealer.

The Wizard of Yendor

• Can use any artifact weapons or armor that he steals against the player.
• Color changed to bright magenta.
• The frequency of Rodney's harassment of the player now slightly depends on luck.
• Lowered Rodney's AC from -8 to -6 (from EvilHack)

The Riders

• Identity of the Riders is hidden via farlook or 'More info about' prompt. (UnNetHack/EvilHackkkkk)
• All of the riders have more HP than they did in Vanilla NetHack (EvilHack).

Strategy guide for vanilla players

Hack'EM strategy guide for vanilla players

Misc resources

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• Hack'EM Frequently Asked Questions
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