U

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Printable ASCII characters
~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + space
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = { } |
Qq Ww Ee Rr Tt Yy Uu Ii Oo Pp : " [ ] \
Aa Ss Dd Ff Gg Hh Jj Kk Ll ? ; ' Ctrl
Zz Xx Cc Vv Bb Nn Mm , . / < > Alt

In NetHack, the letter U serves the following purposes:

  • It is also used as a direction key if numpad movement is off:
    • Press u to move north-east if numpad movement is off.
    • Press shift + u to move far north-east if numpad movement is off.
  • If numpad movement is on:
  • In the source code, the structure named u contains all the player-specific variables. See you.h, line 256 for the structure definition.

Variants

SLASH'EM

SLASH'EM introduces new monsters that use the u and U glyphs:

SporkHack

SporkHack introduces new monsters that use the u and U glyphs:

UnNetHack

UnNetHack introduces one new monster that uses the U glyph:

dNetHack

dNetHack adds several new monsters that use the u and U glyphs - the U glyph is used for unknown abominations, a new monster class that replaces the umber hulk monster class; the umber hulk is still present in this new class as U.

The new monsters include:

xNetHack

In xNetHack, monsters that use u are unchanged, while U represents aberrations, which consist of the umber hulk and the following monsters:

SpliceHack

SpliceHack and SpliceHack-Rewrite add new monsters that use the u and U glyphs:

SlashTHEM

SlashTHEM retains the new monsters that use the u and U glyphs in SLASH'EM and adds other new monsters:

EvilHack

EvilHack also includes the shambling horror, as well as several other new monsters that use the u and U glyphs: