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This page is an attempt to list YASIs that come up on several NetHack-related IRC channels. I have made this list separate from my other list.
Attribution will be listed wherever possible, and feel free to add any more that aren't here. While YASIs are not intended to be taken seriously, they might still find some use if listed here.
| Silly Idea | Variant | Source |
|---|---|---|
| New "farmer" role: starts with seeds and a spade, has other tools available like sickles and scythes. | jonadab | |
| Opening a cursed bag of holding does not destroy the items, but it redistributes them around the level, or perhaps the entire dungeon. | Grasshopper, AmyBSOD | |
| Dropping a ring of polymorph control down a sink, then a ring of polymorph, turns the sink into a regularly erupting geyser. | FIQ | |
| The Mazes of Menace are located on the moon Titan, to mess with day/night and moon phases. | rumflump | |
| Donkeys that carry around the player's loot. If you kick a pet donkey, you get the YAFM "You kick your own ass!" | jonathanhanes, Grasshopper | |
| Playable race that doesn't have teeth and can't eat anything unless polymorphed into something that can. | aosdict | |
| New scroll label CONULATION (apparently it is CONGRATULATIONS minus GRATS?) | aosdict | |
| Potion of un-dilution. Does nothing when quaffed or thrown. Only effect is that when you dip a diluted stack of potions into it, they become undiluted. | aosdict | |
| Trap which pushes the player one level higher, like a potion of gain level. | aosdict | |
| Oilskin sack of cancellation, which cancels items that you put into it. | AmyBSOD | |
| Priest players, if they are at XL 30 (with the "High Priest(ess)" rank title), can kill their own high priest and take over, becoming the new high priest. | aosdict | |
| If you genocide @, you only die if you have showrace turned off so your symbol is a @. If you have showrace turned on, you live, but if you ever turn it off again that game, you die. | Wooble | |
| Lego trap. If you're not wearing metal boots, you take damage when you step on it. | FIQ | |
| Chicken soup that cures constitution loss when consumed. When thrown at a shade, wraith or ghost, it is instakilled (chicken soup is good for the soul). | bug_sniper, aosdict | |
| Dipping a thirsty weapon into water or a potion of blood makes it satisfied. Hitting things with a satisfied weapon removes their hunger. | bug_sniper, jonadab | |
| Burying a troll corpse results in a troll zombie, which is twice as likely to reanimate. Sticking a troll corpse in an ice box results in an ice troll emerging from the box. Dumping a troll in lava results in a lava troll. Dumping a troll corpse in water results in a water troll. Locking a troll corpse in a box results in a freedom fighter troll, who goes around liberating all the other trolls from their boxes. | Tangles, jonadab, aosdict | |
| Tasp: charged ranged tool that works on monsters that have a mind and are not immaterial. It paralyzes for one turn, dealing no damage, and has a small chance of taming. To keep the monster tame, you have to keep tasping it occasionally. Applied to yourself, it cures hallucinations by electroshock therapy. | jonadab, Grasshopper | |
| Add a corpse swinging skill, which increases your odds of hitting with a wielded corpse. Only Cavemen can get skill in it. | aosdict | |
| You can apply Fire Brand to an adjacent tame rothe to brand it with your cattle mark. | aosdict | |
| Pools of oil, black or brown } | FIQ | |
| Rather than spell schools, every spell must be trained individually, costing the same amount of skill points as normal. | AmyBSOD | |
| Rename the mundane two-handed sword to "claymore". Apply it to adjacent tiles to create a land mine. | jonadab | |
| Hobbit nuns, and nuns as a playable role that can use a #sing command. | jonadab | |
| Roaming shopkeepers, that will attack and kill you even before you break any doors. | bug_sniper | |
| You can #jump onto tiny monsters, which makes a Dex check. If successful the monster is squashed. | AmyBSOD | |
| Deli shopkeepers sometimes have a tinning kit in inventory. If a monster dies in their shop, they will instantly tin its corpse and drop the tin in their shop for sale. | jonadab | |
| You can eat leather while starving. | ChaseSP | |
| Eating a bag of holding lets you store items in your stomach. | aosdict | |
| Eating a magic lamp gives you intrinsic light. | Wooble | |
| Potion of solipsism: gives every other monster on the level temporary phasing because you're not sure whether they're figments of your imagination or not. | aosdict | |
| Artifact Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses, which when equipped cause blindness and warning when a monster is in line of sight. | jonadab | |
| Librarian monster whose attack breaks illiterate conduct. | jonathanhanes | |
| The Candelabrum of Invocation, if it contains 7 candles of invocation, can be used to do the invocation without the other invocation items / from anywhere in the dungeon | dnethack | Chris, AmyBSOD |
| Pets you get from other players' bones files that were the pets of the dead adventurer are harder to make do what you want, like in Pokemon. | aosdict | |
| Wand of alignment conversion, which will convert the alignment of both altars and priests tending those altars, so the priest may not get angry. Also a potion of change alignment. | bug_sniper | |
| Hill orcs can grow up into hell orcs, which are much stronger and normally spawn only in Gehennom. | aosdict | |
| Winter wolves can grow up into spring wolves, which can coil their body and launch themselves several spaces in one linear move to attack, damaging you from the impact and landing next to you. | jonadab | |
| Pinball monster: Has a fast speed, rolls around and bounces into walls, and occasionally teleports. Uses the S_BOULDER symbol. If you kick it, it changes direction. | FIQ, aosdict, jonadab | |
| Add charm monster to the list of maintainable spells. If you maintain charm monster, you automatically cast it any time you're next to a hostile monster. | FIQhack | jonadab |
| Add a spellbook of wish, but it is not randomly generated, unwishable, costs over 100 ink minimum to write, and is level 27 so nobody can cast it. | aosdict, jonadab | |
| Amulet of undead turning. If you die while wearing it, you rise from the grave as a zombie. If an undead monster dies while wearing it, it has the same effect as an amulet of life saving. Related: a cursed amulet of life saving will save you if and only if you are undead. Also related: an amulet of death saving, which has the same randomized appearance as life saving, which saves undead and instakills any living creature that wears it. | aosdict, raisse | |
| Fire gloves and ice gloves that send a bolt of fire or cold in the direction you hit. | Wooble | |
| If your terminal is big enough, whenever the game makes a die roll, you must watch an ASCII-art animation of the die roll. | jonadab | |
| Spinach monster, whose corpse when tinned becomes a tin of spinach. | aosdict | |
| Pun mode, an option that only allows messages containing puns to be printed. | jonadab | |
| Potions of wonder can give the "Yendor" property to any amulet upon dipping, which gives it the properties of the Amulet of Yendor. | FIQhack | aosdict |
| Some locked doors may open easily from one side (because they have a deadbolt or other easy latch). Secret doors or formerly secret doors have no method of opening on one side and must be kicked down. | aosdict | |
| Instead of doing nothing, a blessed scroll of punishment punishes you, but with a longer chain. | jonadab | |
| Ring of illness: a ring that causes the fatal illness timer to start, and autocurses when worn, but will reliably cure illness when removed. | jonadab | |
| If you're polymorphed into a water moccasin, you can crawl into a fountain to travel to any fountain in the game. | FIQ | |
| #shout works to send mail to someone in another game on the same server. Uses engraving erosion code because it's from far away. | bug_sniper, Tangles | |
| #yodel and #karaoke commands to make nearby peaceful and tame monsters hostile. | jonadab, K2 | |
| Cans of grease appear as "a tin" while unidentified. | aosdict | |
| Herrings that can be used as axes, because of Monty Python. | bug_sniper | |
| The Plane of Tedium, which is 8000x2400 with the viewport scrolling with the character to keep them on the screen. | jonadab | |
| Spambots that attack by throwing tins of rotten spam at you. | bug_sniper | |
| Remembrall, a tool made of glass (it could even be a "glass orb" when unidentified) that cures amnesia. | aosdict | |
| Separate spells that convert every type of material into every other type of material (metal to flesh, stone to metal, cloth to paper, stone to cloth, etc). | bug_sniper, aosdict | |
| Monsters' resistance to Elbereth is dependent on how many games you have played. | FIQ | |
| If you are hallucinating/confused and use a magic whistle, any pets may get hit with a magic missile instead. | Menche | |
| 1/50 player-character monsters will only move orthogonally, because their laptop doesn't have a numpad and they are stubbornly using the arrow keys. | jonadab | |
| Remove Quest nemeses' petrification resistance, because making it feasible to play around with a c corpse means the player might YASD with it. | Wooble | |
| Rename the Dark One to the Dim One. | ChrisE | |
| Starting to levitate/fly should give the message "You ascend." | Wooble | |
| Tame kittens will randomly stop to lick themselves or fall asleep. | Wooble | |
| Occasionally generate 2x2 squares in rock with a few gold pieces embedded in each, to trick people into digging for it. | aosdict | |
| At most one treasure zoo in the game is actually called "David's treasure zoo", and it contains a player monster named David. | aosdict | |
| Dehydrated conduct, which is broken if you drink potions, quaff fountains or sinks, or go in water. | stenno | |
| While invisible, you are always blind. This is because photons are passing straight through your eyes and the rest of your head without actually hitting your retinas. | aosdict | |
| Masonry that smooths out the surfaces of luckstones, so they stack. | bug_sniper | |
| If you are playing the Noble role, you cannot squeeze past boulders at all, because you are "portly". | dNetHack | aosdict |
| Horseflies, ridable flying monsters that are Tiny size. | bug_sniper | |
| Make a Strength check for bugling the notes A, B, D or F, since such notes are theoretically possible to play on a bugle but require you to blow almost impossibly hard. | aosdict | |
| At most one treasure zoo in the game is actually designated and introduced to the player as "David's treasure zoo". This zoo contains a player monster named David. | aosdict | |
| Legal blindness, a birth option that is not quite as blind as permablind. You can see only one square around you for the whole game regardless of lighting. | aosdict | |
| Allow the options parser to parse the typo POTIONS= the same as OPTIONS=. | aosdict | |
| Zombies pregenerate with a given number of eyes and ears, like you would see in Dwarf Fortress. Slashing attacks have a chance to remove their ears and piercing attacks have a chance to remove their eyes. With no ears or eyes left, they become deaf or blind respectively. | aosdict | |
| Digless conduct, broken when you dig. | Tangles | |
| New artifact Houchou Jr. It is a spork that instakills anything it's thrown at, but only in forks of NetHack. | aosdict | |
| Possessing a utensil should prevent your hands from getting glibbed from eating a greasy tin | bug_sniper | |
| A negative "anticoagulation" intrinsic, which prevents your wounds from healing up, so bleeding effects continue draining HP, and probably eventually kill you. | AmyBSOD, jonadab | |
| If you die and one of your pets comes across your corpse with a wand of undead turning before you rot away, it can zap your corpse with the wand and bring you back to life; your game does not end. | FIQhack | aosdict |
| Dipping potions into fountains may produce diluted potions of sickness. | FIQ | |
| If playing a vampire who hates blessed stuff, Wizard of Yendor harassment may bless your items instead of cursing them. | dNetHack | ais523 |
| Classify ice boxes as magical tools, since they manage to stay cold permanently without any supply of ice. | aosdict | |
| A branch where gravity is reversed, so you walk on the ceiling and trapdoors make you fall through to higher levels. | AmyBSOD | |
| Potions can be generated diluted, remain diluted when polypiled, and cannot be used in alchemy at all. | AmyBSOD | |
| If you throw an unlit potion of oil and a fire elemental is in its path, it passes through and lights the potion of oil. | jonadab | |
| Water elementals should count as unsolid, because clearly they are liquid. | aosdict | |
| The 119th monster of its type that gets killed drops an artifact that instakills any monster of that type, except there can only ever be one more of it generated. | rikersan | |
| A weapon that conveys the "freezing" property, which makes you shiver and eventually freeze to death if you don't drop it. | bug_sniper | |
| If you are watching a game in which someone stone to fleshes a statue of you, you control whether you become peaceful, tame, or hostile. | bug_sniper | |
| If you steal a mummy's wrapping, it becomes invisible. | jonadab | |
| Reading spellbooks while hallucinating lets you learn hallucinatory spells, which can only be cast while hallucinating and have funny messages but no gameplay effect. | jonadab | |
| Food left in an ice box for long enough will become freezer burned. | aosdict | |
| Bucket, a tool inspired by Minecraft. When applied to an adjacent water or lava square, it scoops up all the fluid, turning it to a normal floor tile, and can be applied somewhere else to dump it. Carrying a lava bucket in inventory does not harm the player. | aosdict | |
| Magic markers that write in invisible ink. A scroll written with invisible ink appears to be blank unless you can see invisible, in which case you can read it. | aosdict | |
| Pokedex-like feature that can give you limited information about enemies you have seen, but can only give you full information when you "capture" it by tinning its corpse. | aosdict | |
| Altars to Elbereth. They are colored green, and sacrificing to Elbereth angers your own deity but makes engraving Elbereth more effective. | jonadab | |
| Aluminum foil, a tool that can be applied to corpses to keep them safe to eat until they rot away, at the expense of using up the foil. | jonadab | |
| Replace the string "for" with "four" everywhere it appears in Nethack Fourk. Fourtune cookies, spell of fource bolt, #fource, etc. | Fourk | aosdict |
| All three gods mess around with you in the endgame by smiting you, protecting you, sending minions after you, smiting the minions, etc. For bonus stupid, they only do this if you are an atheist. | FIQ, rikersan | |
| Shopkeeper role where the whole adventure is flavored as collecting a lot of loot, including the Amulet of Yendor, to stock your shop. The quest leader is One-Eyed Sam, the quest nemesis is the Master of Thieves. Again. | aosdict | |
| Nigerian Prince monster. Asks for a lot of gold, and promises to return with much more than what you pay him. Totally. Guaranteed. | rikersan | |
| Valkyries always start with snow boots, which might be levitation, fumble, speed, kicking, or anything else they can randomly be. | FIQ | |
| When a werewolf is killed in wolf form, it can revert to a vampire, since vampires can also turn into wolves, and vice versa. | jonadab | |
| For variants that include bards, add grand pianos as a \. You can use it to produce more powerful music or music with a larger range. | aosdict | |
| NetHack Caption Contests - a random jumble of characters is posted, and people have to come up with a story for it. | aosdict | |
| Eating footrice in a polyform that is immune to stoning can give you intrinsic petrification resistance. This turns instapetrifications into slow petrifications, and makes slow petrifications take longer. | FIQ | |
| A game mode where you play as the High Priest of Moloch, and the game sends a swarm of ever-more-powerful adventurers to come kill you. | jonadab | |
| Lord Surtur should wield Fire Brand if it is not already generated, because his mythology has him wielding a flaming sword. | aosdict | |
| Wand of teleoperation - it allows you to read/zap/apply items in the path of the beam | oh6 | |
| Rapiers and scimitars get a damage bonus from Charisma if your character can make puns during the attack. | jonadab | |
| Most weapons should have a fairly common monster (perhaps a Gehennom monster) that is resistant to them. | ais523 | |
| The "heavy" modifier (used normally for iron balls) works on all wishes. | ais523 | |
| In line with the "Barbarians hate magic" flavor, they can always get Magicbane as a sacrifice gift. | aosdict | |
| In variants with #shout commands, shouting wakes up all monsters in a radius dependent on XL. | aosdict | |
| The Rogue quest artifact is now the "Robbin' HUD", which gives you all sorts of neat status displays for how you can steal from monsters. | aosdict | |
| Lizards and other : class monsters can also drop scales, but the scales aren't useful. | jonadab | |
| You can apply a potion of water to an adjacent maple tree to turn it into a potion of maple sap. When heated, it will turn into a potion of maple syrup (drink for good nutrition) instead of boiling and exploding. | aosdict | |
| With X-ray vision / astral vision, the only monsters you can see through walls are skeletons. | aosdict | |
| A spellbook of aspersions that lets you cast aspersions on other monsters. | ChrisE | |
| Legend of Zelda Dungeon Map. Lets you see all levels' walls and corridor outlines. | aosdict | |
| Birthday candles, an extremely rare tool that if you light it and then snuff it, it grants a wish and then disappears. Unidentified description is "a candle". | aosdict | |
| Add "eye of misspelling" and "staff of misspelling" as valid wishes for the Eye of the Aethiopica and the Staff of Aesculapius. | aosdict | |
| Woodchuck race, which is basically playing the game permanently polymorphed into a woodchuck, with no benefits on top of those conferred by the polyform. | aosdict | |
| Add 50 more types of polearms, with similar but not identical stats. | jonadab | |
| Triggering a bear trap removes all your armor and jewelry and spawns a bear to attack you. | jonadab | |
| "Gender studies professor" role: gets politically correct pronouns for every monster, item, trap, staircase, etc in the game. | AmyBSOD | |
| Whenever a purple worm goes "Burrrrp!" and there is a lawful speaking monster within some range, the lawful monster says "Say excuse me!" | Grasshopper | |
| On Halloween, generate only candy bars whenever food would be generated. | Webmant | |
| In December, boulders become ice boulders which can be melted, and rocks become snowballs that you can throw at enemies to deal cold damage. | amateur_hour | |
| If the player sets !bones, skeletons do not generate in the game. | ChrisE | |
| Boots of rocket jumping. | aosdict | |
| Flying iron bars on the Plane of Air that can crash into you. | bug_sniper | |
| Gnomish characters get intrinsic phasing at level 30. | aosdict | |
| You can invoke the Amulet to grant wishes, but this forces you to continue doing so every 50 turns, with an increasing chance of killing you outright every time you do so. | FIQ | |
| You can give the Amulet to your pet so it can ascend instead of you, giving you a suboptimal but still good ending. | bug_sniper | |
| Rubbing iron items on a loadstone either breaks the item or magnetizes it, making it impossible to use or drop. | jonadab, ais523 | |
| Scroll of destroy amour, cancels all foocubi on the current level. | aosdict | |
| Reading scrolls while hallucinating has some random scroll-like effect. | Chris | |
| Hallucination tiles, which get swapped in for the regular ones when you hallucinate. | jonadab | |
| Scrolls of fire don't work on the Planes, except for the Plane of Fire. | FIQ | |
| Magic chests contain one of each type of gray stone at the beginning of the game, so you can skip Mines' End if you're prepared to maybe get a loadstone. | jonadab | |
| Cavemen have no concept of numbers, and no numbers will be shown to them at all. | Wooble | |
| All races now have their own language, which you have to be able to read to play the game effectively: Gaelic for Knights, Japanese for samurai, English for tourists, Nordic runes for valkyrie. All input including wishes must be specified in this language too. | Wooble | |
| Trollsbane instakills trolls by turning them into tins of troll meat. | aosdict | |
| Smelling monsters is implemented outside of wizard mode, but it has no effect except to abuse wisdom. | Cborne | |
| If you zap an acidic monster with a corrodable wand of striking, "The wand hits the foo!" and corrodes. | ChrisE | |
| Health food stores sell hippie stuff like crystals (pieces of worthless glass and low-value gems like amethysts) and hallucinogens (tins of violet fungus and yellow mold), potions of hallucination. | aosdict | |
| Sokoban is embedded in the Dungeons of Doom like the Wizard's Tower is, but is inaccessible in the same way. | jonadab | |
| The initial contents of a magic chest contain one of each type of gray stone, so you can skip Mines' End if you're willing to take the chance of getting unlucky and picking a loadstone. | jonadab | |
| If Vorpal Blade goes snicker-snack, and you are carrying Snickersnee, Vorpal Blade eats it. (Alternatively, it makes Snickersnee eat you.) | Wooble | |
| Invisible walls: block vision only if you have see invisible. | FIQ | |
| A tin golem, which tin openers are very effective against. | ChrisE | |
| Minotaurs spawn much earlier in the game, but can only move like grid bugs. | FIQ | |
| Reverse genociding quantum mechanics either raises Int by one point or confuses you. | aosdict, Zaha | |
| If you are trapped in a pit and trying to get out, nearby hostiles can stomp on your hands and make it take longer to get out. This triggers spike damage again. | AmyBSOD | |
| Lawful characters get an alignment bonus if they come across a bones pile, dig a pit, put the corpse in it, and fill it in, or "build a cairn" by dropping a huge pile of rocks on top of the corpse. | aosdict | |
| Breaking a tin wand turns it into several tins. | flump | |
| The game intentionally generates monsters in inconvenient places in Sokoban or makes them read scrolls of earth if your Luck is bad. | aosdict | |
| Polymorph traps have an increased probability to generate sessile monsters so they don't go completely crazy in a crowd of monsters. | ais523 | |
| Artifact boomerang that lets you specify target squares. | deadnoob | |
| A ward which is actually just the peace sign. | dNetHack | aosdict |
| Artifact Iron Boots from Zelda. The base type is a pair of iron shoes, and they make you very heavy and speed 3 when worn. | aosdict | |
| Artifact rings of cold/fire resistance Frost Band and Fire Band. | aosdict | |
| Crystal high heels made of glass, and an artifact version of them named Cinderella's Slippers. | dNetHack | AmyBSOD |
| The Staff of Saint Patrick, a quarterstaff that has bonuses versus snakes, acts as a luckstone, and will turn snakes (instead of undead) when wielded and the player #turns. | aosdict, statuesurfer, Menche | |
| Harmonicas, a tonal instrument. | aosdict | |
| New wand appearance "fourked wand". A wand with this random appearance is subject to the Wands Balance Patch. | Luxidream | |
| Wand of boulders, which shoots boulders (?). | flump | |
| Cursed two-handed weapons only weld to one hand, and do not prevent you from opening containers and casting spells; they are no worse than a one-handed weapon. | aosdict, jonadab | |
| Killing all generated demon princes or killing all the Riders gives you an experience level. | flump | |
| Intelligent monsters capable of speech can read spellbooks to you. | flump | |
| Intelligence increases carrying capacity, because a smarter character is able to organize and balance their pack more evenly. | flump, Webmant | |
| To-hit and damage get large penalties for a quarterstaff welded to your hands, since quarterstaff fighting involves moving your hands along the staff a lot. | aosdict | |
| Paper is edible. | AmyBSOD | |
| Priests can offer the Amulet of Yendor on the altar in their quest home level (the Arch Priest is probably pretty similar to a high priest). | aosdict | |
| Some unique monsters can be created by naming an appropriate monster of the base type. | ChrisE | |
| Archelogists can start with a woodchuck pet because they're an endangered species. | aosdict | |
| An #evoke command, usable only by low-level wizard Evokers. | ChrisE | |
| Pavlovian conditioning for pets; if you abuse it after it eats corpses you want, it will learn not to eat those corpses. | deadnoob | |
| Allow the paranoid_confirmation option to be canceled with any input that's not "yes", including the empty string. | aosdict, Deuce-Zen | |
| If you ask the Oracle about woodchucks, she becomes hostile and ZOTs you. | aosdict, jonadab | |
| Master wand of wishing has a 0.000001% chance of granting a second wish. | FIQHack | Luxidream |
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| You can only offer the Amulet when it's blessed. Attempting to offer it otherwise will raise it from cursed to uncursed or from uncursed to blessed. | aosdict | |
| Wand of fishing: asks you what you wish for, but it will only accept objects that you dropped into water previously. | AmyBSOD | |
| Ice plate mail: shatters easily, deals cold damage to you and other monsters, melts if you take fire damage or enter Gehennom, or just eventually anyways. | aosdict |
