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Ardub23: /* Gehennom changes */ Added map

2026-05-30T04:45:34Z

‎Gehennom changes: Added map

Phol ende wodan: Latest changes: through 6eef394; update 3.7 references to 5.0

2026-05-27T20:41:57Z

Latest changes: through 6eef394; update 3.7 references to 5.0

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Phol ende wodan: Latest changes: through version 9.1 (commit 3dd346c)

2026-03-04T02:16:05Z

Latest changes: through version 9.1 (commit 3dd346c)

Phol ende wodan: /* Monster recoloration and letter rearrangement */ 3.7 also makes the same change as xnh in making Riders and Rodney bright magenta, so remove them from the table

2026-01-20T15:23:25Z

‎Monster recoloration and letter rearrangement: 3.7 also makes the same change as xnh in making Riders and Rodney bright magenta, so remove them from the table

Phol ende wodan: /* Monster recoloration and letter rearrangement */ 3.7 recolored wolf and warg to be same as xnh, so delete them; it also recolored hezrou to green, when xnh has made it yellow, so mention that. The vanilla recolor commit is in the current xnh version.

2026-01-20T15:20:02Z

‎Monster recoloration and letter rearrangement: 3.7 recolored wolf and warg to be same as xnh, so delete them; it also recolored hezrou to green, when xnh has made it yellow, so mention that. The vanilla recolor commit is in the current xnh version.

Umbire the Phantom: potholes

2025-06-24T14:17:17Z

potholes

Joes: /* Monster and object lookup (pokedex) */ nonexistent template {{cmd}}

2025-05-31T13:11:21Z

‎Monster and object lookup (pokedex): nonexistent template {{cmd}}

Phol ende wodan: update top section for 9.0

2025-03-16T14:36:05Z

update top section for 9.0

Phol ende wodan: Latest changes: through version 9.0 release, 3ece7e0. Not updating the top section yet.

2025-03-16T01:14:52Z

Latest changes: through version 9.0 release, 3ece7e0. Not updating the top section yet.

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Phol ende wodan: Excise all "now" from phrases like "X is/can/will now Y". It's generally a useless word that can be removed without changing the sentence, and in most places it was used, the change was old.

2025-03-15T20:30:51Z

Excise all "now" from phrases like "X is/can/will now Y". It's generally a useless word that can be removed without changing the sentence, and in most places it was used, the change was old.

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 == Gehennom changes ==
 Starting in version 8.0, Gehennom received a major overhaul, shortening its length but also broadening it into a number of smaller branches. Much of the later game revolves around deciding which parts to explore and which archfiends to challenge.
 '''Dungeon structure and level changes:'''
 * One level below the Valley is the Gate of Hell, containing Cerberus and the entrance to Vlad's Tower.
-* Below this is the entrance to Cocytus, an icy hell that causes cold damage just from being in it, unless resistant. Asmodeus and either Geryon or Baalzebub reside here, with Asmodeus being the final level of the branch.
+* Below this is the entrance to Cocytus, an icy hell that causes cold damage just from being in it, unless resistant. Asmodeus and either Baalzebub or Geryon resides here, with Asmodeus being the final level of the branch.
-* Below this is a branch to Asphodel, a one-level branch containing either Baalzebub or Geryon's lair.
+* Below this is a branch to Asphodel, a one-level branch containing either Geryon's or Baalzebub's lair.
-* Below this is the Stygian Marsh, a large swampy level. This is the entrance to Shedaklah, a branch containing Juiblex's lair and either Yeenoghu's or Orcus's.
+* Below this is the Stygian Marsh, a large swampy level. This is the entrance to Shedaklah, a branch containing Juiblex's lair and either Orcus's or Yeenoghu's.
 * Below this, the marsh gives way to the City of Dis, from which one can enter the Citadel of Dis where Dispater resides.
-* Below Dis is the entrance to the Abyss, a branch that ends at either Orcus's lair or Yeenoghu's. It also contains the entrance to Tartarus, a one-level branch containing Demogorgon.
+* Below Dis is the entrance to the Abyss, a branch that ends at either Yeenoghu's lair or Orcus's. It also contains the entrance to Tartarus, a one-level branch containing Demogorgon.
 * Near the bottom is the entrance to the Wizard's Tower. This is its own separate branch, consisting of three large circular levels that all present a different puzzle. The first level requires you to deduce the movements of rotating chambers. The second level is a randomized teleportation maze. The final level contains the Wizard, at the end of a randomized gauntlet of rooms.
 * The few Gehennom and Cocytus filler levels are cavernous and may contain a couple themed-room-like prefilled areas. However, the levels are more jagged than the standard caverns and are not necessarily connected - it is possible for the stairs to generate in a small disconnected space. Digging and magic mapping may be useful.

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 It is intended to keep up with the development version of vanilla NetHack, and will regularly merge in its latest commits. It has also drawn inspiration from [[SpliceHack]], [[EvilHack]], [[NetHack Fourk]], [[GruntHack]], SliceHack, and various patches from the 3.4.3 era.
-Version 9.0 of xNetHack is currently released and is available to play on the [[hardfought]] public servers:
+Version 9.1 of xNetHack is currently released and is available to play on the [[hardfought]] public servers:
 * US server: ssh nethack@hardfought.org, or play in-browser at https://www.hardfought.org/nethack/hterm-us/
 * EU server: ssh nethack@eu.hardfought.org, or play in-browser at https://www.hardfought.org/nethack/hterm-eu/
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 The hardfought hterm also supports the tiles version of xNetHack, and it is the recommended method if you want to play with tiles. Select the "xNetHack" tileset and the "Square" font.
-For players who wish to play xNetHack locally on Windows, the .exe files are located in the GitHub release files under "xnethack_mswindows.zip". [https://github.com/copperwater/xNetHack/releases/tag/xnh9.0 Here is the most recent release.] However, playing on hardfought.org is recommended for several reasons: public dumplogs and ttyrecs, easy spectating of your game if you want advice, and a much faster turnaround time for bugfixes.
+For players who wish to play xNetHack locally on Windows, the .exe files are located in the GitHub release files under "xnethack_mswindows.zip". [https://github.com/copperwater/xNetHack/releases/tag/xnh9.1 Here is the most recent release.] However, playing on hardfought.org is recommended for several reasons: public dumplogs and ttyrecs, easy spectating of your game if you want advice, and a much faster turnaround time for bugfixes. The Windows build is also not tested by anyone contributing to xNetHack, so you may experience bugs or crashes in it.
 xNetHack's source can be found [https://github.com/copperwater/xNetHack on Github], should you want to compile it yourself. It also has an [[IRC]] channel for game discussion and support: #xnethack on [https://libera.chat irc.libera.chat] (and it is also on-topic in the #hardfought channel).
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 This page is the least frequently updated source of new information about xNetHack; the changelogs are updated more often, and the commit messages are guaranteed to be totally up-to-date.
-Full changelogs: [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-1.0.md 1.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-1.1.md 1.1] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-2.0.md 2.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-3.0.md 3.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-4.0.md 4.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-5.0.md 5.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-5.1.md 5.1] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-6.0.md 6.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-7.0.md 7.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-8.0.md 8.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-9.0.md 9.0]
+Full changelogs: [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-1.0.md 1.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-1.1.md 1.1] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-2.0.md 2.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-3.0.md 3.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-4.0.md 4.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-5.0.md 5.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-5.1.md 5.1] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-6.0.md 6.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-7.0.md 7.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-8.0.md 8.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-9.0.md 9.0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-9.1.md 9.1] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/copperwater/xNetHack/master/doc/xnh-changelog-10.0.md 10.0]
 ==Common pitfalls==
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 * Orcish Town is still a mostly hostile, challenging place, but Izchak is still alive, and all the armor, weapons, spellbooks, and other shop loot you would normally have found in Frontier Town is lying around on the ground for free. Therefore, '''don't quit just because Orcish Town generated'''.
 * '''The artifact wishing formula has been changed'''. It depends only on the number of artifact wishes you have already made, so getting gifted artifacts, finding random or bones artifacts, or naming Sting doesn't count against you. But the odds are harsher; only your first artifact wish is guaranteed.
-* '''Wishes have been spread around Gehennom rather than all being at the Castle'''. One wand of wishing is placed in the Castle, Vlad's Tower, the Wizard's Tower, and the lairs of three randomly chosen archfiends. Furthermore, '''wands of wishing only have one charge, turn to dust when they hit 0 charges and cannot be recharged''', so don't use your first wish on charging scrolls unless you have something else you want to charge.
+* '''Wishes have been spread around Gehennom rather than all being at the Castle'''. Four wands of wishing are placed: in the Castle and in the lairs of three randomly chosen archfiends. Furthermore, '''wands of wishing only have one charge, turn to dust when they hit 0 charges and cannot be recharged''', so don't use your first wish on charging scrolls unless you have something else you want to charge.
 * '''Watch out for {{sa|Artifact changes|artifact changes}}'''. In particular, '''the Sceptre of Might is the Priest quest artifact''', '''the Mitre of Holiness is removed''', '''the Orb of Detection is replaced by Itlachiayaque''', and '''the Orb of Fate is replaced by Sol Valtiva.'''
 * '''Dragon-scaled armor replaces dragon scale mail.''' This is described below in more detail, but the main takeaway is '''do not read enchant armor while wearing only scales unless you wish to become a dragon.'''
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 * "Fake Delphi" has one fountain in the center and a couple centaur statues in the outer room.
 * "Garden" can only generate two levels after wood nymphs are eligible to generate, and it may contain some gnome statues.
 '''New themed room fills''' which can be applied to rooms of varying shape:
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 * If a vampire tries to reform from a fog cloud on top of an iron door, they will not smash the door; they will simply get displaced off ''unless'' the door was rigged to explode, in which case it blows up.
 * Glass piercers can instantly shatter a non-tempered glass helm.
 == Object changes ==
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 * Thiefstones can be cancelled, making them unable to teleport items. However, a cancelled thiefstone can be reactivated by dipping it in a non-cursed potion of restore ability, which resets its stash location to the player's current location.
 * Applying or rubbing a non-cursed thiefstone on some item that it will steal will send the item off to the stash, but not the thiefstone itself.
-* Hitting a gold golem with a blessed thiefstone, in melee or thrown, will teleport the gold golem to the keyed location. Works on players polyselfed into gold golems, but will never work on anything carrying the Amulet. Also works if you rub it on your hand while polymorphed into a gold golem.
+* Hitting a gold golem with a blessed thiefstone, in melee or thrown, will teleport the gold golem to the keyed location. Works on players polyselfed into gold golems, but will never work on anything carrying the Amulet, when the teleport would be on the same level and teleporting is not allowed, or when it would be a levelport that would not be allowed. Also works if you rub it on your hand while polymorphed into a gold golem.
 === Other new objects ===
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 * The potion of gain energy can be alchemized from the potions of full healing and gain ability.
 * Ammo thrown by monsters mulches less often - 25% of the time instead of 33% of the time, assuming no bias from its beatitude or enchantment.
 == Artifacts ==
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 * Martial arts users with at least Basic skill (all monks and samurai, usually) do not take damage or wound their legs when kicking walls or furniture that would ordinarily do that.
 * [[Saving grace]] will not avert the quasi-instadeath of falling into open air and splattering on the ground below.
 == Interface changes ==

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 |Glass golem || {{cyan|'}} (cyan apostrophe) || {{brightcyan|'}} (bright cyan apostrophe) || disambiguating from iron golem
 |-
 |Piranha || {{red|;}} (red semicolon) || {{orange|;}} (orange semicolon) || disambiguating from kraken

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 |Werewolf (wolf form) || {{brown|d}} (brown d) || {{orange|d}} (orange d) || disambiguating from other brown canines and making it the same color as the human form
 |-
 |Coyote || {{brown|d}} (brown d) || {{blue|d}} (blue d) || disambiguating brown canines
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 |Pit fiend || {{red|&}} (red &) || {{black|&}} (black &) || disambiguating red demons; pits are dark places so the fiends probably are too
 |-
 |Straw golem || {{yellow|'}} (yellow apostrophe) || {{brightblue|'}} (bright blue apostrophe) || disambiguating from gold golem; straw golems are basically scarecrows so the rags of their shirt are presumed to be blue

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 Some spell levels are tweaked:
-* {{spell of|Dig}}: 5 → 3
+* {{+ of|Dig}}: 5 → 3
-* {{spell of|Detect monsters}}: 1 → 3
+* {{+ of|Detect monsters}}: 1 → 3
-* {{spell of|Clairvoyance}}: 3 → 2
+* {{+ of|Clairvoyance}}: 3 → 2
-* {{spell of|Charm monster}}: 3 → 6
+* {{+ of|Charm monster}}: 3 → 6
-* {{spell of|Detect unseen}}: 3 → 2
+* {{+ of|Detect unseen}}: 3 → 2
-* {{spell of|Turn undead}}: 6 → 2
+* {{+ of|Turn undead}}: 6 → 2
-* {{spell of|Jumping}}: 1 → 2
+* {{+ of|Jumping}}: 1 → 2
-* {{spell of|Invisibility}}: 4 → 1
+* {{+ of|Invisibility}}: 4 → 1
 Other spell-related changes include:

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 === Monster and object lookup (pokedex) ===
-'''Monster lookup''' is more or less ported directly from FIQHack; '''object lookup''' is new. These allow you to use the {{cmd|/}} (whatis) command to see a bunch of detailed information about the monster or object you're looking up. It is displayed above the encyclopedia entry. You can also view lookup for inventory objects by viewing the inventory, selecting the letter of the object in question, and using "l - Look this item up in the encyclopedia" in the menu that asks you what you want to do with it.
+'''Monster lookup''' is more or less ported directly from FIQHack; '''object lookup''' is new. These allow you to use the [[what is]] command to see a bunch of detailed information about the monster or object you're looking up. It is displayed above the encyclopedia entry. You can also view lookup for inventory objects by viewing the inventory, selecting the letter of the object in question, and using "l - Look this item up in the encyclopedia" in the menu that asks you what you want to do with it.
 Information for monsters is things like size, speed, attacks, resistances, and intrinsics conferred. Information for objects varies more based on class, but contains things like weight, base cost, whether it's magical, base AC, weapon skill, and weapon damage.