Bugs in NetHack 3.4.3

A bug is a problem in NetHack's source code. There are two lists of bugs provided by the DevTeam: one for nonspoiler bugs and one for spoiler bugs.

Status table

Status	Description
Open	The bug is unresolved, but the DevTeam knows what they need to do about it.
Not a bug	Sometimes people think this is a bug, but they're wrong.
fixed	The bug will be fixed in the next bug-fix release.
Fixed	The bug will be fixed in a future release.
Help	The DevTeam does not know what is causing this and would appreciate related bug reports.
Superseded	See another entry for information on this bug.

Core bugs

Last updated: 2011-08-23

Name	Status	Description	Additional info
C341-1	Fixed	Monsters affected by stinking cloud always get angry at the hero even if the hero did not create the cloud.	This is possible loading bones levels created with earlier versions.
C341-4	Fixed	opthelp does not list use_inverse
C341-5	Fixed	When you see your pet move, the pet may be referred to as "it".
C341-7	Fixed	Skilled or expert caster of fireball/cone of cold can't target a monster known only by infravision or ESP.
C341-10	Fixed	Fruit names ending in "us" are incorrectly considered plural.
C341-18	Fixed	ki-rins and couatls can wear (and may have) armor.	Shields, boots, gloves, and (non-metallic for ki-rin) helmets.
C342-12	Fixed	There are a number of places that misuse "your".
C342-13	Fixed	Hangup can cause loss of objects being moved internally.
C342-16	Fixed	If you self-genocide while polymorphed, the death message makes no sense.
C342-19	Fixed	Things that can kill you in the future (like stoning) can cause messages to show up out of order.
C342-22	Fixed	Monsters can hide under cockatrice corpses without getting stoned.	Also: "You sit on the cockatrice corpse. It is not very comfortable."
C342-31	Open	You can get a message telling you a monster wields a weapon it already was wielding.
C342-36	Fixed	If unable to see yourself while invisible and you are bestowed a spellbook, it doesn't show up on the display.
C342-46	fixed	Cleric cast lightning doesn't blind as other lightning does.
C342-50	Fixed	If you're hiding on the ceiling and try to #sit, you automatically unhide.
C342-51	Fixed	The game thinks trappers hide on the ceiling.
C342-54	Fixed	Statues of unique monsters in bones files are not handled correctly.
C343-1	fixed	At a pit the game can give messages with poor grammar.
C343-2	fixed	Wielded silver arrows don't cause silver damage on some silver-haters.
C343-3	fixed	In the ranger quest, monsters can end up off the map to the left.
C343-4	fixed	On the Rogue level, tunnelling through rock doesn't leave a passage.
C343-5	fixed	In wizard mode, level teleport in the endgame can cause a crash if confused.
C343-6	fixed	You can #sit on an object at the bottom of a pit that you are not in.	But you can't pick it up or enter the pit with >, which is arguably the real bug.
C343-7	fixed	When a steed pushes a boulder into a pool, the message misuses "you".
C343-8	fixed	Plural of Nazgul is Nazgul - not Nazguls.
C343-9	fixed	Trap messages referring to a named steed when hallucinating are poorly worded.
C343-10	fixed	If there is a corpse in a pit, you have to enter the pit to pick it up but not to eat it.
C343-11	fixed	If you ask for help ('?') at a "what direction" prompt, you don't get to enter a direction afterward if the cmdassist option is set.
C343-12	fixed	You can't use '>' to enter a pit.
C343-13	fixed	On polymorph, you can get the message "It turns into it".
C343-14	fixed	The initial and any tombstone message resulting from eating an identified artifact is gramatically incorrect.
C343-15	fixed	You can get a message that an invisible monster looks much better.
C343-16	fixed	Player polymorphed as a xorn can't pick up items in pits.	You have to fall into a pit, which xorns can't. Workaround: levitate and apply a bullwhip down.
C343-17	fixed	After polymorphing into a xorn and returning to human form, player can be stuck in a pit that isn't there.	After polymorphing into any non-phasing monster, you are reliably stuck in a nonexistant pit.
C343-18	fixed	Scaring a mimicing mimic gives an incorrect "turns to flee" message.	Immobile monsters can have the "flee" status, but will not move away from you.
C343-19	fixed	Dipping acid in a fountain may not destroy the acid.
C343-20	Open	When dying immediately on entering a level, the map may show you dying on the previous level.	This doesn't matter - mostly.
C343-21	Open	Pets can be pulled through closed doors with a leash.
C343-22	Fixed	You can untrap a monster in a pit while levitating.
C343-23	Help	Dungeon collapses after vault guard fails to lead you out.
C343-24	Fixed	Documented default for option "null" is "off"; default is actually "on".
C343-25	Fixed	You can trip over a cockatrice corpse safely.
C343-26	Fixed	A frozen swamp may be called a moat.
C343-27	Fixed	Kicked objects do not slide properly on air or water levels.
C343-28	fixed	There are several places that can't tell the diffence between a "hat" and a "helmet."
C343-29	fixed	When taking things out of a bag of holding, messages may say "lifting" instead of "removing."
C343-30	fixed	Cursed scroll of destroy armor on cursed armor doesn't always interact correctly.
C343-31	fixed	If you hit a cockatrice with a weapon that breaks, you can be stoned.
C343-32	Fixed	When blind and levitating, the hero can still discover stairs.
C343-33	Fixed	Sometimes a monster may remain hidden under a corpse that has rotted away.
C343-34	Fixed	Mimics on the rogue level may try to mimic a closed door.
C343-35	fixed	Polymorphed or shapechanged monsters may get the wrong number of hit points.	On polymorph, the ratio HP / max HP is preserved, perhaps this bug refers to rounding errors.
C343-36	fixed	Weight of corpses on special levels may not be calculated correctly.	This also goes for statues, e.g. the Oracle centaur statues.
C343-37	Fixed	Mimics may mimic a boulder over a pit or hole.
C343-38	Open	Dismounting and kicking a monster that jumps may result in landing on the wrong side of a wall.	Kicking a monster makes them mnexto() you, then tries to flavour the resulting movement. In very confined spaces, mnexto() may not be able to find a space next to you after all. This applies to many monsters with speed >= 12 with a chance of 1/3 or 1/4 depending on how well you kicked, and the bug occurs whether it’s flavoured as “jumps” or “slides” or “floats” or whatever. (A subsidiary bug here: it can also be flavoured as “teleports”, yet trigger on a no-tele level.)
C343-39	fixed	Restoring a game where the character is wielding Sting may result in temporary display errors during the restore process.
C343-40	fixed	Monster thrusting one of multiple wielded daggers gives misleading message.	The interface isn’t clear that wielding 6 daggers, or whatever, nevertheless means that you only attack with one.
C343-41	fixed	A rolling boulder falling into a pit you can't see only makes a sound if the hero is blind.
C343-42	fixed	If a fire trap melts ice, it may trigger twice in the same turn.
C343-43	Fixed	An invisible troll that revives may be shown until it moves.
C343-44	fixed	Shopkeepers, doors, and traps interact oddly.	For example, if you break a wand of digging on the entrance square, the shopkeeper will usually remove only some of the pits.
C343-45	fixed	Dropping the corpse of a unique monster without a personal name down the stairs gives a badly formed response.
C343-46	fixed	Breaking up a boulder or statue can result in pieces that are described incorrectly.
C343-47	fixed	Monster and hero have different odds to err when throwing a greased weapon.
C343-48	fixed	Killing your pet doesn't get you any experience when it should.
C343-49	fixed	The boulder does not show up in a bones file caused by death by rolling boulder.
C343-50	fixed	A sleeping steed may answer a #chat.
C343-51	fixed	Luck's effect on random events isn't always as intended.	Several beneficial events are most likely with Luck=7, not maximum Luck. See rnl for details.
C343-52	fixed	Worn or wielded objects destroyed by dipping into lit potions of oil are not handled properly; this can result in odd game behavior.
C343-53	fixed	If a shopkeeper is trapped adjacent to the door, the game may get confused and issue impossible or panic messages.
C343-54	fixed	"Ulch" cannibalism message grammar is poor.	Eating a zombie of your race: "Ulch - that meat was tainted cannibal! You feel deathly sick."
C343-55	fixed	"Ulch" messages have inconsistent capitalization.
C343-56	fixed	Gas spores can't attack while hero is praying.
C343-57	fixed	#enhance command descriptions in Guidebook and game do not match.
C343-58	fixed	#conduct command description grammar is poor
C343-59	fixed	Engulfer stoned swallowing hero polymorphed to cockatrice causes incorrect screen display. If hero has ball & chain, game can panic.
C343-60	fixed	Several messages delivered when hero's fingers are slippery have poor grammar.
C343-61	fixed	Using a WIZKIT including the quest artifact will crash the game at startup.
C343-62	fixed	Riding into a magic portal gives an extra, useless message.
C343-63	fixed	You can drink from a sink, fountain, or while underwater while swallowed. In a similar vein, #praying on a cross-aligned altar also works.
C343-64	fixed	A black light leaves an hallucinated corpse while exploding.
C343-65	fixed	A monster that "shrieks in pain" may not awaken others nearby.	This is missing a wake_nearby call in the two relevant locations in potion.c.
C343-66	fixed	Co-aligned unicorns in a bones file may be hostile.
C343-67	fixed	Finding a statue when searching while blind doesn't update map.
C343-68	fixed	Incorrect message may be given when a spellcasting monster summons other monsters.
C343-69	fixed	Attempting to add more candles than needed to a candelabrum with at least one candle gives an incorrect message.
C343-70	fixed	Experience may not be correctly gained for monsters causing nonphysical damage. "Difficult" attacks it possesses make a monster worth more experience, but the way these bonus points are calculated underrates physical damage.
C343-71	Fixed	When swapping places with a pet pushes it into a trap, the messages are out of order.
C343-72	Fixed	You get confusing messages when you stop levitating while on a flying steed.
C343-73	fixed	Trying to kick a monster on a level forbidding teleport may give a bogus "teleports" message.
C343-74	fixed	Entering a long running, uninterruptible command (e. g. engraving) after stoning starts will kill you.
C343-75	fixed	Eating Medusa's corpse may not work properly.
C343-76	fixed	A tin of Medusa meat isn't warned about properly.
C343-77	fixed	Some messages referring to monsters that look like horses refer to claws.	polyself.c lists claws as a horse’s manipulatory appendages.
C343-78	fixed	Digging in an existing hole charges you for the time it takes to dig the whole hole.
C343-79	fixed	"Mr." or "Ms." may show up in front of names when it should not.
C343-80	fixed	Tame monsters with multiple attacks may allow themselves to be killed through passive attacks.
C343-81	fixed	Ghosts can be slimed.
C343-82	fixed	Land mine explosion on a drawbridge doesn't work right.
C343-83	fixed	An eating pet will miss out on ascension.
C343-84	fixed	"finally finished" may be displayed when not eating.
C343-85	fixed	Sometimes the hero can't move when conscious.
C343-86	fixed	Hero can appear to be in the wall after destroying a drawbridge.
C343-87	fixed	Sometimes shop items the hero is forced to buy can be sold twice.
C343-88	fixed	Polymorphing a statue into a boulder can leave an incorrect display.
C343-89	Fixed	Unpaid objects damaged or improved in shops are not accounted for properly.
C343-90	fixed	"I u" with only one item unpaid lists the price twice.
C343-91	fixed	Auto-cursing armor does not do so when worn by monster.
C343-92	fixed	A blind player may find a trap which then fails to show up on the map.
C343-93	fixed	Astral vision can confuse the ; command.
C343-94	fixed	Probing a re-animated statue may cause a panic.
C343-95	fixed	If killed by the wish from a magic lamp (or similar situation) and a bones file is produced, the bones file has the lamp in the wrong state.
C343-96	fixed	If player aborts "In what direction?" question, prompt may remain displayed.
C343-97	fixed	ctrl + r and ctrl + l don't work in numberpad mode
C343-98	fixed	Chatting with quest leader brought back from the dead doesn't work.
C343-99	fixed	Hero can still see for brief period after being blinded by potion vapors.
C343-100	fixed	Game may crash if thrown potion hits bars before a monster.
C343-101	fixed	The hero can see some things while asleep.
C343-102	Open	Messages delivered when the ceiling collapses on a swallowed hero need revision.
C343-103	fixed	The hero is not protected from a mind flayer during successful prayer.
C343-104	fixed	Message from angry shopkeeper giving a price when hero picks up an object has poor spacing and construction.
C343-105	Not a bug	Message given when restoring a game refers to original gender and form, not current.
C343-106	fixed	Sunsword continues to glow after its wielder dies.
C343-107	fixed	Killing your own steed never leaves a corpse.
C343-108	Open	Entering "e-" does not remove the prompt.
C343-109	fixed	There is a grammar error in the Tourist leader's greeting.
C343-110	fixed	Game can crash if shopkeeper dies while character is praying.
C343-111	fixed	Grammar of some graveyard sounds messages is wrong in some cases.
C343-112	fixed	Hero and monster afflicted with lycanthropy are treated differently.
C343-113	fixed	When flying down a hole or a ladder, the messages are inaccurate.	Doing this with a ladder actually produces no message at all. (But that may itself be the bug.)
C343-114	fixed	Removing some but not all the boulders from a location confuses the vision system.
C343-115	fixed	Sleeping or paralyzed unicorns can catch gems.
C343-116	fixed	Grammar error in messages related to choking on gold.
C343-117	Fixed	Gaining and losing levels in normal and monster form do not balance.
C343-118	fixed	Some messages use "mirror" where they should use "looking glass."
C343-119	fixed	Options IBMgraphics, DECgraphics, and MACgraphics interact oddly in the config file, resulting in odd listings from the O command.	Workaround: only specify one option in the config file.
C343-120	Not a bug	There is no warning when hitting floating eyes.
C343-121	Fixed	Eating various brains which should have special handling, don't.
C343-122	fixed	Alignment of Angels is not handled consistently.
C343-123	Fixed	Plural of "mother-in-law" is incorrect.
C343-124	fixed	You can't rub a touchstone on gold.
C343-125	fixed	Killing a vault guard outside a vault gives incorrect feedback.
C343-126	fixed	When wielding Grayswandir, feedback from a trapped chest may be wrong.
C343-127	fixed	If a vault guard leads the hero to gold in the rock, inappropriate feedback is given.
C343-128	Fixed	Feedback for gas spore explosion when hallucinating could be improved.
C343-129	Fixed	Cancelling objects in or near a shop doorway may make the shopkeeper think you are a thief.	The error’s in zap.c, around line 794; it checks to see if you’re in the shop, rather than whether the object is.
C343-130	fixed	Sometimes you can't rub an arbitrary object on a touchstone. Perhaps this refers to the fact you cannot check for kicking boots and gauntlets of power once the touchstone has been formally identified.
C343-131	fixed	Message has poor grammar if hero killed when stealing cockatrice corpse from a monster.
C343-132	fixed	Message when death caused by kicking an object can be too verbose.
C343-133	Fixed	Effects of varying consuming Medusa are inconsistent.
C343-134	Fixed	Being petrified by swallowing a cockatrice violates foodless conduct.
C343-135	fixed	Several quest messages are inappropriate if the hero is blind.
C343-136	fixed	A samurai quest guardian message uses "ninja" where "ronin" is intended.
C343-137	fixed	Demons may demand money from (and get paid by) a fainted hero.
C343-138	fixed	Some spheres pick up objects and some don't.
C343-139	fixed	There's no feedback when an unseen drawbridge opens or closes.
C343-140	Fixed	Pets may continue eating after being paralyzed or falling asleep.
C343-141	fixed	Running, searching, and resting should stop wnen levitation ends.
C343-142	Fixed	Shopkeepers can be identified while hallucinating.
C343-143	Fixed	Leprechauns stealing gold from a mounted hero cause oddly worded messages.
C343-144	fixed	Creatures that can fit under doors can't fit through diagonal gaps.
C343-145	fixed	Mattock is mishandled when forcing locks.
C343-146	fixed	Unseen wand of striking becomes known if zapped by unseen monster and it hits a door.
C343-147	Fixed	The game panics if a magic trap tames a monster that just expelled the hero.
C343-148	Fixed	Changing locations while asleep lets you see objects or read engravings.
C343-149	Fixed	Polymorphed spellbooks don't behave as intended.	If the spell wasn't present in the spellcasting Z menu when you read the book, it is never blanked, regardless how many times it was already polymorphed. This bug also affects spells forgotten due to a blessed scroll of amnesia.
C343-150	fixed	Gender and/or size of some quest quest leaders and nemeses are wrong.
C343-151	fixed	Monsters can teleport to or be created outside of legal area in special levels.	Examples are xorns off the map in Sokoban or ghosts on the edge of the map of the Astral Plane.
C343-152	Fixed	Using a cursed lamp while blind may give inappropriate messages.
C343-153	Fixed	Player polymorphed into guardian naga spits the wrong kind of venom.
C343-154	fixed	Candles are fireproof.
C343-155	Fixed	Proper names may be incorrectly preceeded by "the" when hallucinating.
C343-156	Fixed	Reading scrolls may give redundant feedback messages.
C343-157	fixed	Worms don't have scales.
C343-158	fixed	Krakens have tentacles.
C343-159	fixed	Stalkers have a head.
C343-160	fixed	Name "leather spellbook" is misleading.
C343-161	Fixed	A scroll of charging that has disappeared may still show in the list of things to charge.
C343-162	fixed	Using Magicbane may cause an ungrammatical message.
C343-163	fixed	Antholes are mispopulated under some conditions.
C343-164	fixed	Cancelled nurses may give inappropriate messages.
C343-165	Fixed	Scroll of mail can be abused slightly. Perhaps this refers to the fact shopkeepers will eventually start charging for mail if you pick up enough of them.
C343-166	fixed	Pits dug in vault guard's corridor don't get removed.
C343-167	Fixed	Length of time swallowed is sometimes calculated incorrectly.
C343-168	fixed	Shattering a monster's weapon doesn't work right if the weapon is part of a stack of more than one.
C343-169	Fixed	Autopickup fails during a failed untrap attempt.
C343-170	Fixed	Damage by silver weapons is sometimes higher than intended when hero is polymorphed. Perhaps this refers to the fact players hit multiple times with the same weapon if polymorphed into a form with several weapon attacks, e. g. Aleax or marilith.
C343-171	Fixed	Silver weapon damage message is sometimes missing when hero is polymorphed.
C343-172	fixed	Crash could occur when monster uses potion or food to cure stoning or confusion.
C343-173	fixed	Monster eating lizard corpse is not handled correctly.
C343-174	fixed	Drum of earthquake gives inappropriate message if hero or monster is in a pit.
C343-175	fixed	Chatting to hostile prisoners may give an inappropriate message.
C343-176	fixed	Disintegration breath hitting equipment carried by monsters is not handled properly; if the monster life-saves the situation is worse; saddles are especially troublesome.
C343-177	fixed	First false rumor is displayed as gibberish on some platforms.
C343-178	fixed	Wisdom is mishandled when rumors are used for random graffiti.
C343-179	fixed	If a monster is killed by a drawbridge while carrying a potion of acid, the game may panic.
C343-180	fixed	In an obscure case on special levels, troll corpses may fail to revive and lizard corpses may revive.
C343-181	Fixed	The hero is welcomed to Delphi even if the Oracle was previously angered.
C343-182	fixed	Putting on the Eyes of the Overworld while blind gives an ungrammatical message.
C343-183	fixed	Jumping over an already seen trap may give an ungrammatical message.
C343-184	Open	Levitation via worn equipment is not implemented for monsters.
C343-185	fixed	No message is generated when attempting to name a monster that cannot be named by the player.
C343-186	fixed	Some messages referring to "priestess" say "priest."
C343-187	Fixed	Meditating monsters continue meditating when affected by something which wakes sleeping monsters.
C343-188	fixed	Specifying role and/or race and an invalid alignment in NETHACKOPTIONS or config file causes a misleading message.
C343-189	fixed	Temple donations and protection lost to gremlin attack interact incorrectly. Specifically, a gremlin steals only the effectiveness of divine protection, not the amount.
C343-190	Fixed	Monsters can hide while trapped or holding the hero.
C343-191	fixed	When an unseen monster forces a polymorphed hero out of hiding, feedback is insufficient.
C343-192	fixed	If invocation is performed while hero is trapped, hero remains trapped.
C343-193	Fixed	Polymorphed hero can fall into water once and crawl out twice.
C343-194	Fixed	Saving and restoring a game while punished and swallowed sometimes loses the ball and chain.
C343-195	Fixed	Glass wand thrown and broken in a shop is not charged for.
C343-196	Fixed	Wielded light source may get missed by rust trap.
C343-197	fixed	Attacking a hidden monster sensed via ongoing monster detection is interrupted inapropropriately.
C343-198	fixed	Playing in a 20 or 21 line window can cause the game to crash.
C343-199	fixed	The database entry for "monk" has a typo.
C343-200	fixed	In the quest, it's possible to accidently skip the locate level	e. g. by falling down a hole several levels.
C343-201	fixed	Phrasing of message when one monster attacks another with stacked weapons is odd.
C343-202	Fixed	Pushing a boulder onto a level teleporter trap could cause repeated messages.
C343-203	fixed	Hero arriving on a very crowded level may land on a monster causing game state corruption and possibly a crash.
C343-204	Fixed	Hero grabbed or engulfed due to conflict should be released when conflict ends.
C343-205	Fixed	Changes in hallucination state are not reflected properly when also mimicing.
C343-206	fixed	Divine gifts resulting from #offer are identified when blind.
C343-207	fixed	Certain items that should never be created in Gehennom can be created there.
C343-208	fixed	Hero can be blinded while fainted.
C343-210	fixed	Hero can "feel a bit steadier" while unconscious.
C343-211	fixed	Engraving under water gives a poorly worded message.
C343-212	fixed	If the hero is killed by a thrown potion of burning oil, the game will panic.
C343-213	fixed	Display of stinking cloud may be incorrect when wearing Eyes of the Overworld.
C343-214	fixed	Monster escaping by changing levels in the wizard tower may end up outside the tower too easily.
C343-215	fixed	Elbereth is sometimes ignored by monsters.
C343-216	fixed	Fireproof containers catch fire in lava.
C343-217	Fixed	Missile which kills engulfer is temporarily lost when hero is expelled.
C343-218	fixed	Applying a wielded cream pie can crash the game. This generalizes to wielded objects being destroyed.
C343-219	fixed	Hero can die due to "burned by burning" or "drowned by drowning."	A lot of similar combinations are possible by messing around with delayed_killer by stacking many delayed instadeaths on top of each other.
C343-220	Fixed	Eating a Rider corpse doesn't work quite right.	If you start eating it, die as a result, and lifesave, you can finish it safely. (The same thing happens to some other sort of corpses, like rotten ones, but not nearly as obviously.)
C343-221	Fixed	Jabberwocks do not always wake up when they should.
C343-222	Fixed	It's possible to end up wielding a cockatrice corpse when no longer polymorphed.
C343-223	fixed	Hidden pet can follow hero down stairs, remain hiding and show up as hidden monster. Also can happen with a magic whistle.
C343-224	fixed	Carrying too many items creates uselessly long prompts.
C343-225	fixed	Hero can sometimes carry too many boulders.
C343-226	Fixed	Inventory display doesn't mention unpaid items in a container the hero owns.
C343-227	fixed	Container dropped in a shop then moved to an untended shop behaves oddly.
C343-228	fixed	Cloak of magic resistance is active when it shouldn't be.
C343-229	Fixed	Hero can dip or apply grease to a worn item that is covered by another worn item.
C343-230	fixed	Drawbridges act differently depending on which direction they are pointing.
C343-231	fixed	Time is distorted while sinking into lava.	Because lava sinking is checked once per player input (inexplicably), as opposed to once per player turn or once per time-consuming action.
C343-232	fixed	Hero can be slimed while in lava.
C343-233	fixed	Hero polymorphed into Quantum Mechanic may get erroneous messages about disappearing monsters.
C343-234	Fixed	Sacrifice on an altar can have unintended consequences. Perhaps this refers to the fact the corpse of a former pet does not vanish.
C343-235	fixed	Casting spell of protection gives incorrect message if hero is swallowed or in rock.
C343-236	fixed	Engraving works in places it shouldn't.
C343-237	Fixed	The relationship between crossbow use and strength is wrong.
C343-238	fixed	(Unix and VMS only) The "Who are you?" prompt does not accept digits in the response.
C343-239	fixed	Engravings can transfer between a moat and a drawbridge.
C343-240	fixed	Hero can create a pit in air.
C343-241	Fixed	Hero is not charged for breaking the lock on a container owned by a shop.
C343-242	fixed	Shopkeepers and priests avoid graves when they should not.
C343-243	fixed	Hero can throw without hands.
C343-244	fixed	Sometimes you can eat artifacts you can't touch with your hands.
C343-245	fixed	Hero trying to kick beyond map edge is handled improperly.
C343-246	fixed	Engraving with an empty wand handles time wrong.	If you cancel the engraving or are levitating, no time is spent.
C343-247	fixed	A magic portal may be deactivated if the game is saved due to hangup while changing levels.	The official buglist mentions "Leave the level some other way then return to it." as a workaround.
C343-248	fixed	You can't put candles in a candelabrum while underwater.
C343-249	fixed	There are a number of errors handling vomit; and real rats can't vomit.
C343-250	Open	Rust-causing targets can reveal other information about a weapon.
C343-251	fixed	Monsters sleeping due to being hit may wake up at the wrong time.
C343-252	fixed	There is a typo in the quote from "The Count of Monte Cristo."
C343-253	fixed	Choking on certain food items doesn't work properly.
C343-254	fixed	Shapechanger's don't take advantage of being mimics or hiders.
C343-255	fixed	Tinning on a full level fails improperly.
C343-256	fixed	Very very very long messages can cause a crash.
C343-257	fixed	Cursed corpses wielded by monsters are not handled properly. Perhaps this refers to the fact wielded items are always dropped when a monster polymorphs.
C343-258	fixed	Grammar error in samurai quest: "wakarimasu?" instead of "wakarimasu ka?"
C343-259	fixed	"Dr. Dolittle" is spelled incorrectly.
C343-260	fixed	Ridden steeds are sometimes immune to gas traps.
C343-261	Fixed	Sleeping steeds can jump.
C343-262	fixed	Polyporph mis-handles a used and wielded leash.
C343-263	Fixed	Probing may miss Schroedinger's cat. The cat is created only when the container is opened, but should be when it is observed.
C343-264	fixed	"You must drop your weapon" may appear when it should not.
C343-265	fixed	Force may work when hero can't reach lock being forced.
C343-266	fixed	Hero on drawbridge when it's destroyed is not handled properly.
C343-267	fixed	Game says monster speed changes even if monster can't move at all.
C343-268	fixed	Used up potion of acid may end up in bones file.
C343-269	fixed	Bones file created after hero dies outside shop may mis-handle items.
C343-270	fixed	Dying in a shop while wielding two weapons may cause a warning message.
C343-271	fixed	Pet messages at the very end of the game may appear in the wrong place.
C343-272	fixed	Corrupted score file can crash the game.
C343-273	Fixed	Changing alignment and held artifacts interact incorrectly. E. g. you still enjoy the when-carried benefits of artifacts you could not pick up due to your current alignment.
C343-274	fixed	Odd message when attempting to apply a wielded towel.
C343-275	fixed	If a lit, wielded, candle or potion of oil burns out, the game may crash.
C343-276	fixed	If a figuring auto-transforms while wielded or worn, the game may crash.
C343-277	Fixed	Wooden weapons don't always burn when they should.
C343-278	fixed	Quest leaders are too likely to be affected by traps.
C343-279	Fixed	Kicked arrows may get wrong bonuses.
C343-280	Fixed	Ranged polearm attack doesn't always work properly.
C343-281	Fixed	Kicking shop-owned food is not always accounted for correctly.
C343-282	Fixed	Damage calculation may be wrong when hero is polymorphed into a pudding.
C343-283	fixed	Long walks take a non-optimial path.
C343-284	Fixed	Activating a shop-owned figurine sometimes don't entail shop charges.
C343-285	Fixed	Water elementals can be trapped in a bear trap.
C343-286	Fixed	Polymorph and lycanthropy do not interact properly.
C343-287	fixed	Hero polymorphed into monster with kick attack doesn't get bonus from ring of increase damage when kicking.
C343-288	Fixed	The message "a monster appears" can show up when multiple monsters appear.
C343-289	fixed	If magical removal of a steed's saddle is fatal to the hero, the saddle may still be on the steed in a bones file.
C343-290	fixed	Rings do not show up in the "what do you want to charge?" prompt when they should.	Applies to oil lamps, too.
C343-291	Fixed	Backstab bonus interacts incorrectly with thrown weapons and two-weapon mode.	Two-weapon does not get backstab at all while each fired weapon does individually.
C343-292	Fixed	Touching a pile of objects while blind does not always work correctly.
C343-293	Fixed	There are a number of errors changing words between singular and plural forms.
C343-294	fixed	Orcs and gnomes do not respond to #chat when they should.
C343-295	fixed	Casting stone-to-flesh on self while wielding a figurine can cause the game to panic.
C343-296	Fixed	Sunsword doesn't work as expected against shades.
C343-297	fixed	Lit potion may survive hero dying from splattered oil burning on the floor.
C343-298	fixed	Kicking at "empty space" uses no time.
C343-299	fixed	Killing tame engulfer from inside gives a warning message.
C343-300	Fixed	Amulet of strangulation may kill forms that can't be strangled.
C343-301	fixed	Nymphs can steal things they can't pick up.	They can steal Rider corpses from gelatinous cubes. The bug might instead refer to nymphs stealing things that they don't naturally pick up, like potions.
C343-302	fixed	Amnesia of object discoveries may forget to forget one thing.
C343-303	Fixed	Gem probabilities are not reset properly on level revisit.
C343-304	Fixed	Message given when damaging a closed drawbridge may refer to a wall.
C343-305	Fixed	Attacking with an applied polearm ignores the "confirm" option.
C343-306	Fixed	Engulfer under influence of conflict or confusion can swallow a monster and not be affected by water/lava/trap under monster until next turn.
C343-307	Fixed	Unicorn horn interacts incorrectly with ring of sustain ability.	Non-cursed restores, but cursed does not decrement attributes.
C343-308	Fixed	A hidden, dead monster can revive hidden under its own corpse.
C343-309	Fixed	Dropping Heart of Ahriman may give odd message sequence.
C343-310	Fixed	Applying an unpaid stack of potions of oil forces hero to buy all of them.
C343-311	Fixed	Price of unpack shop items may change when hero is forced to buy.	For example, hunger status has an effect on food prices.
C343-312	Fixed	Monster can attack with a polearm it was unable to wield.
C343-313	Fixed	"You trip over it" may appear even after you know what "it" is.
C343-314	Fixed	Drowning on the Plane of Water lists cause of death as "drowned in a moat."
C343-315	fixed	Small monsters dropping items due to weight use the wrong weights.
C343-316	fixed	Monsters who shouldn't will attack the Wizard to get the Amulet.	See also SC343-19.
C343-317	Fixed	Bones data can contain odd characters from player's dogname, catname, or fruit options; this can cause odd terminal-dependent behavior.	NetHack fails to sanitise characters taken from options.
C343-318	fixed	Opening or closing the castle drawbridge using music takes no time.
C343-319	Fixed	Grid bugs can be forced to move diagonally, e. g. by displacing a tame one.
C343-320	Fixed	Reading scroll of mail break illiterate conduct.
C343-321	Fixed	Hero and monsters can walk through a long worm's tail diagonally.
C343-322	Fixed	Forced attack on a boulder says "you attack thin air."
C343-323	Fixed	Objects dropped as a monster dies don't interact properly with the environment. See also #362.
C343-324	fixed	Cutting a long worm in two will crash the game if the cut takes the worm to 1 HP or if long worms had become extinct.
C343-325	Fixed	Hole in ice may be described as a "moat."
C343-326	Fixed	Open and close commands may give inappropriate feedback near a drawbridge.
C343-327	fixed	Message "suddenly you cannot see the" monster can be displayed when the monster remains visible for some reason.
C343-328	Fixed	Messages when opening a tin may imply implausible timing.
C343-329	fixed	A just-dead monster may still claim to be fleeing.
C343-330	Fixed	Wrong message may be delivered when seeing a pet eating.
C343-331	Open	Sleeping monster reacts to a mirror.
C343-332	Fixed	The message given when multiple potions of acid explode refers to a single potion.	Refers to stacks of acid exploding when you go for a swim.
C343-333	fixed	Vault guard asks hero's name while hero is engulfed.
C343-334	Fixed	Defining GOLDOBJ drops a slot from the inventory.
C343-335	fixed	Cloak of invisibility and blindness do not interact reasonably.
C343-336	Fixed	A shapechanger starting out in changed form gets incorrect inventory items.	They get items appropriate for their polymorphed form.
C343-337	Fixed	It's possible to create an object of 0 gold pieces.	You have to drop 4294967296 (MAXUINT+1) gold. Doing that twice crashes the game. Fixed on NAO.
C343-338	Fixed	Wizard-mode command sanity_check misses nested containers and migrating monsters.
C343-339	Fixed	Screen and time are not always updated properly when opening or closing doors while blind.
C343-340	Fixed	Secret door detection does not interact properly with features of the Planes of Water and Air.	The next version promises to make wands of secret door detection find portals even behind clouds (but not update the screen).
C343-341	Open	In minetown, it's possible to teleport into a room that requires digging to escape from.
C343-342	Fixed	Potion thrown by monster which hits long worm's tail says it hit its tail.
C343-343	Fixed	Helm of Opposite alignment gives incorrect piety level.	Currently, you retain your alignment record, e. g. it is possible to gain alignment for robbing a shop while chaotic and calming the shopkeeper while lawful.
C343-344	fixed	NetHack thinks jellyfish have heads.
C343-345	fixed	Attempting to remove cursed lenses gives a message with poor grammar.
C343-346	Fixed	Attempting to put on some items when the item is already wielded or quivered and failing for a variety of reasons gives a message with poor grammar.
C343-347	Fixed	Picking up and wearing an unknown ring while blind sometimes gives out too much information.
C343-348	Fixed	Exercise before polymorph may affect polymorphed character.
C343-349	Fixed	An identify scroll is wasted if space is typed and steps off the end of the inventory list.
C343-350	Fixed	Eels don't hide when they are supposed to.
C343-351	fixed	Alchemy-caused explosions don't wake nearby monsters.
C343-352	fixed	Secret doors in lit walls don't always display properly.
C343-353	Fixed	Aborting key or lock pick with escape uses a turn.
C343-354	Fixed	Probing while engulfed ignores the fact that the hero is in the monster.
C343-355	fixed	Archeologists start out at basic skill level in sling.	This is a side effect of their touchstone, which is considered sling ammunition.
C343-356	Fixed	Wearing an amulet of restful sleep confuses internal sleep state bookkeeping.	Perhaps related is the fact you can cure instrinsic restful sleep (from eating the amulet) by putting on and removing an amulet of restful sleep.
C343-357	Open	Rust monsters may chew non-ferrous items.
C343-358	Fixed	If no co-aligned artifacts are available for gifting when required, gifting fails repeatedly.	For example, this can mean trouble for elven priests who have named Sting and Orcrist in hopes of getting Stormbringer as their first sacrifice gift.
C343-359	fixed	Setting the fruit name fails if the new name is already known but happens to be not at the end of an internal list.
C343-360	fixed	A monster wearing a suit can still put on a shirt.	But they (correctly) have to take off cloaks first.
C343-361	Fixed	The message "you feel shuddering vibrations" does not always get displayed when it should.
C343-362	Fixed	Objects dropped during polymorph may be incorrectly polymorphed.
C343-363	Fixed	The case of monsters eating green slime corpses is not handled correctly.
C343-364	Fixed	If player's hand slips while naming an object, 'z' is never picked as the new letter.	Naming_artifacts?
C343-365	Fixed	Hero may remove armor for nymph or succubus while asleep.
C343-366	Fixed	Concealed mimic not always revealed when it should be.
C343-367	Fixed	Fainting with a wielded cockatrice corpse doesn't behave as expected.
C343-368	Fixed	Blinded hero knows too much about a monster summoning insects.
C343-369	fixed	Mounted hero on life-saved steed gets repeated warning messages until hero dismounts.
C343-370	Open	Travel (_) command can get stuck trying to plot a path past an interesting dungeon feature, for example, a trap or fountain.
C343-371	Fixed	Stethoscopes can sometimes be used more often than intended.	If you save and resume, you can use it again for free. On an aside, saving and restoring loses the movement points you gain from speed.
C343-372	Fixed	A fatal explosion can give the player messages in the wrong order if carried items are destroyed.
C343-373	Fixed	Shopkeepers can polymorph into forms that don't let them do their jobs.	A blue jelly shopkeeper will buy and sell, but it won't move to block or unblock the door.
C343-374	Fixed	When polymorphed into a grid bug, attempting to move in an illegal direction is handled ungracefully.
C343-375	Fixed	A mimic posing as a statue is not handled properly.
C343-376	fixed	When trying to move down, Hero can be levitating and stuck in the floor at the same time.
C343-377	Fixed	Hero hidden from monster is still treated as a normal target for range attack.
C343-378	Fixed	Hero hiding as a small mimic can end up stuck to a monster after returning to human form.
C343-379	Fixed	Spelling errors "sprit" and "truely" in quest text.
C343-380	fixed	Mimics pretending to be doors show up on the Rogue level.
C343-381	Fixed	Attacking by applying a polearm doesn't scuff engraving under hero.
C343-382	Fixed	Auto-wielding a polearm may take no time.	Does this also apply to pick-axes when you start digging?
C343-383	Fixed	Applying a bullwhip while hero is at edge of map may cause a panic or crash.
C343-384	fixed	Cutting a level 0 long worm in half may lead to a worm with 0 HP, which may cause a crash.	Fixed on NAO.
C343-385	Fixed	D command doesn't handle u choice correctly if only unpaid items are inside containers.
C343-386	Fixed	Pearl rings can rust.
C343-387	Fixed	T-shirts can be read when covered.
C343-388	Fixed	Spell damage and low intelligence interact incorrectly.
C343-389	Fixed	Dragon breath and certain other effects hitting a hidden secret door does not damage it.
C343-390	Fixed	Breaking a wand which may zap but not damage a door gives an odd message.
C343-391	fixed	Hero polymorphed into a mimic with #monster and hiding as an object does not unhide when polymorphing into a non-mimic.	The same applies to pet mimics whistled over a polytrap.
C343-392	Fixed	A stunned monster may both walk away from the hero and keep holding him.
C343-393	Fixed	The messages produced when throwing a poisoned weapon which loses its poison are in a confusing order.
C343-394	fixed	Throwing a potion of acid into water may panic the game.	"may" == "will"
C343-395	Not a bug	Spelling errors at the genocide prompt may have unintended consequences.	Specifically, genociding "master mindflayer" as a monk is fatal.
C343-396	Fixed	Shopkeeper does not charge hero for an unsold boulder that is destroyed with a pick-axe.
C343-397	fixed	A badly formed message may be produced if a pick-axe is applied to a boulder and the boulder is removed by a monster.
C343-398	fixed	The game may crash if a wielded potion of polymorph is drunk.
C343-399	fixed	Messages referring to a named vault gaurd have grammatical errors.
C343-400	Fixed	Wearing a cloak of displacement identifies it even if hero can't see.
C343-401	Fixed	Wearing an elven cloak identifies it even if hero is already stealthy.
C343-402	Fixed	Putting on a ring of stealth never identifies it.	A workaround is to check if putting on elven boots gives a message.
C343-403	Fixed	Hero can write a scroll not sufficiently identified.	You can write any scroll you have named, even if you don't know the "scroll called FOOBIE NO IDEA" is the scroll you are trying to write.
C343-404	Fixed	Writing a scroll can give a badly phrased message if the scroll is known by its appearance.
C343-405	Fixed	Some quest artifacts are too easily affected by stone-to-flesh.	The Heart of Ahriman
C343-406	Fixed	One of the coyote names is spelled wrong.
C343-407	Fixed	If reading an unknown scroll of teleport puts the hero on another scroll of teleport, the second one is still treated as unknown.
C343-408	Fixed	Being killed by a monster with a long name can send the game into an infinite loop.
C343-409	Fixed	Unlocking a mimic pretending to be a door is not handled properly.
C343-410	Fixed	Using an unlocking tool on a boulder that's really a mimic and located in a doorway is not handled properly.
C343-411	Fixed	A purple worm can end up in wall or rock when swallowing a ghost or xorn.
C343-412	Fixed	Unpaid shop items stolen from hero remain on hero's bill.
C343-413	Fixed	While blind, some actions resulting in "Wait! That's a monster!" for a mimic posing as a door do not update the display correctly.
C343-414	Fixed	#untrap of a known trap location with a concealed mimic gives correct message but does not update the display.
C343-415	Fixed	Mail daemons can be created when populating special levels with demons.	Vlad's Tower is such a place.
C343-416	Fixed	Being disintegrated by divine wrath gives an inappropriate message.
C343-417	Fixed	Polymorphing into a human form may give a message with the wrong gender.
C343-418	fixed	Weight of non-cursed bag of holding is sometimes off by one.	Likely, this refers to multiple stacks of gold in any bag: two stacks of $49 weigh 0, but one stack of $98 weighs 1.
C343-419	fixed	With option number_pad set to 2, M + 5 (or Alt + 5 or Shift + Keypad5) does not work as the G movement prefix.
C343-420	Fixed	Kops may not be dismissed if the shopkeeper changes levels.	You might want to pacify the shopkeeper on his home level. If necessary, steal a gold piece and pay him off again.
C343-421	fixed	Object teleport in and around the Wizard's Tower doesn't work as intended.
C343-422	Fixed	There are inconsistencies in damage applied to objects when encountering lava in different ways.
C343-423	Fixed	Under some circumstances player can tell if bones file is created.	"Your body rises from the dead as <monster>..." if killed by a slime/W/V/M.
C343-424	fixed	Unlit candelabrum becomes unlightable if candles have exactly one turn of fuel left and it was applied in the wrong location.

Spoiler core bugs

Name	Status	Description
SC342-3	Fixed	Hangup can be used to cheat.
SC343-1	Fixed	Monsters that can't blow can still use a whistle.
SC343-2	fixed	If you are poison resistant, potions of sickness can only kill you if they are blessed.
SC343-3	fixed	Water walking boots are not handled properly on lava.
SC343-4	Fixed	Reviving corpses or reanimating statues in a shop does not get charged correctly.
SC343-5	fixed	Breaking container contents in a shop doesn't always charge for them.
SC343-6	fixed	Stealing a stack of items from a shop sometimes results in only being charged for one.
SC343-7	fixed	Zapping an unknown wand while blind sometimes gives out too much information.
SC343-8	fixed	Re-animating a statue containing gold produces too much gold.
SC343-9	Fixed	Medusa corpse from a level file behaves incorrectly.
SC343-10	Fixed	Player can raise HP and Pw by dancing with vampires.	This is the infamous polyself bug.
SC343-11	fixed	It's possible to easily find the identity of a high priest on the Astral plane.	This is the infamous Astral call bug.
SC343-12	fixed	Hero using telepathy can abuse Call on the Astral Plane.
SC343-13	Open	While blind and levitating, too much information may be presented. Does this refer to messages about monsters scared by an Elbereth engraving?
SC343-14	Fixed	Shopkeepers and priests may be teleported out of their shop or temple too easily.
SC343-15	Fixed	Nurses are not stoned by hero polymorphed into cockatrice.
SC343-16	fixed	Gelatinous cubes can engulf Rider corpses.
SC343-17	Fixed	Stethoscope may unhide hidden mimic.
SC343-18	fixed	Escaping from lava can leave hero outside of time.	Nobody knows how to exploit this, please don't ask.
SC343-19	fixed	Monsters seeking the Amulet attack temple priests to get it.
SC343-20	fixed	Hangup save while picking up gold in a shop may duplicate the gold.
SC343-21	fixed	Accounting is incorrect for containers dropped in a shop that does not sell them.
SC343-22	Fixed	The travel command allows grid bugs to move one step diagonally.

Windows-only bugs

Name	Status	Description
W341-13	Fixed	"Lock Windows" menu item has wrong checkmark at startup
W341-14	Fixed	Message window does not update properly if resized.
W342-6	Not a bug	Checkboxes are drawn wrong.
W343-1	fixed	Redirecting score output through a pipe doesn't work.
W343-2	Not a bug	Windows 98 is unable to load tiles that are too large. This is an OS issue.
W343-3	fixed	Under the Polish version of Windows 2000 SP4, screen output with a raster font shows wrong characters for many dungeon features.
W343-4	fixed	Keyboard may stop responding after locking or unlocking a door when using altkeyhandler=nhraykey.dll
W343-5	Fixed	Error messages early in the game startup sequence may flash by unreadably.
W343-6	Fixed	Attempting to start NetHack from within a zip utility doesn't work (this is not a bug) and gives a misleading error message (this is the bug).
W343-7	Open	Using both nethack.exe and nethackW.exe can cause nethackW.exe to display the top scores list in a series of windows.

X11-only bugs

Name	Status	Description
X343-1	fixed	The scrollbar for a text window may be missing when needed.
X343-2	fixed	use_inverse is broken in tty mode.
X343-3	fixed	Sanity check for mouse position after window resize is wrong.

Macintosh-only bugs

Name	Status	Description
M343-1	fixed	Release code does not build under Carbon.
M343-2	Open	nethack-343-mac-term.pkg.sit only: "No write permission to lock perm!" error. Only happens on clean installs of 10.3.x (not upgraded systems). (See M343-3 for 10.4.)
M343-3	Open	nethack-343-mac-term.pkg.sit only: "No write permission to lock perm!" error. Only happens on 10.4 (See M343-2 for 10.3.)
M343-4	Open	In the Qt port, Command + Z crashes the game and prevents it from restarting.

Qt-only bugs

Name	Status	Description
Q341-1	Fixed	Randomly generating characters doesn't always follow user requests.
Q341-3	Open	[Mac only] q and / keys send additional characters when pressed.
Q343-1	Open	Explore or debug mode only: ctrl + x doesn't show the intrinsics screen.
Q343-2	fixed	Saved games are not found if the game is built with the prefix option.

Windows-CE-only bugs

Name	Status	Description
CE343-1	Not a bug	Attempting to load an alternative tile set fails.
CE343-2	fixed	Help text windows close immediately.
CE343-3	fixed	Action button points to wrong screen location.
CE343-4	fixed	pocketpc: menu window closes if scrolled off top or bottom
CE343-5	fixed	Input is translated when command helper is hidden.
CE343-6	fixed	Text window does not scroll left on left arrow.

Build-from-source bugs

Name	Status	Description
S343-1	Open	gnome port refers to file t32-1024.xpm for large tiles that doesn't exist
S343-2	fixed	1x1 room in special level can trigger panic due to off by one error (does not affect official room set)
S343-3	fixed	makedefs may fail to compile if sizeof(time_t) != sizeof(long)
S343-4	fixed	NetHack does not compile under Microsoft VC2005.
S343-5	fixed	The prototype and definition for finish_map don't match properly.
S343-6	fixed	Game does not compile under FreeBSD 6.1.
S343-7	fixed	DLB doesn't work under VMS if a file used by NetHack and without a dot in its name matches a VMS logical name.
S343-8	fixed	NetHack does not compile under Microsoft VS2008 Express Edition.
S343-9	fixed	If time_t changes from 32- to 64-bits due to (e.g.) compiler upgrades, save files will not be compatible between old and new builds.
S343-10	fixed	Windows 64-bit mode compile produces warnings in random.c.
S343-11	fixed	Smartphone keyboard does not work.
S343-12	Fixed	Game may fail to compile or give warnings if sizeof(char *) != sizeof(int).

Bugs not mentioned on the DevTeam's website

Name	Status	Description
		The hero can teleport on a non-teleport level: Get engulfed by a tame engulfer using conflict, end conflict, apply a magic whistle.
		It is impossible to paste (e. g. "ElberethElbereth") into the windows tiles build. This works on OS X, however.
		The game sometimes behaves as if a series of spurious non-attacking movement commands were typed after #looting a container.
		Confused #looting a throne does not destroy it.
		The "highlight_pet" option does not work on monsters only seen due to the monster detection spell.
		Polymorphing a cloaked pet mimic (by whistling it onto a polytrap) does not unhide it, even if it turns into a non-mimic.