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| ~ | ! | @ | # | $ | % | ^ | & | * | ( | ) | _ | + | space | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ` | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | - | = | { | } | | | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ww | Ee | Rr | Tt | Yy | Uu | Ii | Oo | Pp | : | " | [ | ] | \ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Aa | Ss | Dd | Ff | Gg | Hh | Jj | Kk | Ll | ? | ; | ' | Ctrl | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zz | Xx | Cc | Vv | Bb | Nn | Mm | , | . | / | < | > | Alt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In NetHack, the apostrophe (') serves the following purposes:
- ' represents a golem:
- ' straw golem
- ' paper golem
- ' rope golem
- ' gold golem
- ' leather golem
- ' wood golem
- ' flesh golem
- ' clay golem
- ' stone golem
- ' glass golem
- ' iron golem
Contents
Historical uses
In Hack 1.21, which is based on of Jay Fenlason's Hack, the ghost uses the ' glyph; in Hack for PDP-11, the glyph is given to the lurker above. Hack 1.0 moves the lurker above to the tilde glyph, ~, and Hack 1.0.1 moves it back to ', where it remains from this version to NetHack 2.3e.
In NetHack 3.0.0, the golems are introduced and given the ' glyph, and the lurker above is moved to the t glyph with the trapper.
Variants
SLASH'EM
SLASH'EM introduces several new monsters that use the ' glyph:
- ' wax golem
- ' plastic golem
- ' Frankenstein's Monster
- ' ruby golem
- ' diamond golem
- ' sapphire golem
- ' steel golem
- ' crystal golem
UnNetHack
UnNetHack introduces a few new monsters that use the ' glyph:
dNetHack
dNetHack adds several new monsters that use the ' glyph:
- ' dancing blade
- ' brain golem
- ' living lectern
- ' spell golem
- ' semblance
- ' treasury golem
- ' grove guardian
- ' argentum golem
- ' green-steel golem
- ' retriever
- ' living doll
- ' parasitized doll
- ' sentinel of Mithardir
- ' ford guardian
- ' chain golem
- ' Arsenal
- ' zhi ren monk
FIQHack
FIQHack changes the glyphs of some of the golems retained from NetHack:
| Monster | Vanilla glyph | FIQHack glyph |
|---|---|---|
| straw golem | ' | ' |
| rope golem | ' | ' |
| wood golem | ' | ' |
| clay golem | ' | ' |
| glass golem | ' | ' |
SpliceHack
SpliceHack adds several new monsters that use the ' glyph:
notdNetHack
notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack retain the monsters added in dNetHack and add one new monster that uses the ' glyph:
EvilHack
EvilHack adds one new monster that uses the ' glyph:
GnollHack
GnollHack adds a few new monsters that use the ' glyph:
SlashTHEM
SlashTHEM retains the monsters added in SLASH'EM and adds some other monsters that use the ' glyph:
Hack'EM
Hack'EM adds several new monsters that use the ' glyph, including many from other variants:
- ' droid
- ' wax golem
- ' plastic golem
- ' snow golem
- ' ruby golem
- ' diamond golem
- ' sapphire golem
- ' steel golem
- ' crystal golem
