FIQHack

A nethack variant based on NetHack4. Changes include, but is not limited to:

• Wands has been rebalanced
• Added 4 spells
  • spellbook of charging
  • spellbook of phase (temporary phasing)
  • spellbook of astral eyesight (temporary xray)
  • spellbook of summon nasty (equavilent to vanilla monster spell)
• Monsters now cast player spells instead of monster spells
• A greatly improved monster AI with regards to item use and spellcasting, slight improvements elsewhere as well (Inspired from GruntHack, but implementations are completely original)
• Monsters now use almost every useful wand, scroll, spell, potion, ring and amulet in the game, along with a few tools
• Monsters use containers, and do so somewhat intelligently (for example, stashing fragile items)
• Monsters read books and can learn their spells
• Players can now be slowed and/or cancelled
• Monster intrinsic/extrinsic system now works like players (in fact, players now use the new monster intrinsic system too). This means that monster has a lot of new intrinsics/extrinsics to play around with. This also means that illness, sliming, strangulation and petrification are gradual processes for monsters now
• Monsters can now eat corpses for intrinsics, jewelry (xorns/etc)
• Bones can be scarier -- the ghost now gets the same intrinsics as the late player, and each bones has a 25% of replacing the ghost with an alive player monster with the same inventory as the late player, the same spells and the same intrinsics/etc
• Player monsters on Astral get far better stuff
• Bug fixes

Hosted on github

The variant is currently not in any stable form (it is pretty much just in a beta state) and trying it out at the moment is discouraged unless you are feeling adventurous.