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)
• Improvements to the monster AI
  • Monsters now cast player spells instead of monster spells, and can learn new spells from spellbooks
  • Monsters now use items significantly more intelligently
  • They now use almost every useful amulet, wand, scroll, potion and spell
  • They now wear rings
  • They use containers now, both bags in their inventory and looting containers from the floor (The Castle chest is special cased to prevent them from looting the castle wand and exhaust it a la Grunt)
• 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. Eating corpses/jewelry confer new intrinsics (but only pets eat corpses at present).
• Bones can be scarier -- the ghost now gets the same intrinsics as the late player, and each bones has a 33% 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
• Improved player monster ascension kit on Astral
• Buffed #turn
  • The helpless duration scales with level, from 5 turns at XL1 down to 1 whole turn at level 24 to merely a single action at XL30
  • Mitre of Holiness now allows you to pray inside Gehennom while worn -- this includes normal praying as well as usage of #turn
• Bug fixes

Hosted on github

The variant is currently not in any stable form, but a pre-release is currently hosted on nethack.dank.ninja and open for testing.