Public server

A public server allows one to play NetHack or a variant in a shared space on the Internet where one can encounter other people's bones and see scores in the server's scorelist. You may also choose to watch someone's game that is in progress. You can access a public server by using a telnet or SSH client.

List of public servers

Server	Location	Games	Other Information
http://alt.org/nethack	California, United States	NetHack 3.4.3 with many custom patches	NAO, the most popular server.
http://nethack.kraln.com/	Washington DC, United States	NetHack 3.4.3	Kraln's Nethack server.
http://sporkhack.com/	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	SporkHack	The SporkHack home server.
http://nh.eotl.org/	Dallas, Texas, United States	NetHack Crawl Stone Soup	—
http://nethack.fi/	Finland	NetHack 3.4.3 with many custom patches	Uses the same codebase as NAO.
http://nethack.feorar.org/	Germany	NetHack 3.4.3 with custom patches and level geometry changes	To play, telnet feorar.org level generator additions and variants for special levels saves dumplogs; many interesting UI enhancement patches
http://slashem.crash-override.net/	Nuremberg, Germany	SLASH'EM	—
http://slashem.de	Germany	NetHack-De 3.4.3-20090119a SLASH'EM 0.0.8E0F1	ssh nethack@slashem.de password: fed telnet slashem.de
http://nethack.devnull.net/	—	NetHack 3.4.3	/dev/null NetHack server and annual tournament
http://www.bbsgames.eu	—	NetHack SLASH'EM BBS games	—
http://un.nethack.nu/	Sweden	UnNetHack	telnet un.nethack.nu
http://un.nethack.nu/ American server	America	UnNetHack	telnet us.un.nethack.nu
http://nethack.veekun.com/	Dallas, Texas, United States	NetHack 3.4.3 with many custom patches interface, new special rooms, et al.	telnet nethack.veekun.com ssh nethack:nethack@nethack.veekun.com (key available) IRC (+bot): #cafe on irc.veekun.com
http://www.jwhitham.org.uk/tilehack/	New Jersey, USA	Vanilla 3.4.3 with graphical tiles	Play in browser. Experimental server.
http://rl.heh.fi	Finland	NetHack 3.4.3 with many interface patches SporkHack 0.6.2 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.5.2 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup trunk version	ssh rl@rl.heh.fi (password is empty) telnet rl.heh.fi
telnet://nethack.proles.net	Germany	NetHack 3.4.3	This server is IPv6 only telnet nethack.proles.net
http://acehack.eu/	Ireland	AceHack trunk	ssh games@acehack.eu (password "games", or use this identity file)
http://acehack.rawrnix.com/	Virginia, USA	AceHack trunk	telnet acehack.rawrnix.com
http://nethack.eu/	?	NetHack 3.4.3 Air Traffic Control Tetris	telnet nethack.eu

Setting up your own server

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"How to setup your own server?"

There are several ways to manage your public NetHack server, but the most common is to use dgamelaunch, which manages user accounts and runs the NetHack processes in a chroot jail when a user telnets into the server.

For FreeBSD, there is a work-in-progress document describing how to set up a Nethack server with dgamelaunch, and also provides patches to make auto-login work with FreeBSD telnetd.

See Also

• Facebook has a NetHack app.
• Private server