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This page is an attempt to list YANIs that come up on several NetHack-related IRC channels, so they don't end up ignored and forgotten.
Attribution will be listed whenever possible. I make no claim to any of the ideas on this page; feel free to implement them. Also, feel free to add any other YANIs from IRC to this page.
Retrieving the YANIs
I log the #nethack, #nethack-dev, and #hardfought channels, and perhaps also some variant channels in the future. (If people are discussing YANIs on channels not listed here, let me know!) The logs are searched for strings like "yani", "yet another", and "feature request", with some surrounding context.
YANI list
Idea | Variant(s) | Source |
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Monks, or anyone skilled in martial arts, can kick weapons out of an enemy's hand | Tarmunora, NeroOneTrueKing | |
Similar to object properties, a small fraction of wearable items are generated with a "trendy" attribute, which is not hidden from the player. Trendy items have an increased base price and add one charisma when worn. | aosdict | |
Dragon scales can be enchanted into dragonhide gear that is not scale mail | GruntHack | Demo |
The xlogfile shows which turn a conduct was first broken on, rather than compacting all conducts into a bitmask | aosdict | |
The Watch start with a small amount of gold, and will throw it at a player of the opposite gender while the player is disrobing | Demo, Grasshopper | |
New artifact dagger "The Barrow-blade of Cardolan": has some flat bonuses, some additional bonuses versus undead, and instakills all W, ghosts, and shades. It is either lawful or unaligned. | aosdict | |
Engraving with Fire Brand burns the engraving as a wand of fire does. | Tarmunora | |
New headstone messages:
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Chris, jonadab, Grasshopper | |
Option to bring up the prompt to type-name an item any time it would normally be prompted, even if the object is already type-named. The example given is that if you price-id an object and then later see a monster use it, you then have the option to add this new information immediately. | aosdict | |
Reading a blessed scroll of fire allows you to select a spot to center the blast of fire, similar to the selection for a scroll of stinking cloud or the advanced fireball spell. The damage of this scroll is also increased somewhat from what it is now, about four times the current damage, to make it worthwhile to use. | aosdict | |
Blank spellbooks in flooded libraries generate with the "number of times read" counter full, so they can't be polypiled into readable books. | dNetHack | NeroOneTrueKing |
The scroll of remove curse auto-identifies if it removes the curse from one or more objects. | aosdict | |
Add a high level monster spell "raise dead", which resurrects nearby corpses as hostile monsters. | Grasshopper | |
When attacking into a pit or falling while fumbling and wielding a pointy weapon, you have a chance to fall on your weapon. | bezaban | |
New shop type "thrift shop". Contains items priced at a steep discount but which aren't very useful on their own. Examples include negatively enchanted or eroded (not necessarily cursed) weapons and armor, blank scrolls, magical tools with zero or one charges left | aosdict | |
Whenever a diluted potion of acid would be created (i.e. by wishing or polypiling) it immediately explodes in an alchemic blast. | aosdict | |
Boots of shock resistance, which have a thick rubber sole to prevent you from being grounded | Grasshopper | |
Objects thrown at cloaked or hidden monsters pass right through the square as if no monster is on the square. Additionally, small mimics can mimic the floor, looking like nothing in the same way a trapper or lurker above does. | aosdict | |
Improved alchemy in general and an alchemist role | Demo | |
Scroll of detect magic shows magic fountains on the level as well as magical items. Fountains discovered this way are then displayed as "magic fountain" when near or farlooked. | GruntHack | aosdict |
When the player kills a giant spider with an elven dagger and Sting has not yet been created, the dagger is converted into Sting automatically. Sting is made of rustproof steel, instead of wood. Sting has bonuses versus spiders, in addition to its bonuses against orcs. | aosdict | |
Green slimes have an engulfing attack that guarantees to start the sliming process. | aosdict | |
New monster: green cube, which combines the abilities of a green slime and gelatinous cube: both sliming and paralysis. | Grasshopper | |
Merge the P and b monster classes, on the grounds that puddings and blobs are both classes of amorphous monsters that are sparsely populated. This was followed by a long discussion with several people about monster class rearrangement in NetHack Fourk. | jonadab, Grasshopper, bug_sniper, aosdict, Tarmunora, FIQ | |
Necromancer patch / necromancer class added to dNetHack, including: creating skeleton armies, binding the undead via rituals similar to the Binder, launching rocks that contain small petrified animals that transform into undead animals, bone chains, encrusting undead minions with different jewels to grant them different powers | dNetHack | introsp3ctive, Demo |
Opening a cursed bag of holding does not tell you what has disappeared, or it just says "Things have disappeared from the bag!" without describing them | AmyBSOD | |
Role whose quest artifact's base item is a helm of opposite alignment. (This is apparently in Slash'EM Extended, but so are probably half the things on this list and I'm not going to bother cross-checking everything.) | jonadab | |
Conflict affects things in a radius. The ring of conflict is a chargeable item, affecting this radius. | jonadab | |
Monster status "discord", which causes a monster to be seen as a target and be attacked by other enemies. On the player, discord is the same as wielding Stormbringer. Discord is available through the spellbook of discord. | Fourk | jonadab |
Applying a stethoscope tells the target's gender, and the hunger status of pets. | Grasshopper | |
Easter eggs as an actual item, in addition to monster and chicken eggs. | Grasshopper | |
The Bell of Opening is carried by your quest leader, who gives it to you when you return to them with the quest artifact. This solves the problem of making a game unwinnable by permanently changing alignment, since you can also get it by killing the quest leader. | jonadab, Grasshopper | |
Leprechauns steal anything made of gold, in addition to plain gold pieces. (In vanilla, the only gold item is the gold ring, but variants have other gold items.) | FIQ | |
Demon lord who spellcasts, favoring touch of death and summon nasties. However, the only thing it summons and gates in are incubi and succubi. | aosdict | |
Rat king monster (not the SLASH'EM unique Rat King), based on the real-life rat king. It is a purple r, not much faster than a rock mole, but has several bite attacks (possibly scaling the amount by monster level). Each bite has a small chance of conferring disease. Its level corresponds to the number of entangled rats, so a slashing attack could sometimes cut off one rat, which then appears on the floor as a new rat, and make the rat king lose a level. | aosdict | |
Add rumors to FIQHack warning about dragons, which can be fairly dangerous. | FIQHack | rumflump |
Allow wishing for non-objects:
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aosdict, AmyBSOD | |
More acid resistance sources in FIQHack, to balance yellow dragons' exploding acid breath. Possibly a ring of acid resistance. | FIQHack | ais523, FIQ |
Rangers have a role bonus which decreases the overall probability a projectile will break, followed by a discussion about how to rebalance vanilla rangers, who commonly forego bows entirely, not the way they were intended to play. | aosdict | |
New container trap effect, a loud alarm that wakes nearby monsters. (Exploding chests already wake nearby monsters, but the chance of it happening is miniscule unless your Luck is below -7; this was proposed as one of the common effects even at high Luck.) | aosdict |
YASI list
Some ideas are not intended to be taken seriously. But they might still find some use if listed here.
Silly Idea | Variant | Source |
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New "farmer" role: starts with seeds and a spade, has other tools available like sickles and scythes. | jonadab | |
Opening a cursed bag of holding does not destroy the items, but it redistributes them around the level, or perhaps the entire dungeon. | Grasshopper, AmyBSOD | |
Dropping a ring of polymorph control down a sink, then a ring of polymorph, turns the sink into a regularly erupting geyser. | FIQ |