Websites

This is a list of NetHack websites. You may add all remaining NetHack websites, with a short description, as below.

Official

• https://www.nethack.org - the official site of the DevTeam. Go here to download the game.
  • https://www.nethack.org/v367/bugs.html - known bugs in 3.6.7
  • https://www.nethack.org/v366/bugs.html - known bugs in 3.6.6
  • Lists of known problems in older versions are linked from the pages given above.

Playing NetHack

• You can play NetHack without installing it by connecting to a public server. A list of public servers is on the public server page.
• If you want to play in a GUI instead of from a terminal, the Graphical user interface page has a list of GUI ports.
• NetHack is also available in the Windows Store.

Introductions to NetHack

• The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play
• https://www.nethack.org/v366/Guidebook.html - Official Guidebook
• https://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Nethack - NetHack@Everything2.com
• https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A2266805 - NetHack in h2g2

Utilities

• https://scoreboard.xd.cm/ - NetHack Scoreboard, a multi-variant public server statistics aggregator.
• https://a.ieval.ro/ - statistics for NAO accounts. Example. Also outputs JSON.
• http://nethack.gridbug.de/nh.html - Price ID, MasterMind, and more helper tools.
• https://nethackathon.org/annotate/ Nethackathon Annotator for intrinsic abilities, personal notes, identity of items by price and solving Sokoban.
• https://nethack.holics.at/nh-helper-public/nh-helper.html - HiSPeed's Nethack Helper, an interactive spoiler for Nethack 3.4.3
• Hearse allows you to share bones files with others for local play.

Patches

• https://bilious.alt.org/ - the Patch Database, maintained by User:Paxed
• http://l.j-factor.com/nethack/ - L's patches

Fun and community

IRC

• Most of the active channels for nethack and its variants are listed on the Libera page.
• The #nethack quote db captures the best chatter on IRC.
• #nethack also allegedly exists on IRCnet

Social media

• NetHack subReddit
• NetHack group on Facebook
• https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack - Google's interface to Usenet rec.games.roguelike.nethack
  • https://bilious.alt.org/rgrn/ -- read-only de-cluttered interface
• The Dungeons of Doom - A LiveJournal NetHack Community

Creative Endeavours

• Massively Multiplayer Democracy Nethack - a free browser-based Nethack game run as a direct democracy.
• Dudley's (new improved) dungeon - Dudley's dungeon webcomic, fork by paxed
• Dudley's dungeon - Dudley's dungeon webcomic, fork by Sadowl, not currently active (last updated in 2013)
• http://pages.infinit.net/curlypp/digger/ - The Minetown Digger, last updated 2000
• http://www.fanfiction.net/game/NetHack/ - fan fiction
• Nethack (Video Game) category on AO3 - more fan fiction
• Novelas:NetHack - yet more fan fiction
• The Saga of Ellora the Elven Archer

NetHack on Other Wikis

• Wikipedia:NetHack
• RogueBasin:NetHack
• StrategyWiki:NetHack
• Uncyclopedia:NetHack - plot summary
• Tvtropes:NetHack
• All the Tropes:NetHack

Variants

See Variants.

• What Fools These Mortals
  • Official site

Websites About Older Versions

• https://www.melankolia.net/nethack/nethack.guide.html - "Absolute Beginner's Guide" (to 3.4.1)

Help in other languages

• http://the-hacker.ru/nethack/ - NetHack spoilers for 3.4.3, Russian translation (abandoned)
• https://nethack-rutext.info/ - Articles, spoilers, etc. about the NetHack in Russian. Russian translation of the NetHack 3.4.3 Guidebook
• http://porneia.free.fr/nh/nhgbfr_egm/ - French translation of the NetHack 3.4.3 Guidebook
• https://www.netzhack.de/handbuch.html - German translation of the NetHack Guidebook
• http://www.maxvessi.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.GuidaANetHack - Intro and detailed help in Italian.
• See also NetHack in Other Languages.

Information

• http://www.codehappy.net/nethack/ - Codehappy's NetHack page
• http://www.juiblex.co.uk/nethack/front.html - Ali's NetHack Page
  • http://www.juiblex.co.uk/nethack/source.html - Ali's NetHack Source Page, including old versions

Spoilers

Before the NetHackWiki existed, people collected information about the game mechanics on "spoiler" pages. Some of these are still online:

• https://www.steelypips.org/nethack/ - "Yet Another NetHack Site", xxxx-343.html
• http://www.juiblex.co.uk/nethack/VernonSpoilers/MonsterManual/contents.html - Monster Manual (3.4.3)
• https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/index.html - Myths and Facts about NetHack (3.4.3)
  • https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/spoilerlist.html - Contains links to more spoilers than most players would ever care about (3.4.3)
    • The latter two links point to documents authored by Lady Eva Myers and various contributors, but the links seem to be dead as of 2023 July.