Yet Another New Idea

YANI is short for Yet Another New Idea, and is a common prefix to the subject of many RGRN posts suggesting new ideas to be incorporated into the game.

Very, very few, if any, YANIs were ever incorporated into the official game, unless a working patch has been provided with the YANI, in which case the chance of official incorporation was raised to slim. Vanilia NetHack is no longer in development but some YANI found its way to variants like UnNetHack.

• "The artifacts need to be rebalanced" is a common one. See Artifact YANIs for details.

L's Patches that incorporate many YANI's

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Examples of YANIs in UnNetHack

• Disintegrator: Idea appeared on rgrn, 5 days later in the same thread Nicholas Webb published patch. This monster was used in biodiversity patch. 6 years later bhaak included this monster in UnNetHack.
• Autounlock on containers - YANI appeared and nothing changed for almost a year but once patch was produced it was applied to UnNetHack on the same day