Hardfought
Hardfought is a NetHack community that offers public servers, similar to NAO.
Hardfought has its own IRC channel on Libera, #hardfought. This is also linked with the #nethack-hardfought channel on the roguelikes Discord. The Beholder bot announces important events, deaths, and ascensions, and Pinobot can be used to find information on enemies across NetHack variants.
Like NAO, Hardfought has a config file editor on its website that allows you to copy and paste config files.
Hardfought provides hosting for major tournaments. For Junethack, most of the variants are hosted on Hardfought. The November NetHack Tournament is hosted on Hardfought.
How to play on Hardfought
As of July 2024, Hardfought offers ssh access in three locations:
- ssh://nethack@hardfought.org -- United States (East Coast)
- ssh://nethack@eu.hardfought.org -- United Kingdom (London)
- ssh://nethack@au.hardfought.org -- Australia (Sydney)
You can also play in a browser:
- https://www.hardfought.org/nethack/hterm/ -- web client, select a location
- https://hardfought.org/hterm -- direct link to United States (East Coast)
- https://eu.hardfought.org/hterm -- direct link to United Kingdom (London)
- https://au.hardfought.org/hterm -- direct link to Australia (Sydney)
As of Oct 12th 2018, you can connect to all Hardfought servers via IPv6 (ssh, https).
Variants hosted
As of July 2024:
- NetHack 1.3d
- NetHack 3.4.3, HDF version - github repository
- NetHack 3.7.0, HDF version, bleeding edge development version with public server based enhancements - github repository
- EvilHack, 3.6.7 based variant
- Hack'EM, 3.6.7 based variant
- SpliceHack, 3.7 based variant
- xNetHack, 3.7 based variant
- dNetHack
- GruntHack, with bug fixes and UI enhancements
- notdNetHack
- notnotdNetHack
- Slash'EM, version 0.0.8E0F2, very recent updates as of Feb 2024 (bug fixes and some quality of life enhancements) - github repository
- SlashTHEM
- SporkHack, with bug fixes and UI enhancements
- UnNetHack
- DynaHack
- FIQhack
- NetHack 4
- NetHack Fourk
- AceHack
- GnollHack
- ZapM, not strictly a NetHack variant; this is not listed in the menu due to a lack of free space, but can still be selected with z
