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Printable ASCII characters
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	Qq	Ww	Ee	Rr	Tt	Yy	Uu	Ii	Oo	Pp	:	"	[	]	\
	Aa	Ss	Dd	Ff	Gg	Hh	Jj	Kk	Ll	?	;	'	Ctrl
	Zz	Xx	Cc	Vv	Bb	Nn	Mm	,	.	/	<	>	Alt

In NetHack, the semicolon (;) serves the following purposes:

• ; represents a sea monster:
  • ; jellyfish
  • ; piranha
  • ; shark
  • ; giant eel
  • ; electric eel
  • ; kraken

• Press ; to use the far look command.

Historical uses

In Hack 1.21, which is based on Jay Fenlason's Hack, the floor fiend uses the ; glyph—in PDP-11 Hack, also based on Jay Fenlason's Hack, the giant eel uses the ; glyph. The glyph then goes unused until Hack 1.0.2, which reintroduces the giant eel, and it retains the glyph for every version afterward up to NetHack 2.2a. In NetHack 2.3e, the giant eel is replaced by the electric eel.

In NetHack 3.0.0, the giant eel is re-added to the bestiary again, and both it and the electric eel make up the monster class of sea monsters alongside the newly-introduced kraken. The jellyfish, piranha and shark are introduced in NetHack 3.3.0.

Variants

SLASH'EM

SLASH'EM introduces one new monster that uses the ; glyph:

• ; giant crab

UnNetHack

UnNetHack introduces one new monster that uses the ; glyph:

• ; Watcher in the Water

dNetHack

dNetHack adds several new monsters that use the ; glyph:

• ; water dolphin
• ; great white shark
• ; charybdisone
• ; Watcher in the Water
  • ; swarm of snaking tentacles
• ; Kraken, the Fiend of Water

notdNetHack

notdNetHack retains the monsters from dNetHack and adds one new monster that uses the ; glyph:

• ; illithid larva

notnotdNetHack

notnotdNetHack retains the monsters from notdNetHack and adds one new monster that uses the ; glyph:

• ; octopode