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| ~ | ! | @ | # | $ | % | ^ | & | * | ( | ) | _ | + | space | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ` | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | - | = | { | } | | | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 tilde (~) serves the following purposes:
- ~ is the tail of a long worm.
- ~ represents the vibrating square.
Historical uses
In Hack 1.0 only, the lurker above uses the ~ glyph. Hack 1.0 also introduces the long worm tail with its current glyph.[1][2]
The vibrating square is given the tilde to represent it in NetHack 3.6.1.
Variants
dNetHack
In dNetHack, the hunting horror is a multi-segmented monster similar to the long worm that has its tail segments represented by ~.
