Yet Another NetHack Site

NetHack is a single-player computer game; it doesn't look fancy, but it's extremely addictive all the same. For more information, see the links about NetHack.

Spoilers

If you're here, you're probably looking for the spoilers. This site hosts copies of the following spoilers:

• Spoilers created by rec.games.roguelike.nethack posters.
• The Hugo/O'Donnell spoilers for 3.4.1 (updated August 16, 2003), separated into some rough categories:
  • Items and monsters
  • Your character
  • Intrinsics
  • The dungeon
• Spoilers for 3.3.1 are on a separate page.
• Spoilers for 3.4.0 are on a separate page.

If you don't find what you're looking for here, there are lots of other spoiler resources.

Search WWW Search steelypips.org

R.G.R.N. Spoilers

• Spoilers that were updated for, or are definitely unchanged by, 3.4.1:
  • The Demogorgon FAQ, by Kate Nepveu
  • The Elbereth FAQ, by Kate Nepveu
  • Solving Sokoban, by Boudewijn Waijers; see also a different solution for two levels, by Jukka Lahtinen
  • Chances of Successfully Reading a Spellbook, by Steven Bush
• Spoilers that were updated for, or unchanged by, 3.4.0 (nb. these ought to be very accurate for 3.4.1, but I can't vouch for them fully):
  • The Air Elementals FAQ List, by David Goldfarb
  • The Medusa Spoiler, by Arien Malec
  • The Monk FAQ, by Kate Nepveu
  • Voluntary Challenges Spoiler, by Dion Nicolaas
  • Experience Values of Monsters, by Hojita Discordia
  • The Extinctionist FAQ, by Hojita Discordia
• Spoilers that were written for 3.3.1, and ought to be largely still good (internal links have been updated, but no other changes yet):
  • Instadeath Spoiler, by Trevor Powell
  • Object Identification Spoiler, by David Damerell
  • Praying Spoiler (text), by Matthew Lahut
  • Shopping Spoiler, by Gregory Bond
  • Identifying Wands by Zapping (text), by Kieron Dunbar

Please note that the contents of these spoilers may be distributed under certain conditions. When in doubt, ask the authors.

The Hugo/O'Donnell Spoilers

The following spoilers were created by Kevin Hugo (now part of the DevTeam) or by Dylan O'Donnell, and are currently maintained by Dylan; they are archived under some fairly simple conditions, Dylan O'Donnell's and mine. In addition, you can download a zipped archive of these spoilers (416 KB, synched with the versions on Dylan's site on August 16, 2003).

These spoilers are listed in rough categories (items and monsters; your character; intrinsics; and the dungeon), mostly by alphabetical order. If I thought something fell into two categories, I listed it twice, so you wouldn't have to guess. Some of these files are rather large; the really big (well over 50KB+) files have their sizes listed.

Items and monsters

Your character

Intrinsics

The dungeon

[See also Dylan's Gazetteer.]

Other Spoiler Sources

• Eva Myers has complied a categorized list of links to all spoilers that she's aware of on the web, which is fabulously useful. I also like her Myths and Facts about NetHack.
• Dylan O'Donnell's NetHack site has the most current versions of the spoilers archived here, as well as a NetHack Gazetteer and the rec.games.roguelike.nethack Frequently Asked Questions list.
• Two well-established and comprehensive (though not recently updated) sites:
  • www.nethack.de, Sascha and Ralph's NetHack site
  • Boudewijn Waijers's site
• Specific things elsewhere that I find particularly useful or of interest:
  • The Monster Manual, by J. Ali Harlow
  • Absolute Beginner's Guide to NetHack 3.3.1, by Mikko Saari.

Links About NetHack

• NetHack.org, the official site. Download the official binary and source releases here, and check the bug list.
• "The Best Game Ever", an article at Salon.com discussing some of the reasons for the game's appeal.
• The Open Directory Project's Nethack Page, an index of other NetHack resources.

Copyright 2003 by Kate Nepveu. Updated August 16, 2003.

Searching is provided by Google's Free SiteSearch. This is a regular Google search, but restricted to this domain; thus, Google might not have crawled updated pages yet, and may return non-Nethack pages that are also hosted on Steelypips.

I used AcsToTab to convert some of these spoilers to HTML.

I see no point in putting up a public web site if it's unreadable to some. To that end, this site uses XHTML 1.0 for markup and CSS for layout; thus, while it will look nicer in a browser that complies with web standards (here's a list of browsers you might upgrade to), it will display its content in any browser. It also complies with Viewable with Any Browser Campaign and the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (see also its handy checklist); in particular, all spoiler tables have text versions available.

[Up to Steelypips.org]