To read about dNetHack, visit the wiki here: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/dNetHack

To chat about dNetHack, visit IRC here: https://web.libera.chat/?channel=##nethack-variants or Discord here: https://discord.com/invite/vg9WWf2

You can play dNetHack online using SSH or HTTPS:

• https://www.hardfought.org/nethack/ (servers in USA, UK, and AUS)
• if other servers decide to host dNetHack, they will be listed here: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Public_server

Setting up dNetHack:

dNetHack is currently only supported on Unix, including WSL for Windows, with no plans to change this for the foreseeable future.

For compiling on Windows:

• Download Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
• Open the Terminal in WSL. (Just clicking on the shortcut opens the terminal)
• Navigate (using ls and cd) to where you want to install dNAO
• Install git: apt install git
• Download the version of dNAO you want with git: git clone https://github.com/Chris-plus-alphanumericgibberish/dNAO.git will get you whatever is the master branch (at the time of writing, currently compat-3.22.0)
• Install the following using apt install <XXXX>: bison, build-essential, libncurses5-dev, flex
  • If you want to rebuild include/macromagic.h (this is only required if you modify util/MacroMagicMarker.py or doc/macromagic.txt), you also need python3
• Build & install by typing make install
  • If you want to enable AddressSanitizer, useful for finding certain types of bugs, add CFLAGS='-g -fsanitize=address' LDFLAGS=-fsanitize=address
  • If you want to rebuild include/macromagic.h despite not actually having to, also type rm include/macromagic.h && make include/macromagic.h
• Navigate to the newly-created dnethackdir directory: cd dnethackdir
• Run by typing ./dnethack. Wizard mode is ./dnethack -D -u wizard
• If you want an rc file (to have custom options and use things like menucolours and autopickup exceptions), edit it via nano ~/.dnethackrc (or your preferred text editor)

For Unix, the same steps apply minus installing WSL.

Copyright:

dNetHack is free software released under the NetHack General Public License, see dat/license for details. util/MacroMagicMarker.py is released under the MIT/Expat license, see the comment at the beginning of that file for details.