Hack'EM

Welcome, traveler, to Hack'EM!

Design Goals

The first goal of this project is to become the major successor of Slash'EM and port over most of Slash'EM to a modern platform. I chose EvilHack as a base because it's based on 3.6, inheritly more difficult and contains many Quality Of Life features already baked in. See here:

- Nice HP Bar
- Enhance menu shows max and % progress on skills
- Extended commands: #terrain, #annotate, #overview, #tip, #give, #adjust splitting and merging
- Peaceful displacing, paranoid swim, smart shop autopickup
- Full bag altar BUC identification
- New conducts: Elbereth, alignment, touched art, petless
- New soko levels, new room shapes and themed rooms
- Object materials, dtsund patch for dragon scales

Evil also has some challenging aspects that complement Slash'EM:

- New roles: Infidel, convict
- New Races: giant, tortle, centaur, and illithid
- Elbereth: Can't use unless you found/discovered it
- Partial intrinsics and partial reflection
- No randomly generated magic markers
- Strong monsters push through weaker monsters to get to you
- Zombies ressurect, mummies wither, spellcasters are meaner
- Monster steeds
- Revamped Gehennom and new branches

Originally, I intended this variant to be a modern port of Slash'EM. However, once I reached close to the completion of that goal I found that there was quite a lot in other variants that I loved and just could not pass on including. Here are some of the goals that have been achieved so far:

• Port over most of Slash'EM
• Improve on monster, objects, and mechanics from Slash'EM - fixing or adding mechanics as needed.
• Port over most of the SpliceHack monsters and objects that fit
• Port over the Quality-of-Life features from UnNetHack
• Port over the best changes from slashem-up
• Create brand new material, mechanics, and levels.
• Remove/edit Evil content so that users can more easily transition from vanilla to HackEM

Remaining goals:

• Use the in-game database to create a built-in wiki for players.
• Stabilize the current version and eliminate all major bugs.
• Integrate slashem updates and bugfixes from slashem9.
• Port over the best-of slashTHEM (requires creating tiles for all objects/monsters)
  • Jedi Role, Warrior Role, Bard Role
• Port over material from UnNethack that fits
  • Possibly Sheol, Dragon caverns, parts of Moria
• Port over material from dNetHack that fits
• Port over updates from 3.7 that fit
  • Extrinsic item protection
• Port over remaining stuff from SpliceHack that fits
  • Pirate role, Cartomancer role
  • Grass, blood tiles. Vents, new traps.

How to play

Hack'EM is now being hosted on the HardFought server! Visit https://www.hardfought.org/ for details.

To install locally, follow the instructions below

If you on Windows, download the latest binary here: https://github.com/elunna/hackem/releases

• Hack'EM Wiki: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Hack%27EM
• Hack'EM Frequently Asked Questions: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Hack%27EM_Frequently_Asked_Questions
• Click here to join #hackem on IRC: https://web.libera.chat/#hackem

Installation

Each OS type found under the sys folder has an installation guide for that particular operating system. Pre-compiled binaries (linux and windows) can be found here - https://github.com/elunna/HackEM/releases

For Linux (TL;DR version):

• Dependencies needed: make gcc gdb flex bison libncurses-dev

• From the desired directory, git clone https://github.com/elunna/HackEM

• Navigate to the HackEM/sys/unix folder, then ./setup.sh hints/linux or ./setup.sh hints/linux-debug depending on what you intend to do

  • Using the standard linux hints file assumes running as a normal user, and game folders and files will reside in /home/$USER based on the account used. Invoking sudo should not be necessary

  • Using the linux-debug hints file assumes installing as root, and includes extra CFLAGS for debugging in a development scenario. If you prefer using clang as your compiler and have it installed, see clang-linux-debug as an alternative hints file to use

  • With either hints file, edit the install paths to your liking

• Navigate back to the root HackEM folder, and make all && make install

• Execute the HackEM binary

• In the home directory of the account used to install HackEM, create your rc config file - touch .hackemrc and then edit as necessary

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.