VoxHack v0.11.0 (alpha)

Also on itch.io: https://mreveryday.itch.io/voxhack

What's new in v0.11.0

• A new title screen and character creation. Both stand under the Astral Plane's sky, with title music. Making a character, you see them close up on a pedestal, with your pet beside them (the role's own, a kitten or a little dog, or none). They change as you choose: role and gender pick the picture, and Random goes round them all.
• Demos. Options > Record demos records each game you play, from when it starts, into the game's demos folder. Drop a demo onto "Play Demo.bat" in that folder to watch it, or run it on its own for the newest. Space pauses, W and S speed it up and slow it down, Esc leaves. A demo shows everything you saw: the level, the monsters, the sounds and music, the HUD, messages, menus and your inventory. It's played back as it was recorded, with no game running. Demos are compressed (a few hundred KB to a few MB), and they play in any VoxHack that speaks the same network protocol.

New in v0.10.4

• Fixed: the tunnels round the Oracle's Delphi had no ceiling. A special level filled in with rooms and corridors round its map (the Oracle's, Minetown) is no longer opened to the sky with it; levels set in rock, ice or the sea are as before.

New in v0.10.3

• Fixed: taking the stairs to a level that was slow to load could leave you where you'd been on the level you left, not on the stairs NetHack put you on (and NetHack's hero then walked there too). You're now held on the stairs while the level loads.

See the changelog for v0.10.2 (ascending, the Planes...).

Your achievements are kept outside the game folder (in %APPDATA%\NetHackVoxel), so they carry over to new versions by themselves.

See CHANGELOG.md for everything since v0.1.0.

Install

1. Download VoxHack-v0.11.0-alpha-windows.zip below (Windows 10/11, 64-bit).
2. Unpack it anywhere (not inside Program Files).
3. Run Create Play Shortcut.bat, or Launchers\Play VoxHack.bat.

Updating from an earlier version: unpack the new zip into a new folder, then copy your game (engine\worlds\nethack) and your settings (engine\minetest.conf) over from the old one.

Controls

WASD + mouse to move and look · Left click: attack · Shift + left click: fire · Right click: act on what you point at (hold for a wheel; hold Shift, Ctrl, Alt or E for other wheel options) · 1-5: Fire, Kick, Zap, Spell, Eat · Space: wait (hold: jump) · F: pick up · X: search · I: inventory · Z: map · T: NetHack command line · Q: monster ability / invoke · F2: NetHackWiki · F3: find any command · F4: ASCII mode · Esc > Help: all the keys

Source

The full source is this repository, with the modified NetHack and Luanti as submodules (MrEveryDay98/NetHack and MrEveryDay98/luanti, branch nhv). VoxHack is based on NetHack and is not an official NetHack release; it's under the NetHack General Public License. SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) is Sebastian Macke's C port, which carries no licence (see CREDITS.md). Wiki pages shown in the game are from NetHackWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0. ASCII mode's characters are drawn from the IBM EGA 8x14 font of VileR's Oldschool PC Font Resource, CC BY-SA 4.0. See CREDITS.md for every part and its licence.